"NARRATOR:" "The Florida Keys." "Two astronauts on pass, marlin fishing, eight days before the launching of the United States' first moonshot." " Nothing?" " What does it sound like?" "[WOOD CREAKING]" "[STATIC CRACKLING]" "Marlin Club, Marlin Club, it's Major Banks." "Over." "Marlin Club, come in, Marlin Club." "[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]" "That's all we need, fog." "What about it, Marlin Club?" "MAN [OVER RADIO]:" "I'm trying my best to reach a mechanic." "Well, how long?" "We don't wanna get stuck out here with this fog rolling in." "Fog, sir?" "Well, there's been no fog reported on the gulf." "BANKS:" "Don't give me that chamber-of-commerce bit." " With this fog rolling in, it looks" " Cliff" " What happened?" " I don't know." "I don't know." "Cliff, I" "Club, listen, something's happened." "It's not fog." "Red..." "I can't breathe." "Major Banks." "Major Banks." "Come in, Major Banks." "Major Banks." "Come in, Major Banks." "[ANNOUNCER READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]" "ANNOUNCER:" "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:" "Peter Graves," "Joanne Linville," "John Ericson," "Kent Smith." "[ANNOUNCER READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]" "NARRATOR:" "The nation had been stunned." "The first screaming newspaper story spoke of a fishing accident and a strange inexplicable red fog." "Two men slated to walk on the face of the moon had unaccountably perished." "For David Vincent there was an answer terrifying in its implications." "And so he came to the Florida Keys to find the radio operator who had heard the vacationing astronauts' final words." "[REPORTERS CHATTERING]" "About this backup crew, is it still LaCava, Daniels and Smith?" "Yes, why don't we--?" "What about that red fog?" "When can we talk to the radio operator?" "Fellas, the press conference is inside, not here." "If it's like the one we had last night, it'll be just more conversation." "Security's been tracking down the story all day and they'll give you the dope." "Now, how about it, huh?" "CORRELL:" "All right, gentlemen, one at a time." "Take it easy, fellas." "One at a time." "Let's see your pass." " Your press card, sir?" " I'm with the TV crew." "Then you should have a pass." "Well, I'm sorry." "I left it at the studio." "They put this press conference together so fast." "You'll have to show me some identification, sir." "Look, they're getting started in there." "Sorry, sir, orders." "All right." "How about a driver's licence?" "All right." "David Vincent." "Come on, what is this?" "I have to get in there." "You'll get in, sir, as soon as I've checked your name with the security officer." "Wait here, please." "Have you told anybody else about this?" "Did you tell anyone else what you saw?" "No." "No, sir." "I come here right after it happened." "Nobody believed me then, and I guess nobody believes me now." "Mr. Coogan, please sit down." "Well, I don't see the point if nobody believes what I'm saying." "LEWIS:" "Sit down." "Look, I saw fog out there." "Red fog." "It's coming down from this helicopter and" "And I haven't had a drink in six days." "This helicopter, did it have any particular markings, colour, anything?" "Looked like any other helicopter." "Sir." " He did come." " Mm-hm." "Send Mr. Vincent in." "Oh, and, Correll, you take Mr. Coogan home." " He'll be in your charge." " All right." "Mr. Coogan." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Riley." "Just a moment, I'll see." "It's Commander Smith's wife, sir." "Again?" "I can't talk to her now." "I think you'd better, sir, she sounds very upset." "Hello, Angela." "I can't talk now." "I'II" " I'll call you back." "Oh, but, Gavin, I've been trying to reach you all afternoon." "Yes, I know, but I've been tied up with this investigation, I" "But, Gavin, you've got to talk to me." "It's" " It's about Hardy." "Angela, let me get back to you." "I'm not in Houston." "When they told Hardy that he was going up," "I knew I had to get to you and I came in this morning." "You've got to help me, Gavin." "Look, Angela, I'll see you as soon as I finish down here." "Now, leave your" " Leave your number with my office and I'll call you." "It's Hardy, he's" " He's" "Angela, please." "All right." "All right, but I'll wait for your call." "[KNOCKING]" "That will be all, thanks." "I'm Gavin Lewis, security." "I know who you are." "I