"Quality of Mercy" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 16 June 1995 during the rebooted series' first season.
Major John Skokes is taken prisoner during an interstellar war and thrown into a dark cell, where he meets an imprisoned female cadet.
After Skokes is thrown into the cell, he sees his fellow prisoner and, suspicious, questions her about her name, background and unit. Her name is Bree Tristan and s...
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"Quality of Mercy" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 16 June 1995 during the rebooted series' first season.
Major John Skokes is taken prisoner during an interstellar war and thrown into a dark cell, where he meets an imprisoned female cadet.
After Skokes is thrown into the cell, he sees his fellow prisoner and, suspicious, questions her about her name, background and unit. Her name is Bree Tristan and she is a cadet. He spots a strange growth on her arm, and she tells him that the alien jailers have been experimenting by grafting samples of their own skin onto her, seemingly in an effort to make her into one of them.
Skokes asks her about the layout of the jail. She tells him that her previous cell-mate was an instructor who they tortured to death, and that there is no way out because the aliens are more intelligent and a hundred times stronger. Skokes tells her how badly the war is going, the outer colonies have been destroyed and that he...
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