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  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Movie Type: Psychological Sci-Fi, Anthology Series
  • Director: Mike Rohl
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Country: US

Plot

Before his death, inventor Joe Walker had created a race of androids, designed to save human beings from fires and other disasters. Walker also planted a bug in each android to prevent the militaristic Dr. Edward Normandy (Victor Garber) from reprogramming the machines to be used as warriors. What does all this technological intrigue have to do with Tom Seymour (Tate Donovan), an android who is happily married to a human named Wendy (Gabrielle Miller) -- and who has recently been suffering horrible dreams involving a raging fire and a helpless baby? "Glitch" originally aired on May 5, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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"Glitch"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 122
Written by Michael Burman, Ron Greenstein
Directed by Mike Rohl
Production no. ?
Original airdate May 5, 2000
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"Glitch" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on May 5 of 2000, during the sixth season.

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Opening Narration

“ Humanity defines itself by the capacity to think and feel. But what happens when a machine attains the same abilities? ”

Plot

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories about being stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't real and neither is Tom. He's an android and the "memories" are bugs placed in his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself. Wendy is revealed to be another android secretly developed based on his wife. By creating Tom and Wendy, the scientist and his wife could live forever.

Closing Narration

“ If we choose to give birth to a thinking machine, we must be prepared for the day when our progeny will demand independence. ”

External links


Season 6 of The Outer Limits (1995-2002)

Judgment Day • The Gun • Skin Deep • Manifest Destiny • Breaking Point • The Beholder • Seeds of Destruction • Simon Says • Stasis • Down to Earth • Inner Child • Glitch • Decompression • Abaddon • The Grid • Revival • Gettysburg • Something About Harry • Zig Zag • Nest • Final Appeal, Part 1 • Final Appeal, Part 2

List of The Outer Limits episodes: Original Series (1963-1965) • The New Series (1995-2002)

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