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Davis will be
turned over to the FBI and Dr. Kenner will return to his work, presumably
to consider the advisability of further development of the fear gas, and
Seaview sails into the sunset with the boat scrubbed of bad air and the
bad-guy.
The Fear-Makers is one of
those episodes that works on all levels. The cast, the director,
editor and special effects all work to the same end with complete
success. Of particular importance, the music incorporated into this
episode, whether eerie, psychotic or frenetic, is always dead-serious and
underplayed, reflecting perfectly the external action and the
implicit subtext of guilt and fear.
Standing on
Seaview's bridge with
Nelson & Crane, one of Kenner's last comments
is that he feels guilty (as well he might) about
having propelled their recent predicament through his
invention. (If not guilty for the invention
of the gas, then guilty for not taking more care in
its use--an implication suggested, if not
stated.)
Bottom-line, The Fear-Makers is a grand-slam home run of
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