The Outer Limits: Feasibility Study (1997)
Season 3, Episode 17
8/10
Could We Rise to This Challenge to Our Lives?
20 May 2014
I remember the original. A man realizes that the neighborhood in which he lives is suddenly closed in, a la "Under the Dome." He and his daughter are somewhat estranged. She runs off and he goes to look for her. All the power and water and other services have stopped functioning and panic ensues. The neighbors are seen as selfish and only interested in their own little worlds, refusing to help each other with basic needs (important plot element). One of the neighborhood men is pulled through the wall and experimented upon. He later returns, telling them that the people behind the wall are really benevolent and they just need to go along with their plans. Meanwhile, the daughter encounters an alien who takes her to see the other side. On it are his parents and others who have been enslaved and who are dying of a terrible disease. It turns out that the aliens are interested in enslaving the earth population. What happens later is what the episode is ultimately about.
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