The Outer Limits

Original title : Judgment Day
First Aired : 21.01.2000 (USA) 08.06.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Brad Turner
Writing credits : A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Cast : Chris Elliott (Jack Parson), Ian Tracey (Declan McMahon), Nicole Oliver (Heather Cattrell), Kevin McNulty (), Vincent Gale (), Molly Ringwald (Allison Channing), Peter Kelamis (Stan Draper), Judith Maxie (Judge Peale), Louis Chirillo (Cheech), Jennifer Sterling (Detective Meacham), Colin Foo (Mr. Chow), Tony Alcantar (Director)

The Story : Judgment Day has quickly become the hottest show on the Justice Channel and on television period. The show has turned the justice system on its ear by becoming judge, jury and executioner, allowing a murder victim's family to carry out the death sentence on live television. Today, Allison Channing will hunt down Declan McMahon, the petty criminal who killed her sister Kaitlin. However Declan insists he was framed, that security camera footage that would clear him has been altered by someone.

Original title : The Gun
First Aired : 28.01.2000 (USA) 17.08.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Jeff Woolnough
Writing credits : Sam Egan
Cast : Stacey Keach (Cord van Owen), Nancy Sorel (Dana), Christian Bocher (Matthew Logan), Eric Schneider (), Devin Douglas Drewitz (), Stephen Dimopoulos (), John de Lancie (Donald Finley), Bob Dawson (Sheriff Clay), Linnea Sharples (Sandra), Brock Johnson (Nate Jackson), Greg Anderson (Dealer), Christina Jastrzembska (Karen Miller), Nels Lennarson (Deputy), Marcel Maillard (Pastor Wickham)

The Story : When Matthew Logan gets out of prison after serving time for spousal abuse, his first stop is a gun show. He buys a strange handgun from a mysterious stranger and uses it to shoot his wife. The gun attaches itself to Logan's hand and arm, beginning a process which will transform his body...

Original title : Skin Deep
First Aired : 04.02.2000 (USA) 12.10.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Dan Ireland
Writing credits : Scott Peters
Cast : Antonio Sabato, Jr. (Chad Warner), Christina Cox (Deb), Deanna Milligan (Gail), Adam Goldberg (Sid Camden), Linden Banks (Hal Taylor), Ted Cole (Chris), Claude Duhamel (Grant), Keith Provost (Bartender), Gaetana Korbin (Deb Model), Tony Alcantar (Director), Woody Jeffreys (Male Model), Kevin Durand (Alan), Moya O’Connell (Girlfriend), James Crescenzo (Host), Tanya Reid (Amber), Avery Raskin (Boss), Joyce Erickson (Old Lady), Paul Callaghan (Dad), Tyson Holmes (Teen Jock)

The Story : Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting department of a high-tech company known as Veil-Tech. Hal, one of the project managers, secretly loans Sid a prototype of one of the company's latest developments - a device known as an image enhancer. With the help of his friend Deb, Sid is able to acquire the image of good looking co-worker Chad Warner and soon Sid is stepping out on the town with his new and improved look.

Original title : Manifest Destiny
First Aired : 11.02.2000 (USA) 16.04.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Brad Turner
Writing credits : Mark Stern & Geoffrey Hollands From a Story by Lawrence Meyers
Cast : Brad Johnson (), Michael Shanks (Dr. William Olsten), Sarah Deakins (Megan), Ty Olsson (), Rob Freeman (Milus O’Brien), Linda Ko (Hanna Sheafer), Rick Dobran (Lieutenant Mason), D. Harlan Cutshall (Captain), john Murphy (Lieutenant)

The Story : The UFS Mercury is in route to the planet Trion to do scientific tests in preparation to establish a colony when they get a distress call from a battleship, the UFS Rhesos. It was only weeks ago the the Rhesos dropped bombs on Trion, killing the local flora and fauna, making it ready for colonization. When the crew of the Mercury boards the Rhesos, they quickly realize that things are not as they should be.

