The Invaders (1967–1968): Season 2, Episode 2 - The Saucer - full transcript
John Carter has summoned the local sheriff to a site where he claims saucers have landed, not once but several times. Each time, the saucers are gone when the sheriff finally arrives. Now David Vincent has come, lured by Carter's claim that he can predict the time of the next landing. When Carter's prediction proves true, he and David Vincent manage to commandeer the saucer - at last, proof of the invasion! But one alien escapes to warn his people. And further complications arise from a couple fleeing the country, whose plane the saucer inadvertently downed.
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Okay, fellas, you
can knock it off.
Yeah, I know.
Well, Carter,
now what I am supposed to do?
Now, nothing. If you
had come out last night
when I called, maybe
you would have...
I did that last month.
You were too late that, too.
Carter, look, my men and I
have got more
important things to do
than to chase around
in the middle of nowhere
in the middle of the night
because you thought
you saw a flying saucer.
You know what I think?
I don't think you need a cop.
I think you need a doctor.
These things don't make
any more sense than you do.
Well, next time, I'll
use a better camera.
Don't bother.
Just get in the car,
and I'll take you back to town.
Sheriff!
It's over here!
I told him the
wind would carry it.
Jimmy, what do you say?
Thanks.
It's busted.
Look at the way they
make kids toys nowadays.
Cheap plastic...
It breaks the minute you...
Do you live around here, sir?
Couple of miles.
Did you notice anything
different or strange
in the sky around here...
Last night, for instance?
No. Last night or
any other time. Why?
What's up?
Nothing.
Thanks a lot.
Starring Roy Thinnes as
architect David Vincent.
The invaders...
alien beings from
a dying planet.
Their destination... the Earth.
Their purpose... to
make it their world.
David Vincent has seen them.
For him, it began one lost night
on a lonely country road
looking for a shortcut
that he never found.
It began with a
closed, deserted diner
and a man too long without sleep
to continue his journey.
It began with the landing of
a craft from another galaxy.
Now David Vincent knows
that the invaders are here.
That they have taken human form.
Somehow, he must
convince a disbelieving world
that the nightmare
has already begun.
The guest stars
in tonight's story:
Anne Francis... Charles Drake...
Dabney Coleman.
A man has seen a flying saucer--
An old and familiar
story to David Vincent.
But John Carter swears he
can predict the day and place
when another saucer will land.
If true, he could
bring to an end
Vincent's continuing
war against the invader.
David Vincent?
Yeah. I'm Vincent.
John Carter. Follow me.
How are you?
Took you quite a while, huh?
Well, that's not much
of a road back there.
Is this where you saw them?
Yeah, both times.
Both times on the last night
of the last quarter
of the moon...
Like tonight... and, always,
one hour before dawn.
You mentioned
photographs in your letter.
Yeah. I see you brought
a better camera than I had.
Got them right in here.
Here you go.
Thank you.
You said to bring a gun,
so I... I borrowed this one.
It's loaded with
double-ought buckshot.
All right.
They ought to be
here pretty soon.
Let's go on over here.
Annie?
How do you feel?
Where are we?
Almost to Tucson.
We going to stay over
and get some sleep?
Well, I sort of hoped
we'd keep going.
Once we're in Mexico, it's over.
Yeah, but they won't be looking
for us until Monday morning.
I know that.
Annie, I'll give you anything
in this world except...
What can't I have?
The chance to change your mind.
Okay. Mexico, next stop.
They should have
been here an hour ago.
Oh, you can't keep
them on a timetable,
even if you have
seen them twice.
You don't really
buy this, do you?
I'm here.
Well, that's a lot further than
anybody else would come.
Ever since this thing started,
everybody's pretty well got me
pegged as some kind of a kook.
Guess I've given
them a little help.
What do you mean?
Oh, an unpublished writer
living alone in a beat-up house
with four cats and a motorbike.
If you had known me...
would... would you have come?
Sure.
It's 5:00. They
won't be coming now.
Well, let's give them a
few more minutes anyway.
