Title: The Deception.. Original Date Aired: Friday 9th November 1984.. Created By: Kenneth Johnson.. Written By: Garner Simmons.. Directed By: Victor Lobl.. Produced By: Dean O’Brien.. Executive Producer: Robert Singer and Daniel H. Blatt.. Supervising Producer: Garner Simmons.. Running Time: 1 hour ( Approx ).. Bloopers Found: 8.. Cast: Jane Badler ( Diana ), Robert Englund ( Willie ), Faye Grant ( Juliet Parrish ), Michael Ironside ( Ham Tyler ), Marc Singer ( Mike Donovan ), Lane Smith ( Nathan Bates ), Blair Tefkin ( Robin Maxwell ), Michael Wright ( Elias Taylor ) Jennifer Cooke ( Elizabeth ) June Chadwick ( Lydia ) Jeff Yagher ( Kyle Bates ).. Guest Starring: Nicky Katt ( Sean Donovan ) Howard K. Smith ( Howard K. Smith ) Burt Marshall ( Steve Roller ), Sandy Lang ( Alien Captain ).. Additional Guest Stars: Anthony Ellis, Randall Brady.. Freedom Network Update: Arab and Israeli forces unite to fight the Visitors in Jerusalem.. Nathan Bates solidifies his position in creating the open city of Los Angeles.. Freedom Network Medal Of Valour: Awarded to 18 – year – old Kipper Cordisco of Cleveland, Ohio, for organizing members of his high school into the George Washington Brigade.. Plot Summary: Kyle meets Robin out on a lonely road, and gives her a ride on his motorcycle.. Diana captures Mike, with Sean’s help, and uses holograms worn around the neck to make him think she is Julie.. They pretend that the war is over in order to get Mike to give up information about the Star Child.. Kyle begins working with the resistance, but doesn’t tell them he’s hiding Robin.. When they try to sneak Elizabeth out to New York, there is an ambush and she is rescued by Kyle.. Plot: Outside of LA, Robin makes her way through the woods to an almost deserted highway.. She hides when a Visitor envoy passes, but comes out of hiding to flag down a passing motorcyclist.. Kyle Bates agrees to help Robin get to her father’s ranch … Robin is obviously attracted to Kyle as well.. On the ride, they witness a jet fighter pilot eject from his damaged plane and parachute to Earth.. Kyle investigates and arrives just in time for the dying pilot to reveal that he has an important pouch which must be delivered to the ” fireman “ at the Club Creole.. Kyle takes the pouch and drives off, just barely escaping his dirt bike – riding Visitor pursuers.. Kyle takes Robin to his home where she will be safe for the time – being.. Though they are chased by Visitors, Kyle and Robin manage to escape when Kyle uses his skills in bike racing to jump a gully.. On the Mother Ship, Diana receives news of the failed attempt to capture the courier’s pouch.. By monitoring communications between Los Angeles and the World Liberation Front, the Visitors know that the WLF and the Resistance intends to move Elizabeth within the next couple weeks to New York where the Red Dust is still active.. The pouch is supposed to contain the exact details of the move.. They are now also aware of Kyle’s involvement with the downed pilot.. Diana’s plan to learn the date of the move includes Sean, who is being kept on the drug ” Procorp..” Diana instructs her trooper to move Sean to the Embassy, where holographic synthesizers are being installed in an interrogation room.. After leaving Robin at his ranch, Kyle heads to Club Creole to deliver the pouch.. Mike and Ham are distrustful of him since he is Nathan’s son, and they decide to hold him until they can have the message decoded.. At Science Frontiers, Diana confronts Nathan with her suspicions that Kyle has joined the Resistance.. While Nathan seems oblivious, Diana plants a bug in the office.. Nathan has seen everything, however, and removes the bug before Diana leaves.. Juliet decodes the WLF message in her office, and reveals the rendezvous time for Elizabeth’s departure, even though she doesn’t feel that Elizabeth should be leaving.. Once Julie has decoded the message, Ham clears Kyle to leave Club Creole.. Before Kyle leaves he literally bumps into Elizabeth, who falls through a door onto him.. When she runs off, Kyle attempts to follow her but is stopped by Elias, who insists that Elizabeth was never there.. Diana has Sean Donovan in custody and is using a mind – control drug on him.. She offers him a position in the Young Guard which he accepts enthusiastically.. On the way