Original title : Breaking Point
First Aired : 18.02.2000 (USA) 22.06.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Neill Fearnley
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Rick Roberts (Andrew McLaren), Laurie Holden (Susan McLaren), Patricia Harras (Amy), William de Vry (Craig Swenson) Derek de Lint (Carl), Scott Owen (Collins), Carlos Joe Costa (Jailor), Kwesi Ameyaw (Policeman #1), Bill Mackenzie (Policeman #2)

The Story : When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he suspects that he's being let go because the company president doesn't want to give him credit for his work on the CPS-1200, an as-yet untested time machine. Defiant, Andrew decides to take a trip in the machine. When he reaches his destination, two days in the future, his head is throbbing with a migraine and he is shocked to find that the police are looking for him. Fleeing the lab, he returns home to discover his wife lying in a pool of blood and a man fleeing the scene in a car. Shocked at his discovery, Andrew is determined to use his time machine to change what happened.

Original title : Beholder
First Aired : 25.02.2000 (USA)
Director : Jeff Woolnough
Writing credits : Sam Egan
Cast : MacKenzie Astin (), Rebecca Jenkins (), Claire Rankin (), Peter Wingfield (Dwight Borden), Obba Babatunde (), Tania Turner (Kyra Look-Alike)

The Story : Patrick Tarloff, a university English professor, lost his eyesight in a childhood accident and now, at age 28, he has regained it through a cutting-edge operation. But when the bandages are removed, he sees more than just the world that has been dark to him for more than 20 years. He sees a mysterious woman, a vision that his neurosurgeon Dr. Angus McCadden and his psychologist, Dr. Louise Burroughs, assure him is only a hallucination. But then Patrick sees her again, communicates with her, touches her. Her name is Kyra, she writes in glowing letters that float in the air, and she needs his help to go home.

Original title : Seeds of Destruction
First Aired : 03.03.2000 (USA) 28.09.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Steve Anker
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Jessica Tuck (), Christopher Shyer (), Michael Ryan (), Len Cariou (Doc Wells), Curtis Bechdholt (Eddie), John R. Taylor (Old Man Rivers), Fiona Scott (Tara Akton), Chris I. Lovick (Matt Hooper), Bobby Stewart (Sheriff Blackwell), Sarah Hayward (Doris Hooper), Donna Larson (Sally Latimore), Cyndi Mason (Mother), Vince Walker (Boyfriend), Christine Elliott (Young Linda)

The Story : Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically-engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.

Original title : Simon Says
First Aired : 10.03.2000 (USA) 05.10.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Helen Shaver
Writing credits : Scott Peters
Cast : Joel Grey (Gideon Banks), Mikéla J. Mikael (Zoe), Hiro Kanagawa (Ron Hikida), Cathy Weseluck (Voice of Simon), Riley DeMeyer (Simon), Tammy Pentecost (Elise Banks), Rice Honeywell (Co-Worker)

The Story : Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some twenty years ago. At the time of the accident he was involved in something called the Neural Archiving Project - NAP for short. The technology was developed to create smart computers - transferring human engrams to computers. The company eventually gave up on the technology, but Gideon didn't. After years of quietly perfecting it, he built a small robot, from parts he stole from Concorde Robotics, where he now works. Zoe, Gideon's niece, discovers Gideon's secret, the robot contains actual neural engrams from the real Simon. She becomes worried not only about Gideon but also about the robot that sounds and acts a lot like her little cousin used to.

Original title : Stasis
First Aired : 14.04.2000 (USA) 30.10.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Brian Giddens
Writing credits : Lawrence Meyers
Cast : Sean Patrick Flanery (), Kavan Smith (), Matthew Walker (), Maureen Thomas (), Robert Lewis (), Brenda M. Crichlow (), Kristin Lehman (Larissa), Gordon Tipple (Finerman), Garfield Wilson (Officer), Phillip Mitchell (Security Man), Erica Carroll (Claudia)

The Story : In the year 2123, with all but nature destroyed and resources scarce, society has been divided into three kinds of people. There are Alphas, like Larissa, who work half of the time and spend the rest in a state of suspended animation called stasis. There are Betas, like Eric, who alternate work and "sleep" modes with the Alphas. And then there is the Elite, who form a privileged aristocracy that rules over the Alphas and Betas. In the face of increasing pressure from stasis-jumpers of the Resistance, the Elite insists that extreme measures are necessary for survival of the species. Their plan, however, doesn't account for the power of the human heart. Larissa and Eric have fallen in love even though their only contact, other than furtive holographic messages, is when they trade places in the stasis pod they share.

