The tense prologue starts very well: Lt. Minns is on the nightly war front and is shot down by an unseen Viet—shot hand-held as in a documentary film—and then, unconscious Minns is lying on an operating room where a surgeon is carefully watched by Adam Ballard throughtout a wall of glass (an invisible barrier or a pre-force field): the setting reminds the morbid season 1 and episodes as "The Architects of Fear" and "The Man With The Power". We are also introduced to the world of the Officials of the State, the Secretary of Science and the Federal Bureau Security: an euphemism to avoid the name F.B.I. as in the season 1 "The Invisibles" with the G.I.A. instead of the C.I.A. The team of experts find that the four soldiers have a dual brainwave patterns as well as a raising I.Q. of 200 that come from organic honeycombs bullets and strangely they use the word "R.N.A." instead of "D.N.A."? As in "The Chameleon", Ballard is lit with a blind effect while talking to Minns—whose growing interest is in the finance—in his hospital room. Ballard meets his military counterpart via Captain Nwa—actor James Shigeta plays another hard-boiled soldier who guns down in the belly a "sneaky" Viet guerrilla in cold blood—to bring back a sample of the "living" stone to Washington. One of the rare charm and quality of this two parter come from the use of the traditional dolly shot, especially when Minns hypnotizes a nurse and a MP to leave the hospital. Minns goes speculate to the New York Stock Exchange with $500 to gain over $400.000 in an office decorated with two paintings—among them a Miro—to send funds to his foreign allies: Copenhague's steel factory-working Conover (the torn-inside religious man who prays), Tokyo-based Renaldo and Wichita County's warehouse-working Hadley—a young biochemist threatened by an old dog blackmailer Mr. Larkin (Dabbs Greer) which is mentally-ordered to choose between committing suicide with his own gun or signing property papers. After Steve Ihnat, actor James Frawley is the most interesting soldier-character: Renaldo, a depressed, drunk and hot-tempered motor engineer who makes an amusing unconscious reference to the actor's future job on TV—directing 32 episodes of the pop band shows "The Monkees"—in this term: "You're hooked! The monkeys got you, you do what's inside your head!" To get rid of (and as a joke) Ballard, Renaldo sends him to Indianapolis to watch the car race. Skeptical and cynical Ballard is convinced that there's an evil plot behind all this: "Don't you understand, they could be a terrible threat!". The last scene of the hotel's mantrap depicts the summit of the "Men In Black" imagery that I title "Adam and the Feds". Notice the rare title before the end credits: "The Inheritors - End Part I". After "Demon With a Glass Hand", this is the second great one but which heavily relies on fine actors (Robert Duvall-Steve Inhat: in particular-James Frawley) and a clever mixture of many genres blended with a globe-trotting quest: war movie, espionage and science-fiction. As in the previous season ("The Sixth Finger"), James Goldstone makes this one a winner. Another one that makes reference to the war (see "Nightmare", "Moonstone") but this time, it is Vietnam and a pacifist statement. As in "Cry of Silence", a meteor crashlands on Earth and contains alien intelligence. It shows other human guinea pigs under the influence of an alien will but with no malevolent purpose (unlike "Corpus Earthling"). Actually, this is the positive side of "The Invisibles" where Earthmen are invaded for their own good. James Goldstone's intented pilot for a new series features agent Adam Ballard which is in the line of agent John Bartlett from the season 1 "The Children of the Spider County" that suffers from a rigid F.B.I. characters' structure: the Feds investigate on four gifted men. Actor Robert Duvall plays the opposite role of his season 1's part (Mace, the weak undercover C.I.A. agent in "The Chameleon"), he is now the proud, self-assured and cynical scientifical agent (this may be Mace at the beginning of his career?). Oddly enough, Steve Ihnat will play another superior infiltrator in the season 3 episode from "Mission: Impossible": "The Mind of Stefan Miklos" in which he is not driven by an alien force, he's just a foreign top-agent, with a photographic memory, from USSR. Czech-born Steve Ihnat died at the age of 38 from a sudden heart attack while showing his second film, the western "The Honkers" (starring James Coburn)—that he wrote and directed; OL John Caper, Jr. did the music editing, by the way—at the Cannes film festival: May 12, 1972. The figure of the brain is present as in "The Human Factor" (mind transfer) or "The Man With The Power" (implanted device) or "Corpus Earthling" (embedded metal plate that allows to hear alien invaders). Another monsterless one that proves to be intelligent, sensitive and original in its contents and the best of the two parts.