The Invaders (1967–1968): Season 2, Episode 5 - The Enemy - full transcript
An alien saucer crashes in the Utah foothills. Reports of its fiery demise draw David Vincent, even after flyovers by Air Force jets failed to locate the site of the mysterious fireball. Vincent soon discovers Gale Frazer, who has helped the craft's only survivor, Blake. Frazer, sick of war after serving in Vietnam, believes Blake's people are peaceful. David must gain her trust and convince her that Blake's mission is not peaceful. That is complicated by the arrival of Sawyer and Lavin, who have come to collect the box Blake's craft brought to Earth.
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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:
Barbara Barrie.
Richard Anderson.
Paul Mantee.
For two days, planes
have crossed and recrossed
the Utah wilderness
searching for some
clue to the fiery object
witnesses swear
plunged from the sky.
But the planes find nothing
and the investigation
is called off.
Only one man
continues the search.
For somewhere in the
forbidding mountains
may be the remains
of an alien spacecraft.
It's starting again.
All right. Come over here
and let me give you
another injection...
Not yet. Not yet.
You're in pain.
Now, let me help you!
We don't know how
this can affect me.
It's experimental.
Part of the reason I'm here.
Listen to me.
Pain is for a purpose.
It's a warning
that you need help.
I'll get help as soon as
I complete this mission.
You need help before then.
They'll take me to one of
our regeneration stations.
The injections are
wearing off too quickly.
You keep talking
about this rendezvous
that you have to
make this afternoon.
How do you know your two
friends aren't there right now?
Why don't you let me
go up to the mine office...
Why are you so
concerned about me?
I know this needle
has kept me alive.
You could've let me
die. Why didn't you?
I'm a nurse.
That doesn't answer my question.
You saw the ship.
You guessed what I am.
You don't show the fear emotions
humans are supposed to. Why?
I've just come back
from a year in Vietnam.
After what I've seen there,
nothing's ever going
to frighten me again.
I'm not like anything
you've ever seen.
Maybe.
But in the meantime,
why don't you try trusting me?
Humans?
Oh, no.
No. I've heard about you.
You fight. You hate. You kill.
You betray each other.
It's the only way you know.
You do it to each other
and you'll do it to me,
if you get the chance.
Hello.
Hello, Gale.
Remember me?
Oh, Vern. Yes.
Uh, how's everything?
Well, pretty slow since
all that saucer fuss.
Say, I, uh, I'd like to
come by tonight, if it's okay.
You've been back
a week, and, uh...
Oh, well, uh, I'm
pretty tied up right now.
How about some other time?
Oh, uh... uh, doing what?
Oh, trying to get
this ranch into shape.
Maybe in a few days.
Yeah. Sure. Sure, Gale.
When you're not so jammed up.
Bye.
You see?
We don't all betray each other.
Someone's coming.
There can't be.
No one ever comes
up here this time of day.
Who is it?
I can't tell from here.
You found out a way
to get help after all,
didn't you, huh?
How could I?
I've been with you every minute.
Find out who it is
and get rid of him.
All right. Go into the kitchen.
No, no, no. I'll stay here.
You go out and meet him.
You trust me that far?
It's not a question of trust.
Now get going.
All right. Give me
the keys to the jeep.
And I'll take this.
It's not loaded.
You took all the
shells out, remember?
But he's not going to know that.
This land is posted.
Who are you?
My name is David Vincent.
I'd like to talk to Mr. Frazer.
Miss Frazer.
This is my ranch.
What do you want?
Well, I'm trying to get back
up into those mountains.
The only place this
road leads is to my ranch.
What are you looking for?
Well, I'm looking for
whatever fell into the mountains
a couple of nights ago.
Oh, I heard those reports.
There's nothing there.
They called off the search.
Well, they were looking
for a plane; I'm not.
Just what are you looking for?
Well, it would take
a long time to explain
and I'm afraid you
wouldn't believe me.
Thank you.
I'll go back to the mine
and try to find that road.
No, Mister, uh...
Vincent? Right.
This land is mine, all
the way up to that ridge.
Now, unless you have government
business on this property...
You don't, do you?
No. I don't.
Well, you're trespassing.
So please get off.
Well, maybe I should
explain why I'm going up there.
Get out.
