It’s the final two episodes of the Invisible Man.

First Dan must battle an escaped mental patient that’s holding the Klae Resource hostage – he just doesn’t know what he’s got. Then Dan needs to thwart some cold war shenanigans to allow world peace through plastic surgery.

John and Eugene close out their coverage of the Invisible Man.

Powerplay Synopsis

A man named Pike bypasses the security of the Klae Corporation and gets to Walter’s office. He seems to know everything there is about the security precautions Walter has in place. He even knows about the Klae Resource – everything except what it actually is.

At gunpoint he forces Walter to reveal that it is the secret of invisibility and that he is the Invisible Man. Pike has to not see it to believe it though and Walter explains that he can only remove his dermaplast fake skin with the help of the boffins, Dan and Kate Westin. Walter tries to come to an understanding with Pike, to learn how he knows about the security and the Klae Resource. He gets his answer: Pike is clinically insane and an escapee from an asylum for the criminally insane. His cellmate was none other than Morgan Klae, former board member of the Klae Corporation.

They go to the lab and, still at gunpoint, Walter is forced to become invisible. He attempts a ruse that, while invisible, you can still see him and interact with him because the dermaplast shell remains behind in the machine. In the control room, Dan slips off his clothes and tries, unsuccessfully, the wrestle the gun from Pike. He fails and is shot in the process.

Carlson still tries to sell his story. Yes, that was him trying to wrestle the gun away. Pike now believes that invisibility is a reality, but he’s not sold on the story Carlson is spinning. You see, because he is clinically insane, Pike is a human lie detector. And he can tell when they’re lying. He knows they are both telling the truth and lying, probably in an attempt to escape or overpower him.

He demands another demonstration, this time strictly under his control. Dan; however, collapses from his bullet wound, which he’s been concealing. The truth comes out. Pike sees that parts of Dan are invisible. Dan still maintains the ruse that he needs the equipment to “release” the dermaplast mask and gloves.

Kate has her, “I am woman, hear me roar,” moment and then goes to operate the equipment to Dan’s specifications. Dan pretends that the equipment has released his dermaplast, and goes invisible. He performs a few tricks on Pike’s commands and then the equipment blows up because Kate overloaded it. Using the distraction, Dan clubs Pike over the head with a chair.

All’s is well that ends well, Pike is sent back to the mental institution and Dan and Kate are indentured to the Klae Corporation even longer so they can pay off the equipment they broke. The happy face of American compassionate capitalism smiles down on them from their corporate overlord.

An Attempt to Save Face Synopsis

Dr. Nick Maggio, inventor of Dermaplast and creator of the lifelike mask Dan Westin, the Invisible Man, wears is called to a hospital in Chicago for a bit of cloak and dagger surgery.

He has been summoned by Chairman Rojin of the Union of Surrogate Soviets. All the dictators around the world are kind of old and there’s always some young guy trying to knock him off his perch. Although it is illegal in his country, and counter to revolutionary principles, Rojin has decided that he needs a face lift, and he has come to American, in the strictest secrecy to have it done by the very best, Dr. Maggio.

Maggio drives a hard bargain, but Rojin agrees: His country will contribute more to the UN, stop selling weapons to the Middle East, release political prisoners being held and allow Maggio to get his two special surgical assistants, Dr. Dan Westin and his wife, Nurse Kate Westin. Success in this operation could be a major step towards world peace.

When Rojin’s personal doctor, and perhaps something more, Dr. Storoff, arrives having been left out of the secret, she cancels the surgery, sedates Rojin so she can spirit him back to their country, locks up Maggio.

Comedy ensues as Dan must foil Dr. Storoff’s plans to return Rojin to Union of Surrogate Soviets, by pretending to be Rojin, while Dr. Maggio performs the surgery on the real Rojin, AND he must foil an assassination plot by Major Kolchak, his personal aid and also one of those young guys trying to knock him off his perch.