The Outer Limits
Season 3 Episode 13 - Dead Man's Switch
Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General James Eiger selected him to spend a year buried in a bunker 11,000 feet below the Artic tundra, manning the controls of a doomsday device set up by world leaders after the Hubble space telescope spotted 11 spaceships heading towards Earth. The device is designed as a last-line deterrent against alien invasion and Conklin's job, shared with four other loners in four other bunkers, is to hit a dead man's switch on the bunkers control panel that prevents the doomsday device from going off and destroying aliens and mankind alike. At first, the job is easy, but as the aliens draw closer to Earth, and as Conklin grows closer to his subterranean colleagues, he begins to doubt the reliability of the doomsday machine. News from General Eiger becomes scarce, then Conklin's fellow guardians begin to fall victim to assorted mishaps. Conklin realizes that he carries the weight of
Episodes in Season 3
Bits of Love
45 min
Second Thoughts
45 min
Re-Generation
45 min
Last Supper
45 min
Stream of Consciousness
45 min
Dark Rain
45 min
The Camp
45 min
Heart's Desire
45 min
Tempests
45 min
The Awakening
45 min
New Lease
45 min
Double Helix
45 min
Dead Man's Switch
45 min
Music of the Spheres
45 min
The Revelations of Becka Paulson
45 min
Bodies of Evidence
45 min
Feasibility Study
45 min
A Special Edition
45 min
