-Anna Chad Decker is an ambitious reporter, hungry to make a name for himself. Chad’s already precarious moral limits are stretched as he finds himself in the uncomfortable, yet highly beneficial position of becoming the conduit for Anna’s propaganda. Initially tolerant, yet aware, of Anna's expert manipulation of him to better portray the Visitors to the public, and also in line with their hostile beliefs about the Fifth Column, Chad eventually became aware of the Visitors true nature and plans for humanity, and so redeemed himself by joining the Fifth Column.