- An alien hiding in a small Colorado town meets the locals when they ask him to help solve a murder.
- An alien comes to Earth on a mission, but his ship crashes and he's forced to take on human form while searching for the equipment he needs to complete his mission. Taking on the form of a doctor, Harry, the new "Harry" becomes embroiled in the local town's intrigue - and a murder.—Gislef
- In spring, on a lake in Patience Colorado, a man sits on a boat in the line. Sheriff Mike Thompson and Deputy Liv Baker get out of their truck, and Mike asks if it's the "doctor by the lake" everyone is talking about. Liv explains that Dr. Harry Vanderspegle has lived in a cabin by the lake for the last 16 years, and has only stayed there for a week at a time. Last winter, he came in late December and stayed ever since.
They go up to the cabin, and see the boat on the lake. Mike whistles to him, and the "man" turns around to reveal that he's an alien.
The alien pulls the boat ashore and when Mike asks if he's Harry, the alien takes on Harry's face, turns to the two officers, and says that's him. He asks why Mike wants him, and Mike says that there was a murder in town and since Harry is a doctor, they need him to look at the body. They don't have a town doctor because the town doctor is the victim. Harry drives into town, following the officers.
Four Months Ago
"Harry"'s ship crashes on Earth, struck by a lightning bolt. In order to survive and complete his mission, the alien went to the cabin. Inside, the real Dr. Harry Vanderspegle is reading a book, and looks up at the door blows open. He goes over and sees an alien footprint in the snow that blew in. Grabbing a poker, Harry looks around for whoever broke in, and the alien drops down behind him. Harry turns to see it and gasps, and the alien advances on him.
Harry hits the alien with the poker, and it shrugs off the blow and throws him out a window. It comes outside and they struggle, and it extends two tentacles from its chest, chokes Harry, and throws him into the lake below. The alien then goes back into the cabin and takes on Harry's form, moaning in pain as it does so.
Harry spends the next time watching TV and learning human mannerisms and language from "Law and Order". Harry then searches for the equipment on his crashed ship that he needs to complete his mission.
Now
Harry comes into Patience for the first time since he arrived on Earth, and prepares to face his first real test posing as a human. Inside the clinic, Mayor Ben Hawthorne introduces himself to Harry and thanks him for coming. He takes him to the office where the dead doctor is laying. Harry figures the doctor has been dead for at least six hours, going by the smell. The "corpse" comes to life, wonders what's going, and says that she was just sleeping.
Ben points out Dr. Sam Hodges' corpse, over to the side and covered by a sheet. He explains that the woman is Asta Twelvetrees, the nurse, and she found the body that morning. Harry introduces himself and says that Abigail was Sam's wife and she has been out of town. Liv tells him that she gave Abigail her number, so he could tell her that her father died. Asta says that she was the last person to see Sam alive, the previous night when she left. She covered Hodges with a sheet.
Harry examines the body and says that it's "awesome". He's fascinated by a mystery, like one on "Law and Order". He says that it was fun and tells everyone that he knows who killed Hodges: himself, judging from the blood and the angle of the wound. Harry doesn't know why Hodges killed himself.
Ben goes after Harry and tells him that they still need his help. Harry doesn't see why since Ben doesn't have any more dead bodies to show him. The mayor points out that they need to do an autopsy, and the state coroner has been cut off by the snowed-in roads. Ben knows that the real Harry used to run the pathology lab at Rutgers. Harry claims that he was making a job, and the mayor quickly walks off.
A mother is bringing her son Max down the street. Max sees Harry in his alien form, screams, and jumps in his mother's car.
In the morgue, Harry wonders how a human saw though his molecular reconstruction. Only one in a million human have the genetic mutation to do so, and the population of Patience is only 1,000. Asta comes in to assist Harry with the autopsy, and he wonders why she's there. Asta tells Harry that Hodges was her doctor since she was a kid, and she isn't going anywhere until she knows how he died.
Harry tells her to stand to the side and take notes. Asta doesn't trust Harry, and insists that everything indicates Hodges killed himself. She doesn't believe it, and says that she would have stabbed herself in the carotid artery. Harry wonders how he missed that, and performs the autopsy. He removes the organs and sniffs them, and afterward Asta thanks Harry for helping them and says that he did a job. When she compliments him, he says that she's a smarter than a panda and then says that he likes her brown skin.
Taken aback, Asta invites Harry to have a drink. He decides he has to fit in, so goes to have a drink with her. First he cuts Hodges' brain out of his hands and squishes it in his hands. Examining it, Harry thinks the brain is amazing. Abigail comes in and asks where Hodges is.
Later at the bar, Harry tells Asta what happened and that Abigail ran out. Asta says that Hodges' first wife was like a mother to her. Harry doesn't ask her about her childhood, and Asta explains that she married a biker when she was 16, and they split four months ago. Now she's buying Harry dinner because he has a pick-up truck, and she was hoping he'd help her move the rest of her stuff.
The bartender, D'arcy, comes over and says that she'll buy Harry dinner for less than that. Asta introduces her to Harry, and D'arcy is impressed that Harry is a doctor. She asks Asta if they found whoever killed Sam. When Harry asks about the mining equipment mounted on the walls, D'arcy says that it's concerning the 59, and offers a toast to the 59 and whoever killed Hodges. Harry joins in, having no idea what they're toasting. He gags on the local whiskey, and says that it's awful but he wants more. When he wonders why, D'arcy says that it's because he's bad and she likes bad boys.
