The Inheritors (1995 The Outer Limits)

For other uses, see The Inheritors (disambiguation).
"The Inheritors"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no. Season 5
Episode 17
Directed by Mike Rohl
Written by Sam Egan
Original air date 16 July 1999
Guest appearance(s)
Episode chronology

"The Inheritors" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 16 July 1999, during the fifth season. This episode is loosely based on the original series' episode of the same name.

Introduction

A man is walking home with his girlfriend when he is suddenly struck by a meteorite in the head. When the morticians remove the object from his head, he rises from the dead. He's not the only one who "rises" — and they seem to have a plan now...

Opening narration

“ 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? ”

Plot

The Medical Examiner who conducted the autopsy, Dr. Ian Michaels, shaken, reports the bizarre events to homicide investigator Lt. Joseph Dane, 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 a taxi driver, Curtis Sawyer, and waitress Kelly Risely.

The police investigation reveals that all three have apparently become geniuses in the wake of their transformations. But more unsettling is that all of them seem to be working together...

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 or a murder? Or maybe, it is something that lies beyond our understanding?

Closing narration

“ 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 suspicion. ”

Cast

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