What is the Klae Resource?

John and Eugene start with the first “proper” episode of the 1970’s Invisible Man Series with the episode entitled The Klae Resource.

Synopsis:

Dan and Kate Westin have settled into their new life as “The Klae Resource.”  In exchange for funding to try to reverse Dan’s permanent invisibility, they perform espionage services at the behest of the US Government.

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Lionel Parks is a multi-millionaire, tycoon and inventor.  He owns a number of Las Vegas casinos and, reportedly, lives in the penthouse of one of them.  He is notoriously reclusive and no one, apart from his right-hand man, Jim Fielder, has seen his for years.

The Energy Department has come asking the Klae Resource for help – even though they don’t know what it is.

Parks’ company has developed a technique to triple the yield of refined petroleum products from crude oil.  He’s also placed the product up for bid and the highest bidder is an Arab nation.  Parks is an ultra-patriot and they cannot believe he would sell to the Arabs.

But when they call him with a voice analyzer device, Fielder uses a computer to simulate Parks’ voice.  The voice analyzer at the Klae Corporation cannot identify it as a fake.  Dan is sent to Las Vegas to get inside and find out if Parks is still alive, or somehow under control of Fielder.  This should be a piece of cake because Dan Westin is THE INVISIBLE MAN!

His first attempt is quite simple.  He walks in, invisible, and, with a variety of minor ruses, gets the guards to open the various doors he needs to pass through.  Alone in the computer room, he discovers the computer that simulates Parks’ voice.  He also finds a locked elevator door and an alarm system that is triggered by his physical presence.  Gas is released into the room.

Luckily the gas doesn’t incapacitate Dan enough that he cannot escape, but they will have to come up with Plan B.

Plan B is this:  Dan uses his powers of invisibility to rig it so that Kate wins big at the tables, first roulette, then craps.  When Fielder gets interested, Dan (now visible again) explains they have an unbeatable system, and they’ll sell it to Parks – but only Parks.

No deal.  Parks sees no one.

Dan explains it’s also the system that allows him to know that they have a computer that simulates Parks’ voice in the computer room upstairs.  His hand forced, Fielder calls the limo to take them to “the Farm” to see Parks.  In reality, it’s a one-way ride to their death.

Luckily, Dan has an ace up his sleeve.  He just needs to strip off all his clothes while in the backseat of a limo being driven by two armed thugs, and he’ll be THE INVISIBLE MAN.  This he does and easily subdues the bad guys, stealing their car and returning to Fielder.

This time he holds Fielder at gunpoint and forces him to take him to the secret elevator and finally to see Parks himself.

Parks, although actually a recluse, is also being held prisoner and hasn’t been out of his luxury cell in years.  Dan convinces him that the wants to leave this room and convinces him it can be done by showing him that he’s THE INVISIBLE MAN – after first getting Parks to Pinky Swear that he’ll never tell.

Fielder has no intention of letting Dan go free, but because Dan is THE INVISIBLE MAN, he over-powers Fielder and he and Parks just walk out of the penthouse and have Fielder arrested.

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