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The killer shoots twice at Thorn, but misses, his shots striking bystanders in the crowd.

As Thorn tries to control a violent throng during a Soylent Green shortage riot, he is attacked by the assassin who killed Simonson. He soon becomes aware that an unknown stalker is following him. Under direction from Governor Santini, Thorn's superiors order him to end the investigation, but he continues, fearing that he will lose his job if he files a false report. Soon after, the priest is murdered in the confessional by Fielding, Simonson's former bodyguard. Because of the sanctity of the confessional, the visibly exhausted priest can only hint to Thorn at the contents of the confession. With the help of Simonson's concubine Shirl, his investigation leads to a priest whom Simonson had visited shortly before his death. Simonson, a board member of the Soylent Corporation, which he suspects was an assassination. Thorn is investigating the murder of the wealthy and influential William R. New York City Police Department detective Robert Thorn lives with his aged friend Sol Roth, a brilliant former college professor and police analyst (referred to as a 'Book'). The poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed wafers: Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow, and the latest product, far more flavorful and nutritious, Soylent Green. Usually, they include concubines (who are referred to - and, used as - 'furniture'). The homes of the elite are fortified, with security systems and bodyguards for their tenants. New York City has a population of 40 million, and only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food. In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.īy 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing. The story follows a murder investigation in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity caused by the greenhouse effect, with the resulting pollution, depleted resources, poverty, and overpopulation. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural. Ever since his role in 'The Magnificent Seven' he became a piece of mandatory equipment in films that feature small Mexican villages, I guess.Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Vladimir Sokoloff also briefly appears, naturally. Well-made episode, though, with a couple of familiar faces like Cliff Osmond and Paul Mazursky.

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Sixty years after the series and forty-five years after Serling's passing, however, still not much has changed. Vintage TZ-material and vintage Rod Serling - the author who grabbed every possible opportunity to rub in our faces that we shouldn't fear the unknown so much, and learn to be a lot more tolerant towards other cultures and races. Pedro receives a gift the whole of humanity would enormously prosper from, but then still our typically human ignorance ruins everything. Only a young child, Pedro, is open-minded and hearty enough to welcome the stranger.

Even later, when the alien repeatedly states that he comes with exclusively peaceful intentions, the villagers are still petrified and hostile. An alien 'savior' in human form lands his ship in the outskirts of a small Mexican town, near the border with Texas, but before he can properly make contact with the locals, he's violently shot at.

The theme features again here, in 'The Gift', albeit now narrated through the life and via dolorosa of Jesus Christ. In case it wasn't made clear yet in various previous installments in 'The Twilight Zone', one of creator Rod Serling's definite hobbyhorse-themes is xenophobia and his aversion for it.