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Stan Harbinger is a top-rated talk show host with a flair for the outrageous and a reputation as a skeptic's skeptic. Assisted by his producer Trudy (Cynthia Nixon), Stan takes special delight in shooting down callers who claim to have alien encounters, especially people like Eldon DeVries (Alan Zinyk), who believes his body has been taken over by aliens. However, when Eldon commits suicide by setting himself on fire in front of Stan, things begin to go wrong for him. A plan to syndicate the show is threatened by protests from UFO believers, angry at Stan's role in Eldon's death. Stan's skepticism is challenged when he notices that other people have the same distinctive triple heartbeat he heard coming from Eldon just before he died. Close to the edge, Stan finally loses it after Darcy Kipling (Leslie Hope), a woman he picked up in a bar, turns out to be a Believer and sets him up with a phony tape. He assaults Darcy's fellow Believer, Moses Saxon (Alex Diakun), and is consequently thrown off the air. Although out of work and living out of his car, these are the least of his problems. Everywhere he goes, Stan hears that strange triple heartbeat and sees glimpses of the aliens. Every beat and every glimpse shakes the foundation of his disbelief.moreless
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Kevin Conway
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Joe Pantoliano
Stan Harbinger
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Leslie Hope
Darcy Kipling
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ADD NOTES- Cynthia Nixon (Trudy) has been best known as Miranda in the tv show "Sex and the city". Edit
- Malcolm Stewart and Daryl Shuttleworth would later be reunited in the 'Stargate SG-1' episode, "Cure". Edit
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ADD QUOTES- [Closing Narration] Control Voice: If we mock that which we do not understand, we may learn too late that the penalty for such arrogance... is annihilation. Edit
- [Opening Narration] Control Voice: The skeptic's world is a secure one, built on unshakeable truths. But what happens when it's foundation begins to crumble? Edit
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