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Season 2 episode 5 of The Outer Limits - "Demon with a Glass Hand". With Robert Culp and Arlene Martel. Written by Harlan Ellison
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00:11Through all the legends of ancient peoples, Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerican, Semitic,
00:19runs the saga of the eternal man. The one who never dies, called by various names in various
00:27times, but historically known as Gilgamesh. The man who has never tasted death. The hero
00:35who strides through the centuries. I was born ten days ago. A full grown man born ten days
00:43ago. I woke on the street of this city. I don't know who I am or where I've been or
00:49where I'm
00:50going. Someone wiped my memories clean. And they tracked me down and tried to kill me.
00:58Why? Who are you? I ran. I managed to escape them the first time. Then the hand, my hand
01:13told me what to do. What can I do? Who are they? Programming data insufficient on question two.
01:23Who are they? Random collation of possibilities. Question one. What can I do in order of factors
01:29of success are as follows. A. Each pursuer wears a gold medallion. Remove these medallions.
01:38B. The time mirror permits only two travelers at one time, but they are replenishable. If
01:44possible, destroy the mirror. C. Stay alive. Above all, stay alive. Destiny is in your heart.
01:53The whole hand. D. I am incomplete. I can't serve you better if I am complete.
02:04Easier said than done. Staying alive.
02:07B. The windscreen.
02:07Let's go.
02:18Come on.
02:19Come on.
02:20Come on.
02:30Let's go.
02:30Come on.
02:35Let's go.
02:35We'll be there.
02:46There is nothing wrong with your television set.
02:49Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
02:51We are controlling transmission.
02:54For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.
02:58You are about to experience the awe and mystery
03:01which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
03:35The End
03:36Why are you trying to kill me?
03:39This is your last chance, Preach.
03:42Who are you and the others that are with you?
03:45Are you from this time or from the future?
03:47We are from the future.
03:49We come from Kaiba.
03:51We are the Kaiban from another world.
03:53From the future of this world.
03:56We have been altered to look like humans.
03:57It was necessary to come back into time and find you.
04:00Why?
04:01We are at war.
04:05What do you want with me?
04:07What are you after?
04:09Your hand.
04:12Why?
04:15We were told it holds all knowledge.
04:17What kind of knowledge?
04:19We were told we have three fingers of your hand.
04:22That the whole hand is so important.
04:23I don't know.
04:27I know this.
04:30You are the last man on the Earth of the future.
04:33You are the last hope of Earth.
04:37Now, you...
04:38You can send me up.
04:40But that's all I know.
04:42It's the truth.
04:48Explain the gold medallions to me.
04:51The time mirror works safely only one way.
04:54Coming into the past from the future.
04:57And when the medallions are pulled off?
04:59They're focusing elements for the mirror.
05:01It's...
05:02It's...
05:03It's as if time were a rubber band.
05:05And...
05:05You were on one end stretched out tight.
05:08As long as the medallion's present...
05:10The band stays tight.
05:13But when you rip it off...
05:15We snap back up to the future.
05:20I'm wearing one.
05:21That makes me vulnerable.
05:23Yes, you're vulnerable.
05:25And we'll get you.
05:27We'll have to get you, finally.
05:30If you kill me...
05:31Another will take my place.
05:33And if you kill him...
05:35Another.
05:37Now, where is this time mirror?
05:42The Dixon building downtown.
05:44We took an office.
05:45The time mirror is set up there.
05:46We...
06:07You come from the earth 1,000 years in the future.
06:11The Kaivun came from the stars.
06:13And men had no defense against them.
06:16They conquered the planet earth in a month.
06:19But before they could slaughter the millions of humans left...
06:21Overnight, without warning, without explanation...
06:24Every man, woman, and child of earth vanished.
06:32You were the only one left, Mr. Drennan.
06:36With a glass hand, the vanished earthmen had given you...
06:39To help you.
06:41They called you the last hope of humanity.
06:44The medallion you stole let you escape into now...
06:47The present...
06:48Today.
06:49And now you are among all the men of earth...
06:52Who are alive...
06:54Today.
