The Outer Limits — Season 2
All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
At least 17 men have been executed in the last two decades without a clear motive, with the same gun, and Special Agent Jaimie Pratt has to find how some of those murders were carried out when the gun had not yet been made.
- 02
Life on planet Earth has been wiped out by biological warfare, leaving behind only androids. Two of those androids, Martin and Alicia, have a secret project: Cain, a human being grown from the DNA of a single human hair. Martin and Alicia must keep Cain's existence hidden from the military androids, led by Moloch, a power-mad machine who is determined to stamp out any trace of the human race before it rises again.
- 03
Howard and Joanne Sharp are expecting a baby and are considering the possibility of black-market genetic enhancement which will result in a perfect baby or a 1 in 10,000 of creating a monster. But what do their neighbors keep in the basement?
- 04
A reporter, over the phone, hears about the "removal" of a controversial author. Despite official objections she finds herself in a deadly game with people with violet eyes and corpses that are reduced to a violet ash.
- 05
A doctor uses a virtual reality device that gives him direct access inside the human mind to enter the mind of a colleague that has slipped into a coma.
- 06
After memories of an alien abduction, Eddie Wexler finds himself at an institute where the staff makes patients with similar memories relive their experiences. Are the patients paranoid or is the institute infiltrated by with aliens?
- 07
As a husband celebrates his first wedding anniversary, he must struggle with the strange, growing revulsion he feels when he touches, smells, tastes, or sees his otherwise stunningly beautiful and talented wife.
- 08
Two students discover an academy with an outstanding reputation for taming youthful rebellion is using brain implants to create political assassins.
- 09
The brand new President of the United States must deal with an approaching alien fleet of spaceships and determine whether to welcome them or destroy them, based on a limited amount of information.
- 10
An astronaut who was missing for 20 years contacts Earth from an alien planet. However, mere minutes have passed for him, and the wormhole that brought him there is unstable. What are the risks of a rescue operation?
- 11
A man walking through a snow storm suddenly finds himself at a refuge. They tell him that the entire world is covered in ice. Just as he begins to fall in love with someone, the people's personalities suddenly change. What's happening?
- 12
When a lonely physics professor realizes the sun is going to burn out, he knows that he and humanity have only a few hours to live. In that time, Stan resolves to make up for lost years. He courts and proposes to Leslie, a woman he has known for two years but never dated. Leslie, although puzzled, finds herself more and more entranced by Stan until she finds out the reason for Stan's sudden attention.
- 13
A town is attacked after ancient parasites are unearthed affecting the brain and causing madness. Their only hope is a mentally challenged boy who must learn to destroy the parasites.
- 14
While expecting a shipment of missiles, the militia receive a sealed cargo and messenger refusing to reveal what the deadly cargo is. Shortly afterward, an alien life-form begins a series of chilling attacks.
- 15
In lieu of execution, Linden Stiles submits to a military experience where he is injected with alien DNA. Fighting to retain his humanity, he finds himself hunted after he escapes using his new found super human strength.
- 16
After the earth is conquered by aliens and programmed to be slaves, the human slave of the alien leader is kidnapped and deprogrammed by rebels. The slave assassinates his owner, with disastrous results.
- 17
Dr. Christina Markham has a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.
- 18
Major Skokes returns (Quality of Mercy) to the war against the aliens. He's been stationed aboard a ship making a last ditch effort to destroy the alien home world as a Re-commissioned Prisoner of War. After the ship is attacked only a handful of survivors, suffering from lethal doses of radiation, attempt to complete the mission and end the war.
- 19
Pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later the authorities who show up from the future want Melissa dead to restore the timeline.
- 20
Rebecca Warfield escapes from her body during a scientific experiment, but due to the meddling of her assistant, she is now trapped and must find a way to communicate with her associates.
- 21
Trevor wants to celebrate New Years in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks he has abandoned her—ten years ago.
- 22
When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes up with a "virtual prison," government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. Rather than life sentences, criminals would only have to spend hours being subjected to harsh treatment. When an innocent man's life is at stake the doctor must submit himself to his own invention—while learning the true meaning of justice.
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