- An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
- Architect David Vincent, too long without sleep, takes a side road in search of coffee. But Bud's Diner is closed and so Vincent does the only other thing he can: settles in for a nap. An hour later, at 5:00am, a ruddy glow awakens him. He sees the very unexpected: a space vessel landing nearby! Vincent races off to summon the authorities, but when he returns the dilapidated sign reads "Kelly's Diner" and the ship - if that's what it was - is nowhere around. The authorities dismiss his story by Vincent believes in what he saw, and sets out to find proof.—CommanderBalok
- After driving for more than ten hours, architect David Vincent is lost after taking a shortcut and finds a place to have some coffee. However, Bud's Diner is derelict and closed, and Vincent decides to take a nap. Soon he wakes up with a glow and sees a spaceship landing on the nearby field. Vincent drives to the Sheriff Lou Carver's office and reports the events to the Sheriff and Police Lt. Ben Holman. His friend and partner Alan Landers also arrives at the station, and Vincent convinces them to go with him to the spot. However, the place now indicates "Kelly's Diner" and they find two campers, the couple Brandon in honeymoon, that contradict Vincent. He notes that their small finger is longer. The police discredit Vincent's statement and he returns to the place to question Brandon. They fight, Vincent is knocked out and awakes in a mental institution, where a group of nurses try to kill him. However, Lt. Holman and Landers arrive and take him home. When his house is arson, Vincent receives from Landers the address of the Brandons in Kinney. He heads to the small town with a hydro-electric plant, where he meets the widow hotel keeper Kathy Adams. Now he will search evidence of the alien invasion.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- One night, on a lonely road, a young architect named David Vincent has a close encounter with a spaceship. He gives his story to the police, but they don't believe him. Even David's close friend has trouble accepting the wild tale. David is forced to investigate the matter on his own. His search for the truth leads him to a pair of supposed newlyweds; but the man's strange hands and glowing skin give him away. Later, David ends up in a small town that is being bought out by mysterious buyers. Most disturbing is the town's hydroelectric plant, which proves to be the storehouse for some strange clear tubes large enough to encircle a human form.—J. Spurlin
- Architect David Vincent is driving down the highway, looking for a shortcut on his way back from a business trip. He sees a sign up ahead for a diner, and heads there for coffee. David finds the diner closed and pulls over to get some sleep. A light shines down, waking David up, and he looks out to see a flying saucer landing nearby.
The next day, David drives to the sheriff's office and reports to Lt. Ben Holman what he saw. Holman clearly doesn't believe David's claim. David's partner Alan Landers arrives in response to David's call and confirms that David was on a business trip. David refuses to go home until Landers does something about what he saw. Holman humors the architect, who insists that Holman do something.
Holman, David, Landers, and Sheriff Lou Carver drive to the diner, and the name has changed. David gets out, sees no sign of the saucer, and examines the sign. He then points out where the saucer landed, but there's no sign of it. David walks into the nearby wood and finds a couple shooting at birds. The others come over and Holman confirms the couple were there all night. The man, John Brandon, points out their cabin and says that he and his wife just married, and David notices the man's deformed finger. Brandon says that they have been camped there two days, and Holman asks if they saw anything unusual. They say that they were awake and saw nothing, Brandon gives Holman his driver's license as identification, and agrees to stay in the vicinity for a couple of days even though Brandon claims that they were going to leave but will be glad to stay.
Holman and the others leave. That night, David dries back to the camper and asks Mrs. Brandon if they changed the sign. Mr. Brandon comes over and tells David to go away, and David tells him to take off his gloves. Brandon refuses and punches David, and the two men struggle. Brandon picks up a rock and prepares to smash David's head in, and Brandon's skin glows. He staggers back to the camper, gets in, and drives at David.
Davis wakes up in a hospital bed, and the nurse tells him that the truck sideswiped him. The nurse gives him pills to help go back to sleep, and he notices that there's a band on his wrist saying his name is "Arthur Gordon", He lashes out at the nurse, figuring she's one of "them". David gets out of bed and tries to go out in the hallway, and an orderly grabs the architect and wrestles him into the bed. The nurse prepares a syringe, and David breaks free and runs out into the hallway. The nurse, the orderly, and two others orderlies close in on him. They grab him, and Holman, Landers, and another doctor arrive as David passes out.
The next day, David is put in a wheelchair and wheeled out with the other patients. Landers comes over and says that he put David in a smaller hospital, and gave him a phony name to avoid attention. He tries to tell David but they had him too heavily sedated. When Landers mentions David's accident, David has no idea what his partner is talking about. Landers explains that Holman said David's car went off the road and David was thrown clear. David insists that isn't what happened, and Landers ignores him and gives David some magazines he brought for him. David says that the Brandons are some kind of alien beings, but Larson says that it's over and they'll talk about it when he picks up David that evening. David wheels himself in, and an elderly woman with a deformed woman watches him.
That night, Landers picks David up and gives him the Brandons' address in the little town of Kinney, that he got from Holman. Landers drops David off at home and says that he wants to believe his partner, and David goes inside. David lies on his bed, dozes off, and wake up to discover the room is on fire. He says the elderly woman on the other side of the flames, peering at him. When David looks away, the woman disappears. He manages to climb out the balcony, and the firemen help him away. He tells the firemen about the woman, but the firemen went inside say they found no trace of anyone.
