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If we're going to have any kind of a honeymoon, Sam,

these early morning calls have got to go.

Steady, Doc.

When we get back, I'll pour you a tranquilizer.

Don't "Doc" me, Doc.

Anyway, I have nothing to say for a physician

who's so jealous of the competition

he has to ask her to marry him.

Come here and shut up.

Maria, call the highway patrol.

Then come help me.

One-eight-A, eight-six-one-one.

One-eight-A...

Don't try to move. I'm a doctor.

I'm-I'm okay.

Uh, just get me out of here.

What were you doing driving like that?

My brakes went out, I guess.

Look, I'm all right.

Just help me to get out of here.

Please, just hold still.

Don't touch me!

Don't be a fool. You'll kill yourself.

Sam, watch out!

Sam?

Sam?!

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:

Nan Martin... Harry Townes... Ron Hayes...

Joe Maross.

Carterville, Wyoming.

Once a processing center for local copper mines--

Now a relic.

Population: 1,216.

Principal features:

The Laramie Mountains on the south,

the North Platte River on the north.

Principal industry: Contemplation of the past.

In its 71 years, Carterville has had only four murder cases.

The latest, committed by a member of an alien race,

will never be recorded in the history books.

I want to talk to him... now.

Not until he sees his lawyer, Will.

We're not going to make any mistakes with this one.

You owe me a favor from the campaign, now don't you forget it.

Well, you should've backed the competition.

I'm not much with favors.

Sheriff?

His name's Vincent.

He's been here for half an hour

and he wants to see Manners.

Are you his lawyer?

No, I'm not.

What is it you're selling?

The reason he killed the doctor...

And it's free.

I accept the gift.

I want to see him first.

The picture in the paper wasn't clear.

I'd like to be sure.

What is he to you?

He once tried to kill me.

Mind if I see your I.D.?

I take it you're in no hurry.

He isn't going anywhere.

In a couple of days, he's going up in smoke.

I'd like someone to see it when he does.

Look, Vincent, I hate to upset you

but I have a murder case to protect

and I'm not going to let you turn it into a circus.

I'm just trying to help you.

Let me see him.

No circus.

Raise your hands.

All right, let's go.

He the one?

Yes.

Why did he kill Dr. Larousse?

He didn't want to be examined.

He has no pulse, no heartbeat.

Check it out.

Hey, Sheriff, who is this character?

Vincent, you're beautiful.

It's a clever approach.

The city papers start screaming:

"Why did they examine him against his will?"

And a clever lawyer to bring in lots of smart testimony...

Look, I don't care if you believe me.

But there's no law against having that prisoner

examined by a recognized doctor.

Why doesn't he have a pulse or a heartbeat, Vincent?

I'll explain that after he's been examined.

Oh, come on now.

That's a pretty wild thing to say.

What is he, some kind of freak?

All right.

He's different because he wasn't born here on Earth.

He's from another planet.

Or he's really a frog waiting to be kissed awake

but a beautiful princess.

Gentlemen, if you'll excuse me.

The man has no pulse and no heartbeat.

Two days, three at the most,

he's going up in flames.

I don't know whether to run you out of town

or lock you up.

Just let me use the telephone.

I have to call Captain Taft at the air base.

You can use mine, Vincent.

Will...

Nope. I'd like to hear more about this.

A little color never hurt a story.

Will, don't forget who your friends are.

My friends wouldn't let me interview the prisoner.

They can't do much about me interviewing a stranger.

After you, sir.

Sheriff!

Hey, hey, Sheriff!

What do you want, Manners?

My lawyer.

I want to call my lawyer now.

Stick your hands out.

You know, that guy Vincent...

He's the one that ought to be locked up.

You can use my cell.

Right there.

Sheriff, I, uh...

I want to talk to my lawyer... not you.

Manners?

Yeah.

Now, look, you've got to get me out of here now. Right now.

They got an Air Force captain on the way.

Which base is he from?

What planet's he from?

I don't know.

Well, what's he doing in this part of the country?

I don't know that, either.

Well, look, you're not trying hard enough, Vincent.

You got to use your imagination a little.

Your phone, please.

You cooperate with me and I'll cooperate with you.

