Desk Clerk
El científico Zane Zamisnsky muere en extrañas circunstancias. Días después, un paquete llega a manos de su hermanastro, Jack Addison, y de la periodista Bridget Riordan. El envío es un dossier de Zane que alerta sobre una invasión extraterrestre. Una invasión que ya ha comenzado: un grupo de aliens se ha infiltrado entre los humanos. Su plan de conquista consiste en alterar la temperatura de la Tierra para acabar con la raza humana.
The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.
