At Cape Canaveral , scientist Dr. David Fielding oversees the first unmanned capsule to land on Mars. A robot probe disintegrates just six minutes after it begins transmitting data back to Earth. Oddly, power readings show a huge surge rather than a steady decline before contact is lost. Fielding heads home to Beverly Hills, where his two children are delighted by the workaholic Fielding's return. Less thrilled is Fielding's estranged wife. Rather than join her husband in Florida she's moved herself and the kids into a guesthouse at the Wainwright Mansion, a decaying, unoccupied estate with still-beautiful grounds; a parcel of prime real estate waiting to be sold. Family members begin suffering lapses of memory, triggered by a crude visual effect in which the areas around their heads momentarily blur. Eventually it becomes clear that the entire family is being duplicated by Martian beings composed of something like electrical energy.
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