THE TIME TUNNEL

KILL TWO BY TWO - by Bob & Wanda Duncan


Dropped on a Pacific Island in 1945, Doug and Tony are engaged in a deadly game by a despairing Japanese flyer.

As Doug and Tony tumble out of the Vortex, of Time into an island jungle, Tony sprains his ankle. Doug is scouting for medical supplies when he is spotted by an old Japanese Sergeant, Itsugi, who opens fire on him. Doug hits the dirt just in time, when the gun jams Itsugi is easily overpowered. The pair discover they are on a Pacific Island that's just been abandoned by the Japanese, and the time is of course WW II. Tony is testing his bandaged ankle when another Japanese, Nakamura appears and easily gets the drop on the American pair. The young flyer tells them he means to have a little sport before killing them. He's out to prove how superior he is. Nakamura conjures up a clever game: they are, he says, two and two, and they will stalk each other through the jungle, he handicapped by a partner who is an old man. Nakamura then offers some information and a prize. The Americans will be landing today, thinking the island abandoned, but the Japanese have a mass air attack planned. The prize is the shack - in it is a radio transmitter they could use to warn their side. The Tunnel now knows the island is near Iwo Jima and the time is February of 1945. To get an exact fix on the endangered pair, they have sent for on expert on the area. Doug. meanwhile. manages to slip into the shack storehouse and gets away with six grenades, a theft soon discovered by Nakamura. Doug melts into the jungle, puzzled by talk he's overheard between Itsugi and Nakamura who seems to think he deserves to die. Doug, with Tony, rigs a jungle trap, then sets of a grenade to lead him to the spot. But Nakamura discovers the booby-trap. Then the Time Travellers split, Doug to try to get Nakamura and Tony to try to rush to the shack to wire for help. The expert has meanwhile arrived at the Tunnel. He is grizzled Dr. Nakumura and he faints at the sight of the young man on the island; it is his son, long thought dead. Nakamura was a Kamikaze pilot, the Doctor explains, but he abandoned a mission and was then left on the island to do the honorable thing - kill himself. This is what Nakamura is really trying to do. Thus his father offers an impossible alternative - no information on the island's location unless the Tunnel will pick up his son. Reluctantly, Kirk orders a fix on Nakamura. With the Americans be now passing the island, the Tunnel needs to move quickly. But Nakamura has decided to fulfill his sacred obligation: he offers himself to Doug to kill. Doug can't to it, but a landing Marine takes care of it for him. Then, as the island is taken, Doug and Tony are swept up into the Vortex of Time.
 C A S T

Dr. Tony Newman ................. James Darren 
Dr. Doug Phillips ............... Robert Colbert 
Dr. Ann MacGregor ............... Lee Meriwether 
Lt.Gen. Heywood Kirk ............ Whit Bissell 
Dr. Raymond Swain ............... John Zaremba

 
G U E S T  C A S T 

Lt. Nakamura .................... Mako Iwamatsu
Sgt. Itsugi ..................... Kam Tong 
Dr. Nakamura .................... Phillip Ahn  
Medic ........................... Vince Howard 
Marine Sgt. ..................... Brent Davis 
 

Director ........................ Herschel Daugherty 

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Created: 97/04/24 Updated: 97/12/02