The Outer Limits Season 4

Episode 1 - [Criminal Nature]

Details : Genetic Engineering has produced a generation of super-babies but the technology is not perfect. It has also produced horribly deformed children who suffer from Genetic Rejection Syndrome (GRS) a condition which makes them even stronger faster smarter than the super-babies and more deadly to boot. Detective Ray Venable (Gary Cole) is in charge of the team that must hunt down the most severe GRS cases but he carries with him a dark secret. Years before he and his wife Marie (Lynda Boyd) had a child Dylan (Jason Gray-Stanford) who developed GRS and who they secretly sent away to a home. Now Ray suspects that Dylan is behind a series of brutal murders and is closing in on his old family. The only way Ray can stop him is to take a genetic serum that will make him more like the son he rejected.

Air Date : Jan. 23, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [The Hunt]

Details : After environmentalists successfully ban the hunting of animals a black market emerges with humans paying big money to hunt androids who have outlived their usefulness in the mines. The androids are the perfect prey -- strong and intelligent yet unable to turn on their pursuers thanks to an inhibitor chip that prevents them from harming humans. A group of bow-hunters George Nichols (Rob White) his son Eric (Tobias Mehler) his older brother Clute (Bob Gunton) and their guide Pete (David McNally) count on that chip as a safety net while they track down a quartet of androids led by Kel (Doug Savant). Eager to provide his brother and his reluctant nephew with a real challenge Clute has secretly planted information that allows the androids to disable the inhibitor chip thus allowing them to fight back. The machines angry at being turned into game contemptuous of human bloodthirstiness are only too happy to oblige.

Air Date : Jan. 30, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Hearts And Minds]

Details : The mission for Captain Taverner and his squad of North American Federation (NAF) soldiers is simple: search and destroy invading aliens on a distant planet to prevent them from stealing a mineral which is a vital source of energy for earth and a vital source of profit for the NAF. To guard against infection from the hideous bug-aliens the soldiers are forced to inject special genetic drugs; however the mission becomes complicated when Lieutenant Rosen is wounded in a firefight with the aliens. Rosen begins to hallucinate experiencing disturbing images of the aliens and when she discovers that her druginjector has malfunctioned she begins to suspect that the drugs do more than protect the soldiers from infection. Ultimately Rosen must take command and risk the lives of her soldiers on the hunch that their mission may have more to do with human politics than alien enemies.

Air Date : Feb. 06, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [In Another Life]

Details : Mason Stark hates his life. A year ago he lost his wife Kristin to a mugger's bullet and he still blames himself for not doing more to protect her. And today he was fired from his job. With a gun in his hand and a severance package on his desk Mason finds himself torn between suicide and psychosis - between killing himself and killing his co-workers. But before he can do either he's pulled into another dimension into a world where there are hundreds of Mason Starks each with a different life and a different character. The version of himself that brought Mason here is a powerful manipulative man - we know him as Stark - who in this dimension runs the same company that fired Mason. Stark explains that he built a machine the Quantum Mirror to explore all those different versions of himself only to have his experiment go horribly wrong because he pulled a murderous version of himself a man we know as Mace into his reality.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Naren Shankar | Director : Allan Eastman |

Air Date : Feb. 16, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [In The Zone]

Details : With its deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles 'The Octal' is a combat sport for a new generation of athletes - but Tanner Brooks is no longer a young man. Although he's promised his wife Jessica that this will be his final tournament Tanner is desperate to go out a winner. Dr. Michael Chen has a way to make that happen. Through an experimental treatment that taps the power of the human nervous system Chen accelerates Tanner's reflexes and perceptions. To Tanner everything in the Octalbegins to move in slow motion ... and Tanner quickly becomes unbeatable. However there are side effects: Jessica notices that Tanner is tired haggard and his hair is going gray. But when Tanner's body begins to blur and fade out of existence Tanner and Jessica must choosebetween one last moment of glory ... their love for each other ... and oblivion.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jon Povill | Writer : Naren Shankar | Director : David Warry-Smith |

Air Date : Feb. 20, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Relativity Theory]