should tell you why I'm here." "I wanted to talk to the radio operator." "What do you want with him, Mr. Vincent?" "Information." "Complete information as to what he heard on that ship-to-shore radio." "Well, you can get that out of the newspapers tonight, can't you?" "I said complete information." "[BRIEFCASE CLICKS]" "I had a check run on you, Mr. Vincent." "I know who you are and what this obsession of yours is." "Men from another planet, aliens." "That happens to be your particular hang-up, what's it have to do with us?" "I know how those astronauts died and what that red fog is." "I wanna know why they died." "Well, they weren't killed by men from Mars, I can promise you that." "Happens that it was a form of carbon monoxide." "Oh, yes, red carbon monoxide." "Carbon monoxide you can see." "Well, what is it with people like you?" "One weird story and every screwball in the country thinks he can get in on the act." "Even that old man down on the beach says that he saw a red fog." "Gavin, I can't stall them anymore." "They want your statement." " Now, come on, will you?" " All right." "I'll be right there." "Where is this man?" "I'd like to talk to him." "No, no." "Until I have a chance to check on his story, nobody gets near Mr. Coogan's place." "Nobody talks to him." "You wait here till I'm done." "You're holding me?" "Well, you're a smart man, Mr. Vincent." "You know I have no authority to do that." "You're also smart enough to be here when I get back." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "CORRELL:" "That's right." "And it's very simple, Mr. Coogan." "If you really didn't see anything, what's there to tell Gavin Lewis?" "Nothing." "I saw nothing." "I made it all up." "That's right, Mr. Coogan." "You made it all up just to get your name in the papers." "[CAR APPROACHING]" "You saw nothing." "Mr. Coogan." "[FOGHORN BLARES IN DISTANCE]" "Mr. Coogan?" "What are you doing here?" "Gavin Lewis gave me permission to talk to Mr. Coogan." "You have that in writing?" "He said it wouldn't be necessary." "Mr. Coogan, I'd like to talk to you about what you saw yesterday." "Nothing." "I saw nothing." "I made it all up." "Mr. Coogan, look at me." "I made it up." "Mr. Vincent that's enough." "Maybe Lewis gave you permission, maybe he didn't, but that's all, buster." "You'll have to go." "Who's been here?" "Who talked to him?" "Nobody was here." "Nobody talked to him." "What do you have in that pocket, officer?" "You have five seconds, mister." "You all right, sir?" " Correll?" " What happened?" " I'm all right." "I'm all right." "LEWIS:" "Correll." "[ENGINE STARTS]" "Riley, get on the radio." "I want him found." " Yes, sir." " All right, what's going on here?" "You knew I'd come, didn't you?" "You set it up." "I asked you a question, Vincent." "I expect an answer." "So do I." "Was Correll part of the setup or was killing me his idea?" " Doing what?" " He tried to kill me." "He's one of them." "He's an alien." "You want proof?" "Look at him." "Just talk to him." "Correll wiped everything out of his mind." "Mr. Coogan, tell him what you saw." "You saw the red fog, didn't you?" "Nothing." "I made it all up to get my name in the papers." " Mr. Coogan, you told-- COOGAN:" "Nothing." "I saw nothing." "Mr. Coogan." "I saw nothing." "You'll never find Correll." "He's done his job." "Well, I haven't done mine." "All right, Vincent, we'd better talk." "Come on, let's get back to town." "Sorry, sir, we're closed for the night." "I've got this briefcase for Mr. Lewis." "I'll just put it in his car, okay?" "Help yourself." "Well, that's a big help." "The medical report shows there's nothing wrong with Charlie Coogan." "Did you really think it would?" "Oh, sure, sure, he was brainwashed." "Lewis, either you believe me or you don't." "Well, maybe I don't wanna believe you." "Maybe I..." "Maybe what?" "You know, I think it's about time you levelled with me." "You gave me enough information to keep me curious." "You practically sent me to Charlie Coogan's place." "Why?" "You know what I did before I was a security officer?" "You were an astronaut, one of the first." "That's right." "I was training for the moonshot, the same one that's going up this week." "A couple of months ago," "I was driving home from the space centre" "Top physical shape, nothing wrong with me." "I was listening to the car radio, and all of a sudden the radio went dead." "After that I