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Some Middle-American totalitarian country: On a diving trip in an
artificial lake, rich industrialits John Dexter (Ralph Meeker) discovers
an amphibian creature that was thought only to exist in legends. With the
help of marine biologist Evans (jerry Douglas), Dexter manages to capture
the creature - however, once the creature is brought to the next museum,
the dictator of teh country General Mercurio (Henry Silva) claims the
creature for himself ... and the creature doesn't even like it in
captivity, so with ultrasonic sounds (that can even break stuff), it calls
its brothers, which attack just when Dexter is about to sneak the creature
out of the country to the USA - but at least he has enough sense to set
the creature free before anything bad can happen.
When our creature is free again, all the creatures, in a concerted
effort, bring down the country's main dam, which totally destroys the
country's capital. Dexter now sees the wrong of his ways and comes out of
it a better person - and he even gets the girl (Janet Blair) - while the
evil General was killed in the desaster.
Amphjibian creatures that strike back against mankind - I have to admit
I like the concept, and I almost loved the (unconvincing) montersuits.
What really doesn't work in this episode is the badly forced upon
anti-totalitarian (and also anti-communist) subtext that makes little
sense in the context of the story and totally fails to convince from a
propaganda point of view (and after all, Outer Limits was
also a Cold War propaganda show). And then there's a romance subplot
involving a love triangle involving Ralph Meeker, Jerry Douglas and Janet
Blair that doesn't help to keep the story moving either ...
Still, one of the better episodes of this not-so-great sci-fi-series.
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