It's 1976, and Allen and Mimi are on the set of
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which is based on Allen's work, and on which he is acting as a technical advisor. Much of what Allen ends up talking about in a prearranged interview with a reporter is the 1953 Robertson Panel set up by the CIA, the unofficial mission of the Panel being for the CIA to take over the work of Blue Book by discrediting the work Allen and Quinn had done up to that point. The one thing going for Allen and Quinn in defending their work was that the Panel was comprised of scientists rather than CIA bureaucrats. Although he should have been against them in working for the CIA himself, Banks did whatever he could to support Allen and Quinn going into the Panel. On the flip side, Valentine wanted Allen in particular to close his statement to the Panel with a very definitive opinion about the non-existence of UFOs regardless of the evidence, such a statement which could have saved Blue Book. Part of Allen's story involves his and Quinn's meeting with David Dubrovsky, a minor celebrity within UFO groups like Mimi's, through who he managed the meeting with Allen and Quinn. Dubrovsky claimed to have had what Allen coined a close encounter of the third kind, the beings he met who informed him he had been chosen to help them with their testimony at the Panel - something about which he should not have known - he, according to the beings, being the only one who could save them. Meanwhile, Susie is on her next self-appointed assignment in getting her daughter back, namely to kill Edward Rizzuto who is now working for the Americans in a plea deal.
—Huggo