Forgotten TV: The Outer Limits - 'Free Spirit'

 We've finally reached Lucky #10 on the list.

This time, we get the tale of an experiment gone wrong and revenge served very cold.

This is 'Free Spirit'

I couldn't find a Title Card.  Sorry.

A Science Experiment is taking place involving near comatose people being allowed to have their spirits leave their bodies.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Funding got caught.  DOGE strikes again!

They are told to stop the experiments and to turn off life support for the Subjects...only one of them was successfully projecting himself when his body died.

He watched it pass away and...left...

4 years later, a Mental Asylum (with only one Establishing Shot) is facing down Day 5 of a blizzard and they are locked in.

It turns out that 2 of the Experimenters were now working there, including Dina 'Birds of Prey' Meyer.

Things get worse when an unexplained spree killer shows up, says something strange and dies!

She starts seeing and hearing weird things, including literal words appearing on the wall (and then vanishing).

Even the presence of Colin 'Eureka' Ferguson can make her relax.

As people act sporadically strange and they lose power, her Boss- who was also an Experimenter- tells her to chill the hell out.

Things get so bad that even the Guard obsessed with voodoo can help.
This is kind of a weird story, eh?

Meyer finds all but Ferguson did and then he reveals that he's controlled by the Free Spirit, the guy who they thought was dead.
He'd been killing the others- hence the spree killing earlier- and now she's next.

The other shoe drops when he reveals that he possessed HER to kill the others and now she will rot in jail while he watches on.

The (bitter) End.

A strong(ish) Episode with a pretty dark Ending.

I guess I've been lucky to *mostly* get the good Endings so far in my journey.  Even the dark ones have a tinge of hope or happiness.

Not this one.  Punished until death.  Yikes.

This one reminds me a bit of Fallen, what with an evil person possessing bodies temporarily to ultimate get revenge.  
Is it a coincidence?  Maybe.

This one is the only Episode that was Written by Danny McBride. 
No, not that one.  The guy who co-Wrote Underworld.

As a one-off that feels like a riff on an EC Comics Story, I enjoyed it.  They definitely cut some corners- like the constant reuse of the Establishing Shot- and the rushed Ending.

Even so, it's definitely better than a few Episodes I've covered.  Now, if you'll excuse me, it's bath time...

Next time, let me turn this Review Series on its head by covering the Top Ten Highest Rated Episodes.  First up, Season 2 began, it seems, with the best Episode ever!