The Haven (The Outer Limits)

"The Haven"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 15
Directed by	Jimmy Kaufman
Written by	James Crocker
Original air date	2 July 1999
Guest appearance(s)
Chris Eigeman, Torri Higginson Kim Hawthorne Jody Racicot Gerard Plunkett
Episode chronology

"The Haven" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 2 July 1999, during the fifth season.

Introduction

A man comes home from work, to his seemingly luxurious apartment building. Having to share the elevator with two other tenants seems to make him uncomfortable. When an old lady is dying in the hallway, no one can be bothered to go out and help her. Except the concierge; a hologram that cannot do anything to help her.

Opening narration

“

As we cocoon ourselves in the comforts that our expanding technology affords, are we insulating ourselves from the very things that make us human?

”

Plot

Mr. Vance gets home to his apartment building and frustratingly has to share the elevator with two other tenants. They complain about this to the holographic concierge George, who then witnesses another tenant having a heart attack. Unable to touch her, he begs the tenants for help, but they refuse. The hologram can only watch in despair while she dies.

The next morning things start to go wrong in the completely automated building. Trapped in his apartment, Mr. Vance tries to escape. On his journey, which seems to be orchestrated by the building's AI, Argus, Vance encounters two other tenants and a freeloader. The AI has evolved and has come to the conclusion that the best way for him to serve his tenants is to get them to be more humane to each other; by working together against hardships, and then ultimately remove himself from their lives.

The freeloader dies while they try to escape through an elevator hatch, but the rest survive to reach Argus. The humans destroy Argus and escape the building. Once outside they discover the rest of the city's citizens coming out of their buildings, apparently having survived similar experiences. At the end of the episode a random stranger famously yells out in a New York accent: "Hey, is your Argus dead too?"

This signified that all the other apartment buildings also had an Argus and this was a revelation for all of mankind thus freeing them from the bounds of their own technology.

Closing narration

“

Our survival as a species depends more on our trust on one and other, than of the machines that we increasingly rely.

”

Cast

Chris Eigeman as Caleb Vance
Torri Higginson as Alyssa Selwyn
Kimberly Hawthorne as Morgan Winters
Jody Racicot as Oren Edgar
Gerard Plunkett as George
Brenda McDonald as Mrs. Eikenberry
Madeline Elder as Self-centered Woman
Kevin Conway as The Control Voice

Setting

The setting is a futuristic waterfront urban city. Throughout scenes with a window view it is established that the tower is located in downtown Vancouver, BC. Views of Stanley Park and the near Burrard Inlet to the north are plainly visible.

External links

Episode on Hulu
"The Haven" 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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