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''The Langoliers'' is a miniseries consisting of two episodes of two hours each (four hours including commercials). It was directed and written by Tom Holland and based on the novella by Stephen King from the four part anthology book ''Four Past Midnight''. The series was produced by Mitchell Galin and David R. Kappes. The miniseries originally aired May 14–15, 1995 on the ABC network. ==Plot== A Lockheed L-1011 is flying from Los Angeles International Airport at night bound for Boston Logan International Airport. Sometime later in the flight, Dinah Bellman, a blind girl, awakens and asks her Aunt Vicky for water. When she gets no response, she calls for help. Brian Engle, an airline pilot who is a passenger on this flight, awakens to Dinah's call for help. Other sleeping passengers then begin to wake up. The mystery begins when these ten people discover they are the only ones left on the plane; not even the pilots are aboard. Brian and Nick Hopewell, a mysterious British man, discover the plane is on autopilot. They discover personal and bizarre objects left behind by the passengers no longer on board, including surgical pins, pacemakers and toupees. As they try to learn what happened they introduce themselves; Laurel Stevenson, a school teacher on vacation (though later revealed to be meeting a man from a personals ad); Don Gaffney, a tool-and-die worker on his way to meet his new granddaughter; Albert Kaussner, a violinist on the way to a musical school in Boston; Bethany Sims, a girl whose estranged family is planning on sending her to drug rehab; Bob Jenkins, a mystery novel author; Dinah Bellman, a blind girl on her way to Boston to undergo optic surgery; Rudy Warwick, a perpetually sleepy businessman with a ravenous appetite, and another businessman remains silent. His name is later revealed as Craig Toomey, a mentally unstable man who has proudly caused his company a $43 million loss. Dinah telepathically sees through his eyes and recognizes him as a threat. Unable to reach anyone on the ground by radio, Brian decides to land at the smaller airport in Bangor, Maine to avoid any ground traffic when they land. This greatly upsets Toomey who insists on making it to his meeting in Boston. When they land, Toomey slips away from the group as they try to find their way into the abandoned airport terminal. In a flashback, it is revealed that Toomey suffered severe psychological abuse at the hands of his father; when he failed to make straight A's as a child, his father warned him about the "Langoliers"; creatures who hunt down the lazy and irresponsible to devour them. The group recognizes several strange issues: sound does not echo, there is no power or combustion as matches don't seem to light, all food and drink are devoid of taste and carbonation, and time seems to be accelerating, as the sun goes down and rises again within mere hours of landing. Also, Dinah hears a strange sound that none of the other passengers can hear. She insists something is coming for them and that they have to take off again or they will all die. Toomey, driven insane by his fear of the Langoliers' wrath should he miss his Boston meeting, takes Bethany hostage with a gun. Deducing that the bullets have no force, Albert subdues him just as Toomey fires, and the bullet harmlessly bounces off Albert's chest. Toomey is tied up, and Bob deduces that, since they flew into an unusual aurora borealis in the Mojave Desert, that they have entered a time rip, sending them several minutes into the past. They also deduce that jet fuel will be just as dead as the cafe's matches, and therefore, escape is hopeless. Albert then deduces that they have brought their own pocket of the present with them inside the airplane, a theory proven correct when they bring foods and matches onto the plane and find they return to normal, and therefore, jet fuel will regain its energy, so the group proceeds to refuel the plane, with the intention of flying back through the time rip. Meanwhile, Toomey escapes his binds and stabs Dinah in the chest, leaving her critically wounded. As Gaffney and Albert search for a stretcher, Toomey also stabs and kills Gaffney, and Albert subdues him again, leaving him unconscious on the floor. As the plane is readying to depart, strange flying creatures appear, consuming everything in their path. Dinah reaches out to Toomey telepathically and convinces him that his meeting moved from Boston and is being held on the tarmac. Leading him outside, Craig happily reveals to his boss (Stephen King in a cameo appearance) that he lost $43 million deliberately in the hopes of escaping the memories of his father's abuse. Confronting a delusion of his father, Craig quickly realizes that the creatures have turned their attention on him. He attempts to flee, but he is devoured. The plane narrowly escapes and leaves the void of the world below them. Dinah, having seen through Craig's eyes is happy she could see Laurel and subsequently dies from her injuries. Brian reveals that he was returning to Boston because his ex-wife died in a fire, and Nick reveals he is a government assassin tasked with murdering the girlfriend of a prominent IRA supporter in Boston. They locate the time rip and attempt to fly through it, but at the last minute Bob realizes they were all asleep when they passed through, so passing through awake would kill them. Nick warns Brian, who turns away at the last second. They decide they can reduce the pressure of the cabin to induce unconsciousness, but one of them would have to stay awake to restore the pressure to normal. Nick decides to sacrifice himself and convinces Laurel, with whom he has fallen in love, to go to his estranged father in London and inform him he had decided to quit his career as a hit man. After everyone falls asleep, Nick flies into the rift and vanishes, leaving only his wristwatch behind. The plane lands at LAX, but like before everything is deserted. However, sound reverberates and there is a soft humming noise, and Bob deduces they have actually traveled moments into the future. Standing against a wall out of the line of traffic, they watch as time catches up to them, and they appear in the present, much to the surprise of onlooking children. The remaining survivors run down the airport terminal, celebrating their return to the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Langoliers (miniseries)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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