Title: Visitor’s Choice.. Original Date Aired: Friday 23rd November 1984.. Created By: Kenneth Johnson.. Written By: David Braff.. Directed By: Gilbert M. Shilton.. Produced By: Dean O’Brien.. Executive Producer: Robert Singer and Daniel H. Blatt.. Supervising Producer: Garner Simmons.. Running Time: 1 hour ( Approx ).. Bloopers Found: 4.. 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 ), Aki Aleong ( Mr Chiang ), Sybil Danning ( Mary Kruger ), Robert Ellenstein ( General Maxwell Larson ), Martin Azarow ( Rodrigo ), Chad McQueen ( Dean Boddicker ), Jonathan Caliri ( Barry Boddicker ), Gustav Vintas ( Visitor Officer ).. Additional Guest Stars: Thomas Bellin, Steve Itkin, Jason Ross.. Freedom Network Update: Visitors cut through the Rio Grande Valley, killing thousands of Texans.. Resistance fighters in Brownsville, Texas, raided a Visitor air field and destroy twenty – two Skyfighters.. The Visitors establish processing centers in Dallas, El Paso, and San Antonio.. Freedom Network Medal Of Valour: Awarded, posthumously, to Miguel Ramirez, a migrant worker who, with his fellow workers, barricaded themselves in the Alamo and held out against fierce Visitor fighting for two weeks.. Miguel elected to blow up the Alamo rather than let it fall into Visitor hands.. Plot Summary: The resistance gets word of a high ranking Visitor and a machine that will improve ” processing “ speed.. Kyle and his father’s falling out intensifies when Nathan sends people to hunt for his son.. Mike and Julie meet up with two brothers, but eventually have to help them rescue their sister from being eaten.. Kyle goes on a mission with Ham, but gets caught, in the end he has an unexpected rescuer.. Plot: The Resistance plants an explosive in the middle of the road, in order to ambush a Visitor Sub Commander.. While Ham sets the explosive, Fisher, another Resistance fighter, blocks the road.. When the bomb goes off, Ham grabs the Visitors documents while Mike pulls up in the getaway car.. Ham and Mike get away, but Fisher is stopped by the police.. At Club Creole, Willie translates the document: a conference for all Regional Commanders of Food Processing is to be held 25 miles away, in Playa del Mar, to introduce the ” encapsulator “ – a device that will triple the processing speed of humans.. All agree to raid the conference.. Mike and Julie leave to meet with the Resistance in Playa del Mar, while Ham goes shopping for ” party favours..” Diana confronts Nathan about the Resistance bombing, but Nathan refuses to do anything because the Visitor was armed.. He does, however, promise to find and crush the Resistance.. When Diana leaves, Nathan sends for Mr Chiang and puts forth following directives: a 9:00 PM curfew, and possession of a firearm punishable by death.. He also orders Mr Chiang to find Kyle.. Robin, Elizabeth, and Kyle go out for fast food, and are sitting in Kyle’s truck when Mr Chiang arrives.. Kyle refuses to go with him, and manages to lose Mr Chiang in a high speed chase.. Having had the police turn the Freedom fighter, Fisher, over to him, Nathan hands his interrogation over to Mr Chiang.. Fisher denies any knowledge of the Resistance, insisting that his car had just stalled at the time of the bombing.. Kyle brings Elizabeth and Robin to a friends house where they spend the night.. Robin flirts a little with Kyle but he remains oblivious, having eyes only for Elizabeth.. The next morning, Kyle leaves to make sure everything is safe, and tells Elizabeth to stay at the house with Robin.. Before leaving he instructs her to be careful and kisses her softly on the forehead.. In Playa del Mar, Juliet and Mike make their way to the Resistance Headquarters at the Pipeline Skate Shot.. They’re looking for their contact, Sandy Boddicker.. Sandy Boddiker is not there, instead they meet her brothers, Barry and Dean.. One of Sandy’s brother lets them in, then jumps Mike as the other brother comes out from the back armed too.. They hold Mike and Julie at gunpoint as they reveal that their sister has been taken by the Visitors and is presumed dead.. The brothers don’t quite trust Julie and Mike and are about to kill them as spies, but a timely Radio Free America broadcast dedication to ” Romeo and Juliet,” Mike and Julie’s code names, which confirms the identities of the two L.A. Resistance members.. Kyle makes his way to Club Creole, and informs Elias that he was on the run from his father.. Ham invites Kyle to go with him on a raid at one of Nathan’s munitions warehouses.. The next day in Playa del Mar, Mike et al plan their attack.. While scoping out the conference, Julie identifies several important Visitors, including General Maxwell Larson, the ” Butcher of Birmingham;” and Mary Kruger, the ” Dark Angel of Dallas,” and even Diana herself.. She also notices that many of the attendees are human.. The brothers think they may be collaborators, but Julie isn’t so sure.. They also see Sandy – but Barry refuses to believe that she is there.. Inside the conference, Mary demonstrates the prototype Encapsulator.. She designed the prototype herself, and it is the only one in existence.. Its superior design requires very little preparation of the subject and eliminates the need for body partitioning and freeze – drying.. The process is ” as simple as pressing a