Make you a big man.

Pictures, wire services...

Captain Taft.

Captain, this is David Vincent calling.

You told me if I ever "caught one"

I should give you a call.

Well, I'm calling.

Now, don't hang up yet.

Regulation 33-6 of the UFO manual says

you've got to check it out.

Well, thanks for telling me.

Where are you, Vincent?

Yes, I know where it is.

I'll be there.

I've always been a book man, Corporal,

but there are some regulations I just don't understand.

Call the motor pool, have them send a car over.

I'm going to help you anyway, Vincent.

There's another doctor in this town... Maria McKinley.

She was engaged to marry Sam Larousse.

Ordinarily, she wouldn't touch

the man that killed him with a ten-foot pole.

It wouldn't even be right to ask her.

But in the interest of science...

In the interest of selling papers.

I'm going to get her to listen to his heartbeat,

check his pulse.

That doesn't worry you, does it?

No.

Good.

You help yourself to coffee.

I'll get right on it.

What do you know about this, uh, Vincent, sir?

Only that he'll do anything at all

to get his name in the papers.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman.

You mean he just picks up the phone and calls you?

That takes a lot of gall, Captain.

That it does, Sergeant.

Enough gall to be divided into three parts.

Hello, Maria.

I'm sorry to bother you.

Will, what do you want?

Well, there's something going on

that I think you ought to know about, Maria.

I think that the dignity of Sam's memory

is in jeopardy.

Will... if you want me to cry or swear

or throw you out of here,

just so you can get a nice, juicy paragraph

in Sam's obituary... Maria...

there is a man in town

over in Gordon's office right this minute

who says that Sam was killed by a spaceman.

A spaceman?

Without any heartbeat or any pulse.

I wouldn't lie to you, Maria,

especially not at a time like this.

All right.

What do you want me to do about it?

Well, I think it would help stop these stories

if a doctor examined Manners,

as painful as that would be.

Prove the fellow's lying.

And I think Sam would approve, too.

Will, you could no more know Sam's mind

than the man in the moon.

Good to meet you, Mr. Clemens.

Glad to meet you, Captain.

There, uh... ought to be a law.

Well, if there were a law,

I'd have locked him up by now.

Well, Captain, I'm glad we're finally getting to meet.

Briefly, and for the last time.

If you'll go ahead with your demonstration,

I'd like to get back for lunch.

Well, first of all, we need a doctor.

Amen.

You choose a doctor.

This is a two-doctor town, Vincent.

One was murdered, the other was his fiancée.

She saw it happen

and I'm not about to ask her.

You're the man with the story.

Dr. McKinley.

I wish I could have told you in my own way.

It wouldn't have mattered.

You see, I don't believe

you've come here out of delusion or paranoia

or anything like that.

You're his friend

and you've come to help him.

No, Doctor, I want to have him examined.

If I'm wrong, you'll tell me

and I'll take your word for it and leave.

Why... Why are you doing this?

What are you going to get out of it?

He's making fools of you.

He'll have people laughing

so hysterically at him and at you,

it'll make Sam's death a farce.

You better resolve this, Doctor,

or Mr. Hale will make a Roman circus out of it.

Uh, Maria, I'll call the coroner at the county office.

Why don't you go on home.

Sorry to wipe out your story, Will.

You got me wrong, Gord.

Gordon, do you want me to do this?

No, Maria.

I mean, would it help?

Does he have to be examined?

Well, I don't know any other way

to get rid of Vincent.

Look, Maria, I'm... I'm walking a tightrope

to prevent a mistrial or a change of venue.

We just have to be very careful.

Well, let's get it over with.

All right, Captain.

Sergeant, get my report forms

from the car, will you?

Yes, sir.

Not you, Will.

Mr. Hale says he has no pulse or heartbeat.

That's true.

Let's get it over with.

He doesn't seem to like the idea.

He is afraid.

I'm curious myself now.

Stand still, Manners,

or we'll have to put the handcuffs on you.

Manners, you can't make it!

We have no choice, Clements.

Until this thing is cleared up,

I've got to see that what happened

is kept inside the town.

I'm declaring martial law.

Well, what'll that do except spread the hysteria?

