The episode opens with a man and a woman in a dingy apartment having sex. Throughout the encounter, the woman keeps her sunglasses on. When the man reaches for her glasses, she playfully bats his hand away and they continue. Finished, the man falls asleep, but the woman dresses and leaves. An indeterminate time later, the man wakes up and retches, his eyes red and an obvious sweaty fever overtaking him.
German authorities have reported a number of mysterious deaths to the RPA. People have been dying of pneumonia and other symptoms of a suppressed immune system. It's February, 1950 in Berlin, so death by pneumonia isn't uncommon, but the German authorities became suspicious when a number of the corpses have appeared with redness and blisters on their mouths, hands and genitals. Additionally, a number of the deceased were known to frequent the same nightclub in the French sector of Berlin, The Mockingbird. Authorities have requested the RPA to investigate.
Oliver Friend and Rick Patton, only recently met, are in a tenement house in the American sector of Berlin. An apartment inside is known to be the home of Wilhelm Mott, a bartender at the Mockingbird who hasn't reported to work for days. The agents knock on the door, and Wilhelm answers, the same man from the prologue. He is obviously sick, sweating and pale, with a bright red and blistered rash around his mouth. Panicing at the sight of the agents, Wilhelm runs, only to be shot in the leg by Patton. Wilhelm dies as Friend questions him, his last words: "so beautiful, so beautiful, but I never saw her eyes".
Meanwhile, agents Grigori Sudakov, Pham Xuan Ko and Heinrich Ziller have been dispatched by the RPA to investigate a strange report from the East German Volkspolezei. Some school children have discovered what turns out to be flayed human bodies in a bombed out warehouse on the outskirts of Soviet controlled Berlin. Upon further investigation, the agents discover a pile of human skins, removed intact but for a single incision from nape of neck to tailbone. East German authorities burn the warehouse to the ground, "This was never here, and see that it never happens again" they tell the RPA agents. Sudakov leaves word (and bribes) that he should be contacted immediately should anyone in the area see someone approach the warehouse's remains.
At the Volkspolezei station, Heinrich interviews the children who discovered the bodies. They describe men and women they've seen enter and leave the warehouse, sometimes entering in pairs but always leaving alone. They also provide Ziller with a matchbook from the nightclub "The Mockingbird". The children are obviously distraught. Heinrich fears that the children will be emotionally scarred for life, and decides that the best course of action would be to kill the children and put them out of their misery. For the children, and for Germany. When he draws his service revolver, the children begin to scream, and Sudakov and Ko burst into the room, knocking Ziller out and carrying him away before the incident gets any worse.
All of our agents descended on The Mockingbird, filling each other in over the radio on the way. While questioning patrons and the entertainment, a handsome man in sunglasses entered the club and almost immediatly began hitting on a homely woman drinking alone. Some of our agents were immediately suspicious, and approached the man, who broke and ran. The agents attempted to physically restrain the man, but find him to be far to physically powerful. During the skuffle, his glasses are knocked aside and his face torn. Beneath his borrowed skin, the myserious man has a skull that seems to be made from glass with a faint green glow. The thing escapes into the night, and our agents recover and return to base.
Later, Sudakov receives word that his bribe has paid off, two men have entered the remains of the warehouse. Sudakov and Patton rush to the site, leaving word behind for their partners to join them. Arriving at the remains of the warehouse, they discover the alien thing in ragged skin, gently but hurridly pulling the skin from a recently murdered body. Sudakov and Patton engage the creature, keeping it busy until their companions can arrive. Combined firepower disables the creature, but doesn't kill it. A research crew arrives to load the unconcious creature into a led container and cart it away.
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