Character Profile: Julie Parrish
When college freshman Juliet Parrish decided that she wanted to enter
the field of medicine, she encountered some of the lingering prejudice that women confront regarding the
field. Men are doctors, women are nurses. But she resisted the narrow-minded remarks because she was not
aiming at just a doctorate in medicine, but a degree that would allow her to do advanced research in the
realm of catastrophic illnesses.
She had completed her doctorate and gone through her internship when the war with the Visitors erupted. 
With the world under siege, medical assistance became of paramount importance, especially since the Visitors had
managed to take a large proportion of scientists into custody through their trumped-up conspiracy campaign.
Parrish set up a secret hospital and undertook the most important research of her life: examining the Visitors to
discover how they could be combated on a physiological level. The time she spent on this research had to be
balanced with that spent aiding the victims of the war of the worlds. 
When the resistance captured Mike Donovan, they were suspicious of him since the media had aided the spread of the Visitors' bizarre anti-scientist accusations. There was also the fact that Donovan's mother, a well-known socialite, was an open supporter of the aliens despite the growing number of charges and subsequent revelations
against them.
Donovan convinces the resistance that he is on their side because his only son has been taken captive by the Visitors. He can also prove that the lizards have been lying about a number of things, especially their appearance.
Parrish and the resistance invade a televised Visitor presentation and reveal to the world that the aliens are not
human at all by ripping the invasion force leader's mask on camera. This sets off alarms and claims of a
faked broadcast staged by fanatical followers of the Exposed Scientist Conspiracy. But more and more people
are learning the truth.
Diana manages to capture Parrish and puts her through conversion therapy, wherein her deepest fears are brought to the surface. She experiences hallucinations involving a rapist who looks just like Donovan (you Freudians out there chew on that one), as well as of weird, inhuman things chasing her.  Diana intends to bend Parrish to her will and use her against the resistance.
When the red dust that Parrish helped develop is released against the invaders, Diana finds herself battling the resistance in her own control room. When Julie corners Diana with an alien weapon that can kill her, the alien exerts just enough residual control over the human to make Parrish deflect the shot, allowing Diana to escape.
After the war, Parrish goes to work for Nathan Bates, unaware that he will eventually collaborate with the Visitors.
Bates doesn't know that Julie is a member of the resistance who feeds information on his activities to the
underground. When Bates finally obtains absolute proof that she is betraying him, she barely escapes with her
life and has to go underground herself.
When the Leader arrives to negotiate, Parrish hopes that her days of fighting for her own and her race's survival are over at last.