 Martin s "EWS" or Early Warning System - which is akin to human intuition - is going crazy. He soon finds out the cause is Mrs. Brown s big talking mooching brother, Alvin Wannamaker, who has come for a visit. The visit coincides with Mrs. Brown s woman s club defense league luncheon with a General as a guest speaker. Alvin implies to the General that he is working on a top secret project with "inventor" Martin, so the General infers it is something that it is something military related that he should have known about all along. The General leaks to the press that there is a secret Project Jiminy that they are racing to complete ahead of the Russians, Project Jiminy being whatever invention Martin and Alvin have on hand. The Department of Defense wants to place Martin on the payroll for Project Jiminy, whatever it is. But Crush, the terrorist organization, also has interest in Project Jiminy, and has kidnapped Alvin because of it. Martin and Tim locate Alvin at Crush headquarters, but Alvin s big plans get Tim and Martin captured as well. Fat Man and Vincent, the two Crush henchman, plan on going to the O Hara apartment to find the Project Jiminy plans, which they won t find since they don t exist, but they will find Martin s spaceship among other Martian artifacts. Martin s levitation finger and a suggestion of hallucination get them out of trouble. So now all Martin needs is to come up with something for Project Jiminy. He does show his invention both to the US and Russian governments, the invention which could be the first step in ending the cold war.