The Outer Limits (1963–1965): Season 2, Episode 5 - Demon with a Glass Hand - full transcript

Through all the
legends of ancient peoples,

Assyrian, Babylonian,

Sumerican, Semitic,

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 man who has
never tasted death,

the hero who strides
through the centuries.

I was born 10 days ago.

A full-grown man,
born 10 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.

Then the hand, my hand.

Told me what to do.

What can I do?
Who are they?

Programming
data insufficient.

"Who are they?"

Random collation
of possibilities.

"What can I do?",



in order of factors
of success, are as follows...

Each pursuer wears
a gold medallion.

Remove these medallions.

The time mirror permits
only 2 travelers at one time,

but they are replenishable.

If possible,
destroy the mirror.

Stay alive.
Above all, stay alive.

Destiny is in
your whole hand.

I am incomplete.

I can serve you better
if I am complete.

Easier said than
done, staying alive.

There is nothing
wrong with your television set.

Do not attempt
to adjust the picture.

We are controlling
transmission.

For the next hour, we will control
all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience
the awe and mystery.

Which reaches
from the inner mind to...

The outer limits.

Please, Mr. Trent,
I can't stand pain.

There's nothing
I can tell you.

Why are you trying
to kill me?

This is your
last chance, Breech.

Who are you and the others
that are with you?

Are you from this time
or from the future?

We are from the future.

We come from Kyba.

We're the Kyban
from another world,

from the future
of this world.

We've been altered
to look like humans.

It was necessary to come
back into time and find you.

Why?

We're at war.

What do you want with me?
What are you after?

Your hand.

Why?

We were told it holds
all knowledge.

What kind of knowledge?

We were told we have
3 fingers of your hand,

that the whole hand
is so import...

I... I don't know.

I know this,

you were the last man
on the earth of the future.

You are the last hope
of earth.

Now you... you can
send me up...

But that's all I know.

It's the truth.

Explain the
gold medallions to me.

The time mirror works safely
only one way,

coming into the past
from the future.

And when the medallions
are pulled off?

They're focusing elements
for the mirror.

It's... it's... it's as if time
were a rubber band,

and you were on one end
stretched out tight.

As long as the
medallion's present,

the band stays tight.

But when you rip it off,

we snap back up
to the future.

I'm wearing one,
that makes me vulnerable?

Yes, you're vulnerable.

And we'll get you.

We'll have to get you,
finally.

If you kill me,
another will take my place.

And if you kill him,
another.

And where is this
time mirror?

The Dixon building,
downtown.

We took an office.

The time mirror's
set up there, we...

You come from the earth,
1,000 years in the future.

The Kyban came
from the stars,

and men had no defense
against them.

They conquered
the planet earth in a month.

But before they could slaughter
the millions of humans left,

overnight, without warning,
without explanation,

every man, woman
and child of earth vanished.

You were the only one left,
Mr. Trent,

with the glass hand the vanished
earthmen had given you.

To help you.

They called you
the last hope of humanity.

The medallion you stole
let you escape.

Into now,
the present, today.

And now you are among
all the men of earth.

Who are alive today.

But the Kyban gained possession
of 3 parts of your hand,

the computer that could
answer all the questions.

You have to get
those 3 lobes to me,

the computer brain,

and find out what the alien
Kyban really want from you.

Why you were
the only man left alive,

1,000 years in the future,

on the planet earth.

You must destroy
the time mirror,

to keep them from sending more
Kyban through to the present,

to close that doorway
completely.

Is this it?

The Dixon building,

once the most exclusive
office building in the city,

it has become
the center of a slum.

Now it houses cut-rate
garment, piece-goods offices,

passport photographers,
and the like.

One of the offices
is a front for the Kyban.

And their time mirror.

Welcome, Mr. Trent.

I see Breech died a hero,
Mr. Trent.

He brought you to us.

Infinitely easier
than going to look for you.

Ah, come along, Mr. Trent.

We're here, all of us,

and we're waiting for you.

You don't think you can
escape us, do you?

1,000 years in the future,

we conquered your planet
in 19 days.

What chance do you think
you have in the present?

We've thrown a force bubble
around the building.

Invisible,

impossible to break.

You're trapped.

What do you want?

You, Mr. Trent.
Give yourself up.

