"The Refuge" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 5 April 1996, during the second season.
Raymond Dalton stumbles through a forest in a vicious snow blizzard before finally collapsing. He wakes in a warm and comfortable log cabin with a group of people, only to be told that the entire world is blanketed by an enormous storm, and he has found the only safe place.
Raymond is told by Valle that an organism was disco...
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"The Refuge" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 5 April 1996, during the second season.
Raymond Dalton stumbles through a forest in a vicious snow blizzard before finally collapsing. He wakes in a warm and comfortable log cabin with a group of people, only to be told that the entire world is blanketed by an enormous storm, and he has found the only safe place.
Raymond is told by Valle that an organism was discovered by a deep sea drilling rig that "polymerized" the world's water supply causing it to have a much higher freezing temperature. (This is similar to the ice-9 substance from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.) This created a sort of reverse greenhouse effect that lowered the world's temperature to uninhabitable levels.
Valle brought the people here to the cabin for various reasons. Raymond begins taking a liking to Gina and is shocked by the behavior of the others in the cabin, varying from religious fanaticism to violent jealousy to adultery....
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