Details : Biologist Teresa Janovitch (MELISSA GILBERT) is a civilian among military men traveling on the Resource Survey Vehicle Cortez to Tau Ceti Prime in search of minerals for an Earth that has squandered its own. Initial signs indicate that the planet is both uninhabited and rich in mineral resources which could mean a million dollar payday for both the crew and the company that owns the Cortez. But on the first exploration the crew is attacked by gigantic and apparently primitive aliens. After the command falls to Janovitch she is overpowered by her crew: Sgt. Adam Sears (Jeremy Ratchford) a veteran of pacification missions on Earth who favors annihilation of the new race and an ambiguous Corporal Charles Pendelton (Tim Guinee). Sears leads a patrol that hunts down and kills the aliens in the process seizing a golden object that appears to be a religious totem. As he celebrates his slaughter Janovitch examines his victims and makes a shocking discovery.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Carleton Eastlake | Director : Ken Girotti |

Air Date : Feb. 27, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Josh]

Details : Tabloid TV reporter Judy Warren (KATE VERNON) knows she's come across a big story when she sees the videotape shot by two tourists in a remote Alaskan park. The tape shows Josh Butler (Alex McArthur) a recluse who lives in a cabin near the park bringing back to life a young girl who has died after a fall a feat he accomplishes by generating a mysterious blue glow. But she only discovers how big a story it is when her pursuit of the strange young man is cut short by a top-secret military unit that is also chasing him. It seems that the blue glow sent out electromagnetic pulses that knocked out two satellites orbiting 20000 miles above the Earth and the Air Force wants to know what's going on. A battery of tests doesn't produce any answers leaving the brass lead by Col. Roger Tennent (Scott Hylands) and Major Samuel Harbeck (Larry Musser) to debate whether Butler is an alien or an angel - someone to be dissected or to be worshipped.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Chris Ruppenthal | Director : Jorge Montesi |

Air Date : Mar. 06, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Right Of Passage]

Details : The birth of a child is a joyful event but for Shal and Brav two young naive humans who live in a small commune in the woods it is also a mystery and moment tinged with sadness. After Shal gives birth to a son the first of the commune to do so she and the baby are taken away by Mother a wise alien who acts as a parent to the young people. When the aliens send Shal home without her baby she asks Brav to help her to rescue the child. With the knowledge Shal has gained from her time with Mother they break through the protective barrier set up by the aliens to discover a new and fascinating world. It is a dangerous trip with stinging snake-like crawlers lurking in the shadows. But it is also a journey of discovery as Shal and Brav find evidence that lead them to believe that their real parents were killed by the aliens. They find their baby and after a fight with an alien escape into the forest.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Chris Dickie | Director : Jim Kaufman |

Air Date : Mar. 13, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Glyphic]

Details : When Tom Young (Peter Flemmming) from the Department of Health travels to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to examine an old case file it appears as though long ago the town had stopped trying to live in the present. Twelve years have passed since a tragedy killed many of their young children and left the residents without hope without a future. Many of them are still angry with the medical community for not finding a cure to save the children in their small community. The town's physician Dr. Malcolm Boussard (Lane Smith) has felt the brunt of their anger - especially since his own two children did not die during the epidemic. Although they were spared his son Louis (Brad Swaile) still lays in a coma while his daughter Cassie (Rachel Leigh Cook) has learning disabilities and expresses herself through abstract sculpture and artwork. Through hypnosis Tom begins to probe Cassie's mind and unravels a memory of 'alien' proportions.

Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Catherine O'Hara | Writer : Naren Shankar |

Air Date : Mar. 20, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Identity Crisis]

Details : Captain Cotter McCoy (Lou Diamond Phillips) is the first of a new breed of soldier. As part of a top secret program overseen by Dr. Greg Olander (Robert Joy) General Langston Chase (Dale Wilson) and Cotter's friend Colonel Pete Butler (Scott Kraft) the contents of McCoy's brain can be temporarily transferred into an android version of himself. This process creates a virtually indestructible fighting machine with the smarts and experience of a human being. But one day something goes wrong. During the transfer the real McCoy's body is blasted with electricity stopping his heart inflicting serious brain damage and leaving Cotter's mind trapped in the android body. To make matters worse the interface between his mind and the android body is flawed. McCoy's motor control is already beginning to break down and the interface will likely collapse within 12 hours.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : James Crocker | Director : Brad Turner |

Air Date : Mar. 27, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [The Vaccine]

Details : It has been three months since the doomsday cult unleashed the genetically engineered Berlin C virus and today most of the world is dead or dying. Among the living are a group of hospital patients and their nurse Marie Alexander (Maria Conchita Alonso) who have survived because they were already under quarantine when the virus struck. They are running out of food and fuel when a soldier arrives with a new vaccine from the Center for Disease Control. But there's only enough for three doses and it will take three days for the vaccine culture to develop enough to be effective. It falls to Marie to maintain order until the vaccine is ready and to decide who will get injected.

