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* ImplacableMan: The cloud monster cannot be killed as energy cannot be destroyed or created, it can only be deterred by switching off all power in the vicinity so it will just gravity to the pit which has it's own power source.

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Morley tries to warn the Peters brothers away from Norco -- and pays for it with his life.



* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control --'' for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it. The ending narration implies that maybe it should just be left in there and lived with, "peaceably".

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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control --'' for -- ''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it. The ending narration implies that maybe it should just be left in there and lived with, "peaceably".
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* HerrDoktor: Dr. Block's German accent [[ImpliedTrope implies this trope]].
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: ImpliedTrope with Dr. Block. The energy monster is basically a mindless wild animal; it's Block who uses it to commit several murders.

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* HerrDoktor: Dr. Block's German Germanic accent [[ImpliedTrope implies this trope]].
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Another ImpliedTrope with Dr. Block. The energy monster is basically a mindless wild animal; it's Block who uses it to commit several murders.

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* DecoyProtagonist: Jory seems to be the main character at first, but then Siroleo takes over the episode, with Jory disappearing until after the climax.
* EnergyBeing: The episode centers around the accidental creation of such a creature.



* MadScientist: Dr. Block plays this very straight.

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: ImpliedTrope with Dr. Block. The energy monster is basically a mindless wild animal; it's Block who uses it to commit several murders.
* HungryMenace: The monster feeds on any kind of energy, unfortunately including human LifeEnergy.
* MadScientist: Dr. Block plays this very straight. He's willing to kill (and resurrect) his colleagues, and anyone who gets in his way, to learn the secrets of the energy being.



* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it. The ending narration implies that maybe it should just be left in there and lived with, "peaceably".

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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for control --'' for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it. The ending narration implies that maybe it should just be left in there and lived with, "peaceably".
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* DawsonCasting: Scott Marlowe was 31 playing the 20-year-old Jory.

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* DawsonCasting: Scott Marlowe was 31 playing when he played the 20-year-old Jory.



* SurvivorsGuilt: Jory feels he should've died with his parents who lost their lives in a boat accident.

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* SurvivorsGuilt: Jory feels he should've died with his parents parents, who lost their lives in a boat boating accident.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Jory feels he should've died with his parents who lost their lives in a boat accident.
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* DawsonCasting: Scott Marlowe was 31 playing the 20-year-old Jory.
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->'''The Control Voice:'' His name is Warren Edgar Morley. For the past six months, he has guarded this gate from eight in the morning until six at night, at which time he is replaced by another just like himself. These are the last few moments of his life.

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->'''The Control Voice:'' Voice:''' His name is Warren Edgar Morley. For the past six months, he has guarded this gate from eight in the morning until six at night, at which time he is replaced by another just like himself. These are the last few moments of his life.



->'''The Control Voice:'' The Conservation of Energy Law — a principle which states that energy can be changed in form but that it cannot be either created or destroyed. And this is true of all energy — the energy of genius, of madness, of the heart, of the atom. And so it must be lived with. It must be controlled, channeled for good, held isolated from evil… and somehow lived with, peaceably.

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->'''The Control Voice:'' Voice:''' The Conservation of Energy Law — a principle which states that energy can be changed in form but that it cannot be either created or destroyed. And this is true of all energy — the energy of genius, of madness, of the heart, of the atom. And so it must be lived with. It must be controlled, channeled for good, held isolated from evil… and somehow lived with, peaceably.
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->'''The Control Voice:'' His name is Warren Edgar Morley. For the past six months, he has guarded this gate from eight in the morning until six at night, at which time he is replaced by another just like himself. These are the last few moments of his life.


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->'''The Control Voice:'' The Conservation of Energy Law — a principle which states that energy can be changed in form but that it cannot be either created or destroyed. And this is true of all energy — the energy of genius, of madness, of the heart, of the atom. And so it must be lived with. It must be controlled, channeled for good, held isolated from evil… and somehow lived with, peaceably.
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An energy monster is held captive in a laboratory by a scientist who wishes to study it at any cost.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The energy monster claims another victim.]]


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* HerrDoktor: Dr. Block's German accent [[ImpliedTrope implies this trope]].
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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it, the ending narration implys maybe it just be just left in there and lived with, "peaceably".

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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it, the it. The ending narration implys implies that maybe it should just be just left in there and lived with, "peaceably".
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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it.

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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it.it, the ending narration implys maybe it just be just left in there and lived with, "peaceably".
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* CallBack: The climax of the energy cloud music used in "The Man With The Power" is used when the energy cloud appears the first two times.

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* CallBack: The climax of the energy cloud music used in "The "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E4TheManWithThePower The Man With The Power" Power]]" is used when the energy cloud appears the first two times.
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* WhatNowEnding: The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as Siroleo notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with it.

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* CallBack: The climax of the energy cloud music used in The Man With The Power is used when the energy cloud appears the first two times.
* MadScientist: Dr. Block plays this very straight.

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* CallBack: The climax of the energy cloud music used in The "The Man With The Power Power" is used when the energy cloud appears the first two times.
* MadScientist: Dr. Block plays this very straight.straight.
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* CallBack: The climax of the energy cloud music used in The Man With The Power is used when the energy cloud appears the first two times.
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*MadScientist: Dr. Block plays this very straight.

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