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Who was it?
I'm not sure.
Come on. Come on.
Who was it?
Well, he's gone.
You don't have to worry.
What does that mean?
Well, he... he's not from
the Aeronautics Board.
At least he said he wasn't
here on government business.
But he said he wanted
to get to the place
where your ship crashed.
And he said he wasn't
looking for a plane.
And, uh... you let him go, huh?
I sent him back to town.
What else could I do?
And you think that he's
going to go back to town,
because you, uh, you said so?
I got to get up
to that clearing.
You're too weak to make it.
Sit there. Drink this.
I've got to make it.
Even if he finds that clearing,
there's nothing there.
You destroyed the ship.
The courier's box
is hidden there.
I was supposed to
land him safely; I failed.
Now I have to finish
his mission for him.
But you hid the box.
Why don't you wait until your...
friends get here this afternoon
and then send them for it?
You said you wanted to help me.
I need your help.
Will you?
Don't.
He's going to carry
the box to the jeep.
Get back.
He's sick.
Can't you see that?
Get back.
He's suffering, Mr. Vincent.
He needs me and
I'm going to help him.
Highway department says
that storm's going
to be a big one.
Well, there's nothing
we can do about it.
We better call the ranchers
and give them the word.
Thought we was
all done with visitors.
Now, you go make your calls
and don't forget
Gale Frazer's place.
Right.
Morning, Sheriff.
This is Mr. Lavin.
Sheriff.
How are ya?
My name is Sawyer.
How are you?
Our company has just
bought out the Aurelia Mine.
I wonder if you could tell
us how to get up there?
Now, who'd want to
do a fool thing like that?
That mine was run dry
long before they closed it.
Well, the record says
there's enough low-grade ore
to work with our new equipment.
Can't scrape meat
off a chewed bone.
We want to find out how chewed.
A man from the mine department
is meeting us up
there this afternoon.
Not wanting to wish
you any bad luck...
'cause, Lord knows,
we could use that mine...
I think you're going to find ore
like they found
that flying saucer.
Flying saucer?
Yeah, that's what
some folks called it.
That's what all the
excitement was about.
I thought even the big
city papers would print that.
Well, maybe they did.
We've been traveling
around a great deal.
What saucer?
It came down back
of the old Frazer place.
If you ask me, it came
from the same place
as that ore of yours.
Had to be a trick of some kind
or the government
men would have found it.
Oh, then there was a search?
For two days.
Planes covered every
inch of those hills.
Well, I'll leave you two be so
you can go over your assets...
That is, if you
call mice assets.
Just turn your car around,
take that road up into
the hills about three miles.
Thank you, Sheriff.
Oh, if you're hungry,
uh, try Henry's
across the alley.
Opening old mines...
flying saucers...
well, you live long
enough, you see everything.
Do you have to do that?
No matter where
he's from, he's ill.
Look, I've proven to you
that I'm not one of them.
I'm just a nurse, and
I want to help him.
His body is a shell.
It's an imitation.
He's not in pain.
I've treated enough wounded
men to know that he's in shock.
Well, let's get him to a doctor.
Don't you understand?
He won't make it that far.
I have some
medication at the ranch
that might help him.
Or do you want him to die?
He's reverting to his own form.
The form he had before
he assumed this body.
He'll never survive.
Please, then let's
get him to the ranch.
Well, has anybody
else tried that number?
I've been trying to get
her about a half hour.
Well, keep trying, Millie.
Trouble?
I've reached everybody
except Gale, Sheriff.
I think the phone's
out up there.
Yeah, try it again, Millie.
All right. Thanks, Millie.
Phone's dead, all right.
Her road'll go fast
if that storm's as
bad as they say it is.
You better get up
there and warn her
in case she hasn't
heard the radio.
She might want to come
in town until it blows over.
The way she's been keeping
herself shut away up there
since she come back,
she might welcome it.
Vern...
I know how you felt
about Gale, and still do
but she's been through a lot.
Give her a little time.
If she asks what
you're doing up there,
tell her I sent you.
Official business.
I'll get back as soon as I can.
The reversion's stopped.
It only affected his hands.
If he hadn't
disconnected the phone,
I could have gone
into town for help.
You had your chance
when you first met me.
I know I had the chance
but I didn't know who you were.
I didn't know what you'd do.
As long as you
understand one thing...
They're here to
take over the earth.
How do you know?
I've seen others.
I've seen what
they've done here.
We're the killers, Mr. Vincent.
You've seen what
they've had to do
to defend themselves against us.
How do you know they're not
here on a mission of peace?
You want us to extend
a helping hand, right?
That's right.
And after they bite it off?
I only know one thing.
He could have killed
me, and he didn't.
Doesn't that mean
anything to you?
He needs you to keep him
alive until he finishes his mission.
You're judging him
by the way we act...
A "civilized" people.
All we know how to do is kill.
Anything that's
strange or unlike us
doesn't have a chance.
I have to get him to town.
Untie his hands.
Or do you think he's
going to run away?
How soon will this
stuff take effect?
I don't know.
We're dealing with a
completely different symptom.
Mr. Vincent, is there
anything else you can tell me
about this... reversion process?
I might be able to do something.
The only other person
who's seen an alien in
that form went insane.
All I know is that
they can't survive here
in their native form.
Doesn't that prove you're wrong?
Why would they want
to take over the world
if they can't survive here?
The answer may be in that box.
Did he say where he
was going to deliver it?
To the mine they bought.
Why can't you let him go?
It doesn't make any difference
whether you're
right or I'm right
about why they're here
but if we turn him in, and
he dies, then we killed him.
I've had enough killing.
My father died in one war.
My brother died in a war
they didn't even call a war.
Never mind.
It's a world I don't
understand anymore.
I thought if I... came
here to the ranch,
I might find some reason...
but I can't.
It's the sheriff's car.
Won't you listen to me?
Won't you let him go?
He won't be harmed.
Who are you?
My name is David Vincent.
Where's Gale?
Inside.
What is that supposed to be?
A gun.
I have a prisoner
inside. He's sick.
I'll explain while we
get him back to town.
Gale, what's this all about?
Let him tell you.
He's in the bedroom.
You'll understand
when you see him.
All right, show me
what's going on.
His hands!
What's the matter
with his hands?
A mission of peace.
Your company sure
bought a pig in a poke.
Map's not even right.
This ain't the main shaft.
It's over here near
the Frazer place.
Frazer? Is that where this,
uh, "saucer" came down?
Yeah, right here.
The man in the restaurant
gave us quite a
description of what he saw.
Give that old fool another week,
he'll swear the moon fell down.
Well, you haven't been
too encouraging, Sheriff,
but at least you've been
honest about the mine.
Yes.
Well, let's see what our
man in the department says.
I'll tell you what.
My deputy's up at
the Frazer place now.
I'll give him a call and have
him keep an eye out for your man.
This is no time to be caught out
if that storm's as bad
as they keep saying it is.
That Frazer road will
wash out first thing.
Vern.
Come in, Vern.
Thanks a lot for
your help, Sheriff.
My pleasure.
Now, Vern, you answer me.
What do you think
I'm paying you for?
Come in, Vern.
Vern, you get on that
radio, you hear me?
If you're going to
get rid of us, do it.
That would be
foolish. I need you.
Did you have to kill him?
He was no use to me.
Is that all you care about...
What use people are to you?
Primitive people.
Lives ruled by emotions.
Don't you feel anything?
You're trying to
understand him in our terms.
It doesn't work.
I just want to know one thing.
When you're done
with us... do we die, too?
Sorry, Mr. Vincent, I
should have listened to you.
It's almost time.
You know what to do.
You think I'm still
going to help you?
I started to revert once.
I can't afford to
let it happen again.
No.
He's my assurance that you will.
I learned from you how
valuable even one life is.
You won't sacrifice his.
Do as he says.
The longer I stay alive,
the better chance we
have of stopping him.
You've gone to a lot of
trouble for this rendezvous...
Buying a mine company.
Why the fancy game?
It's no game.
We intend to use those mines.
We have to feel free
to move our equipment
in for our experiments
without any suspicion.
The material for
this experiment...
is in that box.
That's right.
And I will deliver
them this afternoon.
No, Mr. Blake, you
won't deliver them.
If you have another attack,
nothing is going to help you.
You see this?
It's smashed.
You did it when you killed Vern.
I can't do anything
more for you.
Find another.
I have no other.
W-w-w-we'll get
one at your village.
Willing to risk that?
There's no risk, Mr. Vincent.
You'll see.
No, Millie, I don't know
what happened to his radio.
Just keep checking the
ranches at the other end.
Maybe he stopped at, oh,
the Thompsons' or the Whites'.
You be as quick as you can.
If you try anything,
I'll kill you.
Gale!
Hello, Sheriff. How are you?
Oh, I see Vern
did get to you, then.
Vern?
Yes, I sent him out to warn you
there's a big storm coming.
You telling me you
haven't seen him?
I haven't seen him, Sheriff.
Well, I'll be darned.
I'll have to find out where
that young fella's been.
Anyway, it was smart of you
to come into town before it hit.
I-I'm not staying.
I just, uh...
I just brought some friends in
to get some supplies.
You'll die, too.
We'd better get back, Gale.
I've... I've got to get back.
Well, I think it's
a darn silly idea,
but it's your business.
Look, you sure you
haven't seen Vern?
I wish I could
tell you that I had.
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Survivors.
You all right?
Yes.
Why don't you let me drive?
No, it's all right.
It keeps me occupied.
Besides, I know the road.
My... hands...
it's begun.
How far are we from the mine?
I can't tell from here.
Maybe 100 yards or so.
Can you hold out that long?
Keep going.
Can you walk?
Yes.
Let's get inside.
The keys.
Look, we couldn't get
away if we wanted to.
The keys.
Now let's get inside.
Take the box.
Leave it here.
The box!
All right.
There's a lantern over there.
You said there was a stove.
In the corner.
I'll get some wood.
Gale.
Hurry.
I'll start the fire.
Is this what you need?
I can't help you anymore.
The box.
He took it with him.
Where?
The mine.
Hmm. Humans.
Hmm.
You humans... puzzle me.
You fight to stay alive,
and then you ask to die.
You guard your lives
and then you sacrifice
them pointlessly.
Why?
With us, you know why.
If I don't accomplish
this mission,
there will be plenty of
others to take my place.
And what is your mission?
What's in that box?
Doesn't matter.
If we're going to be killed,
I want to know why.
So that we can live here.
We're going to experiment
with the chemicals in that box...
Experiment to perhaps
change our chemistry
so that we can use the
oxygen in your atmosphere
even in our native form.
And if it doesn't?
Will you go away, then,
and leave us alone?
No.
We'll simply
eliminate the oxygen.
Eliminate the oxygen?
And kill every living thing?
Yes.
Mr. Vincent...
I know now that what
I did was worth doing.
Was it even worth
the pain of dying?
You know, don't you?
You have the same fears.
You haven't been
fighting to stay alive
just because you have a mission.
You're like us.
You're in pain and
you're afraid to die.
Something must have
happened to you in that crash.
It changed you.
My will to survive is
as strong as yours.
No medicine is going
to save you now.
At least spare us.
Thank you very
much, Mr. Vincent.
Thank you for reminding me.
I'm going to die.
It's time to admit that
and time to carry
out my responsibility.
There's a tunnel somewhere
that leads to the ranch
if I can find it.
Vincent!
Let's go.
Where are you?
He's reverting.
Can you find that tunnel
that leads to the ranch?
I don't know.
It's up above, I think.
We'll have to go back that way.
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This is the way.
I'm sure it is.
Vincent!
What about this way?
No... no good.
Wait!
Wait!
Got caught up in that storm.
Just made it up here.
What's wrong?
Lavin?
Sawyer?
Blake...!
The box... where is it?
Destroyed.
Help.
I need help.
There is no help.
We're all finished here.
Get rid of them.
All of them.
Vincent...
help me.
My hands...
the pain... Do
something... anything.
Stop the pain.
I never did see a storm
as bad as that one.
I never could have gotten
through it without you.
Neither could I.
What are your plans?
Oh, I don't know.
They haven't taken over yet.
Until they do, I'm still a nurse
and there are still lots
of people who need me.
I wish we hadn't
killed a man, David.
Blake wasn't a man.
To me,
he was.
I'm sorry Vern had to die.
Will you drop me in town?
Sure.
What about your plans?
What will you be doing?
I don't know. I suppose
more of the same.
Let's go.
David Vincent's war is
unrecognized, unheralded.
Its battlefields
can be anywhere...
anywhere the invader has
carved out a stronghold.
David Vincent's war
will have no ending
until the invader is driven
back to his own world
or until he has made
David Vincent's world
his own.
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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:
Barbara Barrie.
Richard Anderson.
Paul Mantee.
For two days, planes
have crossed and recrossed
the Utah wilderness
searching for some
clue to the fiery object
witnesses swear
plunged from the sky.
But the planes find nothing
and the investigation
is called off.
Only one man
continues the search.
For somewhere in the
forbidding mountains
may be the remains
of an alien spacecraft.
It's starting again.
All right. Come over here
and let me give you
another injection...
Not yet. Not yet.
You're in pain.
Now, let me help you!
We don't know how
this can affect me.
It's experimental.
Part of the reason I'm here.
Listen to me.
Pain is for a purpose.
It's a warning
that you need help.
I'll get help as soon as
I complete this mission.
You need help before then.
They'll take me to one of
our regeneration stations.
The injections are
wearing off too quickly.
You keep talking
about this rendezvous
that you have to
make this afternoon.
How do you know your two
friends aren't there right now?
Why don't you let me
go up to the mine office...
Why are you so
concerned about me?
I know this needle
has kept me alive.
You could've let me
die. Why didn't you?
I'm a nurse.
That doesn't answer my question.
You saw the ship.
You guessed what I am.
You don't show the fear emotions
humans are supposed to. Why?
I've just come back
from a year in Vietnam.
After what I've seen there,
nothing's ever going
to frighten me again.
I'm not like anything
you've ever seen.
Maybe.
But in the meantime,
why don't you try trusting me?
Humans?
Oh, no.
No. I've heard about you.
You fight. You hate. You kill.
You betray each other.
It's the only way you know.
You do it to each other
and you'll do it to me,
if you get the chance.
Hello.
Hello, Gale.
Remember me?
Oh, Vern. Yes.
Uh, how's everything?
Well, pretty slow since
all that saucer fuss.
Say, I, uh, I'd like to
come by tonight, if it's okay.
You've been back
a week, and, uh...
Oh, well, uh, I'm
pretty tied up right now.
How about some other time?
Oh, uh... uh, doing what?
Oh, trying to get
this ranch into shape.
Maybe in a few days.
Yeah. Sure. Sure, Gale.
When you're not so jammed up.
Bye.
You see?
We don't all betray each other.
Someone's coming.
There can't be.
No one ever comes
up here this time of day.
Who is it?
I can't tell from here.
You found out a way
to get help after all,
didn't you, huh?
How could I?
I've been with you every minute.
Find out who it is
and get rid of him.
All right. Go into the kitchen.
No, no, no. I'll stay here.
You go out and meet him.
You trust me that far?
It's not a question of trust.
Now get going.
All right. Give me
the keys to the jeep.
And I'll take this.
It's not loaded.
You took all the
shells out, remember?
But he's not going to know that.
This land is posted.
Who are you?
My name is David Vincent.
I'd like to talk to Mr. Frazer.
Miss Frazer.
This is my ranch.
What do you want?
Well, I'm trying to get back
up into those mountains.
The only place this
road leads is to my ranch.
What are you looking for?
Well, I'm looking for
whatever fell into the mountains
a couple of nights ago.
Oh, I heard those reports.
There's nothing there.
They called off the search.
Well, they were looking
for a plane; I'm not.
Just what are you looking for?
Well, it would take
a long time to explain
and I'm afraid you
wouldn't believe me.
Thank you.
I'll go back to the mine
and try to find that road.
No, Mister, uh...
Vincent? Right.
This land is mine, all
the way up to that ridge.
Now, unless you have government
business on this property...
You don't, do you?
No. I don't.
Well, you're trespassing.
So please get off.
Well, maybe I should
explain why I'm going up there.
Get out.
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Who was it?
I'm not sure.
Come on. Come on.
Who was it?
Well, he's gone.
You don't have to worry.
What does that mean?
Well, he... he's not from
the Aeronautics Board.
At least he said he wasn't
here on government business.
But he said he wanted
to get to the place
where your ship crashed.
And he said he wasn't
looking for a plane.
And, uh... you let him go, huh?
I sent him back to town.
What else could I do?
And you think that he's
going to go back to town,
because you, uh, you said so?
I got to get up
to that clearing.
You're too weak to make it.
Sit there. Drink this.
I've got to make it.
Even if he finds that clearing,
there's nothing there.
You destroyed the ship.
The courier's box
is hidden there.
I was supposed to
land him safely; I failed.
Now I have to finish
his mission for him.
But you hid the box.
Why don't you wait until your...
friends get here this afternoon
and then send them for it?
You said you wanted to help me.
I need your help.
Will you?
Don't.
He's going to carry
the box to the jeep.
Get back.
He's sick.
Can't you see that?
Get back.
He's suffering, Mr. Vincent.
He needs me and
I'm going to help him.
Highway department says
that storm's going
to be a big one.
Well, there's nothing
we can do about it.
We better call the ranchers
and give them the word.
Thought we was
all done with visitors.
Now, you go make your calls
and don't forget
Gale Frazer's place.
Right.
Morning, Sheriff.
This is Mr. Lavin.
Sheriff.
How are ya?
My name is Sawyer.
How are you?
Our company has just
bought out the Aurelia Mine.
I wonder if you could tell
us how to get up there?
Now, who'd want to
do a fool thing like that?
That mine was run dry
long before they closed it.
Well, the record says
there's enough low-grade ore
to work with our new equipment.
Can't scrape meat
off a chewed bone.
We want to find out how chewed.
A man from the mine department
is meeting us up
there this afternoon.
Not wanting to wish
you any bad luck...
'cause, Lord knows,
we could use that mine...
I think you're going to find ore
like they found
that flying saucer.
Flying saucer?
Yeah, that's what
some folks called it.
That's what all the
excitement was about.
I thought even the big
city papers would print that.
Well, maybe they did.
We've been traveling
around a great deal.
What saucer?
It came down back
of the old Frazer place.
If you ask me, it came
from the same place
as that ore of yours.
Had to be a trick of some kind
or the government
men would have found it.
Oh, then there was a search?
For two days.
Planes covered every
inch of those hills.
Well, I'll leave you two be so
you can go over your assets...
That is, if you
call mice assets.
Just turn your car around,
take that road up into
the hills about three miles.
Thank you, Sheriff.
Oh, if you're hungry,
uh, try Henry's
across the alley.
Opening old mines...
flying saucers...
well, you live long
enough, you see everything.
Do you have to do that?
No matter where
he's from, he's ill.
Look, I've proven to you
that I'm not one of them.
I'm just a nurse, and
I want to help him.
His body is a shell.
It's an imitation.
He's not in pain.
I've treated enough wounded
men to know that he's in shock.
Well, let's get him to a doctor.
Don't you understand?
He won't make it that far.
I have some
medication at the ranch
that might help him.
Or do you want him to die?
He's reverting to his own form.
The form he had before
he assumed this body.
He'll never survive.
Please, then let's
get him to the ranch.
Well, has anybody
else tried that number?
I've been trying to get
her about a half hour.
Well, keep trying, Millie.
Trouble?
I've reached everybody
except Gale, Sheriff.
I think the phone's
out up there.
Yeah, try it again, Millie.
All right. Thanks, Millie.
Phone's dead, all right.
Her road'll go fast
if that storm's as
bad as they say it is.
You better get up
there and warn her
in case she hasn't
heard the radio.
She might want to come
in town until it blows over.
The way she's been keeping
herself shut away up there
since she come back,
she might welcome it.
Vern...
I know how you felt
about Gale, and still do
but she's been through a lot.
Give her a little time.
If she asks what
you're doing up there,
tell her I sent you.
Official business.
I'll get back as soon as I can.
The reversion's stopped.
It only affected his hands.
If he hadn't
disconnected the phone,
I could have gone
into town for help.
You had your chance
when you first met me.
I know I had the chance
but I didn't know who you were.
I didn't know what you'd do.
As long as you
understand one thing...
They're here to
take over the earth.
How do you know?
I've seen others.
I've seen what
they've done here.
We're the killers, Mr. Vincent.
You've seen what
they've had to do
to defend themselves against us.
How do you know they're not
here on a mission of peace?
You want us to extend
a helping hand, right?
That's right.
And after they bite it off?
I only know one thing.
He could have killed
me, and he didn't.
Doesn't that mean
anything to you?
He needs you to keep him
alive until he finishes his mission.
You're judging him
by the way we act...
A "civilized" people.
All we know how to do is kill.
Anything that's
strange or unlike us
doesn't have a chance.
I have to get him to town.
Untie his hands.
Or do you think he's
going to run away?
How soon will this
stuff take effect?
I don't know.
We're dealing with a
completely different symptom.
Mr. Vincent, is there
anything else you can tell me
about this... reversion process?
I might be able to do something.
The only other person
who's seen an alien in
that form went insane.
All I know is that
they can't survive here
in their native form.
Doesn't that prove you're wrong?
Why would they want
to take over the world
if they can't survive here?
The answer may be in that box.
Did he say where he
was going to deliver it?
To the mine they bought.
Why can't you let him go?
It doesn't make any difference
whether you're
right or I'm right
about why they're here
but if we turn him in, and
he dies, then we killed him.
I've had enough killing.
My father died in one war.
My brother died in a war
they didn't even call a war.
Never mind.
It's a world I don't
understand anymore.
I thought if I... came
here to the ranch,
I might find some reason...
but I can't.
It's the sheriff's car.
Won't you listen to me?
Won't you let him go?
He won't be harmed.
Who are you?
My name is David Vincent.
Where's Gale?
Inside.
What is that supposed to be?
A gun.
I have a prisoner
inside. He's sick.
I'll explain while we
get him back to town.
Gale, what's this all about?
Let him tell you.
He's in the bedroom.
You'll understand
when you see him.
All right, show me
what's going on.
His hands!
What's the matter
with his hands?
A mission of peace.
Your company sure
bought a pig in a poke.
Map's not even right.
This ain't the main shaft.
It's over here near
the Frazer place.
Frazer? Is that where this,
uh, "saucer" came down?
Yeah, right here.
The man in the restaurant
gave us quite a
description of what he saw.
Give that old fool another week,
he'll swear the moon fell down.
Well, you haven't been
too encouraging, Sheriff,
but at least you've been
honest about the mine.
Yes.
Well, let's see what our
man in the department says.
I'll tell you what.
My deputy's up at
the Frazer place now.
I'll give him a call and have
him keep an eye out for your man.
This is no time to be caught out
if that storm's as bad
as they keep saying it is.
That Frazer road will
wash out first thing.
Vern.
Come in, Vern.
Thanks a lot for
your help, Sheriff.
My pleasure.
Now, Vern, you answer me.
What do you think
I'm paying you for?
Come in, Vern.
Vern, you get on that
radio, you hear me?
If you're going to
get rid of us, do it.
That would be
foolish. I need you.
Did you have to kill him?
He was no use to me.
Is that all you care about...
What use people are to you?
Primitive people.
Lives ruled by emotions.
Don't you feel anything?
You're trying to
understand him in our terms.
It doesn't work.
I just want to know one thing.
When you're done
with us... do we die, too?
Sorry, Mr. Vincent, I
should have listened to you.
It's almost time.
You know what to do.
You think I'm still
going to help you?
I started to revert once.
I can't afford to
let it happen again.
No.
He's my assurance that you will.
I learned from you how
valuable even one life is.
You won't sacrifice his.
Do as he says.
The longer I stay alive,
the better chance we
have of stopping him.
You've gone to a lot of
trouble for this rendezvous...
Buying a mine company.
Why the fancy game?
It's no game.
We intend to use those mines.
We have to feel free
to move our equipment
in for our experiments
without any suspicion.
The material for
this experiment...
is in that box.
That's right.
And I will deliver
them this afternoon.
No, Mr. Blake, you
won't deliver them.
If you have another attack,
nothing is going to help you.
You see this?
It's smashed.
You did it when you killed Vern.
I can't do anything
more for you.
Find another.
I have no other.
W-w-w-we'll get
one at your village.
Willing to risk that?
There's no risk, Mr. Vincent.
You'll see.
No, Millie, I don't know
what happened to his radio.
Just keep checking the
ranches at the other end.
Maybe he stopped at, oh,
the Thompsons' or the Whites'.
You be as quick as you can.
If you try anything,
I'll kill you.
Gale!
Hello, Sheriff. How are you?
Oh, I see Vern
did get to you, then.
Vern?
Yes, I sent him out to warn you
there's a big storm coming.
You telling me you
haven't seen him?
I haven't seen him, Sheriff.
Well, I'll be darned.
I'll have to find out where
that young fella's been.
Anyway, it was smart of you
to come into town before it hit.
I-I'm not staying.
I just, uh...
I just brought some friends in
to get some supplies.
You'll die, too.
We'd better get back, Gale.
I've... I've got to get back.
Well, I think it's
a darn silly idea,
but it's your business.
Look, you sure you
haven't seen Vern?
I wish I could
tell you that I had.
♪ ♪
Survivors.
You all right?
Yes.
Why don't you let me drive?
No, it's all right.
It keeps me occupied.
Besides, I know the road.
My... hands...
it's begun.
How far are we from the mine?
I can't tell from here.
Maybe 100 yards or so.
Can you hold out that long?
Keep going.
Can you walk?
Yes.
Let's get inside.
The keys.
Look, we couldn't get
away if we wanted to.
The keys.
Now let's get inside.
Take the box.
Leave it here.
The box!
All right.
There's a lantern over there.
You said there was a stove.
In the corner.
I'll get some wood.
Gale.
Hurry.
I'll start the fire.
Is this what you need?
I can't help you anymore.
The box.
He took it with him.
Where?
The mine.
Hmm. Humans.
Hmm.
You humans... puzzle me.
You fight to stay alive,
and then you ask to die.
You guard your lives
and then you sacrifice
them pointlessly.
Why?
With us, you know why.
If I don't accomplish
this mission,
there will be plenty of
others to take my place.
And what is your mission?
What's in that box?
Doesn't matter.
If we're going to be killed,
I want to know why.
So that we can live here.
We're going to experiment
with the chemicals in that box...
Experiment to perhaps
change our chemistry
so that we can use the
oxygen in your atmosphere
even in our native form.
And if it doesn't?
Will you go away, then,
and leave us alone?
No.
We'll simply
eliminate the oxygen.
Eliminate the oxygen?
And kill every living thing?
Yes.
Mr. Vincent...
I know now that what
I did was worth doing.
Was it even worth
the pain of dying?
You know, don't you?
You have the same fears.
You haven't been
fighting to stay alive
just because you have a mission.
You're like us.
You're in pain and
you're afraid to die.
Something must have
happened to you in that crash.
It changed you.
My will to survive is
as strong as yours.
No medicine is going
to save you now.
At least spare us.
Thank you very
much, Mr. Vincent.
Thank you for reminding me.
I'm going to die.
It's time to admit that
and time to carry
out my responsibility.
There's a tunnel somewhere
that leads to the ranch
if I can find it.
Vincent!
Let's go.
Where are you?
He's reverting.
Can you find that tunnel
that leads to the ranch?
I don't know.
It's up above, I think.
We'll have to go back that way.
♪ ♪
This is the way.
I'm sure it is.
Vincent!
What about this way?
No... no good.
Wait!
Wait!
Got caught up in that storm.
Just made it up here.
What's wrong?
Lavin?
Sawyer?
Blake...!
The box... where is it?
Destroyed.
Help.
I need help.
There is no help.
We're all finished here.
Get rid of them.
All of them.
Vincent...
help me.
My hands...
the pain... Do
something... anything.
Stop the pain.
I never did see a storm
as bad as that one.
I never could have gotten
through it without you.
Neither could I.
What are your plans?
Oh, I don't know.
They haven't taken over yet.
Until they do, I'm still a nurse
and there are still lots
of people who need me.
I wish we hadn't
killed a man, David.
Blake wasn't a man.
To me,
he was.
I'm sorry Vern had to die.
Will you drop me in town?
Sure.
What about your plans?
What will you be doing?
I don't know. I suppose
more of the same.
Let's go.
David Vincent's war is
unrecognized, unheralded.
Its battlefields
can be anywhere...
anywhere the invader has
carved out a stronghold.
David Vincent's war
will have no ending
until the invader is driven
back to his own world
or until he has made
David Vincent's world
his own.