Scott (Black Leather Jackets)

Scott is the main protagonist of "Black Leather Jackets", the 18th episode of the 5th season of The Twilight Zone, which aired in 1964. He is an alien infiltrator who was sent to Earth to exterminate humanity for his species' benefit, although he defected from the cause. Scott is externally identical to a human, although he ages slower, possesses telekinesis, and can influence the minds of humans. While physically appearing to be a young man, he is older by human standards, as his species ages slower than humans.
Scott was portrayed by the late Lee Kinsolving.
== Biography ==
In the mid-20th century, the leader of a humanoid alien race sought to destroy Earth to use the planet for his species' expansion, justifying his actions by declaring humans to be hateful and violent, thus inferior and undeserving of life, a claim supported by Earth's history and constant media coverage of violence and tragedy. To take over the planet, the leader sent dozens of infiltrator squads to Earth, disguised as humans in various professions and only identifiable via an alien symbol carried on a badge somewhere on their persons, unrecognizable by humans. The first area to be eliminated was somewhere in the United States, where at least 29 different squads, dubbed Bacteria Units, were deployed to, with a mission of infecting water supplies with an alien bioweapon that would kill all who drank it. Scott, along with his older brothers Fred and Steve, were assigned to Bacteria Unit 59 together, and sent to a town somewhere in the United States. While Steve doubted Scott's ability to stay true to the mission due to believing him to be too young, the three took on the guise of young bikers, and rented a house together. Riding to their new house on their motorcycles, the aliens took on the attitudes and speech patterns of stereotypical bikers, and had human moving company workers haul in boxes of communications equipment.
Once the workers had left, the aliens set up their communications terminal to their leader, creating power fluctuations in the nearby houses. That night, the fluctuations caused a human living next door, Stu Tillman, to investigate, assuming the aliens were ham radio operators, and wanting to know if they were licensed. He found the door unlocked, and was soon confronted by the aliens. When asked if they were ham radio operators, the aliens laughed at him, and when asked who they were, Steve jokingly responded that they were monsters, Scott saying that they were from space, and Fred adding that they wanted to see the human leader. When Stu tried to question them again, Steve poked him in the stomach while making a comment about a raygun, and the three aliens then began mockingly pushing Stu around between themselves, until Stu managed to break free and declared he'd call the police. However, Steve approached him, and using his mind control abilities, ordered Stu to forget it. Stu promptly forgot the encounter, and took on a blank, almost mindless attitude for the rest of the night as he robotically walked home, the aliens returning to their post.
A week later, Scott went outside on his motorcycle, presumably on guard duty, but noticed Ellen Tillman, Stu's daughter, being abandoned by a zooming bus. Intrigued, Scott pulled up to her and asked what was wrong. Ellen told him about how bus drivers in the area commonly prank passengers with such actions, but Scott was confused by her mention of "lucky stars" when she told him to be thankful for avoiding such troubles, as Scott only understood stars as a scientific concept. Realizing he was slipping into the over-technical speech patterns of his species, he quickly tried to change back a biker-type attitude, amusing Ellen. Ellen then asked him for a ride, and Scott accepted, driving Ellen to a park in front of a library. They arrived fairly quickly, and Ellen asked Scott to walk with her, which Scott accepted. The two sat in a gazebo together, and Ellen asked questions about Scott, such as why he never bothered to say hello after moving in. Scott managed to hide his alien origins by just claiming to be from somewhere so far that Ellen never heard of it, and told Ellen how he finished school ten years ago, noting that his "people" didn't show their age. He became smitten with Ellen's beauty, telling her how pretty she was, but when Ellen was about to leave due to the lateness of the hour, Scott used his telekinesis to move the hands of her watch back to an hour earlier. Ellen, not realizing what had happened, decided to stay with him, but unknown to the two, Steve and Fred managed to monitor them.
Over the course of the next five days, Scott would routinely leave his posts to be with Ellen, finding her to be entirely the opposite of the leader's propaganda of what humans were, prompting his brothers to proceed without him. After five days, Scott and Ellen met again in the park at night, where Scott asked Ellen about love, wondering how a human as nice as her could exist if the news was full of hate and violence. When he asked about why he never heard any report on someone like her, Ellen decided to leave, now uncomfortable with Scott's strange questions, and noted how Scott seemed to be lying to her. Scott angrily replied that Ellen was unfit to judge him, but then apologized, realizing that he expected too much. When he returned to the rented home, Steve telekinetically restrained him against a wall, and demanded to know what Scott had told Ellen. Scott denied telling her anything, and Steve told Scott that from here on out, he would just be along for the ride, before releasing him. Steve and Fred then contacted the leader again, and told him how they approximated that it would take 48 hours to exterminate the state's population, prompting the leader to order the contamination to begin at once. Scott, hearing that, ran off to warn Ellen, getting to her house and calling her downstairs, before hiding in the bushes as Steve and Fred passed on their way to the nearest reservoir.
When Ellen met him in front of her house, Scott tried to tell her about the invasion, and that he had to take her somewhere safe. However, when she began to doubt him, Scott began to tell her about his true origins, but Ellen simply thought he was insane, and ran back inside. Scott then ran off to the communications equipment, contacting the leader, and pleaded with the leader to stop the invasion, saying that their research was wrong, that the aliens had only documented the brutes, and that humans were capable of love and peace, but the leader only denounced him as a traitor and cited the research, before cutting off the transmission. With no options left, Scott ran back to the Tillmans' house, but when he got in, he saw Deputy Harper already waiting for him inside, and quickly recognized "Harper" as another alien, part of the advance unit. Harper then summoned guards from a nearby asylum, who apprehended Scott. While Scott tried to struggle, Harper ordered him to stand down, telling him that he would only make things more difficult. With that, Scott was taken away, and was presumably executed or imprisoned, unable to stop the extermination of the human race.
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