Do they just ask ChatGPT to come up with random sci-fi-sounding titles or what?
What IMDb identifies as V-tail 1954 Beechcraft E35 Bonanza s/n D-3882, registration N3218C
It appears to still exist, owned by an individual in Santa Ana, although different sources say the registration expired in 2017 or 2018. It's not listed in the Movie Plane Database.
the second alien imposter (William Talman, having given up law after 225 straight defeats)
Vincent needs to hire Perry as his lawyer. That would make short work of
Them. "Paul, I want you to get me all the information you can about Zeta Reticuli."
security chief Harry Swain (James Whitmore)
Legendary character actor.
Barney Phillips, who also has experience as a diner-running alien
The Venusian! Got it right this time. I think.
metallurgist Diane Oberly (Susan Strasberg)
Frequent flyer in genre shows and movies.
Farley has done a check on David and exposes him as a "full-time, dedicated crackpot," which causes Richards to turn Vincent away.
Probably should have checked him out before this.
Giving off strong signals of romantic tension, Diane comes out to see David in the hall as he's leaving
Girls just can't resist a full-time, dedicated crackpot.
Swain tells David of how his wife and daughter were killed on a camping tramp after the latter claimed to see aliens and a spacecraft.
"Oh, yeah, Swain? Then how did you get away? And why aren't you a full-time, dedicated crackpot now? How dare you hold down a real job?"
Good Grief. I'm going to become a full-time, dedicated crackpot.
Weighing who stimulates him more, David decides to go see Swain
According to Woody Allen, being bisexual doubles your chances for a date, although I question his math.
David goes to the lab to find Diane making lots of light and noise while testing the cylinder with a "laser."
Kinda makes sense. She's probably vaporizing a sample to get a spectral analysis. It seems like she already did that, but if it's an unknown alloy then the results were probably wonky.
a surprised Diane is trying to stop David from taking the cylinder while she's still in the process of collecting extraordinary test results
"Dude, watch your fingers! Do you even know what a laser is?"
they hear a shot in the hall and find Swain standing over Richards, telling of a struggle.
"I take it all back. You
are a full-time, dedicated crackpot."
David tells Diane to call a doctor, but Swain pushes her away from the phone in the lab and grabs the cylinder
"Ow! My fingers!"
David tries to check on Diane before being rushed out with the cylinder while Swain covers for him, shooting one security guard and getting into a running gunfight with two more that spills into the lab, setting the place on fire.
Well, that was more excitement than we usually get.
Using the address that Swain conspicuously gave him just before the lab raid, David proceeds to Orleans to meet with Col. Frank Griffith:
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Objection!
"Your questions are incompetent and irrelevant!"
then Swain comes in behind David...figuratively unmasking as one of them.
Gasp! After they bonded! Fate is cruel!
they decided to use David to go after the cylinder without exposing themselves, informing him that it contains invasion plans from the home world
So many questions.
Why is the homeworld sending invasion plans in a physical format? If it got lost, why not just send another copy? And does this mean that a full-scale saucer invasion is imminent? Or has the full-scale saucer invasion been cancelled because their one physical copy of the invasion plans has been lost? Or by "invasion plans" do they mean "here's a list of random activities our agents are engaged in that won't amount to much?"
But Griffith finds that David's brought him an empty strongbox
"You've outsmarted us again, Earthling!"
David pulls out a gun, shooting Griffith into disintegration
"Overruled!"
but only tossing Swain over a desk.
He obviously still has feelings for him.
Swain takes a fall off the fall, swimming to an iron fence that he reaches through to grasp the cylinder before disintegrating, thus taking the object with him.
That answers any remaining questions about clothes and bullets.
The rates being cheaper during the Epilog
A surprising bit of good news.
and thanking her for not telling the police that he was involved in the lab theft and its multiple shootings.
"Oh, I would have done the same for any full-time, dedicated crackpot who left me sitting alone and frustrated in his hotel room."
There's a last moment of romantic tension as she asks about seeing him again and he ends the call with a noncommittal reply.
"It's complicated."
Maybe you looked her up when we were discussing how her twice-appearing character might have made a good Rhoda replacement.
Yeah, that could be. I remember pondering that.
I have one of those, though I couldn't tell you how it goes.
They're not great, just pleasant and catchy.
Indeed, two. Three was the good one that was supposed to lead into a series that everybody actually wanted to watch and was therefore never made.
Timeline-wise, though, The Invaders falls before The Brady Bunch.
Oh, right. The songs are fifty years, the shows are fifty-eight years. I don't know how Doug and Tony keep track of this stuff.
Philosophical question: Will the Prince of Darkness go to Rock'n'Roll Heaven or Rock'n'Roll Hell? Or is it just the same place?