The Inheritors (The Outer Limits)

For other uses, see The Inheritors (disambiguation).

"The Inheritors"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episodes 10 & 11
Directed by	James Goldstone^[1]
Written by	Seeleg Lester and Sam Neuman (teleplay & story) Ed Adamson (story)^[1]
Cinematography by	Kenneth Peach
Production code	44
Original air date	November 21, 1964 November 28, 1964^[1]
Guest actors
Robert Duvall Steve Ihnat Donald Harron James Shigeta (Part 1)

"The Inheritors" is the only two-part episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. Part I was first aired on November 21, 1964; Part II on November 28, 1964.^[1]

Introduction

Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having served in the same combat zone and been shot in the head with bullets forged from a meteorite, cheat death and begin working on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange behavior of the men, who have each attained I.Q.s of over 200.

Opening narration (The Inheritors, Part I)

In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's Hunter finds rare game. For man-made savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush...

Plot

Lt. Minns (Steve Ihnat) is shot in the head. Rescued, he is operated on by American doctors. Adam Ballard (Robert Duvall) watches the operation. Minns begins to show the same brainwave patterns that three other men have shown — each one shot in the head by a bullet made from a meteorite fragment.

Ballard explains to his superior (Ted De Corsia) that he believes the Earth has been invaded, and that these four men are in league with the extraterrestrials.

As Ballard investigates, he discovers that the men are building a starship. He also discovers that Lt. Minns is going around recruiting children to take with him on a long trip. All the children are handicapped in some way — blind, deaf/mute, paralyzed in the legs, and so on.

Ballard is afraid these helpless children are to be victims of alien abduction, degrading studies and hideously painful experiments. He finds the location where the ship has been built, but the men within are sealed off by a force field which nothing can get through. Ballard begs the men to fight the "Charlie" in their heads, turn off the force field, and not kidnap the children.

Three of the four men attempt to do just that, obliging Lt. Minns to explain the project's purpose. The children are not to be studied, they are to be helped : the alien intelligence behind this operation originates from a planet inhabited by a highly advanced, peaceful extraterrestrial civilization that has been struck by a natural disaster : they became sterile and are now unable to perpetuate their species. Therefore, they have chosen several handicapped / disinherited children that would not miss their life on Earth, to become the inheritors of their legacy. And thus they will be taken to a new world, where their handicaps will be healed. Indeed, the special air within the spaceship has even now healed them. Ballard is allowed inside the ship, and sees what Minns says is true. He exits, and the four men are given a choice, stay on Earth or go with the children. They elect to leave with the children for a new world and a new life.

Closing narration (The Inheritors, Part I)

Man looks up at the stars, and dreams his futile dreams. Child of the universe, his toys are ignorance, his games, fantasy. Not even master of his own fate, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers to answer the question: What will happen next?

Opening narration (The Inheritors, Part II)

The Earth, tumbling grain of sand in the darkness of unending space, plays host to a strange and awful guest, unsought, uninvited, possessor of fearsome power, purveyor of dark deed, a relentless traveler on the road to its mysterious goal...

Closing narration (The Inheritors, Part II)

The Inheritors are on their way. In a universe of billions of stars, there are places of love and happiness. On this Earth, in this spot, magic settled for a moment. Wonder touched a few lives, and a few odd pieces fell smoothly into the jigsaw of Creation.

Cast

Robert Duvall – as Adam Ballard
Donald Harron – as Art Harris
Steve Ihnat – as Lt. Minns
Ivan Dixon – as Sgt. James Conover
Dee Pollock – as PFC Francis Hadley
James Frawley – as Pvt. Robert Renaldo
Ted de Corsia – as Randolph E. Branch
Kim Hector – as Johnny Subiron

Part I only

James Shigeta – as AIO Captain Newa
Dabbs Greer – as E. F. Larkin
William Winterside (William Wintersole) – as Prof. Andrew Whitsett
Robert Cinder – as Jessup
Leon Askin – as Shop Superintendent
Sy Prescott – as The Guard
Linda Hutchings – as The Nurse
Robert J. Nelson – as The Surgeon
Yoneo Iguchi – as Soldier (uncredited)

Part II only

Jan Shutan – as Mrs. Subiron
Joanne Stuart – as Miss Steen
Paulle Clark – as Second Nurse
David Brady – as Danny Masters
Suzanne Cupito (Morgan Brittany) – as Minerva Gordon
Jon Cedar – as Grainger (uncredited)
Charles Herbert – as Boy (uncredited)
Michel Petit – as Child (uncredited)
John Harding – as Kid #1 (uncredited)

References

1 2 3 4 Berard, Jeanette M. (2009). Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection. McFarland. p. 244. ISBN 0-7864-3348-5.

External links

"The Inheritors" appreciation by David C. Holcomb
"The Inheritors (The Outer Limits)" at TV.com
"The Inheritors" – Part 2 at TV.com
"The Inheritors" Photobook
IMDB.com "The Inheritors: part 1"
IMDB.com "The Inheritors: part 2"

The Outer Limits episodes

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Season 1	"The Galaxy Being" "The Hundred Days of the Dragon" "The Architects of Fear" "The Man with the Power" "The Sixth Finger" "The Man Who Was Never Born" "O.B.I.T." "The Human Factor" "Corpus Earthling" "Nightmare" "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" "The Borderland" "Tourist Attraction" "The Zanti Misfits" "The Mice" "Controlled Experiment" "Don't Open Till Doomsday" "ZZZZZ" "The Invisibles" "The Bellero Shield" "The Children of Spider County" "Specimen: Unknown" "Second Chance" "Moonstone" "The Mutant" "The Guests" "Fun and Games" "The Special One" "A Feasibility Study" "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" "The Chameleon" "The Forms of Things Unknown"

Season 2	"Soldier" "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" "Behold, Eck!" "Expanding Human" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "Cry of Silence" "The Invisible Enemy" "Wolf 359" "I, Robot" "The Inheritors" "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" "The Duplicate Man" "Counterweight" "The Brain of Colonel Barham" "The Premonition" "The Probe"

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Season 1	"The Sandkings" "Corner of the Eye" "Under the Bed" "Dark Matters" "The Conversion" "Quality of Mercy" "The New Breed" "The Voyage Home" "Caught in the Act" "The Message" "I, Robot" "If These Walls Could Talk" "Birthright" "The Voice of Reason"

Season 2	"Stitch in Time" "Resurrection" "Unnatural Selection" "I Hear You Calling" "Mind Over Matter" "Beyond the Veil" "First Anniversary" "Straight and Narrow" "Trial by Fire" "Worlds Apart" "The Refuge" "Inconstant Moon" "From Within" "The Heist" "Afterlife" "The Deprogrammers" "Paradise" "The Light Brigade" "Falling Star" "Out of Body" "Vanishing Act" "The Sentence"

Season 3	"Bits of Love" "Second Thoughts" "Re-Generation" "Last Supper" "Stream of Consciousness" "Dark Rain" "The Camp" "Heart's Desire" "Tempests" "Awakening" "New Lease" "Double Helix" "Dead Man's Switch" "Music of the Spheres" "The Revelations of Becka Paulson" "Bodies of Evidence" "Feasibility Study" "A Special Edition"

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