Plot summary
A shabbily dressed old woman lives alone in a remote cabin with no modern conveniences. After hearing a strange, deafening noise above her kitchen, she is accosted by two tiny figures, which appear to be robots or beings wearing pressure suits, small intruders that come from a miniature flying saucer that has landed on her roof.
They attack the woman with small pistol-like weapons that leave radiation burns on her skin. They follow her into her cabin and slash her ankle and hand using her kitchen knife. She eventually is able to wrap one in a blanket and beat it until it is still, then throws it into the burning fireplace. She follows the other to her roof and attacks the saucer-ship with a hatchet.
All this has taken place in silence, but a voice (director Douglas Heyes) is heard speaking in English from within the craft. The intruder frantically warns that his partner, Gresham, is dead; and that the planet is inhabited by a race of giants impossible to defeat. The ship is marked U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1. The invaders were astronauts from Earth; the woman in the small farmhouse belongs to a race of humanoids native to another planet. She destroys the ship and then climbs back down from the roof into the house, exhausted.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, The Invaders (The Twilight Zone). Paragraphs and formatting adjusted; illustrations, reference markers, block quotations and non-story material omitted.