The Incredible Hulk/Falling Angels

Falling Angels
Season 3, Episode 16
Airdate	February 8, 1980
Teleplay by	Eric Kaldor & D.K. Krzemien and James Sanford Parker
Story by	Eric Kaldor & D.K. Krzemien
Directed by	Barry Crane
Produced by	Robert Bennett Steinhauer, Jeff Freilich
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The Incredible Hulk — Season Three

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Falling Angels is the sixteenth episode of the third season of The Incredible Hulk, and the fifty-first episode overall.

Starring: Bill Bixby (David Banner)

Also Starring: Jack Colvin (Jack McGee)

and Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk)

Guest Stars: Annette Charles (Rita Montoya), Anthony Herrera (Peter Grant), Deborah Morgan-Weldon (Jody), Cindy Fisher (Mickey), Timothy O'Hagan (Don)

Co-Starring: William Bronder (Jeff), Earl Billings (Lee), George Dickerson (George), Arline Anderson (Mrs. Taylor)

with Vincent Lucchesi (Tom), Joan Benedict (Society Woman)

Plot Overview

David lands a job as a handyman at an orphanage for girls after an accidental run-in with two of the home's teenage wards, named Jody and Mickey, leads him to bring back a locket dropped by Jody. While working at the orphanage, David finds out that its residents are being trained for lives of crime by orphanage manager Rita Montoya and her boyfriend, an unscrupulous crook named Peter Grant, who plan on staging a heist at a high society fundraiser for the orphanage at a mansion and using the girls as part of the caper. When Rita expresses reluctance at the plan and wishes to back out, Peter coerces her into staying in by threatening to reveal her real name and her past to the authorities. David later runs into trouble when he gets dumped into a rat-infested dumpster and locked inside by two sanitation workers after he tries to vouch for Jody and Mickey when the garbagemen catch the girls pickpocketing; when one of the rats bites David, he turns into the Hulk and escapes by destroying the dumpster and chasing one of the workers into their garbage truck, which the Hulk then pushes against a telephone pole and knocks over. Later, while Rita convinces a reluctant David to stay on for a while at the orphanage after he gives his notice, McGee arrives in town and gets information from the garbagemen about the Hulk's appearance.

David suggests an idea to Rita to catch Peter and bust him by having the girls do Peter's original plan of cracking a safe at the fundraiser, but then place the jewels contained in the safe into Peter's coat pockets while Rita contacts David back at the orphanage to call the police. At the orphanage fundraiser gala at the mansion, Rita, Jody and Mickey execute David's plan as intended, but when David tries to call the police, he is caught and knocked out by two of Peter's henchmen (disguised as fumigators) and locked into an outbuilding at the orphanage, then the henchmen fill the outbuilding with an insecticide. When David wakes up to the cloud of insecticide filling the outbuilding, he becomes the Hulk again and escapes, catches and roughs up the henchmen as McGee (who had arrived at the orphanage earlier) watches, then runs to the mansion with McGee following after him, confronts Peter and exposes him as the jewel thief before fleeing the scene when he sees McGee there. After Peter is arrested and sent to jail for the heist, David says goodbye to Jody, with whom he had bonded after returning her locket, before hitting the road again.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• David assumes the alias of David Bannister in this episode