The Outer Limits (TV Series)

The Architects of Fear (1963)

Vic Perrin: Control Voice

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Control Voice : Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque; it will have been at least a lesson - a lesson, at last, to be learned.

• [first lines] 

  Control Voice : [film footage of people running out in the streets and a missile in the sky]  Is this the day? Is this the beginning of the end? There is no time for wonder, no time to ask why is it happening, why is it finally happening. There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic. Do we pray, or do we merely run now and pray later? Will there BE a later, or is this the day?

  [a mushroom cloud explodes before the film projector is shut off]