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Trivia
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The couple that abducts Dave shows him newspaper cut-outs about what happened when a hurricane hit Brazil, Cuba and Argentina. In fact, the newspaper articles are written in Dutch and tell about a musical band, computers and anti virus software.
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Sirk's missing arm had obviously been surgically amputated. When it comes back as a full arm and he decides to do a 'home' amputation, he uses an unsterilised chainsaw and we hear his screams, whilst Tom Underlay is outside. That kind of self mutilation would lead to an incredible amount of blood loss- it's even doubtful he could have sustained the chainsaw hacking through the arm without passing out. No doctor was in the immediate vicinity. He should have bled out and died within a few minutes.
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The light-beings attack people by attaching tentacles to their abdomen, neck, and temple.
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Lewis' arm is intact after his contact with the light-being. This implies that the creatures do not create copies based on a person's features, but on DNA or some other inherent method.
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Nitpick: The person that abducts Dave puts a band around his arm to find a vein, then obviously jabs the needle in his arm without looking for the vein.
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The book that Dave had been reading in bed the night he was abducted is "UFO Abductions in Gulf Breeze" by Ed and Frances Walters. The book purports to tell the first-hand account of a Gulf Breeze, Fla., UFO abductee's experiences.
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We learn in this episode that the alien lights were seen in Brazil, Cuba and Argentina. Everyone who had seen the lights or had shown up naked after the hurricanes all killed themselves and others.
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This episode marks the first time we see the process that the aliens use to take over a human.
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Quotes
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Dave: I didn't get your name... Healy: Healy. Dave: Healy... Healy: Right. Dave: That your real name? Healy: No. Dave: Right.
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Dave: Please, please tell me what's going on. Healy: Your dream has come true Dave. You've been abducted.
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Mariel: (to Tom) You can't save everybody. You're only human.
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Dave: (to Prina and Healy) Listen, both of you need to stop speaking in Yoda right now.
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Lewis: I don't know what to do. (crying) Tom: You'll do what's right. (Tom walks away from the car, Lewis goes into the shack and you hear the chainsaw and then you hear Louis screaming)
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Dave: Russ come here. You've got to see this! (Dave turns the reconstructed skull to show that it was Tom's face)
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Lewis: Who am I to question a miracle. Tom: Oh, I don't know about a miracle. Tom: It's a miracle! (stretches out both arms and shows Tom that he got his arm back)
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(Russell and Prina disect the alien) Healy: Looks like a piece of fish. Russell: I wish it was.
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Healy: You want some? (holds out a glass of water) Dave: No. You got a beer?
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Healy: You run now and you'll never know the truth. We've been reading your blogs and that you had an encounter with an alien. (shows Dave his scars) Me too.
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Notes
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International Airdates: The Netherlands: August 18, 2008 on Veronica
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The skull from the skeleton that Russell and Dave found has been rediscovered. Using the skull, they reconstructed its face. Apparantly it is Tom Underlay's skull.
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Allusions
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The gruesome final scene is very similar to the real-life fate of Daniel Rudolph. He is the brother of the infamous "Olympic bomber," Eric Rudolph who pled guilty to bombing abortion clinics, a gay nightclub and the Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. When Eric was a fugitive from the FBI, Daniel videotaped himself as he cut off his own hand with an electric saw. The hand was later reattached. This episode puts an interesting twist on the tale. Eric Rudolph opposed the authority of the government. Tom Underlay is the symbol of authority in Homestead as the sheriff.
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The title of the episode references the famous and influential book by British naturalist Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species." In the book, Darwin lays out his proof for the theory of evolution through natural selection. The full title of the book is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
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Dave refers to talking like Yoda in this episode. Yoda is the Jedi Master in the Star Wars movies who talks in riddles.
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