06:55But the Kaivun gained possession of three parts of your hand.
06:59The computer that could answer all the questions.
07:02You have to get those three lobes to me...
07:05The computer brain.
07:06And find out what the alien Kaivun really want from you.
07:10Why you were the only man left alive...
07:13One thousand years in the future.
07:16On the planet earth.
07:19You must destroy the time mirror.
07:22To keep them from sending more Kaivun through to the present.
07:26To close that doorway completely.
07:58Is this it?
07:59The Dixon building.
08:01Once the most exclusive office building in the city.
08:04It has become the center of a slum.
08:06Now it houses cut-rate garment peace goods offices.
08:10Passport photographers and the like.
08:13One of the offices is a front for the Kaivun.
08:16And their time mirror.
08:20Welcome Mr. Trent.
08:23I see Breach died a hero Mr. Trent.
08:28He brought you to us.
08:31Even if it'd be easier than going to look for you.
08:35Ah, come along Mr. Trent.
08:38We're here all of us.
08:40And we're waiting for you.
08:42You don't think you can escape us, do you?
08:46One thousand years in the future.
08:49We conquered your planet in nineteen days.
08:52What chance do you think you have in the present?
08:55We've thrown a force bubble round the building.
08:59Invisible.
09:01Impossible to break.
09:04You're trapped.
09:05What do you want?
09:07You, Mr. Trent.
09:09Give yourself up.
09:10Give yourself up.
09:12And we'll let you live.
09:15What is it you want?
09:16What?
09:17I want the 70 billion future Earth men.
09:22And you know where they are.
09:32Where are the future people of the Earth?
09:35In hiding.
09:36You are the key to releasing them.
09:38Where?
09:39Tell me.
09:40I am unable to answer.
09:42My mechanism is not whole.
09:49Awe!
09:50Awe!
09:57Hellph!
10:00Awe!
11:05I have nothing.
11:07Nothing here.
11:08Please, mister, don't kill me, please.
11:10Don't kill me, mister.
11:12Come on.
11:13Please, don't kill me.
11:15Don't.
11:16Don't kill me.
11:17Please.
11:18Please.
11:18Please.
11:27It wasn't on the roof.
11:28He can get away.
11:29The false bubble is sealed.
11:31We'll find him.
11:34They want to kill me.
11:36Shh, shh, shh.
11:38I didn't know there was anyone in here.
11:40I have to hide.
11:43Believe me.
11:44I need help.
11:45I need your help.
11:49No.
11:50No, no.
11:51Listen to me.
11:51Please.
11:54I'm all alone.
11:56I need your help.
11:59If you scream.
12:01If you let them know where we are.
12:08Please.
12:09Trust me.
12:10Please.
12:11And be very, very still.
12:15And be very, very still.
12:38And be very, very still.
12:47This is going to sound insane.
12:48But it's true.
12:49It's real.
12:50And you must listen to me.
12:54This is not a human being.
12:56He's from another planet.
12:57Another solar system.
12:59He wants to kill me.
13:00He and the others like him.
13:03There's more.
13:03Much more.
13:04But I have to get you to believe me.
13:07There's only one way to do it.
13:09Now watch.
13:20Glenn.
13:22Where?
13:24It doesn't matter where.
13:27Just gone.
13:28Now, do you believe me?
13:34I believe you.
13:37Where did he go?
13:38What did you do to him?
13:41He went forward to another time.
13:45A thousand years from now.
13:48The future.
13:50He came from the future.
13:52And so do I.
13:53But you said that he wasn't human.
13:56That he was some other kind of being.
13:58Another world.
14:00Another world.
14:00And another time.
14:05Look.
14:06I worked late tonight.
14:08It's a poor living.
14:08Will you let me go home, please?
14:11You can't leave the building.
14:13It's sealed off.
14:15What do you mean, sealed off?
14:18A force bubble.
14:20It's an invisible barrier.
14:22Keeps anyone from getting out.
14:23It's designed to keep me inside.
14:25But it keeps everyone else in too harm.
14:27I'm sorry.
14:31I don't understand this at all.
14:37They want to kill me.