Original title : Down to Earth
First Aired : 21.04.2000 (USA) 06.07.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Mike Rohl
Writing credits : A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Cast : Mackenzie Phillips (Boo Weston), Colin Mochrie (Dale Larose), Richard Side (), David Kaye (), Jerry Wasserman (Gunther Van Owen), Don Thompson (), Klodyne Rodney (Tyler Buttram), C. Ernst Harth (Silverface), Colleen Wheeler (Uma), Buck (Polk), John Dadey (Special Agent Merton Handy), Martin Blaiz (Paramedic), Dan Shea (Cop)

The Story : The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO Convention where there are typically squabbles, petty betrayals and egotistical grandstanding. Max Buford has in his possession what appears to be a fragment from an alien spaceship. Max's arrival causes a flurry of activity, as the fragment's true origins are thrown into question.

Original title : The Inner Child
First Aired : 28.04.2000 (USA) 24.08.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Ken Girotti
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Laura Leighton (Anne Marie Reynolds), Roberta Maxwell (Mrs. Reynolds), David Lovgren (Eric Tanner), Michael Ontkean (Dr. Field), Gerry South (Mugger), Lyle St. Goddard (Paramedic), James Tsai (Technician), Monica Gemmer (Technician)

The Story : Anne Reynolds is a cold young woman, estranged from her mother, Laura, haunted by memories of her dead father and terrified of intimacy of any kind. Then one night, while repairing a flat tire she is attacked by a mugger. Severely wounded, she dies on the operating table only to come back to life five minutes later. However, it soon becomes clear that something inside her has changed. Anne learns she was one set of Siamese twins and her mother agreed to an operation that killed her sister, Marie, while allowing Anne to live. Now the remnants of Marie are starting to assert themselves changing Anne.

Original title : Glitch
First Aired : 05.05.2000 (USA) 14.05.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Mike Rohl
Writing credits : Michael Berman, Ron Greenstein From a Story by Michael Berman & Anurag Mehta
Cast : Tate Donovan (), Victor Garber (), Gabrielle Miller (Wendy), Betty Phillips (), Stephen E. Miller (), Jack Klugman (Joe Walker), Jayne Paterson (Technician), Garvin Cross (R & R Leader)

The Story : Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories about being stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't real and neither is Tom. He's an android and the "memories" are bugs placed in his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself.

Original title : Decompression
First Aired : 30.06.2000 (USA) 29.06.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : James Crocker From a Story by Brad Wright & James Crocker
Cast : Bruce Boxleitner (Senator Wyndom Brody), Michael Riley (Jon Tarkman), Suzy Joachim (Catherine Walsh), Michael Tomlinson (), Ken Tremblett (), Dale Wilson (), CCH Pounder (The Stranger), Keith Martin Gordey (Pilot), Kristina Matisic (Reporter), Winston Brown (Male Staff Member), Colin Banner (Stranger #2)

The Story : Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains she is a projection from the future, a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live he must shoot out the emergency exit and allow himself to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.

Original title : Abaddon
First Aired : 07.07.2000 (USA)
Director : Steve Anker
Writing credits : A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Cast : Keith David (Captain Ira Merit), Maximilian Martini (Curtis Sandoval), Jill Teed (Gwen Hutchinson), Byron Lucas (), Dion Luthor (), Corbin Bernsen (Virgil Nygard), Alexandria East (Isabella Bixel)

The Story : It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project on behalf of The Company, the corporation that has run North America since 2102. The crew is tucked away in hyper-sleep when the ship comes across a mysterious object floating in space. Awakened from their artificial slumber, they retrieve the pod and are shocked to discover the body of Virgil Nygard, executed 150 years earlier for leading his militia in the slaughter of more than a million people. They are even more shocked to discover that Nygard is alive.

