S4E14
To Tell the Truth
The Outer Limits · 1998-04-24 · 45 min
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what happens
Dr. Larry Chambers (Gregory Harrison) helped build the colony on the Janus Five. He and fellow scientist Amanda Harper (Kimberly Huffman) run computer simulations that show the planet's star will flash over in a matter of days, emitting waves of deadly radiation, so Dr. Chambers urges evacuation. This is not a popular recommendation, especially among the colony's leaders who include council chairman Franklin Murdock (William Atherton), security head Montgomery Bennett (Alan Scarfe) and Amanda's father, Ian Harper (Ken Pogue). They point out that Chambers has been wrong before - the colony had to be moved at great cost after he warned of deadly volcanic activity - and suggest that his judgment has been clouded by the death of his wife Elise. When that doesn't stop Chambers, Murdock and Bennett discredit him by falsely accusing him of being one of the aliens who originally inhabited the planet.
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 S4E14 →who made it
- directed
- Neill Fearnley
- written
- Brad Wright
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Gregory Harrison as Dr. Larry Chambers
Kim Huffman as Amanda Harper
Alan Scarfe as Montgomery Bennett
Ken Pogue as Ian Harper
William Atherton as Franklin Murdoch
David Allan Pearson as Stanley Fenton
Marcy Goldberg as Council Member Roark
Doug Jones as Alien #1