The Gun (The Outer Limits)

"The Gun"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 109
Directed by	Jeff Woolnough
Written by	Sam Egan
Original air date	28 January 2000
Guest appearance(s)
Stacy Keach Nancy Sorel John de Lancie Christian Bocher Eric Schneider Devin Douglas Drewitz
Episode chronology

"The Gun" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 28 January 2000, during the sixth season.

Introduction

A man is looking for a gun and is offered one by a man that does not question his motives. When the gun's first used it fuses itself with its owner.

Opening narration

“

From muskets to six-guns to assault weapons, the pages of our history run red with blood. But which came first, the violent impulse or the weapon which answers its call?

”

Plot

Getting out of prison after his serving years for spousal abuse, Matthew Logan first stops at a gunshow and buys a strange handgun from a mysterious stranger named Donald Finley.

Matthew uses the gun to shoot to death his wife, Sandra. But when he pulls the trigger, the weapon instantly and painfully attaches itself to his hand and arm, transforming his body into a killing machine...

Sandra's father, Cord, armed with one of the guns, and Matthew have a show-down. Cord wins, seriously wounding Matthew, but when his daughter and grandson arrive, he can't bring himself to finish Matthew off and the mutation he's experiencing reverses and he is able to drop the gun. Unwilling to go back to prison, Matthew shoots himself through the heart, killing himself. As Finlay takes the guns and leaves, Cord chases him down, demanding an explanation: Finlay reveals that he is an alien who is looking for soldiers for a war his species is fighting. Some species has their natural revulsion against killing override the mutation, but Matthew was perfect for him. While Cord was a failure, he's sure there's more people out there like Matthew for him to use and he teleports away. Finlay is later seen offering a gun to another person.

Closing narration

“

The path to our own destruction may lie less in the weapons we conceive, than the violence in our hearts.

”

Cast

Stacy Keach as Cord van Owen
Nancy Sorel as Dana van Owen
Christian Bocher as Matthew Logan
Eric Schneider
Devin Douglas Drewitz as Ty Logan
Stephen Dimopoulos
John de Lancie as Donald Finley
Bob Dawson as Sheriff Clay
Linnea Sharples as Sandra Logan
Brock Johnson as Nate Jackson
Greg Anderson as Dealer
Christina Jastrzembska as Karen Miller
Nels Lennarson as Deputy
Marcel Maillard as Pastor Wickham

External links

Episode on Hulu
"The Gun" at the Internet Movie Database

The Outer Limits episodes

1963 series
(episodes)

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"

1995 series
(episodes)

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"

Season 4	"Criminal Nature" "The Hunt" "Hearts and Minds" "In Another Life" "In the Zone" "Relativity Theory" "Josh" "Rite of Passage" "Glyphic" "Identity Crisis" "The Vaccine" "Fear Itself" "The Joining" "To Tell the Truth" "Mary 25" "Final Exam" "Lithia" "Monster" "Sarcophagus" "Nightmare" "Promised Land" "Balance of Nature" "The Origin of Species" "Phobos Rising" "Black Box" "In Our Own Image"

Season 5	"Alien Radio" "Donor" "Small Friends" "The Grell" "The Other Side" "Joyride" "The Human Operators" "Blank Slate" "What Will The Neighbors Think" "The Shroud" "Ripper" "Tribunal" "Summit" "Descent" "The Haven" "Deja Vu" "The Inheritors" "Essence of Life" "Stranded" "Fathers and Sons" "Star Crossed" "Better Luck Next Time"

Season 6	"Judgment Day" "The Gun" "Skin Deep" "Manifest Destiny" "Breaking Point" "The Beholder" "Seeds of Destruction" "Simon Says" "Stasis" "Down to Earth" "Glitch" "Decompression" "Abaddon" "The Grid" "Gettysburg" "Nest" "Final Appeal"

Season 7	"Family Values" "Patient Zero" "A New Life" "The Surrogate" "The Vessel" "Mona Lisa" "Replica" "Think Like a Dinosaur" "Worlds Within" "In the Blood" "Flower Child" "Abduction" "Lion's Den" "The Tipping Point" "The Human Factor" "Human Trials"

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