Forgotten TV: The Last Completely New Episode of 'The Outer Limits'

 The 7th lowest rated Episode also comes from Season 7.

It's also the last Episode that is not, in some way, a Clip Show.
So, I guess the 2nd to last Episode is one too? 
I'm sure we'll find out soon.

For now, let's look at the Episode known as...

A woman- SNL's Nora Dunn- is just trying to live a normal life.

That all changes when a story about her ends up in a local tabloid.
The story?

She was abducted by Aliens 17 years ago!

They experimented on her and life moved on.

Oh, and these guys are Stock Footage from a Season 1 Episode.
This is also the final Episode to explicitly be about Aliens in the Series.

Her Daughter- Katherine Isabelle?!?- has had a hard time with the whole thing, especially Mom waking up screaming all of the time.

With the story out, there's even more tension.

She's been confiding in her English Teacher and things have generally been improving in the last year.

What could go wrong?

Oh right- the guy is actually one of the Aliens!  He's here to take Isabelle because she is a product of the abduction.

Somehow Mom never pieced one and two together.

His plan ultimately fails when Mom frees the Daughter from the necklace and stabs the guy, making him slowly morph into a Grey...and then a puddle.

A decent bit of melodrama that leads to a decent conclusion.

For starters, Dunn and Isabelle both do really good jobs here.  They feel 'natural' and I believe that they are Mother-Daughter.

The Abduction Scenes are done well, with a different glow (see below), edited into quick shots (to show missing seconds of memory) and lots of implied bad stuff.
Season 7 was apparently the one with no 'bad stuff' like Nudity and implied sex.

Dunn's flashback double is quite convincing too.

The final segment is a bit too rushed for me.  We get the twist, the full reveal, the rejection, the fight and then the death.
I would also love to know how things followed up with them, given that the Teacher is now goop.

Did they move?  I want to know!

Regardless, this isn't a bad Episode per se- just one that is light on the hard sci-fi and heavy on the melodrama.

Next time, we jump back to Season 6.  Will this one be an indictment of GMOs before everyone really knew what they were?  See you then...