Alonzo P. Tucker, an Earth man, lands on the planet in an alien spaceship. Tucker wins over Will with all sorts of stories about being a pirate, but upon closer inspection it is revealed that he is just an ordinary man who was abducted by aliens from his hometown of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in the Summer of 1876. He is on the run because he has stolen a mind reading/future predicting device from some aliens on another planet.