Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: The Deprogrammers" [12/06/11]
[42:22] "Earth is under alien occupation, and for two years the human race has been conditioned for slavery, unable to think for itself or disobey an order. One human, the slave of an important ruler, is captured by a small band of rebel humans who try to break the conditioning and restore his free will.
Evan is a slave in the mansion of a harsh-ruling alien who he refers to as "Milord". Like all other slaves ("Jollem"), he has been "programmed" to not feel anything, and to take everything his master says, as a fact without question.
Later, Evan is captured by a resistance movement led by Trent Davis (Brent Spiner), who call themselves the Vindicators, or the Deprogrammers. At first, he is completely vegetative towards them. Not even pain or having Trent cutting his wrist will make him flinch.
But during the course of days, little by little, the resistance manages to wake up the parts of his mind that have been silenced by the programming. He is slowly introduced to his past life, a successful military career, and to his wife, who is also working with the resistance movement.
The resistance aims to restore the meaning of what it means to be a human, by the means of military power. Finally, when Evan comes to realize that his master actually was responsible of killing all the children of the world, including his daughter, he becomes apparently sympathetic to the goals of the vindicators, despite occasional quirks in his thinking.
Evan returns to the mansion of the alien, bringing with him a vial that is camouflaged as a vial of Seragon oil, a substance the alien is particularly fond of. He drops the vial into the bath the alien is taking, and combines it with another substance, making the bath become solid, trapping the alien there. Then he kills him, and returns to the place of the vindicators, carrying the head of the alien with him in a bag.
At the moment of joy and success, another alien steps in to which Prof. Davis asks if "Milord" is pleased. Apparently Davis had been a slave to the alien all along and used Evan as a pawn to kill his rival. The alien says the resistance is small and at the moment will not be a threat to him, and Evans is reprogrammed again...though his wife seems to resist programming.[...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: The Other Side" [12/06/11]
[44:00] "Dr. Neal Eberhardt (Ralph Macchio), a former boy genius gone bitterly to seed, studies brain-damaged and comatose patients hoping to learn how the brain reroutes itself. Despite having a revolutionary new machine to work with - the Neural Intercortex Stimulation Array or NISA - Dr. Eberhardt is getting nowhere. To make matters worse, his valued assistant Vince Carter has just quit. But suddenly, Neal has a breakthrough. The brain waves of two comatose patients, Adam (Aaron Smolinski) and Lisa (Emmanuelle Vaugier), fall into sync while they're hooked up to the NISA and one of them whispers the other's name. Neal knows he's onto something and tells his boss, Marty Kilgore (Michael Sarrazin). What Neal doesn't know is that Adam and Lisa have landed in an idyllic parallel consciousness and are falling in love. As Adam and Lisa get to know each other, Neal continues his research, joined now by his ex-girlfriend and colleague Janice Claymore (Susannah Hoffman). Desperate to try the technique on other comatose subjects, Neal loses patience and makes the journey himself. After giving himself a calculated overdose of Phenobarbital, he hooks himself up to NISA and launches himself into Adam and Lisa's world. He catches a glimpse, but he's pulled back at the last minute, leaving him more determined than ever to find a way to rescue his patients from the other side. But do they really want to be rescued? Or is it really Neal that wants to cross over to the other side? [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Vanishing Act" [12/06/11]
[44:00] "An alien race that has no concept of time uses wormholes to find planets with living creatures and enter them as hosts. When the host is asleep, they use a wormhole to abduct them and transport them to their home world where they can learn everything the host has experienced. However, since the aliens have no concept of the passage of time, they aren't realizing that each time they return their host — Trevor — home, they are returning him 10 years later each time, putting him further out of touch with everything he loves. At the end they remove the connection and send him back to the night he first left; he has his life back, and nobody knows what happened, except Trevor, who retains the memory of his experiences. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Worlds Apart" [12/06/11]
[44:00] "An astronaut makes a water landing on an alien planet but when he contacts home he discovers 20 years have passed. In those years the new head of the space agency, someone he was close to, has moved on with her life. A senator critical of the space agency interjects himself into the situation as they debate the possibility and merits of a rescue through an unstable wormhole. Once the astronaut learns of the risk to the rescue team he requests not to be rescued. A care package is sent through the wormhole but the rescue attempt is aborted. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: The Revelations of Becka Paulson" [12/06/11]
[44:00] "Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head while watching a soap opera. The bullet lodges in her brain, and begins to have some strange effects.
In a stroke of 'luck', the bullet does not kill Becka, but her severe brain damage causes her to begin to hallucinate that the picture of a tuxedoed stranger on top of the TV, who calls himself the "8-by-10 Man" (in the original story it was a picture of Jesus), is talking to her.
Under the advice of the 8-by-10 Man, Becka eventually decides to kill her worthless husband, and in a bit of "damaged savantry", rigs up the television (using instructions from the 8-by-10 Man) to deliver a fatal electrical pulse to whoever touches the knob. Becka in the end tricks her husband into touching it, but as he begins to be fatally electrocuted, she finally realizes just what she's done and tries to save him. All she does is alter the circuit by touching him, and the two fall dead, the victim of a tragic quirk of fate that was in the end far from lucky. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Nest" [12/02/11]
[44:26] "Scientists in the Arctic discover an undiscovered species of Polar Mites that infest humans and cause them to become psychotic. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Out Of Body" [12/02/11]
[44:28]
"What really happens during an out-of-body experience? Research scientist Rebecca Warfield is so desperate to find out, she decides to be her own research subject. After the experiment is tampered with, she must find a way out of another dimension.[...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Alien Shop" [12/02/11]
[44:01] "In a strange shop, an unemployed man is given a wallet that becomes filled with the belongings of anyone he touches. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Worlds Within" [12/02/11]
[44:01] "A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation. [...]"
Sci-Fi: "Outer
Limits: Moonstone" B&W
[12/02/11]
[51:49] "An expeditionary force on the moon find a strange spherical stone. It turns out to be a space craft from another planet containing a number of beings who appear to be eyes floating in a gelatinous substance. These beings represent the greatest minds on their planet. They have been forced to flee their planet because a tyrannical group had taken over and were intent on absorbing all the knowledge from these beings in orger to conquer the entire galaxy. These beings are pursued by one of the new regime's space craft and the question faced by the expeditionary force is whether to give up these beings to their pursuers or protect them and risk an attack on themselves. [...]"
There's an ethical lesson in this, an episode from the original series.
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