"(ambulance siren wailing)" "His name's Thatcher." "He just staggered out of his room, made a phone call there and collapsed." "No... no..." "Cavanaugh's... please..." "I've got to get to Cavanaugh's." "(siren wailing)" "(horn blaring)" "What the devil do you think you're doing?" "Sorry." "Public Health Service." "We got a call you got a man with cholera." "Cholera?" "You've got to be kidding." "I wish we were." "Give us a hand." "Help us get him to the car." "Without any tests, how can you be sure?" "I mean, he sure doesn't have the symptoms of... we'll take him to our hospital in San Francisco and put him in quarantine, okay?" "Okay." "Let me check with Emergency." "Hello, Emergency." "(buzzing)" "Hey, what are you do...?" "Wreck it." "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've taken human form." "Somehow, he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun." "The guest stars in tonight's story:" "Andrew Prine..." "Dawn Wells..." "Tim McIntire..." "Tom Lowell." "NARRATOR:" "An ambulance wrecked on a California highway-- its two attendants dead." "Cause of death, in both cases, cerebral hemorrhage." "To the world, a bizarre coincidence." "To David Vincent, much more." "Well, I'm no doctor, Mr. Vincent, but Mr. Thatcher looked to me like..." "Like what?" "Well, this is going to sound crazy, because he was so sick and all, but my little girl came down with it last week, so I know the symptoms." "What was it?" "Chickenpox." "Plain, old-fashioned chickenpox." "Did Mr. Thatcher have any friends or relatives that you know of?" "Someone who might know where he is?" "Well, I know where he wanted to go when they dragged him into the ambulance." "Where was that?" "Look, I have some coffee inside." "Why don't you come in?" "Uh, no, thank you very much." "I wish I had time, but, uh, you know." "Where did he want to go?" "He said the name again and again." "A place called Cavanaugh's." "Okay, take it away." "(tapping on rock)" "(screaming)" "Welcome to God's country." "Uh, can you be a little more specific?" "Oh... oh, Bowman County." "Well, I'm lost, you see." "Well, uh, 20..." "oh, about 20 mile outside of Griffin." "What?" "Did you think you were on Mars?" "Yeah." "Someplace like that." "Uh, do you have a couple of minutes, Mr., uh..." "Devin." "Sure." "Uh, Dr. Devin." "I want you to take a look at something." "What?" "I believe the newspapers call them flying saucers." "(snickering)" "What do you call them, pal?" "Want to take a look?" "Sure." "It's a science class, anyway." "Where is it?" "It's in a basin just beyond these rocks." "Oh, well..." "let's take the truck." "Vern Corbin." "David Vincent." "You're not putting us on?" "Did you see or hear anything?" "We just got in here a few minutes ago." "Pardon Vern for being dense, man." "He's just never seen a saucer before and, you know..." "You think it's from outer space?" "DAVID:" "Yes." "Even if it doesn't pan out," "I've always thought there were saucers." "How big is it?" "About 50, 60 feet in diameter." "Did you get a look inside?" "Yes." "I suppose you flew in it, too, huh?" "(chuckling):" "That's beautiful." "Hal, why don't you just shut up until we find out what it's all about?" "HAL:" "Well, let's go see a flying saucer, kids." "That's what the man says." "A flying saucer." "Well, hi." "I'm, uh..." "I'm Steve." "This is Nicole." "(engine starts)" "It's just over the hill." "It was right down there." "(snickering)" "Well, you win a few and you lose a few, don't you, pal?" "All right, can we have a cease-fire long enough to figure this thing out?" "Okay..." "now, he could be a crank but, uh, he doesn't sound like one to me." "He's an architect with a graduate degree." "And a pair of $30 shoes." "Maybe he's a rich crank." "Yeah." "She's right about the shoes, Doctor." "We were just talking about them." "Yeah." "We figure he couldn't have walked very far, at least, not through this." "Well, maybe he parachuted or bicycled." "Hal, please." "Do you believe him?" "No." "I don't think I do." "Do you?" "No... but I'd like to know more." "Can you stay away from each other's throats, huh?" "I'll be back after