The Invaders

Tired, sir?

Yep, I'm tired.

You should be after 24 hours with no sleep.

Sir, if I just knew what you were looking for.

It's a sighting I investigated before you got here...

Similar to the Vincent report.

Perkins or Prescott, something that started with a "P."

I'll know it when I see it.

"P" section right here, sir.

Yeah.

It's not here.

Sergeant, I don't understand this.

Last month the Ambrose Report was missing and now this.

Now, these files are your responsibility.

I don't understand it, either, sir. I...

Maybe you forgot to unpack it.

Look, go upstairs and see if you can find it.

We've got to have it for the committee meeting tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

Captain Ross?

Yeah. What are you doing here?

Captain Gardner would like to see you, sir.

Now?

He says it's urgent, sir.

12:00 midnight?

Look, you just tell Captain Gardner

I'll see him as soon as I can.

You'll come now...

sir.

What is this?

Don't argue, Captain. Just come now.

Can I, uh, get my, uh, briefcase?

Get your briefcase.

Captain?

Watch it!

Behind the files!

Starring Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent .

The Invaders.. .

alien beings from a dying planet .

Their destination... The Earth .

Their purpose... to make it their world .

David Vincent has seen them .

For him, it began one lost night

on a lonely country road

looking for a shortcut that he never found .

It began with a closed, deserted diner

and a man too long without sleep

to continue his journey .

It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy .

Now David Vincent knows that the invaders are here.

That they've taken human form .

Somehow, he must convince a disbelieving world

that the nightmare has already begun .

The guest stars in tonight's story:

William Smithers

Patricia Smith

Katherine Justice ,

and special guest star, Michael Rennie .

In a decaying lobster port in Maine ,

David Vincent searches for a man

who has seen the invaders

A fisherman named Nat Greely

who has taken one of their weapons

A strange metallic disk .

For a day and a half ,

Vincent has combed the tiny waterfront town ,

but Nat Greely has disappeared .

Looking for someone?

David Vincent?

Yeah, that's right.

We had a pretty rough time finding you, Mr. Vincent.

You're wanted in Washington.

Who wants me?

Captain Ross... Project Hawk.

Well, look, uh...

Uh, Mr. Vincent, we know what you're looking for.

We also know who you're looking for, and, uh.. .

that's a subpoena.

Supposing I want to stay here and finish what...

We have a plane waiting for you at the airport.

Follow me in that car if you will.

All right.

Thank you.

Oh, yeah, when they die, they vanish?

They burn just like that?

How many times you going to ask me that?

And why the third degree?

What's your reason?

It's happened to somebody else, hasn't it?

Somebody else has seen it.

What makes you think that?

It's the one thing you keep coming back to...

How they die.

You've seen it .

All right, I've seen it.

So what?

Have you heard of the Peterson Committee?

No.

Peterson, the office of defense...

They've asked him to form a committee

to look into my findings.

Now, the hearings start Monday.

I'll have to be there, of course

with the Project Hawk reports.

I want you there, too, to testify.

You want me to testify.

You know, I've given up my life to fight them...

my girl, my business, my plans.

There's a valley in California I once dreamt of developing.

I've been down this road before.

I've written, I've talked,

I've phoned, I've seen senators, congressmen.

I'll testify.

But if I do get up there

and tell everything I know under oath,

what makes you think they'll believe me?

Don't you understand? There are two of us this time...

Two of us who have actually seen them.

That's a lot of words, a lot of talk.

What we need is proof.

Now, the man I'm looking for is in Maine.

He can give us that proof.

Nat Greely is the town drunk, the town bum.

His testimony wouldn't be worth two cents.

That's why we dropped the whole thing with him.

We need you here to testify.

Now, if you think he's that important,

I'll send a couple of men up there to find him.

Do that, and he'll never come out of hiding.

I know how frightened a man like this can get.

Now, let me do it my way.

Please.

Hi, son.

Hey, you putting out to sea in that whaler?

Whaler's got a square hull.

This here's a Kattenburg... No good to nobody.

Pa stove it in when he was drunk.

Ma!

Ma?

Mrs. Greely?

Hi.

Mr. Greely on board?

Oh, I should introduce myself.

My name is Calvin Adams.

My partner, Ed Poole.

We practice law in Augusta.

My husband isn't here. What do you want, mister?

Mrs. Greely, if what we found

in the county records is right,

your husband's the last living descendent

of the Birketts.

Here you go.

And if your husband can prove it,

he'll be $83,000 richer.

$83,000?

That's right.

Now, you just wait a minute.

The only thing Nat's mother's family

had to pass on to their kids was a liking for liquor.

Maybe so, but your husband's great uncle ran up

a small fortune fishing out in Oregon.

He never had but one great uncle... Sam Birkett.

That's the man.

Sam Birkett?

Uh-huh.

Mrs. Greely, it's taken so long

tracing down these records,

that we've no time to waste.

Now, if we can't find your husband,

all that money stands to go to the sailors' fund.

Now, Mrs. Greely,

now, where can we find your husband?

When he comes back, I'll tell him about it.

Now I got work to do.

Get down from there, Natty.

But, Mrs. Greely... Good-bye, mister.

Natty?

Ma', they said we'd be rich.

We'll be rich when it rains ten-dollar gold pieces.

What's wrong, Ma'?

Nothing. Those two, they must have been

some of your father's worthless friends

playing a joke.

Your Great-Uncle Sam died when he was 14.

Record's right here in the family Bible.

Only thing he got out in Oregon

was the fever that killed him.

Now, I got to get ashore.

And you don't say nothing, hear?

Mrs. Greely, I'm David Vincent.

I was here yesterday.

I don't care who you say you are, mister.

I've got somewheres to go and I'm late.

To see your husband?

Where is he, Mrs. Greely?

He's in danger. I can help him.

All right, you don't have to tell me where he is,

but if you want to save your husband,

you'd better persuade him to see me.

Just call this man.