There won't be hysteria if you handle it right.

Keep the people in their homes...

No public gatherings.

Gladys, an emergency's been declared.

I want you to close the switchboard

to all out-of-town calls.

Yeah, yeah.

Pull the plugs on every line except this one.

Yes, yes. Right now.

I'll have my deputy spread the word.

Jim?

Fine. Now I'd like to call the air base.

Sit down.

Captain Taft here.

Get me UFO Investigation.

What's wrong?

This is a red call.

The Vincent report was a flashing red.

I'll handle it from here.

What do you suggest?

Full investigation squad, full shut-off, no news... the works.

Yes.

I'm taking measures to keep the news from spreading.

I consider this an emergency.

You can't cut off news just like that.

I didn't do it "just like that."

I declared martial law first.

Well, this is important, Captain.

This is wire service bulletin banner head news.

It'll make this town when the AP and UPI get it.

What you mean, Hale, is it'll make you.

You saw it happen, you took the pictures, you wrote the copy.

You're thinking only of you.

Now, be nice, or I'll suggest to the sheriff

that you're breaking the law.

All right, come on, break it up.

Break it up. Let's go.

How many are there, mister?

Say, where do these people come from?

How come you know so much about them? What do they want?

Look, the Air Force is on top of it now.

Everything's going to be all right.

Doctor...

What is it, Mr. Vincent?

Well, I came to say that I'm sorry

you had to be put through so much.

Thank you.

I didn't know Dr. Larousse...

but his death was important.

It's going to let the world know...

Please stop it, Mr. Vincent.

This... cheap joke of yours is in horrible taste.

I don't know how you did it,

but Manners will be caught again

and executed, and you'll be punished

for helping him escape.

Doctor, Manners is dead.

You can fool all the people in this town

all the time, Mr. Vincent

and you obviously have, but...

I'm a doctor, and I know

what is and is not scientifically possible.

But you've seen the pictures.

You've talked to people who were there.

Please. I'm sorry.

I don't want to talk anymore.

Sam's funeral is in an hour.

I just wish you'd come.

I just wish you'd see for yourself

how important he was to this town.

How loved he was.

I will be there.

And then maybe you'll have the decency

to end this hoax.

Out of all the sick he healed,

not one came.

He loved this town.

He devoted his life to it.

And not one person came.

They're afraid.

They've seen something.

Something you refuse to see.

I came here to speak to a full congregation

about my... friend, Sam Larousse

and the town he loved.

Everyone knew of the funeral?

Maria?

I simply don't understand this. I...

May God have mercy on all of us.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

"I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

"He leadeth me beside the still waters.

"He restoreth my soul.

"He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil, for Thou art..."

"Thy..."

"For Thou art...

Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me."

The dam! It's going!

The dam! The dam! The dam! The dam!

No, wait a minute.

What's that about the dam?

There's a crack in it clear to the top,

and the water's starting to come through.

Did you hear that? About the dam?

I heard, Will.

The earthquake must have put that crack in it.

You going to do anything about it?

That's what I get paid for.

Well, what? What are you going to do about it?

What about the electricity going off?

Our phones, our radios, the cars?

Just settle down.

I'll get us some help.

You people were told to stay at home.

Everybody else is following orders.

I expect you to do the same.

We'll let you know what's happening.

Jimmy, get your brother.

Get out of town any way you can.

Bring back the Army, the state police, anybody.

Jimmy... Don't let me down.

Captain?

I was just curious.

Why didn't you come here two days ago, when I called you?

I told you. I was busy then.

What have you done to Captain Taft?

Are you insane?

I am Captain Taft.

I never called two days ago.

Oh, yes, it had to be.

The power failure...

the earthquake...

and you're the only new face in town.

What are you doing here?

Cutting them off from the outside world.

Keeping them here so they can't spread the word.

You can't cut off communications forever.

What are you doing here?

They know the truth, Mr. Vincent.

I'm only doing what I have to do.

No.

Not the whole town.

You're not going to murder the whole town...

They've got guns.

Pistols.

I don't care who they are.

If they can hit us at this range, good luck to them.

I'm going up there.

Who are you?!

There must be another way.

