A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of ... Read allA bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials.A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials.
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- TriviaThe alien ship that lands is called the Gruza. "Gruza" is a Russian word that means "cargo."
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[a group of human Purists have are protesting the admission of a Newcomer student by blocking the school door]
Ms. Purist: They're unnatural. They've already taking too many jobs, our jobs! If we let her in here now, there'll be a hundred more next week.
Protestor: We don't want them mixing with our kids. Their quarantine wasn't long enough. The ACLU got them released too soon. How do we know they're really safe?
Ms. Purist: I say we run them back to Slagtown!
[Matt fires his gun and the crowd falls silent]
Matt: Why stop with running them back to Slagtown, why don't we just kill them?
[fires his gun again]
Matt: Teach them a lesson. Keep them in their place. Keep America pure.
[crowd cheers]
Matt: We don't even need to paint little stars on them to recognize them, do we?
[cheering stops]
Matt: Hell, they'll be easy to round up. Look at them, they stand out even better than the Japs that we threw into concentration camps back in 1942. This will be a piece of cake. And if enough of us get together, it'll almost seem legal, won't it? Put little white pointy sheets on our heads and hang us a few Slags, huh? Let's start with this little one right here.
[takes Emily's hand and winks at her]
Matt: Just 'cause she's an American citizen, that doesn't make her a human being, does it? So what if she's a little brighter than some of our kids? We can beat that out of her. Discourage her enough, she'll give up. So what if she might have come up with a cure for cancer someday? She's not *civilized* like us. So why don't we just put a gun to her head and end it all right here, huh?
[starts offering his gun to the crowd, but no one will take it]
Matt: Come, pull trigger. Come on, take it. Come on!
[to the rally leader]
Matt: How about you, Ms. Purist? I know you want to come pull the trigger. Get down over here! Come on down!
[Ms. Purist doesn't move]
Matt: What, I have to do it myself? Okay.
[cocks the hammer on his gun]
Protestor: No, we don't want her dead. We just want her back where she belongs.
Matt: [uncocks gun's hammer] She belongs *here*.
[holsters his gun and turns to the crowd]
Matt: Aren't you shamed of yourselves?
[faces a black man in the crowd of protestors]
Matt: Aren't *you*?
[the protestors and the teachers come out to meet Matt and Emily]
Matt: Anybody gives this little one any trouble answers to me, got it?
Principal: Yeah, I do.
Matt: [to Emily] You okay?
[Emily nods]
Matt: Good girl. Now, go in there and show them your stuff.
[the teachers take Emily into the school and Matt turns back to the protesters]
Matt: Party's over people. Anybody still here in three minutes will be under arrest for the violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Alien Nation: Fountain of Youth (1989)
This film is actually the reverse of theatrical version... in the theatrical version, we have newcomers transforming into something else.
In this made for TV movie which served to launch the TV series, we have what looks like the appearance of a transformation, but it is some thing else.
If you want to find out what that is, I suggest you watch this. This television film mirrors the original film, but we are brought several steps further into the lifestyles of the newcomers, and we are introduced to George "Sam" Francisco's family, if you watch carefully, you will see George carrying around a coffee cup that says I "heart" San Francisco, reminding us that his actual given name was Sam.
Later, on during the actual series, we are introduced to their language, their religious sects, their physiology, and most important their biology.
It is too unfortunate that this series never got its second season, which apparently was planned, but somehow fox network could not fulfill their obligation. But we were given five very good television movies that carried on the saga.
And even as we watch those five TV movies, they pick up at the same spot where the cliffhanger left us, but certain things could not be replicated, the complicated lock on Sikes apartment door for one thing. But they did do a good job continuing the look of the series and the original film.