Give yourself up,

and we'll let you live.

What is it you want? What?

I want the 70 billion
future earthmen.

And you know
where they are.

Where are the future people
of the earth?

In hiding. You are
the key to releasing them.

Where? Tell me?

I am unable to answer.

My mechanism is not whole.

Hey, I have nothing.
Nothing here.

Please, mister,
don't kill me, please.

Don't kill me, mister.
Come on.

Please don't kill me,
don't...

Don't kill me,
please.

Please.

Wasn't on
the roof.

He can't get away.
The force bubble is sealed.

We'll find him.

They want to kill me.

I didn't know
there was anyone was in here.

I have to hide.

Believe me,

I need help,
I need your help.

No, now listen
to me, please.

I'm all alone.

I need your help.

If you scream,

if you let them know
where we are...

Please...

Trust me.

And be very, very still.

This is going
to sound insane.

But it's true,
it's real.

And you must
listen to me.

This is not
a human being.

He's from another planet,
another solar system.

He wants to kill me.

He and the others like him.

There's more,
much more, but, uh...

I have to get you
to believe me

and there's only
one way to do it.

Now watch.

Gone!

Where?

It doesn't matter where,
just gone.

Now do you believe me?

I believe you.

Where did he go?
What did you do to him?

He went forward,
to another time,

1,000 years from now.

The future, he came
from the future,

and so do I.

But you said
that he wasn't human,

that he was some other kind
of being.

Another world
and another time.

Look, I worked late
tonight.

It's a poor living, will you
let me go home, please?

You can't leave the building,
it's sealed off.

What do you mean,
sealed off?

A force bubble, uh,
it's an invisible barrier.

Keeps anyone
from getting out.

It's designed
to keep me inside,

but it keeps
everyone else in, too.

I'm sorry.

I don't understand this
at all.

Wait!

They want to kill me,
do you understand that?

They've come
through time,

from the future,
to kill me.

That's about as much
as I understand myself.

But I've got to survive,
not just for my own sake,

but for a larger objective.

They use a time mirror
for time travel.

It's somewhere
in the building.

I've got to find it and destroy
it before they destroy me.

Now, is there
a place to hide?

Maybe the basement.

If they're all through
the building...

Come, there's another way
to get down there.

Move this away
from the wall.

It's been sealed off
for years, blocked,

so there was only one entrance
to the shop.

All right.
Go ahead, lead.

What are you going
to do with him?

What I did
with the other one.

After I talk to him.

Do you have to?

Do you have to kill him?

What would you suggest?

I'm sorry, it's just that
I can't stand violence.

When it's gone this far,
it's more than just violence.

What's your name?

Trent.

Trent?

Trent.

My name is Consuelo Biros.

And you hate violence.

It was because
of my husband, Esteban.

The "E" on the door.

"The 'E' on the door."

"C. And E. Biros,
ladies apparel."

Oh, yes.

He was always hitting me.
He had a rotten temper.

That was his answer
to everything, hitting me.

I... I shouldn't talk
about him that way.

He did the best
he could.

Being poor is what
made him so rotten.

Please...

You have to kill him?

Do you?

I'm prepared to die.

How prepared?

Why not give yourself
a couple of minutes?

We all knew we'd die
when we came on this mission.

It was worth it.

You can stay alive
in this time.

I don't care
about that.

Helping my race
is more important.

Bargain week
on patriots.

Call it what you like.

I'm not afraid
to die.

Really?

Then why are you
whispering?

You Kyban were
always super patriots.

Especially when you bombed
earth from 10 miles out.

How does your patriotism sit with
burning women and children alive?

It's war.

So is this.

Now,

let's talk, shall we?

You'll never get out
of this building alive.

We'll bring more Kyban
through the time mirror.

That's my problem.

Right now, you have
one of your own.

I want to know

who's carrying the other
3 parts of my brain?

I can tell you.
It wouldn't matter.

There's only one piece,
here in this time.

They're keeping the other 2 up in
the future till they get to you.

But there is one piece,
one finger, here, now.

And when you go after it,
they'll be waiting for you.

Arch?

He has one.

And 1,000 years from now,

Bonn and Durn
have the other 2.

When we need them,
they'll bring them through.

Trent, let him go.
Let him go!

Stay out of it!

