Crypt

Episode aired Nov 7, 1977
1h

8.0/10

S1.E7

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The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.

Director
- Michael Caffey
Writers
- Alfred Hayes(as Al Hayes)
- Harlan Ellison
- William F. Nolan
Stars
- Gregory Harrison
- Heather Menzies-Urich(as Heather Menzies)
- Donald Moffat

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Logan, Jessica and Rem come across a civilization which was devastated by the holocaust. They find a recording wherein they learn that there was a plague that nearly wiped out everyone. But 6 were chosen to rebuild what was destroyed and were kept in suspended animation till a cure could be found. Fortunately a cure was found but no one was left who could administer it. So they ask whoever sees this recording to bring the cure to them. They try but an earthquake destroys one of the two flasks. They awake the six and when they learn what happened only three of them can receive the cure. So they put it in their hands to decide who should get the cure. And while they try to decide someone is killing the six one at a time. —rcs0411@yahoo.com

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- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
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Quotes
Logan: We have three choices. First, we could leave and allow them to make their own decision.
Jessica: Which they couldn't do.
Logan: All right. Second, we could write all their names down and draw three at random.
Rem: Isn't that a little like a coward's way out?
Logan: It is.
Jessica: What's the third choice?
Logan: Find out more about them. Talk to them. That's the only way we can know if there are any who really do deserve to live than the others.
Jessica: Don't they all deserve to live?
Logan: Probably - but only three of them can.

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Summary on Episode 7 - The Crypt

Logan, Jessica and Rem found one strange location where 6 people are frozen to wait for the cure for a disease. There were 2 flasks where the "antidote" are saved waiting for the right time to be used. Unfortunately one flask is smashed during a earthquake. There is, also, one impostor that was not supposed to be there (he/she is not among the 6 original chosen survivors). There is an weakness in the episode as the impostor doesn't show to the others his/her area of expertise, while the others have, each one, one very specific expertise and was chosen for that. Rem listens a recording from the time they were frozen and they start to say and to show the realizations they did in the past or that they could do in the present. The impostor is the only one that doesn't have something to show. When the impostor is pressed on he/she confess his/her situation. The problem is that the impostor kills someone and when the impostor confesses they, including Logan's trio, find themselves in a difficult situation. The final conclusion is very interesting and surprising; we should keep in mind that the series is a "politically correct" set up. Good episode with a remarkable conclusion!

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