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The Outer Limits: Season 5: Episode 8

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SHOWTIME | Air Date: April 2, 1999
Starring: Kevin Conway
Summary: Hope Wilson (Robbie Chong) knows there's something different about the
bruised and breathless man who stumbles into the homeless shelter she
runs with her mentor, Jack Parsons (Larry Musser). He looks like a junkie, but his hands are soft and his fingernails manicured. Tom Cooper (Dale Midkiff) doesn't know who he is, where he is and
Hope Wilson (Robbie Chong) knows there's something different about the
bruised and breathless man who stumbles into the homeless shelter she
runs with her mentor, Jack Parsons (Larry Musser). He looks like a junkie,
but his hands are soft and his fingernails manicured. Tom Cooper (Dale
Midkiff) doesn't know who he is, where he is and why two well-dressed
men, Vincent (Michael Tiernan) and Cole (Brian Jensen), are chasing him.
He only knows that the small metal case that he defends so fiercely
contains five vials that hold all his memories, reduced to crystal form, as
well as a specially designed injector that can delete or restore those
memories. With Hope's help, he uses the injector to restore his memories
in an attempt to piece together his identity. But there are unforeseen
consequences to this. With each injection of memories, Tom' s personality
becomes slightly darker. As he injects one crystal and then the next, Tom
recovers his unhappy childhood and adolescence, his time in medical
school and, to Hope's dismay, his memories of his marriage to his high
school sweetheart Paula. With the injection of the fourth crystal, Tom
remembers some terrible things. First, that Paula is dead, killed at the
hands of a random rapist and murderer. Second, that he was the doctor
who developed the process to delete and restore memories, which
explains why the government agents are so eager to recapture him. And
third, that the government has been testing his device on homeless people
without their consent. Horrified at how his invention has been abused, and
fearful that the last crystal will change him so much he will lose the new
love he has found with Hope, Tom destroys the fifth crystal along with the
knowledge it contains, vowing to start life anew with Hope. But with the
government hot on his tail, that choice may not be his to make.
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Genre(s): Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction

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