The episode concludes with a chilling reveal: despite the explosion, a small colony of Sandkings has survived in the nearby woods. R. Martin novella?

: Kress becomes obsessed as he realizes the creatures are sentient and view him as a deity. When the white colony carves a face into their castle that resembles his own, he begins to crave their worship.

In the premiere episode of the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits , titled Dr. Simon Kress is a government scientist whose life's work involves studying Martian soil samples. When an organism nearly escapes the laboratory, the project is abruptly shut down. Unable to let go, Kress steals some of the Martian soil containing unhatched eggs and secretly moves his research into a barn at his home.

: The Sandkings eventually escape their enclosure and trap Kress in the basement. Realizing the horror he has unleashed, Kress stays behind to trigger a massive gas explosion in an attempt to destroy the colony while his family escapes.

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