In Another Life
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Outer Limits:
Season Three:
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. Now Stark wants Mason to stop the killer and promises to reunite him with Kristin as his reward. In this looking-glass world, Mason must hunt himself on behalf of himself, in a desperate race to stop a killer…and change his own life for the better.
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Tuesday, July 06, 1999 - 6:26 pm: Apparently, the Quantum Mirror snatches individuals from alternate dimensions at particular moments in time and is thus something of a temporal displacement device. Either that or the Mason Stark who had murdered his colleagues pertains to a dimension that exists at least a few minutes ahead when compared to the protagonist Mason Stark's dimension. Furthermore, I am one to believe that all alternate dimensions flow in a steady, progressive manner. Ergo, the two evil Mason Starks ought to have arrived at the other dimensions a day or two later, depending upon the duration from when our hero was abducted to the final confrontation among the three Mason Starks. On the other hand, being returned to one's dimension at the approximate moment after one was previously seized is also a contingency. However, why would the opulent, manipulative Mason Stark be wearing his eyeglasses if it has already been established that one is without any external accessories after acquisition? It has been quite some time since I last observed this episode, but I do believe the opulent, manipulative Mason Stark was indeed wearing his eyeglasses after being relocated.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Tuesday, February 06, 2024 - 5:18 am:Parallel universe gone wild.