Barry Crane — Director
Episodes 2
Thirty-Six Hours
Artemis space shuttle releases satellite into space and switches to the ALM automatic landing mode. Mission Control is happy.
At Parkland Space Center, a fire truck is let onto the base and hooks up a fire hose to a building and turns on a gas cannister. Mission Control begins passing out.
Two men run in, dressed like firemen, and pull a device out of the computer. They unhook the hose and drive away.
When Dr. Autrey at Mission Control wakes up, he realizes that the shuttle will land in 36 hours and has no landing device.
At home, Matthew is building a house of cards while watching the space shuttle deploy its cargo. Walt can't believe the primitiveness of it all. The communication rings flash and it's time to miss dinner again.
Matt and Walt meet General Wymore at the movies; an alien movie in particular. The ALM system has been stolen and time is running out for the space shuttle. The shuttle can't land without it and there is no backup device. Their contact at Parkland will b
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A plane lands and Matt, Walt, Terry Wilson and his son, Ryan, get off. They've spent the weekend vacationing in Moose Valley. As they go into a diner at the airport, two men are putting chloroform on a rag. They take out the man refueling the plane.
Ryan is taking photos out on the airfield and sees the men stealing the plane and hollers for help.
The three come running out, but the plane is already in the air. Terry admits that he left his briefcase inside, which had NATO defense plans inside. He must get it back.
Matt and Walt develop the photos and see photos of hat emblems and shirts: Lucky Lindy Air Show and Redlands.
At the Redlands, a plane lands in the hangar, and new paint and numbers are immediately applied. As Lou oversees this, his girlfriend, Nancy, walks up and confirms their dinner date.
Lou goes back into the hangar and turns a key on a steel box on the wall. A secret door opens and he goes inside to talk to his partner, Latimer. The exchange for money will be
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