Margaret, another one of the outlaws, agrees to fight for the 2nd Mass and help Tom find his enslaved son Ben, who was seen at a nearby hospital only days before.

Anne then confronts Weaver about the current sleeping situation, where civilians are living in tents and the fighters in houses.

Hal is led out of the auditorium by Margaret, a woman in Pope's gang, who gives him one hour to go back and get guns from the 2nd Mass.

Weaver says they will not trade with Pope and orders Mike to take Hal upstairs as a prisoner until they are ready to leave.

She bandages up his leg and Pope leaves him, Cueball, and Margaret in charge of the prisoners as he and his other outlaws attempt to rob the 2nd Mass.

Greg Beeman stated that his first big project in the episode was to occupy an entire neighborhood.

That means we could see no cars driving by, no planes flying by, no incidental pedestrians, etc, etc… Sometimes we had to take these kinds of things out digitally – but, mostly, we had to figure out ways to frame them out.

In its original American broadcast, the two-hour premiere of Falling Skies was seen by an estimated 5.9 million household viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research, making it cable television's #1 series launch of the year.

[3] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "...the entertainment value and suspense of Falling Skies is paced just right.

"[5] Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly gave the series a B+ and wrote, "A similar, gradually developed, but decisive conviction makes Falling Skies an engaging, if derivative, chunk of dystopian sci-fi."

He continued, "...Falling Skies rises above any one performance; it's the spectacle of humans versus aliens that draws you in.