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Patient Zero

 
TV Episode:

The Outer Limits: Patient Zero

  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Movie Type: Psychological Sci-Fi, Anthology Series
  • Director: Mario Azzopardi
  • Release Year: 2001
  • Country: US

Plot

In the future, a deadly plague virtually wipes out all of humanity. Hoping to stop the plague at its source, scientist Beckett (Michael Rooker) travels back in time, intending to kill the first disease carrier -- a person known only as Patient Zero. But upon finding out that his intended victim is a beautiful young woman named Amy Barrett (Tanya Allen), the love-smitten Beckett tries to figure out a way to save the world of the future without harming Amy. "Patient Zero" originally aired on March 23, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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"Patient Zero"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no. Season 7
Episode 2
Written by James Crocker
Directed by Mario Azzopardi
Production no. 134
Original airdate 23 March 2001
Guest stars

Michael Rooker as Beckett, Tanya Allen as Amy Barrett, David Cubitt as Faber, Patrick McManus as Dr. Mendel

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"Patient Zero" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 23 March 2001, during the seventh season.

Contents

Opening Narration

Can the fate of mankind hinge on a single act or are we helpless to change our destiny ?

Plot

An epidemic has broken out across Earth, and most of humanity has been killed by a virus. The virus began with patient zero, a woman who comes into contact with the three DNA strands necessary for this virus to come into existence. A soldier, Colonel Beckett, is sent back in time to kill her and prevent the virus from forming.

Beckett becomes attached to the woman and decides not to kill her, but instead to simply keep her from making the contacts necessary to form the virus. In the revised timeline, Beckett himself becomes patient zero - in his attempt to protect the woman, he himself contracts all three strains and becomes sick. A fellow soldier arrives from the future, and Beckett is given the chance to sacrifice himself when his friend administers a fatal dose of poison. Since Beckett dies before the disease reaches its contagious stage (and the woman never develops the disease at all), the plague is stopped before it starts - in the new history, there never was an epidemic, all of the disease's former victims (including Beckett's family) are now alive, and humanity survives without ever contracting the virus.

Closing Narration

The answers to mankind's future problems can be found within so long as there are those among us willing to make the sacrifice.

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