***SPOILERS*** With the news of a Roswell like crash of a flying saucer at Tracy's Pond two state troopers Padgett & Perry, John Arcer & Dan Perry, are sent out to investigate the incident to see if there's any survivors. Finding the only people in the vicinity all assembled at the Hi-Way Diner after their bus was snowed in the troopers check them out to see if there's any aliens, from outer space not planet earth, among them. Checking out the persons in the diner it's discovered that there's one of them that wasn't on the bus when it became snowbound and that person is very possibly the alien from outer space! But which one of those in the diner is he or, with two women among them, she!
Really crazy story that has everyone in the episode fully believing that the earth is being invaded by aliens from space or better yet Mars where in the real world they,including the two state troopers, would have been apprehended and sent, in straight jackets, to the local state mental hospital and put under observation. In fact the most normal of bunch the wino Avery, Jack Elam, sees the who thing, an alien invasion from space, as the joke that it is and never takes it for once seriously. In fact Avery is so normal that those in the diner don't take him seriously either even though he's about the most obvious person,in his unearthly like actions, that you would suspect of being an alien from Mars of the entire bunch! This back and forth game between those in the diner to who's the alien and who's not abruptly comes to an end when it's reported by the town engineer that the bridge that was impassable because of the snow storm is fixed and they can now all go home with William Kerdis,the bus driver, doing the driving.
**SPOILERS** With the emergency now over and everything under control the bus filled by those in the diner goes off the bridge into the river with everyone but one of those aboard drowning in the icy waters below! As we soon find out the survivor is in fact the alien that everyone was worried about. Not only that he had company from the most unlikely member of the cast who like himself was also an alien from space! But not from the same planet that he came from!
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