don't remember anything." "Don't remember getting home, going to bed." "Nothing until my call service woke me up in the morning." "Well, I didn't feel well, and when they checked me out they found that my blood pressure had gone crazy." "Consequently, they washed me out of the space programme." "But I knew, I knew that there was nothing wrong with my blood pressure." "When I tried to tell them, when I tried to make them see, they treated me like I was some Section Eight case." "I lost a night out of my life, David." "I wanna find out where that night went and why." "Maybe you have the answer." "Nope." "And we're not gonna find it here." "Whatever it is, it must be at the launch site." "It's a long ride." "We better get going." "MAN:" "You're lucky." "Another five minutes," "I would have taken off for the night." "David, it doesn't make any sense." "If an astronaut is shoved aside like I was, or if he's killed, the moonshot still goes up." "They could kill 10 men and the programme still goes on." "Maybe they're not trying to stop the programme." "Could be something else." "Like what?" "What are you gonna look for when we get to the space centre?" "One of these aliens?" "And what's he gonna do?" "Come up and introduce himself?" "You told me yourself that they look the same as we do." "There are ways of recognizing them." "First of all, they have to regenerate themselves." "And they have an awkwardness about the hands." "There's a mutated fourth finger." "And the fact that they have no heartbeat." "The fact that" "What was that?" "David, what in the name of heaven?" " Morning, Riley." " You better hurry, sir." "LaCava and the others are leaving in an hour." "All right." "Vincent's staying at my apartment." "Make sure he gets a security pass and I want him at the airfield." " Vincent?" " Yes, right." "And get a hold of McNally's office." "Ask him to send over any material they have on the backup crew, film, everything." "Oh, excuse me, sir." "I took the liberty." "It's Commander Smith's wife." "She's waiting in the office." "Oh." "Thanks." "If anybody asks where Vincent's staying, you don't know." "Yes, sir." "Hi, Angela." "I'm sorry I didn't call you last night." "I couldn't." "Oh, that's all right." " Are you all right?" " Mm-hm." "Uh..." "Gavin Hardy will be going up, there's no question?" "None." "Well, I don't think he ought to go." "I don't know why, but I..." "I think there's something wrong with him." "With him or with you?" "No, no." "Now that it's definite, that they've set the day, are you sure it's not just your nerves?" "You know me better than that." "This has been going on for weeks." "For months." "Last night I called him deliberately and I told him that we'd be seeing each other, that we were going to spend the evening together." "And he wasn't even jealous." "Well, maybe we've all grown up, haven't we?" "No." "How can I make you understand?" "What does it mean that he has complete lapses of memory?" "He can't remember the simplest things." "The places that we've gone, or the friends that we knew, or even how I like my martinis." "Angela, Hardy went through a great deal in Vietnam, but if there were anything wrong with him physically or emotionally, the doctors would have found it out months ago." "Now, stop worrying, will you?" "[KNOCKING]" "[MOUTHS]" "The others are ready to leave for the airport now, sir." "Be right there." "I'm sorry, Angela." "I've got to leave." "It's all right." "I'll leave." "McNally called me this morning anyway." "He wants me to be at the airport when Hardy lands." "They want photographs, you know, of the brave astronaut's wife." "Can you come to the house tonight to see Hardy?" "Please, Gavin." "I'll try." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "McNALLY:" "You can have all the pictures you want, but no interviews." "The boys have just a few hours before their first briefing, they're not gonna wanna spend them answering questions." " Did you have any trouble?" " No." " Anybody follow you?" " Mm-mm." "Good hunting." "LaCAVA:" "Hi, honey." "McNALLY:" "Come on now, give them some room." " You'll get your picture." "MAN 1:" "Let's have one with the colonel." "MAN 1:" "Colonel LaCava-- McNALLY:" "Remember, no questions." "MAN 1:" "Mrs. Smith, would you look this way, please?" "MAN 2:" "Try that again." "All right, fellas, I think we got enough for now." "Let's let them get some rest." "They've got a heavy schedule with the medics." "If you'll just step out front..." " No more questions." "MAN 1:" "Can you give us something?" "Mrs. Smith, look this way, please?" "[ALL CHATTERING]" "MAN 1:" "Colonel LaCava, this way." "Colonel LaCava." "LEWIS:" "Hardy." "Hi, Angela." "Well, I don't think I've ever envied anybody so much in my life." "The way you pushed for me, the things you taught me." "I wouldn't be doing this if it weren't for you." "I like to pick my own replacements." "Look, you get your rest." "I'II" " I'll try to look in on you later." " Anytime." " Goodbye, Gavin." "Goodbye, Angela." