Dan deals with the peccadilloes of the Klae family and nearly loses his job in the Klae Dynasty and then, he encounters someone who renders his super powers meaningless in Sight Unseen.  John and Eugene discuss these two episode of the Invisible Man.

The Klae Dynasty Synopsis

The Klae Family are coming to the Klae Corporation, and security is at its tightest, for a credible kidnapping threat has been leveled against Caroline Klae, one of the owners.  The Klae corporation is a privately-owned corporation with only three stockholders, siblings Caroline, Morgan, and Julian.  Caroline and Morgan have differing opinions on how to run the corporation.  Caroline favors peaceful research projects that can benefit mankind, Morgan favors lucrative military weapons contracts.  Julian is a spineless playboy who just wants to live his life of leisure, drinking.  Caroline’s ramrod personality dominates Julian, making her the controlling partner of the corporation.

Caroline is holding a Planetary Commission conference at the corporation’s headquarters.  She is bringing together the finest minds in the world to map out public policies on the economy, energy, and the environment.  Morgan, who is against the whole ridiculous idea of making the world a better place, has come along anyway to make sure security is tight.  He coordinates with Capt Scopes, long-time head of security for the Klae corporation and guest artist we’ve never seen previously on the series.

It turns out that, owing to the iron-clad security contracts, the Klae family do not know what the Klae Resource is; however, Morgan and Scopes demand control of it as a way to protect Caroline.  Walter and the Westins refuse to reveal what it is and come perilously close to being unemployed.

While demonstrating the nuclear reactor rods which are disguised as the floors in the corporate theatre, Caroline is kidnapped by the caterers.  Dan, invisible, has a white-knuckle ride clinging to the back of the kidnappers’ van, keeping with them until the transfer to a helicopter.  Dan realizes something is amiss, and believes the so-called kidnapped woman is a decoy and that Caroline Klae is being held at the Corporation headquarters.

When he returns, his absence is noted by Scopes and not adequately explained.  Scopes is suspicious, and when Dan’s fingerprints are found on the back of the kidnappers’ vehicle, he comes under suspicion.  Dan, having gone invisible to search the buildings, appears to have done a runner, further increasing suspicion.

With no kidnappers’ demands having been made, Morgan is convinced Caroline has been killed and pressures his spineless brother to relinquish control of the corporation to him.

Of course, Dan discovers that Morgan and Scopes are the actual organizers of the kidnapping and that Caroline is being held in the nuclear reactor under the theatre.  Without protecting, she will be fatally irradiated by morning.

Dan gets her out and Morgan is uncovered as the baddie. 

Sight Unseen Synopsis

Mr. Cappas, a former mobster, is going to turn state’s evidence.  If only someone hadn’t kidnapped his blind daughter and is holding her to ensure that Cappas will not testify.  The FBI turn to the Klae Resource for help.

Kate Westin is able to coax the labored sound of breathing from the kidnappers’ tape.  Cappas identifies that as the breathing of Mr. Hallman, the right-man of mobster James James (a character that proves that every writer, someday, will eventually run out of character names.)

James owns a semi-legit trucking company in Florida, so Dan and Kate travel there to find out of that’s where the girl is being held.  With a few blisters on his feet, Dan gets in and finds the girl.  Being blind, she knows he’s there, and cannot understand how the bad guys keep missing him.  His excursions have triggered a few alarms and now James is nervous and decides to move the girl out in the next hour.

Dan’s original mission was simply to find out of the girl is there, but now he must find a way to get her out before it is too late.

Cappas, having also learned that James is behind the kidnapping travels to Florida and takes Kate prisoner, and then storms the James James Trucking Company.  The FBI and the police, realizing that Kate has been taken also raid the place.

In a final confrontation in James’ office, Dan flicks the gun from James’ hand and Kate takes them all prisoner.  With the girl rescued, Cappas agrees once again to turn state’s evidence.

One wonders if he’ll be granted immunity from prosecution for kidnapping Kate?