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Wow !
Outer Limits was never a series known for its good
storywriting (quite the opposite, actually), but this episode is so silly
I don't even know how to begin recounting it to make it understandable to
you. I guess I'll just have to take it from the top and point out the
story elements that didn't make sense:
Someone brings a box to a wedding as a gift labelled Don't Open till
Doomsday which contains an alien wanting to conquer earth.
Why the man brings the gift we don't know. We also don't know who the
man is. And how the alien got into the box. And how it plans to conquer
the world.
Anyways, in the evening the groom Harvey (David Frankham) looks into
the box, he is suddenly sucked into it ... and in the box, he lives on as
a miniaturized version of himself.
How he got into the box we don't know. Why he got into the box, we do
learn though, though later in the story, and with the given explanation, I
would have preferred not to know: The alien needs someone who would bring
the box to a specialist who gets him out of the box so he can finally
conquer earth.
Who that specialist would be I have no idea. Why the alien would think
anyone would help it when it already announces it will conquer the earth
remains a mystery.
25 years later: Harvey's wife Mrs Kry (Miriam Hopkins) is still keeping
the box with her hubby and the alien, in hopes that he will one day come
out again. And to facilitate that, she rents her bridal suite out to a
young couple, Garth (Buck Taylor) and Vivia (Melinda Plowman) in hopes
that the alien in the box will suck in one of them and release her hubby
in return.
Why she would think that I'm not sure.
Vivia gets sucked in, and later her enraged father Balfour (John Hoyt),
who has come after the young couple that has eloped, as well. And Vivia's
father is the first who promises to help the alien, but in exchange he
demands his release and that of his daughter. The alien releases them
both, but once out Balfour announces he has only agreed to the alien's
terms to trick it. As a consequence he is sucked right back into the box
... the end.
Of course, why he announces that he has tricked the alien when he
stands right next to the box, knowing that the alien listens in, remains
at anybody's guess. And why the alien is quite so bullible to believe him
in the first place remains shrouded in mystery as well.
I think, by reading this synopsis you get my point that this episode
doesn't make the least of sense, and what makes it worse, it's played and
directed dead-serious. Maybe not the worst (mainly because the competition
is too big), but one of the worst episodes of Outer Limits.
The title is great (and irritatingly promising) though.
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