14:38Do you understand that?
14:40They've come through time from the future to kill me.
14:45That's about as much as I understand myself.
14:49But I've got to survive.
14:50Not just for my own sake.
14:52But for a larger objective.
14:56They use a time mirror at a time travel.
14:58It's somewhere in the building.
14:59I've got to find it and destroy it before they destroy me.
15:02Now, is there a place to hide?
15:06Maybe the basement.
15:10If they're all through the building.
15:14Come, there's another way to get down there.
15:18Move this away from the wall.
15:22It's been sealed off for years.
15:24Locked so there was only one entrance to the shop.
15:45Okay.
15:45Go ahead, Lee.
15:48Come on, Lee.
15:49Come on.
16:05what are you going to do with him what i did with the other one after i talked to him
16:19do you have to do you have to kill him what would you suggest i'm sorry it's just that i
16:27can't stand
16:28violence when it's gone this far it's more than just violence what's your name trent trent
16:43trent my name is consuelo biros and you hate violence
16:50it was because of my husband nesta bun the e on the door the e on the door c and
17:00e biros ladies apparel
17:03oh yes he was always hitting me had a rotten temper that was his answer to everything hitting me
17:11i shouldn't talk about him that way
17:15he did the best he could being poor is what made him so rotten
17:24please you have to kill him do you
17:33i'm prepared to die how prepared why not give yourself a couple of minutes
17:41we all knew we'd die when we came on this mission it was worth it you can stay alive in
17:48this time
17:49i don't care about that helping my race is more important
17:55bargain week on patriots call it what you like i'm not afraid to die
18:01really really then why are you whispering
18:09you kybin were always super patriots especially when you bombed earth from 10 miles out
18:15how does your patriotism save the burning women and children alive
18:21it's a war so is this now let's talk shall we
18:32you'll never get out of this building alive we'll bring more kybin through the time mirror
18:37that's my problem right now you have one of your own
18:43i want to know who's carrying the other three parts of my brain i can tell you it doesn't matter
18:51there's only one piece here in this time they're keeping the other two up in the future till they get
18:56you but there is one piece one finger here now and when you go after it they'll be waiting for
19:02you
19:03arch he has one and one thousand years from now bonn and durn have the other two when we need
19:10them they'll bring them through
19:14drent let him go let him go stay out of it
19:22i found him i found him up here i found him
19:37i found him i found him
19:38come on
19:38come on
19:42come on
19:43come on
20:04I'm trapped in the building of the Kaivin.
20:06There's a woman with me.
20:08We can't escape.
20:09Tell me, what can I do?
20:11100% possibility of success is not available.
20:15Next success quotient, only 47% probable.
20:19Tell me, what is it?
20:23Let them kill you.
21:10He's dead.
21:19He's dead.
21:19Very dead.
21:32As soon as we bring Dern and Bond through the mirror with the other two fingers,
21:36we shall know exactly where humankind is hiding.
21:38Put an end to every last one of them.
21:53Why are we keeping the woman? Isn't that dangerous?
21:56She hasn't spoken yet. No one knows who she is.
21:58That's why we're keeping her alive.
22:00Do we find out?
22:01Bond and Dern will be coming through the mirror soon.
22:03When they put that last frame together and our job is done,
22:06perhaps it will have a method for us to go back up safely.
22:18I'm so frightened.
22:22Dear Mary.
22:28Please help me.
22:32I'm so afraid.
22:36Will you save me, please?
22:41You can save yourself.
22:46What?
22:48You asked a question.
22:52It activated my programming.
22:57Can you get a moist cloth?
23:17Is he dead?
23:20Yes, he is dead.
23:22Do you have the moist cloth?
23:24Yes, I have it.
23:26Listen carefully.
23:28Bring it out, not wet, moist.
23:37Then apply it lightly to the exact center of the forehead.
23:41There is a soft spot you will find.
23:44It will stimulate the gliomas, the brain substance itself.
23:48Then touch it to the frontal sinus between the eyes.
23:51And the carotid artery, the thick artery in his neck supplying blood to the brain.
23:57I have it.
23:59I have it.
