"Charles Ruselli." "I'm expected." "Ruselli?" "Do you have the time, Mr. Ruselli?" "Six minutes to noon." "Room 5-A, in the basement." "Sorry." "(telephone ringing)" "Yes." "Good, and four here make ten." "Uh, yesterday." "Did you get ours?" "Well, we go along with most of it, but we differ on two points." "We don't think there are that many of them here yet." "Well, all right, but we agree there aren't so many that they can't be stopped." "And secondly, uh... we don't know the time factor, either." "We're presuming we have a year at the most." "We may have something to add on that." "Page three... paragraph two." "Find that?" "We have a fair fix on their galaxy, and when we get that down, we can tell how long it takes them to get here and then... we start to track them." "And, uh, who knows?" "We may have a little fun raising Cain with themfor a change." "We'll need the computers for that." "I can fly out to San Francisco the weekend of the... 29th." "He'll need the computers the 29th." "They're available." "You have them." "Good." "Anything else we haven't covered?" "We'll be sending two reports to you this week-- weapons systems and internal communications." "That's a start." "Anything else?" "Anything else?" "Nothing here." "Anybody?" "I've opened the bank accounts." "One here in New York and one in San Francisco." "I'll add to them as needed." "It's going to be a pleasure doing business with you, friend." "We have a deal." "It's hard to believe, isn't it?" "After all this time, people like that to count on." "The beginning of the end." "Or the end of the beginning." "Good-bye, Mr. Singeiser." "Things are going to be a little different around here now." "I hope so." "Computers, physicists, a man like Scoville." "What did they think-- they were fooling with amateurs?" "Run!" "Run!" "(gunfire)" "NARRATOR:" "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." "(eerie whirring)" "It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy." "(whirring intensifies)" "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:" "Carol Lynley..." "Anthony Eisley..." "Donald Davis..." "Kent Smith..." "Reese Williams." "Finally it has happened." "A group of people have banded together, believers who have seen, who know what David Vincent knows-- that alien beings have found their way here and that they must be destroyed." "A group of believers who, by their very nature, become the aliens' chief target for extinction." "Can you hear me?" "Who are you?" "David." "Where am I?" "You're in a sealed-off basement 30 feet below the ground." "There's no way out of here." "What do you want?" "The others." "I don't know what you're talking about." "These were found in your briefcase." ""Hand weapons, models 'A,' 'B' and 'C'" ""nomenclature and ballistics," ""table of command," ""regeneration, vulnerability to electronic detection."" "There has been a great deal of research." "Who are the others?" "I want them all." "There were only four of us." "Singeiser, Farnham, Ruselli and myself." "None of you are weapons experts." "Somebody else prepared these reports." "How many of you are there?" "How many are there?" "Four of us." "You made a breakthrough several months ago." "You began to get evidence to get people to believe your story." "Powerful people, like the head of Singeiser Computers." "You formed a group." "We had to stop them." "You had to find people who knew how to stop them." "I won't tell." "Who are they, David?" "Where can we find them?" "Ruselli..." "Ruselli..." "Ruselli is dead." "There are others to consider." "Who are they?" "Stanley Levy, HS Research, New York." "James Cunningham, Holborn College." "Marie Stiles, New York City." "Colonel Frederic Bell, Fort Benning." "Dr. Louise Havemeyer, Johns Hopkins." "Samuel Leader," "Los Angeles." "Who else?" "No more." "Ruselli..." "Singeiser..." "Farnham... dead now." "There are only seven of us." "Put him to sleep." "Room eight." "(door closes)" "How long will he sleep?" "Until tomorrow." "By then, we'll have them all." "There's a mistake." "Dr. James Cunningham died of pneumonia in 1964." "You're sure?" "I checked the registration office myself." "Very well." "There's nothing more." "(knocking on door)" "Professor Cunningham died in '64." "The names Vincent gave us were false." "There's a possibility..." "There's no possibility of anything." "Colonel Frederic Bell was killed in Korea in 1952, and there's no record at all of any of the others-- of any of them." "He gave us those names under hypnosis." "They found some way to render hypnotic interrogation useless." "They must, each of them, have undergone hypnosis beforehand and had a set of false names planted in their subconscious minds." "They're anticipating us, Torberg." "That makes them dangerous." "It must have been kind of cramped in there for you." "I know how it feels." "I spent three days myself in a disciplinary lockup back home." "Is this where I'm staying?" "You'll have a lot more room here." "Well, it's empty." "What are you doing?" "I'm sorry I have to do this." "You won't feel a thing." "It'll just look to the world like you disappeared." "It's not that I want to do it." "(distant gunfire)" "Get back." "(gunfire)" "(coughs)" "Good morning." "Who are you?" "Oh, I'm Lieutenant Harper, and you're in suite 405 in Samuel Ford Military Hospital in Tulsa... which makes you a