The Outer Limits

Beck?

How did you get in here?

Are you Robert Beck?

Who wants to know?

Are you Robert Beck?

Yeah,

Yeah, I'm Beck,

On September 13, 1994...

What is this?

You were executed

for the willful murder of 8 women,

I am here to carry out

that just and legal sentence,

I don't understand,

Only one of us has to,

Just wait a minute, Wait,

There is nothing wrong with your television,

Do not attempt to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you with a thousand channels

or expand one single image to crystal clarity...

And beyond,

We can shape your vision to anything

our imagination can conceive,

For the next hour, we will control

all that you see and hear,

You are about to experience the awe and mystery

which reaches from the deepest inner mind to...

We all struggle to define ourselves,

to live our lives with some sense of balance...

With one foot in the past

and the other reaching toward an uncertain future,

FBI, Pratt,

Agent Pratt,

Duncan Lawrence from The Gazette,

The Gazette again, Really?

Look, anything I have to say about Horowitz

or Allison or any of it,

I said it at the trial,

I just wondered if we could meet again and...

I am so... what part of no don't you understand?

Vultures starting to circle?

Yeah, They just keep searching

for any sordid details about Allison

and what that bastard did to her,

I'll just be glad

when this whole thing is over,

Well, here's some new business for you,

Another picture for the gallery,

Who's this one?

Name's Robert Beck,

He was killed about 30 years ago,

Same M, O, Perfect ballistics match,

How many does that make now?

17,

All killed with the same gun,

There could be 50 or 100,

Don't even think that,

We just got the first ballistics report

6 months ago, Corey,

These are all old cases,

They're spread out all over the country,

I mean, what have we got?

The same gun, the same killer,

and maybe one a year since 1956,

Mr, 9 millimeter, who are you?

What do you want?

Well, it's not sex or revenge,

It's not racial- or profit-oriented

and it's not political, See, that's the thing...

It doesn't make any sense,

but the cases keep piling up,

What does a two-bit sugar pimp have in common

with a construction worker, a real estate broker,

a minister... it just doesn't make any sense,

Leave it for a while,

No, you can't, 'cause...

Well, if you don't stop picking at it,

it'll never heal,

Yeah,

I tell you what, I had, um,

I had an idea,

There's a Kurosawa festival on

down at the ridge, If you wanted,

we could go see The Seven Samurai,

yeah, Corey, I can't tonight, sorry,

Warren the magnificent

granting an audience tonight?

Yes, he is,

Well, in that case,

I will be sure to save you a seat,

and that way when he stands you up yet again,

you'll know where to find me,

You know, I just don't get it,

You know, how is Warren better than, say,

the average guy?

'cause I don't know why you put up with him,

You've been speaking to my mother again,

haven't you?

All right, you go stalk your great rogue male,

I'll stick around here

and see if I can coax a few more files

out of Washington,

OK, Don't you work too late, Corey,

Yeah, Right,

Warren, something's burning,

You got that right, babe,

Man cannot live by bed alone,

Depends on the man,

You know, I had a bad day on patrol,

One felony arrest,

chased 2 perps up a fire escape,

You poor baby,

You're all stressed out from the bureau,

I just thought we could soothe each other's nerves a little,

That's more like it,

Grand central station,

I have to get that one,

That's the office line, I have to,

Hello?

Jay, we got something,

Hi, Corey, What's up?

Brian's faxing you a file right now,

It looks like we got a lead on Mr, 9 millimeter,

Corey, can I call you back later?

I'm not interrupting anything, am I?

Hey, what is this?

Theresa Givens,

Her prints match those taken from a lamp

in Robert Beck's apartment 30 years ago,

Why so long to match it?

Well, the file was only declassified last month,

What was she doing For the N, S, A,?

Hell, you know those guys, They're not talking,

All I learned is that she left them about 6 months ago,

Other than that, we were lucky to get the prints,

I've... I've never ever heard of her,

Well, we handled a bomb scare for her a while back,

Some anti-abortion nut group,

Anyway, after she split with the N, S, A,

She went to the University,

She lectures there tomorrow,

if you want to check her out,

OK, ho... hold on a second,

How old is she?

Ha ha, Wondered when that would click,

When Robert Beck was killed in Florida,

Theresa Givens was in Oregon sucking on a Popsicle,

in kindergarten,

Corey, this doesn't make any sense,

I'll say,

Well, it's more than we had yesterday,

but, still, it... You know,

it can't be her print, but then what the hell is it?

Look, I don't know,

Maybe somebody gave us the wrong prints,

or maybe somebody switched theirs

with those in the N, S, A,

Somebody's priorities are out of whack,

Look, you know what, Corey?

This is... This is really good,

but, um, I've got company,

so why don't we jump on this

first thing in the morning, OK?

Sure, All right,

Corey?-

Good work, Yeah,

Don't mention it, Clues "r" us,

You guys have just one hell of an evening,

Any contention...

That time qua time exists outside of our perceptions

is antiquated,

Heisenberg, among others,

destroyed the model of a passive universe

which all humanity observes from a distance,

The identification of this portion of the brain,

which I call the tempor discernis,

proved to be the crucial breakthrough

in my research,

Any questions?

Ms, Givens, in your last paper

you stated that the tempor discernis

is one of the last cortical structures to form,

Yes, at 7 months,

Before the seventh month,

the fetus lives in a timeless state

and what we might call the pre-temporal lobe

has yet to function,

This is crap!

You're killing babies just to wring more funding

out of this Frankenstein nonsense?

Please, please,

I promise you that no fetus

has ever been aborted

for the sake of this project,

The University hospital...

Screw the University hospital!

Dr, Givens,