History Recap / TheOuterLimits1995S4E20Nightmare

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that she set the device to blow on Earth, O'Keefe spends her final moments in grief over it.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Due to the humans inadvertently destroying themselves and their planet]], the Ebonites win the war [[WinsWithoutDoingAThing without even having to do anything]].

* TheBadGuyWins: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Due to the humans inadvertently destroying themselves and their planet]], the Ebonites win the war without even having to do anything.

* TakingYouWithMe: At the end of the experiment, TheStoic O'Keefe [[NotSoStoic has reached]] [[BreakTheHaughty her breaking point even more than the others]] and ends up setting the EarthShatteringKaboom device to blow, believing that she and the others were going to die in enemy territory, unaware they were really on Earth.

* TheBadGuyWins: And the Ebonites didn't even have to do anything.

!!This Episode Contains Examples Of:

Earth is at war with a planet called Ebon. A crew is given a mission to send a bomb powerful enough to destroy a planet to Ebon in an attempt to win the war, but get captured by the Ebonites and locked in a room with the bomb. The crew never actually see the Ebonites, just hear their voice, but everyone experiences various forms of physical and psychological torture with high tech devices, including being mutilated (which is healed afterwards) and being made to hallucinate loved ones appearing. The crew is interrogated about their mission, ordered to teach the Ebonites how to arm the bomb so they can use it for themselves, and begin to grow paranoid when the Ebonites imply one or more of the crew betrayed them. Eventually, one of the crew reaches his breaking point and kills another, believing he was the traitor. It's then revealed that the crew was on Earth all along, with their General explaining they were being tested to see how they stand up to stress and interrogation. Unfortunately, at the same time, the creator of the bomb, believing that they all going to die, had set the bomb to go off, hoping to take the Ebonites with them. With the bomb unable to be deactivated, it explodes, presumably wiping out Earth.

Earth is at war with a planet called Ebon. A crew is given a mission to send a bomb powerful enough to destroy a planet to Ebon in an attempt to win the war, but get captured by the Ebonites and locked in a room with the bomb. The crew never actually see the Ebonites, just hear their voice, but everyone experiences various forms of physical and psychological torture with high tech devices, including being mutilated (which is healed afterwards) and being made to hallucinate loved ones appearing. The crew is interrogated about their mission, ordered to teach the Ebonites how to arm the bomb so they can use it for themselves, and begin to grow paranoid when the Ebonites imply one or more of the crew betrayed them. Eventually, one of the crew reaches his breaking point and kills another, believing he was the traitor. The creator of the bomb, believing that they all going to die, sets the bomb to go off, hoping to take the Ebonites with them. At this point their General enters the room and reveals they were on Earth the whole time being tested to see how they stand up to stress and interrogation. The bomb cannot be shut off and explodes, presumably wiping out Earth.

A crew on a mission to deploy a DoomsdayDevice against an alien planet is captured and psychologically tortured.

* TakingYouWithMe: At the end of the experiment, TheStoic O'Keefe [[NotSoStoic has reached]] [[BreakTheHaughty her breaking point even more than the others]] and ends up setting the EarthShatteringKaboom device to blow, believing that she and the others were going to die in enemy territory, unaware they were really on Earth.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' In our efforts to plumb the depths of our psychological endurance, we may do more than drive ourselves to the breaking point... we may destroy the very world we're seeking to protect.

-->'''The Control Voice:''' In our efforts to plumb the depths of our psychological endurance we may do more than drive ourselves to the breaking point... we may destroy the very world we're seeking to protect.

-->'''The Control Voice:''' In our efforts to plumb the depths of our psychological endurance we may do more than drive ourselves to the breaking point... we may destroy the very world we're seeking to protect.

!!Examples:

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* TheMole: One of the experiment's tactics was making the crew think there was a traitor in the ranks'. Unfortunately, when they made it look like it was Naguchi, it resulted in him getting stabbed in the stomach.

* TheMole: One of the experiment's tactics was making the crew think there was a traitor in the ranks'. Unfortunately, when they made it look like it was Naguchi, it resulted in him getting stabbed in the stomach.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: It turns out that every member of the crew has one. Part of the experiment consists of the supposed Eminites playing upon their pasts while interrogating them.

* NothingIsScarier: What exactly the Eminites look like is not shown.

A crew on a mission to deploy a doomsday device against an alien planet is captured and psychologically tortured.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The General ends up receiving severe repercussions for his interrogation experiment. This was probably to counter the KaramHoudini ending of the original.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The General ends up receiving severe repercussions for his interrogation experiment.

* DownerEnding: Even worse than [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E10Nightmare the 1963 original]].

* DownerEnding: Even worse than the 1963 version.

* TakingYouWithMe: At the end of the experiment, TheStoic O'Keefe [[NotSoStoic has reached]] [[BreakTheHaughty her breaking point even more than the others]] and ends up setting the EarthShatteringKaboom device to blow, believing that she and the others were going to die in enemy territory, unaware they were really on Earth.

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