Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (5of5)

[Wyldweaver]

Topcomment:

If you would get back in time and kill Hitler, you would create a complete new timeline. Millions of people who otherwise would get killed - would survive. Billions and billions of new little decisions. All this decisions would create a new world and you know... new people. It`s extremely unlikely your grandpa and your grandma would ever met. And even if they did: Diferent sperms would win the race. So, NONE OF US would ever be born. That`s way too much sacrifice for me.

[Blodo666]

Amanda Plummer who plays the professor is just awesome. Women don't receive enough serious roles like that in movies.

[sneezyize]

@Blodo666 And Plummer plays one of the few characters in the 1990's version of The Outer LImits who gets to come back in a later episode. She returns for the season 6 two-parter closer, Final Appeal as Professor Teresa Givens as she stands trial in a near future, 2050, court after she travels forward in time.

[oracle2world]

She is packing a revolver to do Horowitz . I thought they all used 9mm.

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

@oracle2world You thought all used what? Who all? The professor? Do you mean the professor who, in the new timeline, has not gone back to kill anyone? Only the detective has gone back, her first occasion being to kill Horowitz. Remember that the other timeline is negated; this also means that the detective has to inform the professor what she had done in the other timeline so that the detective could initiate the same behavior. The bullet is from the detective's gun, not the professor's.

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

@oracle2world In your initial comment, you stated, "I thought they all used 9mm." This sentence was not even phrased the correct way. You should have phrased it, "I thought they all were killed by a 9mm." Your phrasing indicates that you thought multiple individuals (they all) used a 9 mm gun. The correct phrasing indicates that all of the individuals were killed by a 9mm gun.

[DLPBurke]

One of the most realistic time travel stories of all time

[gluckey]

No one should outlive their dreams.

[Mxlsptlk]

Could you kill men who would murder girls in the future? Could you harden your heart against the "innocents" protests?

[simonjeste]

this was episode # 23 (season 1)

sequel, 2-parter, #131 & #132 "Final Appeal" - Amanda Plummer's character tries to defend herself to a ‘future’ Supreme Court in a world which shuns technology.

[KAZZTHECAT]

anybody intelligent explain whats going on.....a stich in time save 9...

[owainmeurig]

@KAZZTHECAT A girl is attacked, grows up, builds a time machine hears about serial killers goes back in time to kill them, every time she kills someone a new cold case is added to the detectives work, she finds the womans bullets at the murders, she visits her they go back in time to when she was attacked as a girl and they rescue her she still builds a time machine but is not angry enough to kill murderers which means the detectives friend is still murdered so she goes back to kill him herself.

[fatsomamacheese]

lol that poor dude, he got executed twice and shot twice...dude died 4 times in this episode!!

[alexanderjurjens]

Now you're thinking with portals!

[kavinh10]

ahh i love these episodes where they go back in time

[mac195000]

One of the best time travel stories I've seen. 

[s1rra]

thanks for posting this Jason, ,that was my favourite episode

[PAM2167]

My favorite episode!  :-(:::::::::

[TheBicLighter]

I think that after the last scene after she shoots Horowitz she gets stuck in a time limbo and cant get home and suffers for the rest of her life because of the parodox that she creates. After all she would have had no desire at all to kill this man because her friend would still be alive. There for, she gets stuck in time with no memory of why and where she was. Or, this whole thing just never would of happened. THE END... or, THE BEGINING...

[Rockysbeats]

i like camels and badgers :)

[mabiniss2]

Stupid idiot should have realized that if she killed her kidnapper, then everything she did would have become undone.

[DLPBurke]

@mabiniss2 she did know that.

[00ghostcobra]

Why did neither of these women try and talk the Horowitz kid down. If they had let him know that they knew what was on his mind; then maybe they could've talked him out of taking his first victim and broken the chain that way.

[theoriginalcharelila]

Apparently Outter Limits uses Portals, too!. lol blue, orange!

[Dom76800]

I have always like (good) stories (film or series) about time. This is for me very good written. At the end, it is clear that the scientist woman is much more happy and has not more in mind to kill series killers (so the Cop's friend was dead again), but she has built the time machine (logic because she knew that this machine existed) ; so it was this time the Cop who wants to change the time to save her friend.

[haranghy]

this is my favorite story!

[Ericzeppe]

It must be fun being a murderer

[CosmicD]

I'm a bit confused. AFter the last "stitch", the time machine vanished right. And how can pratt go back to kill morrison then?

