Number These in chronoligical order Because the neighborhood people begin to believe in the comic book plot that one neighbor is not who they appear to be, most of the neighborhood people begin looking for differences and strange quirks amongst the neighbors in an effort to find people to blame for nothing working on the street. They begin searching for a scapegoat...someone to blame for these events that are happening.

Pete Van Horn decides to check if the people on Flower street are having the same problems.

Charlie shoots the figure then all the neighbors run to the body to find that it was Pete Van Horn who was returning from Floral Street. Pete is now dead and Charlie is shocked. He says it was an accident and it must be a gag or something because he didn’t know it was a neighbor and didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

Lights in houses up and down the street are beginning to turn on and off. People switch blaming neighbor after neighbor. Mass panic begins as neighbors attack each other.

Tommy, a young neighborhood boy, suggests that the events on Maple Street are just like in his comic book where Aliens sent down a family that looked like people to help prepare for an alien invasion

The neighbors begin to wonder if Charlie had to shoot Pete Van Horn to keep him from sharing what was happening on Floral Street or perhaps revealing that Charlie is the monster.

The neighbors turn on Charlie and he runs back to his house. Shots flash of neighbors picking up weapons like rocks, bricks, even the hammer from Pete Van Horn’s body and the shotgun that killed him. The neighbors begin to attack Charlie on his porch but he yells out that he know who it is that doesn’t belong among them...it’s Tommy!

Neighbors discover machines in the neighborhood don’t work (Cars, stoves, phones, and lights)

Tommy’s mother insists that he is just a little boy. Neighbors point out that he has known what was happening since the beginning while others ask how could he have known all this if he were just a little boy.

In the absence of no other explanation for the weird events, people on Maple street begin to believe in Tommy’s comic book plot as if it were real. They rush over to Les Goodman’s car but Steve calms them by saying, “Let’s not be a mob”

One alien tells the other alien, “The result of this experiment is always the same with few variations. Turn off a few of their machines and the people look around for the most dangerous thing they can find... themselves. They will destroy each other and we will move from one town to another….” In this comment, the aliens have revealed they do plan to take over the world, one street and town at a time without lifting a finger and allowing the humans to kill each other out of fear of the unknown and the desperate search for a scapegoat.

Les Goodman, a neighbor, has a car that starts on its own while no one else has anything that is working.

Neighbors set up outside watching Les Goodman’s house and Steve tries to calm the neighbors down but then one of them mentioned Steve’s Ham radio set in the basement. The neighbors begin to turn on him as if he is the alien in disguise and as if he were using the radio set to signal the aliens to come down.

Neighbors pick on Les first because he stares at the sky at night. Les says he does this because he suffers from insomnia but the neighbors feel it is because he is waiting for something or looking for something.

A flash lights up the sky as it flies over “the last calm and reflective moments on Maple Street.”

Les calls the neighbors, “Scared, frightened rabbits” and cautions, “You are letting something begin here that is a nightmare”.

The narrator says the tools of conquest (a take over) do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fall out (Like the military takeovers people are used to). There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices (Meaning that fear can be used as a weapon) - to be
found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat (Someone to blame) has a fallout all of its own (Meaning...you will find someone to blame but it does not mean that the person you blame is the person who caused the problem in the first place.)

The people of Maple street notice a dark figure walking down the street toward them. Charlie grabs a shotgun and tells Steve “I won’t let you talk us into a grave! You’d let whoever is out there walk all over us. Well, I won’t!” People are scared and don’t try to stop Charlie.

Steve and the other neighborhood adults think Tommy is just being a silly kid.

The screen widens out and the audience can see there really are aliens controlling the lights and machines on maple street as people run around panicking and attacking each other.