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Harold Finley (Donald Pleasence) is a little college professor, but he
actually wants to work at NASA ... so he has developed an apparatusthat
can channel all sorts of outside energy and has it implanted in his head
... which means all of a sudden he has incredible ESP-powers, which he
wants to use for the good of science - actually NASA wants to test his
apparatus and if successful, equip astronauts with similar implants so
they can pretty much be their own rocket fuel. Only psychatrist Hindeman
(John Marley) has second thoughts, as he thinks the subconscious may take
over these incredible powers and use it for evil ... and really, several
people who aren't very nice to Harold - including the dean (Edward Platt)
of his college - start to die, and even Harold's bad-mouthed wife
(Priscilla Morrill) is threatened by some weird force ...
Ultimately, when Harold realizes all these killings are his fault, he
first destroys the surgery, where the apparatus is to be implanted into
the first of the future astronauts (Fred Beir), then Harold destroys
himself to do no more evil ...
Let's face it, this episode is utter crap, the story is stupid as could
be and it is not even well-written, giving away way too much way too soon
while totally forgetting to give away other plot elements (like Finley not
knowing who caused all the murders until very late in the story). The
episode's saving grace though is Donald Pleasence, who makes this shit
watchable after all - which other actor can go from iontimidated, pitiful
loser to all powerful menace and back again in the same take ?
Fascinating.
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