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Once again, aliens have landed on earth, and of course, the army, here
represented by General Crawford (Henry Brandon) immediately thinks they
are hostile and want to blow up the world - especially after they have
blown up a patrol car in self defense. So his solution is to blow them up
first. Secret Service man Leon Chambers (Horard Caine) however suggests a
different approach: he wants to turn his best agent, Mace (Robert Duvall),
into an alien via DNA transfusion and let him get in touch with the other
aliens to try to find out what they are planning.
Even though Mace looks perfectly convincing as an alien, the two aliens
in the UFO look through his charade immediately, but they turn out to be a
peaceloving species, and when Mace asks to be taken with them to their
planet, they agree, much to the shock of General Crawford, who wants to
have the UFO bombed immediately so no earth secrets fall into the
hands of the enemy ... once again though, Chambers stops him and convinces
him to first try the emergency buzzer, which will signify Mace to
jump into action immediately ... and really, when teh buzzer is pressed,
Mace immediately kills one of the aliens then hunts down the other.
However he doesn't kill him but asks him if the offer to take him to their
planet is still valid (what ?) - and wouldn't you know it, the alien is
nice enough to agree (double what ?).
By this amount of humanity, even the General is touched and he lets the
UFO fly off in peace ...
First the good news: The Chameleon is not a disgusting
anti-Commie propaganda like so many other episodes of Outer Limits,
in this one the aliens even are the goodies. But this is about the only
nice thing I can say about the episode. The whole thing, based on a story
and co-scripted by the much overrated Robert Towne, is silly as hell, and
it totally lacks tension and suspense. And if all that wasn't enough, the
happy ending is nothing more than mere kitsch - and not the good sort of
kitsch either. Forget it !
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