I saw this the other day and will try to relate what it's all about. Buck has come down with some kind of futuristic virus which keeps him confined to bed. He's OK though, he's got a TV and round the clock attention by nurses. While our hero is laid up a delegation of VIPS from Earth arrive. Buck is watching them via his TV monitor and notices something strange. An eerie green aura is surrounding the delegation and it seems no-one else can see it. Buck thinks it's a symptom of the virus and shrugs it off. He sees the same green aura again when the delegation visit him in his sickbed but neither Wilma, Hawk or anybody else from Searcher does. It turns out that the delegates are, in fact, Saurians. Reptile-like ( hence the name ) creatures who have cunningly managed to surround themselves with a field that fools everyone into seeing not Saurians but ordinary Earth men. When they realise that Buck can see through their disguise a quick tweak of the device they wear to enable this transformation means even Buck can no longer see the green aura. The ship then goes off course and is threatened with destruction unless they can steer it to safety. Through all of this drama Buck finally puts two and two together and realises the wool has been firmly pulled over everyone's eyes. He rushes into the control room with his laser pistol and, holding the delegation under gunpoint, turns the thermostat down. The rapid drop in temperature causes the Saurian interlopers to lose consciousness and ( somehow ) revert back to their slimy lizard-like forms. It all ends happily and Buck manages to get a decent kip.
Review of Mark of the Saurian
