S4E16
Final Exam
The Outer Limits · 1998-06-05 · 45 min
FLICKFEEL
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not read yet
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Dr. John Martin (Brett Cullen), a negotiator for the Department of Energy Nuclear Response Team, is called in when a disgruntled grad student takes hostages at a university. The student, Seth Todtman (Peter Stebbings) claims to have invented a cold-fusion bomb and is threatening to detonate it, killing millions, unless the government brings him five people on a list and kills them for him. Martin's colleagues dismiss Todtman as a crank, until a sample device he provides goes off with megaton force, wiping out a DOE team and the top-secret facility where they work. Faced with an impossible choice, Martin meets with Todtman face to face and tries to understand the logic behind his rage at the people he wants killed: cruel foster parents, corrupt professors, a heartless librarian. As the clock ticks, Martin tries to reason with Todtman while the military tries to find a way to disarm the device.
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 S4E16 →who made it
- directed
- Mario Azzopardi
- written
- Carleton Eastlake
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Brett Cullen as Dr. James Martin
Peter Stebbings as Seth Todtman
Stellina Rusich as Sharon
Kevin Tighe as General
Michael St. John Smith as Dean Irwin
Andrew McIlroy as Hal Kaplan
Garvin Cross as Lt. Jackson- DDarcy Kirkpatrick as Communications Officer