The Outer Limits Season 4
01. Criminal Nature
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.
Brad Markowitz
Writer
Steve Anker
Director
02. The Hunt
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.
David McNally
Pete
Don Thompson
Doc
Robert Moloney
Veeter
D. Harlan Cutshall
Guard
Russell Ferrier
Game Warden
Sam Egan
Writer
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Director
03. Hearts and Minds
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.
Miguel Fernandes
Captain Tavernier
Vincent Gale
Corporal Hawthorne
Heather Hanson
Archer
Tong Lung
Asian Leader
Michael Todd
Alien
Naren Shankar
Writer
Brad Turner
Director
04. In Another Life
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.
Kelly Rowan
Kristin
Mitchell Laurance
Mason Stark
Matthew Laurance
Mr. Stark
Andrew Wheeler
Gary
Peter Yunker
Palmer
Cheryl Wilson
Cynthia Walker
Deshka Penoff
Janice
Phillip Mitchell
Mugger
Jim Swansburg
Man
Benz Antoine
Security Guard #1
Rob Daprocida
Security Guard #2
Naren Shankar
Writer
Allan Eastman
Director
05. In The Zone
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.
Adrian Pasdar
Tanner Brooks
Claudette Mink
Jessica Brooks
Dwight McFee
Ring Announcer
Pat Morita
Michael Chen
Rick Ravanello
Marcus
Douglas Smith
Douglas
Paul Carson
Reporter #1
Catherine Swing
Reporter #2
Lori Fetrick
Helen
06. Relativity Theory
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.
Melissa Gilbert
Teresa Janovitch
Jeremy Ratchford
Sgt. Adam Sears
Tim Guinee
Corporal Charles Pendelton
Hiro Kanagawa
Tali
Michael Kopsa
Commander Ivers
Robert Lewis
Jake Sternlight
Mary Ann Skoll
Judith Mason
Doug Jones
Elder Alien
Eg Mahan
Wounded Alien
Carleton Eastlake
Writer
Ken Girotti
Director
07. Josh
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 20,000 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.
Alex McArthur
Josh Butler
Kate Vernon
Judy Warren
Grant Heslov
Todd
Fulvio Cecere
Major
Larry Musser
Maj. Samuel Harbeck
Scott Hylands
Col. Roger Tennent
Caroline Elliott
Allison James
Allixandra East
Sarah James
Jon Raitt
Gordon Huntmeyer
Ed Evanko
Preacher
Chris Ruppenthal
Writer
Jorge Montesi
Director
08. Rite Of Passage
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.
James Marsden
Brav
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Shal
Camille Mitchell
Mother
Boyan Vukelic
Roan
Crystal Cass
K'ren
Mark Gibbon
Male Vorak
Chris Dickie
Writer
Jim Kaufman
Director
09. Glyphic
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.
Rachael Leigh Cook
Cassie Boussard
Peter Flemming
Tom Young
Tom McBeath
Dr. Joseph Mitchell
Robin Duke
Sheriff Marie DuPont
Lane Smith
Dr. Malcolm Boussard
Tom Heaton
Jim
Brad Swaile
Louis Boussard
Jonathon Young
Billy
Shannon Beaty
Young Cassie
Ryan DeBoer
Young Louis
Constance Barnes
Doctor
Heather Chopko
Receptionist
Naren Shankar
Writer
Catherine O'Hara
Director
10. Identity Crisis
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.
Lou Diamond Phillips
Captain Cotter McCoy
Robert Joy
Dr. Greg Olander
Scott Kraft
Colonel Pete Butler
Dale Wilson
General Langston Chase
Teri Polo
Sally McCoy
John McConnach
Commando
Awaovieyi Agie
Guard
James Crocker
Writer
Brad Turner
Director
11. The Vaccine
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.
Lane Gates
Harry Andrews
Brent David Fraser
Graham
Biski Gugushe
James
Joy Coghill
Jean
Jason Gaffney
Kirk
Joanna Piros
News Anchor
12. Fear Itself
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.
Arye Gross
Bernard Selden
Tanya Allen
Lisa
Lorena Gale
Doctor
Ben Ratner
Blanco
Alex Diakun
Mr. Wilkes / Father Claridge
Jeffrey DeMunn
Dr. Adam Pike
Eric Schneider
Dr. Miles Osgoode
Althea McAdam
Woman
Matthew Prior
Boy
Darren Moore
Gangmember
Michael Cram
McKenna
Howard Siegel
Superintendent
Max Peters
Young Bernard
Jim Smith
Mr. Wilkes
13. The Joining
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.
Sam Egan
Writer
Brad Turner
Director
14. To Tell The Truth
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.
Gregory Harrison
Dr. Larry Chambers
Kim Huffman
Amanda Harper
Alan Scarfe
Montgomery Bennett
Ken Pogue
Ian Harper
William Atherton
Franklin Murdoch
David Allan Pearson
Stanley Fenton
Marcy Goldberg
Council Member Roark
Doug Jones
Alien #1
Eg Mahan
Alien #2
Brad Wright
Writer
Neil Fearnley
Director
15. Mary 25
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.
