The Invaders

Look at those crazy kids.

One headlight.

They're mine.

I'll see you, Sam.

Okay.

Let's see your license.

What'd we do?

Get out and I'll show you. Leave your lights on.

We were only going 30 miles an hour.

I mean, we were both watching here.

Out.

That'll cost you.

You're careful

and you try to drive like an old lady

and get stopped for a headlight.

What's that?

Oh, it's nothing.

Look, officer, please... Open it.

Listen, it's a girl.

It's a nice girl and she just...

she got a little oiled up at the beach

and, I mean, we're going to be

in enough hot water with her old man

as it is, you know?

I said open it.

Okay.

What is it?

What is it?!

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:

John Larch

Carol Rossen

Frank Overton .

A police officer has seen something so terrifying

that he had been driven to hysteria

and from hysteria to the thin edge of madness .

His incoherent words describing a creature not of this world

and a strange metallic disc bring David Vincent

to this Rhode island city

and Officer Hal Corman .

But why can't I stay with him and talk to him?

You're his psychiatrist...

Believe me, he won't respond, Mrs. Corman, even if he hears you.

His mind has put up a barrier

to shut out whatever happened to him.

Now we have to find a way to reach through that barrier

to bring him back to reality

without frightening him

without driving him deeper into himself.

How?

Well, we can't do it here.

We don't have the facilities.

I have papers for you to sign that will give us permission

to take him where he'll get the help he needs.

No. I won't let him go to one of those places.

Joan...

Joan, you have to.

For Hal's sake, you do.

All right. Do what you have to do.

We'll go to my office.

You'd better stay here, Lieutenant.

She needs someone to blame.

Just be patient.

I'll wait for her down the hall.

Hello. Yes?

A friend of mine Sergeant Hal Corman

was brought in last night.

Is he allowed visitors?

No, I'm afraid not.

You think I could see his doctor for a moment?

Pardon me.

I'd like to talk to you, please...

over here.

Name?

David Vincent.

Identification.

Where were you last night, Mr. Vincent?

Here's an airplane ticket.

Flight 402 this morning.

What's this all about?

One man knows what happened to Hal Corman...

What he really saw.

That's the man driving that station wagon

on the beach road last night.

I'm going to find that man.

You're looking in the wrong place.

Why would he come here?

Why did you come here?

I know most of Hal's friends.

I've never seen you before.

Well, let's just say I'm interested.

The driver of that wagon would be, too.

Tell you what, Mr. Vincent. I'm going to hang on to this

till I check with the airline.

Where are you staying?

The Shoreham.

Okay.

You'll hear from me.

Oh, Joan, let me take you home.

Thank you.

I can get home.

I want to help Hal.

Look, will you do me a favor

and not help him anymore?

Just leave him alone.

Joan, I told you how sorry I am.

It's a little late for apologies.

If it hadn't been for you...

if you hadn't talked Hal...

Joan, do we have to rehash that again?

Why, Greg, what's wrong?

Six months ago, you were so proud.

You and your protégé were going

to take this town apart, clean it up

and to heck with the city hall boys.

Nothing happened to you, Greg

nothing at all, but Hal lost everything...

His rank, his future.

Now... Now... blame me.

If it hadn't been for you, he wouldn't have been

on that beach patrol last night.

He'd have been at a desk at the precinct.

You can run away from it, Greg, but you can't change the truth.

Yes?

Mrs. Corman?

I'd like to talk to you about your husband.

Haven't you people written enough about him?

Why can't you just...?

I'm not a reporter.

My name is David Vincent.

Now, your husband had an experience

that I might know something about.

If I could talk to him,

maybe I could help him and myself.

What kind of an experience?

Could I have five minutes to talk to you?

Please?

All right.

This doesn't make sense.

What's it supposed to mean?

Just what it says.

David Vincent's some kind of a kook.

Claims that aliens from outer space

are trying to take over the earth

and he was on flight 402 this morning.

Hello.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Uh, just a minute, please.

Hey, Greg, Dr. Grayson.

Says Joan Corman's brought this Vincent guy

over to the hospital.

Dr. Grayson?

Lieutenant, you'd better get down here.

Yes, this Vincent's with her now.

If I don't let him see her husband,

she'll have him taken out of my care.

Well, can she do that?

Well, of course, she can do it.

She committed him voluntarily.

Well, if nobody stops her,

I will not be responsible for what happens.

Oh, uh, if the Captain asks for me,

you don't know where I am.

Uh, Greg, wait a second, will you?

You know,

if it hadn't been for the Captain,

you'd have been busted just like Hal was.

Now, you going to keep on operating like a one-man army,

and you're going to wind up without a job,

without a pension... with exactly nothing.

Yeah.

Joan;

Why can't you get it through your head?

You've read the report

and he doesn't even deny it.

I don't care what the report says about me.

The facts behind it are true.

That's why I'm here.

Mrs. Corman,

we know little enough about the human mind.

This man knows nothing.

One wrong word

and he can push your husband so far into his own world