****Spoilers*** It's 3764 and futuristic solider Qarlo Crobgenny, Michael Ansara, during a fight to the death with his enemy combatant ,Allan Jaffe, is suddenly together with Jaffe teleported to the year 1964. Finding himself in a world that he has no reason to be in Qarlo become defiant and violent looking at everyone he comes in contact with , in not being schooled in the humanities, as the enemy. Finally caught and subdued by some half dozen policemen it's psychiatrist and language expert Dr. Tom Kagen, Llyod Noland, who's assigned by the US military to brake through to Qarlo and find out just what his bag is and makes him tick. And just what his reason, if there is one, is from him being so far away from home as well as time.
Obviously a precursor to the movie "The Terminator" this "Outer Limits" episode is about a man or robot who has to realize that not everyone is out to get him. He also has to realize that Dr. Kagen is his friend not his enemy from the future that takes a while to sink into his kill or be killed controlled brain. It's just when Qarlo finally accepts Dr. Kagen and his family as his friends that his enemy from the future, Jaffe, literately bursts upon the scene.
****SPOILERS****With the unexpected help of the Kagen family pet cat McBeth, who alerts Qarlo of the coming danger, Qarlo in a life and death struggle ends up not only saving Dr. Kagen and his family but somehow is transported back into the future. One of the better "Outer Limits" episodes about time travel that was copied in the "Termintor" movies some twenty and thirty years later with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the soldier or hit-man from the future. In this case Michael Ansera who's physique doesn't match up to Mr. Schwarzenegger was somewhat more convincing in that he spoke a foreign, for 1964, language as well as acted as if in fact he was a man of the future. By him not knowing that he's now living in the past which made him both confused as well as violent by what he encountered there.
Obviously a precursor to the movie "The Terminator" this "Outer Limits" episode is about a man or robot who has to realize that not everyone is out to get him. He also has to realize that Dr. Kagen is his friend not his enemy from the future that takes a while to sink into his kill or be killed controlled brain. It's just when Qarlo finally accepts Dr. Kagen and his family as his friends that his enemy from the future, Jaffe, literately bursts upon the scene.
****SPOILERS****With the unexpected help of the Kagen family pet cat McBeth, who alerts Qarlo of the coming danger, Qarlo in a life and death struggle ends up not only saving Dr. Kagen and his family but somehow is transported back into the future. One of the better "Outer Limits" episodes about time travel that was copied in the "Termintor" movies some twenty and thirty years later with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the soldier or hit-man from the future. In this case Michael Ansera who's physique doesn't match up to Mr. Schwarzenegger was somewhat more convincing in that he spoke a foreign, for 1964, language as well as acted as if in fact he was a man of the future. By him not knowing that he's now living in the past which made him both confused as well as violent by what he encountered there.