24:02Pulse rate 16.
24:03Blood pressure 40 over zero.
24:05Pupils dilated.
24:06Motor reflexes erratic.
24:07Respiration 5 breaths per minute.
24:0960 degrees temperature.
24:11Pulse rate 182.
24:12Blood pressure 300 over 150.
24:14Respiration 36.
24:1640.
24:1849.
24:20Temperature 112 degrees.
24:21112 degrees.
24:23Remove the cloth.
24:25Quickly.
24:25He is rising too fast.
24:55I was in a dark place.
24:58Someone was calling my name over and over.
25:01Down along corridor.
25:03You were dead.
25:07The hand brought you back.
25:20No blood.
25:21No bullet holes.
25:23I am alive.
25:34If it can do all that with just one lobe of his brain, what can it do with all three
25:39missing parts?
25:40Fill in my memory.
25:42Answer all my questions.
25:43I heard them talking and they said that the other two parts will come through with Dern and Bun.
25:49Through the mirror.
25:51I've got to find it.
25:52I've got to find that office.
25:54Now are you complete enough to tell me what to do?
26:00Ambiguous.
26:01I can now extrapolate.
26:04What is extrapolate?
26:05Draw a conclusion from a series of facts.
26:08Can you tell me what they're after?
26:11Why have they been sent back to kill me?
26:14You carry the lives of 70 billion Earth men.
26:17They want your glass hand.
26:19It will tell them, A, where the people of Earth are hiding.
26:23B, how to return to the future without dying.
26:26Or, C, how to exist in this time safely.
26:30But where?
26:31Where are the people of Earth?
26:34I will need my second brain lobe to answer.
26:37I have registered an energy drain.
26:41Dern is through the mirror.
26:42K, how to return to the future without dying.
27:13Where are you?
27:15Protect yourself.
27:17Protect the second finger.
27:19George, answer.
27:21Where are you?
27:23George!
27:45The second finger.
28:30The second finger.
28:49The second finger.
28:52The second finger.
28:57The second finger.
29:00The second finger.
29:02The second finger.
29:03The second finger.
29:06The second finger.
29:07The second finger.
29:08The second finger.
29:09The second finger.
29:10The second finger.
29:15Oh, no, no, I'm sorry, I can't.
30:06Oh, no, no, I'm sorry, I can't.
30:10Oh, no, no, I'm sorry, I can't.
30:51Oh, no, no, I'm sorry, I can't.
31:02They dissipated, and the Earth was clean once more.
31:05And they did, they vanished, all of them overnight.
31:08Where did they go?
31:09A device was used to translate every man, woman, and child on Earth into their primal electrical components.
31:16The population of Earth, 70 billion people, were turned into electrical impulses.
31:23And they were stored on a thin strand of gold copper alloy wire.
31:27A piece of wire?
31:29I, uh, I cannot believe.
31:33A wire?
31:35Reiterate, a wire.
31:37In this time, the time of this woman, they put sounds and odors and pictures on wire.
31:441,000 years from now, in your time, Trent, it is a commonplace means of preserving life.
31:49That still doesn't explain why they want to kill me.
31:51I don't have this wire.
31:55I carry nothing.
31:58Reiterate, the wire was entrusted to you.
32:01Where is it?
32:03I cannot answer.
32:05I am not yet complete.
32:09The third part of your brain.
32:11Do you know where it is?
32:14Can you tell me anything further?
32:17Reiterate, you are the last hope of mankind, Trent.
32:22Do not fail.
32:31To save all of man, I have to become a killer.
32:37Arch!
32:39The mirror is tuned.
32:40Vaughn is coming through.
32:42I'll be right down.
32:44We searched the whole building.
32:46No sign of their order.
32:48I know.
32:48Don't worry.
32:49We'll find them.
32:55How long has it been since you've slept?
33:00I don't know.
33:02Funny.
33:04I never seem to get tired.
33:07But I know I haven't slept since this thing began.
33:13I've got to get you out of here.
33:14Clear of me.
33:15I think there's no place to hide.
33:17There has to be.
33:19I think I'm part of your trouble.
