The Special One

In the late fifties the American government established an institutional program of monitoring of high IQ children cross-country, with the aim to pick up these gifted boys to use them in upcoming scientific projects in many fields at America, thus the aliens invaders introduce a recruiter using this US's program as front visiting these little genius at their home as teacher, mesmerizing them and gearing up in near future to employ them to overthrow the whole government system to take over the entire planet Earth.

However in this process their parents resent for the Alien recruiter called Mr. Xeno coming anytime and also without previous permission, thus in New York Mr. Xeno has a permission of his father Roy Benjamin (MacDonald Carey) to teach his son Kenny (Flip Mark) in a regular time, nonetheless Mr. Xeno appears at your leisure, Benjamin suspicious that something is wrong due he see at your face Mr. Xeno disappears without a trace, the looking for the office's US's institutional program asking for about the teacher sent at your home, there he was informed that no teacher is allowed teach at home.

Knowing this right away Benjamin turns back and waiting for at your home to tackle Mr. Xeno to clarify the bothersome issue also withdraw the little boy Kenny of the ominous domain of the bleak Mr. Xeno, although the boy had already another plan, awesome episode!!

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First watch: 2023 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.5.

"The Special One" stands the test of time.

It is also a prophetic episode for the 21st century, with a chilling warning that is ingeniously presented as a captivating science fiction story, featuring terrific acting, direction, and effects (however primitive they may seem by modern standards).

As with all Outer Limits episodes, the moral of the story is provided at the end. "The mold of a man stems from the mind of a child. Educators and emperors have known this from time immemorial. So have tyrants." No less a tyrant than Adolph Hitler expressed the same idea when he said, "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."

The episode is prophetic because it warns about the dangers of allowing indoctrinators (with values antithetical and alien to traditional American values) to program the nation's youth, particularly to accomplish the long-term mission of destroying the existing civilization and replacing it with a new world order.

Unfortunately, this warning wasn't heeded and the US educational system has already been infiltrated by Marxist ideology at all levels. The infiltration has been so complete that today there are few genuine "professors," "colleges," or "universities." The colleges and universities have been replaced by what I call "Leftist Indoctrination Entities" (also called "LIEs"). And the professors have been replaced by Marxist demagogues.

Thus, hatred, intolerance, and violence are common amongst today's youth, as that is what is encouraged by today's LIEs. Blind obedience to the Marxist Totalitarian State is what they're after.

The message of "The Special One" is still a hopeful one, however, because good parents can still raise their children to hold strong traditional values, enabling them to resist the influence of enemy "aliens" that seek to destroy those values.

An evil alien teacher wants to help an earth boy.

Another IMDb poster has found hidden homosexual ideas (between the kid and the adult) in the storyline of this episode. I must admit none of that entered my mind when watching this hour but it is always fun trying to read stuff into a series like The Outer Limits. There is no question the series loved sticking in hidden ideas.

The Special One might not be a favourite of mine but it is a bit different to the usual Outer Limits hours and there is the odd moment that really shines. The variety of settings/characters in this series is outstanding!

Richard Ney stars as Mr. Zeno, a self-described tutorial emissary from the government who has chosen a child science prodigy named Kenny Benjamin(played by Flip Mark) for his help, but his father(played by Macdonald Carey) grows increasingly suspicious about Mr. Zeno, and these fears are later confirmed when he sees him seemingly disappear into thin air! Turns out that Zeno is really an alien who has tutored other children to aid him and his species in their effort to take over the world, and also dealt with at least one other father in a harsh manner. Will Kenny be helped in time by his father, or does he already have things under control? Straightforward story is a bit protracted(especially the finale) but is still reasonably interesting, with a nice character twist at the end.

Mr. Zeno is an alien that takes on human appearance and is dedicated to locating children with a high IQ to indoctrinate them and use them as the vanguard of an upcoming invasion of Earth. The background of this story is to show how adults can manipulate children to the point of turning them into soldiers for their own benefit. Richard Ney composes the disturbing and disturbing Dr. Zeno, the atmosphere is quite somber as most of the action takes place at night and in the room of Kenny, the chosen child. The final scene is fantastic and the moral very sobering. One of my favorite episodes.