Keeper of the Purple Twilight

Infobox Television episode
Title = Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 12
Airdate = December 5, 1964
Production = 39
Writer = Milton Krims (teleplay)
Stephen Lord (story)
Director = Charles Haas
Photographer = Kenneth Peach
Guests = Robert Webber
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = The Inheritors
Next = The Duplicate Man

"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It first aired on 5 December, 1964, during the second season.

Opening narration

:"There is no limit to the extension of the curious mind. It reaches to the end of the imagination, then beyond into the mysteries of dreams, hoping always to convert even the dreams into reality, for the greater well-being of all mankind…"

Plot

As a prelude for the invasion of Earth by aliens, the extraterrestrial being Ikar studies the human race. The one thing he cannot comprehend is emotion. Obsessed scientist Dr. Plummer is near a nervous breakdown trying to complete a magnetic disintegrator that will convert matter into pure energy. Unbeknownst to him, his weapon would be of help to Ikar's invasion force should it be completed, so Ikar makes a deal with Plummer. He will help Plummer complete the invention so long as Plummer allows him to steal his emotions for a "test drive".But due to the interference of Plummer's girlfriend, Ikar is unable to control or understand his emotions, causing the experiment to backfire. Ikars behavior comes to the attention of his superiors and they dispatch soldier forms of his species, of which he is an advanced intellectual worker form, to discipline him.

Closing narration

:"The curious mind cannot be chained. It is a free mind, endlessly searching for the greater freedom that must eventually make every living being joyfully complete within himself therefore at peace with himself and his neighbors."

Cast

* Robert Webber – as Ikar
* Warren Stevens – as Prof. Eric Plummer
* Gail Kobe – as Janet Lane
* Curt Conway – as Franklin Karlin
* Edward Platt – as David Hunt
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485485/ Michael Lane] – as Alien Ikar (uncredited)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486755/ Hugh Langtry] – as Lead soldier form (uncredited)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834931/ Fred Stromsoe] – as Soldier form #2 (uncredited)
* Gene Wiley – as Soldier form #3 (uncredited)
* LeRoy Ellis – as Soldier form #4 (uncredited)

Quotes

Ikar: "That's the second time you use that word, what does it mean?… love."
Dr. Plummer: "You don't know?"
Ikar: "It's a new word to me."
Dr. Plummer: "It's the opposite of hate!"
Ikar: "That is also a new word."
Dr. Plummer: "These are the two most profound emotions of all Mankind."
Ikar: "Emotions?"
Dr. Plummer: "Don't tell me you don't know that! What heaven's name, what do you live for?"
Ikar: "Accomplishment!"
Dr. Plummer: "Without satisfaction?"
Ikar: "Knowledge!"
Dr. Plummer: "Without pleasure?"
Ikar: "Conquest!"
Dr. Plummer: "Without hate?"
Ikar: "Energy"
Dr. Plummer: "For what?"
Ikar: "For control."

Ikar: "Appear and say what you have to say."
Lead soldier form: "You have broken away from the planetary brain."
Ikar: "That's true."
Lead soldier form: "You will return with us immediately."
Ikar: "I'll go when I am ready".
Lead soldier form: "Then we must take you back. Now."
Ikar: "Not until I am ready."
Lead soldier form: "You are no longer a part of us Ikar. You have taken back the Perfection of Unity. Your body will no longer obey your brain. You will remain as you are visible at all times until you die."

External links

* [http://membres.lycos.fr/tmcr/daystar/tol_s2/tol_eps44.shtml Detailed episode guide] by 'Monsieur Vincent'
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