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Who's that man?" "That's Owens, one of the medics." " Why?" " Check him." "He's been with the programme ever since it started." "Gavin, check him." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "[CUP CLATTERS]" "No, lie down, darling, I'll get it." "Hey, I'm the one who's supposed to get the jitters." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "Well, I guess they're here." "Go on, let them in." " I'll be right out." " Hardy." "Oh, come on, honey, it'll all be over in a couple of days." "Now, come on, let them in." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "The shepherd rounding up his flock." " Oh, hi, Tony." " Hi." " Well, is Hardy ready for his physical?" " Oh, he'll be out in a second." "Ah, ah." "Bags, droopy eyes." "You're beginning to look like a wife." "Don't." "I'll see if he's ready." "I mean it, Angela." "Why don't you and Peggy go to a movie tonight?" "Don't just sit around thinking about it." " Yeah, maybe I will." " No maybes." "Do it." " Hardy, Tony's here." "HARDY:" "Be out in a minute." "[BUZZING]" "[KNOCKING]" "ANGELA:" "Hardy." "Hardy?" "I'll be right out." "LaCAVA:" "Come on, friend." "This is a rush deal, remember?" "Those medics won't wait all night." "That's just what I'm doing." "I'm getting ready for the medics." "LEWIS:" "Be ready in a minute." "Anything on Owens?" "Owens is a medical technician." "Born in Detroit and we can account for almost every day since then." "I checked his file myself." "Yeah, well, they could have phonied that." "We gotta find something." "We're running out of time." "Well, then why waste it looking at this film?" "David, if you think that one of the astronauts is an alien, or all three of them, forget it." "They've been checked and rechecked." "We know who they are, where they were born, when they blow their noses and scratch their backs." "The aliens want this moonshot to go up, and they want this special crew to be on it." "Why?" "Why would they go through so much trouble just to stop two men from walking on the moon?" "Shut the blinds, will you?" "Now, you're holding back something." "I'm shooting in the dark unless you tell me the objective of this moonshot." "You can read it in the newspapers." "They have four columns on it every day." "If this was simply a walk on the moon, your people would have postponed the flight and given the backup crew more time." "Now, why do they have to get off tomorrow?" "David, I've told you everything that's unclassified." "I'm security officer, remember that?" "Now, do you wanna see this film or not?" "I had them slice off the front part about the rocket itself and just send me the material on the men." "MAN [ON FILM]:" "The moonshot thus becomes the most significant step forward thus far in America's manned space programme." "Three astronauts have undergone intensive training in preparation for this key project, but only two will actually land on the surface of the moon." "The man chosen to remain in the capsule is Marine Lieutenant Colonel Martin Daniels, born in New Haven, Connecticut, April 16th, 1931." "Daniels is the youngest man to have flown 59 combat missions in the Korean War." "The second member of the crew, Lieutenant Colonel Tony LaCava." "One of the two men who will walk on the face of the moon." "The only surviving member of the original moonshot crew," "LaCava was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, March 27th, 1929." "Now captain of the team, he can be considered the grand old man of the crew." "Grand old man." "The most recent member of the crew, Navy Commander Hardy Smith, born in New York City, January 1st, 1935." "Commander Smith volunteered for special duty in Vietnam, where he earned the Presidential Medal of Valor and the Purple Heart." "While