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"The Inheritors, Part II"
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Opening Narration:
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"The Earth, tumbling grain of sand in the darkness
of unending space, plays host to a strange and awful guest, unsought,
uninvited, possessor of fearsome power purveyor of dark deed, a relentless
traveler on the road to its mysterious goal..."
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Plotline:
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Returning to his hotel room, the "lieutenant"
Minnsthe holy leaderfaces the Feds and runs. Adam Ballard
goes straight to a Wichita County's warehouse where he discovers the goal
of the chosen ones: a starship has been built to send a group of six crippled
children to an alien planet where the atmosphere heals them in order to
repopulate a dying civilisation.
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Closing Narration:
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"The Inheritors are on their way. In a universe of
billions of stars, there are places of love and happiness. On this Earth,
in this spot, magic settled for a moment. Wonder touched a few lives,
and a few odd pieces fell smoothly into the jigsaw of Creation."
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Quote:
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"Do you always believe the worst, Ballard? How
can you live in a world without faith? (...) Progress, Ballard."
Lieutenant Philip Minns (Steve Ihnat) |
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Comments:
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This sentence extracts from the opening
narration reminds the end of "The Galaxy Being": "The Earth,
tumbling grain of sand in the darkness of unending space, (...)".
Oddly enough, man of science Adam Ballard is scared by Minns' dual behavior:
"You smile at me and I get a chill. You're smilling with a piece
of your mind that doesn't belong to you. You lie that way, you cheat that
way, steal that way if you have to..." To flee the Feds which fire
six bullets, Minns is protected by a portable and unseen force field.
Back at Wichita County's warehouse, witty Renaldo puns when he meets Conover:
"Hello Compadre... Brothers under the skin now, or is it freak under
the skull?" Renaldo calls his force field by his own name: Renaldo's
barrier. The ignorance of the aim makes all players (Feds and the four
men included) scared by a possible catastrophy, especially Conover who
imagines dreadful atrocities. Unfortunately, the starship looks as naive
as a mock-up built for a kids' amusement park. Ballard bumps his head
against the invisible wall in a ludicrous way and three Feds vainly fire
point blank at the barrier. The crippled children calls civilian Minns,
the "lieutenant" (meaning the leader-saviorthe last name
Minns can be interpreted as the word "means" because he is
the financial and managing coordinator), which cries when he brings blind
Minerva back to his estate car. The most touching moment remain the meeting
between lying in the meadow Danny Masterthis character of the deaf
and mute is played by producer Ben Brady's son: Davidand Minns who
sits down, picks and blows on a little daisy. As in "Cold Hands,
Warm Heart", one character has a blood disease (leukemia): the lad,
Johnny Subiron. The three chosen men threaten and rebel against Minns
to know the outcome of the "project". Minns sermonizes as a
man of Church when he explains the truthfortunately, Steve Ihnat
plays it sober, sharp, elegant, dignified, noble and unemotional: he is,
in fact, kindness itself or even a Saint. Adam Ballard relunctantly lets
them leave and due to the budget-cost we never see the actual taking off
but instead, a smooth dolly out shot of the warehouse conclude the episode.
This preachy redundancy part II and its unexpected soft outcome with too
many invading Feds, disabled kids, good intentions and bleeding-hearts
stretch too much but still above and superior to the average season 2
ones. Find the last used force field (Cf. "Demon With A Glass Hand")
and a cure-all plot with a strong messianic overtones about healing the
crippled and the helpless ones. As in "The Chameleon", salvation
and the road to heaven are outer. The ending encapsulates the peace message
of the story.
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