The Inheritors
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Outer Limits:
Season Five:
The Inheritors
Musician Jacob Hardy is strolling with his fiancee, Kara Delaney, 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 conducts the autopsy with the help of his assistant, Ollie Gibb. 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, 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. 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?
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Tuesday, January 18, 2000 - 5:13 pm: My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) In the commencement after the alleged meteor fragment is extracted from Jacob's head, a tentacle consequently emerges from the hole. The tentacle covers Jacob's left eyelid with blood, yet there is no blood on the eyelid in the sequential scene or two.
2) Not truly a nitpick, but Nicholas Lea's character (Jacob Hardy) in this episode after the accident behaves like and resembles his character in The X-Files to a certain degree.
3) As the female alien-influenced character (Kelly Risely) is placing her recently removed alien bullet-like projectile into the bag held by the older male alien-influenced character (Curtis Sawyer) and the camera alters to a far-off position, Curtis Sawyer is shoving the alien bullet-like projectile further down into the bag. However, Kelly Risely had already been dropping the alien bullet-like projectile into the bag herself in the previous close-up shot.
4) When the police detective notifies Dr. Ian Michaels how he shall be off the case as of the next day, during which time he is placing on his overcoat, the over-the-shoulder shots of Dr. Ian Michaels have him without his right arm elevated, whereas close-up shots of Dr. Ian Michaels have his right arm conspicuously elevated.
5) After Jacob Hardy initially activates the reasonably enormous tentacle-shaped alien device, his arm remains stretched outward in close-up shots but to his side in far-off shots.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 5:32 am:Beamed to the home planet?