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Next, the invaders in color.

Thank you.

Get Dr. Sarratt.

No pulse.

No, he's alive.

Who are you?

What are you?

It's obvious who he is. He's a spy.

Maybe.

But it's also obvious he isn't a human being.

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, Donna Winter, Don Dubbins,

and special guest star, Fritz Weaver.

Tonight's episode, The Captive.

In a confused and divided world, one thing remains certain.

A man must earn his daily bread.

And so David Vincent takes advantage of a precious lull in his lonely war.

Mr. Vincent.

Yes. I'm Joseph Dansk. Forgive us for intruding like this.

What can I do for you?

If I were to tell you...

That we've captured an alien, Mr. Vincent.

Would you be willing to share your knowledge with us?

Who's us?

One of our medical people read about you in the newspapers. She hoped you might

be able to help us.

Where are you keeping him?

At our UN headquarters.

We caught him rifling our safe.

All right, I'd like to take a look.

Good.

Peter, I want you to cable home for a team of experts.

Well, it's premature.

I've sent for a fluoroscope.

You should have it in an hour. That's enough for a start.

But it isn't. I'm not expert enough for this. Look at the skin tests.

But you're a biochemist, aren't you?

Trained to evaluate American research projects.

Not creatures with skin like cellulose.

Without pulse or heartbeat.

Without blood.

He's not from this earth, Peter, and I need help.

If you're suggesting he's from outer space, you really do need help.

What do you really think, Catherine?

I've sent for an American who may have had experience with these creatures.

His name is Vincent.

I hope you don't mind.

Fine, then you do have help.

When the ambassador gets here... I want a full file for him to read.

Well, I can tell you what it will say now. Don't tell me. Tell the ambassador.

I want the decision to be his.

What is it, Peter?

Are you afraid to commit yourself?

1944, you mean?

No. No, you lived that down a long time ago. Lived it down?

Is that why I'm deputy for intelligence here and not in the bureau at home?

I will send the cable and I will take the responsibility for it.

I'm in charge here.

any cable sent home will come from me

send

sanders to my office

We've checked out your social security record, Mr. Sanders.

Supposedly you have held at least four jobs in heavy industry, in firms

requiring medical examinations for insurance.

I must wonder, Mr. Sanders, how your peculiarities have escaped detection.

you explain that to me?

Where are you from, Sanders?

How many of you are there?

Why are you interested in our troop dispositions in East Asia?

I wasn't.

I was hoping there'd be some cash.

There was, in plain sight.

Yet you managed not to find it.

Who sent you here, Sanders?

You want to be difficult?

I can be difficult, too.

If, on the other hand, you want to be reasonable, I will be reasonable, too.

Don't try to pressure me.

We've been briefed on you people.

Who briefed you?

Where were you born?

I was manufactured.

Where?

Somewhere over the rainbow, where...

This is the

United States, mister. I've got rights.

All right.

They have other ways.

That's him, Mr Vincent.

This way.

From what you said, he must be from space.

Now, the important thing is to get him out of here as soon as you can. They'll

know you have him, and they won't let you keep him.

Get him out.

Where to?

State Department security or military intelligence.

To your people?

Of course.

Mr. Vincent, our scientists at home are very interested in flying saucers.

One popular view is that they are made in America.

Yes, I've heard that theory.

Do you believe it?

You've examined Sanders, do you?

It's arguable.

The nearest galaxy is 1 ,800 trillion miles away, but I could stand on the

Potomac and throw rocks at half a dozen biological warfare projects.

Meaning what?

The fault, dear Brutus, may not be in our stars, but in ourselves.

That we are underlings.

Mr. Bork, is there anyone higher up you could ask?

When I'm ready.

Until then, I want to weigh all possibilities.

You're weighing impossibilities.

You're wasting time. He's proof that they're here. They'll kill to get him

You must get him out of here. Mr. Vincent, I've listened, and I'm not

Take him downstairs.

I'm going nowhere.

I've offered my help. If you don't want it, I'll be leaving.

I'm sorry, Mr. Vincent.

Take him downstairs.

I don't suppose you care that I'm an American citizen.