we've kicked it around." "Why don't you take the truck back to the campsite?" "NICOLE:" "Be careful, Doctor." "VERN:" "Doc..." "Yeah." "I don't want to, uh, foul up your trip, but, uh..." "Yeah, I know." "It's pretty rough on you after last night." "Eileen meant a lot to you, didn't she?" "Look, why don't I just head back?" "I can hike it in a day." "Why don't you stick around till tomorrow, huh?" "We'll all go back." "Okay?" "All right." "Okay." "(stammering)" "Hey..." "That's how the boogaloo was invented." "Boogaloo, Vern?" "I never learned how." "That was always part of your problem." "Here's something." "The landing pods made these marks." "Could be." "Tire tracks." "Automobile tire tracks." "Hardly extraterrestrial." "They unloaded something that looked like, uh, lockers." "Lockers?" "Well..." "Somebody's there." "Sorry." "Restricted area." "Uh, we wanted to see the camp commander." "No chance." "Now, turn it around." "One of your flying saucer people." "Come on." "(loud humming)" "(humming intensifies)" "(humming stops)" "(machine fizzes)" "(thudding)" "(buzzing)" "Search him." "He hasn't got it." "He has to have it." "Search him again!" "Hal, cut it out." "Hal, please." "Listen!" "She said cut it out." "She means cut it out!" "Now, Vern, that's not going to help." "Come on." "That's really sweet, big Vern." "Jumping to the lady's defense." "You just keep forgetting that she doesn't want you anymore." "Hal, you stop goading him." "Don't you do that again." "I'll go... get Dr. Devin." "Where's Dr. Devin?" "Look, we got to get out of here right now." "Well, tell us where he is." "We're in great danger." "Let's get into the truck." "What have you done to Dr. Devin?" "He's dead." "DAVID:" "The people from the flying saucer killed him." "They're on their way to get us now." "We've got to get into the truck." "Now, you got about five seconds to tell us where he is, pal, and then we're going to bust you all apart." "I've told you." "One..." "Look, I'll tell you in the truck." "Let's go." "Two... (vehicles approaching)" "I'm sorry." "You'll have to come with us." "Why?" "Who are you?" "We're from Camp Crowley." "It's about a mile from here." "Camp commander wants to see you." "SERGEANT:" "Shouldn't take long." "Come on." "Everybody in the truck." "Come on." "Move out." "Come on, you." "Move it." "Wait a second." "I got to put this back on, all right?" "All right, but speed it up." "(engine starting)" "All right, come on." "Let's go!" "You try that again, friend, and we're going to war." "Well..." "isn't this lovely?" "None of the comforts of home." "Ooh." "Uh, you, uh... obviously know what's going on, and we obviously don't." "I think you'd better tell us." "I've tried." "Go ahead." "We want to hear." "(sighs)" "All right, your Dr. Devin is dead." "They killed him." "They're not from the army." "Devin called them flying saucer people-- from another planet." "Look, why should we believe you?" "Steve, if we had believed him, maybe we wouldn't be here now." "Please don't lie to us." "Is Dr. Devin really dead?" "I'm afraid so." "Vern..." "I'm sorry about last night." "EILEEN:" "I didn't mean for it to happen." "Didn't you?" "Maybe I did." "If I did, I couldn't help it." "I don't care what you do with Hal." "That's your business." "Just not in front of me, okay?" "Oh, cool it, Vern." "Why don't you just relax and keep being a good loser, huh?" "STEVE:" "Well, I sure don't know what this is all about." "Are-are we prisoners, Vern?" "Can the army do that?" "I never heard of it." "Look, I'm sorry I threatened you out there a while ago." "It's nothing personal." "That's all right." "What building was Dr. Devin killed in?" "This building next door." "How'd you get in past all the guards?" "There were no guards then." "What were you doing in there?" "Trying to find proof that they're here." "Find any?" "Yes." "Well, let's see it." "I hid it." "That's why they searched us and then brought us here." "Why don't you just... give it back?" "They'd have no reason for keeping us alive." "Well, you could tell us where it is." "I think it's better if you don't know." "Oh, it's a gag or a