Decompression (The Outer Limits)
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| “Decompression” | |||||||
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| The Outer Limits episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 123 |
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| Written by | ? | ||||||
| Directed by | ? | ||||||
| Guest stars | Bruce Boxleitner as Senator Wyndom Brody | ||||||
| Production no. | ? | ||||||
| Original airdate | July 30, 2000 | ||||||
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"Decompression" is the 12th episode of season six of The Outer Limits. It first aired on July 30, 2000.
[edit] Opening narration
We live in an egocentric age, where many of us believe we are the sun in our own universe. But what happens when these illusions collide with reality?
[edit] Synopsis
Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. He aims to have all private details of Americas citizens via computers. Suddenly a woman appears and foretells his death on the plane. She appears intermittently and reveals she is a traveller from a new golden age in the future creator by the future President Wyndom Brody. She can only project herself to him so no-one else can see her. As another time traveller had visited him several minutes before he entered the plane to personally meet him, the future was changed. The plane left slightly later and thus was struck by lightning and crashed killing him. Thus a new darker Orwellian future is created by his opponent. She says that if he leaves the ship before the lighting strikes she will save him returning everything to normal. As the clock begins to tick Wyndom becomes increasingly erratic until he takes his bodyguards gun and opens the hatch window to escape. As he falls to the ground he is suddenly transported to the street below unharmed. The time traveller appears and tells him that he created the dark future and she aimed to prevent it from happening. He asks why he was saved and she remarks, "Save you. Who said I saved you?"
In reality, Brody fell to his death. The plane lands safely with the aides and reporters pondering over his behaviour.
[edit] Closing narrative
No idea is so strong it should not be tested by doubt, and no man so powerful that he is infallible.
