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Next, the invaders in color.

No record of the flight or the plane. Not a trace of a body anywhere.

Nobody could walk away from a crash like that, that's for sure.

What do you think of this?

What is it?

I don't know. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. I found it at the

cockpit.

It's practically weightless.

Better get it to Sparrow. That's a lab in Eastgate. They'll know where it is.

Right.

How come the roadblock?

Hey, come on, you guys. What's the gag? You two new on the job or what?

Now, listen.

Look, I'm the regular man on this route, honest. Just ask any...

You know, you get hijackers. Two of them. Where'd they go?

I got one of them.

He started to glow.

Burned up.

Burned up?

I swear.

I swear.

All right, get the ambulance. I swear.

The 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 have taken

form. Somehow, he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare

already begun.

The guest stars in tonight's story, James Whitmore, William Tallman,

Milton Seltzer, and special guest star, Susan Strasberg.

Tonight's episode, Quantity.

A small private plane crashes, leaving no trace of its victims.

A mail truck is attacked. Two security guards killed. A killer disappears in a

burst of flame.

News items too incredible to be taken seriously, except by one man.

David Vincent's only possible conclusion, the killers had been aliens.

And for reasons of their own, might even be attending their victim's funeral.

Unto almighty God, we commend the soul of our brother departed.

and we commit his body to the ground.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and

certain hope of the resurrection unto eternal life through our Lord Jesus

Christ, at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world,

the earth and the sea shall give up their dead.

and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed and made

like unto his own glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby

able to subdue all things unto himself.

May God rest his soul.

Isn't that the fellow that was at the hospital the day Leo died?

Yeah.

Wonder who he is. I don't know.

Maybe he's a friend of the family. No, I asked him. I don't even know his name.

The name's Vincent.

David Vincent.

I'd like to see Mr. Richards.

Do you have an appointment?

I'm afraid not.

Sorry, Mr. Richards. Don't see anybody without an appointment.

Well, tell him I have information about that attack on the mail truck.

Shall we continue this in Miss Oberlin's office, Mr. Vincent?

Miss Oberlin, will you excuse us, please?

Yes.

Sit down.

No, thank you.

All right.

Now, just what...

Is your interest in this, Mr. Vincent?

Does it matter if I can help?

Yes, it does, Mr. Vincent.

The men who were killed weren't just numbers to me.

I know their families. I visited their homes.

I was at Leo Rinaldi's daughter's wedding.

And I was at his funeral.

And I want his killers.

It does matter, Mr. Vincent. It matters a lot.

Now, who are you and exactly what do you know?

Well, I don't know. I only suspect.

The people at the newspaper office told me that there was a cylinder on that

truck. A strange weightless cylinder.

There were also a number of items of great value.

But not of value to the people who hijacked that truck. Now, I can't prove

But for reasons of my own, I believe they were after only one thing on that

truck. The cylinder.

Now, may I please see it?

Please This

overly will you show mr.

Vincent that thought it's alright

I tell you, if Leo Rinaldi hadn't meant so much to me, I think I would throw you

out of here on your ear.

You found anything out about it?

Where it's from, what it's made of?

Well, I've tried to get to it a couple of times, but... We've been very busy

working on some government contracts here.

Mr. Richards, two men have already been killed because of this cylinder.

Now, I can't begin to guess what it is or why it's so important.

The people responsible for those two killings won't stop at just two.

If necessary, they'll blow up this entire plant to get this cylinder.

me, I know them. They'll do it.

But why would anyone want something like this?

Let's ask them.

I'm suggesting we set a trap. Let them try to take the cylinder again and catch

them.

How long would it take you to make a duplicate of this?

A couple of hours.

Okay. Go ahead with it.

Now, if the police go along with this, we'll ship the phony cylinder to our

Cleveland plant.

and give out a release to the paper.

Lieutenant Farley, this is David Vinson.

Glad to meet you. Oh, don't be.

