July 31, 1984

Scientists around the world are being persecuted, both to discredit them and to distract the rest of the population with a scapegoat to whom they can attribute their fears. Key human individuals are subjected to Diana's special mind-control process called "conversion", which turns them into the Visitors' pawns, leaving only subtle behavioural clues to this manipulation. Others become subjects of Diana's horrifying biological experiments.

Some humans, including Donovan's mother, willingly collaborate with the Visitors, seduced by their power. The grandson of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, joins the Visitor Youth and reveals the location of a scientist family, his neighbors the Maxwells, to the alien cause. One teenager, Robin Maxwell, the daughter of a well-known scientist who went into hiding, is seduced by a male Visitor named Brian, who impregnates her as one of Diana's "medical experiments".