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The Outer Limits: Demon With A Glass Hand
Trent, a man without any memory of his past, is desperately looking for the three missing fingers of his glass hand, a talking computer. The fingers are held by the fanatical Kyben: alien invaders from the future. He follows them to an office building, only to discover that the Kyben have lured him there so they can recover the glass hand. Trent is trapped with a cleaning lady, Consuelo, and is forced to play hide-&-seek to recover the remaining glass fingers and learn the truth about his identity and his mission.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x5 Airdate: Saturday October 17th, 1964 |
Recap
A man, Trent, runs through the night in the city of Los Angeles. He has no memory of who he is or where he is, and believes that the people that wiped his memory are pursuing him. Trent escapes them once and takes refuge in an alleyway, and removes the glove on his left hand. Beneath it is a glass hand containing a computer. The computer can’t tell him who is following him, but explains that each pursuer wears a medallion. They have traveled to the present from the future using a Time Mirror, and can send more of them. It tells Trent that it can serve him better if it’s complete, and is missing three finger nodes...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Harlan Ellison received a Writers Guild of America award for Best Writing for a TV Anthology, Any Length.
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration: Through all the legends of ancient peoples—Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Semetic—runs the saga of the Eternal Man, the one who never dies, called by various names in various times, but historically known as Gilgamesh, the one who has never tasted death... the hero who strides through the centuries...
Trent: I was born ten days ago. A full-grown man, born ten days ago. I woke on a street of this city. I don't know who I am, or where I've been, or where I'm going. Someone wiped my memories clean. And they tracked me down and tried to kill me. Why? Who are you? I ran. I managed to escape them the first time. And the hand, my hand, told me what to do.
Consuelo Biros: I'm sorry, it's just that I can't stand violence.
Trent: When it's gone this far, it's more than just violence.
Trent: When it's gone this far, it's more than just violence.
Battle: I'm prepared to die.
Trent: How prepared? Why not give yourself a couple of minutes?
Battle: We all knew we would die when we came on this mission. It was worth it.
Trent: You can stay alive in this time.
Battle: I don't care about that. Helping my race is more important.
Trent: Bargain week on patriots.
Battle: Call it what you like. I'm not afraid to die.
Trent: Really? Then why are you whispering? You Kyben were always super patriots, especially when you bombed Earth from ten miles out. How does your patriotism sit with burning women and children alive?
Battle: That's war.
Trent: So's this
Trent: How prepared? Why not give yourself a couple of minutes?
Battle: We all knew we would die when we came on this mission. It was worth it.
Trent: You can stay alive in this time.
Battle: I don't care about that. Helping my race is more important.
Trent: Bargain week on patriots.
Battle: Call it what you like. I'm not afraid to die.
Trent: Really? Then why are you whispering? You Kyben were always super patriots, especially when you bombed Earth from ten miles out. How does your patriotism sit with burning women and children alive?
Battle: That's war.
Trent: So's this
(brought back to life)
Trent: I was in a dark place. Someone was calling my name, over and over, down a long corridor.
Trent: I was in a dark place. Someone was calling my name, over and over, down a long corridor.
Trent: To save all of Man, I have to become a killer.
Closing Narration: Like the Eternal Man of Babylonian legend, like Gilgamesh, one thousand plus two hundred years stretches before Trent. Without love. Without friendship. Alone; neither man nor machine, Waiting. Waiting for the day he will be called to free the humans who gave him mobility. Movement, but not life.
Episode Goofs
Usually, Trent's glove is a darker color. But in a closeup during his first shootout in the Dixon Building, it becomes a much lighter shade (top picture).
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Joseph Stefano | Leslie Stevens |
| • Executive Producer | Leslie Stevens |
| • Producer | Ben Brady |
| • Associate Producer | Sam White |
| • Casting | Meryl O'Loughlin |
| • Music | Harry Lubin |
| • Music Supervisor | John Caper, Jr. |
| • Costume Designer | Sabine Manela | Forrest T. Butler |
| • Key Grip | Henry Maak |
| • Set Decorator | Chester R. Bayhi |
| • Property Master | Richard M. Rubin |
| • Script Supervisor | Hope McLachlin |
| • Production Coordinator | Elaine Michea |
| • Director of Photography | Kenneth Peach |
| • Art Director | Jack Poplin |
| • Production Manager | Claude Binyon, Jr. |
| • Sound Mixer | Jay Ashworth |
| • Coordination | Calvin Ward |
| • Assistant Director | Robert H. Justman |
| • Assistant To The Producer | B. Ritchie Payne |
| • Story Consultant | Seeleg Lester |
| • Sound Effects Editor | Arthur J. Cornall |
| • Supervising Editor | Richard K. Brockway |
| • Associate | Seeleg Lester |
| • Make-up Supervisor | Fred B. Phillips |
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