Peter Bach

**Peter Bach** is a character in the science fiction comedy television series *Resident Alien*. He is portrayed by Terry O'Quinn, and by Dylan Sloane in his early adulthood.

## Character overview

While still in early adulthood, Peter Bach witnessed the abduction of his pregnant wife, Jenny's, child, Robert Hutchins, and had an alien tracker implanted him by the Grey aliens. Following this experience, he took on the role of "Alien Tracker" and thirty years later still hopes to be reunited with the child he lost. He spent 15 years working at the Carl Sagan Center at SETI, worked as a government consultant, authored a number of books, and hosts a podcast titled "The Alien Tracker." Like Max Hawthorne, he has the ability to see through the molecular reconstruction process used by Harry Vanderspeigle to blend in as human.

## Plot summary

### Peter and family

Peter Bach boards a bus with his very pregnant wife, Jenny, happily discussing their needs upon becoming parents, including whether to use jarred or homemade baby food. Suddenly, the lights on the bus go out and time seems to freeze around them. Bach heads to the front of the bus and sees that the driver appears to be spilling his coffee, but the coffee is frozen is midair. He tries to force the door open when suddenly his wife shouts for him and appears to float in the air. There is another flash and suddenly everything appears normal, except that now his wife his no longer pregnant. She stands, observes her figure without the baby inside, and screams in horror.

The Grey aliens implanted a tracking chip in both him and his wife. For unknown reasons, every so often they would again abduct either Peter, Jenny, or both, and take them to see their son, Robert.

### Cut off

Thirty years later, Peter Bach is the "Alien Tracker," hosting a panel at a UFO Con in New Mexico. The panel is attended by Asta Twelvetrees and Harry Vanderspeigle, who is an actual alien, having taken on the form of a human man. At the panel, other people share their own supposed experiences with having been abducted. After the panel is over, Vanderspeigle pursues a woman who shared a story during the panel of having had alien technology implanted within her, hoping to use said technology to restore his de-powered device. However, he is spotted by Bach, who is able to see through to his true alien form. Vanderspeigle discovers that the woman was lying and then is forced to evade Bach's pursuit. While trying to evade Bach, he comes up with a plan and ambushes him, then discovers to his surprise that Bach has implanted in his arm the technology that he was looking for. Bach pleads for him not remove it, saying that it's the only hope he has of meeting his child if the Greys who implanted it in him come back. Vanderspeigle, however, tells him that the Greys aren't coming back, that they already got what they wanted, then cuts the tracker out of him, leading him to call him a "monster." After the tracking device is removed, the Greys have no way to find Peter and stop abducting him, cutting him off from contact with his son.

### Meeting Harry again

After having some of her memories removed by Harry Vanderspeigle, Deputy Liv Baker of the Patience Sheriff Office becomes suspicious. She has long believed in aliens, have been the sole witness to a UFO during a camping trip as a child. Suspecting that she is the victim of an alien abduction, she begins tracking sightings of UFOs within Patience. Convinced that there is alien activity within Patience, she contacts Peter Bach, determined to get him to come to the town and investigate. Her first attempt meets only with a recorded message saying that the alien tracker is very busy and to meet him at his next book signing. After, however, numerous phone calls and e-mails, she finally convinces him to come to Patience for a face-to-face meeting.

The two of them sit together in Joe's Diner, discussing the matter, when Harry walks into the diner. Peter immediately recognizes him for who and what he is, remembering him well from the convention. He abandons his luncheon with Liv and begins pursuit of Harry, threatening him with a shock prod. Harry manages to elude him, then gets the jump on him, claiming the shock prod for himself and imprisoning him with the bunker of his cabin, tied up to a chair, gagged, and monitored by a baby monitor.

Asta pays a visit to Harry's cabin and hears the noises from the baby monitor. She rushes into the bunker along with Harry, where Harry unconvincingly claims not to understand how it was that Peter got into his bunker. Asta removes Peter's gag, calling Harry out for having kidnapped Peter. Harry tells Asta that Peter was trying to kill him and Peter replies that Harry ripped the implant out of his neck and he nearly died. Peter tells Asta about his son, and how he was kidnapped by the Greys. Asta tells Harry that they shouldn't be trying to kill each other, they should be helping each other. Peter agrees, telling Harry that he swears on his son that he won't hurt him if he doesn't hurt him in return. Harry gives in, thinking to himself that there is no point in resisting, that Asta always does the right thing.

