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S2 E8 Straight and Narrow

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

PG

44 minutes

Feb 22, 1996

Two students discover an academy with an outstanding reputation for taming youthful rebellion is using brain implants to create political assassins.Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Tom Butler, Jonathan Scarfe, Kavan Smith, Peter Yunker, Tygh Runyan, Jabin Litwiniec, Austin Basile, Peter Donat, Jane MacDougall

Season 2, 22 Episodes

A Stitch in Time,

FBI agent Jamie Perrin has investigated some pretty strange cases in her time but this one may be the strangest of all. During the last fifty years, seventeen men throughout the country were all murdered with the same gun.

In a post-human dystopian future, an android class society ruled by ruthless sentries has developed. A rebellious android scientist and his assistant clone a human to lead an uprising and repopulate Earth.

Unnatural Selection,

Howard and Joanne Sharp are expecting a baby and are considering the possibility of black-market genetic enhancement which will result in a perfect baby or a 1 in 10,000 of creating a monster. But what do their neighbors keep in the basement?

I Hear You Calling,

A reporter hears a strange man talking over his phone about the "removal" of a controversial author. Despite official objections, she finds herself in a deadly game with people with violet eyes and corpses that are reduced to a violet ash.

Mind Over Matter,

A doctor uses a virtual reality A.I. device that gives him direct access inside the human mind to enter the mind of a colleague he deeply cares about and help her after she's hit by a car and slips into a coma. Things go horribly wrong.

Beyond the Veil,

After memories of an alien abduction, Eddie Wexler finds himself at an institute where the staff makes patients with similar memories relive their experiences. Are the patients paranoid, or is the institute infiltrated by aliens?

First Anniversary,

As Norman Glass celebrates his first wedding anniversary, he must struggle with the strange, growing revulsion that he feels when he touches, smells, tastes or sees his stunningly beautiful and talented wife Ady.

Straight and Narrow,

Two students discover an academy with an outstanding reputation for taming youthful rebellion is using brain implants to create political assassins.

The newly inaugurated President of the United States must deal with an approaching alien fleet of spaceships and determine whether to welcome them or destroy them, based on limited information.

An astronaut who was missing for 20 years contacts Earth from an alien planet. However, mere minutes have passed for him, and the wormhole that brought him there is unstable. What are the risks of a rescue operation?

A man walking through a snow storm suddenly finds himself at a refuge. They tell him that the entire world is covered in ice. Just as he begins to fall in love with someone, the people's personalities suddenly change. What's happening?

Inconstant Moon,

When a lonely physics professor realizes the sun is going to burn out, he knows that he and humanity have only a few hours to live. In that time, Stan resolves to make up for lost years.

A town gets possessed after a dinosaur skeleton that hides ancient parasites that affect the brain and cause madness is unearthed. The only hope is an immune mentally challenged boy who must learn how to destroy them.

While expecting a shipment of missiles, the militia receive a sealed cargo and messenger refusing to reveal what the deadly cargo is. Shortly afterward, an alien life-form begins a series of chilling attacks.

In lieu of execution, Linden Stiles submits to a military experiment where he is injected with alien DNA. Fighting to retain his humanity, he finds himself hunted after he escapes using his new found super human strength.

The Deprogrammers,

After Earth is conquered by aliens called the Torkor and humans are programmed to be slaves, the human slave of the Torkor leader Koltok is kidnapped and deprogrammed by rebels.

Dr. Christina Markham's mother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.

The Light Brigade,

Former POW John Skokes, a chief weapons officer and a glory seeking cadet obsessed with the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" try to drop a doomsday weapon on the aliens' homeworld and win the war.

Fading pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but, Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later, authorities from the future show up wanting Melissa dead in order to restore their time-line.

Rebecca Warfield escapes from her body during a scientific experiment, but, due to the meddling of her assistant, she is now trapped and must find a way to communicate with her associates.

Trevor McPhee wants to celebrate New Year's in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne, he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks that he abandoned her - ten years ago.

When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes up with a "virtual prison" government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. Rather than life sentences, criminals would only have to spend hours being subjected to harsh treatment.

Details

The Outer Limits

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

PG

6 Seasons

52 minutes

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

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