still in Vietnam, he was elected for the astronaut programme." "Shown here with his wife immediately after his return to the United States," "Commander Smith underwent medical treatment before reporting to the space agency." "Stop the film." "Stop it right now." " What's the matter?" " His face." "That first picture we saw wasn't Hardy Smith." "Oh, relax." "I'm telling you, it wasn't Hardy Smith." "No." "The first picture that you saw was taken of Hardy pre-Vietnam." "Now, he came through that whole bloody mess without a scratch, but getting ready to come home his hotel in Saigon caught a terrorist bomb." "The way you see him now well, the plastic surgeons did a pretty good job." "Now, do you wanna look at the rest of this?" "No." " We've got something." " Hm?" " I'm lost." " There is an alien on the crew." " You've got to be kidding." " Hardy Smith." "I know Hardy Smith." "I trained with him." "I'm a close friend of his family." "Oh, no." "You've really gone off the deep end." "All right, who was the first man assigned to the moonshot programme?" " Tony LaCava." "He still is." " Scratch him." "If they wanted to get rid of him, they would have done it right away." "Now, who ranked next?" "Come on, who came after LaCava?" "I came next." "You had that strange experience you told me about, when you started having trouble with your blood pressure." " That's right." " And then Banks and Howell, right?" " Right." " They're both dead." "Now, the crew is LaCava, Daniels and Smith." "That can't be Hardy Smith." "They didn't change his face with plastic surgery." "They got rid of him and substituted a man you call Hardy Smith, an alien." "I know Hardy Smith." "Lord, maybe that's what she meant." "Maybe that's why she thinks he's changed." "Why she doesn't understand him." "It's not the same man, is it?" "But there isn't any purpose." "Why send an alien up?" "They're probably afraid of something that those photos showed on the moon." "If that's security, don't tell me about it, but go to the man who's in charge." "Have Smith investigated." "Stop him." "Why, this is all wild guesswork." "We" " We don't have any evidence." "There's gotta be something in his file." "Maybe his medical records." "Now, we have 12 hours before liftoff." "You've gotta find something." "Lord help us if we're wrong." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "You and I have worked together a long time." "That's the only reason I've listened to you." "I'm sorry you won't accept that the boat engine was defective and that deputy was just a poor slob who went AWOL." "No matter what you think, investigate." "If I'm right, I want you to find out that I'm right." "I'd rather find out what's driving you." "What made you come up with a story like this." "Because you're in charge of this and you can stop him." "There's still time." "Now, get his records, do something." "Before we go any further, I want to ask you about you and Angela Smith." "Oh, now, wait a minute." "And I want an answer." "This friendship of yours..." "That's all it ever was, friendship." "Hardy Smith didn't think so." "It's no secret." "It's here in the files." "Before he went to Vietnam, he was getting pretty touchy about it." "Stan, there was never anything and you know it." "Hardy Smith didn't." "He's calmed down now and I thought it was all over, but is it, Gavin?" "Is that why you're coming to me with this wild story?" "Why you're even trying to get him knocked out of the moonshot?" "Don't you understand?" "That is not Hardy Smith." "MAN:" "Control." " Would you send in a medical technician with Commander Smith's records, please?" "Yes, sir." "Those structures we've seen on the moon, the ones in the reconnaissance photos," "LaCava and Smith are the only ones who will be able to say whether they're natural objects, or man-made or alien-made or whether they represent a threat to us." "Martin Daniels can't because he'll be in the capsule." "Now, if anything happens to LaCava, we'll have to accept Hardy's word." "Will we?" "No matter what report we get back this time, we'll be sending other crews up." "But by then they may have accomplished their purpose." "Your aliens?" "Stan, I know that makes me sound insane, I know it, but" "[INTERCOM BUZZES]" " Yes?" " Medical technician's here, sir." "Hold him a minute." "Gavin, you say these aliens aren't like us." "They're made in some way so they have no