The Outer Limits (TV Series)
A Feasibility Study (1964)
Sam Wanamaker: Dr. Simon Holm
Quotes
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Dr. Simon Holm : That's the whole, bright mystique of Life, isn't it? Choice. Maybe that's what the soul is: Choice.
Andrea Holm : Can we live with the loss of it?
Dr. Simon Holm : Perhaps, but I think it would be better to die trying to win it back.
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Dr. Simon Holm : There is no escape for us. Not for us. We need not suffer the same fate as Ralph Cashman, not so long as we stay in our homes and never wander more than six blocks in any direction - but we will never go back to the world we've been stolen from. Understand that. Never. It's a lonely feeling, isn't it? But we won't be lonely very long. Soon, the entire Earth's population will be teleported to this place. We will live in labor camps. We will toil and sweat and die in controlled areas. Some of us may become infected - contagion can occur even when we breathe the same air in a confined space - but enough of us will survive to make their project feasible. Out of the whole world of us, enough will survive... if we survive. We are their guinea pigs, but we are human guinea pigs, which gives us some choice in this experiment - human choice. We can choose to make their enslavement of our Earth infeasible. We can choose not to escape infection. We can deliberately become what they are. My wife has already been infected. I'm going to take her hand. Will someone take mine?
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Teenage Luminos : Don't come in! I'll go away if you will.
Dr. Simon Holm : You need help? Is it Mr. Cashman? Ralph?
Teenage Luminos : No. Please go away.
Dr. Simon Holm : [waves Mrs. Cashman back] Stay there! I'm a doctor. Are you hurt?
Teenage Luminos : No. Yes. Being afraid hurts.
Dr. Simon Holm : Well, what are you afraid of?
Teenage Luminos : I came through the shield. I'll be punished if I spoil the experiment.
[Simon enters]
Teenage Luminos : Stay out!
Dr. Simon Holm : Can't I come in and just talk to you? I'd like to hear about that experiment.
