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...believing his promises about the advantages of having a nuclear power plant in their town. The naive, eager community leaders, led by their mayor (Roy Stevenson), embrace the idea behind the plant and the potential wealth it promises. Only one maverick breaks the unanimity of the town's acceptance. Bailey, played haphazardly by Doug Floyd, questions the wisdom of having such a destructive potential in such a fragile surrounding. More importantly, he questions man's wisdom to tamper with natural balances, to toy with the atom...
...Bailey is the keeper of the flame, the one who tells us to leave nature's other creations alone. The writing gets corny at times, referring to nature as "the Powers," and already overdone Star Wars metaphor. Of course frivolous mankind gets ripped up in its ignorance as the power plant blows up, killing many of its staunchest supporters (who were working at he plant) and leaving a symbolic power plant itself. The citizens' unquestioning radioactive cloud over the helpless town...
...Bailey is the alienated loner who preaches the pure, and he is rejected and betrayed by all of his peers. He gets into a bar-room fight with Hogan, a proponent and potential foreman of the plant. The people in the town resent being publicly lectured by Bailey, and Hogan gives Bailey the beating that is supposed to teach him silence...
...Bailey receives an unfair trial, of course, and is stuffed away in prison. He is ironically saved from the nuclear holocaust by his own oppressors, the creators of the blast...
Martha Coakley, the assistant prosecutor in the Louise Woodward trial, and Republicans Lee Johnson and Brad Bailey, are also possible candidates for district attorney...