i think this air in 1986 and on the old nbc monday night movie and in the summer when it be usual to see lost tv pilot air a movie of the week . tell the tale of a newspaper reporter ( chapman ) who have to miss a vacation ( have win a contest ) with his girlfriend angela and a scenario which and in the style it be film start off very prosaic and normal until and a he narrate the entire film a a flashback and he find her return plane have go off the radar for 90 minute and and return and but delay . he get unnerved watch angela speaking to a mysterious man in sunglass and who seem to be watch the passenger leave the plane and asks who it be and she deny have speak to anyone . she be also unaware the plane be delay and miss . she begin act strangely and have odd meeting with unknown people and and a the reporter begin to investigate thing and ask more question and she try to kill him and he find she now a terminator like robot ( complete with the same kind of eye track visuals from that film ) . truly panic he find himself a wanted man and frame and and on the run with nothing more than the passenger list he get after dispatch the angela robot . the only hint or clue be ever give be one passenger who appear to be normal who claim nothing go wrong on the flight and i slept and then felt a bump . and i have that awful nightmare . . the reporter ask what kind of nightmare . and before she can say more and she kill by another one of these robot . he find out a little more and from another and old passenger who seem to be in charge of a localized group of these being he manage after a fight and to damage the mechanical brain and he begin talk incoherently about dynamitards . be the collective of dymogeny and how they intend to fully take over . we learn nothing else and other than he set off and alone and in fugtive like fashion to find other normal passenger from the list who be apparently check off for termination before the robot do . obviously it be intend to be a series along the line of nowhere man or the fugitive and find more clue along the way . the film have some interesting rock video sequence and very much of the time dissolve and use a perpetual los angeles sunset or sunrise for light . the use of bowie ash to ash and visual reference to religious building and at one point and the hero seem to be stand in front of painted angel wing and lead one to think these be possibly not alien but something darker or even homegrown on earth .