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Next, the invaders in color.

Yet.

Well?

I checked the entire perimeter around the test area.

And?

It seems clean, sir, but in my opinion, security is still inadequate tonight.

Yes? Pardon me, sir.

There's an urgent phone call from Major Graves. A Mr. Spence.

I have it transferred over here.

He'll take it there.

Well, how about it, Ted? Do I get more men or don't I?

I'll let you know.

I said, Major, I'd let you know.

Graves here.

Where's Vincent?

I thought he was supposed to be here.

Relax. You told me yourself he wasn't coming in until tomorrow afternoon.

How can I relax?

Major, how many times do I have to tell you?

I don't like it.

Maybe I can't prove it, but I'm being watched.

This whole place gives me the creeps.

Now, I've already closed your office here. By tomorrow, you can be halfway

across the world. Now, just take it easy. I'll check with you later.

Hey, the door's stuck.

Hey!

Hey, out there, the door!

Help me!

Help me, won't you?

Invaders. A Quinn Martin production.

Starring Roy Finnis 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 star in tonight's story, William Wyndham.

And special guest star, Andrew Duggan.

Tonight's episode, Doomsday Minus One.

David Vincent had received an urgent call from a man he'd never met to come

motel he'd never heard of in a desert he'd never seen.

But he came because the message spoke of alien invaders.

The man he'd never met had disappeared.

The motel he'd never heard of seemed menacing.

But the desert he'd never seen promised him an answer.

You're late.

I had some trouble.

Cigarette? No, thank you.

I'd rather see your credentials, if you don't mind.

Aren't you being just a little bit suspicious, Vincent?

Spence disappeared, five minutes later you called me, and on top of that I was

tailed here.

You were what? I was tailed, Major.

All the way from the motel.

You look worried.

Why don't you level with me?

If I did, we'd both end up in a psycho ward.

This is called Greylock Crater. It was made about three months ago.

Made, investigated, and called the result of a small meteor.

Spence doesn't go along with that.

He believes this crater was caused by the crash of a spaceship.

He believes that because last week, according to him, he saw a spaceship

not 50 yards from here.

You believe him?

My job is security. I have to believe him.

In the first place, he's one of my closest friends. And for a civilian, a

sane man. In the second place, that spaceship was met by a man named Carl

One of the top engineers on our post.

A man directly connected with a major underground atomic test.

A test so big that the Atomic Energy Commission has called us in on it. We're

going to stage it with them. Now, do you begin to get the point?

Well, of course, you've told all this to the commanding officer.

I told you I didn't want to end my days in a psycho ward.

I ran a check on Wyatt.

Nothing.

Now, if anything is wrong on this base...

I will need proof.

Hard, cold, irrefutable proof.

Otherwise, I'm not going to move a single inch.

Well, Vincent, do you think you can help me?

You want me to get a job on the base, is that it?

That's why I had Spence call you.

You're supposed to be an authority on these people.

Well, there won't be any trouble.

Everything's all been arranged. You just turn up at 1 ,200 hours tomorrow.

Do I use my own name?

Why not? You already used it at the motel. It's too late to change now.

All right. 1 ,200 hours.

Well, one other thing.

If you get jammed up... Yeah, I know.

You never heard of me.

What about Spence?

Is he also expendable?

I have men out looking for Spence.

Eight to five, you never find him.

Hey, buddy.

What car is that?

Mr. Tompkins' car. Why, Tompkins?

No reason.

Thanks.

Why were you so anxious to see me this morning?

Whatever happened to Charlie Spence?

Spence.

I'm told he's disappeared.

General, don't you think it's a little childish of you to worry about the fate

of one man when you agreed to the death of a million?

I told you why I did it.

Tell me again.

Tell me again, General.

Don't push me, Mr. Tompkins.

It wouldn't take much to make me... Change your mind?

And if you did, General, what chance would you have to save your precious

Spence is dead, General.

Do you understand?

He's dead.

Oh, by the way, General, there is a name I would like to mention to you.

David Vincent.

If he shows up at your post, I'd appreciate your letting me know about

Thought you understood that you were to be on your own.

That's why I asked you to meet me before I report to the post. You'd better have

a good reason.

You tell me.

This morning, a man named Tompkins left the Desert Winds Motel and drove to the

desert. I'm not interested in any Tompkins.

Well, you should be. He's an alien.

The same one who tried to follow me to the crater yesterday.

Today, I followed him about five miles from here at an adobe ruin. He met an

army man.

Can you identify him?

Well, now, I couldn't get too close, but he was a general. His car was marked

with a star.

