" The Commission therefore unanimously recommended that the birth of the female ape""s unborn child should be prevented, and that both male and female would be sterilized.An innocent, small-town college student (MacLachlan) in a sleepy town discovers a severed ear, and then finds himself embroiled on the dark side of town (beyond the white picket fence).[Debra (voice-over): "Jason once said he thought he could help, maybe even save some lives.This is the last thing he downloaded before he died: a couple of hometown Joes who went out to shoot at targets."The Rock Ridge Town Council meets (composed of thirty individuals with the last name ofJohnson), and listens to he schoolmarm Harriett VanJohnson(Carol Arthur) as she reads a telegram she composed to the governor to express the town""s ""extreme displeasure"" about the new sheriff.