She convinces him to take her with him to the future, thereby avoiding any possibility that she and Cabot will have a child. However, the flow of time has been altered by Andro and Noelle's actions: because Bertram Cabot Jr. was never born, the symbiont that made Andro's mutated existence possible never existed, meaning that Andro was also never born. Andro disappears just as the ship arrives in 2148 A.D., leaving Noelle, weeping, to face the future alone. The final scene breaks the fourth wall by showing Noelle in her spaceship chair next to a similar empty chair, on a dimly illuminated stage instead of in a spaceship. Cast Martin Landau – as Andro Shirley Knight – as Noelle Anderson Karl Held – as Captain Joseph Reardon John Considine – as Bertram Cabot Maxine Stuart – as Mrs. McCluskey Marlowe Jensen – as Minister Production The story's writer, Anthony Lawrence, said in an interview that the story was inspired by "...one of my old favorites, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, the French version, which was a beautiful film. I was thinking of that film, and also just the idea that had always kind of fascinated me. Joseph Stefano loved the idea, and it had [in it], as I remember, a lot of what I was feeling at the time. I always liked romantic stories, and this was a chance to do something that you really don't get to do very often in television. I gravitated toward that." See also La Jetée, 1962 French short film in which a man travels back in time from a devastated post-nuclear future as part of a project to rebuild. 12 Monkeys, 1995 American film based on La jetée in which the protagonist must find in the past the source of a bacteriological infection that has devastated his future earth. "Patient Zero", episode of the 1990s Outer Limits revival series in which a future soldier travels back in time to prevent the formation of a deadly virus References The Outer Limits (1963 TV series season 1) episodes 1963 American television episodes Television episodes about time travel Fiction set in 1963 Post-apocalyptic television episodes Works about astronauts