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In this episode of Anon Theatre, we take you back to 1963 and the second episode of the television series titled The Outer Limits.

Title of Episode: The Hundred Days of the Dragon

Hyperlink to Episode: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d13jr

This episode of The Outer Limits is particularly pertinent to the times we live in, and the belligerent occupation of America by a foreign military power. As far back as the 1960s, writers were keenly aware of the risk of imposters within our government.

What was once fiction is now a shocking reality. The month of August this year was indeed particularly hot, as we learned of Chinese operatives who had infiltrated our election systems and the lives of our poll workers.

Could such infiltration occur at the highest levels of our government unbeknownst to the people? That was of course a rhetorical question, and one that Anons need not answer. We know the truth of the matter. It is this question that The Hundred Days of the Dragon explored back in 1963.

Opening Narration:

Somewhere south of the Mongolian border and north of the Tropic of Cancer, in that part of the world we call the Orient, a slumbering giant has shaken itself to wakefulness. Passed over in most histories as a nation forgotten by time, its close-packed millions in the short span of twenty years have been stirred to a fury by one man: Li-Chin Sung. A benevolent despot in his homeland, Sung stands as an irresponsible threat to peace in the eyes of the rest of the world. William Lyons Selby, candidate for the presidency of the United States, predicted by every poll, survey, and primary to be a certain winner in the forthcoming election.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Synopsis of Episode:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Days_of_the_Dragon

An undisclosed Asian government, presumably Mao Zedong's Communist China, based upon the description in the opening narration, plans to take over America by infiltrating and substituting officials at the White House. During the presidential campaign, William Lyons Selby, the candidate predicted to win the presidential election, is murdered and replaced by a lookalike, a doppelgänger. Selby is indeed elected, and the impostor assumes the office of President of the United States.

Though he fools the nation at large during his first few months in office, his daughter, Carol, soon begins to suspect that the man in the White House is not her father. Carol observes that Selby remembers dates and other publicly available information, but forgets private information, such as his food preferences and details of her husband's research projects. She voices her concerns to the Vice President, Ted Pearson, who disbelieves her, at first, until he is targeted for replacement by an assassin who breaks into his residence, is discovered lying in wait, and is chased off before he can effect the replacement, he being already in the guise of Pearson, which Pearson observes in disbelief.

Carol's husband, a physician and medical researcher, recalls that a peer-reviewed scientific journal disclosed Soviet experiments wherein a hominid animal's soft tissue had been successfully altered, and he speculated that the "serum" which was employed had been advanced significantly beyond that which was previously disclosed, to include human subjects, and he explained this to the Vice President. Now convinced that Carol's expressed concerns are plausible, Pearson informs Frank Summers—the head of the Secret Service detail assigned to the White House—of the plot, and his suspicion that Selby is actually an impostor, but Summers' team fails to confirm Selby's true identity using forensic science.

Prior to a planned summit meeting, the leader of the Asian government confers with his impostor at the White House, wherein the Asian reveals to Selby the second phase of his conspiracy—to replace various cabinet members (Labor, etc.) and numerous private industry chief executives (banking, broadcast and print media, oil, steel, etc.) in order to complete his takeover of America.

When Selby arranges a second attempt at replacing the Vice President, the conspirators, including the Vice President's doppelgänger, are captured, brought before the President and numerous invited guests during a state reception, and, along with Selby, are publicly exposed, with the real Pearson placing the doppelgänger Selby under arrest, charging him with murder (of the real Selby) and conspiring to overthrow the United States government.

Summers proposes an armed response against the Asian government, but Pearson, now as President, declines.

Closing Narration:

To Theodore Pearson not even so monstrous a crime as the assassination of William Lyons Selby justifies an act of war, because there is no war as we know it, only annihilation. A great American has been killed in the service of his country. Now it is the job of those who continue to serve to carry on guarding our freedom with dignity and unrelenting vigilance.

Those who are interested in this might also enjoy Arthur C. Clarke's short story I Remember Babylon.

As far back as the 1960s, writers were keenly aware of the risk of imposters within our government.

Oh, yes. There are many, many old sci-fi movies about exactly that. The theme of "not knowing who you're really dealing with, and how do you tell?" is a very strong one.

A few, just for starters:

John Carpenter's The Thing

They Live

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Day Mars Invaded Earth

Invaders from Mars (different film)

OG Star Trek "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and "The Enemy Within"

Futureworld (same premise of assassinating and replacing world leaders)

Ooo! I need to find a go way to watch that in the best possible quality.

Twas always a reality, but the veil is failing and more people are awake now than at any other point in history. The awakening was at critical mass long ago, too many were awake to stop the systemic breakdown of the censorship and suppression machine. It was doomed long ago. Much like a motor that has sat doing nothing for years, finally being fired up. It took many cranks, actions and attempts to get here, but the motor is cranking on its own now and soon all the black smoke its bellowing out will clear, and everything will be laid bare for all to see.