Outer Limits, The Vol. 6 - Nightmare (1963)/Soldier

NIGHTMARE "To Earth's credit, in the war between United States and Ebon, Ebon struck first". Martin Sheen is part of a six-man Earth force captured on the planet Ebon. The Ebonites-Satanic, batwinged, gargolye-like aliens-brutally interrogate their prisoners with torture, drugs and vivid hallucinations. After ghastly interrogations the group are given bare necessities and respect...but is this because one of them has turned traitor? Must one of them be killed? An acting tour-de-force that brings to life a horrific view of phobia and conspiracy. SOLDIER "He is a footsoldier, the ultimate infantryman. He is geared for only one purpose: to kill the enemy." The episode which inspired The Terminator! In a nightmare future, on a devastated radioactive no-man's land, two soldiers fight a hellish cross-fire of energy beams. The awesome energies collide to create a bizzare time-warp, and one of the soldiers is flung back in time. A language expert is given the challenge of taming this savage killing machine; but is it possible to change a man born, bred and brainwashed to worship destruction? © United Artists Television and Villa de Stefano