Identity Crisis
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Outer Limits:
Season Four:
Identity Crisis
Captain Cotter McCoy is the first of a new breed of soldier. As part of a top-secret program overseen by Dr. Greg Olander, General Langston Chase, and Cotter's friend, Colonel Pete Butler, 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. The general is prepared to sacrifice McCoy to keep the program secret, but McCoy uses his enormous strength to break out and visit his wife, Holly. Together, they track down Olander and begin a desperate search for what went wrong. All the signs point to sabotage, but who would do such a thing? And more importantly, how can it be undone?
Capt. Cotter McCoy discovers his friend, Peter, to be the saboteur, slays him by transferring Peter's "soul" into oblivion, and has his own "soul" transferred into his former friend's body so that he may survive the robotic body's gradual deterioration of external synthetic skin and internal circuitry and mechanics and so that he may remain by his wife's side.
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Wednesday, December 29, 1999 - 8:49 am: My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) Peter is much too young to be a colonel and with an astounding amount of medals on his chest, particularly for his age. Have I emphasized the discrepancy of his age yet?
2) A captain is friends with a full-bird colonel? This is evident in the television series Seven Days as well (ref.: Lt. Frank Parker and Comdr. Craig Donovan).
3) Capt. Cotter McCoy and the head scientist are face-to-face as they are discussing who may have been responsible for sabotaging the project in close-up shots but with quite a distance between them in far-off shots.
4) Capt. Cotter McCoy indicates how Peter yearned to be the test subject and thus had an incentive to sabotage the project. However, Cotter's wife then inquires, "Why would he do it?" Capt. Cotter McCoy previously answered this question. There was no sense in asking this, in other words.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 5:45 am:Who would volunteer for such a thing.
By Francois Lacombe (Franc0is) on Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 6:25 pm:Who would volunteer for such a thing.
You'd be surprised.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Friday, February 09, 2024 - 5:07 am:Guess so.