[vcomp1960]

I think the police woman, at the end, goes to the science woman (the one who built the machine) and wants to know if she had still built the time machine. The police woman says, "You built it...I need to know...." I am assuming the answer is that she did build the time machine so that part of the scientists life did not change. The police woman then takes up the scientists cause and goes through time to kill serial killers. At least that is how I took it.

[DLPBurke]

@vcomp1960 nah she was just restoring her own time line, that's obvious.

[khabeerful]

Poor Jerome ...... dies twice :)

[nlytend1]

lol...yes he does

[Ericzeppe]

@khabeerful

ahh, mindfuck timetravel, baaah.

So many holes in this ending or is it

[GusF]

@khabeerful Three times, actually.

[komigennufan]

fucking feminists

[SuperOmnicron]

did you think this episode had a little lesbian subtext; Pratt and Alison had something going, then Pratt was "turned" by (Amanda Plummer)

[PhilipGuevara1990]

Awesome Thanks for the upload.

[portercmt]

As much as most of us would like to be able to go into the past and 'fix' the present, unfortunate events happen for a reason. War as it happened, happened for a reason, people dying in accidents or from murder happen for a reason. Nothing is random events. I'm not talking about someone out there planning things, I'm talking about the Fates. I'm sure there is another reality out there where there was never a WWI or WWII, but in this reality, all these things are for a reason.

[TheMrMobo]

lol sure portercmt

[redwoodforesttwo]

Everything is cause and effect. And it all never started, because there is no beginning to any start. This is something humans can not understand. Only mathematically. But not emotionally.

[SuperOmnicron]

Yes, WW2 was so that Europe would be united under NATO and a lasting World Peace of 6 decades (not counting "conflicts" not world wars) would occur - had America not entered it, Germany wouldve captured Europe, and eventually developed an Atomic bomb with B2 rockets to carry it to destroy America. WW2 was the literal conflict between the forces of Light and Dark - and an New Age - things as bad as they are now wouldve been much worse had America Not dropped the A bomb to effectively end WW2

[heat45jc]

this bitch calls herself the best, but waits too long.

[MyMelancholyDodo]

why the girl start acting like a rooster after the ordeal?

[DLPBurke]

@MyMelancholyDodo because this is good writing and that is a severe traumatic shock.

[Kasaiku]

One of the best episodes !

[RJL738]

Very well written, I really enjoyed it.

[jdollinter]

Just found this gem again after a long search, what a good episode !

I love the time paradox story and Amanda Plummer is so good. It's refreshing seeing a portrayal of strong intelligent Women for a change and I love the cop with the good aim and the mid 90's hemline a little above the knee,

she's so classy.

[BHALT0S]

how about going back and saving jesus or something, maybe bringing back moses into the present,

What then ha for all we know maybe thats what happened and that is the so called ressurection of jesus, cept he's been taken to the future.

[Wellveryinteresting]

I'd be for stopping 9/11/2001 events.

[KoNP69]

How fucking droll. Go be patriotic somewhere else.

[Wellveryinteresting]

That's very ugly & offensive for you to say. Perhaps I'd like to avoid the 9/11 events because of the loss of life & not only in the U.S., but in other countries including in Iraq, Afghanistan & the rest of the Middle East & world. I actually do consider myself patriotic, not because I wave the flag, & turn a blind eye in times of crises, but because I do question things & I have on more than one occassion questioned the events of that day & the unnecessary war that G.W. drag us into!

[Wellveryinteresting]

But then again, why am I telling you that -- since you don't know me & therefore that gives you VERY reason to be so UGLY and so OFFENSIVE!

[Junije1]

I'd be for getting $50 million on lottery =D

[starmanskye]

This must be my favorite Outer Limits episode yet (I'm discovering and viewing all those programs from the mid-to-late 90s I never saw.)

The apparant paradoxes here are very neatly self-consistent within a fairly narrowly-defined premise, compatable with our understanding of time as an aspect of multi-dimensional 'reality' that interpenetrates space AND consciousness. Observer-mediated experiential reality here is critical to many-worlds solution to schroedinger's cat 'problem'.

Well Done!

[Wellveryinteresting]

I agree about it being my favorite "Outer Limits" (of both 60's & 90's version of the show).

I'm still not sure about time-travel, though and I agree with WorshipInTruth -- I think time-travel will prove to be impossible I don't think it would be possible to create so many alternate realities without things breaking down in the multiverse.

[postpastx]

My only question is why not Hitler or Churchill

[antichristanarchist]

I've wanted to go back in time and kill Hitler for years. But, the thought of doing so brings rise to a new question: what if, because of killing Hitler, someone else lead the nazi party and was better at it than he was? a truly horrifying thought.....

