Better Luck Next Time

"Better Luck Next Time" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 20 August 1999, during the fifth season. Two men are fighting in a warehouse. One has a gun and they both struggle for it. During the struggle they mention various connections to earlier struggles between them. One of the men is finally able to get the gun, declaring himself the winner and then promptly shoots himself. While dying a blue energy being come... more

"Better Luck Next Time" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 20 August 1999, during the fifth season. Two men are fighting in a warehouse. One has a gun and they both struggle for it. During the struggle they mention various connections to earlier struggles between them. One of the men is finally able to get the gun, declaring himself the winner and then promptly shoots himself. While dying a blue energy being comes out of his chest. Before the surviving man can escape, the police show up and arrest him. Partner Detectives Terri and Daniels investigate the incident at the warehouse. When attempting to interrogate the man they arrested, he insists on speaking only to Terri, in private. He then reveals that he is an alien life form, capable of inhabiting human bodies, hunting another life form similar to himself, but a criminal. To prove this rather outlandish claim, he mesmerizes Terri by looking into her eyes, showing her vivid scenes that he claims are... less