stunt." "People wouldn't really do things like this." "Nobody said they're people." "(door opening)" "I'm Colonel Harris, Base Commander." "Welcome to Shangri-La, Colonel." "All right, I want to know why we were brought here and searched." "Well, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but the reason for your being here is very simple." "This is a secret military base, and yet you've managed to come in here and steal a vital piece of equipment." "Just what is missing?" "A crystal." "A circular-shaped crystal." "Colonel..." "Dr. Devin... is... is he...?" "He's all right." "He suffered a slight injury." "He's being treated in the infirmary." "I'd like to see him." "Well, you will." "Now, theft of government property is a very serious offense." "If you return it, immediately..." "we'll forget that you took it." "We'd like to see Dr. Devin before we talk about the crystal." "Don't dictate terms to me!" "Just return the crystal!" "Or what?" "Or I can't guarantee anything." "Give it to him, Vincent." "Shut up." "Which one of you is Vincent?" "There are ways of finding out." "I am." "I am." "I am." "Take your time and play your games, gentlemen." "I have as much time as you have." "Colonel..." "Well, that really puts me down." "When I was in the army, I was pushed around by sergeants and corporals and everybody." "And now that I'm finally out..." "I'm still being pushed around." "Yeah, well, this is really groovy, isn't it?" "Locked up in here with two squares and a freak and your ex-boyfriend." "(chuckling)" "My ex-boyfriend has more cool than a lot of people I know." "We don't even know who you are." "You don't know who Colonel Harris is, either." "And I know he can't deliver Dr. Devin." "Well, until he does, we'll go along with you." "Is that fair enough?" "(sighs)" "Fair enough." "From this moment on, you will see what I tell you to see and hear what I tell you to hear." "In a few minutes, a man will enter your barracks." "Listen to me closely, all six of you." "I know the army, and they don't have the right to lean on him." "If he's a thief?" "If he's a thief, they can arrest him, they can charge him, but they can't bully him." "And they can't lock us up, either." "Hello, everybody." "You put us on, man!" "Ow!" "Now, you listen to me." "I saw them kill Devin." "Let him go." "Let him go!" "Now you give them back that crystal." "No." "Give it back, Vincent." "If the army doesn't make you, we will." "I said no!" "Don't say that again." "The Colonel knows you have it." "Apparently, it's vital to their project." "No!" "They've been patient with you." "You lied about the saucer, you-you lied about me dying." "What do you want?" "(door opening)" "Which one's Vincent?" "I am." "Where is it?" "Why is it so important?" "Is it part of your equipment to cure your people?" "I have it;" "they don't." "Let them go." "No." "Right." "Why not?" "Yeah... why can't we go?" "I'll tell you why." "This base is engaged in a project so vital that the lives of everyone in this country might depend on it." "As commanding officer, it's up to me to see that it doesn't fail." "The stakes are too high." "It's a terrible responsibility." "I'm sorry you've forced me to this." "If Mr. Vincent refuses to return the crystal... you'll be taken out, one by one... and..." "And what?" "!" "I must consider that at this moment, all seven of you are enemies of our country." "You'll be taken out and executed." "Oh, no." "You must be crazy." "You don't have authority to do that." "I don't believe it." "Please... please..." "Please... please don't let him do this." "Look, they don't have it!" "There's no sense threatening them." "I'm threatening you, Vincent." "I'm going to execute these people one by one until you see the light." "Guard?" "Sergeant... start with one of the men." "You... in the orange shirt." "All right, hero, you first." "Who are you?" "Why are you doing this?" "!" "OFFICER:" "Detail, halt!" "OFFICER:" "Ready... aim... fire!" "(crying)" "They're never going to let us go now, are they?" "No." "Still, I think you ought to tell them where it is." "This way, one by one, they're going to finish