You just can't wipe out a whole town.

No other way.

The people believe; you saw to that.

Look, it's too big a risk.

You'll draw too much attention.

We're not looking forward to it, Vincent.

If it'll make you feel better,

I'll have my accounting to do...

for bungling Manners' escape.

I'll pay for that.

And how do you murder a thousand people?

A harmless mist will put them to sleep.

My people, unaffected by the mist,

will escape before the flood hits.

A natural disaster.

Look, you don't want to kill them.

There'd be too much talk.

There'd be investigations.

Maybe I can talk them out of it.

This time, they won't believe you.

If I can convince them that there was attempt

to break Manners out of jail.

How you going to explain what happened to him?

Fumes from the gas tank, a flash of fire,

uh, uh... an optical illusion.

I don't know, but it's worth a try for both of us.

What about the electricity going off?

I'll think of something.

Good luck.

How much time do I have?

An hour.

Two at the most.

My people are on their way.

Every living soul?

I knew it was something pretty bad, but that...

that's hard to believe.

I just need one person to believe.

We have to make the rest of the town think

I pulled some stunt to get Manners out of jail.

Then they can be saved.

What do we have to do?

Maria's a doctor, a scientist.

She's respected and she thinks I lied.

If she can convince the rest, then they have a chance.

You're safe for six more hours.

Insulin will last that long unrefrigerated.

And after that?

After that, I'll drive you to Casper.

In what?!

He lied.

The whole thing was a hoax.

Tell her.

Tell me.

All right, he's a friend of mine.

That's not all you told me.

He offered me $500 if I got him out of jail.

I was broke. Try it sometime.

I'm sorry you got involved in this

but, uh, I needed the money.

You won't spend it for ten years, Vincent.

Come on.

Oh, Maria...

Can you think of some way for me to quiet down the town?

Thanks to Will Hale and Vincent here,

they took it all seriously.

They're still jumpy.

I know they are.

You want me to talk to them?

Hale has a handpress that's still working, maybe...

Oh, I hate to ask you to do that.

I'll... I'll do it myself.

Gordon... I'm a doctor.

They trust me.

We'll print up some bulletins

and, and distribute them around town.

Please, I want to do this.

If you think you're up to it.

Sheriff, we're going to pack up our things

and get out of here.

What for?

It's all over, Will.

It was a jailbreak.

Vincent staged it to get Manners out.

Ask him.

What are you trying to do? Get me lynched?

Will.

Maria thought

you might print up a special bulletin,

tell everybody in town what really happened.

She's consented to fill in a few of the facts.

Your paper.

You'd be the one responsible

for bringing this town back to sanity again.

Yeah. Sure.

I'll get on it right away.

Come on, Maria.

It's your baby, Captain.

It's all yours now.

It won't work, Vincent.

Give it a chance.

I will.

This one time, we both want the same thing.

I'm a scientist.

Now, I know it's easy to be fooled

by natural phenomena just because it's...

Well, it's unusual... But don't be.

Don't let yourselves be.

Maria, I saw him burn up.

I took pictures, remember?

An optical illusion.

It's perfectly possible.

What about the earthquake? The dam?

And the electricity going off?

An electrical disturbance.

Baloney.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Do you want to remember Sam's death

as the time you all went mad?

How do you make a fresh battery stop working?

Now, tell me that.

I have a car with just 500 miles on it.

It doesn't work either.

Well, there is a reason.

There has to be a reason.

Just because I don't know what it is...

Maria?

Before God and man, could you be wrong?

Is it possible you could be wrong?

Sheriff?

I'm sorry I let you down, Gord.

We couldn't get out.

What happened?

They're all around us.

They knocked out the bridge,

they're flooding the valley, everything.

They've got this machine out there

that's sucking up all the electricity.

We can't get out of here.

Why did you lie to us, Maria?

I didn't mean to lie, Reverend.

I didn't think it could be.

I didn't see how it was poss... possible.

Hey, look!

Detail, halt.

At ease.

What's going on here? What's wrong?

Our trucks lost power just outside of town.

Yeah. We're in the same fix.

Electricity's off,

all our cars have stopped...

He's your superior.

You've had your chance.

