In Our Own Image

"In Our Own Image" is the 26th episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 18 December 1998, as the fourth season finale. A new advanced android begins to behave erratically. It escapes from the corporation that created it and takes a hostage. The Android "Mac 27" is seen to kill one of its handlers and injure another, then kill a guard as it makes its escape from Innobotics, the corporation that created it. Mac car-jacks Celia... more

"In Our Own Image" is the 26th episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 18 December 1998, as the fourth season finale. A new advanced android begins to behave erratically. It escapes from the corporation that created it and takes a hostage. The Android "Mac 27" is seen to kill one of its handlers and injure another, then kill a guard as it makes its escape from Innobotics, the corporation that created it. Mac car-jacks Celia, an apparently random person just pulling into the facility parking lot. He takes her to a remote abandoned warehouse, where he forces her to repair the damage he sustained in his escape. Using a device that allows Mac to transmit images directly to Celia's optic nerve, he shows her how to fix his systems, but also shows some of his "memories" — archives of past experiments with robots and androids. These are all pulled from previous episodes that featured robots, androids, or holograms, with most clips taken out of the context of the... less