Martin Sargent: Web Drifter

The Alien Scalpel (1x18)

Air date: Feb 05, 2008

If you've come to this episode of Web Drifter looking for crazy, you're about to be disappointed. But if you've come looking for creepy and weird, we're about to make your day. If you've come to this episode of Web Drifter looking for crazy, you're about to be disappointed. But if you've come looking for creepy and weird, we're about to make your day. Dr. Roger Leir isn't your typical Web Drifter target. He has a thriving podiatry practice in Thousand Oaks, just outside of Los Angeles. In talking to him, he comes off as quite sane and learned. Moreover, the nurses and staff at his practice seem to have a good deal of respect for him. And on the walls of his examining room you'll see signed headshots of the many celebrities he's fixed the feet of. So given all this, why would we put him on the show? Well, to say Dr. Leir is just a well-regarded doctor to the stars is inadequate. No, he's a marvelous topic for Web Drifter because he's also a doctor to people who get stuff implanted in their bodies from beyond the stars. Really weird alien stuff that no one can provide a compelling, non-extra terrestrial argument as to how it got there. But regardless of how these things got in, Dr. Leir and his steady scalpel can take them out. Dr. Leir has extracted about a baker's dozen alien implants from his patients' bodies. And they're not merely things that people may not have noticed they stepped on while stumbling around drunk out back in the shed. There are usually no entry wounds, and the objects have bizarre characteristics such as radio signals emanating from them and the ability to move independently under the patient's skin. Typically, they're of an odd shape, comprised of an unknown element, and encased in a gelatinous membrane that cannot be cut using a surgeon's sharp scalpel. So what are these things, and from where did they come? Is Dr. Leir just sick of examining peoples' filthy, diseased feet and looking for the excitement of lecturing at UFO confe