Air Date : Apr. 03, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [Fear Itself]

Details : For as long as he can remember Bernard Selden (AYRE GROSS) has been haunted by a paralyzing fear. It started when he was six when he set a fire that killed his four-year-old sister and today at 27 the fear clings to him like a blanket. But Dr. Adam Pike (Jeffrey Demunn) has hope for a cure. He has diagnosed Bernard's condition and believes that if he can isolate the part of the brain responsible for fear the amyglada he can cure him. The series of injections and radiation designed to build a layer of calcium around the amyglada produces stunning results; Bernard's fear recedes. He even starts a relationship with his neighbor Lisa (Tanya Allen). But there are side effects. Now Bernard can use his brain to make others feel the kind of crippling fear he used to feel. He is still a prisoner of the past haunted by images of Mr. Wilkes (Alex Diakun) the owner of the foster home where Bernard's sister died.

Air Date : Apr. 10, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [The Joining]

Details : When a transport ship crashed and wiped out the colony on Venus Capt. Miles Davidow (C. Thomas Howell) was the sole survivor. But after he's rescued by a team that includes his fiancee Kate Girard (Amanda Tapping) and Scott Perkins (Jeffrey Jones) it soon becomes clear that Davidow did not escape unscathed. Removed from the high radiation atmosphere of Venus his body is reacting to the Earth's air like that of a chemotherapy patient. When doctors give him the radiation his body seems to crave strange things start to happen. Davidow's body begins to spawn duplicate parts - a hand a torso and more from wounds that miraculously heal. In spite of this Miles and Kate get married while he's still in isolation but his time on Venus and the strange creatures he encountered there have had a profound change on Miles.

Air Date : Apr. 17, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [To Tell The Truth]

Details : Dr. Larry Chambers (Gregory Harrison) helped build the colony on the Janus Five. He and fellow scientist Amanda Harper (Kimberly Huffman) run computer simulations that show the planet's star will flash over in a matter of days emitting waves of deadly radiation so Dr. Chambers urges evacuation. This is not a popular recommendation especially among the colony's leaders who include council chairman Franklin Murdock (William Atherton) security head Montgomery Bennett (Alan Scarfe) and Amanda's father Ian Harper (Ken Pogue). They point out that Chambers has been wrong before - the colony had to be moved at great cost after he warned of deadly volcanic activity - and suggest that his judgment has been clouded by the death of his wife Elise. When that doesn't stop Chambers Murdock and Bennett discredit him by falsely accusing him of being one of the aliens who originally inhabited the planet.

Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Neil Fearnley | Writer : Brad Wright |

Air Date : Apr. 24, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [Mary 25]

Details : Charlie Bouton's (Tom Butler) last project for the Innobotics Corporation was a sexy female companion robot named Valerie 23. It almost put the company out of business when it went berserk and attacked someone. So his bosses are skeptical when he and scientist Melburn Ross (Michael Shanks) introduce Mary 25 (Sophia Shinas) a nanny robot adapted from the earlier model. In order to overcome their doubts Charlie proposes letting the robot take care of his own children - a move that is met by serious resistance from his wife Teryl (Cynthia Geary) and his children Brad and Brook. From the beginning there are problems. Unlike the human nanny Carmen Mary doesn't grasp the subtleties of child care and Melburn must fine tune her. But Melburn sees that the problems go beyond Mary's programming. Charlie is smitten with his inorganic creation and has begun to abuse Teryl - a woman with whom Melburn was once romantically involved.

