White Light Fever

White Light Fever

Infobox Television episode
Title = White Light Fever
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption = Harlan Hawkes' (William Hickey) standing in from of the "blue light".
Season = 1
Episode = 6
Airdate = 21 April, 1995
Production = 6
Writer = David Kemper
Director = Tibor Takács
Photographer =
Guests = William Hickey as Harlan Hawkes
Bruce Davison as Dr. "Mac" McEnerney
Sonja Smits as Anne Crain
Michelle Beaudoin as Jessie Wells
Benjamin Ratner as Walker
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = Second Soul
Next = The Choice

"White Light Fever" is an episode of "The Outer Limits" television show. It was first broadcast on 21 April,1995 during the first season.

Introduction

The ruthless billionaire, Harlan Hawkes, is one hundred years old — and terrified of dying. For the last eight years he has funded a research project to develop an artificial replacement for his own failing heart.

Opening narration

"The one certainty of the human experience is death. But what might happen when our effort to prolong the inevitable starts to turn that battle around? Will someone, or something, step in to ensure the final outcome?"

Plot

Harlan Hawkes' (William Hickey) heart fails again and he sees himself moving down a tunnel of light. His personal physician, Dr. McEnerney (Bruce Davison), rushes to the scene and resuscitates him just in time. A mysterious blue energy appears near Hawkes' body and moves into the electrical systems of the room. Although Hawkes is still alive, his heart is badly damaged — and the artificial heart being developed by McEnerney will not be ready in time. Hawkes threatens to pull funding from the artificial heart project unless he is moved to the front of the queue for the next available donor heart.

This puts Dr. McEnerney in a difficult moral situation. Losing funding for the artificial heart project could mean the loss of a system that could save thousands of lives. To keep the funding he must give priority to a ruthless, cold elderly man who has already had a full life. The situation is even more difficult because the future sister-in-law of his friend, Dr. Anne Crain, is only eighteen and needs a heart transplant. She will not survive beyond a couple of weeks.

The blue energy release during Hawkes' last resuscitation begins to try to kill Hawkes. McEnerney realises that keeping Hawkes alive beyond his time has serious consequences and refuses Hawkes' request to be given priority.

Both of the prospective heart recipients — Hawkes and the young girl — die. Hawkes sees the girl inside the tunnel of light, and realises that their future paths are very different.The girl comments that it is so warm and that she expected it not to be. She goes to Heaven while he descends into the depths of Hell.

Closing narration

"For one man, the battle against death is over. But for the rest of us, the war rages on. At what point does the cost of survival... become too high a price for us to pay?"

External links

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* [http://www.theouterlimits.com/episodes/season1/121.htm Official website episode guide]
* [http://www.scifi.com/outerlimits/episodes/season1/105fever.html Scifi.com episode guide]


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