We probe into Straker's personal life as he spends time with his young son John. Straker makes out he really is a film producer as John spends a day on a film set, not a secret UFO combat organisation.
When he takes John home, it is obvious that Straker is divorced, it was his turn to have his son for the day and is now returning John to his mother. It seems his ex wife Mary is married to someone else. This seems to have come as a surprise to Straker. It seems neither John or the ex wife has told Straker of this other man and that John now has his stepfather's surname. So Mary has not told Straker of a lot of important things regarding their son.
All I can say is that Mary is a horrid woman. Straker is standing by his car so John can pop into the house and show his dad a model boat something before he goes. Instead Mary tells Straker to leave. As he goes off in his car, John goes chasing after his dad, Mary does little to stop him and John gets run over by another car.
Seriously injured in hospital, it seems John is allergic to antibiotics but there is some experimental antibiotics in American but it needs to get here fast. Straker orders a SHADO craft to bring some over. As an aside most people in the world are allergic to things like Penicillin which is why there are other types of antibiotics available.
Back at SHADO an alien spacecraft is going too fast and crashes somewhere in Ireland. Straight out of Frankenstein, the alien goes knocking on a remote house where he is met by an elderly blind lady. She thinks she has let in a strange quiet man not an alien. Of course it is a bit weird to think why did this lady open the door at that time of night in the first place.
Straker being the distant stoic type does not even tell Freeman the tragedy that has befallen him. A big mistake as Freeman diverts the SHADO craft that was delivering the antibiotics to Ireland.
I feel conflicted by this episode in some ways it is raw but it is also a really hokey piece of television. An alien with bad make up who can now breath in Earth's environment. The house of a blind woman with her parrot with a stranger doing something strange inside. The bit where she dials the phone was bewildering, then again how did the alien know what a phone was?
Then there is the awkward new husband who does and say very little. A horrid ex wife and a really miserable ending which would have left the kids confused as to what kind of show this was. I can only think that in some ways the episode was reflecting issues in the Andersons marriage.