Genre
Science Fiction
Producer by
Jed Mercurio / Alison Barnett / Andrea Calderwood / Chrissy Skinns
Directed by
Patrick Lau / Richard Laxton
Writer by
Jed Mercurio
Cast
Vincent Regan / Fred Ward / Eric Jorrin / Maggie O'Neill / Vivienne Soan / Paul J. Medford / Anton Lesser / Laura Harling / Nicola Buckingham / Phyllis Logan / Nicola Grier / Sheila Grier / John Shrapnel / Zoe Telford / Sara Kestelman / Jonathan Dow / Christopher Fairbank / Chris Matthews / Brian Pettifer / Simon Slater / Larissa Webb / Gerard Rooney / Diana Payan / Bob Barrett / David Albion / Ian Aspinall / Graham Bryan / Jonathan Coy / Sean Fall / Kieron Forsyth / Tom Freeman / Luke Garrett / Valerie Gogan / Selina Griffiths / Terence Harvey / Barbara Horne / William Hoyland / Miriam Leake / Anna Maclay / Stuart McQuarrie / Jim Pyke / Hugh Ross / James Vaughan / Michael Vaughan / Mark Webb
Production company
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Sci-Fi Channel, The
Original channel
BBC
Original language
English
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Broadcast dates
8 December 1998 (USA)
Original runing time
8 December 1998 (USA)
Episode duration
c. 50 min. per episode
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
Guest stars
John Shrapnel / Zoe Telford / Sara Kestelman / Jonathan Dow / Christopher Fairbank / Chris Matthews / Brian Pettifer / Simon Slater / Larissa Webb / Gerard Rooney / Diana Payan / Bob Barrett / David Albion / Ian Aspinall / Graham Bryan / Jonathan Coy / Sean Fall / Kieron Forsyth / Tom Freeman / Luke Garrett / Valerie Gogan / Selina Griffiths / Terence Harvey / Barbara Horne / William Hoyland / Miriam Leake / Anna Maclay / Stuart McQuarrie / Jim Pyke / Hugh Ross / James Vaughan / Michael Vaughan / Mark Webb
episode summary
The nDs are kidnapping the populace in order to use them as living batteries. An amorphous mountain of alien tentacles and design appears on the outskirts of Kirkhaven, and it begins expanding, swallowing up and absorbing all the surrounding organic matter and transporting it back to the nDs' home. The Earth forces attack the structure but soon discover that conventional weapons are powerless to damage or stop it. Wishing to atone for her earlier disbelief, Sqn Ldr Knox flies a Tornado jet into the portal in order to carry out reconnaissance, but she does not return and she is presumably captured or killed. Aided by her growing self-awareness of the nD mindset, Amanda uses the data collected by Preston to discover a safe passage through the nD structure. With her guidance, Drake and Amanda fly into the structure to launch a rocket directly into the portal, in the hope of causing a chain-reaction that will destroy it. The plan seems to work at first, and Drake's plane successfully escapes from the collapsing nD structure, but the joy of the Earth forces proves short-lived—within moments a new structure rises up in place of the first, expanding at an even greater rate. Amanda now realises that the plan has failed and that there are probably an infinite number of other nD structures which can be 'folded down' into normal space to replace any that are destroyed.
With Earth's future in the balance, and the world finally paying attention, it becomes clear that the only chance is the use of ultimate force, so the Prime Minister authorises the detonation of a thermonuclear bomb to destroy all the organic matter in a 50-mile radius around the portal, in hopes that this will starve the nDs of raw materials and stop the portal from growing any larger. The defenders resolve that same tactic must be used again and again whenever a new portal appears, anywhere in the world. As Dr. Tucker's transformation continues unabated despite all efforts, she walks out to stand in the kill zone as the bomber approaches and releases its weapon. The screen blurs to white, accompanied by the rumbling roar of a detonation, as the final credits roll.
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