Until I learn who Sanders is and who he represents, I want you to be

my guest.

You are risking Vincent's life, Peter, putting him down there with that... Keep

an open mind for five minutes, Catherine.

Joseph!

Inside, Mr. Vincent.

Vincent, how did they get you?

They didn't get anything out of me.

Did they work you over, too?

What are you talking about?

Come on, you can level with me.

About what?

What kind of a... I get it.

Somebody's listening.

Is there some way we can notify intelligence?

This could blow the whole operation.

If they put two and two together...

I

think they heard enough, don't you?

They won't believe it.

Don't bet your life on that, Vincent.

That's pretty much what I'm doing, isn't it?

Not just yours.

You'd better pray that I find some way to get out of here.

I don't know how long my people will wait before they blow this place up, but

they will.

And your government will be blamed for it.

I think you know what'll happen then.

The gate.

Two police officers from Point Pleasant.

The deputy ambassador will see you.

Please, sit down.

Did Bork believe what he overheard on that bugging device?

Yes.

Perhaps because he wants to.

I wonder if he'd believe that after I found that microphone, Sandra's told me

the truth. Unless he's released soon, his people are going to blow this place

sky high.

Do you believe it?

Yes, I do.

They have to keep their presence here a secret.

Now, you must talk Bork into either turning him over or releasing him.

I can't talk the deputy ambassador into anything, Mr. Vincent.

I'm with the board in it here.

Mr. Bork is a nervous man.

A very careful man.

He may not know exactly what he has here, but whatever it is, is more than

wants to deal with.

The ultimate weapon?

Creatures created to do America's bidding?

Outer space people here to do God knows what?

No. He's just going to sit tight, do nothing, and wait for someone else to

a decision.

That's great.

That's just great.

The book dragged me off my job, brought me here to find out what I had to say,

yawned in my face, locked me up.

What sense does it make?

Eleven years ago, there was a girl raising chickens on a collective farm.

She did well in the science exam, so they sent her to a university.

It cost them seven years and a small fortune to turn her into a scientist for

them to disregard.

What sense does that make?

We can try to change the deputy ambassador's mind, Mr. Vincent, and I

But failing that, we have no alternative but to follow him.

To the grave?

I wish you'd join me, gentlemen.

Leo could send down for sandwiches in no time at all.

I'm afraid we have no time, Mr. Ambassador.

And you don't drink on duty.

That is one of the present prerogatives of diplomacy.

Some of our hardest work is done at cocktail parties.

Mr. Bork, the man we're looking for is blonde, medium height, about 35 years

old. You might call him handsome.

Goes by the name of Sanders.

He was seen in this area. We think he's hiding somewhere in the compound.

Gentlemen, would it be rude if I asked to see your credentials?

As a matter of fact, we did have some trouble here last night. Someone tried

break into our safe right over there.

The alarm went off, but by the time we got there, the thief had gone.

Right out that window.

Did you see him?

No.

Why didn't you call headquarters?

Nothing was stolen.

Privacy is very important here.

You mind if we have a look around?

You understand, gentlemen, this is a foreign embassy.

It's for your own protection, Mr. Bork.

Of course.

And I appreciate your interest.

Thank you.

Mr. Bork, what's upstairs?

Living quarters.

You're welcome to check them if you like.

Let's start in the basement.

Gentlemen, this is an embassy.

And there's such not American territory.

I was willing to be courteous, but I really must... Downstairs.

Who are you?

There is no one in there.

It's only a storeroom.

Why do you ask?

Just answer the question, Mr. Vincent.

Have you ever seen one die?

Yes. What happens? They incinerate.

How long does it take?

Not long at all.

Do they leave any residue?

A trace of ash or soot? Why?

They were made in one of your biological warfare projects.

Couldn't they be designed to burn up the same way so as to leave no evidence?

No. Why not?

They can be built, they can be destroyed.

Any way you want.

We can't build them.

Mr. Vincent, I'm sorry I locked you up. Then let me go. Let Sanders go right

now. I've got to know the truth.

I've got to be sure.

If you want me to tell you again, I'll tell you.

Now listen to me.

In 1944... 1944, I was beginning...

