THE OUTER LIMITS - DECOMPRESSION
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:50 am
Tonight, I was watching The Outer Limits on cable TV.
This is another really cool time travel episode, about a cigarette smoking black lady who came from about 160 years in the future to the present time to prevent a senator from being elected president.
Decompression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMcF6IAvxY
It's about 45 minutes long with some commercials in it, but it is the complete episode.
This cigarette smoking black lady comes from the future and appears to this senator on board a jet plane. The plane had been struck by lightening and she came to warn the senator that the plane was going to crash, and convinces him that he must leave the plane, and that he would be rescued before he would hit the ground because of the advanced technology they have in the future.
She explains to him that his election to the presidency is very important to the future of the country, that if his opponent wins the election, the USA was in danger of becoming a totalitarian dictatorship.
This time traveler is visible only to the senator and when he's talking to her, nobody else can see her, so everybody else on the plane thinks the senator is going nuts, talking to himself or to an invisible person.
Toward the end of the episode, the senator grabs a gun from one of the security men, shoots out one of the windows causing the air to rush out and the door pops open, and the senator is swept out of the plane out into the open air, and he is rescued. His fall is broken just before he's about to hit the ground, and then, he lands gently on the ground, face down.
He gets up on his feet standing there in a dark alley in some city, and the black lady time traveler appears to him again.
He thanks her for rescuing him, and she tells him that she actually came to stop him from being elected president, that he would be the tyrant that would cause the USA to become a dictatorship.
So, he asked her, "Then why did you rescue me?" and she takes a long draw on her cigarette and answers "Who said I rescued you?" and he is back up in the air again falling toward the earth, and this time, he hits the ground, KER-SPLAT! and he DIES, laying there dead in a dark alley like scum!
In the meantime, the plane lands safely the lightening that struck the plane did no damage at all and everyone else gets off alive.
I just love these time travel episodes, especially the ones that have an element of revenge in them.
My favorite being about a lady in the episode "A Stitch In Time" who went back in time to knock off serial killers and pedophiles before they began their long bloody careers, thus saving a lot of innocent lives.
Oh! How I love the idea of time travel.
This is another really cool time travel episode, about a cigarette smoking black lady who came from about 160 years in the future to the present time to prevent a senator from being elected president.
Decompression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMcF6IAvxY
It's about 45 minutes long with some commercials in it, but it is the complete episode.
This cigarette smoking black lady comes from the future and appears to this senator on board a jet plane. The plane had been struck by lightening and she came to warn the senator that the plane was going to crash, and convinces him that he must leave the plane, and that he would be rescued before he would hit the ground because of the advanced technology they have in the future.
She explains to him that his election to the presidency is very important to the future of the country, that if his opponent wins the election, the USA was in danger of becoming a totalitarian dictatorship.
This time traveler is visible only to the senator and when he's talking to her, nobody else can see her, so everybody else on the plane thinks the senator is going nuts, talking to himself or to an invisible person.
Toward the end of the episode, the senator grabs a gun from one of the security men, shoots out one of the windows causing the air to rush out and the door pops open, and the senator is swept out of the plane out into the open air, and he is rescued. His fall is broken just before he's about to hit the ground, and then, he lands gently on the ground, face down.
He gets up on his feet standing there in a dark alley in some city, and the black lady time traveler appears to him again.
He thanks her for rescuing him, and she tells him that she actually came to stop him from being elected president, that he would be the tyrant that would cause the USA to become a dictatorship.
So, he asked her, "Then why did you rescue me?" and she takes a long draw on her cigarette and answers "Who said I rescued you?" and he is back up in the air again falling toward the earth, and this time, he hits the ground, KER-SPLAT! and he DIES, laying there dead in a dark alley like scum!
In the meantime, the plane lands safely the lightening that struck the plane did no damage at all and everyone else gets off alive.
I just love these time travel episodes, especially the ones that have an element of revenge in them.
My favorite being about a lady in the episode "A Stitch In Time" who went back in time to knock off serial killers and pedophiles before they began their long bloody careers, thus saving a lot of innocent lives.
Oh! How I love the idea of time travel.
