Forgotten TV: 'The Outer Limits' Wants you to Chill out!

 Is the 4th time the charm?

This Episode of The Outer Limits is the 4th lowest rated one on IMDB.
Is it bad?

Is it at least a Sci-Fi Premise this time?

This is...

A group of people- including Costas Mandylor and Barry Pepper- kill some Soldiers and steal a truck.

They want what is inside.

It's actually a Soldier...and then...not the missiles that they were expecting.

What is in the box?

That's the question on everyone's lips, save for this Captain who was also hiding in the truck.

The Major- Colm Feore- is going to torture this lady to get what he wants.

Nearby, the box is penetrated (by bullets) and unsealed.

Something is watching them.

As Pepper lights up a torch to torch...ure her, the creature shoots over and freezes him via digital sharpening of his image!

He's frozen and shattered and now know that a weird little alien that freezes you was in the box!

Can they stop it?
Can they get along?

No, of course not!  The good guys survive and the bad ones die with the alien.  Duh.

*******

This one does feel like a Sci-Fi Story, but...shouldn't there be more here?

These ones always have some sort of moral and this one...well, doesn't.
This is not a bad idea for an Episode.  It's a good Plot.

I just feel like this was missing something.

This feels like a Sci-Fi Channel Picture that was condensed and had the stakes lowered.  They are just trapped in a building with a nameless alien that freezes stuff.

The Film would have more of them or some other aliens too.

Is this a bad Episode of Sci-Fi Television?  No.
Is this not a great Episode of The Outer Limits?  Yes.

Don't hate me- i said it!

Next time, we go back to Season 1 and...oh, damn it!  It's...well, you'll see if you don't know already.