S3E13
Dead Man's Switch
The Outer Limits · 1997-04-04 · 45 min
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what happens
Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General James Eiger selected him to spend a year buried in a bunker 11,000 feet below the Artic tundra, manning the controls of a doomsday device set up by world leaders after the Hubble space telescope spotted 11 spaceships heading towards Earth. The device is designed as a last-line deterrent against alien invasion and Conklin's job, shared with four other loners in four other bunkers, is to hit a dead man's switch on the bunkers control panel that prevents the doomsday device from going off and destroying aliens and mankind alike. At first, the job is easy, but as the aliens draw closer to Earth, and as Conklin grows closer to his subterranean colleagues, he begins to doubt the reliability of the doomsday machine. News from General Eiger becomes scarce, then Conklin's fellow guardians begin to fall victim to assorted mishaps. Conklin realizes that he carries the weight of
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S3E13 →who made it
- directed
- Jeff Woolnough
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Yee Jee Tso as Hong
James Le Gros as Ben Conklin
Merrilyn Gann as Gwen Wellington
Kristin Lehman as Katya Rubinov
Donnelly Rhodes as General James Eiger- EEllis Williams as Donald