I'm the guy who argued with the police commissioner for an hour and a half

this. Oh, here she is.

Sorry to be late with it. It was just sitting in my office. I thought it would

have been sent to you.

Well, I guess we're all set, Lieutenant.

Right at the airport, Harry.

Yes, sir.

Lieutenant Farley will follow us a short way behind. He's got men posted along

the way.

If anything unusual happens, well, I'll tell you while we drive.

Well, they'll never have a better chance

Well, they may make their move at the other end.

Cleveland.

Sure, but tell me all about it.

Hello.

Hello. Is there any news from Cleveland?

I don't know yet. I'm going in to see Richards. I understand he's in your

office.

Well, congratulations, Vincent.

You made all of us look a little thick.

That phony cylinder's in Cleveland, safe and sound. Nobody even looked twice at

it. Your enemy agents must have stepped off on the wrong planet.

I spent the afternoon running a check on you.

I've got the whole package. The police reports, the medical reports, the works.

Medical reports?

He's a full -time, dedicated crackpot.

Oh, this isn't the first time he's had people running around in circles because

of his paranoid delusions.

He specializes in false alarms.

He sees invaders from outer space under every rock.

Delusions don't commit murders.

I'm sorry, Vincent.

Now, wait just a minute, Mr. Richards. Let me explain this.

We're not interested in your explanations, Vincent.

Goodbye.

I was hoping it would work out the way you wanted it to.

Thank you.

Mr. Oberlin.

I wonder if you could... if you could do me a favor.

Run some more tests on that cylinder.

Well, I can't do that. That's impossible. Look, I know how Farley made

Listen.

Why don't you just forget the whole thing?

Without Mr. Rich's help, it's impossible.

You can't get anywhere. It's like banging your head against a stone wall.

If you'd just let me explain.

Look, what I'm trying to say is, I don't want to get involved.

I... I'm sorry.

I know who you are and what you are.

Look, fella, I don't know where you get your information.

Well, I'm wrong.

I may burn for it, but if I'm right, I'll enjoy watching you burn.

You think I'm one of them?

Oh, you tell me you are, will you?

Tell me they didn't send you.

Tell me you're not an alien.

Now get your hands up. Up!

All right.

Now bend them.

Bend them!

Well, I did an extra special job on you, didn't I?

What

makes

you think I'm an alien?

You came to the hospital to see that Leon and Ollie didn't talk.

And then you were at the grave.

To make sure he was dead. And now you're here to get that cylinder for your

buddies. Just talk to Lieutenant Farley. They never got near that cylinder.

Oh, because you know it was a fake.

Yeah, and you ticked them off.

How do you know so much about them?

I told you I'm not an alien.

You tell me how you know about them.

How do I know?

How do I know?

Look at that.

It's a picture of my family.

What's my family?

A year ago, my little girl there, Judy, she went out to get some firewood.

She came running back into camp and she said, Daddy, there's some spaceships in

the air.

We laughed at her.

Naturally, we laughed at her.

My wife, my wife went with her to prove to her that she was wrong.

She wasn't wrong.

I heard them screaming.

And I ran.

I got there just in time to see... See them die.

Why... My little... My little girl.

Do I know?

Yeah. I know!

I'm sorry.

You're sorry?

One word that they never used.

Did I make a mistake about you?

I told you I'm not an alien.

We're after the same thing.

Well, then... Then you know.

What it means, don't you?

I'm a laughed at and ridiculed.

Mr. Vincent, I need... I need somebody who

knows like I do that they're all around us. I

don't know.

I need somebody to help.

Would you?

Why not?

Look, we... We can't talk here.

I know this is a lousy place to talk.

I'm staying at the Crescent. Why don't you come up there?

I get off duty at 6 .30.

Would 7 o 'clock be all right?

Good.

Take this.

Who is it?

It's Diane Oberle.

Can I come in? Yeah, sure.

Sit down.

Ron?

