The Hunt (The Outer Limits)

"The Hunt"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 2
Directed by	Mario Azzopardi
Written by	Sam Egan
Production code	64
Original air date	30 January 1998
Guest appearance(s)
Doug Savant as Kel-54 Bob Gunton as Clute Nichols Sarah Strange as Tara Rob White as George Nichols
Episode chronology

"The Hunt" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 23 January 1998, during the fourth season.

Introduction

In near future, the hunting of animals has been banned by environmentalists, and black market hunting of obsolete androids takes its place.

Opening narration

“

Humankind has proven to be unique among lifeforms, distinguished not only by its lofty intelligence, morality and self-awareness, but also by a baser side...it is the only creature that kills for sport.

”

Plot

Bowhunters George Nichols, his son Eric, older brother Clute, and their guide Pete, engage in a ritual hunt of a group of obsolete androids. The prey - mining android Kel, a doctor, and two others - attempt to escape from the hunters during the beginning of the hunt. Clute, eager to provide his brother and nephew with an exciting hunt, secretly plants information allowing the androids to remove their inhibitor chips so that they may fight back instead of merely running away. However, the doctor is killed, leading to the kidnapping of Eric and Pete. The androids (two at that point, including Kel) release Eric, as he had refused to hunt with the other hunters. Pete, however, is revealed to be another android and is kept captive, though he almost seems to prefer going with his fellow androids than staying with the hunters. In the meantime, George accidentally kills his own son, having mistaken the boy for one of the androids. Clute then pursues the androids, killing another one of them. Enraged, Kel (who had up until then refused to have his inhibitor removed) kills Clute. Eventually, Kel and Pete make it to the limits of the forest, meeting a ranger. The ranger explains to the androids that, since they survived an illegal hunt, they are allowed to live freely among humans, something Kel had frequently dreamed of. However, Kel is disgusted and weary from his experience, so he refuses this freedom and reveals how he killed Clute. As a result, Kel is reprogrammed and turned into a guide for another android hunt.

Closing narration

“

As machines grow more human, we must be wary that we do not become...less so.

”

External links

"The Hunt (The Outer Limits)" at TV.com

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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