Original title : The Grid
First Aired : 14.07.2000 (USA)
Director : Charles Winkler
Writing credits : Duncan Kennedy
Cast : D.B. Sweeney (Scott Bowman), Jessica Steen (Catherine), Colleen Rennison (Young Girl), Brent Stait (), Edward Evanko (), Gina Chiarelli (Eileen Bowman), Eric Breker (Peter Bowman), Brenda Campbell (Joanna Bowman), Patricia Idlette (Waitress), Kevin Hansen (Deputy), Sean Millington (Guard), Tim O’Halloran (Man #1), Chris Duggan (Man #2), Quinn Mjolsness (Teen #1), Jordan Weller (Teen #2), Kenneth McIntyre (Old Timer)

The Story : When Scott Bowman gets an urgent message from his brother Peter, he decides to drive back to their hometown of Halford, Washington to see what is wrong. When he gets there, he discovers that Peter is dead and his wife Eilleen has been charged with his murder. But that's not the only shock awaiting Scott. The town where he grew up has been transformed. Antenna towers dot the landscape and people act strangely, as if they are under some kind of sporadic mind control.

Original title : Revival
First Aired : 21.07.2000 (USA) 25.09.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Robison
Writing credits : Mark Stern From a Story by Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Gary Busey (Ezra Burnham), Peter Stebbings (Luke), Margot Kidder (Serena), Nicole Eggert (Sarah Burnham), Doug Abrahams (Sheriff O’Brien), Greg Rogers (Reverend Samuel Garland), Holly Dignard (Cindy), Ted Kozma (Mangled Man), Brenda McDonald (Old Arthritic Woman), Checo Tohomaso (Choir Master), Carrie Gibson & Nicole Farris & Kim Smith-Jensen & Marilyan Clements & Yvonne Clements & Phyllis States (Choir Singers)

The Story : Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his faith when his wife died, is the front man, the one who lays his hands on the deaf and lame. But Sarah is the key to the act, working backstage and communicating with Ezra through a tiny earphone about the plants she's scattered through the audience. It's all going well until one day a strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra near the end of a revival meeting. Luke is not a plant, but when Ezra lays his hands on him, he not only rises from his wheelchair, he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and his mother Serna approach Ezra with a proposition. If Ezra will teach Luke the secret of the revival circuit, Luke will continue to work his mysterious magic at Ezra's side.

Original title : Gettysburg
First Aired : 28.07.2000 (USA) 27.07.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Mario Azzopardi
Writing credits : Sam Egan
Cast : Joshua Leonard (Andy), Jonathan Scarfe (), Alex Diakun (Prentice), Aaron Pearl (), Ocean Hellman (Pregnant Woman), Robert Moloney (), Scott Bellis (), Blu Mankuma (President), Meatloaf (Colonel Angus Devine), Todd Talbot (Reed Hollingsworth), David Storch (Major Hinton), Jason Gaffney (Joe Benton), Adrian Holmes (James), Haig Sutherland (Will Monroe), James Lauder (General Lee), Graeme Roberts (General Lee Re-Enactor), Lloyd Berry (Abraham Lincoln Re-Enactor)

The Story : Andy and Vince are Civil War buffs who spend their weekends re-enacting battles from the historic conflict with others of similar persuasion. On this weekend, they're in Gettysburg for a giant recreation of the war's bloodiest battle when a photographer, Prentice asks to take their picture with his ancient tin-type camera. But when the shutter clicks, Andy and Vince find themselves transported back to the Confederate camp of Col. Angus Devine on the eve of the infamous 1863 battle. Prentice, who joins them in the past, explains that he has sent them back as a grand experiment, to see if history can in fact be changed, proving destiny is not final.

Original title : Something About Harry
First Aired : 04.08.2000 (USA)
Director : Brent Karl Clackson
Writing credits : Grant Rosenberg
Cast : Judd Nelson (Harry Longworth), Garry Chalk (Detective Frank Dayton), Barbara Tyson (Nancy Henninger), Shaun Johnston (Parker), Kaj-Erik Eriksen (Josh Dayton), Larry Musser (), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Zak Henninger), R. Nelson Brown (Bum), David Abbott (Mr. Lowry), Reg Tupper (Walt Coghlan), Erica Carroll (Elizabeth Andrews)

The Story : After her husband is killed in a car accident, Nancy Henninger rents out her backyard apartment to try to make ends meet. But her teenage son, Zak, is suspicious of her new tenant, Harry Longworth, who says he has come to the suburban community of Hunterville to set up a new factory for his company.When three people disappear from town Zak decides to conduct his own investigation.

