The interceptors are launched, but recalled without firing on the UFO, but the shot of the interceptors breaking off...... shows they've fired their missiles.

Perhaps they aren't allowed to land with live ordnance, and are forced to ditch their missiles.

There's something I never liked about the interceptors... They seem to be single shot. I don't remember if they have machine guns to go with the single missile.

It was a major flaw in the design of them, I think. In most fanfic (including mine) you will find that writers have corrected this problem, sometimes in very ingenious ways. I simply made them capable of multiple shots. It actually gives you more room for an advancement of the storyline that way, since it keeps them up against the foe for a longer period and allows for the aliens to shoot back. You'd think that Anderson and the guys would have thought of that one.

I think Mr Anderson *had* thought of that and chose to make the interceptors single-shot. This reinforces (no pun intended there) the concept of our defences being relatively weak against the UFOs.

Cute title. I never really got it until I was more of an adult and understood the concept of a "love triangle". The alien squared the triangle by being the unexpected fourth person who protects the poor husband from being shot!

Straker and Co. don't realize that the woman and her lover are crooks until after the amnesia drug has been administered. They speculate that the woman and her lover, not realizing they've already tried, will try again. I wonder if SHADO people fix up the house so it looks close to the way it should be.

Also, if the amnesia drug only works for a retroactive 24 hours, what happens if it takes more than 24 hours to get to people who've seen what they shouldn't see?

I was reading an article about Jay Leno fixing up a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronodo. The car sure looked familiar; it's the same car the couple is driving in the beginning of this ep. Not exactly a 1980's automobile, but the car is still nice-looking!

The game warden is shot, the bullet holes look like they would have pierced the lungs, but it looks like the game warden is still breathing without coughing or choking.

A closeup of the alien, still wearing the helmet with the broken viewplate, is not wearing the protective contact lenses that he should be. Since he's still wearing his helmet I assume he couldn't have removed them.

Supposedly the dog ripped a piece off of the alien's suit, but I couldn't see a ripped off piece on the suit.

It looked like the alien was still breathing after being shot.

Oh, GCapp, I think Straker said the amnesia drug would erase the past 12 hours, not 24.

KAM is correct about the amnesia drug.

A very nice, chilling ending.

A closeup of the alien, still wearing the helmet with the broken viewplate, is not wearing the protective contact lenses that he should be. Since he's still wearing his helmet I assume he couldn't have removed them.

Later on, when he splashes his face in the brook, he's wearing the contacts.

When I was younger I was under the impression (as silly as it seems now), that the woman was visiting the grave of the alien she killed! Now, obviously, I know it must be the husband's grave. You'd have thought that SHADO could have anonymously told him that his wife wanted to kill him, but no, they just allowed the wife and young man to follow through with their plot. So much for protecting human life!

We never learn what the alien was going to do, alone, without a ship, on Earth. Doesn't anybody wonder what his mission was prior to his unexpected death?

I could have sworn I had written about the murder plot here.

Anyway one way they could have protected the husband was just send an anonymous note to the wife & her lover mentioning that if the husband ends up dead information about the plot will go to the police. That way the wife & her lover would know that someone knows, but not who & fear of capture should do the rest.

Allan Cuthbertson, who played the husband, Jack Newton, would have a role 5 years later in the classic 'Fawlty Towers' episode, 'Gourmet Night', where he played Colonel Hall, who has a strange, distracting nervous twitch that freaks out Basil somewhat.
Decades ago (I'm sooo old!), when I was a kid and into my teens, I would tape record episodes of various shows (obviously Star Trek'), but I also remember recording this one. I'm really not sure why I did this, since this is such an Earth-bound story without alot of the cool battle music and UFO-dogfights, which I obviously preferred back then.