A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine but are victims of a new type of discrimination. When the first Newcomer police officer, Sam Francisco is assigned his new partner, he is given Matthew Sykes , a mildly racist veteran, the animosity between them soon gives way to respect as they investigate the Newcomer underworld, and especially Newcomer leader William Harcourt.

The alien character played by Mandy Patinkin was originally going to be named George Jetson but Hanna-Barbera wouldn't give the rights to the name. The decision to call his character 'George' in the movie was kept as an in-joke.

[Commenting on a "human" condom]


Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco:
And that fits?


Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes:
Well... Yeah, it's rubber. It stretches.


Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco:
And still it fits?

Continuity: When Sykes and George are chasing Harcourt and Kipling in the police car as they push them off the freeway they are on the driver's side, in the very next scene, they are on the passenger side of the car.

Written by William Robinson
Performed by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Courtesy of Motown Record Company, L.P.