- Directors: Rusty Cundieff, Joe Lynch
- Writers: Paul Dini, Stephen Langford
- Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Breckin Meyer, Gabrielle Byndloss
- Run Time: 48 Minutes
The Right Snuff: Synopsis
Alex and Ted are aboard space station Ocula. There’s debris heading their way, so they do a course correction. Whatever it is, it’s homing in on the station. They use their gravity wave device to avoid the collision. Ted is a brilliant inventor of the gravity wave device, and Alex is just the son of a famous astronaut, always living in his shadow. We see that Alex has some issues.
They get a classified call explaining that America has been in contact with aliens. Their mission is now changed. One of the two astronaut will be the first to make first contact with an alien. They want Ted to be the one, but Alex has other ideas. Ted is to beam over there and hand them a message; it’s all been arranged by the government already.
Ted goes in the room with gravity machine alone, and Alex sees his opportunity. He locks him in and starts turning the gravity wave controller up, until Ted is flattened. The aliens approach, and Alex takes Ted’s place.
They beam him over, and the giant alien speaks in an unintelligible language. They switch the English and ask where Ted is. Ted is their agent; he wasn’t human. “Where is the ambassador?” Asks the creature. They read his mind to see what happened. “You terminated him,” says the alien. Ted was there prove humankind’s worth. The others thought humans were too primitive; too warlike; but they and Ted wanted to give humanity a chance. Alex proved their point. “Your actions have doomed your whole species to extinction. You wanted your people to know your name. Now they will.”
The gravity wave has now spiraled the moon into a collision course with Earth, and Alex gets full credit. He’s famous now. He’s the last human… ever.
Commentary
The outside view of the ship is poorly done CGI, but otherwise, everything looks really good here. It seems like NASA’s mental health exams aren’t quite as good as they used to be. The ironic twist at the end wasn’t much of a surprise. They haven’t done an episode in space until now, and this was a good one.
Sibling Rivalry: Synopsis
At Manchester High School, Lola tells her counselor that her brother is trying to kill her. She tells the counselor the whole story, and it’s all very annoying. Lola’s friend Grace has a crush on her. Lola goes home and wants to have a talk with Andrew, but she can’t find him; we noticed the axe in the garage is missing.
Andrew says Mom and Dad are dead and Lola is the one who killed them. We get a flashback of Lola vampire-biting her mother. Andrew disposed of their bodies later on. Maybe that time Lolo woke up and caught Grace kissing her wasn’t actually a kiss…
They decide it may take two to keep Grace from hurting anyone else…
Commentary
This one couldn’t end fast enough. Lola’s story to Mrs. Porter was super annoying, but probably a good representation of an airhead teen telling a story. Obnoxious and useless; the whole scene could have been cut.
The makeup in this one was unexpectedly good though. The vampire face was very cool.