John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Logan’s Run. In Night Visitors, they contemplate the role of Satan in science fiction, and in Turnabout, they ask if the writer had an axe to grind about Saudi Arabia.

Night Visitors Synopsis

In an homage to Bulwer-Lytton, it was a dark and stormy night.  The solar car is running low, and Rem and his pets may have to spend the night in the car.  In the flashes of lightning, they think they see two people standing in the rain, but they disappear.

Creeped out, they continue on until they find a beautiful old house.  They’re sure they see a light inside, but no one appears to be home.  Until the two people from the road show up.  They are Barton and Marianna.

They’re creepy but accommodating.  Marianna is expecting Gavin to return this very night, but Barton thinks he will never be seen again.

But he appears, not at the persistently knocking front door, but in the living room.  He, too, is Mr. Creepsville.

Gavin asks them all if they believe in what is or what might be.  Logan and Rem come down solidly on the side of pragmatism.  Jessica, not so much.  Gavin likes her answer.

They retire for the night and creepy things happen.  Rem postulates to Logan that these people are actually ghosts trapped in this haunted house.

Jessica is spirited away by Gavin.  Logan is given a vision in a mirror and finds a key.  They use this information to track down Jessica.

Gavin, Barton, and Marianna, plus a second woman, made a deal with the Prince of Darkness for power hundreds of years ago, but he holds the second woman – Gavin’s woman in a death-like state in a coffin, waiting for someone to willingly take her place.

Gavin plans to convince Jessica to take her place – perhaps not entirely willing, either.  As the dead woman begins to arise, Logan and Rem arrive, Logan shoots the coffin, and the ghosts are all gone.

Next morning, it’s a bright and beautiful day, and they leave.  Unbeknownst to them, the curtains in the upper window draw back as if someone is looking out at them.

Turnabout Synopsis

Crossing the same desert we’ve seen so many times before, Rem and his pets come across a woman lying on the ground.  She was collecting herbs and was overcome by the sun.  They save her, and she warns them to leave immediately

Too late, Gera and his patrol show up and arrest them.  It is forbidden by law to cross the completely unmarked borders of Zidor.  Although it looks as if they might get away with leaving, when they reveal they are Runners they are taken for judgment.

Francis, hot in pursuit, tries to intervene and take them, but to no avail.  They are condemned to death.

Mia, the woman they rescued, contrives to recuse them, as does Francis.  The escape plans happen and cross wires a bit.  Rem and Mia escape, but Francis captures Logan and Jessica.  They make a run for the border sans Taco Bell.

Gera pursues them and recaptures Francis.  Francis is condemned to death.

Logan and Jessica return for Rem, but when Logan discovers Francis will be killed, he rescues him.

Meanwhile, a quiet revolution has happened, and they’re all free to go – with a suitable head start for Rem and his pets.