Episode
Space: Above and Beyond: Level of Necessity
Overview
The 58th enters the tunnels to try to find and destroy a Chig ammo dump. In the tunnels on the way to the ammo dump, Lubin is killed, and Damphousse predicts that one more of them will die.
Details
- Series
- Space: Above and Beyond
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1996-01-14
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Level of Necessity is Episode 13 in Season 1 of Space: Above and Beyond. It aired on 1996-01-14. The runtime is 45 min.
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