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Original Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 2

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In Part Two, Ballard follows up on a lead from Minns' apartment: a list of names. He finds that they're all children -- special children. Minerva Gordon is blind, Danny Masters is a deaf mute, others are handicapped in various ways. He makes preparations to protect the kids from Minns, to no avail. He then sets up a series of roadblocks on the road to Wichita, where a spaceship is being built. Ballard and Minns have a confrontation at the warehouse. At first, Minns and the others are in the dark about what will happen to the children. Then the alien intelligence reveals the final explanation to Minns and he takes Ballard inside the ship. He finds that the damaged children are whole again, and well. Crutches and leg braces lay on the deck, unneeded. Minerva can see, and Danny can hear and speak. Minns tells Ballard that the atmosphere in the ship duplicates that of the planet they'll be travelling to. And that, if taken off the ship, the children will immediately revert. He says that they will be going to a planet that had been wiped out by a catastrophe, and they would be colonizing the planet. All four of the soldiers would accompany the children. Now that the doubts about their mission have been erased, they all agree readily.

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  • One of the most unexpectedly uplifting science fiction stories ever! You don't see the way the end plays out coming. Brilliant acting all around!

    So happy to discover this on YouTube. I've had the VHS tape for years. And this version restores the cuts made when the two episodes were put onto one tape.

  • Awesome!

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  • Sorry Morgan Brittany

  • The blind girl is Brittany Morgan. As an adult she went on to star in many shows. You can catch her early years on Twilight Zone and here.

  • At 18:45 to 19:35 is "Jan Shutan" playing Mrs. Subiron......she was also Lt. Mira Romaine on Episode 74? of Star Trek "The Lights of Zetar" in 1968-69...... Very very pretty there too!....

  • that last scene was really beutifull

  • I remember liking this episode years ago. But it would be pretty awful to watch this with a child with a disability. Without intending to do so, it provides a reminder of how recently we were in the dark ages in terms of attitudes about disabilities.

  • One of the greatest science fiction stories ever told on television!

    As DeeDeeDeluxx wrote, this would make a touching film if remade today. Anyone in Hollywood listening???

  • The story, updated would make a touching film. In fact most OL tales would tranfer well to remakes and films.

  • "lets go to washington, to study you, to brainwash you.."...well no shit

  • This episode warmed my heart!

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