heartbeat." "That's right." "STAN:" "Send him in." "[KNOCKING]" "OWENS:" "Yes, sir?" "Did Commander Smith have another physical checkup last night?" "Yes, sir." "He's had several checks since he began preparations for the moonshot." "No problems?" "No abnormalities?" " No, sir." " Respiration?" "Heart?" "He's in perfect physical condition, sir." "He's lying." "He's one of them." " He's what?" " He's an alien." "Look at his hand." " That will be all." " Stop him." " That will be all." " He's an alien." "You can't let him go." "All right, Gavin." "Ever since you raised that commotion after your illness," "I've been debating whether to take you off the programme entirely." "I'm afraid I'll have to call Washington and drop the problem in their laps." "I'm sorry, Gavin, but I'd be less than honest if I let you think you'll be with the programme much longer." " Stan." " That's all." "MAN [ON FILM]:" "Commander Smith volunteered for special duty in Vietnam, where he earned the Presidential Medal of Valor and the Purple Heart." "While still in Vietnam, he was elected for the astronaut programme." "Shown here with his wife immediately after his return to the United States" "We're licked, David." "I did everything I could." "I even saw Owens in there." "He had the kind of hands you told me about." "But Stan Arthur wouldn't buy any of it." "I'm sorry." "In one hour, that crew reports to the takeoff area." "And at dawn, the shot goes up." "We still have some time." "LEWIS:" "Where are you going?" "To see the one person who can prove Smith's an alien, his wife." "[KNOCKING]" " Mrs. Smith." " Yes." "I'm David Vincent, a friend of Gavin Lewis." "Well, what do you want?" "I wanna talk to you about your husband." " May I come in?" " No, I'm sorry, but I" "You going away?" "Yes." "I'm going back to Houston." "What business is it of yours?" "On the morning your husband's being shot to the moon, you're not even going to watch the liftoff?" "No." "I don't want to watch it." "You're running away." "Why?" "ANGELA:" "Leave me alone." "You know, don't you?" "You know that's not your husband." "It's not Hardy Smith." "Liftoff is less than three hours away." "You're the only one who can stop it." "You must help us." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "This is what it's all about, isn't it?" "Hey, Hardy." " Care to join us?" " In a minute." "You two go ahead." "Gavin, more than anybody in the world, you're the one I owe all this to." " I know." " How about riding up with me?" "No, thanks." "My job is down here." "Listen, old buddy, if something should happen, you take care of Angela." "STAN:" "I don't know what else to say to you." "We have a two-and-a-half-hour launch window." "I hope there aren't snags, any tie-ups, but if there are" "There may be on tie-up, Stan." "I think I'm getting cold feet." "That's why we built in the abort switch." "We thought you would." "Well, my job's finished once you lift off and Houston takes over." "And, well, like I said, I don't know what else to say to you." "Tony." "Martin." "Hardy." "I don't believe it." "It's because of the shock." " It's because of what happened" " You know I'm not wrong." "Would Hardy Smith do the things you say he's done?" "Behaved to you the way you say he has behaved?" "Why didn't you report it?" "Report what?" "Report what?" "That he couldn't remember the people that we'd met?" "That he always changed the subject when we talked about the past?" "Or that he'd--?" "He changed his taste in a hundred different ways?" "His taste has not changed." "He hasn't changed." "He's one of them." "Them?" "No, I won't believe it." "No, go away." "It's not just the mission." "Somebody's gonna be killed there." "Do you understand?" "You can stop it." "You're the only one who can stop it." "But what you're asking me to believe..." "Gavin Lewis believes it." "He knows." "Don't just take my word for it." "Prove it for yourself." "You can still get through to Hardy." "There must be something you can ask him." "Some test you can put him through." "Call him." "Please call him." "[PHONE CLATTERS]" "[PHONE DIALLING]" "I hope somebody remembered a pack of cards." "I'm gonna run out of conversation before we get halfway there." "That will be more of a miracle than the flight." "Commander Smith." "If it's the governor with a reprieve, ask him not to forget me." "HARDY:" "Commander Smith." " Hardy?" "Hi, sweetheart." "I was