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"I've flunked out of existence, nearly 8 days with barely any sleep. I can't even tell my fiancée what I'm doing, when I might be back: 'You see, pumpkin, an extraterrestrial probe landed in the ocean and it sent out this weird-ass signal that mutates your DNA and turns you into an alien, and it infected a bunch of people on a ship. They're running loose in the general population. Oh! And by the way, I might be infected, how's your day?...' Okay, I'm done ranting now, sorry."
Lucas Pegg
"The Burning"
Series Threshold
Season 1, Episode 4
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Air date September 30th, 2005
Writers Brannon Braga; Dan O'Shannon
Director John Showalter
Producers Brannon Braga; David S. Goyer; Marc Rosen; Dan O'Shannon; Anne McGrail; André Bormanis; David Heyman; Karen Moore; Bragi F. Schut; Mike Sussman; Daniel Cerone
Starring Carla Gugino; Brian Van Holt; Brent Spiner; Rob Benedict; Peter Dinklage; Charles S. Dutton
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"The Burning" is the fourth episode of of the American science fiction television series Threshold. It was directed by John Showalter and written by series producers Brannon Braga and Dan O'Shannon. It first aired on Friday, September 30th, 2005 on CBS. In this episode, Molly Caffrey and the rest of the Red Team learn about a mysterious missing persons case involving an escaped mental patient from Ohio named Richard Tate. Although the matter does not immediately send up a red flag to the crew, things grow more complex when they learn that Tate has been suffering from the same dreams as they after being exposed to the strange alien signal from the Big Horn.

Synopsis[]

Cast[]

Principal Cast[]

Actor Role
Carla Gugino Molly Anne Caffrey
Brian Van Holt Sean Cavennaugh
Brent Spiner Nigel Fenway
Rob Benedict Lucas Pegg
Peter Dinklage Arthur Ramsey
Charles S. Dutton J.T. Baylock

Guest Stars[]

Actor Role
Mark Berry Agent Hargrave
Raphael Sbarge Richard Tate
Cliff De Young Charlie Miller
Laurence Mason Sheriff Fogel
Richard V. Licata Doctor Urbassik
R.J. Adams Detective Nixon
Maura Claire Barclay Carpenter
Chris Covics Detective (voice)
David Gautreaux Commander Fox
Michael Papajohn Crewman Novak
Philip Pavel Orderly
Tanner Richie Orderly
Christie Lynn Smith Condo woman
Herzl Tobey Screaming Harry

Notes & Trivia[]

  • Music featured in this episode includes the song "Promise" by Eve 6.

Quotes[]

  • Molly Caffrey: Basic science is out the window, in case you haven’t noticed.
  • Nigel Fenway: He’ll probably come back once he hears what happened to Rock and Roll.
  • J.T. Baylock: If these aliens are trying to hijack our planet by turning us into them, why the hell pick a guy in a loony bin?
  • Lucas Pegg: Hey, I'm glad you're here. Let's take a break from saving the world but do something really important. (Shows Baylock his fiancée's top five wedding invitations) Help me pick a font.
  • Sean Cavennaugh: Subsection Alpha 14 of the protocol: "Alien evidence no matter how indirect, must be obtained by any means necessary".
  • Richard Tate: You have no idea what you're dealing with here. The nightmares are only the beginning. That's how it starts, then there are headaches, and then people change and they try to kill you.
  • Psychiatrist: What you are looking at is the landscape of a different world: the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic. Note the glass trees, indicating a fragile sense of self.

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