very important patient." "Carry on, Lieutenant." "I hope you like the accommodations." "Yeah, they're fine." "I'm Colonel Newcomb," "United States Military Intelligence." "Lieutenant Harper is one of us, so you can speak freely in front of her." "How did you find me?" "Our men were on their way to the Singeiser plant the night you were attacked." "We'd been keeping a tag on him for some time." "Why?" "We were his liaison on the new missile guidance system." "He had spoken to me about the aliens." "I was worried about him..." "for the wrong reasons." "You probably thought he was losing his mind." "I was convinced of it." "We hoped the aberrations would be temporary." "If I had believed him, he... might be alive now." "Well, you seem to be taking it well enough." "I accept my responsibility." "Why didn't your men intervene when we were being attacked?" "We did, but we arrived too late." "Sergeant Bryant was killed immediately." "Sergeant Kilmer gave us a description of the car before he died." "(sighs)" "I'm sorry." "I never even said thank you." "There's no need for thanks." "The important thing is the safety of the group." "I have enough reason to believe now that they're all in danger." "We have to collect the others and put all of you under direct protection." "Before you do that, uh... will you raise that blind?" "I'd like to see the sunlight." "You've been away from the sunlight for three days." "Dr. Cortlandt wants the exposure to be gradual." "Is that really why you won't raise the blind?" "Is it really?" "(syringe clatters)" "Mr. Vincent." "What's the matter, Lieutenant?" "I can't find a pulse." "Why is that?" "All right, get out." "There's no way out of here for you, Mr. Vincent." "*" "You're the new prisoner, aren't you?" "No, I'm a houseguest." "Meet me later in the library." "What do you want there?" "The testing files." "I'm doing research for Dr. Torberg." "The material must be used in here." "I understand." "When you're finished with that, ring for someone to open the file for you." "Yes." "Have you been here for long?" "Five or six days." "I'm not sure." "I would have made contact before but I just found out about you." "We've got to get out of here." "Who are you?" "My name is Elyse Reynolds." "You're David Vincent." "I've seen your name in the files." "You're scheduled to run through some tests that I work on." "I'm a psychologist." "Why did they bring you here?" "They needed me." "I was doing work in an area that was of some interest to them." "I've been here for nearly three months." "Can't help you." "No, you must." "You have to." "They're planning something, and we've got to stop it." "Look, listen to me." "They brought me here because I'm a psychologist." "I was working in the field of crowd behavior-- mass responses to disasters." "They plan to attack the cities by starting fires and floods and power breakdowns." "Look, they're going to cut the leaders off from contact with the people." "They're planning to start it in Los Angeles a week from tomorrow, and if they succeed, they'll have a way of turning every major city into a panic-stricken mob." "Sorry." "Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you?" "Just tell your commander to stop wasting his time." "Are you insane?" "Do you think I'm one of them?" "!" "They don't bleed." "Or maybe you don't know that." "Satisfied?" "There's no way out of here." "Yes, there is." "Corridor pass." "Yes." "Well, I know it's here." "Oh, here it is." "This is the wrong pass." "Oh, well, I'll see if I can find another one." "Just a moment." "I want the corridor pass." "Yes." "No, over there." "(alarm blaring)" "(alarm continues blaring)" "Whatever you can find out, Ed." "She said it happened about three months ago." "Done." "Now, we have a company suite at the Stanton." "Stay there." "Who are you going to call first?" "Hellman." "Good." "I'll send Bob and Mary out." "They can help in Sacramento." "And this time, take care of yourself, will you?" "You, too." "I'll get back to you tomorrow." "David?" "I thought I recognized those two men." "Hotel Stanton." "David!" "Make a left turn." "That's headed for the freight terminal." "I don't care." "Make a left turn." "Now, there's a car following us." "You'll have to lose him." "Just what I need." "(tires screeching)" "(tires screeching)" "All right, let us off around the next corner and then head for a police station." "They see we're not with you, they'll let you alone." "What's the matter?" "We're going to have to split up." "Why?" "It's too dangerous for you." "But they're looking for me, too." "I know about them, too." "What is it, David?" "Do you still think I'm one of them?" "I know you're not." "Then why don't you trust me?" "It's not a matter of trust." "Well, what is it, then?" "I have a job to do:" "stopping them." "It's all I live for." "Do you understand?" "But I can help you." "I don't want your help." "I can't afford to worry about what happens to you." "Listen to me." "I'm not a fragile china doll." "I lived among them for three months." "Before that, I never needed anybody to take care of me or look after me." "I have no one to worry about and no place to go." "Don't you have a family?" "No." "Well... when I was a child, I had a..." "I had a brother." "I used to take care of him." "I raised him... till he died." "So... it doesn't matter much