I almost didn't get up here. I've been sitting down in the lobby for ten

trying to...

I'm frightened, Mr. Vincent.

I'm frightened, and I need some help.

After you left, I decided to run some more tests on that cylinder.

What did you find out?

The metals resemble nothing on this earth.

Now, I'm... I'm enough of a scientist, not... not just to dismiss people as

psychos, especially when there's some kind of evidence to prove that what

they're saying may be true. It's not just the cylinder. I...

I have the feeling I'm being watched all the time, driving me crazy.

Every time I try and work on that cylinder or in the laboratory, anywhere

the cylinder, I... I don't know, maybe I'm just imagining things, but I'm so

scared that I can't even work on it.

I... That's why I said no to you when you asked me to help you.

Now, you said you're being watched.

By whom?

I don't know.

It...

It's just a feeling that I have.

Maybe it's your men from outer space.

Mr. Vincent, if it is true, and if I'm not just

going crazy or imagining things, then what do they want of me?

What can they possibly want of any of us?

If you could just give me one piece of evidence, concrete evidence, that I'm

just imagining things and that these people really exist.

Well, I wish I could.

If I could, I'd be in Washington right now.

Excuse me.

Hello.

Hello. David, it's Harry Swain.

Harry, what's wrong?

Well, David, they're on to me.

Maybe both of us.

They just cornered me in an alley and they came at me with discs.

Well, I fought them off and ran, got away.

Are you all right?

Yes, I'm fine, but I can't come there.

I'm afraid to leave this place.

Where? It's a little bar.

224 Horatio.

I'll be in one of the booths.

I'm on my way.

Look, Diane, I know this is a bad time to do this, but I... You have to go.

Yes, but I'll call you later, all right?

Is, uh... Is Harry Swain a friend of yours?

He has some kind of extraordinary interest in this cylinder.

All I know is that he came to work for us about three months ago, and he never

even talked to me, and then all of a sudden he's trying to become my best

friend, but he never asks anything about me. All he ever talks about is the

cylinder, where it's kept, how it's guarded, things like that. He claims

it's because he wants to find some information that will lead him to the

murderers of Leo Rinaldi, but that's a lie. I know he's lying to me.

You don't have to worry about him.

I understand, Harry Swain.

Thanks for your consent.

Now, where can I call you later?

Well, I'll go back to the lab.

I'll run some more tests on him.

Harry?

You all right? Yes, yes. I wanted to get a job on you. Yeah, well... Yeah.

They did something else. They told us something that whatever they're

it's going to be soon, maybe even tonight.

Tonight? Yeah.

Why is that cylinder so important to them?

I don't know. I don't know, but whatever it is, whatever is inside that cylinder

is important enough to them to...

kill for it what are we gonna do we can't just sit here well if they are

planning something for tonight there's only one thing we can do that's move

first what do you mean let's get this going before they do

intelligence, and if we could get that cylinder to him, he'd make it the number

one project at the Pentagon.

But how?

Can you get us through that gate?

Yeah, sure, but the vault, David, is locked until morning. There's no problem

there. The Oberli girl is up in the laboratory working on the cylinder right

now, so the vault must be open.

have a problem. That girl, I want her out of there. I don't want her harmed.

If you get her out of there, we haven't got a chance.

Look, they've already killed two men. They've tried to kill you. Now, what do

you think they'll do to her if they plan something for tonight?

They're getting ready to destroy the human race.

And you're worried about one girl.

Look, we can't let ourselves become as bad as they are.

How many wives have you lost?

How many daughters, mister?

You fight them as long as I have and you'll become just like me.

Now you make up your mind.

Yes, I'm working on it right now.

Well, I should have something for you by then.

Yes, it should be finished by the time you get here.

I gave it.

It's locked at night, but I've got a key. There's guards in both buildings.

of them stays at the desk while the other one goes on his hourly rounds.

Comes back in about 15 minutes.

Right.

Oh, look.

