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The Outer Limits Season 3 Episode 12

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AIRED: 3/28/97

Since Dr. Martin Nodel is the most brilliant geneticist in the world, the students and staff at the university are willing to put up with a few eccentricities -- unlike his son Paul, who gets impatient with his father's behavior. However, Dr. Nodel's behavior goes beyond eccentric after he unveils his research into introns, mysterious genetic material which he believes hold the code for future evolution. After a successful animal test, Nodel secretly tries the formula on himself, with amazing and disturbing results. As his intelligence begins to grow, so do scales on his hands, strange markings on his body, and a mysterious hole in his back. And he seems to be getting instinctive messages telling him to bring 'subjects' to a remote wilderness location. When he arrives there, accompanied by six students including Paul and his girlfriend, he finds a group of heavily armed soldiers and the key to unlocking a mystery that goes far beyond human science.moreless

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Kevin Conway

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Ron Rifkin	Dr. Martin Nodel	Guest Star
Ryan Reynolds	Paul Nodel	Guest Star
Ken Pogue	Dean Hardwick	Guest Star
Scott Swanson	Reverend Leblanc	Recurring Role

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- [Closing Narration]
  Control Voice: The more we learn about the universe around us, the more we realize how little we truly know. But we will only find what wonders await us if no false walls are built around our explorers, and no false restraints applied to the unquenchable human thirst to know it all.
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- [Opening Narration]
  Control Voice: Perhaps we should ask ourselves: will the next leap of science be a step into the future? Or a plunge into the abyss?
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- This story continues in season 4, episode #23 "Origin of Species".
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