Deja Vu
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Outer Limits:
Season Five:
Deja Vu
Dr. Mark Crest has built a teleportation device that uses tactical nuclear weapons to open a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The device is intended to transport some animals eight miles across the desert, but during a test, the wormhole grows out of control and Mark finds himself hurled back in time, to the day before the test took place. It happens again, but when Mark warns his colleague, Dr. Cleo Lazar, and the project's military overseer, Lt. Col Lester Glade, about the time loop, they think he's crazy. The time loop continues, each time returning Mark to a point in time closer to the test, and Mark figures out that someone has sabotaged the device. At first, he suspects Julie, a young woman who
seduced him on the night before the test. And he's right--Julie is an eco-terrorist opposed to Mark tampering with nature--but she's not the only saboteur. Glade has his own plans for the device, and it may be beyond Mark's power to stop him--no matter how many chances he gets.
After numerous attempts to prevent the disastrous outcome of the sabotage of the untested teleportation device, Mark decides not to rectify the device's sabotage but rather perfect it so that no catastrophe occurs. As Mark is making the necessary modifications, Lester arrives and threatens Mark with a handgun. Mark refuses and is shot, but the safety protocols fail, the device's countdown does not cease, and Lester is propelled to points unknown, as Mark, himself, struggles to get beyond the range of the wormhole. Ultimately, the device is being disassembled and placed under the implicit supervision of Mark and Cleo, while less than sixteen seconds elapse perpetually for Lester, who has become entrapped within an incessant time loop.
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Tuesday, January 18, 2000 - 5:16 pm: My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) The wormhole consuming everything, as expressed by Cleo (the brunette female protagonist), is possible, but not likely. However, possible and likely are synonyms and she therefore contradicted herself.
2) At the conclusion twelve seconds remain on Mark's watch, yet the device had already been activated. Mark's watch and the device's countdown were synchronized.
3) Not truly a nitpick, but does the voice of Terri Hawkes, who portrays Cleo, sound familiar? It ought to, considering she provides the voice-over for Sailor Moon in the American-dubbed version of Sailor Moon.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 5:34 am:Bad guys gets his comeuppance, over and over and over...