front of a subway train, but when he fails, Nicholas forces him to take him to Phillips, who isolates himself in a fiery furnace room deep underground. After delivering Nicholas, the follower decapitates himself using an elevator. A brief meeting convinces Nicholas that he himself is special and that Phillips does not kill him as he needs him for some purpose. By researching his own adoption records, Nicholas finds an old woman who seems to be his birth mother. She explains that she gave up her out-of-wedlock child after she was brutally impregnated by a strange ball of light while she walked home from the New York Worlds Fair in 1941. The meeting distresses both of them, and Nicholas is wracked with doubt over who or what he is. He realizes that he too has psychic powers, which he uses to confront and kill Zero. Nicholas confronts Phillips one last time and discovers the truth: both he and Phillips are the result of "virgin births" caused by a mysterious extraterrestrial "entity of light" with psychic/supernatural powers and advanced spacecraft technology. Nicholas' human genes are dominant, which is why he is unaware of his true nature, while Phillips is more like their unseen progenitor. Phillips reveals himself to be a hermaphrodite who wishes to spawn a new species with his "brother." Nicholas refuses and attacks Phillips, whose powers cause the building they are in to collapse. Nicholas manages to escape the scene but Phillips is killed. Nicholas is arrested for the murder of Phillips. As he is led into court by police, a news reporter asks him why he committed the crime. He responds, "God told me to." Nicholas is committed to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Cast Tony Lo Bianco as Lieutenant Peter J. Nicholas Deborah Raffin as Casey Forster Sandy Dennis as Martha Nicholas Sylvia Sidney as Elizabeth Mullin Sam Levene as Everett Lukas Robert Drivas as David Morten Mike Kellin as Deputy Commissioner Richard Lynch as Bernard Phillips Sammy Williams as Harold Gorman George Patterson as Zero Harry Bellaver as "Cookie" Andy Kaufman as Police Assassin Production Cohen was inspired to make the film by the Bible. He thought God in the Bible was one of the most violent characters in literature. He was also influenced by the book Chariots of the Gods. The film was financed by Edgar Scherick and Daniel Blatt. They were