My intelligence work in this country. It was simply not possible in 1944 for

anyone to come up with an atomic bomb in time to affect the outcome of the war.

I went to Alamogordo. I went to Oak Ridge. I personally collected all the

evidence. I studied it, and then I reported to my government.

Not possible.

Not possible.

Do you know how I felt August 6th, 1945?

5 .30 in the afternoon when I heard on the radio that word, Hiroshima.

I won't bore you with the cost of that marvelous piece of misjudgment on my

part, but I paid it.

Not again.

Never again. I don't want that.

What you are asking me to believe is simply not possible.

I can't blame you for playing this thing safe, but this is not safe.

You can have us all killed.

Supposing you're right. Supposing there's half a chance even that you're

Do you know what they will do to me?

I know.

You don't think I'm a very courageous person, Mr. Vincent.

Are you ready, sir?

Come with us.

It was like a magnesium flare.

Then there was nothing.

They were both gone.

Would you burn up in the same way?

What cause is that?

Go ahead.

Vincent.

What do you make of it?

He's not from this earth.

No chance.

Sanders, is that right?

Go take a flying leap, Jack.

we could notify intelligence.

This could blow the whole operation.

If we put two and two together...

Sanders, where were you made?

If I tell you what happens to me, you stay alive.

Now, where were you made?

Where were you made?

Langley, Virginia.

Nonsense. That's what he wants you to believe.

Look.

I'll tell you anything you want, but first we've got to make a deal.

Any deal that you make, you'll make back in my country.

Get him out of here.

What was he trying to do?

He's trying to kill himself, I think.

Another way of keeping their secret.

Of course, pure oxygen must be fatal to an organism like that.

Mr. Bork, if they were made here, quite obviously, we wouldn't make them

vulnerable to oxygen.

There will be a courier plane tomorrow morning at Kennedy Airport.

You and Sanders will be on it.

Maybe you should welcome that.

My government will help you. At least you won't be alone anymore.

Dr. Seward, I'd like to talk to you alone.

I... Bork may not be entirely wrong.

What?

Alone.

Please.

Wait outside, please.

Doctor, are you sure?

Wait outside.

I don't believe it.

I'm sorry about this, Dr. Seward.

Under no circumstances is it to be moved except by my order.

Vincent's on the grounds.

The gate.

Vincent is free, somewhere in the compound.

Electrify the fence.

Yes, sir.

You're sure they were incinerated? Yes.

What was Mr. Bork's conclusion?

He thinks Sanders is a super weapon made in America.

The animosity that you people feel toward one another is almost beyond

Of course, we'll have to destroy the compound.

I thought your people didn't want to inherit a radioactive world.

The tension in world affairs today, this could cause a nuclear war, a bloodbath.

You have left us no alternative.

How soon will Sanders need regeneration?

Why?

Let him incinerate. If he's gone, so is the evidence.

He has another nine days, Mr. Vincent.

Time enough to reveal him either to their government or to yours.

We cannot take that chance, Mr. Vincent.

No.

I might be able to get him out.

After my men failed?

I know the house, and there's a doctor there who might help me.

I can't take the chance.

Why not?

They won't tell anyone what they've got. Give me until tomorrow morning.

I'll give you two hours.

Until five this afternoon.

That's not enough time. If Sanders is not free by five o 'clock, a helicopter

will be sent to obliterate the compound.

As I told you, Mr. Vincent, there is no alternative.

He must have gone over it. We'll keep searching.

I didn't help him, Peter. I wouldn't do that.

I know that.

There's no harm done.

I still have the one that really counts.

You won't escape, Katrin.

No.

Tell me, what do you really think of your friend, Mr. Vincent, now?

Nobody likes to be made a fool of.

Including me, Katrin.

Now can we do things my way?

Yes.

This man that you say is being held prisoner, he's an American?

No.

No, he's not American.

Well, what is he then, Mr. Vincent?

You've been beating around the bush for five minutes now.

I can understand why Mr. Vincent's hesitant about being specific.

I just called Washington.

He's the man that's been so persistent about the UFOs and alien creatures.

Oh, I see.

And this prisoner is one of those aliens, I suppose.

Yes.

