Camera Obscura (Harsh Realm)

Infobox Television episode
Title="Camera Obscura"
Series=Harsh Real
Season=1
Episode=9
Airdate=May 19, 2000
Production=109
Writer=Steven Maeda
Director=Jefery Levy
Guests=Amber Rothwell
Ryan Taylor
Robert Knepper
Sean Pritchard
Prev=Cincinnati
Next="none"

Camera Obscura is the ninth episode of the short-lived Fox science-fiction action series "Harsh Realm". It was the sixth of six remaining episodes that were aired on the Fox affiliate fX after the series was abruptly cancelled.

Plot synopsis

In Harsh Realm's version of a post-apocalyptic New York City, warring families hire Hobbes (Scott Bairstow) and Pinocchio (D. B. Sweeney) as mercenaries. Their destinies appear to be controlled by a mad priest (Robert Knepper), a vault of gold, star-crossed lovers, acid rain and access to the Harsh Realm data stream.

Trivia

"Camera obscura" is Latin for "dark chamber."

Allusions

* The episode borrows various elements from William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.