Look, I appreciate your
coming down, but it's daylight.
You can't expect
them to put one...
Vincent.
What happened?
I don't know. The
engines just cut out.
Well, can't you do something?
I'm trying to land.
Let's get closer.
There's a spot.
It's full of rocks,
but that's all there is.
Robert!
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Use it!
Carter!
Yeah. You all right?
Yeah.
And did you see how
they went up like that?
I don't think there are any
more of them down there.
Well, the saucer
could be full of them.
Maybe.
Annie. Mmm.
Annie, you all right?
I think so.
All right.
Better try and get out of here.
Will it explode?
I don't think so.
Something happened to the...
electrical system
on the way down.
It's a good thing.
There's gasoline
all over the place.
Well, we're very lucky then.
I'll call the plane
rental people
and tell them where
to pick up the pieces.
What's next on the schedule?
I've made a hash of things.
I'm sorry, Annie.
It's not your fault.
You hurt your ankle.
Oh, it's just a little sprain.
I'll get us to Mexico...
Europe, Riviera, just
the way I promised.
Not exactly the way you said.
Running away from the
police is a little harder
with a sprained ankle.
Annie...
did you see anything...
big and bright
on the way down, on your side?
Did you notice anything?
The ground coming up.
Well... it's a long
way to Mexico.
Shouldn't we do something?
I'll, uh...
rent a car and come
back for the luggage.
Have you got the blueprints?
Yeah.
It looks empty.
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Well, it looks like we've
got ourselves a saucer.
Now, what are we
gonna do with it?
Who's the most important
man you know in town?
The sheriff, but I
could never get him
out here again, if that's
what you're thinking.
Well, you must know someone.
Wait a minute... Joe Bonning.
He, he may be in town.
He's in the state assembly.
I, uh, used to
be a friend of his.
At least, I went to high school
with him a hundred years ago.
All right. Get Bonning
to come out here
as soon as you can, and
get him to bring the sheriff.
It might work.
Here, take my car keys.
No, I'll, I'll take the
bike... it'll be faster.
Now, listen, David, uh...
I-I want to thank
you for coming.
This is a pretty big
deal for me, and...
Just get Bonning
to come out here
and you'll be nominated
for the Hall of Fame.
Here, why don't you take this?
I hope you won't have to use it.
Okay.
You should take
something from the ship.
To show Bonning.
Yeah. Right.
How's this?
That's perfect.
All right, I'll see you later.
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What is it?
Remember when I asked you
if you saw something
big and shiny
when we were coming down?
This must have been it.
Don't go any closer.
Well, if there was
somebody in there
who wanted to hurt us, they
would have done it by now.
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Hold it right there.
Back down.
Back away.
Put your hands up. Look,
we don't mean you any...
Turn around. Both of you.
One hand behind your back.
Get up.
Am I gonna live?
I'm sorry. I had to make sure
you weren't one of them.
Them?
The beings who
brought this thing here.
They have no pulse.
I-I'm a scientist, an
electrical engineer.
Do you mind if I
get a closer look
at this thing, Mister, uh...?
Vincent. David Vincent.
Bob Morrison. Annie Rhodes.
I'm sorry. I, I wasn't supposed
to say our real names.
You see, we're, uh...
eloping. Well, can I?
Go ahead.
Annie?
If you figure out how
to fly it, count me out.
We just crashed our plane.
One a day is all
my doctor allows.
Are you all right?
I'm fine. We missed
almost every rock in the field.
Well...
this promises to be
quite an adventure.
Maybe.
I hate to seem naïve,
but what do you do
with one of these
things once you catch it?
First thing you do is
send a friend for help.
In this case, a
state assemblyman
is coming out, and the police.
They're coming out here? Now?
That's right.
So you're not in any danger.
What happened
to the, uh... beings?
Did you mow them all down?
I'm not as bloodthirsty
as it may sound.
Well, it sounds pretty awful.
Why isn't it?
They want to take
over this planet.
They'll destroy us to get it.
You some kind of
an expert on them?
