During a late-night heist planning session, three bumbling criminals make a pact- only to quickly spiral into chaos as overactive imaginations, delusions of grandeur, and a very real hand injury threaten to derail the job before it even begins.

Explaining to an Alien explores the relationship between a naive alien and two bumbling secret agents. When Blorg starts asking questions of the agents, their encounter quickly turns into an unpredictable and hilarious examination of such human customs as dating, drinking, celebrities, smoking and sex. Explaining to an Alien reflects on what we do as humans by asking the question why?