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(More customer reviews)"The race of Man is known for its mutability. We can change our moods, our faces, our lives to suit whatever situation confront us. Adapt and survive. Even among the most changeable of living things, Man is quicksilver-more chameleon-like than the chameleon, determined to survive, no matter what the cost to others... or to himself." A C.I.A. agent uses an alien-like mercenary in order to penetrate a mysterious flying saucer and obtain informations with a hidden audio camera. Pre-"Vera Cruz" Henry Brandon is stubborn and skeptical General Crawford who dislikes unconventional C.I.A. manners. Howard Caine is C.I.A. agent Leon Chambers who tries to convince his military colleage ("Only an insane scheme has any chance of working, right now !"). Pre-"The Wild Wild West" Douglas Henderson, from "The architects of fear", is sensitive Dr. Tillyard who turns Mace into an alien due to a sample of skin. Pre-"The inheritors" Robert Duvall is undercover agent Louis Mace who is a quiet, lonely ("Between missions, I cease to exist...") and resigned drunk misfit living in Mexico. And the most important scene remains the killing at the Mexican bar which shows two paramount sides of Mace. He is a stone-cold killer ("But being ugly is better than being nothing...") and a warm-hearted man towards a poor musician whose guitar has been destroyed. The fixing of the guitar becomes Mace's last obsession. The scene I like the most is when General Crawford says to Chambers about Mace : "You, Intelligents people operate in a strange and devious ways. You find a derelict for this job !" Then you see Mace's face with a blind lighting effect. The last important detail is Mace's crazy laugh which indicates the change of his mind. As in most episodes, the main character undergoes a temporary state of schizophrenia. Finally, the transformation chamber and UFO surroundings are eery-enough. An episode directed by Gerd Oswald, written by Robert Towne with peace-loving monsters, that I'm very fond of, and I always thought it was a two-parter show (due to Mace's character). "A man's survival can take many shapes, and the shape in which a man finds his humanity is not always a human one."
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