The Conversion (The Outer Limits)
| "The Conversion" | |
|---|---|
| The Outer Limits episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | Rebecca De Mornay |
| Written by | Brad Wright |
| Production code | 13 |
| Original air date | 9 June 1995 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Frank Whaley as Henry Marshall, |
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Frank Whaley as Henry Marshall,
Rebecca De Mornay as The Woman,
William B. Davis as Ed,
Ken Tremblett as Businessman,
John Savage as Lucas,
Beau Starr as Jack,
Tom Butler as Mr. Evans,
Angela Gann as Ed's Wife,
Kerry Sandomirsky as Mary,
Roger R. Cross as Bartender
"The Conversion" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 9 June 1995 during the first season.
Henry Marshall participates in a real estate scam and is caught. After a long stretch in prison he still hasn't learned to value people more than money.
Henry Marshall sits in a bar in the same building where he used to work five years ago. He has just gotten out of prison and is contemplating killing his old boss and workmates who were involved in the scam (but avoided prison). A beautiful woman buys him a drink and asks him what he is thinking. He explains that he is thinking of going to the office Christmas party. She tells him that she knows people who work there and asks to go with him.
While in the elevator to the office floor, she tries to seduce and distract him. As they arrive at his old workplace he pulls a gun, kills three people and is wounded himself by a security guard. The woman he came up with in the elevator looks on sadly and vanishes.
He makes his escape out into the countryside in a car and arrives at a small roadside diner where he is given a free meal. After taking his seat he is approached by a talkative man named Lucas, carrying a lot of money and who seems to know Marshall's name, what he's done and the fact that he is injured. Lucas buys Marshall some more food and a drink. Marshall suspects Lucas has heard about him from one of the many radio reports about the office shootings and is just keeping him occupied until the police arrive.
Marshall gets up to leave. Lucas explains that if Marshall leaves now, the police will see him and he will be killed in a shootout. Even if he leaves later, he will die of an infection from his wound. Lucas pleads with Marshall to wait and listen, even if only for a while. Lucas claims to be able to see "possibilities" and begins to talk about angels and quantum mechanics. Marshall, believing him to be crazy, decides to leave. Marshall shakes hands with Lucas in thanks for the food and drink, and in the process a glow appears around their hands. Marshall makes his way to the restroom and finds that his bullet wound has healed... apparently transferred to the strange man.
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