"Second Soul" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 14 April 1995 during the first season.
A dying race of aliens has come to Earth to stop its own extinction... by reanimating human corpses. But a government doctor senses that there may be more to the aliens' plans than mere survival!
The N'Tal do not have bodies of their own, instead they require hosts to live — but they have the technology to reanimate, c...
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"Second Soul" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 14 April 1995 during the first season.
A dying race of aliens has come to Earth to stop its own extinction... by reanimating human corpses. But a government doctor senses that there may be more to the aliens' plans than mere survival!
The N'Tal do not have bodies of their own, instead they require hosts to live — but they have the technology to reanimate, cure and occupy the bodies of the recently dead.
Dr. Michael Alders (Mykelti Williamson), an oncologist, is put in charge of the N'Tal relocation project: the collection and use of human dead that are not too badly injured and therefore suitable for use as N'Tal hosts. Alders does not trust the N'Tal and considers them parasites. Despite his moral qualms over the project, Alders realizes how beneficial the N'Tal technology can be for helping the living.
However, the project suffers from the logistical difficulties: There are approximately two...
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