a high-ranking Yeerk

The story starts with Edriss-Five-Six-Two, the Yeerk who would later become Visser One, in the body of Marco's mother, Eva. She leaves the house, saying goodbye to her husband and Marco, and heads out to her sailing boat, intending to fake her death so she can leave earth and become Visser One. She takes her boat out to the ocean, and has a bug fighter,that is waiting to pick her up, to ram the boat, capsizing it.