In this one David Vincent investigates the Invaders again (with a lead from a little girl’s story of seeing a melting truck that made the news) and he winds up in a plant they are using as a communications hub and kills an Invader in front of a crowd of people at the beach. Since he did all of this under his own name, as always, the Invaders know this is their constant enemy David Vincent and they have a chance to frame him. The body of the Invader disappears, as always, but they provide a corpse that is unidentifiable from the sea and claim this was the man Vincent killed. And what’s more, they claim is was Mr. Tate, another of their enemies, one who they think they killed in that melting truck incident. So Vincent is at risk of going to prison for a crime the Invaders committed. It may have worked, if Tate had actually been killed.

But Tate survived the attack on him and he stole a valuable file from the aliens that eleven of the highest-level Invaders, so they want that back. Anyway, Tate and Vincent team up. There’s a whole thing where the Invaders capture Tate’s estranged daughter as bait. There’s a bit where Vincent bribes a kid who works at a pharmacy for info, which the kid does for the money, but then the kid calls the cops on the suspicious man anyway. In the end the good guys win, though Tate is vaporized by one of the alien’s space guns, and we’re told that Vincent getting the file out and shutting down the communications hub is actually a major setback for the aliens. Most of the time Vincent is just barely getting by, surviving and doing what little he can, but we’re told this was a world-wide operation that he shut down. Good for him.

Overall it was a standard episode of the show, but no complaints.