I've seen them before.
And you believe?
Every word.
Annie!
You've never seen
anything like that in your life.
Why, they're light-years ahead
of anything I've
ever dreamed of.
Why, I could spend ten years...
Well, as a matter of
fact, in about ten minutes
an assemblyman
and a few policemen
are gonna be coming here,
so I don't think you're gonna
have that chance, Robert.
If there are any beings around,
how could a girl get out of
here, say, if she panicked?
Well, I have a car just
beyond those rocks.
There's nothing to worry about.
The police are on their way.
May I take your pulse?
I'm coming.
What is it?
I've got to see
Mr. Bonning right away.
At 6:00 in the morning?
Look, tell him it's John
Carter from high school
and it's urgent...
He'll remember.
Now, will you please
get him for me?
Uh... mister, you
got to do me a favor.
My kid's sick and I left the
house without any money.
I need some change
for a phone call.
I'll pay you back.
Sure.
Thank you.
You won't be sorry.
Yes.
All right.
You know what to do.
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Mr. Vincent, when are your
friends going to be here?
They'll be here soon.
And we'll be here, too.
Mr. Vincent, this
state assemblyman...
Don't you think this
thing is too important
for just some local politician?
Well, he was available.
Why not go right to the top?
I know how
fantastic this thing is.
I don't even think it uses fuel.
Probably got some
magnetic drive principle
that we've never
even heard about.
Now, I could call... So
could someone else, Robert,
while we're on
our way to Mexico.
Who would you call?
The man I work for.
He's done subcontract work
on all the Apollo projects.
He wouldn't listen to you.
Now, why don't you just
let that assemblyman do it.
Of course, he
would listen, Annie.
Why?
Are you the first man who
ever saw a flying saucer?
Who are you? Why
are you so important?
You mean because I
don't have any money?
Is that it again?
No. Then why can't I?
Because of the
envelope in your pocket.
Annie, this is so enormous.
I think we should
see it through.
Could we live with
ourselves if we...
Glad you came, Sam. Get in.
Joe, I tried to tell you on
the phone, this Carter's a nut!
He's already had
me out there twice...
Yeah, I know Sam.
He told me all about it.
It's different this time.
There's a saucer out there.
And there's a man guarding it.
You really believe
him, don't you?
I've know John for a long time.
Yeah, so have I... too long.
John, let's show it to him, huh?
All right, what is it?
It's from the saucer,
out of the control room.
Well, I'm not saying I
believe it, you understand,
but... well, maybe
we better get started.
Robert.
I got his car keys
out of his jacket.
Now we can get
out of here. Annie.
Well, he said it was right
over there beyond those rocks.
Steal his car?
Borrow his car...
until we catch a plane.
We can't do that. What are we?
Well, it isn't as if you've
never stolen anything before.
Taking longer than I thought.
I'm going to have a look around.
We got the money.
All we have to do
is drive out of here.
Well, what's more important
to you... that thing or me?
You're important to me,
Annie. You're everything.
Why does the money
have to be so important?
I don't know. It just does.
Well, maybe if all
your father had left you
was a $20 gold piece and
a bag full of good wishes,
it'd mean the same to you.
But to steal...
Robert, that was your choice.
But you helped make it...
You wouldn't have come if...
Is that what you're
going to tell the police?
That I made you
steal those blueprints?
Well, I'm not waiting
around here to get arrested.
I'm getting out.
Annie, there's,
there's something...
I want you to come with me,
but I'm going with or without you.
You're always giving
me choices, Annie.
Well, I'm staying.
Sure.
Well, what do you need me for?
You got your saucer and your
$250,000 worth of blueprints.
If they mean that much to you...
here, take them.
What happened?
Car... skidded off the road.
I... I could...
Let's get him into ours, huh?
Easy picking him up... easy now.
Take it easy.
You all right?
I don't think anything's busted.
I'm pretty shook up, though.
Come on, we'll get you
some help as soon as we can.
I'm sure glad you came along.
I could've been lying
out there for weeks.
So you see, Sam?
