The Outer Limits

The Inheritors

Season 5, Episode 17, Aired 7/16/99

Episode Summary

Musician Jacob Hardy (Nicholas Lea) is strolling with his fiancee Kara Delaney (Stacy Grant) when a meteor explodes over the city. One of the tiny fireballs which rain down seems to chase Jacob, striking him down and penetrating his skull, instantly killing him. Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Michaels (Tom Irwin) conducts the autopsy with the help of his assistant, Ollie Gibb (Don MacKay). He finds an unusual bullet-like projectile lodged in the victim's brain. Moments after removing the object, the hole in Hardy's skull begins to emit an eerie light, and a horrific tentacle emerges, thrashing briefly before retreating back into the wound. And, more astonishing still, the corpse sits bolt upright, shoves the coroners aside and escapes into the night. Ian, shaken, reports the bizarre events to homicide investigator Lt. Joseph Dane (Bill Smitrovich), who is skeptical to say the least. The mystery deepens, when during a visit to his comatose wife (a long-term victim of a hit and run driver) at a local hospital, Ian learns that Jacob Hardy was not the only meteor casualty who had inexplicably risen from the dead. So did taxi driver, Curtis Sawyer, and waitress Kelly Risely (Sarah Jane Redmond). Police Lieutenant Dane investigates and learns that all three have apparently become borderline geniuses in the wake of their transformations. More unsettling, they seem to be working in concert. Unbeknownst to Ian or the police, the three meteor victims are using the alien projectiles which struck them, to build a mysterious machine, capable of vaporizing any living thing. The conspiracy becomes more sinister when the three gather a large group of patients who are near death, including Ian's wife, Daria and prepare to subject them to the incinerating ray. Is it mercy killing? Is it murder? Or is it something beyond human understanding?moreless

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Kevin Conway

The Control Voice
Corrine Koslo

Abby
Michael Kopsa

Curtis Sawyer

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- This is the second appearance of actor Nicholas Lea in the series. He also starred season 4's "In Our Own Image". Edit
- "Based upon the Original Episode by Sam Heuman, Seeleg Lester and Ed Adamson". The original Outer Limits episode was a two parter and had the same name. Edit
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- [Closing Narration] Control Voice: It is our nature to fear a dark purpose in that which we do not understand. But true evil may lie more in ignorance than in suspicion. Edit
- [Opening Narration] Control Voice: From the time our earliest ancestors looked to the stars we have wondered what secrets they held. But will we be ready when those answers are disclosed? Edit
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