S.1. Ep. 15 "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air"

Officer Corey, played by Dewey Martin, and Colonel Donlin, played by Edward Binns, are two survivors of a crew of astronauts who crashed on an unknown asteroid. The hot, dry conditions affect the men nearly immediately. Their supplies are limited to five gallons of water and few guns. As they split up in search of other life, shelter or anything really, both astronauts start to lose their cool. Officer Corey ends up shooting Colonel Donlin because he believes in the survival of the fittest.






As he ventures alone in unchartered territory he reaches the other side of the mountain tops. Before his eyes lies a road, telephone poles and two mile signs; one for Reno and one for Nevada. The ship nor the men ever left Earth. He realizes now that he just committed murder out of desperation.





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Hot, dry, inevitable fear and killing out of desperation. Reminds me of a place over 1,000 miles south of Nevada. A city build from battle and history. A place now known as one of the most dangerous places on Earth, Juarez, Mexico. This place is where survival of the fittest applies to only the killers. If the innocent don't leave Juarez, they have an equal chance of death. Men, children, women of any age, ethnicity or appearance are all fair game.

Most recently, women have been the most popular targets for cartel assassins. A new term, coined in recent years, femicides, have been occurring more frequently in the war-torn state of Chihuahua. According to Aljazeera, nearly 8,000 lives have been taken since 2008 in Juarez. More and more women seem to... disappear in Juarez.

A shocking blog, shared with me through my journalism professor, titled, "Ciudad Juarez: En la sombra del Narcotrafico" or in English, Juarez City: In the Shadow of Narcotics Trafficking.  The author of this blog is a woman, Judith Torrea. She started her blog in 2008 and has reported on the crime in Juarez ever since.

If Benito Juarez could see his city now, he'd be utterly ashamed.