Something good has
come out of this trip already.
Why did she take my car?
I don't know.
She calls you a thief, takes
my car and you don't know!
What is it with you two?!
Mr. Vincent... I need that car.
Our lives may depend on it.
The whole world
may depend on it.
Will you shut up?
Will you just shut up?
I've just lost
everything in my world
and I couldn't care
less about yours!
Now if you'll be quiet,
I'll tell you about it.
My company had some
blueprints for a new computer.
I don't know whose idea it
was to take them, hers or mine,
but... they would have brought
a quarter of a million dollars
in Europe, enough for us
to live happily ever after on.
Amen.
That still doesn't explain
why she took my car.
She took your car
because I told her
I was going to stay here
with you and see it through.
She didn't want to be
here when the police came.
Well, you took the blueprints.
I am a fool and a sloppy
sentimentalist, Mr. Vincent,
but I am not a thief.
As she will find out when she...
sees that the envelope
is full of blank paper.
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Sheriff, what...
It's one of them, Joe!
God in heaven... it's true...
what you said about them.
Yeah.
I got to get you
to the government.
I've got friends that...
You'll be doing the
world a favor, Joe.
No, not... not me.
You're the one that...
Help!
There are two men down there.
They're trapped in a car.
They need help.
You were with the others
at the saucer. What?
What are you doing?!
Wha...! No!
No, wait a minute!
Those men need help!
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What were you thinking?
When?
When you led your woman
to believe you stole for her?
I wanted Annie to come with me.
Look, at it from
her point of view,
if she thought I had money,
if she thought I'd give her
everything in the world...
Mexico, Europe, everything.
Well, when were you
going to tell her the truth?
When my $975 ran out.
I thought she'd love me by then.
Let me get a job over there.
Oh, I don't know what I thought.
Better get inside the saucer.
Is that your friend?
I'm sorry you got into this.
You should have
taken off with Annie.
You in the ship,
there is a small switch at
the right of the control panel.
If you press it, I'll
be able to hear you.
What do you want?
That belongs to us.
Not anymore.
We only want the ship.
You can go.
We'll take it and leave.
Are you going to let them?
I want this ship.
So do I.
All we want is this ship.
We have something of yours, too.
They've got Annie, David.
They'll kill her!
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Can you figure out how to
disable this ship if I can't get back?
Yeah.
Then you wait here.
Your friend's still in the ship.
Prepared to shoot out the
control panel if he has to.
What's your offer?
He comes out and we go in.
Release the girl.
After he's out of the ship.
Release the girl
and he'll come down.
No.
You could get the girl out
and your friend could
still cripple the ship.
All right, we'll stand
over there and cover you
while you come send
one man in to check it out.
I'm not sure you trust us.
One more detail.
Your camera.
Thanks.
Is she all right?
We made a deal.
You trust them?
No.
Don't come down
until I tell you.
Annie!
Yes.
Start walking to me.
One of you go to the ship.
Tell him to leave
his gun up there.
What's happening?
What are you doing?
We're making a trade.
What, me for the saucer?
But you can't do that.
They murdered your friends.
You've got to keep the saucer.
You can't just hand it to them.
You're more important to us.
Now both of you, come down.
Without me, they have
nothing to bargain with.
Keep your saucer.
I'm getting out of here.
Stop!
Look out!
Get down!
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We've got to get an
ambulance out here.
Thanks.
She'd be lost without it.
She's been burned,
Doctor, badly.
Her arm and shoulder.
How'd it happen?
Well, we were...
Does it matter?
No. We better get
her to the ambulance.
The man I work for...
I'm going to tell him
everything we saw.
Well, no matter what you say,
it's not going to
make much difference
now that we don't
have that saucer.
I know that, but
I'll tell him anyway.
First thing back at
work, Monday morning.
Robert...
I'm here, Annie.
Open my purse.
Can we take these back?
We don't need them anymore.
I think you'd better tell her.
Two other have seen what
David Vincent has seen.
Two others now know
that flying saucers do exist.