Harry and Peter put their heads together and Peter reveals that he knows of a secret base in Wyoming where the government is keeping alien specimens and possibly all of their information on the Greys. Harry asks him how they can get into this base and Peter tells him to forget it, that a friend of his gave him some schematics and was killed for it. He continues that even tried to contact General McCallister, the woman in charge, only for them to be all over him after that and him being forced to go underground. "Maybe they will let you in if you have something they want," suggests Harry.

### Infiltration

Thus, a plan is born. Peter and Harry travel to the secret government base, Peter informing the guards at the gate that he has something that General McCallister wants. At first, they deny her even existing, but upon his revealing Harry in his alien form, they immediately radio for her. She heads out and asks Peter where it was he got the alien. He tells her they discuss it inside. She tells him that it's her base and her terms, that he doesn't get to dictate anything. Harry growls and Peter tells her that as the one with the alien, he will dictate what he wants to dictate. She gives him twenty minutes. After twelve minutes inside her office, however, he has yet to give her anything and she is growing impatient. He tells her that his sources say that this place is where she keeps information on alien activity and he wants it. She tells him he should stop listening to the loons at his conventions, but then an alarm blares, as Harry has entered the facility and is attacking. She asks what he thinks he's doing, working with an alien, but he claims he would never do that.

Harry makes his way through the facility, searching for his half human/half alien baby. Meanwhile, Peter questions McCallister over whether she even really has an alien, but she refuses to say. Harry and Peter instigate a riot within the facility, releasing all the prisoners, and then Peter discovers that his son, Robert, is among them. He races through the prison, seeking his son, and finds him. He shouts for him and Robert starts to come over, only for a Grey alien in the form of a human guard named Joseph Rainier to tell him to stop, that he belongs to them. Robert ignores the alien and goes to Peter. The two share a quick embrace, but then Joseph fires a gun, so Peter throws himself in front of Robert to protect him, taking the bullet in his heart. Harry then arrives and throttles Joseph before leaving him for the prisoners to have their way with and runs to Peter. Seeing that his baby with him, Peter comments on it and Harry tells him that he found his baby too. Peter tells him that it's too late for him and to save his son. He dies and Harry and Robert make a hasty escape from the facility.

## Trivia

* Peter Bach is portrayed by Terry O'Quinn, who is known for his role as John Locke on the mystery drama series *Lost*. O'Quinn has also appeared on sci-fi classics such as *Star Trek: The Next Generation*, *The X-Files* and *The Twilight Zone*.
* Terry O'Quinn as credited as a co-star in the second season episodes "Radio Harry" and "Family Day," however, his character does not seem to actually be seen within the episodes. Some fans have speculated that he is the bearded, white-haired counselor that appears at the beginning of "Radio Harry," due to to the similar facial features. The voice of this counselor is also later heard by Liv Baker on a recording towards the end of the episode, suggesting that memory loss is due to an alien encounter and again in "Family Day."

## Quotes

"*Hi, I'm Peter Bach. Most of you know me from my podcast as 'The Alien Tracker'. I have spent fifteen years working at the Carl Sagan Center at SETI. I've been a government consultant. And if you've read my books, you'll know I possess a special skill set that makes aliens fear me.*"

- Peter Bach to the crowd at the alien convention

"*Please don’t take it out. It's the only way they can find me if they come back. It's the only way I’ll ever meet my son.*"

"*They’re not coming back for you. They already got what they wanted."*
- Peter Bach and Harry Vanderspeigle

"*I should have killed you when you were begging me not to rip your neck open like a stupid baby.*"

"*Sometimes I wish you had. The only thing keeping me going was the incontrovertible fact that the next time I saw you, you would be the one cowering in fear.*"

- Harry Vanderspeigle and Peter Bach

"*What the hell happened?"*
"*They took me again. I saw our baby. It's a boy. It's a boy!*"
- Peter Bach and his wife

"*What are you thinking? You're kidnapping people now?*"

"*I had to. He tried to electrocute me with his cooking stick for no reason.*"

"*You ripped an implant out of my neck. I almost bled to death.*"

"*I did not rip. I cut with the scalpel.*"

- Asta Twelvetrees, Harry Vanderspeigle and Peter Bach

"*They implanted me with a tracking chip, and over the years they would take one or both of us to see him, but they stopped that after he took my chip.*"

- Peter, explaining how the Greys would take him or his wife

"*You f... you found your baby.*"

"*So did you.*"

"*It's too late for me. Please... save him. Save my son.*"

- Peter Bach and Harry Vanderspeigle

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