what happens to me or you." "Tell me about their plan." "They've compiled a list of over 300 key officials:" "the mayor, the chief of police." "People whose daily orders keep a city running." "On the day of attack, they plan to kill as many as they can." "Other units will be sent out to immobilize the communications and power systems." "According to the research we've done, the hour after the blackout is the most critical." "Having heard nothing from their leaders-- no news, no communications-- people begin to panic." "The aliens plan to broadcast a message across all channels, saying that a major earthquake has developed along the fault line and that people should evacuate as... well... whatever way they can." "Mass murder." "Yeah." "What can you do about it?" "There's a group... there are seven of us now working against the aliens." "They know about us." "They killed three of us the night they captured me." "I'll take you to meet them." "Better get some sleep." "Hello." "Hello." "Well, come in." "Glad to see you." "David." "Professor Hellman." "Elyse Reynolds." "Hello." "How do you do?" "Make yourself at home." "Sit down." "You'll forgive me for not getting up to greet you but you see, my daughter insists that I am an invalid and that I must take care not to injure my heart." "Well, it's an honor to meet you, Professor Hellman." "Well, thank you very much." "I would rather it was a pleasure than an honor, but an old man, I suppose, must accept whatever compliments are forthcoming." "How are you, David?" "Fine." "I was sorry I could not be at your meeting." "You heard about Singeiser and the rest." "Yes, I heard." "You were careless, all of you." "You cannot afford to be careless." "Miss Reynolds, understand this:" "Your life does not belong to you now." "I understand." "Now, what about this planned assault?" "Well, I made some notes." "There are a few pages missing." "I hope they make sense." "Mm-hmm." "Now, where and when are they going to try this?" "Here in Los Angeles in five days." "Five days?" "Well, I'll have to study this, but from what you told me, we should be able to neutralize the assault by protecting our central communication points and the key officials." "That is, if they will believe us." "Now, I'll contact the mayor's office tomorrow after I've worked out a proposal." "This is a lot of work for a man in your condition." "Undoubtedly, but we cannot take the chance of involving more of us than is necessary." "I, I believe you'd better go now, and I'll call you tomorrow." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "Bye, David." "So long." "Oh, take care of each other." "(sighs)" "What kind of psychologist were you?" "Clinical." "I worked in a veteran's hospital." "Combat stress, war cases." "You know, adjustment to disability." "What made you choose that line?" "Oh, the work was there to be done." "I would have thought you'd be interested in children." "Now, why would you think that?" "You said you raised your brother." "Yeah." "I raised him." "What about it?" "When did he die?" "Three months ago." "The aliens killed him." "How did it happen?" "We were out driving in the car." "He was 16." "Just got his driver's license." "And there was a turn on the road." "We had to stop because somebody had set up barricades." "Then some people... so we thought... came up to us." "There was something strange about them." "I don't know what happened." "Next thing I knew, we got hit." "Charlie got hit." "Charlie got hurt... badly." "So... they left him there..." "(crying):" "...to die." "They didn't need him anymore." "(ringing)" "Yes." "When?" "All right, all right." "David, what happened?" "They found Hellman dead." "Had a heart attack." "I, uh..." "I guess we'll have to start from the beginning." "(knock at door)" "Hello, Bob." "Hello, David." "Mary." "Hello." "This is Elyse Reynolds." "She'll be working with us." "How do you do?" "Glad to know you." "This is Mary and Bob Torin." "Shall we sit down?" "Mm." "What's it all about?" "Mass hysteria." "Panic." "Supposed to start in LA." "Elyse has a rundown." "We've got to hurt them, David." "I suppose you're upset about Hellman." "What do you think?" "I loved that old goat." "DAVID:" "I know." "Did your postgraduate work with him, didn't you?" "Yeah." "Let's get started." "Right." "I've got a couple of friends in Sacramento." "From what Scoville told us, I think we go with everything." "Fine." "Mary, you go to Sacramento tomorrow and tell Olsen we need his help with the governor." "I'll get fielding to use his contacts with the civil defense office." "That should give us a running jump." "I don't think we'll strike out there, but if we do, there's three more days to try something else." "Now, is there anything you need to know?" "Uh, anything Scoville didn't mention?" "One thing puzzles me a little." "Why they should allow an outsider to have access to their research data." "Well, it was a complex project, and they were short of personnel." "There were only a few of them that were familiar with the data on crowd behavior." "Did you work in this field before?" "Well, it was my specialty." "I had no idea what they were planning." "Let's get started." "Well, Elyse, it'll be good to work with you." "Thank you." "Good luck." "Thank you." "Well, good-bye." "Very nice to have met you." "Bye-bye." "Be