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I'm hoping someone with a better memory than mine can help me locate / name a specific episode of War of the Worlds.
This was long ago, and my memory is fuzzy.
I loved what I saw because it was very dark and dystopian. I vividly recall the actor Denis Forest as the main villain being briliantly cast.
If I remember right, the episode begins with actor Adrian Paul walking through a city. There is a long line of the poor and the ragged desperately waiting to come up to a barred window where drugs are being sold. Adrian spots someone he knows, "Mister Jimmy" (joke, Rolling Stones reference by the writers). Mister Jimmy is violently rebuffed because he can't pay for his fix.
The main thrust of the series was a lot of desperate attempts by the sick and resource-poor hiding Martians to gain control.
In this particular episode, the martians are developing a drug. It pacifies the violent, but is harvested in a horrific way. Humans are prisoners, put down on their knees, and with no anestsia, a huge glowing needle goes into the back of the neck, at the base of the skull, to extract the ingredient for this drug.
There is a scene in which the drug is demonstrated. Two human prisoners, a man and a woman are put in a barred cell together. The maniac man attacks the woman, and a vicious fight ensues. The drug is shot into the man, and suddenly, he is gentle, petting the woman on the arm.
I tried to track down this series for a long time, and discoverd that over it's course it went very rapidly downhill in quality.
Perhaps memory makes it better than it really was.
Thanks for your assistance.......don't really want to plow through that many episodes to find this specific one.
evanandrew3333 at yahoo
I'm hoping someone with a better memory than mine can help me locate / name a specific episode of War of the Worlds.
This was long ago, and my memory is fuzzy.
I loved what I saw because it was very dark and dystopian. I vividly recall the actor Denis Forest as the main villain being briliantly cast.
If I remember right, the episode begins with actor Adrian Paul walking through a city. There is a long line of the poor and the ragged desperately waiting to come up to a barred window where drugs are being sold. Adrian spots someone he knows, "Mister Jimmy" (joke, Rolling Stones reference by the writers). Mister Jimmy is violently rebuffed because he can't pay for his fix.
The main thrust of the series was a lot of desperate attempts by the sick and resource-poor hiding Martians to gain control.
In this particular episode, the martians are developing a drug. It pacifies the violent, but is harvested in a horrific way. Humans are prisoners, put down on their knees, and with no anestsia, a huge glowing needle goes into the back of the neck, at the base of the skull, to extract the ingredient for this drug.
There is a scene in which the drug is demonstrated. Two human prisoners, a man and a woman are put in a barred cell together. The maniac man attacks the woman, and a vicious fight ensues. The drug is shot into the man, and suddenly, he is gentle, petting the woman on the arm.
I tried to track down this series for a long time, and discoverd that over it's course it went very rapidly downhill in quality.
Perhaps memory makes it better than it really was.
Thanks for your assistance.......don't really want to plow through that many episodes to find this specific one.
evanandrew3333 at yahoo