He was well over six feet, about 180 pounds.

You're describing General Beaumont.

Who's he?

The commanding officer of this post. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge

again on the Yalu River in Korea. He's got every decoration in the book. I've

known him for 20 years. One of the finest men I've ever known.

An hour ago, he met an alien.

That is ridiculous.

You assure me that, uh...

The general was on the post at that time.

Of course not, but I can easily check it out. What if he wasn't?

Then I would be convinced that General Beaumont's business was both private and

legitimate.

What's the matter, Major? Are you afraid of the truth? Does it scare you? The

truth never scares me, Mr. Vincent.

Just so it is the truth.

Look, you asked me down here to check some things out.

Exactly what shall I do?

A. Figuring out about General Beaumont. I'll handle him.

B, go after your aliens. Go after Carl Wyeth.

Well, Mr. Vincent, do I make myself clear?

As a civilian employee on this post, you are forbidden to enter any restricted

area. Yes, sir.

Where would I find the office of Carl Wyeth?

Unfortunately, his office is in a restricted area, Building C, Room 109.

office is in Building A.

Will there be anything else you want to know?

No, thank you.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Oh, General, this is Mr. David Vincent, a new member of our engineering staff.

General? Mr. Vincent?

Something wrong, General?

Oh, no, no, nothing is wrong. Just for a second there, I thought I'd met that

man before.

I checked over your request for additional security personnel, Rick.

Then?

I put it through channels.

Through channels?

Do you know how long that will take, sir? What, by the time Washington gets

You know, if anybody else had submitted that request, I would have rejected it

out of hand.

If you don't look out, Rick, this job will turn you into an old lady.

I'd better be moving along. I'm late for a meeting.

Ted, I want you to postpone the test.

To do what?

Why? For what reason?

Because I asked you to.

Because you asked me to?

Well, here lately, Major, you've been asking me to do a lot of things that

make any sense.

Now, if you have some concrete reason for turning the defense policies of this

country upside down, I suggest you state it.

I'm listening, Major.

I have nothing concrete, sir, but something stinks on this post.

And unless you postpone that test, it'll be my job to find out why.

I must be going out of my mind because I swear I sensed a threat in that.

Now, come on, Rick, we've known each other too long.

We don't have to fence to play games if we can't trust each other.

Can we, General?

I'll tell you something.

When my boy died in Korea, something happened to me. I

couldn't think, I couldn't feel.

It was empty.

I thought for me it was the end.

And then you, you and Ethel and your kids came along.

Helped to fill that void for me.

Try to trust me, Rick.

Forget whatever it is you think you know.

Mr. Wyeth in his office?

I'll see.

Mr. Wyeth in there?

Well, there's someone to see him.

Yes, sir.

He's in the machine shop.

Go down to the end of the corridor. Where it splits, you take the one that

to the right. There's a sign there.

Okay, thank you.

You're supposed to say, I got lost.

I'm looking for Carl Wyeth. This is his office, isn't it?

I'm Carl Wyeth, and this is my office.

Well, I talked to the guard out front, and he said it was all right.

Mr. Vincent was told to go to the machine shop instead of which he came

It's funny you know my name.

We've never met.

All right, let's get him out of here.

All right, take me to Major Graves. Let's clear this thing up. Wouldn't it

better, Sergeant, if he returned over to General Beaumont?

I report to Major Graves, Mr. Wyatt.

My work comes directly under the General's supervision.

Well, I'm sorry. If necessary, Sergeant, I'll call the General myself.

As you wish, Mr. Wyatt.

I just wanted to meet Mr. Wyatt.

I realize I broke some rules, but... There are no buts about military

regulations, Mr. Vincent.

I thought you made that clear, Major.

So did I, sir.

Well, Mr. Vincent, you have knowingly breached security regulations.

You're a civilian. I have no power to court -martial you.

However, I am placing you in confinement and turning your case over to the

Department of Justice.

Take him away

Justice

Department, we're here to pick up a David Vincent identification

Now I'm at the Department of Justice.

If you please, Mr. Vincent.

You sent for me, sir?

Your leave orders.

Effective 2 ,400 hours tonight.

I think it's in the interest of all parties concerned.

Are you ordering me to leave, Ted?

Well, very well. You were right to bawl me out about that Vincent mix -up.

But there was something I should have told you about him. Something I am going

to tell you before you turn him over to the justice people.

Two agents picked him up over an hour ago.

They're very efficient.

Yes, very.

What was it you wanted to tell me about him? It'll keep.

Rick.

