CBSRMT meets the X-files, sort of, only with no grisly killing.

A helicopter pilot flying over the "Valley of the dead" somewhere in the western desert spots a man believed to be a missing professor and sets the helicopter down. He cheerfully calls into his home base and says he recognizes the professor from photographs and should have no trouble loading him into the 'copter since the professor looks to only weigh about 125 lbs. Home base says that's impossible because the prof (who left only 9 days ago) weighed in at around 250 lbs. The professors is babbling things like "take...out...the wires" and "are you one of us or one of them".

A reporter (with a sordid past) for a National Enquirer type newspaper learns of it and goes to the town to attempt to get information. The helicopter pilot only knows what he witnessed. The doctors won't release information on the professor...finally, he bribes an ICU nurse with champagne to become a confidant. She's kindly enough, and tells him pretty much what the chopper pilot told him. The reporter remembers the U.S. army was conducting experiments in that area and asks his boss to investigate. The boss learns that they were experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs there (no reason given why there and not at a research facility). The reporter goes to the professor's wife, who believes he's going to die. He talks with her and learns that the prof was out there because he was convinced from his research that there was a species of life that had survived the age of the dinosaurs out there, and that these creatures were "saurian", lizard-like humans.

The reporter is convinced: he has to go out there as well.

These two plotlines (the saurians and the hallucinogenic=experiment results) could probably have stood on their own...integrating them was a bit strong. Still, this episode has a mildly surprising "Markheim: Man or Monster?" type ending, and is interesting enough. 