careful." "Bye-bye." "Bye." "(gunshots)" "ELYSE:" "David!" "Come on, Elyse!" "(gunshots continue)" "(sobbing)" "Room 136-- an emergency." "Get an ambulance right away." "Bob, there'll be a doctor here, but we can't wait." "Let's go." "If you say it checks out, it checks out." "I've already sent you the clippings." "Is Torin going to make it?" "The doctors think so." "I hate this." "We keep setting it up," "SCOVILLE (on phone):" "they keep knocking it down." "You'll have to call Jensen now." "Jensen?" "Take care of yourself." "David, who was that?" "A member of the group." "Dr. Jensen is going to take Mary's place in Sacramento." "But he'll be killed." "Not if he's careful." "Careful?" "What if he isn't careful?" "!" "What if they know He'll just have to do about him already?" "the best he can." "But he'll be killed, David." "Then someone will take his place." "Look, how can you talk like that?" "They're your friends!" "Do you realize what we're doing?" "What we're up against?" "What's at stake?" "I don't care what's at stake." "You're sending people to be slaughtered." "Don't you feel anything?" "What kind of a monster are you?" "!" "Just listen to me." "If I have to, I'll sacrifice you, too." "They all knew that from the start" "Singeiser, Hellman and Mary-- they all knew it." "So does Jensen, and now you know it." "If you die, what'll I do?" "You'll finish it." "It's up to you to meet Jensen." "By myself?" "By yourself." "Tell me what to do." "It's almost daylight." "Take a cab go to Fourth Street and Hopkins Avenue." "On the southwest corner, there's a phone booth." "6:00 a.m., the phone will ring." "You answer it." "It'll be Jensen." "He'll give you an address where you can meet him." "You go there immediately and tell him everything you know." "When will I see you again?" "Jensen will tell you that." "It's after 5:00;" "you'd better get going." "(ringing)" "Hello?" "MUFFLED MALE VOICE:" "This is Jensen." "There's an abandoned bus depot on East Williams Street between Second and Third, just 15 minutes walk from where you are." "Be there at 6:15 exactly." "Dr. Jensen?" "MAN:" "Dr. Jensen?" "(loud clang)" "Dr. Jensen?" "!" "What are you doing here?" "Waiting for you." "Where's Dr. Jensen?" "Another appointment." "I'm was supposed to meet him here." "Yes, at 6:15." "It's now 7:00." "I got tied up in traffic." "You were supposed to walk." "I told you on the phone it was a 15-minute walk." "You told me?" "That's right." "There is no Jensen." "I made the phone call." "Well, I..." "You've been working with them right along, haven't you?" "You sent them here to kill Jensen the way you sent them after Torin and his wife." "David, listen to me." "They never intended to immobilize Los Angeles Listen to me." "because they're not strong enough for that yet." "So they had to find out about us and destroy us, but they couldn't break me, so they sent you." "I didn't mean to." "They told me they weren't going to kill anybody." "I had to, David." "They have my brother." "Your brother is dead." "No, he's alive." "I lied to you;" "I had to do it." "They said they were going to kill him if I didn't." "When did you see him?" "I think two days after they kidnapped me." "I heard a recording of his voice." "They said they were taking him to a base or something where... where they'd treat his injuries." "When did you see him?" "They... they let me talk to him over the phone, and I got letters from him." "Elyse, when did you see him?" "I didn't see him!" "Because he's dead." "Your brother is dead." "They let him die in that wreck." "I don't believe you." "You're trying to trick me." "I had someone check on you and the accident and that kidnap story." "It can't be true." "I know his voice." "Your brother is dead." "Dr. Hellman and Mary died for nothing." "(sobbing)" "Vincent." "HARLAND (over speaker):" "There's no way out of there." "You haven't got a chance." "You might as well come out now." "They're here to find out about those other two that they sent." "(sobbing)" "Elyse, I need your help." "This is your last warning." "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't...!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "How many of them in there?" "Just Vincent." "The other one didn't show up." "You can get in behind him from the other side." "(tires screeching)" "(gunshots)" "(tires screeching)" "SCOVILLE:" "Why?" "You want to atone for getting two of our people killed." "No." "I'm horrified at everything that I did, but as your own psychologist told you," "I didn't do it voluntarily." "If they blackmailed you once, why couldn't they do it again?" "My brother is dead." "(sighs)" "They have nothing else to use on me." "You want revenge." "No." "I want to stop them." "What makes you think you're tough enough?" "I was responsible for getting your wife killed." "I think if I'm willing to come in and ask you to let me join your group, then I should really be tough enough." "Say we let you." "What can you do for us?" "I know them." "I'm a trained psychologist, and a good one." "Vincent?" "Yes." "If Bob says so." "Torin?" "But it's got to be unanimous." "It is." "Thank you." "NARRATOR:" "There are seven of them now... believers... aware of the presence of alien beings here, determined to destroy them." "Perhaps for us, it is the end of the beginning." "Perhaps for the invaders, the beginning of the end."