Outer Limits: The Sentence

"The Sentence" is the twenty-second episode of season two of the 1990s iteration of the science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits, and the forty-fourth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Joseph L. Scanlan with a script written by Melissa Rosenberg. It first aired on Showtime on August 4th, 1996.

Notes & Trivia

 * This is the final episode of season two.


 * Executive producer Richard Barton Lewis is credited as Richard B. Lewis in this episode.


 * Producer Brent-Karl Clackson is credited as Brent Karl Clackson in this episode.


 * Actor Doron Bell is credited as Doron Bell, Jr. in this episode.


 * Actor Douglas Stewart is credited as J. Douglas Stewart in this episode.


 * Actor Dave Ward is credited as Dave "Squatch" Ward in this episode.


 * This is the only episode of The Outer Limits with Attila Szalay as the director of photography.


 * This episode deals with virtual reality technology.

Quotes

 * Control Voice: Crime and punishment... an age-old dilemma. Man has long sought a solution to societies ills. But at what point does the punishment itself... become a crime?

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 * Control Voice: Sometimes it is an easy thing for a man to cry out for retribution until he himself has walked in the footsteps... of those suffering the penalty.