Title: The Rescue.. Original Date Aired: Friday 1st February 1985.. Created By: Kenneth Johnson.. Written By: Garner Simmons.. Directed By: Kevin Hooks.. Produced By: David Latt.. Executive Producer: Robert Singer and Daniel H. Blatt.. Supervising Producer: Garner Simmons.. Running Time: 1 hour ( Approx ).. Bloopers Found: 6.. 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: Howard K. Smith ( Howard K. Smith ), Aki Aleong ( Mr Chiang ), Mickey Jones ( Chris ), Duncan Regehr ( Charles ), Judson Scott ( Lt. James ), Gela Jacobson ( Marta ), Darleen Carr ( Joanne Davis ), Terence Knox ( Alan Davis ), Ian Fried ( John Davis ), Richard Epcar ( Louis ), Cynthia Frost ( Visitor Wedding Planner ), Sandy Lang ( Visitor Captain ).. Additional Guest Stars: Ralph Drischell, Mindi Miller, Leland Murray, Christopher Shobe.. Freedom Network Update: An integrated force of black and white South Africans raided a processing plant in Johannesburg and rescued more than 200 people.. Nathan Bates is reported to be dead, and the fate of Los Angeles hangs in the balance.. Freedom Network Medal Of Valour: Awarded to Stuart Kaminsky, who ran an underground railroad between Atlanta and Philadelphia.. Stuart was able to save over 300 people from the Visitor workcamps in Georgia.. Plot Summary: Diana goes over Charles’ head and orders a vicious attack on Los Angeles, putting it under Lizard control.. An old friend of Julie’s shows up at Resistance just after the attack.. He needs help because his wife is pregnant and can’t be moved.. Julie helps them out, and they have to be rescued at the last minute before they are captured by Lt. James.. Charles decides to marry Diana in order to make her go home.. Lydia becomes quite jealous and puts cat poison in Diana’s drink, but Charles drinks it and dies.. Diana puts Lydia under arrest for killing Charles.. Plot: Los Angeles is under siege by the Visitors! L.A. is no longer an open city, as the Visitors have unleash a reign of terror, alighting the city and hunting down all humans.. Their forces soon control the city, and most Resistance cells have been hit hard.. The attack was ordered by Diana without the consent of Charles and Lydia, and for that Lydia is furious.. Charles is sympathetic to Lydia’s viewpoint, but he can hardly court martial Diana since events are going so well.. It’s a simple matter of politics.. In an abandoned burned – out building, a family – husband Alan, wife Joanne, and son Johnny – are in hiding, with Joanne in the first stages of labour.. Alan leaves his family in the building in an attempt to find a doctor.. On board the Mothership, Lt. James reports to Diana that the city should be under Visitor control within hours.. Diana assigns James the duty of checking out the vicinity of Club Creole, and offers him the post of her ” right hand man..” Willie, walking down the street, is grabbed by Alan.. Luckily Kyle is nearby and grabs Alan.. Alan tells the Resistance members that he is trying to find Juliet Parrish.. The Resistance members, hiding in the secret room below Club Creole, decide to stay in their current location, as being less risky than trying to find a new headquarters.. When Kyle and Willie arrive with Alan, Julie recognizes him as the brother of a man with whom she went to medical school.. Alan explains where his wife is, and Julie and Kyle agree to go with him in the van to help.. Waiting in the abandoned building, Johnny vows to protect his mother from the Visitors.. Lydia, meanwhile, is upset that neither she nor Charles were informed before the invasion of L.A.. She threatens to charge Diana with insubordination.. As Lydia leaves to report to Charles, Diana informs her that she has already sent a progress report to the Leader.. Lydia discovers that Charles has intercepted Diana’s message and is already aware of the situation.. He reveals his plan to Lydia: because Charles is a direct descendant of ” The House of Rahman,” he has the right to choose any woman he wants to be his wife, and by law the woman cannot refuse.. Once married, she must serve the cause by bearing children, on the home world.. Charles plans to marry Diana and then send her away for this purpose and removing Diana from the game.. Lydia isn’t happy about the arrangement – she’d rather just shoot Diana – but Charles pursues his plan nonetheless.. At the Resistance headquarters, Willie practices memory skills with Elizabeth.. She is able to repeat a prior conversation word for word, including the person’s voice.. Acting on a hunch from Diana, Lt. James leads a Visitor patrol and locates the secret basement below the remains of the Club Creole.. Mike spots the Visitor patrol outside, and Elizabeth warns the group that they should go.. As the freedom fighters scatter, Mike informs them to meet at Griffith Park.. The Visitors break through a secret door in Club Creole’s kitchen and attack.. They