Matthew Prior
Brandon Bouton
Patricia Mayen-Salazar
Carmen Ortega
Paula Shaw
Mrs. Janus
Ian Robison
Grant Kildale
Jonathan Glassner
Writer
James Head
Director
16. Final Exam
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.
Brett Cullen
Dr. James Martin
Peter Stebbings
Seth Todtman
Stellina Rusich
Sharon
Kevin Tighe
General
Michael St. John Smith
Dean Irwin
Andrew McIlroy
Hal Kaplan
Garvin Cross
Lt. Jackson
Darcy Kirkpatrick
Communications Officer
Chris Nelson Norris
Captain Litvak
Derek Peakman
Professor Wylie
Kyra Azzopardi
Kate Martin
Gary Hetherington
Chief Davis
Bob Dawson
Mr. Walker
Sharon Alexander
Girl Hostage
Brennan Elliott
Tom
John Innes
Teacher
Derek Lowe
Student
Carleton Eastlake
Writer
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Director
17. Lithia
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.
David Keith
Major Mercer
Claire Rankin
Ariel
Nadia Capone
Miranda
Kirsten Alter
Pelé
Camille Mitchell
Leader of Hyacinth
Julie Harris
Hera
Katie Stuart
Phoebe
Karin Konoval
Sarah
Beverley Elliott
Celeste
Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson
Nomi
Julie Bond
Pontella
Michelle Hart
Enya
Nadia-Leigh Nascimento
Elysse
Sam Egan
Writer
Helen Shaver
Director
18. Monster
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.
Harry Hamlin
Ford
Nicole de Boer
Rachel Sanders
Aaron Pearl
Roger Beckersly
Bridget O'Sullivan
Louise McDonnaugh
Robert Guillaume
Mr. Brown
David Lloyd Austin
Mistoslav Krupchik
Ron Selmour
Colonel Kikongo
Nicholas Harrison
Head of Security
Sean Millington
Delta #1 Leader
Michael Jonsson
Delta #2 Leader
Scott Swanson
General Baker
Richard Leacock
Dairy Guard
Chris Ruppenthal
Writer
Allan Eastman
Director
19. Sarcophagus
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.
Bill Froehlich
Writer
Jeff Woolnough
Director
20. Nightmare
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?
Steven Bauer
Sgt. Waylon Dumar
Maurice Dean Wint
Capt. Roger Kimbro
Kerry Sandomirsky
Kristen O'Keefe
Brandy Ledford
Dr. Elana Chomsky
Cameron Graham
Lt. Christopher Valentine
Garry Chalk
General Seawell
Robin Shou
Major Ronald Neguchi
Danny Wattley
Dennis Cameron
Adam J. Harrington
Billy Valentine
Eric Schneider
The Voice
Chantal Strand
Young Girl
Sam Egan
Writer
James Head
Director
21. Promised Land
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.
John Tench
Alex
Caroline Goodall
Rebecca
Joseph Kell
David
Susan Hogan
Krenn
René Auberjonois
Dlavan
Jessica Harmon
Tali
Jane Sowerby
Ruth
Lachlan Murdoch
Ma'al
Paul Magel
Caleb
Kristian Ayre
T'sha
Devin Douglas Drewitz
Isaac
Brad Markowitz
Writer
Neil Fearnley
Director
22. The Balance Of Nature
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).
Maurice Godin
Dr. Noah Phillips
Harve Presnell
Greg Matheson
Lisa Maris
Meredith Phillips
Fiona Loewi
Young Barbara Matheson
Andrew Airlie
Don
Barbara Rush
Barbara Matheson
23. The Origin Of Species
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.
24. Phobos Rising
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.
Brendan Stitchman
Private Juanas
Adam Baldwin
Major James Bowen
Barbara Eve Harris
Colonel Samantha Elliot
Gordon Currie
Stadetski
Kevin McNulty
Commander
Joan Chen
Major Dara Talif
Jennifer Copping
Corporal Harrier
Robert Luft
Corporal Edwards
Mina E. Mina
Colonel Paz
Winston Brown
Sergeant Nichols
Rob Freeman
Captain Rosen
Darryl Scheelar
Sergeant Laughton
Helen Shaver
Director
25. Black Box
A missing package contains powerful secrets, and everyone wants a piece of the action.
Belinda Metz
Karen
Julie Patzwald
Cammi
Terence Kelly
General
Julie Fitzgerald
Penny
Nancy Kerr
Dr. Allensworth
Donny Lucas
Hornet
Brad Markowitz
Writer
Steven Weber
Director
26. In Our Own Image
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.
Nana Visitor
Cecilia Fairman
Nicholas Lea
Mac 27
Timothy Webber
Martin Nash
Bill Dow
Dr. Keeler
Tim O'Halloran
Security Chief
Dana Pemberton
Security Guard
John Wardlow
Dr. Blake
Naren Shankar
Writer
Steve Anker
Director