The nest day, David drives to Kinney and finds the town apparently deserted. David walks down the street and goes to a hotel with a "No Vacancy" sign up. The owner, Kathy Adams, is working in the yard and asks David if she can help him. He asks where everyone is, and Kathy says that Kinney doesn't have much population and the hotel isn't open to the public right now. David asks about the Brandons, But Kathy hasn't heard of them and says that they might be clients of Mr. Kogan, the head of the investment group that is buying up the town to turn it into a retirement community.
Kathy invites David in to check the register for the Brandon's name. Sheriff Lou Carver comes in and introduces himself, and says that the Brandons probably moved away after the state closed down the nearby hydroelectric plant. Kathy admits that she sold out her property after her husband died, and is staying on as a caretaker until the investment group takes over.
David and Kathy go outside, and Kathy admits that she doesn't know what the group members do when they come down there. She says that there's a river and wooded lake nearby. David thanks Kathy for her help and leaves.
Lou calls Holman but discovers he's outside, and tells Holman's assistant that the "psycho" showed up there. Lou drives through the town, and David hides under the bridge across the lake. He sees Lou drive to a gate at the hydroelectric plant, which is posted against trespassers. After Lou checks the gate and leaves, David slips past the gate and breaks into the plant. Inside, the architect sets off a sensor, which sets off an alarm warning a group that someone is in the plant. A group of men take a truck to Kinney.
David continues exploring the plant, and finds alien machinery. It glows when he tries to touch it, and a tube descends from the ceiling, and David runs out to the gate and leaves the way he came. He runs across the bridge into Kinney and sees Lou at the gas station. David ducks out of sight and goes into a coffee shop, and asks the owner Kemper if he has a telephone that works. Kemper directs David to a payphone, and David calls Landers and tells him that he thinks he's found proof and asks Landers to drive up there Davis days that he needs one witness, and Landers tells his partner that he'll be up as soon as he can.
Kathy comes to the shop and finds David drinking a pop. She introduces Kemper and the two women dancing, and says they're the last three holdouts against the investment group's offer. Kathy also says that Lou is looking for David, but already checked out the coffee shop and it will be a while before he come back again. David notices that Kathy's finger is fine, and confirms that Lou started in Kinney about the same time the Kogan people started buying up the town. He wonders if Kathy is bothered by what Lou said about him, and she says that before his husband died, he said that he saw something. The husband died of a heart attack, and Kathy doesn't want to talk about what her husband said. David gets her to sit down with her.
Kathy sits down with David, and he says that he thinks the aliens uses the tubes to regenerate themselves. He figures the aliens are trying to get a beachhead in Kinney, and there's no telling what other towns they've bought up. Kathy agrees to go with David to the plant and see the tubes. He tells Kathy to tell her Aunt Sara at the hotel to meet Landers, and have him meet David there without Lou finding out.
Lou goes to the hotel and tells Sara to stall David if he comes back. Sara is the elderly woman from David's apartment.
That night, Landers drives to Kinney.
Kathy and David wait at the coffee shop, and Kemper leaves for the night. David asks if her husband was cut off from everything, the same that is happening to him. Kathy says that it was, and David suggests that the aliens killed her husband and made it look like a heart attack. David figures the aliens don't want to draw attention to him by killing him.
Someone tries the door, and David and Kathy duck down. The person outside goes away, and David insists that Landers will be there.
Landers pull into town, then screeches to a halt at Sara steps out in front of him. He brakes, and she tells him David told her to tell Landers that David would meet him at the power station and Landers should park his car at the hotel and proceed on foot.
At the shop, Kathy tells David that Landers won't come. Nobody wanted to hear what her husband had to say, and wonders what is in the world that is so special. She tells David that he still has time, and turns on the jukebox on loud. When David shuts it off so he can hear Landers' car, Kathy tells him that she turned the jukebox on to wake him up, and he shouldn't waste his life listening for cars that will never come. She says that some of them have learned how to avoid the finger deformation. When David starts to go, Kathy tells him to stop and that it's going to happen no matter what he does and he shouldn't fight them. David runs out in horror.
David goes to the hotel and finds Landers' car. He calls to Landers but gets no answer and runs to the plant as Sara watches him. Lou cuts David off on the bridge and tries to calm the architect down, then grabs David and restrains him.
Landers enters the plant and sees the workers moving the tubes. He backs away but the workers surround him and then lead Landers away. They take him to one of the machines and lower a tube down on him. Landers screams and the tube glows with light.
David breaks free, punches Lou, and runs to the plant. The truck is pulling away, and David finds Larson's corpse nearby. Lou walks up and assumes David killed Larson, and clubs David unconscious. Kemper, Sara, and other townspeople run up. Kathy watches as Lou and two of the townspeople load David into Lou's car.
The next morning, Lou takes David to the sheriff's office. Holman arrives and Holman tells David that Landers would still be alive, and there's no evidence at the power plant. The coroner has confirmed that Landers died of a heart attack, and Holman tells Lou to let David goes. David says that he won't be back because there's no reason to, and tells Holman that he can find evidence if Holman will help him. Holman says that David should let it end there, and David says that he wishes he could. As David drives out of town, Brandon watches him go.
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