Now, please, don't cause any more alarm

until it's over.

The people are more serene now.

It will be better for them

and better for us if it stays that way.

Cooperate and I'll let you live.

Sure, you will.

There's got to be a better way for both of us.

That's not my decision anymore, and it's certainly not yours.

There's too much to explain.

Why can't you make them forget it happened?

That's not possible.

Well, try.

Hypnotize them.

No.

Eventually, they'd replay the day in their minds.

It would happen the same way.

Not even mind drugs could do it.

I've ordered preparations.

Ten minutes more.

You'll have a great many questions to answer

when it's over.

David.

How much time do we have?

What do you mean?

No more acting, David.

You fooled me this afternoon.

No more.

A few minutes, I guess.

I'm sorry if I said things... No, no.

If only there were something I could do.

If I could organize the men we could to resist somehow.

No, I know these people.

There'd be panic and bloodshed.

Just leave them alone.

For everyone else,

time stopped at 1:00 this afternoon.

For me it stopped yesterday.

Only Sam counted.

Today never happened.

Good-bye, David.

Good-bye.

Look, there might be a way.

Now, you said turning back the clock through hypnosis

was impossible

because the events would repeat themselves

exactly as they were.

But you can go back to Monday...

Make it happen again, but differently.

Change one element... and you can change the outcome.

I'll be that element.

Carterville, and all the human souls within it,

hear this voice.

Obey this voice.

This voice communicates to and commands you

for as long as you hear it.

To the town square, you will bring every last item

you have acquired since 9:00 this morning...

Every item... every paper, every letter, every memory,

every thought, every artifact...

Everything since 9:00 this morning.

People will come and ask you about a radio silence

which lasted for a day.

You will tell of an unusual magnetic disturbance

which will be spoken of for years.

Certain things will have changed.

The road bridge collapsed in an earthquake.

You will remember the sound of it.

Tomorrow, at 9:00 in the morning, you will awaken.

You will have lost one whole day but you will not realize it.

Everything will be as I have said.

Go now to where you were at 9:00 this morning,

for that is where you will begin tomorrow.

I want to talk to him... now.

Not till he sees his lawyer, Will.

We're not going to make any mistakes in this one.

You owe me a favor from the campaign now, don't you forget it.

Will, you should've backed the competition.

I'm not much with favors.

Sheriff?

His name's Vincent.

He's been here for half an hour

and he wants to see Manners.

Are you his lawyer?

No, I'm not.

What is it you're selling?

The reason he killed the doctor.

And it's free.

I accept the gift.

I want to see him first.

The picture in the paper wasn't clear.

I'd like to be sure.

What is he to you?

He once tried to kill me.

Mind if I see your I.D.?

All right.

Raise your hands.

Let's go.

No. I'm sorry to trouble you, Sheriff.

I've never seen him before in my life.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

"I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

"He leadeth me beside the still waters.

"He restoreth my soul.

"He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness

"for His name's sake.

"Yea, though I walk through

"the valley of the shadow of death,

"I will fear no evil.

"For Thou art with me.

"Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

"Thou preparest a table before me

"in the presence of mine enemies.

"Thou anointest my head with oil.

"My cup runneth over.

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

"all the days of my life,

"and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Amen."

He was a fine man, Maria.

A credit to his profession and to you

and to this town, too.

It means a lot to hear you say that, Will.

Thank you.

Maria, I feel worse than any man here.

I liked Sam.

I really thought we had the man who...

No, that wasn't the man, Gordon.

I knew the moment I saw him.

You had to let him go.

Yeah. Well, we're raising Cain with the highway patrol.

They brought us the wrong man

and I want to find out why.

Doctor...

I came to pay my respects.

I'm sorry.

I can't place...

Were you a friend of Sam's?

No, I wasn't.

I had heard a great deal about him.

Well, thank you.

It means so much to me that everybody showed up.

It shows how loved Sam really was.

Yes, he was.

Are you sure we haven't met before, mister...?

Vincent. David Vincent.

Yes, I'm sure.

Thank you so much for coming.

Carterville, Wyoming.

Principle industry: Contemplation of the past.

Population: 1,216 people--

All unaware that they have been given back their future.