The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
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- Season 5 overviewJan 22-Aug 20, 199922 episodesSeason 5 episodes1. The Alien Radio Jan 22, 1999
- A radio host pooh-poohs callers' UFO encounters until one caller kills himself.
- 2. Donor Jan 29, 1999
- Doctors perfect a body transplant for terminally ill patients.
- 3. Small Friends Feb 5, 1999
- Inmates blackmail a brilliant inventor jailed for murder to get his secret invention.
- 4. The Grell Feb 12, 1999
- A government official and his family are shot down over slave territory.
- 5. The Other Side Feb 19, 1999
- A doctor discovers a parallel consciousness.
- 6. Joy Ride Feb 26, 1999
- An aging astronaut returns to space to right a wrong turn in his life.
- 7. Human Operators Mar 12, 1999
- A woman inspires an enslaved man to rebel.
- 8. Blank Slate Apr 2, 1999
- Carrying vials that hold his memories, a man runs from agents and stumbles into a homeless shelter.
- 9. What Will the Neighbors Think? Apr 23, 1999
- Chaos erupts when a woman develops the power to read her neighbors' minds.
- 10. The Shroud Apr 30, 1999
- A religious order creates an embryo from DNA in the Shroud of Turin.
- 11. Ripper May 7, 1999
- A Victorian doctor searches for the alien creature the police call Jack the Ripper.
- 12. The Tribunal May 14, 1999
- A concentration camp survivor relies on a time traveler to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice.
- 13. Summit May 21, 1999
- Desperate negotiations are all that can save both Earth and its mining colony.
- 14. Descent Jun 25, 1999
- After injecting himself with primitive DNA, a mild-mannered professor becomes bold and powerful.
- 15. The Haven Jul 2, 1999
- The supercomputer in a high-tech apartment complex malfunctions, endangering residents.
- 16. Deja Vu Jul 9, 1999
- A scientist experimenting with opening a wormhole gets caught in a time loop.
- 17. The Inheritors Jul 16, 1999
- When a meteor explodes, three people return from the dead.
- 18. Essence of Life Jul 23, 1999
- An agent tracks a substance that brings back the dead.
- 19. Stranded Jul 30, 1999
- Neglected by his father, a boy finds comfort with an alien whose spaceship crash-lands on Earth.
- 20. Fathers and Sons Aug 6, 1999
- A man tries to rescue his grandfather from a rest home.
- 21. The Star Crossed Aug 13, 1999
- A cynical cafe owner aids an old lover.
- 22. Better Luck Next Time Aug 20, 1999
- A detective must decide between two murder suspects.
E21. All episodes. Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Starcrossed. Episode aired Aug 13, 1999. TV-PG. 44m. IMDb RATING. 6.3 /10. 239. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama Fantasy Horror. In 2056, Cass Trenton and Winston Meyerburg are carrying a parasite that might win the war against the Hing, who invaded Earth six years earlier.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Helen Shaver
- 1999-08-13
The Other Side: Directed by Jeff Woolnough. With Ralph Macchio, Susannah Hoffmann, Aaron Smolinski, Emmanuelle Vaugier. A young scientist's efforts to regenerate the minds of brain-dead patients is endangered when his own single-mindedness drives off his assistants and alienates his superiors.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Jeff Woolnough
- 1999-02-19
The Outer Limits – Season 5, Episode 21. Cosmic "Casablanca" tale of a cynical cafe owner who encounters an old flame in a world dominated by alien invaders.
S5.E21 ∙ Starcrossed. Fri, Aug 13, 1999. In 2056, Cass Trenton and Winston Meyerburg are carrying a parasite that might win the war against the Hing, who invaded Earth six years earlier. The couple flee and gain the support of Cass' former lover Michael Ryan who owns a casino.
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"In the year 2050 Earth was invaded by a humanoid race called The Hing. For six years a hard and reigning war was fought. At its conclusion, we were forced to agree that the Hing retain the control they had already won. It wasn't an easy truce, especially in a city called 'Archangel'."
It is 2056, six years after the Hing, a humanoid race, invaded Earth. While America fights on, Russia has reached an uneasy truce with the aliens, leaving some regions under their control and others declared neutral. In the neutral city of Archangel on the Barents Sea, cynical American expatriate Michael Ryan (Nathan Fillion) runs Heaven, a small coffee bar and music club, where shady Russians mingle with Hing soldiers and other dubious characters.
Everything is agreeably corrupt until Alexandra Nevsky (Natasha Vasiluk) informs Michael that Hing commander Sulat Ray (Derek de Lint) is on the lookout for two NATO soldiers who might be interested in buying a Hing scout vehicle that has gone missing. Those soldiers, Winston Meyerburg (Louis Ferreira, listed as Justin Louis) and Cass Trenton (Angeline Ball) have dodged Hing patrols and found their way to Michael's bar.
Cass, who was Michael's lover before the war — she only took up with Winston because she thought he was dead — suspects Michael can get them the scout vehicle. She appeals to his sense of patriotism, revealing that she is carrying a deadly parasite that she and Winston stole from the Hing and, if it can be replicated, might defeat the Hing. But it becomes clear that it's going to take more than flag-waving and high ideals to get Michael to risk his neck in this situation. Meanwhile, Sulat closes in on Cass and Winston and kills their contact in the city.
Michael continues to fend off Cass, Alexandra, and Sulat as they all try to get him to give up the soldiers or scout vehicle, until Sulat has his men attack Michael as a form of persuasion. While recovering from the attack, Cass appears and threatens him with a gun to convince him to give them the scout vehicle. She relents when she sees that he is wounded and they sleep together, after which Michael agrees to help Cass and Winston escape. The trio are followed by Sulat's forces and exchange gun fire, with Cass wounded in the process. Winston realizes Cass is still in love with Michael, but Michael decides to provide cover fire so the couple can escape. He singlehandedly wipes out Sulat and the remaining soldiers, sparing only Alexandra. Michael and Alexandra watch as the scout vehicle flies away before they decide to flee to a nearby NATO batallion.
The story is a futuristic reinterpretation of the film Casablanca where a couple is carrying a parasite that might win the war for the humans. The couple flee to the city Archangel looking for a way to escape the Hing and gain the support of the wife's former lover, Michael, who owns the cafe.
The character of Alexandra Nevsky is very likely a reference to Alexander Nevsky, a canonized Russian noble.
•Angeline Ball as Cass Trenton
•Nathan Fillion as Michael Ryan
•Justin Louis as Winston Meyerburg
•Robbi Chong as Teresita Arboleda
•Natasha Vasiluk as Alexandra Nevsky
•Zoran Vukelic as Hector
Watch The Outer Limits (1995) · Season 5 Episode 21 · Starcrossed free starring Nathan Fillion, Robbi Chong, Angeline Ball and directed by Helen Shaver.
Fri, May 14, 1999. S5.E12. Tribunal. Aaron Zgierski, a lawyer and the son of Holocaust survivors, is investigating the Nazi war criminal who murdered members of his family. He gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from Auschwitz in 1944. 8.4/10. Rate. Top-rated. Sun, Jan 14, 1996. S2.E1. A Stitch in Time.