But if you don't believe that, I was a prisoner there.

I'm an American. That makes it your business, doesn't it?

Yes and no.

Technically, the compound is foreign territory.

The only way that we could get in there is for them to ask us for help.

Well, what do you do? Just stand by and let this happen?

I guess we could give them a call.

Don Scare.

Uh, James Royer, security office, State Department.

Security office?

I'm sorry, but the deputy ambassador is not available.

This is important, Mr.

Dansk.

We have reason to believe that the prisoner that you're holding there is a

threat to your safety.

Prisoner? We have no prisoners. This is a diplomatic mission.

Dr. Serrett.

I'm sorry, Mr. Rogers, but Dr. Serrett isn't available either.

I'll tell the deputy ambassador you called.

Well, we gave it a shot, Mr. Vincent.

I've got a meeting.

Sorry.

Uh, just a second, Mr. Vincent.

You know, if you were running at Hialeah, I'd figure you at about 100 to

How would you figure it?

About that.

Well, my partner sticks with the favorites, but I'll tell you something.

I pick just as many winners as he does. Can you stand some company?

You have any thoughts on how we'll get inside?

Not yet.

Funny. Let's get it back from the shop.

No, sit still. I'll fix it. Just take me a second.

The gate.

David Vincent is on the grounds, and he's armed.

Please, listen to me.

Don't scream, don't do anything until you've heard me out. Please.

Don't you want to try and gag me first?

They've given us an ultimatum.

Wonderful. I love ultimatums. Now get out before I call the guard.

Bork has ten minutes to let Sanders go or this entire compound will be bombed

five o 'clock.

That's right, by them.

Now, you've got to tell Borg that right now.

Won't anyone accept responsibility around here?

Quick, don't go out there or they'll shoot you. You'll be killed. I'll take

chances out there rather than being here when it's bombed.

How do we know they're going to bomb us?

They've told me.

Give me one reason why I should believe you.

Just one.

There's one.

The only one I have.

All right, what do you want me to do?

Where's Sanders?

Still in the cellar. Get him up here right now.

I can't. Bock gave orders that he wasn't to be moved.

Then force him.

Do you have a gun?

If you think Sanders and I are working on the same side, in this we are.

Do you have a gun?

Yes.

But I won't commit treason. You have about five minutes to save your country.

What's he doing up there?

Entering our territory, and I'm going to make the strongest possible protest.

Peter, I just saw Vincent.

Where? In the woods. He was running towards the fence.

What do you mean? You spoke to Vincent.

Where? When?

He came to the infirmary.

But you told Joseph.

Peter, that helicopter is going to bomb the compound if you don't let Sanders

go. Who told you that? Vincent?

He risked his life to tell it to me.

It's a bluff, Catherine. Another bluff, just like those two policemen. Not this

time. All right.

If the Americans want to start a war, let them. It is not the Americans. It is

them.

You're trying to play safe and there isn't time.

Now forget 1944.

Take a chance. Commit yourself.

Order Sanders brought up.

That's it.

Committing treason. Have him come up or I'll kill you.

Bring Sanders up to my office.

Hold it right there.

Hands up.

All right, Sanders, I'm going to get you out of here.

Have you executed bullets, Catherine?

I swear I will. I hope we both live long enough.

I'll cover you

Are you all right?

I know next to nothing about biochemistry, but I know a great deal

weapons. No weapon on Earth could have done that.

It appears that in certain particulars you were right, Mr. Vincent.

Thanks. I shall mention the incident in my report.

You know, they might laugh at you.

Man does what he has to do, Catriona, regardless of consequences.

The courier plane taking Bork and the others home is overdue.

Six hours.

Do you think that your aliens are responsible?

Don't you?

Poor Peter.

Just as he was going home to be a man.

Are you planning to go home too?

Yes.

A commercial flight.

Thursday.

Don't take it.

Stay out of sight a few days.

Take a boat.

Or... What?

Stay in this country.

I feel very close to you, David.

But someone has to go back to warn them at home.

Someone has to.

Good luck.

A long and lonely war.

And yet the invaders, seeking to take advantage of the differences between

nations, have provided David Vincent with an ally half a world away.