Here is Colonel Griffith's address in New Orleans.

If we get separated, you go there. I left the keys in the car.

Okay, got it.

Let's take them.

What happened to you?

Oh, don't ask.

What a night I've had.

I tripped getting out of the car, stumbled over that hedge, and then I

I left my wallet locked in the locker.

Open up, will you? Yeah.

What are you doing here?

I came for the cylinder.

What?

I said I came for the cylinder.

Did you plan on stealing it?

Yes, if necessary.

David, that's so foolish.

I've been running a laser beam on it, trying to cut into it. In a day or so,

may have the evidence that you want.

I don't have a day or two.

I just called Mr. Richards and he's on his way over now to look at it. I'm

sorry. I have to disappoint Mr. Richards.

The main gate. It's open, Harry.

Walt must have heard something out there or saw something, went out to check it

and... and left the gate open.

Well, take care of it.

Yes, sir.

I'm going up to the lab to see Miss Obley.

She's not up there.

Of course she is. She just phoned me and asked me to look at some tests. No,

sir. They just called from her home.

That somebody's sick there or something. She left a few minutes ago.

Oh?

Well, I'd better see what she was doing in the lab.

Uh... She left a report for you in your office in the other building, Mr.

Richards. All right.

I'll check them before I leave.

David, you're making a mistake. Please listen to me.

David?

David, look.

Just look at the results of these tests.

The metal defies every natural law. So do the people I'm fighting. They want

what I want, the cylinder. David, please.

Please, you're defeating your whole purpose. Leave it with me. Look, Diane,

know these people.

They'll be coming after this cylinder, and they'll blow this place up to get

I don't want you here when it happens.

Sorry, it was an accident.

I was just trying to keep away.

You could die. I'm sorry.

It was a mistake.

Please. I tried to keep him away, but he argued with me. Started fighting, and

the gun went off.

That's all.

Call a doctor.

No.

Call a doctor!

We've got to get back. Get out of here.

This is all right. Come on, let's go. Let's go! Let's go!

Here, look.

Right there, way home.

In the eye building.

Go!

Come in, Mr. Vincent.

Sit down, won't you?

You must have had a difficult time.

You heard about Harry Swain.

Yes, I heard. The morning papers. Terrible thing.

Tragic loss.

On the other hand, it may have been best this way.

You see, Mr. Vincent, if Richards dies, Harry Swain would have been held for

murder.

And I doubt if anyone would have understood his motives.

I was confused myself.

I assure you, he's one of the best.

In one of the papers, they mentioned the fact that they found no trace of the

body.

That reminded me of a plane crash that happened a few weeks ago.

You're certainly not suspicious of Harry Swain.

Well, I was worried for a while.

But not very much, I see. You did bring the cylinder.

There's something I should tell you you don't have to tell us anything David

Got

pretty hot there for a while, but I fortunately was able to make my way to a

window You should be flattered mr. Vincent when you showed up at the plant

changed all our plans just to include you You made it easy for us David

We were going to go for the cylinder anyway, but instead of risking an out

-out raid, we decided to use you to avoid exposure.

Besides, we'd rather enjoy using you, of all people, to help us.

That cylinder contains instructions from our planet, David.

Plans for the takeover.

Thank you for helping us get it.

It's empty. This box is empty.

Thank you.

Long distance, please.

Metallurgy, Miss Overly.

Yes, this is she.

Put him on.

Hello, Diane.

David? Yes.

How are you?

I'm fine, thank you.

How's Richards?

He's going to be all right.

Say, I read the report in the newspapers.

I want to thank you for what you did and tell the police.

You don't have to thank me.

I'm just glad that he didn't die, and I don't know what I would have said if

they'd kept on questioning me.

David, Harry Swain, was he... Yeah, she was one of them.

David, will I see you again?

I hope so, Diane.

So long.

David...

For David Vincent, every friend is a potential enemy.

His enemies understand this.

Someday, perhaps, his friends will too.