Fusion Patrol

607 – Logan’s Run – The Collectors & Capture


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Two episodes.  First, John and Eugene ponder which of Logan and Jessica’s biological functions inconveniences him the most in The Collectors.  Second, in Capture, they discuss how many times they’ve both seen TV remakes of The Most Dangerous Game.

The Collectors Synopsis

The legendary quality of 1970s American cars shines as the solar car has broken down in the desert.  Rem is repairing it, but it will take some time to repair.  He sends Logan and Jessica away, so they stop annoying him.

As they crest the sandy dune, they wax poetic about the possibility that Sanctuary could be “just over that ridge.”  Little do they know that a pair is watching them on a monitor and preparing to grant their wish.

Over the rise, they find an oasis and Sanctuary.  The actual, honest-to-goodness Sanctuary, with all the Runners that escaped the City of Domes, even Jessica’s childhood friend Martin.  It’s just like everything they think about comes to be reality.

Sanctuary is looked over by the Protector, a man called John, and his partner Joanna.  They were the ones watching Logan and Jessica.

Logan and Jessica are given nice quarters and shown all the hospitality, but Logan, the old dour puss, is a bit suspicious; however, Jessica drinks it all in.

Rem finishes fixing the car and goes looking for the wayward humans.  When he crests the rise, all he sees is desert, and he knows something is wrong.

Logan investigates the city and comes across a cave.  Inside, he is harassed by three Sandmen who have come to take him back.  Actually, they claim he actually is already back.  He escapes them and discovers aliens being held in cells.  He meets one pair who live in an alternate atmosphere, which causes Logan to pass out.

John decides to consider collecting Rem as a specimen, too.  He sends a fake Logan and Jessica to collect him, but Rem sees through this and the illusion completely.  He plays along.

When Logan wakes, he’s back in their room.  He finally convinces Jessica that everything they’ve encountered has been created by their minds, so they wish Rem was here, and, like magic, he walks through the door.  Is it him or an illusion?

Rem explains that what they see as Sanctuary is most likely an alien spacecraft.

John and Joanna interview Rem, and Rem proves his superiority to them by surviving in the alien atmosphere cell, where he makes friends with the captives.

When the aliens discover Rem is an android, they decide to add him to their collection.

Back in their room, Logan and Jessica use the power to create things from their minds to escape.

All three are captured and are being escorted back to their cells when the revolution begins, and the captive aliens rescue our heroes and kill the bad guy aliens.

Rem, Logan, and Jessica release all the captive aliens and head on their way.

Capture Synopsis

At an idyllic mountain lake, Francis and fellow Sandman Benjamin catch up to Logan, Jessica, and Rem unawares.  They take them prisoner.

Francis explains that Logan and Jessica must return to the City of Domes.  Rem, on the other hand, is to be destroyed, and he leaves Benjamin behind to do the deed while he takes Logan and Jessica in their solar car.

Separated, Rem tricks Benjamin into a trap and makes him his prisoner, while Logan gets the jump on Francis in a bid to escape.  Francis hands Logan his butt on a plate.  They camp, waiting for Benjamin to join them.

During the night, Jessica is abducted.  In the morning, Logan convinces Francis they must find Jessica, and he gives his word that if Francis gives him back his gun, he’ll give it back when they find Jessica.  Francis agrees.

Then meet James Borden, a local landowner and hunt enthusiast.  He explains Jessica was probably taken by the swamp mutants, along with all his staff.  In the morning, the three armed men can rescue them.  They return to Borden’s compound and meet his wife Irene – an intense woman with a passion for 20th-century firearms.  Borden himself prefers energy weapons and shows off his penis surrogate to the appreciative Francis.

We learn that Jessica is actually being held by the Bordens.  Borden is an avid hunter who has become bored with it all.  Like the rest of us, he probably had to read Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game in school, and he’s taken it to heart.

Tomorrow, he will hunt two Sandmen, the most dangerous opponents he’s yet faced.  When it’s over, and they are dead, Irene will hunt Jessica – old school style.

The next day, the hunt is on.  Logan and Francis fall into all the traps but manage to get themselves out while Borden toys with them.  In the hunt, Logan’s gun is destroyed.

Back at the compound, Jessica manages to escape and bumps into Rem, who has been looking for her.  They search for Logan and Francis while Irene hunts Jessica.

In the kind of tragic accident that makes hunting the fun sport that it is, Borden accidentally shoots and kills his wife.  Distraught, he goes after the Sandmen with a vengeance – even though he is 100% at fault in his wife’s death.

Logan and Francis set up a diversion, and a trap, and Francis kills Borden.

Rem sneaks up and takes Francis’ gun, giving it to Logan.  Logan honors his promise and gives it back to Francis.

Francis will now take them in, except that he cannot.  Rem has sabotaged the vehicles.  In exchange for repairing them, Francis gives Logan until sundown to escape in their solar-powered car.  As they leave, Rem presents Logan with another present:  Benjamin’s DS Gun.

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