They continue drinking, and they start dancing to the music in the bar. A surprised Harry joins in, and Asta and D'arcy cheer him on as the other bar patrons join in. Afterward, Asta asks Harry to meet her at the clinic at 10 the next morning, and rides off on her bike. Harry is happy that he managed to fit in perfectly as a human, then remembers Max seeing him as an alien. He figures that he'll break into Max's home and kill him.
Harry drives to Max's house, recognizing it by the car parked outside that he saw earlier. He takes on his alien form and climbs in through the window of Max's bedroom, and bumps into something. Max wakes up and looks around, but Harry hides and Max goes back to sleep. The alien grabs Max, muzzles him, and says that he's just going to kill him.
Max bites Harry's hand and screams. Harry hides under the bed, and Max's parents come in response to his screams. He says that there's an alien under his bed, and they figure that he's making things up and take him to their bedroom so he can sleep with them. Harry gives Max the finger as his mother takes Max out.
The next morning, the hungover Harry continues searching for his spaceship buried in the snow. He comes to the town mine, with a plaque saying that 59 died to save one.
In Patience, Mike and Liv sit in their car outside the clinic. They hum "Amazing Grace" together until Harry pulls up, and then Mike goes over and Liv says that Mike thinks Harry stole Hodges' body. Asta comes out, and Harry says that of course he took Hodges' body... and buried him in the snow behind the alley because he wouldn't fit in the freeze.
Jay arrives and says that she's done with the intake forms. Harry notes that she has a fly on her neck, and she irritably says that it's a birthmark, and he's a douchebag As Harry drives Asta to her house to help her move, she says that letting Jay help out at the clinic keeps her off the streets. Asta warns Harry that the town has an underbelly, and that's why she helps kids like Jay.
They arrive at Asta's house, and Harry stays in the truck. Once Asta goes in, Harry looks up what "douchebag" means and is shocked by the images. He then goes inside and notices a picture of a buck on the wall. Asta explains that Indians believe the buck protects people from everything. Once they're done, Asta thanks Harry for helping her move. Her ex-husband Jimmy is waiting, and figures that Harry is Asta's "new man". She insists that Harry isn't, and they just work at the clinic together. Jimmy tells Harry to go home while he and Asta catch up.
Harry says that isn't what Asta had in mind. Jimmy reveals the gun in his belt, and Asta tells Harry to go. He leaves, and she goes inside with Jimmy. Harry gets in his truck and drives off, figuring that Asta isn't his problem, and he should stay focused on his mission. Despite that, Harry goes back.
Parking in the house driveway, Harry goes up to the door and listens. Jimmy is complaining that she's making him look stupid. Harry smashes through the wall, pulls Jimmy out, and chokes him. Asta runs out and pulls Harry away, telling him that it's not worth it. Harry releases Jimmy and walks away, and Asta kicks Jimmy in the side, cursing him.
Harry drives into the woods with Asta, and stops the truck. She asks if he's going to tell him how he pulled Jimmy through a wall, and Harry claims "yoga". He asks why she wanted to come out there, and Asta removes her show and walks off in the snow to the edge of a cliff with a view of the mountains. Harry joins her, and Asta says that she's always been an outsider and figures Harry is as well because he's different. She knows what that feels like, and sometimes just feeling human is alien to her.
Harry agrees, and wonders why she would marry Jimmy. Asta admits that she doesn't know, and says that she got pregnant when she was 16. Jimmy convinced her to give the child up for adoption, and Jimmy always reminded her that she did the right thing. Asta felt like if she left Jimmy, she gave the baby up for nothing. Four months ago, Asta had enough, drove off, and never came back. She goes back to the truck, leaving Harry to look at the mountains.
Later, the townspeople gather for Hodges funeral. Harry arrives and approaches Ben, and asks why everyone is calling him and thinks he's the new town doctor. Ben says that it's the townspeople's right to have medical care, and he had therapy sessions with Hodges and wants to have the same therapy with Harry.
After Ben leaves, Asta comes over and tells Harry that he's a breath of fresh air. Harry gets an idea, goes to the coffin, and opens it. Asta tries to pull him away, and Harry sniffs the body and tells Asta that he has to check the body now.
Asta pulls him away, and Harry says that Hodges cut at his throat because he needed air. He tried to give himself a tracheotomy, but couldn't do it in time. Asta wonders why Hodges would have his throat close up, and Harry says that he was poisoned and one of the mourners is his killer.
Four Months Ago
The alien's mission was to drop the device on Earth and head back home. At the same time, Asta stormed out of her house, found her car keys in the snow, and saw the spaceship pass overhead. When Jimmy comes out over Asta, she gets in her car and drives off. Crying, she finally stops the car and sees a buck on the road behind her
Now
The next day, Harry learns that when the mine caved in, one man was trapped. Fifty-nine went back in and died trying to save him.
Harry finds part of his mission,, marked "Full Extinction Event", and figures that when he finds the rest of it, he can kill all of the humans.
Later, Harry goes to his clinic. Asta puts his new doctor's coat on him and tells him that he has a patient in the waiting room. Harry goes in and discovers that it's Max, who screams when he sees Harry as an alien.
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