I found him! I found him!

Up here!
I found him!

Come on.

I'm trapped in the building
with the Kyban.

There's a woman with me.

We can't escape.
Tell me, what can I do?

100 percent possibility
of success is not available.

Next success quotient,
only 47 percent probable.

Well, tell me,
what is it?

Let them kill you.

He's dead.

Very dead.

As soon as we bring
Durn and Bonn

through the mirror
with the other 2 fingers,

we shall know exactly
where humankind is hiding,

and put an end to every
last one of them.

Why are we keeping the woman?
Isn't that dangerous?

She hasn't spoken yet.
No one knows who she is.

That's why we're
keeping her alive.

Till we find out.

Bonn and Durn will be coming
through the mirror soon.

When we put that glass brain
together, and ourjob is done,

perhaps it'll have a method
for us to go back up safely.

I'm so frightened.

Dear Mary...

Please help me.

I'm so frightened.

Will you save me, please?

You can save...

Yourself.

What?

You asked a question.

It activated
my programming.

Can you get
a moist cloth?

Is he dead?

Yes, he is dead.

Do you have
the moist cloth?

Yes, I have it.

Listen carefully.

Wring it out.
Not wet, moist.

Then apply it lightly to the
exact center of the forehead.

There is a soft spot,
you will find.

It will stimulate the gliomus,
the brain substance itself.

Then touch it to the frontal
sinus between the eyes.

And the carotid artery,

the thick artery in his neck,
supplying blood to the brain.

16,
blood pressure: 40 over 0.

Pupils dilated.
Motor reflexes erratic.

5 breaths per minute.

60 degrees temperature.

- 182.
- 300 over 150.

36.

40, 49.

112 degrees.

112 degrees?

Remove the cloth quickly,
he is rising too fast.

I was in a dark place.

Someone was calling my name,
over and over.

Down a long corridor.

You were dead.

The hand, it brought you back.

No blood, no bullet holes.

I'm alive.

If it can do all that with
just one lobe of his brain,

what can it do with
all 3 missing parts?

Fill in my memory?
Answer all my questions?

I heard them talking
and they said that

the other 2 parts will come
through with Durn and Bonn.

Through the mirror.

I've got to find it.
I've got to find that office.

Now are you...

Complete enough
to tell me what to do?

Ambiguous.
I can now extrapolate.

What is "extrapolate"?

Draw a conclusion
from a series of facts.

Can you tell me
what they're after?

Why have they been sent back
to kill me?

You carry the lives
of 70 billion earthmen.

They want your glass hand.

It will tell them,

where the people of earth
are hiding.

How to return
to the future without dying.

How to exist
in this time, safely.

But where?

Where are the people
of earth?

I will need my 2nd brain lobe
to answer.

I have registered
an energy drain.

Durn is through
the mirror.

Arch, Arch! It's Durn!
I've got Trent!

He's alive.

Where are you?

Protect yourself.
Protect the 2nd finger.

Durn, answer!
Where are you?

Durn!

The 2nd finger.

No! No!

I'm sorry, I can't.

Shh.

Now,

where are my people?

The 70 billion people of
earth, where are they hiding?

Trent,

your people knew they could
not defeat the Kyban,

but they had
a terrible weapon.

A radioactive plague
with a half-life of 99 years.

But to turn it loose
in the atmosphere.

Meant death for humans
as well as Kyban.

The plague destroys
all intelligent life.

They died?

70 billion died?

No.

They had to find a way to get
off the earth for 200 years,

till the plague had dissipated and
the earth was clean once more.

And they did. They vanished,
all of them, overnight.

Where did they go?

A device was used
to translate.

Every man, woman,
and child on earth.

Into their primal
electrical components.

The population of earth,
70 billion people,

were turned into
electrical impulses,

and they were stored on a thin
strand of gold-copper alloy wire.

A piece of wire?

I, uh, I cannot believe.

Uh... uh, a wire?

Reiterate, a wire.

In this time,
the time of this woman,

they put sounds and odors
and pictures on wire.

1,000 years from now,
in your time frame,

it is a commonplace means
of preserving life.

That still doesn't explain
why they want to kill me.

I don't have this...

Wire.

I carry nothing.

Reiterate, the wire
was entrusted to you.

Well, where is it?