Original title : Zig Zag
First Aired : 11.08.2000 (USA) 02.11.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : James Head
Writing credits : A.L. Katz & Nora O'Brien
Cast : Frank Whaley (Cliff Unger), Leslie Hope (Weatherman), David McNally (), J.R. Bourne (), Vincent Gale (), John Amos (Pete Yastremski), Fulvio Cecere (Stottlemeyer), Ron Small (Johnny), Irene Karas (Mickey), Karina Carreck (Secretary), Brendan Beiser (Ben Powell), Tiffany Knight (Technician), Yvonne Myers (Loretta)

The Story : The bombs are in place, ready to destroy the super-computers at the Department of Information Technology. Inside, the members of the Syndrome, the anti-technology group that planted the bombs, lay dead or dying. All of them, that is, except Cliff Unger, or as he calls himself now, Zig Fowler. Unger has his finger on the detonator as he negotiates with Pete Yastremski, the head of the department. As the two men talk and FBI agents prepare to storm the building, we move back in time, through the hours, days and years leading up to the attack.

Original title : Nest
First Aired : 18.08.2000 (USA) 25.09.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Scott Peters
Writing credits : Scott Peters
Cast : Robert Sean Leonard (Robby Archer), Martin Cummins (Jack Burrell), Kelly Rutherford (Rachel), Paul Jarrett (Dr. Mauser), Brenda James (Marcy Hall), Jesai Jayhmes (Lou Wolsky), Brad McDonald (Grimes), Sam MacMillan (Pete), Guy Demong (A.J.)

The Story : William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility, goes crazy while exploring an ice cave and kills two colleagues before dying himself. Psychologist Jack Burrell is sent up to counsel the staff at the facility. Among his patients is the head of the facility, Robby Archer, a friend from his boyhood. It is not a happy reunion because of a traumatic childhood incident they shared but now they must work together. Grimes has infected the facility with polar mites, a strange ant-like species who take up residence in the warm tissue of the human body and create sort of psychosis.

Original title : Final Appeal (1/2)
First Aired : 03.09.2000 (USA)
Director : Jimmy Kaufman
Writing credits : Sam Egan
Cast : Amanda Plummer (Dr. Theresa Givens), Cicely Tyson (Justice Gretchen Parkhurst), Swoosie Kurtz (Justice Kendall Woods), Kelly McGillis (Nicole Whitley), Robert Loggia (Justice Earl Clayton), Wallace Langham (Ezekiel), Michael Moriarty (Solicitor General Wallace Gannon), Hal Holbrook (Justice Oliver Harbison), Charlton Heston (Chief Justice Haden Wainwright), Lee Taylor (Bailiff), Mark Gibbon (Bailiff), Laara Ong (Elise)

The Story : It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided evenly between conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon, a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case. The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.
Note : The excerpts were from A Stitch In Time, Donor, Vaccine, The New Breed, Sandkings, Fathers & Sons, Final Exam, Deja Vu, Tribunal, New Lease, and Relativity Theory.

Original title : Final Appeal (2/2)
First Aired : 03.09.2000 (USA) 20.07.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Jimmy Kaufman
Writing credits : Sam Egan
Cast : Amanda Plummer (Dr. Theresa Givens), Cicely Tyson (Justice Gretchen Parkhurst), Swoosie Kurtz (Justice Kendall Woods), Kelly McGillis (Nicole Whitley), Robert Loggia (Justice Earl Clayton), Wallace Langham (Ezekiel), Michael Moriarty (Solicitor General Wallace Gannon), Hal Holbrook (Justice Oliver Harbison), Charlton Heston (Chief Justice Haden Wainwright), Lee Taylor (Bailiff), Mark Gibbon (Bailiff), Laara Ong (Elise)

The Story : See previous episode.