Paradise (The Outer Limits)
| "Paradise" | |
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| The Outer Limits episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 17 |
| Directed by | Mario Azzopardi |
| Written by | Jonathan Walker & Chris Dickie |
| Production code | 39 |
| Original air date | 16 June 1996 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Mel Harris as Dr. Christina Markham |
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Mel Harris as Dr. Christina Markham
Geraint Wyn Davies as Sheriff Grady Markham
Maxine Miller as Helen
Sebastian Spence as Young Gerry
Heather Hanson as Young Helen
Harold Gould as Gerry
April Telek as Lucy
Corrie Clark as Sylvia
"Paradise" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 16 June 1996, during the second season.
Dr. Christina Markham and Sheriff Grady Markham have to investigate a spate of strange incidents involving young and apparently healthy women suddenly growing old and dying.
The deputy gets picked up by a young woman named Lucy in a bar. After intercourse she starts to cry and tells him that something didn't work. Suddenly she grows old and dies.
The next day Dr. Christina Markham, the wife of the Sheriff, does the autopsy on the already heavily decomposed body. Besides Alzheimer's and several kinds of cancer, a strange anomaly in the uterus is found. Shortly afterwards a second female body is found similarly decomposed and is identified as a local woman who was over 70 years old. Both bodies show the same anomaly and both contain traces of semen.
While Dr. Markham is visiting her mother (who has Alzheimer's) in a care center, she hears her and another old woman talking about 'going into the light' soon. The other woman, the mother of the deputy, disappears from the center and visits her son as a young woman. She leaves and also has intercourse with a stranger. Afterwards she returns to her son, tells him that 'it' didn't work, grows old and dies shortly afterwards.
In the night, Dr. Markham's mother runs away from the care center together with Gerry, the brother of her late husband. She leads him to a meadow where she looks for a stone which is quickly found. The stone starts to produce a beam of light which rejuvenates both of them. After they confess their love to each other, they have intercourse in the Markham house. Meanwhile, the Sheriff and his wife figure out that the three dead women, along with Dr. Markham's mother, were arrested together 50 years ago for trespassing at the place where the second body was found. A search is ordered for Mrs. Markham and Gerry, who have gone missing from the care center; they are later found in the Markham family home. Gerry has returned to his normal, old age, but still looks healthy enough, while Mrs. Markham is still young but now in an advanced state of pregnancy.
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