David is seemingly pursued by enemies on all sides. A telekinetic showdown with Simon and Sonia is going well, until the Tall Men show up.
The first half of this episode starts off with the Tyrusian king Cale-Oosha making the trip down to Earth, expecting to begin peaceful relations with the humans. His uncle, the Dragit, however, had set up a secret underground base in the Utah desert with the plan to conquer Earth. Cale-Oosha forbids such a plan and barely manages to escape with his life and his friend and bodyguard Rafe. He is rescued by Rita Carter, a human who just happened to wandering the desert in her Jeep that night. While they are resting in a cave, they are attacked by a mangler – a Tyrusian species that looks a bit like a small, vicious dinosaur. Cale strangles it/breaks its neck; shortly thereafter, Rafe finds them. Rita takes them in as they have no where alse to turn. A few years later, Rita and Cale are living in a small town in Massachusetts named Glenport. They are still together and have managed to have a little boy, David. Cale however is called off to lead the fight against the Dragit.
David Carter learns about his heritage and the danger he is in the hard way when he is attacked by telekinetics, and mysterious ""Tall Men"", and sees his house and mother dissappear in a ball of light.