ET (8 a.m. ## EPISODE 1 You Always Hurt the One You Love.
The pilot episode introduces us with the Manhattan Project already in full swing, so to speak.
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX:We nearly titled this hour Box 1663, the Hills famously mysterious postal address.
Thematically, its stories revolve around questions of compartmentalization of information, of grief, of guilt.
He was talking about physics.
Its also a decent description of TV writing.
He delivers a critical vote of support for Winters implosion model.
To the young scientists who revered him, it was a little like the Beatless debut on Ed Sullivan.
The deceptively simple question he poses to Charlie, Is it big enough?
is ripped from the history books.
EPISODE 5 A New Approach to Quantum Cosmology.
Isaacs knew him to also be friendly with a traitorous scientist who has since fled the country.
Like Fritz, Mastick could set off radiation monitors six feet away with his breath.
He played a dead body.
The response came back: How were the natives?'
Suddenly, the need to defeat the Axis powers and end this war gets a grim new urgency.
It will pre-detonate, and the only workable model is Winters plan for implosion.
It was explained in a scene we cut for length a totem of Abbys disconnection from her Jewish roots.
Among the civilians, Elodies husband makes an unwelcome advance on Abby, then sexually assaults her.
It also reveals a crucial fact weve withheld thus far: the identity of Elodies husband.
(Like the writers on our show, hes a Thornton Wilder fan.)
How should we feel about him?
Someone has blundered on the Hill as well.
As the ghost of Sid Liao tells Winter: Whats one more?
But the next one to fall may be from an act of self-sacrifice instead.