back from Science Frontiers, Mike stops off at his house and is shocked to find Sean there.. Using Sean as bait, the Visitors ambush Donovan.. Before Mike can react, Visitor Shocktroops attack and immobilize him, taking him into custody.. Mike wakes up in bed in his room to find that he lives with Julie and Sean, who were both tending to him.. Confused and disoriented, he is told that it’s been a year since the war ended and the Visitors left.. It was Elizabeth’s trip to New York that allowed the ” neutron oscillator “ weapon to be developed and win the war.. Of course, it’s all an elaborate ruse by Diana; Donovan is actually at the Visitor Embassy where holographic generators and drugs make him believe the alternate reality.. In the fabricated ” future,” Sean plays himself while Diana wears a special amulet that makes her appear as Julie.. She intends to make Donovan reveal the details of Elizabeth’s rendezvous with the WLF.. ‘ Julie ‘ leaves Mike to rest.. Outside the room, Lydia watches the scene through a two – way mirror.. Diana, proud that she made such a convincing ‘ Julie,’ warns Lydia that any Visitor entering the room must wear a special necklace … the necklace reacts with the holographic synthesizers to make the wearer appear to be someone that Mike knows..They believe that they can convince Mike to reveal Elizabeth’s rendezvous information.. At Club Creole, Julie finalizes the plans for Elizabeth’s trip to New York.. To alleviate Elizabeth’s fears, Julie agrees to go with her to the rendezvous point.. When Julie leaves, Elizabeth confides in Willie about her feelings for Kyle.. Juliet, meanwhile, finds Ham working on one of the trucks – though they are a little concerned about Mike’s disappearance, they believe that he is looking for cars to use in the rendezvous.. Elias and Ham are surprised when Kyle arrives – but Kyle is fascinated by Elizabeth.. Tyler asks Kyle to help the Resistance by providing some motorbikes for the next day, to get Ham, Julie, and Elizabeth to China Flats where transportation will be waiting to take the Star Child to New York.. Kyle has already met Elizabeth – though he did not get her name – at the Club Creole and was instantly taken with her.. En route to the rendezvous point, Julie introduces Kyle to ” Elizabeth Dunne,” the name Elizabeth will be using to travel to New York.. As a result, Kyle does not realize Elizabeth is related to Robin Maxwell.. Diana continues with her plan to learn of the rendezvous site.. As ‘ Julie ‘ she bring Mike some ” food,” which thankfully Mike refuses, because what he sees as pastry is actually white mice.. ‘ Julie ‘ and Mike kiss, which Lydia finds ” disgusting..” Ham decides to check on Mike, and finds the lock broken on his door and a Visitor in his bedroom.. Ham breaks the Visitor’s neck, and reports to Julie.. They decide to continue with the rendezvous as planned.. At the Embassy, Sean brings Mike a folder newspaper, and continues to pump him for information on the rendezvous.. Mike finally reveals the site, and Sean quickly leaves to inform Diana.. En route to the site, Ham, Elizabeth, and Julie are forced to abandon their vehicle after running a police checkpoint.. While Kyle is preparing the bikes at his ranch, Nathan arrives.. Nathan tries to defend his deal with Diana but Kyle remains unconvinced.. Though Nathan tries to get Kyle to admit his involvement with the Resistance, Kyle ignores him and leaves the ranch.. Sean reports his information to Diana and Lydia.. While Diana supervises the assault on the rendezvous point at China Flats, Lydia receives permission to kill Mike.. Meanwhile, in Mike’s ‘ room,’ he opens the newspaper brought earlier by Sean and discovers that the front page is a photo of Elizabeth as a child – not as a young adult.. This of cause alerts Donovan to the scam as herealizes that he has been duped ( For the Visitors do not know that Elizabeth has aged ).. Mike shatters a window and destroys the illusion.. When ‘ Julie ‘ enters the room with a gun, Mike knocks her out and removes the necklace – revealing Lydia.. Mike attacks a guard, steals an Embassy staff car, and escapes.. In the mountains, Kyle meets Elizabeth et al and leads them on a shortcut to China Flats.. While the helicopter waits in a ravine, everyone says their good – byes.. Both Kyle and