The search for Congressman
Bonning and Police Chief Thorn
will continue for months.
Because of their disappearance,
dozens of others
will begin to wonder...
reluctant to believe what
David Vincent knows is true:
that alien beings
from another galaxy
now walk the face of the Earth.
Okay, fellas, you
can knock it off.
Yeah, I know.
Well, Carter,
now what I am supposed to do?
Now, nothing. If you
had come out last night
when I called, maybe
you would have...
I did that last month.
You were too late that, too.
Carter, look, my men and I
have got more
important things to do
than to chase around
in the middle of nowhere
in the middle of the night
because you thought
you saw a flying saucer.
You know what I think?
I don't think you need a cop.
I think you need a doctor.
These things don't make
any more sense than you do.
Well, next time, I'll
use a better camera.
Don't bother.
Just get in the car,
and I'll take you back to town.
Sheriff!
It's over here!
I told him the
wind would carry it.
Jimmy, what do you say?
Thanks.
It's busted.
Look at the way they
make kids toys nowadays.
Cheap plastic...
It breaks the minute you...
Do you live around here, sir?
Couple of miles.
Did you notice anything
different or strange
in the sky around here...
Last night, for instance?
No. Last night or
any other time. Why?
What's up?
Nothing.
Thanks a lot.
Starring Roy Thinnes as
architect David Vincent.
The invaders...
alien beings from
a dying planet.
Their destination... the Earth.
Their purpose... to
make it their world.
David Vincent has seen them.
For him, it began one lost night
on a lonely country road
looking for a shortcut
that he never found.
It began with a
closed, deserted diner
and a man too long without sleep
to continue his journey.
It began with the landing of
a craft from another galaxy.
Now David Vincent knows
that the invaders are here.
That they have taken human form.
Somehow, he must
convince a disbelieving world
that the nightmare
has already begun.
The guest stars
in tonight's story:
Anne Francis... Charles Drake...
Dabney Coleman.
A man has seen a flying saucer--
An old and familiar
story to David Vincent.
But John Carter swears he
can predict the day and place
when another saucer will land.
If true, he could
bring to an end
Vincent's continuing
war against the invader.
David Vincent?
Yeah. I'm Vincent.
John Carter. Follow me.
How are you?
Took you quite a while, huh?
Well, that's not much
of a road back there.
Is this where you saw them?
Yeah, both times.
Both times on the last night
of the last quarter
of the moon...
Like tonight... and, always,
one hour before dawn.
You mentioned
photographs in your letter.
Yeah. I see you brought
a better camera than I had.
Got them right in here.
Here you go.
Thank you.
You said to bring a gun,
so I... I borrowed this one.
It's loaded with
double-ought buckshot.
All right.
They ought to be
here pretty soon.
Let's go on over here.
Annie?
How do you feel?
Where are we?
Almost to Tucson.
We going to stay over
and get some sleep?
Well, I sort of hoped
we'd keep going.
Once we're in Mexico, it's over.
Yeah, but they won't be looking
for us until Monday morning.
I know that.
Annie, I'll give you anything
in this world except...
What can't I have?
The chance to change your mind.
Okay. Mexico, next stop.
They should have
been here an hour ago.
Oh, you can't keep
them on a timetable,
even if you have
seen them twice.
You don't really
buy this, do you?
I'm here.
Well, that's a lot further than
anybody else would come.
Ever since this thing started,
everybody's pretty well got me
pegged as some kind of a kook.
Guess I've given
them a little help.
What do you mean?
Oh, an unpublished writer
living alone in a beat-up house
with four cats and a motorbike.
If you had known me...
would... would you have come?
Sure.
It's 5:00. They
won't be coming now.
Well, let's give them a
few more minutes anyway.
Look, I appreciate your
coming down, but it's daylight.
You can't expect
them to put one...
Vincent.
What happened?
I don't know. The
engines just cut out.
Well, can't you do something?
I'm trying to land.
Let's get closer.
There's a spot.
It's full of rocks,
but that's all there is.
Robert!
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Use it!