I cannot answer.
I am not yet complete.

The 3rd part
of your brain,

do you know
where it is?

Can you tell me
anything further?

Reiterate, you are the
last hope of mankind, Trent.

Do not fail.

To save all of man...

I have to become a killer.

Arch!

The mirror is due.
Bonn is coming through.

I'll be right down.

We searched
the whole building.

No sign of them or Durn.

I know. Don't worry,
we'll find them.

How long has it been
since you've slept?

I don't know. Funny.

I never seem to get tired.

But I know I haven't slept
since this thing began.

I've got to get you
out of here, clear of me.

I think there's
no place to hide.

There has to be,
somewhere.

I think I'm part
of your trouble.

Now that you
brought me into this.

You can't be with me.

But I am.

Consuelo, they're not human.

They'll walk over anything
to get to me.

Destroy anything
that's close to me.

Trent...

I'm going through this thing
on blind luck.

I don't want you with me
if it runs out.

Trent...

Oh, Trent...

I think I'm falling
in love with you.

Not me, Consuelo.

I'm not in love.

I know.

I know.

But I don't care.

Doesn't matter.

If one of us loves,
that's enough.

By tomorrow morning, very probably,
both of us will be dead.

Well then, there's no time to wait
for you to fall in love with me.

It's safer out there.

No.
Yes.

They'll never look for us
outside the building.

Trust me.

Look at me.

Don't look down.

What are you... what are
you going to do?

Try to beat the devil.

Which office, Arch?

You got Durn,
you sent him up.

Which office?

Or do you get sent up, too?

Tell me, what's it like?

Is it quick, all of a sudden,
like a switch off?

Or is it soft,
slow, like jelly?

3rd floor, P.O. 2,
Alvarado passport photos.

We'll win, Trent.

In the end, we'll win.

They're all gone.
Every last man on earth.

Just you.

Arch! Hey, Arch!

Bonn's going to want you
down here.

He'll want to see us all.

Arch! Where are you?

Be right there.

Just checking the hall.
Go on in.

Hurry!

Bonn's coming through
right away!

There's trouble up ahead!

I am Budge.
Bonn is right behind me.

I was sent down to make sure
everything was safe for transmission.

The Kyban are starting
to die up there.

From what?

We don't know.

It started almost as soon as Trent
escaped through the mirror.

Seems to be
some sort of plague.

The earthmen?

No, we still
can't find them.

They're vanished. Every last one of them.
And all in one night.

And our bacteriology tests show that
it is something which is not native

to the earth's atmosphere.

And you saved your hide
by escaping into this past?

I was sent on to protect
Bonn and the 3rd finger.

We were told to get
the glass hand.

It has the answer and the reason for
the plague. It has all the answers.

Here comes Bonn.

He's got the 3rd finger
of the glass hand.

Grab it as soon
as it solidifies,

in case something goes wrong
with the transmission.

God, forgive me.
God, forgive me!

Oh, is it over?

Almost.

The mirror is gone.

And the Kyban,
are they all dead?

All but one.

I'll have to
take care of that.

You go on down in the garment shop.
I'll be there.

Go on.

Oh! It's been
a nightmare.

But it's over,
it's done.

Yes.

Mmm.

Except for humanity.

People of earth
are still missing.

But the computer is complete.
Now I can ask the hand.

Do you have sufficient data
now to answer my questions?

My segments are complete.
Ask your question.

Where is the wire on which the people of
earth are electronically transcribed?

It is wound around
an insulating coil.

Inside your central thorax
control solenoid.

It has been demagnetized and
protected from your circuits.

What circuits?
What are you talking about?

Trent, push the 3 middle fingers
of the computer together,

and bend them back
as far as they will go.

70 billion earthmen.

All of them went
onto the wire,

and the wire went
into you.

They programmed you
to think you were a human.

With a surgically attached
computer for a hand.

But you are a robot, Trent.

You are the guardian
of the human race.

That's why
when they killed me,

no bullets, no blood.

Once I had one of
the missing lobes to my brain,

I was able to help
your machinery repair itself.

Like the eternal
man of Babylonian legend,

like Gilgamesh,

1,000 plus 200 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.

We now return control of
your television set to you.

Until next week,
at the same time,

when the control voice
will take you to...

The outer limits.