beginning to think you wouldn't call." "I was afraid I couldn't get through to you." "I just called to" "I wanted to wish you luck, Hardy." "We'll need it." "Well..." "Well, that's the only reason I called." "I just wanted to say good luck, Hardy." "Thanks, honey." "Now I know we'll be all right." "Goodbye." "What is it?" " I wished him luck." " And?" "Hardy's superstitious." "He always has been." "He's like a child about that one thing." "Nobody but nobody wishes him luck." "It's not Hardy." "[DIALLING]" "Operator, the blockhouse, please." "Flight administrator." "Yes, Stan Arthur." "I don't know whether I want that clock to slow down or speed up." "[INTERCOM BUZZES]" " Control." " Who is this?" " Roberts." "May I help you?" " But I asked to speak to Mr. Arthur." " Please put him on." " Well, I'm sorry." "That's impossible." "If you could call back after liftoff..." "No, this is Mrs. Hardy Smith." "Do you understand?" "Mrs. Hardy Smith." "Now, this is an emergency." "I don't know, Mrs. Smith." "Oh, please for the love of God, put him on." " Angela?" " Gavin." "Gavin, you've got to stop him." "I have proof it's not Hardy." "Stan, come here, take this." "Hardy's wife." "Yes, Mrs. Smith, what is it?" "I haven't time to explain, but that man you are sending up, he is not my husband." " What?" " He's an impostor." "A phoney, a part of some terrible plot." "Please, Mr. Arthur, before anyone else is murdered, stop him." "That man is not Hardy Smith." "I'm his wife." "I know." "STAN [OVER P.A.]:" "Commander Smith, report to Control immediately." "Commander Smith, report to Control immediately." "Commander Smith." "Commander Smith." "Commander Smith." "Commander Smith." "Contact the technicians." "Tell them to hold him." "Commander Smith." "Report to Control immediately." "I'm sorry, commander." "We're gonna have to" "[ENGINES WHIRRING]" "The countdown has been stopped." "There has been an emergency." "All technicians are ordered to leave the service tower immediately." "Repeat, the countdown has been stopped." "MAN [ON TV]:" "Ladies and gentlemen, we are trying to get word from Mission Control." "As you heard, the countdown was stopped, and as far as we can ascertain, it never was restarted." "But the space vehicle has lifted off." "As you can see, the moonshot has actually blasted off." "The space vehicle is now about three miles over the ocean and we are still awaiting word from Control as to what happened." "It looks like the vehicle is in trouble." "The vehicle has exploded." "We have no word from Mission Control." "As far as we know, the astronauts were not aboard, and as soon as we can get word as to what caused the liftoff and the explosion, we will relay the information to you." "I would like to repeat, however, as far as we know, no astronauts were aboard the space vehicle." "LEWIS:" "This morning, a craft out there powerful enough to reach the moon." "Now, nothing." "Well, as Tony LaCava says, "You can't win them all."" "Who said we lost?" "We don't have any proof." "And what we saw in those reconnaissance photos, the structures, they're still up there." "Well, my guess is they'll be gone by the time the next moonshot goes up." "It's taken the aliens a year to get a man into the programme." "They can't do it again." "Now they'll probably have to destroy that installation, whatever it is." "If they do, we've won, for now." "[KNOCKING]" "Excuse me, sir." "Mrs. Smith's waiting downstairs." "Oh, fine." "Tell her I'll be right down." "Anything on Owens?" "No, sir." "He's disappeared." "This is the statement McNally's going to give to the press conference, the official version." "The official version." "Thanks, Riley." ""Hardy Smith, hero's death."" "They still don't buy your invaders." "Privately they feel that Hardy went berserk, pressure and so forth." ""There will be a major investigation."" "That could take months, maybe even years." "Well, we just have to wait and see." "Well, we did all we could." "And I'll keep trying." "I promise you that." "Well, can't keep a press conference waiting." "What about you?" "What happens after the press conference?" "Oh, I'll be here." "They know there was a conspiracy no matter who they blame, at least now they know I haven't flipped." "I'll be here." "NARRATOR:" "In the far reaches of outer space, the invader reorganizes his plan for the conquest of the Earth." "He's been delayed, but he hasn't been beaten."