Carter!
Yeah. You all right?
Yeah.
And did you see how
they went up like that?
I don't think there are any
more of them down there.
Well, the saucer
could be full of them.
Maybe.
Annie. Mmm.
Annie, you all right?
I think so.
All right.
Better try and get out of here.
Will it explode?
I don't think so.
Something happened to the...
electrical system
on the way down.
It's a good thing.
There's gasoline
all over the place.
Well, we're very lucky then.
I'll call the plane
rental people
and tell them where
to pick up the pieces.
What's next on the schedule?
I've made a hash of things.
I'm sorry, Annie.
It's not your fault.
You hurt your ankle.
Oh, it's just a little sprain.
I'll get us to Mexico...
Europe, Riviera, just
the way I promised.
Not exactly the way you said.
Running away from the
police is a little harder
with a sprained ankle.
Annie...
did you see anything...
big and bright
on the way down, on your side?
Did you notice anything?
The ground coming up.
Well... it's a long
way to Mexico.
Shouldn't we do something?
I'll, uh...
rent a car and come
back for the luggage.
Have you got the blueprints?
Yeah.
It looks empty.
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Well, it looks like we've
got ourselves a saucer.
Now, what are we
gonna do with it?
Who's the most important
man you know in town?
The sheriff, but I
could never get him
out here again, if that's
what you're thinking.
Well, you must know someone.
Wait a minute... Joe Bonning.
He, he may be in town.
He's in the state assembly.
I, uh, used to
be a friend of his.
At least, I went to high school
with him a hundred years ago.
All right. Get Bonning
to come out here
as soon as you can, and
get him to bring the sheriff.
It might work.
Here, take my car keys.
No, I'll, I'll take the
bike... it'll be faster.
Now, listen, David, uh...
I-I want to thank
you for coming.
This is a pretty big
deal for me, and...
Just get Bonning
to come out here
and you'll be nominated
for the Hall of Fame.
Here, why don't you take this?
I hope you won't have to use it.
Okay.
You should take
something from the ship.
To show Bonning.
Yeah. Right.
How's this?
That's perfect.
All right, I'll see you later.
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What is it?
Remember when I asked you
if you saw something
big and shiny
when we were coming down?
This must have been it.
Don't go any closer.
Well, if there was
somebody in there
who wanted to hurt us, they
would have done it by now.
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Hold it right there.
Back down.
Back away.
Put your hands up. Look,
we don't mean you any...
Turn around. Both of you.
One hand behind your back.
Get up.
Am I gonna live?
I'm sorry. I had to make sure
you weren't one of them.
Them?
The beings who
brought this thing here.
They have no pulse.
I-I'm a scientist, an
electrical engineer.
Do you mind if I
get a closer look
at this thing, Mister, uh...?
Vincent. David Vincent.
Bob Morrison. Annie Rhodes.
I'm sorry. I, I wasn't supposed
to say our real names.
You see, we're, uh...
eloping. Well, can I?
Go ahead.
Annie?
If you figure out how
to fly it, count me out.
We just crashed our plane.
One a day is all
my doctor allows.
Are you all right?
I'm fine. We missed
almost every rock in the field.
Well...
this promises to be
quite an adventure.
Maybe.
I hate to seem naïve,
but what do you do
with one of these
things once you catch it?
First thing you do is
send a friend for help.
In this case, a
state assemblyman
is coming out, and the police.
They're coming out here? Now?
That's right.
So you're not in any danger.
What happened
to the, uh... beings?
Did you mow them all down?
I'm not as bloodthirsty
as it may sound.
Well, it sounds pretty awful.
Why isn't it?
They want to take
over this planet.
They'll destroy us to get it.
You some kind of
an expert on them?
I've seen them before.
And you believe?
Every word.
Annie!
You've never seen
anything like that in your life.
Why, they're light-years ahead
of anything I've
ever dreamed of.
Why, I could spend ten years...
Well, as a matter of
fact, in about ten minutes
an assemblyman
and a few policemen
are gonna be coming here,
so I don't think you're gonna
have that chance, Robert.
