New Lease

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The Outer Limits episode
“New Lease”
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 11
Guest star(s) Stephen Lang as Dr. James Houghton, Michael Ontkean as Dr. Charles McCamber, Jason Priestley as Anthony Szigetti
Writer(s) Sam Egan
Director Jason Priestley
Production no. 55
Original airdate 21 March 1997
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"New Lease" is an episode of The Outer Limits television. It first aired on 21 March 1997, during the third season.

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[edit] Introduction

Dr. James Houghton and Dr. Charles McCamber, working in secret, develop a means of revitalising the dead.

[edit] Opening narration

"Man has long worked to stave off the disease that can ravage us. But what can happen when the cure grows more fearsome than the disease?"

[edit] Plot synopsis

After a semi-successful test -- a patient is revived, but immediately begins a painful deterioration -- Dr. Houghton is assaulted and killed in a robbery attempt. He is revived believing that he has only a few days to live. Believing that he gains revenge on the robber only to find out that he will live. He is arrested later that day on murder charges.

[edit] Closing narration

"Over millions of years man has become the very paragon of animals but we must take care not to alter what nature has taken so long to forge — or risk being burned by the very fires of creation."

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