[Junije1]

LULZ Yeah, by killing Hitler, you may be actually doing something much worse....

[fatsotomuscles]

You have a point...but you will never know the real outcome of it...

[SuperOmnicron]

Supposedly, Himmler, Goering or Doenitz wouldve carried on a resistence to Bolshevism, but not nearly with the fervor, nor influence Hitler had. the industrialists supporting Hitler may have gone another direction - who knows?

[onemanjazzfuneral]

@antichristanarchist check out the episode ''craddle of darkness'' from the twilight zone episodes......its has a similar paradox

[ElensarFFXI]

@antichristanarchist If the war hadn't happened you or me and many other people probably wouldn't exist because people would have met different partners there wouldnt have been a baby boom after so many people were lost etc theres so many variables from changing just one thing. Best thing even if it was possible would be to learn from past mistakes and let time work itself out.

[Wyldweaver]

@antichristanarchist

If you would get back in time and kill Hitler, you would create a complete new timeline.

Millions of people who otherwise would get killed - would survive. Billions and billions of new little decisions. All this decisions would create a new world and you know... new people. It`s extremely unlikely your grandpa and your grandma would met. And even if they did: Diferent sperms would win the race.

So, NONE OF US would ever be born. That`s too much sacrifice for me.

[daonfpe]

@antichristanarchist If you only knew who really financed Adolf Hitler, then you may perhaps want to go back in time and eliminate these REAL criminals who were responsible for the whole bullshit 'false flag' wars in the first place, namely Prescott Bush, and the rest of the criminals who are accountable for the entire planet being in one big shit crock. The names are J.P. Morgan, The Federal Reserve, Chase Manhatten. You can add the Swiss Banks as the Cherry on top. They are the 'money...

[daonfpe]

@antichristanarchist laundering cockroaches of the world! Stalin killed 20-30 Ukranians by starving them. Mao killled 30-40 million in the late 50's due to changes in agricultural principles. Anybody talk about that? Six millions pales in comparison. Besides, what makes the Jew any more deserving of better treatment than the other man? The blood of every man is 'red'!

[Pvtjamesryan2]

Maybe pre-crime is necessary. I am strongly opposed to murder, but this subject is going to need extensive evaluation before any such system will be put into place.

[Bravhrt79]

Ever heard of free will. You can't play God!!!

[KensaimasterWung]

You can BE a god.

[WorshipInTruth]

Well first of all, time travel is by all means impossible (particularly because there is no such thing as "time" it just appears so to beings in a world where things die) and even if it were possible it would entail the creation of an alternative reality everytime the travel occured.

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

anything is possible with enough time and technology...would you think looking at a monitor screen and typing was possible 2000 years ago?

[WorshipInTruth]

The idea of a tv screen is quite different than the idea of bending reality itself.

[herzmeister]

just _because_ there is no such thing as "time" as you said, means that time travel is of course possible, as it is thus just a dimension like any else

if we ever learn to time travel we would also naturally learn the rules that go along with it

we are merely creatures living in a realm that allows a state of evolution in which consciousness can handle 3 dimensions actively in which it can freely move, and 1 dimension passively which we experience as as constantly and strictly forward moving

[shirleyphelps32]

Shit man I didn't realize that the DVD that I bought a loooooong looooooooong time ago had this episode. It also has Tribunal, Gettysburg, Time to Time, Deja Vu, and Patient Zero. All really really cool episodes.

[Aslapacrosstheface]

This entire episode is filled with paradoxes like a sponge is filled with holes. None of it makes the least bit of sense.

[Hosai0123]

This is my favorite episode. This was awesome. I wish it continued. They could make a series out of this concept. Its kind of like Sliders.

[YamadaKeisai]

Does that time machine use 1.21 jigawatts of nuclear power in its flux capacitor?

[tandiwe36]

I like how in a later episode this woman goes on trial for time traveling. I don't remember the name of the episode. It was an interesting link to this one.

[mitterling2]

The episode your refering to was called Final Appeal. It was a pretty good two parter episode I thought.

[MUCKLEWELLS]

thanks for this episode my favourite

[damdarch]

the psycho killer guy that kidnapped givens ws the husband in the becka paulson ep, i think

[damdarch]

maybe not

[stinkymouser]

why is this not loading? is it just me?

[hotskel2546]

The best of the NEW OUTER LIMITS. This would even be in the top 10 if you included the originals

[chucksrus84]

I completely agree! I said the same exact thing in another link to this episode and I still maintain that belief. This episode was phenomenally well written and acted.

[lightmydank]

pretty god damn good