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The Outer Limits (1995) :: Caught in the Act (01x15)
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| Title: | Caught in the Act |
| Episode #: | 01x15 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday June 23rd, 1995 |
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Hannah and Jay kiss passionately on her bed. They seem about to make love until Hannah stops them and tells Jay she wants to wait until after they marry, one day following graduation and a year in the future. Jay is very disappointed but when Hannah asks him if she’s worth the wait he tells he she is. He leaves after promising to see her tomorrow in class.
Moments later a loud crack splits the air and Hannah turns to see that something has pierced the ceiling and buried itself in the floorboards. The object is finger long and the diameter of a large man’s thumb. Of dark wood or stone, its outer surface features a spiral groove. The end is open and within it is a glowing greenish substance. Hannah bends close to see more and the stuff inside leaps outward, unfolding into an ephemeral, vaguely insect-like shape that settles over her face. A moment later it seems to sink into her face.
The following day Hannah finds Jay doing library research. She approaches him boldly and begins kissing him passionately and telling him she wants him. This behavior confuses Jay, who pushes her away and asks her if she feels alright. She hesitates a moment and then tells him to get away from her. He leaves perplexed.
A few aisles over Hannah finds an old boyfriend named Karl, who doesn’t object to resuming their relationship at all despite knowing that she’s now another man’s girlfriend and despite having a new girlfriend of his own.
Hannah and Karl arrive at her rooming house and climb to her room. Each begins removing clothing until both of them are naked; they embraced and lose themselves in passion. Then Karl realizes something is wrong – he’s literally being absorbed into Hannah’s body! He has a few seconds to scream before he disappears entirely. All that remains are his clothes. For Hannah, this experience is orgasmic.
At the university Jay concludes the class he teaches as Professor Hugaro’s assistant and returns to the laboratory. He’s distracted and the Professor notices. He and Hugaro talk briefly about what happened but Hugaro’s two divorces have made him somewhat cynical about love and sex and he proves a poor listener.
Jay sees Hannah getting into a convertible with the university’s star quarterback. He calls out but she does not hear him – or pretends not to. He gives chase on his motorbike but falls behind. Eventually he visits her boarding house and climbs to her room. When he knocks Hannah the quarterback is nowhere around. Hannah coldly tells him to leave and he does. He waits outside until she leaves and then sneaks back up and into her room. He finds nothing out of the ordinary until he notices the strange bullet, still embedded in the floorboard. Using a pocket knife he teases it loose and pockets it. Traces of the greenish slime remain inside. Almost as an afterthought he opens the door to Hannah’s closet and finds Karl’s clothing where Hannah casually tossed it. Rage grips him and he leaves the room.
Elsewhere, Hannah walks boldly in a part of town frequented by prostitutes and criminals. She gets into a man’s car and quickly begins kissing him. The car turns a corner and then there is a terrible scream.
Jay locates Professor Hugaro and offers him the strange bullet and its organic payload. The biologist at first is disinterested but eventually agrees to examine the material. When he leaves the science building Jay runs into Detective Barnett. It seems the star quarterback failed to appear for a big game, and that’s the sort of disappearance that makes people react in a hurry. Barnett tells Jay witnesses remember him yelling after Hannah as she drove away with the quarterback. The police removed some of the quarterback’s clothing from Hannah’s room and recovered two fingerprints from the leather jacket collar. Barnett believes the quarterback has met with foul play and Jay is the perpetrator. Barnett takes him into custody and down to the station for questioning.
Professor Hugaro’s interest in the object leads him down novel research paths. He discovers that the organic residue contains material similar to human sex hormones. At the library he learns this isn’t the first time such a bullet has fallen to Earth. In the past, their arrival was followed in short order by a woman behaving strangely and men disappearing, just as is happening now. Around the early twentieth century a nun was dismissed from orders for propositioning a bishop!
The police continue to question Jay whose answers don’t satisfy them, because he is as much in the dark as they are – but he knows he didn’t kill anyone and even if he suspects something is terribly wrong with Hannah, he will not suggest her as a suspect. Hannah entices a convenience store clerk into an alley and sounds of their lovemaking attract the attention of a foot patrol officer. At first curious, he races in when he hears screaming start. Sticking out of Hannah is the upper half of the clerk! The man screams for the officer to shoot Hannah and the officer snaps out of his freeze and shoots the girl three times. Each of the wounds gives off the same eerie glow the object display earlier; the clerk falls “out” of Hannah but there is nothing left of him except what was visible: the upper torso, arms, and head. That horror twitches for a few moments before it dies.
At the police station Detective Barnett learns of the shooting and takes Jay in tow to go to the hospital. Professor Hugaro has arrived to share his findings but neither man cares much about that at the moment. The professor winds up going to the hospital with them.
At the hospital doctors prepare to operate on Hannah’s life threatening wounds. The police arrive just as she regains consciousness and the wounds begin to close; Barnett orders all medical personnel out of the operating room and most of them escape. Left behind is one doctor, who Hannah attempts to seduce. She is apparently no longer injured at all. But she cannot absorb this doctor as she did other victims. Professor Hugaro theorizes that this is because the act must at least start consensually, and the doctor recognizes the terrible danger Hannah poses. His fear overrides his desire. Frustrated, Hannah backhands him powerfully and he sails over the table into a heap in the corner. Jay pushes aside Barnett and opens the door. He goes to the corner and hustles the doctor out of the room, then surprises Barnett by closing the door while still in the operating room. He loves Hannah and wants to help her. He goes to where she is sitting on the table and embraces her. But he does not die – instead a strange ephemeral white something emerges bloodlessly from Hannah, pauses for a moment and then disappears through the ceiling. Professor Hugaro believes Jay’s powerful love for Hannah overpowered the simple lust that motivated her unwanted guest. That love completed its lifecycle or drove it away before it could do more harm. Either way, Jay has freed his girlfriend from her possession.
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