nearly capture the remaining Resistance members, but Elizabeth uses her powers to collapse the ceiling and cut off the Visitors while the freedom fighters escape.. Mike sends Elizabeth and Willie to establish a new base of operations at an abandoned movie studio while Mike himself sets out to find Julie, because Julie doesn’t know the Club Creole was raided, she’ll be captured if she returns there.. Mike intends to prevent that from happening.. Diana is summoned to Charles’ quarters, where she reports on Lt. James failed attempt to destroy the Resistance.. She is shocked to learn the reason for her summons – the announcement of her betrothal to Charles.. Diana refuses to wed, and swears that she would rather die than to marry Charles.. Alan, Julie, and Kyle arrive at the abandoned building.. While Kyle stands guard, Julie examines Joanne and determines that she still has hours to go before she will deliver her baby.. Later that day, the Resistance members meet at Griffith Park to regroup.. Knowing the Julie and Kyle will walk into a trap if they attempt to return to their former headquarters, Elizabeth ( Prompted by Mike and Willie ) uses her memory powers to recreate the conversation that Julie had with Alan.. Armed with the knowledge of their location, Mike sets out to retrieve them, while directing the others to move their headquarters to an abandoned movie studio.. Arriving there, the freedom fighters are disturbed by noises within one of the buildings, only to discover that there is a dog, named Ramsey, living there.. On the Mother Ship, Diana is interrupted in her quarters by two Visitors, sent by Charles, to prepare her for her wedding ceremony.. Diana refuses to co-operate, and threatens to inform the Leader.. Lydia, however, tells Diana that the Leader has already sent his blessing to the couple.. Later that day, Diana prepares a bag as a loyal Ensign, Louis, arrives to announce that her shuttle is prepared, as she has planned to escape, to avoid marriage to Charles.. Diana tries to reward Louis for his loyalty but he refuses, but apparently Louis isn’t as loyal as he pretended to be.. As Diana attempts to board her shuttle on the docking bay, Charles, along with Ensign Louis appears.. Charles reminds her that the punishment for trying to abandon her groom is death.. Diana makes a light excuse for her trip to the landing bay before she is escorted away by Louis, who escorts Diana back to her quarters.. While Kyle remains at watch, Julie decides to bring the family back to Resistance headquarters.. However, a Visitor patrol led by Lt. James stops to check their van and in doing so spots Johnny inside the building.. Kyle is forced to shoot the trooper.. The patrol covers the front of the building, blocking any escape for those inside.. On board the Mothership, Charles visits Diana as she enjoys her ritual bath.. Charmed by her beauty, Diana tempts him.. When Charles leaves, ceremonial eels are placed in Diana’s bath.. Lydia waits for Charles in his quarters, and is shocked when he announces that he has decided to keep Diana in the fleet.. Lydia wants to assassinate Diana, and realizes that Charles had gone to Diana’s ritual bath and been tempted.. Charles gruffly dismisses Lydia, who leaves his office to see the pharmacist Marta, who is preparing a wedding potion for Charles, to pick it up.. Marta also gives Lydia a bottle a cat poison, and a new perfume, ” Essence of Rodent Musk..” Back on Earth, at the new Resistance headquarters on the movie ranch, Willie stands guard while the others begin cleaning and setting up equipment.. A Visitor patrol is seen outside and everyone hides.. When the Visitors come inside the building, they see only Ramsey and believe that it was the dog making noise.. Elizabeth credits Ramsey for saving them.. Alan leads Julie and Kyle to the Davises’ hideout.. Soon a Visitor patrol arrives, and they spot Alan’s sleepy – eyed kid giving away the rebel’s location.. The Visitors surround the place and Lt. James gives the Resistance 5 minutes to give themselves up or die.. Kyle uses this time to try to explain to Johnny the reasons behind the Resistance.. As the time limit comes up, the group decides to make a run for it.. Julie comes up with a plan – Kyle will pretend to give up and get to the van; while Alan lobs a grenade at the Visitors, Julie and the others will attempt to reach the van.. Kyle steps outside the building with his hands up, and is told to lay down his weapon.. As he complies, Mike suddenly begins firing at the Visitors from the rooftop of a neighbouring building.. As all Visitor attention is focused on Mike, Kyle retrieves his gun and jumps into the van.. As Julie shepherds the others inside the van, Alan throws a grenade at one of the Visitor jeeps, setting it ablaze.. Mike fakes being hit … and when Kyle arrives at the back of the building with the van, he jumps inside.. Aboard