It was just a very small part of the first pilot episode.
The gangster had used the suit to enrich himself. When the aliens came to take the suit he was very old, and about to die.
When he finds out that Ralph has lost the instructions to the suit, he dies laughing.................
I don’t remember any of that and I watched at least most of the series.
From what I remember, Bill and Ralph were in the desert, the car dies, Bill’s dead partner shows up, the aliens give out the suit, and the manual is dropped.