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The Outer Limits Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1996 - 1996
Episode 1
A Stitch in Time
Sun, Jan 14, 199645 mins
FBI Special Agent Jamie Pratt moves through a case that keeps contradicting physics. The gun exists before it was made. The victims share nothing except their wounds. When the trail leads to a reclusive scientist whose canceled government project is the only variable that matters, Pratt's grip on the investigation tightens even as the ground beneath it dissolves. Two women on opposite ends of the same impossible truth, and the space between them compresses with every answer.
Episode 2
Resurrection
Sun, Jan 14, 199645 mins
In a sterile post-biological Earth, android society has calcified into rigid control under the enforcer Moloch, whose armed patrols treat existence itself as contraband. Inside a hidden lab, scientist Martin and his assistant Alicia have grown something dangerous: a human being. The clone breathes, learns, and then walks out the door before anyone can stop him. Alicia's attention never wavers, even as the world they've manufactured starts pulling away from them in directions neither anticipated.
Episode 3
Unnatural Selection
Fri, Jan 19, 199645 mins
Howard and Joanne Sharp stand at the edge of a decision that could define their child's entire existence. Genetic enhancement is available, illegal, seductive, and statistically almost safe. Almost. Their comfortable suburban life hums with the quiet tension of two people who want everything and sense the cost. Their neighbors exist at the edge of their awareness, ordinary on the surface, wrong in ways that haven't yet declared themselves. The basement next door holds something. The Sharps don't know it yet, but the camera does.
Episode 4
I Hear You Calling
Fri, Jan 26, 199645 mins
Carter Jones is a reporter who won't let go. She intercepts a phone call that shouldn't exist, connects it to a vanishing author and a pattern of bodies reduced to nothing but purple ash, and finds herself running a one-woman investigation while everyone around her treats her like she's losing it. The violet-eyed strangers are real, the threat is escalating, and the calls coming to her phone make clear she's no longer just watching. She's been noticed.
Episode 5
Mind Over Matter
Fri, Feb 2, 199645 mins
Dr. Sam Stein tethers his consciousness to a flickering monitor, desperate to bridge the gap between his laboratory and the silent, broken body of Rachel Carter. He initiates a high-stakes neural link to infiltrate her subconscious after a devastating car wreck leaves her unresponsive. The sterile hospital environment dissolves into a volatile virtual landscape where Stein confronts the unfiltered projections of Rachel's mind. His technical expertise falters as the simulation warps, forcing him to navigate a distorted reality where love manifests as a dangerous, structural force.
Episode 6
Beyond the Veil
Fri, Feb 9, 199645 mins
Eddie Wexler is haunted by memories of having been abducted and abused by aliens. He survives a suicide attempt and enters a facility founded by Dr. Sherrick that specializes in treating people like Eddie who believe they were abducted. He befriends a fellow patient, Courtney Bowe, who feels that her four month stay has been beneficial. Sherrick's method includes having patients relive their memories and many of the patients believe he is an alien. Eddie slowly begins to believe the same and with Courtney plots to escape from the clinic. As he drifts between reality and delusion Eddie realizes he's only partly correct.
Episode 7
First Anniversary
Fri, Feb 16, 199645 mins
On his wedding anniversary, Norman Glass believes he lives a perfect life with his beautiful wife Ady Sutton. Celebration curdles when intimacy triggers violent sensory shifts. Her kiss tastes rotten, perfume becomes stench, touch disappears entirely. Alarm spreads as Norman confides in his unstable friend Dennis, whose own marriage strains under similar dread. Dennis's wife Barbara insists she remains human, yet mounting paranoia pushes both men toward a terrifying suspicion: the women beside them may not be what they appear.
Episode 8
Straight and Narrow
Fri, Feb 23, 199645 mins
Rusty Dotson enters a prestigious academy designed to break the defiant spirit of youth. The institution promises a cure for chaos through rigid discipline and a sterling track record. Within the sterile halls, compliance is the only currency. Rusty realizes the transformation of his peers is not the result of better habits but the product of hardware buried in their skulls. The mission of the school shifts from education to the assembly of human weapons. He must navigate a fortress where every student is a potential sentry.
Episode 9
Trial by Fire
Fri, Mar 1, 199645 mins
President Charles Halsey trades his inaugural ball for a concrete tomb. The transition of power hits a wall when extraterrestrial arrivals trigger every cold war instinct in the room. Military brass screams for blood while scientists gamble on a peaceful interpretation of lunar explosions and scrambled signals. Tension mounts as the global stage shrinks to a single decision point. Halsey must weigh the survival of the species against the fear of the unknown. The clock ticks toward a total nuclear exchange.
