Outcasts - 3-DVD Set

Outcasts - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
470 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bharat Nalluri
Omar Madha

Written By:
Ben Richards

Actors:
Hermione Norris ..... Stella Isen
Daniel Mays ..... Cass Cromwell
Amy Manson ..... Fleur Morgan
Ashley Walters ..... Jack Holt (8 episodes, 2011)
Eric Mabius ..... Julius Berger
Michael Legge ..... Tipper Malone
Liam Cunningham ..... Richard Tate
Langley Kirkwood ..... Rudi
Jeanne Kietzmann ..... Lily Isen
Jessica Haines ..... Karina Hoban (2 episodes, 2011)
Rory Acton-Burnell ..... PAS Officer Ferguson (2 episodes, 2011)
Juliet Aubrey ..... Josie Hunter (2 episodes, 2011)

Synopsis:

Set in 2040 on a recently-discovered planet, this drama tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world. This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learned from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet. The series begins on the day the last known transporter from Earth arrives, prompting great excitement on the new planet - who is on board? Friends and loved ones? Important supplies and news from Earth? But also many questions - will the new people bring the problems of Earth with them? Will the mistakes that destroyed Earth be repeated? Will the arrival of a new, would-be leader, rock the fragile and precarious equilibrium of the fresh, unified and courageous new world? And, most importantly of all, how do is a new and better world created?

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-7 February 2011
It is the year 2040. Some years earlier immigrants from a nuclear war on Earth escaped to the planet Carpathia where their president is Richard Tate and chief security officer Dr. Stella Isen. They are awaiting the arrival of Transporter 9,carrying the last known survivors from the stricken Earth. Rebel settler Mitchell Hoban is planning to start a breakaway group and Stella,aware of this fact,has asked his wife Karina,a security officer,to observe him. Now Karina is found dead and Hoban goes on the run with his small son,Linus,pursued by two other security officers,Fleur and Cass.After a stand-off Fleur shoots Hoban and she and Cass take Linus home. Transporter 9 encounters difficulties and has to crash land,its passengers - who include Stella's daughter Lily - having to bail out.
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-8 February 2011
As the survivors land on Carpathia,a young girl,Aisling,accuses creepy evangelist Julius Berger of causing her mother's death and tries to kill him.Fleur,Cass and Jack,who was Hoban's second in command,look for survivors in the desert and encounter the outcast Advanced Cultivars -or A.C race - humans who were genetically modified to increase their survival but were actually responsible for spreading the deadly C23 virus,which killed,among others,Tate's children.Hoban was ordered to kill them but let them go,under their leader,Rudi. The A.C.s have Lily and agree to surrender her if the Carpathians will heal Rudi's sick baby but nerves on both sides lead to the hand-over being a disaster as Cass kills one of the A.Cs and the Carpathians retreat to their capital,Forthaven,with the baby.
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-14 February 2011
Stella asks wide boy and Maths wizard Tipper Malone to decipher the notes of the late Professor Rosen,given her by Berger,regarding the white-outs,or fierce sand-storms,that affect the planet and how the settlers may defend against them. Tipper predicts the next white-out will be devastating and Tate orders everybody inside Forthaven. Fleur returns safely from giving Rudi the baby back and Cass braves the storm to rescue two technicians out in the field. He manages to save one, bridegroom-to-be-Leon,partly thanks to Rudi.
Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4
Original Air Date-15 February 2011
Ragged A.C. Elijah collapses outside Forthaven and is taken into custody,from which he escapes,accidentally injuring a cleaning lady in his panic. However he saves Fleur's life and she and Cass feel sorry for him after he explains that,years earlier,Tate had experimented on him as a study in controlled aggression.They try to help him escape but he is shot. Tate is remorseful but Berger tries to capitalize on events. Lily,still believing her mother abandoned her on Earth,moves in with Tipper whilst,in the desert,evidence is unearthed of a previous civilization on the planet.
Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5
Original Air Date-21 February 2011
An elderly man walks into the Forthaven bar and throws down handfuls of diamonds to pay for his drink. After Fleur and Cass have pursued him into the desert,Tate identifies him as Pak Baxter,a member of the earliest expeditionary force eleven years earlier who allegedly killed a man. Under the guise of leading them to diamonds Pak ultimately reveals to the two security guards that he is dying and wants someone with him when his time comes. Stella and Jack catch up with Fleur and Cass,Stella unearthing more skeletons on a beach.Berger continues to make subtle criticisms of Tate before emailing an invasion force with details of the president's weaknesses.
Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6
Original Air Date-27 February 2011
Three expeditionaries go missing in the desert.One,Josie Hunter,makes it back to Forthaven but she is different - alien to her three children and violent,leading to her arrest and incarceration. The A.C.s attack,causing a power cut which almost jeopardises the birth of the first baby on Carpathia and which allows Josie to escape. However ,a bruised and bloodied Josie reappears,minus her children and claiming no knowledge of the foregoing events. Cass takes her back to the desert,where she is reunited with her children,who say that the 'other' Josie wanted to know how to love them. The false Josie briefly appears and then escapes into the desert,leaving Tate,Stella and Cass wondering how it was possible for there to be two Josie Hunters. Berger uses the A.C's attack as an excuse to tell Tate to be more ruthless with them before again contacting the invasion force.
Season 1, Episode 7: Episode #1.7
Original Air Date-6 March 2011
Following the incident with Josie Hunter Stella and Tate believe there is a superior host force capable of cloning the settlers. Tipper is able to locate the host's sound waves but when Tate goes into the desert to ask Rudi for help,he is rebuffed,Rudi claiming that only the settlers and not the A.C.s are at risk. Cass gets an anonymous note,threatening to expose him as Tom Starling,subject to a witness protection scheme. He gets drunk and picks up a woman,Carla Shapiro,with whom he sleeps. Next day Carla disappears,taking Cass's gun to kill her insanely possessive husband and Cass is arrested for her supposed murder. However he escapes and rescues her from an underground cell where her deranged husband has left her to die.He is exonerated but refuses to tell Fleur why he had to change his name,causing her to go out with Jack. When Tate returns from his fruitless meeting with Rudi he finds Berger trying to stage a revolt.
Season 1, Episode 8: Episode #1.8
Original Air Date-13 March 2011
A new virus hits Forthaven,striking down Lily and Tipper among others, and Tate fears it is the host's response to the city's signals. He and Stella plan to set up a transmitter to jam the signals carrying the virus but Berger tries to prevent them by explaining that it will stop the transporter with which he has been in touch from arriving from Earth. Berger tries to blame the outbreak on the A.C.s,especially Fleur and reveals that Fleur is an A.C. created in a niche project on Earth with some of Tate's DNA. Cass helps Fleur to escape to the desert,telling her that on Earth he worked for murderous gangsters but turned them in in exchange for his new identity. He delivers her to Rudi and the A.C.s set out on a trek for new territory. Tate resigns as president,handing over to Jack,who has Berger arrested and allows the transmitter to be created. Tipper and Lily are among those who recover as the virus is prevented,the transporter landing in the desert outside Forthaven.

With Earth rapidly becoming uninhabitable, pioneers seek to colonize the harsh terrain of the planet Carpathia. 10 years later, the town of Forthaven faces danger as the planet's dark secrets are revealed.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 14 May, 2011.