Feasibility Study
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Outer Limits:
Season Three:
Feasibility Study
The residents of a suburban neighborhood have their lives turned upside-down when a four-block section of their subdivision is ripped from the earth by a mysterious force and transported to a distant planet. Thrown together in crisis, Joshua Hayward, his daughter, Sarah, and their neighbors try to understand what has happened to them--why their neighborhood now ends abruptly in an invisible force field. Sarah gains some insight when she comes across Adrielo, a horribly disfigured alien who tells her that they have been brought here by another group of aliens. Guiding Sarah through a gap in the force field, Adrielo begs for her help in curing the disease that is turning him and his people to stone. Meanwhile, Joshua makes an even more startling discovery when he is pulled through the force field and comes face-to-face with his captors, the Triunes. These big-brained, feeble-bodied creatures subject Joshua to strange and painful tests and explain without apology that he and his neighbors are part of a feasibility study designed to see if humans would make suitable slaves. Reunited, father and daughter rejoin their neighbors and struggle with a terrible dilemma; if they survive and pass the feasibility study, they will consign all humanity to slavery forever.
Sarah is infected with an epidemic that solidifies entities literally into statues. And when Sarah's father is abducted and told why the community was taken away from Earth by the alien captors, he persuades the entire community to allow itself to be infected by Sarah so that the humankind shall become infeasible (i.e., humans are perceived to be apparently susceptible to the alien captors' planet's disease-stricken air) and not be enslaved by the advanced aliens whose bodies withered away because of the lack of physical exertion.
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Wednesday, December 29, 1999 - 8:41 am: When Sarah turns around after being snatched by the blue-skinned, English-speaking alien and consequently grabbed again by this same alien, the alien's hand is on her chest in a close-up shot, yet on her shoulder in the sequential far-off scene.
By Mike Ransom on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 - 1:12 am: This is a remake of the original Outer Limits episode by Joseph Stefano.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Monday, February 05, 2024 - 5:30 am:Wonder how the disappearance of a whole neighbourhood was explained.