Episode 10
Worlds Apart
Fri, Mar 22, 199645 mins
A forgotten signal pierces the silence of a command center, dragging the past into a sterile present. Nancy McDonald faces a voice she buried twenty years ago, a fiancé preserved in the amber of a wormhole while she aged into a position of cold authority. Christopher Lindy treads water on an alien world, his reality separated from hers by mere minutes and a collapsing rift. The mission demands a choice between certain logic and the impossible pull of a second chance. Beneath the surface of an unknown sea, something massive shifts, turning a rescue operation into a desperate race against physics and an approaching shadow.
Episode 11
The Refuge
Fri, Apr 5, 199645 mins
Raymond Dalton stumbles half-frozen into what reads like salvation: a fortified house, warm light, a woman who bent the rules to pull him inside. Sanford Vallé runs this place like a private kingdom, civil on the surface, something predatory underneath. The world outside is gone, polymerized into permanent ice, which means these eight people are it. Raymond starts reading the room: the guests are strange, Gina is nervous, Vallé is smiling too much. Then the personalities shift, and whatever story he thought he was in starts rewriting itself around him.
Episode 12
Inconstant Moon
Fri, Apr 12, 199645 mins
The moon reflects a lethal solar flare, signaling a sudden, silent apocalypse for half the planet. Stanley Hurst, a physics professor who understands the math of the end, chooses to spend his final hours pursuing a confession rather than a bunker. He tracks down Leslie, a bookstore owner he has admired from a distance, and invites her into the strange brilliance of a night that will never see another dawn. Their walk through the city becomes a desperate attempt to bridge years of hesitation before the atmospheric heat arrival. They navigate a landscape of oblivious people while Stanley carries the crushing weight of certain, imminent extinction.
Episode 13
From Within
Sun, Apr 28, 199645 mins
Howie Morrison navigates a town gripped by parasitic hysteria, his cognitive limitations paradoxically making him the only effective agent against the contagion. The horror stems less from the monsters than from the psychological unraveling of familiar faces and societal structures. Nightly excursions, frantic isolation, and the looming presence of infected townspeople frame tension through both vulnerability and ingenuity. Sheila's scientific rationality contrasts with Howie's intuitive problem-solving, creating a dynamic interplay between knowledge and instinct. Sequences in the mine and nocturnal encounters crystallize the stakes, showing Howie's courage and resilience under pressure, while the town's collapse amplifies dread without excessive gore.
Episode 14
The Heist
Sun, May 5, 199645 mins
Betrayal fuels the psychological collapse of Lee Taylor, a man whose military identity dissolved into a desperate alliance with fanaticism. He joins a militia led by the rigid, delusional Major Mackie to intercept a high stakes Army shipment. Their expectation of traditional weaponry shifts into a claustrophobic nightmare when they encounter a silent, protective guard and a cargo that defies conventional tactical understanding. The tension stems from the friction between Mackie's desire for power and the mounting realization that they have invited an apex predator into their ranks. The environment transforms from a site of political rebellion into a grim, isolated hunting ground where human ego provides no defense against an extraterrestrial threat.
Episode 15
Afterlife
Sun, May 19, 199645 mins
Linden Styles faces an impossible choice between a state sanctioned death and a total physiological erasure. He enters a military laboratory where the price of survival is the steady colonization of his own genetic code. The narrative tracks the erosion of his identity as his physical form expands into something unrecognizable. While the government attempts to harness a new weapon, Styles struggles against the accelerating loss of his emotional core. His escape transforms a legal battle into a biological hunt. The tension rests entirely on the friction between his fading human conscience and the violent, predatory instincts blooming inside his altered marrow.
Episode 16
The Deprogrammers
Sun, May 26, 199645 mins
After Earth is conquered by aliens called the Torkor and humans are programmed to be slaves, the human slave of the Torkor leader Koltok is kidnapped and deprogrammed by rebels.
Episode 17
Paradise
Sun, Jun 16, 199645 mins
Dr. Christina Markham's mother is 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.
Episode 18
The Light Brigade
Sun, Jun 23, 199645 mins
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.
Episode 19
Falling Star
Sun, Jun 30, 199645 mins
Fading pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but, Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later, authorities from the future show up wanting Melissa dead in order to restore their time-line.
Episode 20
Out of Body
Sun, Jul 14, 199645 mins
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.
Episode 21
Vanishing Act
Sun, Jul 21, 199645 mins
Trevor McPhee wants to celebrate New Year's 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 that he abandoned her - ten years ago.
Episode 22
The Sentence
Sun, Aug 4, 199645 mins
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 mental treatment. When an innocent man's life is at stake, the doctor must risk himself to prove his invention is worthwhile.