If there are any beings around,
how could a girl get out of
here, say, if she panicked?
Well, I have a car just
beyond those rocks.
There's nothing to worry about.
The police are on their way.
May I take your pulse?
I'm coming.
What is it?
I've got to see
Mr. Bonning right away.
At 6:00 in the morning?
Look, tell him it's John
Carter from high school
and it's urgent...
He'll remember.
Now, will you please
get him for me?
Uh... mister, you
got to do me a favor.
My kid's sick and I left the
house without any money.
I need some change
for a phone call.
I'll pay you back.
Sure.
Thank you.
You won't be sorry.
Yes.
All right.
You know what to do.
♪ ♪
Mr. Vincent, when are your
friends going to be here?
They'll be here soon.
And we'll be here, too.
Mr. Vincent, this
state assemblyman...
Don't you think this
thing is too important
for just some local politician?
Well, he was available.
Why not go right to the top?
I know how
fantastic this thing is.
I don't even think it uses fuel.
Probably got some
magnetic drive principle
that we've never
even heard about.
Now, I could call... So
could someone else, Robert,
while we're on
our way to Mexico.
Who would you call?
The man I work for.
He's done subcontract work
on all the Apollo projects.
He wouldn't listen to you.
Now, why don't you just
let that assemblyman do it.
Of course, he
would listen, Annie.
Why?
Are you the first man who
ever saw a flying saucer?
Who are you? Why
are you so important?
You mean because I
don't have any money?
Is that it again?
No. Then why can't I?
Because of the
envelope in your pocket.
Annie, this is so enormous.
I think we should
see it through.
Could we live with
ourselves if we...
Glad you came, Sam. Get in.
Joe, I tried to tell you on
the phone, this Carter's a nut!
He's already had
me out there twice...
Yeah, I know Sam.
He told me all about it.
It's different this time.
There's a saucer out there.
And there's a man guarding it.
You really believe
him, don't you?
I've know John for a long time.
Yeah, so have I... too long.
John, let's show it to him, huh?
All right, what is it?
It's from the saucer,
out of the control room.
Well, I'm not saying I
believe it, you understand,
but... well, maybe
we better get started.
Robert.
I got his car keys
out of his jacket.
Now we can get
out of here. Annie.
Well, he said it was right
over there beyond those rocks.
Steal his car?
Borrow his car...
until we catch a plane.
We can't do that. What are we?
Well, it isn't as if you've
never stolen anything before.
Taking longer than I thought.
I'm going to have a look around.
We got the money.
All we have to do
is drive out of here.
Well, what's more important
to you... that thing or me?
You're important to me,
Annie. You're everything.
Why does the money
have to be so important?
I don't know. It just does.
Well, maybe if all
your father had left you
was a $20 gold piece and
a bag full of good wishes,
it'd mean the same to you.
But to steal...
Robert, that was your choice.
But you helped make it...
You wouldn't have come if...
Is that what you're
going to tell the police?
That I made you
steal those blueprints?
Well, I'm not waiting
around here to get arrested.
I'm getting out.
Annie, there's,
there's something...
I want you to come with me,
but I'm going with or without you.
You're always giving
me choices, Annie.
Well, I'm staying.
Sure.
Well, what do you need me for?
You got your saucer and your
$250,000 worth of blueprints.
If they mean that much to you...
here, take them.
What happened?
Car... skidded off the road.
I... I could...
Let's get him into ours, huh?
Easy picking him up... easy now.
Take it easy.
You all right?
I don't think anything's busted.
I'm pretty shook up, though.
Come on, we'll get you
some help as soon as we can.
I'm sure glad you came along.
I could've been lying
out there for weeks.
So you see, Sam?
Something good has
come out of this trip already.
Why did she take my car?
I don't know.
She calls you a thief, takes
my car and you don't know!
What is it with you two?!
Mr. Vincent... I need that car.
Our lives may depend on it.
The whole world
may depend on it.
Will you shut up?
Will you just shut up?
