| "Final Exam" | |||
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 16 |
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| Directed by | Mario Azzopardi | ||
| Written by | Carleton Eastlake | ||
| Production code | 78 | ||
| Original air date | June 5, 1998 | ||
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Michael St. John Smith, Brett Cullen, Peter Stebbings, Stellina Rusich, Kevin Tighe, Kyra Azzopardi, Sharon Alexander |
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"Final Exam" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on June 5, 1998.
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| “ | They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But what of the man who possesses too much knowledge? | ” |
Dr. John Martin (Brett Cullen), a negotiator for the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, is called in when a disgruntled grad student takes hostages at a university. The student, Seth Todtman (Peter Stebbings) claims to have invented a cold-fusion bomb and is threatening to detonate it, killing millions, unless the government brings him five people on a list and kills them for him. Martin's colleagues dismiss Todtman as a crank, until a sample device he provides goes off with megaton force, wiping out a DOE team and the top-secret facility where they work. Faced with an impossible choice, Martin meets with Todtman face to face and tries to understand the logic behind his rage at the people he wants killed: cruel foster parents, corrupt professors, a heartless librarian, and a greedy social worker. As the clock ticks, Martin tries to reason with Todtman while the military tries to find a way to disarm the device. They assassinate Todtman and defuse the bomb, but he warns that just as with the creation of the atom bomb, someone else will find a way to create another cold fusion bomb. At the end it shows a disgruntled student in a different college taking a test, one of the questions is "demonstrate why cold fusion is impossible". He screams with knowledge of the awful truth. A nuclear weapon that does not require a rare substance is possible.
| “ | If knowledge is power and power corrupts...how will human kind ever survive? | ” |
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Season 4 of The Outer Limits (1995-2002) |
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Criminal Nature • The Hunt • Hearts and Minds • In Another Life • In The Zone • Relativity Theory • Josh • Rite of Passage • Glyphic • Identity Crisis • The Vaccine • Fear Itself • The Joining • To Tell the Truth • Mary 25 • Final Exam • Lithia • Monster • Sarcophagus • Nightmare • Promised Land • Balance of Nature • Origin of Species • Phobos Rising • Black Box • In Our Own Image |
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List of The Outer Limits episodes: Original Series (1963-1965) • The New Series (1995-2002) |
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