2 ,400 hours tonight.

It's taking a long time to get there.

Just where are you taking me? Please turn around.

All right, Mr Vincent.

Out.

Another disappearance?

You're not going to disappear, Mr Vincent.

You're going to have an accident.

She showed me a wrecked car. So what?

What I showed you was a fatal accident. Nobody in that car could have walked

away.

There were no bodies found in the wreckage.

What does that prove?

They were aliens.

When they die here on Earth, their bodies are consumed. They disintegrate.

seen it before.

And one of them had an awkwardness about his hands, a mutated fourth finger.

I've seen that before, too.

You don't expect me to believe all that, do you?

If you didn't suspect something like this, why did you have Spence call me in

the first place?

And where is Spence?

How did Wyeth know who I was before he'd even seen me?

And why did the Justice Department send out agents so quickly to pick me up?

I don't have any answers.

Then try to find one.

Call the Justice Department. See if they sent agents here.

See if they ever even heard of me.

Hopkins, I cannot leave the post in the middle of the night any time you

decide... General.

Two of my people died a few hours ago.

I'm not interested.

You should be.

They were the ones sent out to pick up Vincent.

They're dead, General.

We have a man running around who knows too much.

That's the reason I called you out in the middle of the night.

What do you want me to do?

Send out a search party.

I want you to reschedule the nuclear test.

Move it up. I want it within 24 hours.

That's impossible.

People couldn't detonate the nuclear device in that time.

They could do it by tomorrow noon if I ordered them to.

Then do so, General. I can't.

Committee from the United States Senate has been invited to observe the test

next week.

They'll have to be disappointed.

Although, by next week, they'll have other things to think about, won't they?

The antimatter device is ready.

A special truck bringing it from the saucer is now en route.

Special truck?

Refrigerated.

The elements are highly unstable.

Once it arrives, all we have to do is deliver it to the test site and set the

timing mechanism.

I'll have to think about it.

You don't have time to think about it.

General, are you willing to risk the inevitable?

A nuclear war just to indulge a few senators?

Will you risk hundreds of millions of people being blasted to radioactive

Believe me, General, this is the one chance your kind has to survive.

Beaumont checked onto the post half an hour ago, made one phone call to

Washington, and then went right out to the test site. Where was he last night?

don't know.

But I do know that the nuclear test has been moved up to noon today.

Well, my escape must have forced them to push up their timetable.

Whatever they were planning for next week, they're doing today.

Now, look, Beaumont is the key to this whole thing. We don't have much time.

We've got to face them with the truth.

Let's go.

40 minutes remember don't set the timer until you reach the detonation site

right

General Beaumont, sir.

What is it?

I believe you already know, General.

In case you hadn't noticed, Rick, I'm busy. Now make your point and get out.

right, sir. One question.

Why was the test time moved up? Technical reasons.

There's a man outside I want you to see, General.

I asked him to wait so that I could talk to you. All right, you've talked to me.

If I remember correctly, you're no longer on duty, Major. Ted.

You've got to see this man.

Now, if you won't, I'll have to go over your head.

Call the Pentagon.

It may be too late already, but at least it's better than doing nothing.

And who is it you're about to risk your career on, Major?

The man I smuggled back onto the post last night.

David Vincent.

How did you find him?

He found me.

And how did you know he wasn't still in jail, General?

I saw you meet Tompkins in the desert. You know who he is and what he is. And

what is that, Mr. Vincent? An alien being... From outer space?

The men who picked me up last night were aliens, too.

And Major Graves checked it out. The Justice Department never received a

to send agents here. As a matter of fact, they never even talked to you.

Where are they, these aliens?

They died in an auto wreck.

Naturally, their bodies will be available for examination.

No, they won't.

You know why.

You know what a busy morning this is for me, Major. I'm sorry that you chose to

expose me to the imaginings of obviously a diseased mind.

Did I imagine Spence's disappearance?

Is he dead?

Or don't they tell you everything?

Have you finished?

General, if you continue this collaboration, you'll be serving the

beings dedicated to one thing, the destruction of mankind, the takeover of

planet. Now, I can't believe you'd knowingly do something like this. Not a

with your record, not a man...

What do you know of my record? I know enough. You know nothing.

All you know are a few empty, stupid words from a hundred speeches made at a

hundred different parades.

General Beaumont, hero of two wars, give him another medal.

I'll tell you what my record adds up to.

One hundred thousand men dead because of my orders. My own son dead because he

believed me.

When I said his would be the last war.

Death, destruction, and suffering, and all for what?

