donlecouteur-1

I enjoyed this episode almost as much as I enjoyed the Terry Gilliam movie 12 Monkeys. But then I got terribly confused when I watched the special feature on the episode and found no one giving even an homage nod to the "original" idea. I believe it is possible for multiple writers in any genre to come up with the same or similar idea completely independently of each other, so I'm not suggesting Pen Densham "stole" the idea for Patient Zero from 12 Monkeys...I just don't understand why everyone pretends the coincidence doesn't exist. This confusion of mine is now compounded by the fact there is a new movie being released soon which bears the same title and seems to be based on the same plot...and once again, no mention in any of the publicity I've seen so far of either this Outer Limits episode or the Terry Gilliam film.