Tim's other friends including Lizzie and Brace meet Martin without knowing that he really is a martian yet, after this Brace is captured by the SETI gang and taken to prison as she is mistaken by them as an alien after being put to sleep by a dart gun.Īs the story continues, Tim secretly tapes Martin and Zoot with hidden cameras to start up his story and impress the staff at the TV station he worked for, just as Martin and Zoot face a severe problem with the ship, discovering a small system called the Interstellar Safety System preparing Martin's ship for self-destruct, sending him into depression, just as Brace passionately comes to visit Tim and, while he's not looking, acquire the Martian evidence while Tim hides Martin and deals with him.
Tim and Martin also stop by at a beach wear shop and Martin buys a new pair of clothes and leaves Zoot in the fitting room but then escapes out. Martin ends his story, by saying that Neenert first arrived on Earth in 1964. While exploring Tim's neighborhood world, Martin tells him about a friend of his named "Neenert," and Martin also explains that Neenert was one of his planet's most gifted Martian scientists. Eventually, the Martian, being named "Uncle Martin" by Tim and his wise-cracking, sentient suit ("Zoot," as voiced by an uncredited Wayne Knight), explore the city in which Tim lives, unaware that they are being spied on by an extraterrestrial research agency called SETI, which has since discovered some of the DNA left by Martin during his hideout from Tim, the night his ship crashed.
When Tim confronts the Martian once more, he discovers that the "electron accelerator," a small device which powers the control systems of the ship, is damaged beyond repair and the Martian seeks Tim's help to find a replacement.
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As Tim takes the now-shrunk spaceship home with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it, eventually knocking Tim out, plus ending up communicating with Lizzie at home (she mistakes Tim having feelings for her when he gives her a passionate kiss), disguised as Tim (by copying Tim's naked body). A while later, Tim witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will "rock the Earth", when he is confronted by Brace and shows her the ship, just as its only occupant ( Christopher Lloyd) hides in the bushes nearby. His tech girl, the shy but lovely Lizzie ( Daryl Hannah), tries to comfort him to no avail, and it is revealed that she harbors a secret crush on him. The story then centers on news producer Tim O'Hara ( Jeff Daniels), fired for unwillingly "compromising" his boss's daughter, Brace Channing ( Elizabeth Hurley), during a live transmission of the first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. As the rover prepares to sample Martian rock, it "kicks the bucket", the scene ending with mission controllers congratulating themselves on a "successful" mission, the scene panning up to what one believes to be a huge, fictional, never-before-discovered Martian city, a rusty spaceship quickly coming into view and accelerating off into space then. The film opens on Mars, looking at the near end of an American Mars rover's life and mission.