This, in turns, leads to Tom and President Hathaway setting up a face-to-face meet. Um, anyone else smell trap? Or at the very least, that all is not what it seems? Whatever…Tom apparently doesn’t. He agrees to the meet, and also, brings Cochise along to convince the President the value of the Volm. MISTAKE! Whatever. Science is loosely applied throughout this entire show, why should I be surprised? There also seems to be some indication that the reason Doctor Kadar is such a nutbag is because he lost a child in the initial attack. Oh, Robert Sean Leonard. You rise so far above the material given you. The man could act his way out of a bag. He certainly does through the terrible gray wig and glasses they’ve placed on him to make him look post-apocalyptic “eccentric.” Tom, the General, Cochise, and Pope fly to the President, where Cochise immediately gets taken into custody. Tom and the President have a heart-to-heart, and then they all have a heart-to-heart with the tied up Volm…who spouts eloquent about a flower, and that somehow convinces everyone that these aliens are OK and can be trusted. Please. The metaphor wasn’t even that good. Tom and friends are convinced by the President to fly with them to some secret location, but in the rush to get away from a skitter attack, Conchise gets separated from them and put on the President’s plane…and then the rest falls under the heading of “major spoilers.” As an episode, “At All Costs” wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exactly good. Then again, this is Falling Skies and I never expect any of the episodes to be stellar. It’s good, summer, sci-fi popcorn fun. Still, spending the amount of time they did on that idiotic Ben storyline makes me think they may need to shake it up a little in the writer’s room. I mean, it wasn’t even significant symbolically. It was just filler. Highlights: the creepy baby storyline is morphing into an evil alien baby storyline, the president of the U.S. is alive and kickin’ (though possibly not to be trusted), and Noah Wyle’s beard is still awesome. Lame points: Hal having a split personality due to the alien in his head, Ben taking an entire episode to decide to do nothing about his spike, and Tom Mason just continuing to be a gullible dope.   Den of Geek Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars