"NARRATOR:" "Three months ago," "David Vincent had come to the Carver Oil Fields in Houston." "There had been reports of unexplained lights, and that same night, two watchmen had been found dead." "The verdict in both cases:" "cerebral haemorrhage." "[SPACESHIP WHIRRING]" "Now, suddenly, after endless nights of vigil in the Carver Fields," "David has found proof that the invaders are here." "[CAMERA CLICKING]" "[PANEL BEEPING]" "[CAMERA CLICKING]" "[DISPLAY HUMMING]" "[DEVICE WHIRRING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "The Invaders." "A Quinn Martin production." "Starring Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent." "NARRATOR:" "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." "ANNOUNCER:" "The guest stars in tonight's story:" "Laura Devon," "Nancy Wickwire," "Norman Fell, and special guest star Ed Begley." "Tonight's episode: "The Betrayed."" "NARRATOR:" "David Vincent has found proof that the invaders are here." "Minutes after dark, he seeks out Simon Carver, owner of the enormously successful Carver Oil Company." "Now, finally, three months of waiting and watching are about to pay off." "CARVER:" "What is it?" "What's going on here?" " What are you doing here?" " Please let me in." "I have to talk to you." " It's 5:00 in the morning." " This is urgent." "Henry." "Henry." "HENRY:" "Mr. Vincent, just a moment" " Hello, Henry." "Okay, Vincent, what is this?" "I know how this is gonna sound, but you've gotta get the security guards out to Field 1 right away." "Do what?" "Sir, I don't have time to explain this to you fully." "Make time." "Listen, pal, you come breaking in here raving like a lunatic, you better have a reason." " I have." "Right here." " What's that supposed to be?" " A computer tape." " So?" "I found it inside an abandoned tank car in Field 1." "The car's equipped with a lot more than just a computer." "Vincent, now I know you're out of your skull." "There's nothing in that tank car except rust." "It's been sitting" "What I saw won't make sense." "But once you've seen it, you'll understand." "Now, let's call the guards." "Beat it." "In there." " We don't have time." " I said, in there." "You've been on the hairy edge of being canned since I hired you." "Now, give it to me straight or you've had it." "This tape is proof that the two men who were killed in Field 1" "Killed?" "What are you talking about?" "They weren't killed." "Two cerebral haemorrhages in the same night, the same area." "Come on, Mr. Carver." "They were healthy men." "They were killed because they knew about this tape." " David?" " Oh, come in." "Come in." " Join us." "We'll have a party." " What's going on?" "Tell her." "Maybe it'll make sense to her." "Where did Evelyn put those pills?" "Right-hand drawer." "I hired you to design a plant, not to give me some cock-and-bull about my guards." "I'm not asking you to believe it without seeing evidence." "I can prove it, so give me that chance." "Henry." " Yes, Mr. Carver?" " Get me some clothes." "Yes, sir." "Hello, Sam?" "Round up the guards." "Meet me at Field 1, on the siding." "Yes, now." "Dad, you're not going out?" "He asked for his chance, I'll give it to him." "DAVID:" "My car is outside." "Mind if I put my pants on?" "David, he shouldn't be going out at this hour." "What's so important?" "You'll have an explanation when I get back." "You do some very peculiar things, you know?" "You want an apology, I apologise." "I love your charming manners." "And I love it when you take me out, then leave me at 8 or 9:00 whenever you have something better to do." "Susan, I've had to." " You'll know why when I get back." " I don't have to" "CARVER:" "I thought you were so hopped up to get going." " I'll explain it to you when I get back." " It's really much more fun this way." "Well?" "EVELYN:" "Good morning." " Mr. Vincent." "DAVID:" "Miss Bowers." "Evelyn, you're dressed." "You didn't have to get up." " Anything wrong, Mr. Carver?" " I'll tell you when I get back." "Susan, where are they going?" "Well, they're having a convention on Field 1." "I've been your father's secretary long enough to get used to things like this, but 5:00." "You got me out at 5:00 in the morning to look into this rusty, beat-up old tank car?" "What am I supposed to do, drop in a dime and make a wish?" "It's not the same car." "Vincent, this car has been here ever since we abandoned this spur." "Here, let's go." "And you, I wanna see you later this morning in my office." " Will you listen to me--?" " I've listened." "I've come." "I've had it." "At my office." "Mr. Taft?" "What is it?" "FBI?" "FCC?" " Licensing commission?" " No, no, nothing like that." "I got it." "You're a private investigator." "My name is David Vincent." "I may have a job for you." "What is it, Charlie?" "Think your wife's cheating?" "I have a special job." " Computer tape?" " You tell me." " It's your primary field." " What makes you think so?" "I started out this morning at NASA headquarters and the university." "I asked for a name, I got yours." "My former bosses, huh?" "You left out a few, you know." "You're a specialist in cryptography." "The government used you to break liberated tapes, find out what the tapes are for, what machines they control." "And they fired me, as did the university, as you must know." "You were fired for breaking rules." " For nonconformity." " But never inefficiency." "I need this tape decoded." "Oh, when I tell you my price, pal, you may change your mind." "Well, as friend to friend, what side of the law am I on?" "You don't have to worry about the law." "But I should tell you one thing." "If anybody finds out where this tape is, your life won't be worth a cent." "Keep it, pal." "That's the kind of trouble I don't need." "You'll be safe as long as I don't know where you are." "Take the tape and disappear." "I'm the one they're looking for." "If I can't tell them, how can they find you?" "All right, the school can live without me." "I'll meet you tonight at 10:00." "Now, this is 26th and Maple." "At 10:00 tonight, start walking south, past the storage tank." "If there's nobody following you, I'll pick you up." "All right, 10:00." "[DAVID GRUNTS]" "[PANTING]" "You've stolen something from us, Mr. Vincent." "It isn't here in your room." "I'd appreciate knowing where it is." "The tape, Mr. Vincent, if you please." "I don't have it." "The tape, where is it?" "[DEVICE WHIRRING]" " I don't know." " Mr. Vincent, the tape." " I don't have it." " Who?" "Who has it now?" "Who?" "DAVID:" "Neal Taft." " Who is Neal Taft?" " Taft School of Electronics." "Thank you, Mr. Vincent." "[DAVID GRUNTS]" "[CAR DOORS CLOSE]" "[CAR STARTS]" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "David." " What--?" " What are you doing here?" "When you didn't show up at Dad's office, I was worried in spite of myself." " What happened?" " Get out of here." " They might come back." " Who?" "Who did this?" "Don't ask questions." "Just leave, please." "No, you're in trouble." "The way you acted about that tape this morning." "This has something to do with that tape, doesn't it?" "Yes." " David, what is it?" " Now, please just leave." "No." "Tell me." "This ties in with where you went every night, doesn't it?" "Why you'd leave me." "You know, for a while, I thought there was someone else, another girl." "Oh, David, if you're in trouble, you should have told me." "I'd help you no matter what it is." " I think" " Don't" "What did you think I was gonna say, that I love you?" "I do." "I guess I do love you." "Susan, you've got to trust me." "If I told you what was going on now, you wouldn't understand." "It wouldn't make sense." "I'm gonna meet someone who's gonna give me the proof I need." "Then I'll tell you." "Now, go home." "Wait for me." "[SUSAN CHUCKLES]" "David." "[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]" "Susan?" "Oh, Susan, could I see you for a moment, please?" "In the morning, Evelyn, do you mind?" " Is my father still at the club?" " It's really very important, Susan." "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask a favour of you, Susan." "Your friend, Mr. Vincent, has something I need." "Something very important." "What is all the cloak-and-dagger?" "What's David mixed up in?" "I can't tell you." "Are you trying to make me believe he's a spy or something?" "I don't believe it." "And I don't think my father would" "Don't call your father, Susan, because if you do" "In the year I've been here, I've found out about Carver Oil." "Even how he managed to build one useless oil well into an empire." "I have some facts, Susan, about a man named Arnold Mayer." "And they're not very pleasant." "I really wouldn't like to use them." "Your father's not a young man." "His heart condition couldn't stand the strain of a scandal like this." "Now what do you say?" "You want me to inform on David?" "[CHUCKLING] Oh, you make it sound so terrible." "After all, it's not much of a price to pay for your father's life." "TAFT:" "Vincent." "Relax." " You look terrible." " I had some visitors." " Those kind of friends I don't need." " What'd you come up with?" "Hey, look, I've been in this business a long time." "You give my name?" "Not voluntarily." "That's why I insisted upon not knowing where you were." "It'll save your life and mine." "They won't kill anybody till they get that tape." "Look, my car's right over here." "I'm not too thrilled about meeting your friends in case they're still looking." "Let's ride." "Dad?" "CARVER:" "Something tells me I've got trouble." "Vincent?" " No." " Oh, don't tell me no." "He doesn't show up to see me today, you go to see him and I come home from the club and find you sitting in the dark like a piece of furniture." "Dad, who's Arnold Mayer?" "I thought we were talking about Vincent." "You were." "Who's Arnold Mayer?" "Where did you find out about him?" "It doesn't matter." "Dad, tell me." "Arnold Mayer was my partner." "I had a well that wasn't practical." "He had a technique for bringing it in." "And how did you get his technique from him?" "Did he sell it to you?" "Is that any of your business?" "It's true, then." "I know how you got it." "And I know what he did to himself after you stole it from him." "Well, if you know that, then there must be something else you want to ask." "Why did I do it?" "Go on, ask it." "Don't you want to know who I did it for?" "[SOBBING] I know." "I know who you did it for." "Don't jump me, Vincent." "I just said I couldn't crack the language." "Actually, there's something else on the tape." "Numbers." "Equations." "The universal language." "The only language that doesn't shift from country to country or planet to planet." "What do you mean, "planet to planet"?" "Well, try this on." "On the tape, let's say there are, what, 100 coordinates." "Now, those numbers could represent longitude-latitude intersections." "And if I'm right, the very first intersection is somewhere right here in Houston." "Somewhere near the Carver Oil Field." "That grabs you, huh?" "What else?" "The pattern on the tape is the same as one we used when, uh, well, when NASA was paying my room rent." "We used it to activate a homing control that governed reentries of space capsules." "I got somebody at the university now checking into the equations to make sure I'm not going off halfcocked." " Wait a minute." " Don't worry about him." "He can keep his mouth shut." "It's my brother, Joey." "I'll tell you what you do:" "Tomorrow afternoon sometime, call my answering service." "Let them know where you'll be tomorrow night." "I'll have my brother Joey pick you up." "Now, we better get back." "I got a long way to go on that tape." "EVELYN:" "Good afternoon, Susan." "I hope you had a pleasant sleep." "Susan, I know you talked to your father last night about Arnold Mayer." "Look, Evelyn, I don't know what it is you're after." "Or why." "All I want is the present address of a friend of Mr. Vincent's." "A man named Neal Taft." "That, and what they've done with a certain computer tape." "That's all." "That's the whole deal, I swear." "You know something?" "I don't think you have the nerve to expose my father." "Where would you be once the scandal broke?" "You'd be out of a job, out of the house, and out of all the nice fringe benefits that seem to go with it." "All right, try me." "Ruin your father just because you resent me." "It's entirely up to you." "All right, Evelyn," "I'll do what I can." "Thank you, Susan." "Oh, it won't be too hard." "Just call Mr. Vincent." "Arrange to have a quiet dinner someplace where you can talk." "[PIANO PLAYING MELLOW MUSIC]" "DAVID:" "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Could we go?" "You asked me to meet you here, now you wanna leave." "I know, I just" "I guess I just don't like this place." "Well, I'm expecting a phone call." "Very good." "Could you pour later, please?" "Yes, sir." "Something is wrong." "No, it's just that you gave me an awful shock last night." "David, I can't believe that you're involved in something dishonest." "But if this is what happens because of that tape, get rid of it." "Can't you go to the police?" "I don't have the tape." "What did you do with it?" " I can't tell you." " You must know where it is." " No." " You must know." " There's a call for you, Mr. Vincent." " Thank you." "Yes?" "Behind what theatre?" "All right, the Fannin Street parking lot." "I'll see you in 15 minutes." "You don't have to bother taking me home." "I'll call Dad and have him send a car." " Susan, I'm sorry." " It's all right." "Go, please." "In 15 minutes, some theatre parking lot on Fannin Street." "That would be the Imperial, I guess." "No, don't thank me, Evelyn." "Please, don't thank me." " Mr., uh, Vincent?" " That's right." "Why don't we talk in the car?" " You were, uh, supposed to be alone." " In the car, please." "JOEY:" "What--?" "What are you doing?" "Let go of me." "What are you doing?" "What are you looking for?" " Nothing." " I don't have anything on me." "[CAR STARTS]" "Joey?" "Joey Taft?" "Why would--?" "Why would they do that?" "Listen, tell" " Tell my brother... that I" " I tried to do..." "Joey?" "Joey, where is your brother?" "He's, uh" " Uh, he's at the university, in" " In my lab." "CARVER:" "I said, come in here." " Where did you go?" " I had to see David." "I said, come in." "I have to go up to New Orleans." "I wanna set you straight on what you asked last night before I go." "Sit down." " Dad, I'd like to go to bed." " Please." "If you're gonna talk about Arnold Mayer, please don't." "I'm the last person in the world to sit in judgement." "Any explanation I could give you, Susan, would be just a lot of words." "What I did, I did." "I stole the formula." "Arnold Mayer killed himself." "I can't change that." "It took me years of sleepless nights, too much bourbon, too many pills to realise that." "I send Arnold Mayer's wife money all the time." "Nothing can ever wipe out the stink of what I did." "I though that was dead, Susan." "Buried." "But now somebody wants to make trouble." "And whoever it is, can." "Big trouble." "I want to know who told you." "You're safe." "You can forget about Arnold Mayer." "How?" "I did something tonight." "Let's just say Simon Carver and his daughter, Susan, can go back to living the way they always lived." "You don't have to worry about anybody making any trouble for you." "You don't have to worry about David Vincent." "Still in surgery." "They can't tell me anything." "[TAFT SIGHS]" "Well, Vincent, you better tell me who ran down my brother." "I can't give you a name." "Well, you better give me something, pal." "The men who attacked your brother, they weren't from here." "They were from somewhere else." "Listen to me." "The military power of this world depends on fuel." "The source of fuel: crude oil." "Now, suppose you wanted to invade and conquer this Earth and you had some other source of power." "What the devil are you talking about?" "If you could destroy our fuel supplies, planes wouldn't fly, ships wouldn't sail, we'd be disabled." "You could attack without fear of retaliation" "Attack from where?" "Outer space." " From where, pal?" " You know it's possible." "I'm saying it's true." "Oh, for the love of Mike." "Neal, that tape was intended to bring in something special, either equipment or-- Or one of their specialists." "That tank car is a homing device." "They must move it in whenever one of their saucers is coming down." "Their last beachhead was Carver's Oil Field." "They killed those two guards and they ran down your brother." "Let me tell you something, Vincent." "I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about "they."" "Now, you're protecting somebody that knew about our meeting." "Who was with you at the Blue Lion when I called?" "Who?" "Susan." "MAN:" "Mr. Taft?" "Yeah." "[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Vincent." "My brother just died." "My brother just died." "You have some funny habits." "Breaking in in the middle of the night is one you can keep." "I wanna see Susan." "Maybe you're not as smart as I thought." "Whatever happened tonight, whatever you two did," " you're not gonna clean it up." " Does she come down or do I go up?" "You go one place, buster, and that's out." "It's all right, Dad." "This is between David and me." "Go ahead." "You've got a plane to catch." "It's all right." "It's your life." " Henry." " Yes, Mr. Carver?" " Let's go." " Yes, sir." "[DOOR OPENS]" "[DOOR CLOSES]" "David," "I told Dad that I didn't wanna see you anymore and I meant it." "Is that something you decided after we had dinner tonight?" "Why can't you just accept it and leave?" "Accept it the way I did when you said you loved me?" "That was a mistake." "So why don't we just call it quits?" "Now that you've got what you're after." "I won't even ask you what you mean by that." " I hope you had a successful meeting." " There was no meeting." " Why, didn't your friend show up?" " Who?" "The man who called you." "Taft." "I never told you his name." "Well, you must have." "Taft showed up, but it was the wrong one." "Now he's dead." "A boy." "Oh, David." " Who did you tell?" " Just get out of here, David, please." "[SUSAN SOBBING]" "The kid's name was Joey." "I want you to remember that." "His name was Joey." "You're right." "This siding checks out with the coordinates on the tape." "Now, if your story is right, this could be a landing field." "Now, you know the top men at NASA." "Take the tape to them and all the information you have." "Convince them." "Just like that?" "I was canned." "For nonconformity, remember?" "Do you think they're gonna believe a story like this, especially from me?" "How many chances are we gonna get before they wipe out the human race?" "Oh, sure, sure, sure." "We're gonna stop them, you and me." "Maybe we won't." "But this is the one chance you'll have to find who killed your brother." "Okay." "All right, I'll try." "But how do we find out when?" "Susan." "Who are they?" "Friends." "Oh, and they're just as unhappy about last night as I am." "Our superiors are even more unhappy." "It wasn't my fault." "I got your information." "We're not blaming you, Susan." "It was a mistake." " This time we'll be more careful." "SUSAN:" "This time?" "We have a schedule to meet by tonight." "If that schedule is cancelled, then our work is set back for a year, maybe two." "We can't afford that." "SUSAN:" "Who are you?" "Just who are you, anyway?" "I asked you a question." "Whether or not we can meet that schedule tonight depends on what Mr. Vincent or Mr. Taft have learned." "What danger they represent." "Find that out for us and you'll be free." "How can I go to David after last night?" "He knows what I did." "He'd never trust me now." "He might." "After all, he called you, said he wanted to see you." " I kept my end of the bargain." " You don't understand." "I've been made aware that I failed." "And if I fail again, I die." "And if I die, you die, and so does your father." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Was gonna give you ten more minutes." "I've been driving for an hour, trying to find some way I wouldn't have to come here, but there isn't." "David, I know what you must think of me." "And it isn't gonna do any good to apologise because it's gonna be worse in a minute, but you've gotta help me." "I don't know what you're trying to do, but forget it." "A man died because of you." "Don't you think I know that?" "But you've gotta help me, David." "If you don't, my father's gonna die." " What?" " She'll have it done, I know she will." " Who?" " Evelyn." "There isn't time to ask questions." "You've gotta tell me." " I have to know tonight." " Know what?" "There's something that's gonna happen tonight and it's so important." "I have to know what you found out from the tape, if you're a danger to them, if you can stop them." " Are they waiting for you?" " Yes." " Where?" " At the house." "David, I have to bring them the truth." "If I don't, they'll find out if I'm lying." " Please tell me." " Do they have your father yet?" "No, he's at a meeting in New Orleans." "Then he's safe for now." "Susan." "Don't go home." "Call Evelyn." "Tell her we don't know anything." "We couldn't decode the tape." " Is that the truth?" " No, but make her believe you." "They've gotta go through with their plans." "Tell her the tape is in a safe in Taft's office." "I'll make sure it's there." "That'll convince her." "But promise me you won't go back to the house." "Take a plane." "Disappear for a couple of days." "If they go through with it, you'll know when it's safe to return." "Go to the airport to make that call." "And then get the first plane you can get." "I know it doesn't make any difference now, but there was one thing I wasn't lying about." "I do love you." "Be careful." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Come in." "Well?" "Better call your friend at NASA." "It's happening tonight." "WOMAN [OVER P.A.]:" "Regina Airlines." "Jet Flight Number 5 from Honolulu now arriving at Gate 32." "Could I have Operator 216, please?" "Operator, this is Susan Carver." "Could you try my call again to New Orleans?" "I've been trying for over half an hour, and my plane leaves in five minutes." "Thank you." "Hello?" "Could I talk to Simon Carver, please?" "Yes, I know he's in a meeting." "It's urgent." "This is his daughter." "Thank you." "Dad?" "Listen, Dad, you've got to do something." "Now, get out of that meeting as fast as you can and don't tell anybody where you're going." "Not anybody." "And get on a plane and meet me at the Mirador in Mexico City." "Now, you've got to do it, Dad." "I'll explain later." "Look, Dad, I love you and your life is in danger." "Do you promise?" "I'll explain everything then." "All right." "WOMAN [OVER P.A.]:" "Last call, Flight 421 for Mexico City." "EVELYN:" "Susan." " What are you doing here?" "I told you what you wanted to know." "I told you where you could find that tape." "You said that Mr. Vincent found out nothing." "We simply want to check that." "What time did they tell you they'd be here?" "They're due any minute." "Vincent." "Susan." "They found her." " They know she lied." " No, they don't know." "They wouldn't have come here." "They'd have called off the landing." "Well, then they'll find out in a minute and that's that." "We've gotta get to her." "Just the two of us?" "Are you crazy?" "Look, the NASA people and the FBI are due here any minute." " Wait for them." " I know what they'll do to her." "Well, you can't help her." "If you go in there now, she'll be killed for sure." "I told you, he doesn't know anything." "MAN:" "Why did you run?" "Is that so hard to understand?" "I was scared." "They're already inside the lunar orbit." "If there's any question about bringing in the ship," "I must know within three minutes or I can't turn her back." "Miss Carver, you've told us the truth?" "They know nothing?" "[DEVICE WHIRRING]" " Yes." " We must have the truth." " David knows nothing." " Absolutely nothing?" "Yes, nothing." "Nothing?" "They know." "They know." "Turn the ship back now." "Path reversed." "Ship rising." "Activate the destruct cycles and abandon control." "Quick, before the radiation reaches the critical level." " What about the girl?" " She's finished." "DAVID:" "They do know." "[DEVICE WHIRRING]" "Susan." "[SUSAN GASPING]" "Susan." "Susan." "I can't" " I can't" " Oh, David." " Susan." "Oh, David." "Susan." "They're here." "It's too late." "I just don't understand any of it." "I just don't understand." "I can't expect you to." "I know one thing:" "she was special." "What she did was special." "Goodbye." "Vincent, she did love you." "How is he?" "Well, he's tough." " He'll make it." " How about you?" "I'll make it too." "David, if there's anything I can do..." "Thank you." "How about taking me to the airport, huh?" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "NARRATOR:" "A girl's life." "For David Vincent, a very personal reason why the war must go on." "Why the world must be alerted." "Why the invader must be destroyed."