the Mothership, a lavish buffet is laid out for the wedding of Charles and Diana.. The wedding ceremony begins and Diana makes her grand entrance.. The two are mated, as Charles vows to fight in the Leader’s name, and Diana vows to bear a multitude of fierce warriors for him.. With a promise to ” hunt and provide..” Charles offers the ceremonial mouse and Diana seals the wedding by biting the head off of a ceremonial mouse.. Meanwhile, Lydia sneaks away from the ceremony and goes to Charles’ quarters, where two steaming cups of liquid, engraved with the names of the couple, have been prepared.. Lydia takes out the cat poison and pours it into the red cup, which is Diana’s cup, leaving the white cup untouched.. With his benediction, ” like two serpents intertwined, may you cling together until death,” the high priest pronounces Charles and Diana mated, and the reception festivities begin.. Lydia arrives back at the ceremony just as Charles is inviting the guests to partake of the wedding buffet.. She congratulates the couple, and both Charles and Diana comment on the new Rat Musk scent that she is wearing.. The couple then leave the reception.. Arriving in Charles’ quarters, Diana comments that she is reminded of Lydia, and Charles agrees that the scent that Lydia was wearing seemed to linger on them.. Charles hands Diana the red cup, a gift from Lydia, but she offers the cup back to him, with the words ” Take this, as you take me – forever..” They trade cups and drink.. Almost immediately Charles begins retching, and realizes that he has been poisoned.. Regrouping at the new Resistance base, the happy couple and their newly-born child are safe.. Joanne and Alan decide to name their new baby ‘ Victoria,’ in honour of the Victory that they know will come.. Back on the Mothership, Lydia arrives in Charles’ quarters, where he seems to be relaxing in a chair.. When Lydia spins the chair around to get a good look at Charles, however, she finds only a shrunken cadaver.. As Lydia screams in horror, Diana arrives to have her arrested for murder.. Blooper Details: During the Freedom Network broadcast, Howard K. Smith reads a story about Johannesburg, then there is a bad cut to a U.S. story, then Smith says: ” Here at home in the U.S. …” Obviously, when filmed, the stories were in a different order and edited very badly! At the beginning of the episode, a human is shown being shot in the street by a Visitor.. This was re – used footage from ” Dreadnought..” Mike appears to be shot while on the rooftop.. The Visitors arrive outside the abandoned building in two white jeeps.. Alan lobs a grenade at one of the jeeps, and it is seen in flames.. On the next long shot of the street, both jeeps are shown in perfect condition.. When Diana switches cups with Charles he is wearing his pseudo – skin.. When he dies and shrivels up, he’s left sans disguise.. Where did the disguise go? It’s not hanging off him or anything.. During Diana and Charles’ wedding ceremony if you look carefully at the character doing the Ceremony you will notice the actors lips move as he talks under his alien mask.. Trivia: Something a bit odd about the Visitor smorgasbord at Charles and Diana’s wedding.. One of the decorations on the baquet table is a white statue of Godzilla! Watch as they pan across.. Your attention will no doubt be drawn to a tarantula crawling up a white thing.. Tear your eyes from the tarantula and look closely at the white thing – it’s clearly Godzilla’s lower half.. A moment later, we see a wide – angle shot of the banquet, and you can see Godzilla in his full form.. Section 48 of the Visitor Code deals with marriage.. Wedding preparations for a Visitor bride include shaving her body, fitting her for a wedding skin, and bathing with ceremonial eels ( ” May their venom give you strength, and their bodies make you fertile ” ).. According to Marta, there is a cat problem on the Mother Ship: They multiply and eat all the rats.. Cat poison is a common item provided by Marta.. Quotes: ( Charles proposes marriage ): ( Mike, Willie, and Elizabeth try to figure out Julie’s location ):” The Rescue..”
Diana: Was there something else?
Charles: Section 48 of The Code..
Diana: Section 48 deals with marriage.. Don’t tell me you and Lydia..? Someone else?
Charles: You..
Diana: You must be joking..
Charles: All is in preparation..
Diana: NO! I don’t have to!
Charles: I am in the direct line of descent from Rahman.. The choice is mine – I choose you..
Diana: I’d rather die first!
Charles: That can be arranged … but I’m sure you’ll change your mind..
Mike: … In all the confusion I can remember the general location but I can’t remember the exact address.. Can you?
Willie: N – no … Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: I’m not sure I can..
Mike: What? Anything might help … What?
Willie: Elizabeth has a pornographic memory..
Elizabeth: Photographic!