So that one day we could all kill ourselves in one monumental nuclear

Whose words are those?

Your alien friends?

I'll call the Pentagon.

You'll be wasting your time, Major.

Outside of this room, there isn't a man on Earth who would believe either one of

you.

Time is running out.

As it did for Spence, General?

Spence had to die, Rick. He had to.

He was endangering what we were doing. The plan.

Whose plan?

Yours or theirs?

We made it up between ourselves.

A world gone totally radioactive, stripped of all life, is of no greater

to them than it is to us.

Mr. Tompkins assured me that at great sacrifice to his people, they were able

land an anti -matter bomb on the Earth.

Six of their craft were destroyed, as well as all the crew, blown to oblivion.

Just to get that one...

Ted, what the devil are you talking about?

I'm talking about anti -matter.

Matter that is the mirror image of ours, and when brought together with our

matter, it fuses and detonates.

Now, if this explosion happens on the surface of the Earth,

there's only a tremendous blast, nothing more.

But if it is detonated underground, it would blow the Earth off its axis by

several degrees.

Do you realize what you're talking about?

An effect like this could cause earthquakes, tidal waves. Millions could

Think of how many millions more would be spared the horror of atomic war.

Because the world would never know about the anti -matter bomb.

Think the tragedy was caused by a nuclear explosion.

Atomic weapons will be banned.

Finally, there will be peace.

But millions die.

Doomsday comes today at noon.

Then what do the invaders do?

I don't care about that, because the minute the explosion happens, I'll be on

the phone to the Secretary of Defense, and within 24 hours, they'll be exposed

to the world. Do you think they'll let you get away with that?

You'll be dead before you can make a phone call. They'll kill you. I'm not

much of a fool, Vincent.

If anything happens to me, Lieutenant General McIntyre at the Pentagon has

orders to go into my safe, take the contents directly to the President.

There's enough evidence in my safe.

About the presence of the invaders on Earth to convince even the general

I would call the Pentagon if I were you and have my safe opened.

Why?

I doubt very much if your evidence is still in there.

That's ridiculous. I trust McIntyre. I've known him all my life.

In the name of God, call him.

Get me the Pentagon.

Anything wrong, sir?

Just a last -minute adjustment.

Call the general if you want to.

McIntyre died this morning of a heart attack.

What about the evidence?

Listen to me.

Why don't you go to my office and open my safe?

Combination is right 17.

Two turns left to 42.

One turn right to 30.

Check the contents.

I want an immediate report.

I'll hold on.

Thank you.

There's nothing in my safe but my birth certificate and my 201 file.

Get me the gate.

Major Graves, you are to hold any vehicle attempting to get into the test

That includes military vehicles until I... What?

General, an army truck went through there five minutes ago.

Where are they placing their bomb?

General!

They didn't tell me.

Major, I found a sketch of the detonation area in Wyeth's office. It

marked and prepared.

Do you have a map of the area?

Sure, right over here.

Let's circle.

Almost a mile from the test hole. How far from here?

Three miles.

General, will you... Major Graves,

speaking for General Beaumont.

I want a squad of men sent into the test area immediately.

Combat ready.

General Beaumont will meet them there.

Right.

I told them you'd meet them there, General.

But before you go, I think you'd better cancel this detonation.

General, move! We have no time!

Your attention, please. This is General Beaumont.

This detonation will be canceled until further notice. I'll say again, this

detonation will be canceled until further notice.

I'll have a gun in the park.

I couldn't have the chance. I may be right.

What are you doing? I'm kidding. I didn't pretend.

I'm losing blood.

I'm all right.

I've got to... I'm going to deliver their bomb

right back to them.

What time is it?

We're almost there.

You'd better bail out.

Honor.

I don't know what I've been the last few years or who.

Right now, I am General Theodore Beaumont, United States Army.

And I expect to be obeyed.

um

Just black out, huh?

Well,

at least it was a good long at -bat.

They listened to me for over three hours. Must be some sort of world's

for one man in front of a military board of inquiry.

How could they write it off? After the explosion, the firefight, Beaumont's

disappearance.

They didn't write it off. They just clamped the security lid down tight.

The inquiry may go on for months or even years.

You know what the verdict is?

Attempted sabotage by enemies unknown.

Well, that's something, anyway.

Well, Major, we haven't lost.

I hope not, Vincent.

I pray we haven't.

The Earth turns on its axis.

Unaware of the disaster that never happened.

And David Vincent goes forward again.

Very much aware that a far greater disaster can lie ahead.

The final disaster.

Brought by the Invader.