When the story begins, some pilot (Jack Warden) is flying an old DC-3 to New Mexico. However, the weather is horrible and the plane looks like it's in trouble. As the passengers are tossed about, some equipment falls on one and when his arm is struck, the pilot sees that there's no blood and his flesh looks like plastic! This human had no idea he was transporting aliens to some weird indoctrination center called Midlands Academy in New Mexico.
Naturally, David gets wind of Midlands Academy and he infiltrates it...and finds it's training aliens by using mind control techniques. But to do what? And why the indoctrination? And, when David learns about the pilot, he spends the rest of the episode trying to find him.
While it does seem odd the aliens would rely on a human pilot and a plane already about 30 years old instead of some other form of transportation, it is a very good episode. Paranoid (as you'd hope) and exciting....especially with what they are doing at the indoctrination center! Very much worth your time and very well written.
By the way, it is interesting that Susan Oliver stars as the pilot's wife, as in real life she was a pilot herself. She even flew solo over the Atlantic the same year she made this episode.
Naturally, David gets wind of Midlands Academy and he infiltrates it...and finds it's training aliens by using mind control techniques. But to do what? And why the indoctrination? And, when David learns about the pilot, he spends the rest of the episode trying to find him.
While it does seem odd the aliens would rely on a human pilot and a plane already about 30 years old instead of some other form of transportation, it is a very good episode. Paranoid (as you'd hope) and exciting....especially with what they are doing at the indoctrination center! Very much worth your time and very well written.
By the way, it is interesting that Susan Oliver stars as the pilot's wife, as in real life she was a pilot herself. She even flew solo over the Atlantic the same year she made this episode.