Elizabeth regret that they did not have a chance to learn more about each other.. As Ham, Elizabeth and Julie ( Still wearing her motorcycle helmet ) make their way to the chopper, Kyle spots the Visitor troops and warns Elizabeth of the ambush.. He throws a grenade at the Visitors and leads several of them away as they chase his bike.. Ham, Juliet and Elizabeth run to the helicopter, however, when they reach it, Diana is already aboard and explains that ” this flight has been canceled..” She remembers Ham and realizes that Elizabeth is now grown up, but she doesn’t recognize Julie who is still wearing her bike helmet.. Kyle manages to evade the pursuing Visitors and heads back to the rendezvous site.. Just then Donovan arrives in a stolen Visitor limousine as Kyle reaches them, just as Diana is about to unmask Julie.. As Elizabeth jumps on Kyle’s bike and the others pile into Mike’s Embassy car, Diana is left watching as her plans to attain the Starchild fall apart around her.. They all rejoin at the Club Creole and Elizabeth decides to stay in LA Kyle agrees to be around, but stops short of actually committing to the Resistance.. The Resistance members celebrate at Club Creole, and Elizabeth decides to stay with her friends in LA.. While Kyle refuses to ” officially “ join the Resistance, he says he’ll be around; and Elizabeth shyly smiles.. Blooper Details: This episode was aired before Episode 3.. Therefore, when Ham and Kyle meet at Club Creole both act as though they are strangers.. When Kyle meets Robin by the highway, he has no idea that she is Elizabeth’s mother.. Wouldn’t he recognize her? Surely her picture and Elizabeth’s would have been plastered on every newspaper for the past year! Sean was converted during The First Invasion ( ” The Final Battle ” ).. Why would Diana need to have him drugged? The Visitor officer with the mustache who is guarding Sean Donovan was killed in The Final Battle by Maggie’s Red Dust spray.. When Kyle first rides up to Robin, there are skid marks already on the ground ( Presumably from a previous take ).. And isn’t it convenient that Kyle has an extra helmet for Robin? Kyle drops Robin off at his house, but doesn’t give her keys or let her in! You would have thought Elizabeth would wear jeans, or something more suitable than her dress, if she knew she was travelling by bike to the helicopter! Trivia: Because ” Breakout “ did not air in the original run of the series, this episode marks the first time that Donovan and Tyler meet Kyle Bates.. However, when the series is viewed in its correct order, it’s apparent that Ham Tyler has a bit of short-term memory lapse because he doesn’t remember meeting Kyle in the internment camp.. Elizabeth’s fake ID was in the surname of ” Dunne “ – perhaps in reference to the actress Dominique Dunne – who was murdered during early production of the mini – series V ( 1984 ).. Dominique Dunne was to have portrayed Elizabeth’s mother, Robin Maxwell.. It has been reported that the same Freedom Network update from ” Breakout “ is used at the beginning of this episode.. Quotes: ( Kyle talking with his father about deal ): ( Lydia trying to get information out of Mike ) ( Kyle arrives to deliver WLF pouch to ” The Fireman ” at Club Creole ): ( Kyle watches Willie prepare a veggie lunch ): ( Willie to Kyle, who is still eating ): ” The Deception..”
Bates: I did this for you, you know..
Kyle: Business, Brinksmanship and bucks, three B’s.. Kyle begins with a K, remember dad? So don’t pin this one on me..
Bates: I suppose you think you’d be living here lizard free if it weren’t for the open city agreement..
Kyle: Lizard free? What an interesting idea! too bad it doesn’t really apply..
Bates: Of course it does, for fifty miles within the confines of Los Angeles..
Kyle: For now, while they chow down on the rest of the planet!
Mike: Tyler? Who would marry him?!
Lydia: (pretending to be Julie) Mike, you’re his best man!
Willie: Boss, there is a strangler at the door..
Elias: You mean a stranger, right?
Willie: Yes, a stranger.. He says he is looking to burn someone..
Kyle: Mind if I ask you a question? Aren’t you one of them? I thought the Visitors only ate live meat?
Willie: Yes, that is correct.. But I am a veterinarian..
Willie: We will open soon, so I must change.. Leave your plate, I will bust it later..