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Stuart Peters (Michael Forest) is hired to work for the NORCO-energy
research company ... but even on his fkirst day, he is lured into a trap,
attacked by a weird energy being, and he is killed. Later that day, his
kid brother Jory (Scott Marlowe) comes looking for him, but is told Stuart
is on a field trip and won't come back home for a week.
One week later, Stuart comes home, but he seems changed, almost free of
emotions - and he wears a strange electrical box that seems to be somehow
attached to his body.
Soon enough, Stuart gets into a fight with his kid brother, who has
been worried sick about him and is now infuriated by his cold behaviour.
EventuallyJory pushes Stuart into a filled up bathtub ... and Stuart is
electrocuted on the spot - something Jory certainly could not foresee. The
invertigating cop, detective Siroleo (Edward Asner) doesn't blame Jory for
what happened either, but when investigating, he stumbles over some weird
facts, like that Stuart had a cardiac pacemaker he didn't have even a week
ago - and then his heart was in the best of conditions ...
Eventually, Siroleo pays NORCO a visit, and finds Stuart's partner
there, professor Stephanie Linden (Joan Camden), a nervous wreck. But
eventually, she lures him into the same trap where Stuart was killed (the
first time around, before his bro killed him again), but this time she
hasn't got the nerve to release the lethal energy being on the cop - her
boss on the other hand, Doctor Bloch (Kent Smith) has no such reservations
and takes the energy being out of its cage and releases it on
mankind. Thank God Prof Linden has a few ideas about how to control the
energy being, like have the energy turned off in the whole area ... but
this doesn't only confine the energy being to its cage, it also kills of
the entire NORCO-staff - including Prof Linden -, who were all wearing
electrical boxes just like Stuart had, which were somehow connected to
their cardiac pacemakers - yes, just like Stuart ...
A surprisingly good episode of the rather mediocre series, this one
works primarily because it doesn't put its emphasis on the Cold
War/anti-Communist propaganda (though it's there if you look closely
enough) but on telling an engaging story, carried by a few strong
characters. Of course, on closer inspection, the story is rather silly,
but then again, isn't most sci-fi (especially if 40 and more years old)
... ?
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