I've just lost
everything in my world
and I couldn't care
less about yours!
Now if you'll be quiet,
I'll tell you about it.
My company had some
blueprints for a new computer.
I don't know whose idea it
was to take them, hers or mine,
but... they would have brought
a quarter of a million dollars
in Europe, enough for us
to live happily ever after on.
Amen.
That still doesn't explain
why she took my car.
She took your car
because I told her
I was going to stay here
with you and see it through.
She didn't want to be
here when the police came.
Well, you took the blueprints.
I am a fool and a sloppy
sentimentalist, Mr. Vincent,
but I am not a thief.
As she will find out when she...
sees that the envelope
is full of blank paper.
♪ ♪
Sheriff, what...
It's one of them, Joe!
God in heaven... it's true...
what you said about them.
Yeah.
I got to get you
to the government.
I've got friends that...
You'll be doing the
world a favor, Joe.
No, not... not me.
You're the one that...
Help!
There are two men down there.
They're trapped in a car.
They need help.
You were with the others
at the saucer. What?
What are you doing?!
Wha...! No!
No, wait a minute!
Those men need help!
♪ ♪
What were you thinking?
When?
When you led your woman
to believe you stole for her?
I wanted Annie to come with me.
Look, at it from
her point of view,
if she thought I had money,
if she thought I'd give her
everything in the world...
Mexico, Europe, everything.
Well, when were you
going to tell her the truth?
When my $975 ran out.
I thought she'd love me by then.
Let me get a job over there.
Oh, I don't know what I thought.
Better get inside the saucer.
Is that your friend?
I'm sorry you got into this.
You should have
taken off with Annie.
You in the ship,
there is a small switch at
the right of the control panel.
If you press it, I'll
be able to hear you.
What do you want?
That belongs to us.
Not anymore.
We only want the ship.
You can go.
We'll take it and leave.
Are you going to let them?
I want this ship.
So do I.
All we want is this ship.
We have something of yours, too.
They've got Annie, David.
They'll kill her!
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Can you figure out how to
disable this ship if I can't get back?
Yeah.
Then you wait here.
Your friend's still in the ship.
Prepared to shoot out the
control panel if he has to.
What's your offer?
He comes out and we go in.
Release the girl.
After he's out of the ship.
Release the girl
and he'll come down.
No.
You could get the girl out
and your friend could
still cripple the ship.
All right, we'll stand
over there and cover you
while you come send
one man in to check it out.
I'm not sure you trust us.
One more detail.
Your camera.
Thanks.
Is she all right?
We made a deal.
You trust them?
No.
Don't come down
until I tell you.
Annie!
Yes.
Start walking to me.
One of you go to the ship.
Tell him to leave
his gun up there.
What's happening?
What are you doing?
We're making a trade.
What, me for the saucer?
But you can't do that.
They murdered your friends.
You've got to keep the saucer.
You can't just hand it to them.
You're more important to us.
Now both of you, come down.
Without me, they have
nothing to bargain with.
Keep your saucer.
I'm getting out of here.
Stop!
Look out!
Get down!
♪ ♪
We've got to get an
ambulance out here.
Thanks.
She'd be lost without it.
She's been burned,
Doctor, badly.
Her arm and shoulder.
How'd it happen?
Well, we were...
Does it matter?
No. We better get
her to the ambulance.
The man I work for...
I'm going to tell him
everything we saw.
Well, no matter what you say,
it's not going to
make much difference
now that we don't
have that saucer.
I know that, but
I'll tell him anyway.
First thing back at
work, Monday morning.
Robert...
I'm here, Annie.
Open my purse.
Can we take these back?
We don't need them anymore.
I think you'd better tell her.
Two other have seen what
David Vincent has seen.
Two others now know
that flying saucers do exist.
The search for Congressman
Bonning and Police Chief Thorn
will continue for months.
Because of their disappearance,
dozens of others
will begin to wonder...
reluctant to believe what
David Vincent knows is true:
that alien beings
from another galaxy
now walk the face of the Earth.