us off anyway." "(footfalls)" "Where is it?" "Truck... in the air filter." "Oh... thank God." "Oh, thank God it's over." "The whole truck-- seats, tires, engine, everything." "That's where I hid it." "Who put the air filter back on?" "VERN:" "Steve." "They'll never believe that." "And so we die... one by one." "If they come through that door, they'd better come through shooting." "Hal?" "Come on, Hal!" "(sniffling)" "Those maniacs aren't going to see me cry." "They shoot me in here..." "all right." "Sure beats getting hanged in a public execution." "Hanged?" "Hanged, like Steve!" "Wait a minute." "I..." "I didn't see a hanging." "I-I saw a pistol shot in the back of the head." "What?" "Eileen, how did Steve die?" "What?" "How did he die?" "EILEEN:" "Firing squad." "With rifles?" "Yes." "How many men?" "Well, six, eight, maybe." "What are you talking about?" "They're making us see what they want us to see." "We're being brainwashed." "Let's search this place." "No." "Listen, listen." "Vincent has gotten one of us killed already." "We shouldn't listen to him anymore." "It won't hurt to look, Doctor." "We should be talking to them... without Vincent!" "This is wrong!" "Vincent." "Don't, d-d-don't get into any more trouble." "No." "No." "No..." "Guard." "They made us see all that." "But how?" "Our minds filled in the details." "That's why we each saw something different." "Then Steve's alive." "Beautiful." "For how long?" "They destroyed it." "I still don't think they're going to let us out of here without that crystal." "And I think we should jump them when they come through the door, all right?" "(keys jangling)" "Wait a minute." "Where'd you get this?" "It's a rock specimen." "It's the crystal, or what's left of it." "It's broken." "Well, we didn't break it." "That means they have to let us go." "Well, don't they?" "No." "I don't think so." "We know they're here." "(footfalls)" "All right, no more games, Mr. Vincent." "This second, one of my people just died because they don't have that crystal." "Now it's your turn." "We'd hoped to avoid killing this many of you but make no mistake about it, we will... unless I get that crystal back now." "All right, you win." "I want these people released." "What guarantee do I have that this isn't another one of your maneuvers?" "You have me." "Lieutenant." "These people are free to go." "After you, Mr. Vincent." "David?" "Get out of here as fast as you can." "Are they going to kill him?" "You heard what he said." "Let's get out of here." "Now, listen, pal..." "Sorry." "Lieutenant's orders." "I was standing back here and, uh..." "I, uh, put it into one of these ventilator holes." "(flips switch) Which one?" "I think it was the first one." "You wouldn't have put it there." "It would have broken when it hit the floor." "Everything happened so fast." "I don't remember what happened to it." "Where is it?" "Where is it?" "!" "Hey!" "Is this what you're looking for?" "Get in the truck!" "Get out of here!" "Get out of there!" "I thought I told you to move out!" "I forgot!" "(engine starts)" "Thank you for coming." "This, uh, is the place?" "It was." "They pulled out." "Now, if I seem a little skeptical, Mr. Vincent..." "I'd be skeptical, too." "But they were here." "Maybe 20 of them, all in army uniforms." "Miss Brahm, this was Camp Crowley." "It was deactivated in 1947." "It's been inspected regularly." "Six people told you." "Are you going to ignore all of them?" "We're not ignoring you, sir." "We have your depositions, and they'll go into the report." "The search for Devin is still going on." "We're pretty thorough about these things." "I only wish we had more to go on." "Now, the lieutenant will take you back." "I'm sorry, David." "Where do you go from here?" "Well, they may need another hospital." "At least this time, I'll know what I'm looking for." "Don't you ever get discouraged?" "Yeah." "Don't you?" "Not lately." "NARRATOR:" "The army report will be thorough and painstaking but without proof, its conclusions will be negative." "And David Vincent resumes his war against the high command of another army-- the army of alien invaders."