33:20How that you brought me into this.
33:31You can't be with me.
33:34But I am.
33:36Consuelo, they're not human.
33:38They'll walk over anything to get to me.
33:42Destroy anything that's close to me.
33:45Trent.
33:48I'm moving through this thing on blind luck.
33:51I don't want you with me if it runs out.
33:53Trent.
33:55Oh, Trent.
33:59I think I'm falling in love with you.
34:05Not me, Consuelo.
34:08I'm not in love.
34:14But I don't care.
34:20It doesn't matter.
34:22If one of us loves, that's enough.
34:25By tomorrow morning, very probably both of us will be dead.
34:29Well, then there's no time to wait for you to fall in love with me.
34:48It's safer out there.
34:51Yes.
34:53They'll never look for us outside the building.
34:56Trust me.
34:59Trust me.
35:01Trust me.
35:11Don't look down.
35:14What are you going to do?
35:18Try to beat the devil.
35:58Which office, Arge?
36:00You've got Dern.
36:02You send him up.
36:05Which office?
36:07Where do you get set up to?
36:09Tell me, what's it like?
36:12Is it quick all of a sudden, like the switch off?
36:16Or is it soft?
36:17Slow?
36:19Like jelly?
36:23Third floor.
36:24To two.
36:25Alvarado passport photos.
36:30We'll win, Trent.
36:32In the end, we'll win.
36:34They're all gone.
36:36Every last man on earth.
36:38Just you.
36:42Just you.
37:08Arge!
37:09Hey, Arge!
37:11Bond is going to watch him down here.
37:13Arge!
37:14Hey, Arge!
37:14They'll want to see us all.
37:16Arge!
37:17Where are you?
37:19Be right there.
37:21Just ticking the hole.
37:22Go on in.
37:23Hurry!
37:24Bond is coming through right away.
37:27There's trouble up ahead.
37:28We'll win.
37:31Bill!
37:35Wait!
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40:51Oh, come on.
41:32Oh, come on.
41:53Oh, come on.
42:48Oh, come on.
42:51Oh, come on.
43:06Oh
43:20Give me
43:39Oh, is it over?
43:43Almost.
43:45The mirror's gone.
43:47And the Kaipan, are they all dead?
43:50All but one.
43:54I'll have to take care of that.
43:58You go on down to the garment shop.
44:00I'll be there.
44:02Go on.
44:34Oh, it's been a nightmare.
44:38But it's over.
44:39It's done.
44:40It's been...
44:41Yes.
44:43Except for humanity.
44:46People of Earth are still missing.
44:49That computer's complete now.
44:51I can ask for him.
45:08Do you have sufficient data now to answer my questions?
45:12My segments are complete.
45:15Ask your question.
45:17Where is the wire on which the people of Earth are electronically transcribed?
45:23It is wound around an insulating coil inside your central thorax-controlled solenoid.
45:28It has been demagnetized and protected from your circuits.
45:33What circuits?
45:34What are you talking about?
45:35Trent, push the three middle fingers of the computer together and bend them back as far as they will go.
45:5170 million Earthmen, all of them went onto the wire.
45:55And the wire went into you.
45:58They programmed you to think you were a human with a surgically attached computer for a hand.
46:04But you are a robot, Trent.
46:07You are the guardian of the human race.
46:18That's why when they killed me, no bullets, no blood.
46:25Once I had one of the missing lobes to my brain, I was able to help your machinery repair itself.
47:00And I went out of that zone.
47:02I was able to take the violin from you.
47:07I tried to get it.
47:09I didn't know.
47:14The End
47:38Like the eternal man of Babylonian legend,
47:41like Gilgamesh,
47:431,000 plus 200 years stretches before Trent.
47:48Without love, without friendship,
47:51alone, neither man nor machine,
47:54waiting.
47:55Waiting for the day he will be called
47:57to free the humans who gave him mobility.
48:01Movement, but not life.
48:11We now return control of your television set to you
48:14until next week at this same time
48:17when the Control Boys will take you through
48:19The Outer Limits.
48:44The Outer Limits
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49:05Oh, my God.
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