
Life Force (2000)
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Lorne Magory — Director
Episodes 5
Greenhouse Effect
Goodman is requested to treat an aggressive Japanese leaf worm disease that has apparently broken out on a farm, affecting its crops. After the group arrive, it transpires that the unscrupulous owner of the farm, Harry Fellside, is using illegal, highly toxic nerve agent chemicals to promote the growth of his plants, and ruthlessly forcing his captured 'climeys' (climate refugees) that have migrated from a similarly-flooded France into brutal lives of slave labour exploitation.
Read MoreThe Village That Dreamed Itself to Death
The children respond to a distress call from Loppergarth Island. When they arrive, they find Loppergarth Island deserted, save for Gemma, a sleep-deprived young girl in shock after a week of compulsively trying to stay awake. They eventually ascertain that her parents and the rest of the populace have been consuming contaminated gull eggs, causing them to fall under a shared hallucination and gather to become comatose in the village church for an otherworldly crystal entity.
Read MoreBeware of the Dog
In need of an old car part to power Goodman's broken electricity generator, Ash and Greg travel to the Cartmel scrap market. The boys find the part for sale, however its owner demands too high of a price. They decide to try their luck at Devil's Island, a mound of land largely consisting of a giant scrapyard. While looking around the site, they discover that it is inhabited by numerous feral, mutant dog-like children of varying morality, living as a pack amongst the vast waste.
Read MoreAge Before Beauty
Greg and Mai-Li investigate an empty dinghy, drifting away in the sea. Suddenly drugged and kidnapped, Greg wakes up in a house with no memory of the prior events, and a young girl, Marianne, tells him that he was found floating alone. Unbeknownst to Greg while he is looked after, her father, Professor Peterson, plots to experiment with and ultimately sacrifice a captive Mai-Li in an attempt to cure his daughter of the rapid-ageing condition that she is actually suffering from.
Read MoreThe Thought Fish
Amy appears to escape from The Commission's headquarters, and makes her way back to the base in an attempt to be reunited with her colleagues and family. However, she starts to show more unusual concern for the current whereabouts of the two 'senders', instead of her own children.
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