516 – The Invisible Man – Barnard Wants Out & Go Directly to Jail

Doubling up with two more episodes of the Invisible Man as John and Eugene discuss Barnard Wants Out and Go Directly to Jail. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "fusionpatrol-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "search"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = "invisible man david mccallum"; amzn_assoc_default_category = "All"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "3b04df41558b676760c2d13410bf37be"; amzn_assoc_design = "in_content"; amzn_assoc_title = "Invisible Man"; Barnard Wants Out – Synopsis: Dan’s former professor and mentor, Dr. Barnard, defected to “the other side” back in 1960 because he did not want his work used for weapons.  Now, although closely guarded, he’s making intimations that he wishes to return to the United States.  Dan and Kate are sent to a scientific conference in Stockholm where they hope Dan’s friendly relations with Barnard combined with him being the Klae Resource will allow him to find out if he does wish to return and to get him out if he does. [expand title=”More…” swaptitle=”Less” tag=”strong”] Barnard’s daughter, Anna, and her fiancé, Alexi Zartoff are also with Barnard at the conference.  Anna, having grown up since she was 2 on “the other side” is thoroughly brainwashed against the corrupt, decadent, capitalist west.  Zartoff, is a ruthless and ambitious security officer who isn’t above using the puppy-dog love of Anna for him to further his own career. Westin gets into Barnard’s room and learns that he does wish to re-defect, but Anna is too brainwashed to consider going.  Zartoff has had Anna bug the room, so the conversation is overheard and Zartoff bursts in.    Westin isn’t captured because he is the Invisible Man, but Zartoff is sure he recognized Westin’s voice.  The Westin’s are placed under security lock-down in their room, and will be ejected from the country tomorrow morning. Being invisible, Westin is able to get Barnard out and down to their room, where Barnard wears Dan’s face and hands.  The next morning, he leaves with Kate.  The end. But it isn’t the end, because those nasty people on “the other side,” and Zartoff in particular, aren’t above killing Anna if Barnard doesn’t turn himself over to them.  Dan pulls another escape and Barnard and Anna are free to return to the good ol’ US of A.  Go Directly to Jail – Synopsis: Mrs. McAllister, cleaning lady at the Klae Corporation, has a problem.  Her son, Leyland, is apparently in prison in Texas.  He’s a college educated traveling salesman, but he’s been seen in prison under the name James Smith.  A relative saw him there, but he completely denied being Leyland McAllister. Mrs McAllister has no money and nowhere to turn.  Everyone at the Klae Corporation knows that the Westins run the Klae Resources, which is a where people turn when no one else can solve their problems.  Over Walter’s objections, Dan and Kate decide to take a few days off and go visit Texas. Dan goes to the prison posing as a lawyer, the Warden says that the prisoner, James Smith, won’t talk with anybody, won’t see anybody, won’t participate in any of the social functions and that he is highly unlikely to want to talk to him.  Dan presses on telling the Warden that his name is Leyland McAllister and he thinks James Smith will see him. See him he does.  At first, he continues to play his part, but as Westin reveals who he is and where he works, Smith admits he’s Leyland, but only after Westin can confirm some highly-top-secret info about his work.  Leyland is undercover, leave me alone, go tell my mom I’m fine and get out of here. Dan leaves.  Troubled now that Leyland had knowledge of top security information.  Could he be a high-level government agent?  He asks Walter to find out. He is, and by giving Leyland’s name, Dan has probably blown his cover. This time Dan breaks into prison and poses as a prisoner so that he can warn him.  Too late, but Leyland and Westin are rumbled and shakeled together in detention.  It seems the warden is involved in heroin smuggling. Handcuffed together, Dan is forced to reveal the secret that he is the Invisible Man to Leyland.  Comedy ensures as a prisoner, handcuffed to a naked, invisible man attempt to escape from prisoner.  Which is remarkably easy. Unfortunately for Leyland, he’s pulled over by the Texas police for driving while black.  Although, to be fair, just because he was able to drive out a prison driving a prison car, while wearing a prisoner’s uniform, doesn’t mean that would go unchallenged by local law enforcement.  He is arrested, while Dan continues to the location of the drug deal, hoping to delay them long enough for Walter to call in the troops. He succeeds.  Leyland is freed and he manages to spin an entirely new lie to his mother to cover up the fact that he’s an undercover agent. [/expand]