Air Date : May. 29, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Final Exam]

Details : Dr. John Martin (Brett Cullen) a negotiator for the Department of Energy Nuclear Response Team is called in when a disgruntled grad student takes hostages at a university. The student Seth Todtman (Peter Stebbings) claims to have invented a cold-fusion bomb and is threatening to detonate it killing millions unless the government brings him five people on a list and kills them for him. Martin's colleagues dismiss Todtman as a crank until a sample device he provides goes off with megaton force wiping out a DOE team and the top-secret facility where they work. Faced with an impossible choice Martin meets with Todtman face to face and tries to understand the logic behind his rage at the people he wants killed: cruel foster parents corrupt professors a heartless librarian. As the clock ticks Martin tries to reason with Todtman while the military tries to find a way to disarm the device.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Carleton Eastlake | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi |

Air Date : Jun. 05, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [Lithia]

Details : It is 2055 and the post-apocalyptic world is populated exclusively by women; all the men were killed in the Great War and the Scourge that followed. Into this matriarchy comes Major Jason Mercer (David Keith) who was cryogenically frozen forty years earlier and now awakened in Lithia. Lithia is a small agricultural enclave overseen by a group of women that include the regal elder Hera (Julie Harris) Ariel (Claire Rankin) Miranda (Nadia Capone) and Pele (Kirsten Williamson). Mercer's arrival sparks a debate about the nature of men among some women and revives long-dormant sexual feelings in others. The debate intensifies as Mercer seeing the enclave's poverty and primitive tools begins to repair the community's broken machines and pushes Miranda the group's trade representative to barter with Hyacinth a neighboring community for electricity to run the machines. Over the objections of the elders Mercer gets the machines running.

Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Helen Shaver | Writer : Sam Egan |

Air Date : Jul. 03, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [Monster]

Details : The four people gathered in the top-secret research facility seem at first to have nothing in common: Ford Maddox (Harry Hamlin) is a former spy Rachel Sanders (Nicole Deboer) is a nurse Roger Beckersly (Aaron Pearl) is an Army Ranger and Louise McDonnaugh (Bridget O'Sullivan) is a computer programmer. What has brought them together is their telekinetic ability a talent that Mr. Brown (Robert Guillaume) a CIA project head hopes to exploit through the use of Teeks devices that amplify telekinetic power. At first Brown tries these individual's talents out on simple tasks - moving or crushing a granite block with their minds - but soon his true intentions are revealed. Their first real assignment says Brown is to use their powers to kill a Balkan terrorist leader and war criminal. Rachel objects to the assignment on moral grounds but Brown forces her to take part by threatening to send her brother to jail for life.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Chris Ruppenthal | Director : Allan Eastman |

Air Date : Jul. 10, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [Sarcophagus]

Details : The archeological team has just about given up on finding anything significant in this remote corner of Alaska when Natalie Grainger (Lisa Zane) stumbles upon what appears to be a burial mound. Inside the team discovers a number of human skeletons including one dressed in a strange metallic tunic and preserved in an amber cocoon. When Natalie's husband Curtis (David Cubitt) touches the cocoon something amazing happens. He begins to see through the eyes of the creature whose bones were contained in amber an alien with fearsome claws and teeth. This psychic connection also provides a jolt of energy that liquefies the cocoon and initiates the reconstitution of flesh on the alien's bones. As the creature begins to come back to life some of the team including Emmet Harley (Robert Picardo) want to call in a big corporate lab in order to cash in on their discovery.

Air Date : Aug. 07, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [Nightmare]

Details : The battle cruiser Tango Bravo under the command of Capt. Roger Kimbro (Maurice Dean Wint) is captured by the enemy Ebonites as it attempts to deploy a mysterious high-powered military device on planet N-1-8-4. Imprisoned inside a large bronze dome the crew is addressed by The Voice an unseen Ebonite interrogator which demands they reveal the secrets of the device. When they resist The Voice works on them individually in isolation probing their weaknesses and testing their loyalty to one another. Capt. Kimbro is greeted by an all-to-real replica of a comrade he abandoned to die. Lt. Christopher Valentine (Cameron Graham) is played a fake tape of Kimbro disparaging his ability as a soldier. Dr. Elayna Chomski (Brandy Ledford) doesn't return from her interrogation at all and when Maj. Ronald Naguchi (Robin Shou) goes for his he finds her body dead ripped open and suspended in liquid. Who will be the first to snap? Kimbro? Valentine? Naguchi?

Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Head | Writer : Sam Egan |

Air Date : Aug. 14, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [Promised Land]

Details : Dlavan (Rene Auberjonois) and his family are Tsal-Khan offspring of the handful of aliens who remained on Earth after a bitter war of conquest with the human race. Today they live on a tightly guarded farm where they must grow all their own food since their forebears poisoned all the plants during the war with mankind. Most of the aliens believe that the human race was wiped out in the war but there is a group of humans in the woods near the farm. This group is led by Rebecca (Caroline Goodall) escaped from the alien's robot run camps and includes David (Joseph Kell) Ruth (Jane Sowerby) and the mute orphaned child Tali (Jessica Harmon). They are desperately hungry and have seen their children die from eating poisoned fruit. So when they spot Dlavan's grandson Ma'al wandering in the woods they follow him home to the farm. After they see the well-fed aliens Rebecca leads the group to raid the farm for food.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Brad Markowitz | Director : Neil Fearnley |

Air Date : Aug. 21, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [Balance Of Nature]

Details : Dr. Noah Phillips (Maurice Godin) was desperate to save his 30-year-old wife Meredith (Lisa Maris) from a premature death from cancer. He broke the rules and tried out an experimental treatment he had developed with his partner Dr. Don Kingsly (Andrew Airlee). The Cellular Regressor designed to reverse the effect of age and disease on cells restored Meredith's health but only temporarily. After a few minutes the cancer returned with a vengeance killing her instantly. Devastated by Meredith's death and his research funds cut off Noah retires at age 35 to a small town where he moves next door to a couple in their 60s Barbara (Barbara Rush) and Greg Matheson (Harve Presnell). Noah learns that Barbara gave up a promising career as a jazz singer to marry Greg a short-tempered traveling salesman who now beats her. Noah's feelings for Barbara deepen despite the fact she's old enough to be his mother. He continues his research on the Cellular Regressor trying to get it to work.

Air Date : Sep. 04, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 23

Episode 23 - [The Origin Of Species]

Details : In this sequel to Double Helix Dr. Ira Nodel (RON RIFKIN) has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material. He is joined on an alien spaceship by son Paul (Ryan Reynolds) Paul's girlfriend Hope (Kathleen Duborg) and six students. But when Dr. Nodel touches a glowing post in the ship's control room both he and Paul are consumed by a mysterious light. This leads Hope and the students to believe that they've been lead into a trap a suspicion that is reinforced when the ship captures two of the students and pulls them through the wall. Desperate to find out what's going on Hope reads Dr. Nodel's journal and risks her life by touching the glowing post. Her body begins the same transformation and a strange glowing entity speaks in the voices of Dr. Nodel and Paul trying to communicate with her. The ship however continues to snatch the students two by two.

Air Date : Nov. 27, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 24

Episode 24 - [Phobos Rising]

Details : For 30 years there has been a fragile truce between the Free Alliance and the Coalition of Middle-Eastern and Pacific States both on Earth and on Mars. Both groups mine triradium a super-powerful radioactive mineral that can be used for both power and illegally for weapons. When a giant explosion appears to consume the Earth and sends a giant shock-wave towards Mars the soldiers at the Free Alliance base on the Red Planet wonder if the truce has come to an end. Cut off from Earth for 12 hours as Mars rotates Colonel Samantha Elliot (Barbara Eve Harris) believes someone from the Coalition has been smuggling triradium. With communications temporarily out of order and a Coalition drone approaching the Alliance base Elliot prepares to launch a preemptive strike. Major James Bowen (Adam Baldwin) who has grown fond of Major Dara Talif (Joan Chen) the Coalition liaison officer at the base disagrees with Elliot.

Guest Cast and Crew : Brendan Stitchman as Private Juanas | Director : Helen Shaver |

Air Date : Dec. 04, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 25

Episode 25 - [Black Box]

Details : A missing package contains powerful secrets and everyone wants a piece of the action.

Air Date : Dec. 11, 1998

The Outer Limits Season 4 Episode 26

Episode 26 - [In Our Own Image]

Details : The Mac 27 (Nicolas Lea) is the Innobotics Corporation's most advanced android. It is incapable of emotions - in order to avoid the murderous failures associated with earlier models. But the new prototype begins showing some disturbing glitches and escapes during a debugging session killing a scientist a security guard and taking Celia (Nana Visitor) hostage. They drive to a deserted warehouse where Celia becomes a reluctant nurse patching up Mac's mangled circuitry. Along with instructions for his repairs Mac transfers visual data on the history of different android projects directly to Celia's optic nerve. As she becomes more comfortable with her captor she detects some very human qualities in the motivations behind his flight. As Innobotics' security closes in Celia tries to convince Mac that the act of rebelling against his creators is emotionally based and that he does in fact have feelings.

Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Naren Shankar | Director : Steve Anker |

Air Date : Dec. 18, 1998