button..” With the Encapsulator, the Visitors will be able to process humans at the rate of 100,000 per week.. Ham and Kyle break into Nathan’s warehouse – Kyle takes the bottom floor, while Ham takes the main floor.. Kyle, carried away by the excitement, decides to take extra supplies and is surprised by a security guard.. Kyle buys time by telling the guard that he is Nathan’s son, and manages to overpower him and warn Ham to get out.. While trying to escape Kyle slips and falls, and is captured.. At Science Frontiers, Nathan reads Mr Chiang’s report on Fisher’s interrogation.. He is informed that the Freedom Fighter gave them a lot of information about the Resistance, but died during interrogation before he could reveal the name of the mole at Science Frontiers.. When Nathan is informed of Kyle’s capture, he smashes Kyle’s photo – and then decides to turn his son over to Mr Chiang.. Ham arrives in Playa Del Mar with the needed explosives, and the Resistance team of five boldly infiltrates the compound and plants explosives in strategic locations.. Julie is comforting Dean, who blames himself for his sister’s death.. They finish planning the attack on the conference.. Elias is surprised by a knock on his door after curfew.. He lets in Robin and Elizabeth who are concerned because Kyle did not return.. Elias explains about the raid on the munitions warehouse, and tries to reassure Robin that Kyle is OK.. Elizabeth, however, can sense Kyle and knows that he is in danger.. Kyle, meanwhile, is being held captive at the warehouse.. Nathan questions him, demanding to know the names of all Resistance members, their headquarters, etc.. Kyle replies: ” I wouldn’t give you my name..” Nathan then refuses to deal with his son anymore, and turns the interrogation over to Mr Chiang.. Back in Playa del Mar, Juliet and the others begin their attack.. After Ham takes out a guard with a crossbow, Dean puts on the Visitor uniform and takes the guards place.. Ham, Mike, Julie, and Barry then enter the house, placing explosives strategically on each level.. In the kitchen, Julie discovers a huge walk – in freezer containing humans waiting to be ” processed..” When the cook returns unexpectedly, Julie is forced to hide in one of the freezers and the door locks behind her.. At the munitions warehouse, Mr Chiang begins his interrogation of Kyle.. While maintaining a cool demeanor, Mr Chiang uses his knowledge of martial arts to beat Kyle, saying: ” Your father has requested that I speak to you – he is very concerned about your well being..” Kyle is beaten and bloodied, but continues to fight.. Elizabeth manages to make her way to the warehouse and uses her powers to explode the light bulbs and window in the room.. While Mr Chiang is distracted, Kyle jumps him and escapes out the window.. At the conference, the Resistance fighters meet and find that Juliet is missing.. They go back through the house to search for her.. Rodrigo, the chef, discovers Julie and drags her back into the kitchen while she struggles against his rather large form.. As he is about to go after her with a cleaver, Mike shows up just in time and knocks out Rodrigo.. Julie and Mike rescue the humans from the freezers – one of them is Sandy, who has an emotional reunion with her brothers.. The Boddikers and the rescued humans leave in the van, while Mike, Ham, and Julie steal a skyfighter to make their escape, despite being chased by Diana.. They lift off as the compound explodes.. Diana, who was leading the chase of the L.A. trio, is outside when the building is destroyed and therefore escapes with her life.. The Boddikers watch as the house explodes, destroying the Encapsulator and all inside.. Blooper Details: During Mr Chiang’s pursuit of Kyle, at various times dialogue is spoken but the actors lips do not move.. Kyle yells ” Hang On,” Mr. Chiang exclaims ” After him;” and Elizabeth yells ” They got cut off.. All right..” All the dialogue must have been added later! Elizabeth simply shows up at the munitions warehouse to help Kyle.. Granted, she could sense him so she could have tracked him that way, but there was also a curfew in effect and various Visitor patrols to deal with? Didn’t her mother’s lesson teach her anything? The final shot of the skyfighter flying over the city skyline is badly superimposed.. Looks like a flying saucer out of an Ed Wood movie! When Kyle jumps off the roof after Elizabeth helps with his escape … if you look at the person jumping from roof to roof it is clearly a stunt double and not Jeff Yagher.. Trivia: Quotes: ( Diana berates Nathan about the killing of Raoul ): ( Mike and Julie question Dean Boddiker about Sandy ): ( Ham and Kyle raid the munitions warehouse owned by Nathan ):” Visitor’s Choice..”
Diana: I expect the terrorists responsible to be found and dealt with accordingly..
Nathan: The man found this morning was Raoul, your chief food processor from San Diego.. If Raoul was innocent, I’m St. Francis of Assisi..
Julie: We’re looking for a friend, Sandy Boddiker.. Do you know where we can find her?
Dean: Sandy? She’s not here..
Mike: Do you know where we can find her?
Dean: Beats me..
Mike: Don’t tempt me..
Kyle: This place is a gold mine.. Let’s stock up while we’ve got the chance..
Ham: Don’t get greedy..
Kyle: I can’t help it.. Runs in the family!