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Dick feels devastated and alone, deserted by his alien crewmates.
He sits in the Rambler in a field, staring at the night sky and
lamenting, when Harry, Sally and Tommy appear beside the car with
Janet, a wife for Dick sent by the Big Giant Head. They explain
that the BGH thinks that Mary Albright is distracting Dick from his
duties. Dick is determined to ditch Janet until he learns that
she's the BGH's niece. Sally and Harry are delighted to be back on earth, and they're even more delighted that Janet, enthusiastic about taking on all the wifely duties, has taken over the cooking and cleaning. When a local newscaster reports an alien landing, Officer Don gets on the case, and it's up to Tommy to convince him that the evidence of a landing site that he's found is merely the result of a teenage prank. Janet is fitting into the family rather well, but Dick realizes it can't work, because Janet is determined to have sex with him. He makes her cry when he tells her they have no future. Mary gets suspicious when she sees Dick's elaborate lunch, packed in a picnic basket with a flower. And Dick feels
guilty about the way he's treating Janet, because, he admits, she
really is a nice person.
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