The Hunt

"The Hunt" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 23 January 1998 during the fourth season. In near future, the hunting of animals has been banned by environmentalists, and black market hunting of obsolete androids takes its place. A group of obsolete androids (a doctor, a miner, and two others) attempt to escape from the hunters during the beginning of the hunt. They find a way to remove their inhibitors (ch... more

"The Hunt" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on 23 January 1998 during the fourth season. In near future, the hunting of animals has been banned by environmentalists, and black market hunting of obsolete androids takes its place. A group of obsolete androids (a doctor, a miner, and two others) attempt to escape from the hunters during the beginning of the hunt. They find a way to remove their inhibitors (chips that keep them from confronting and/or attacking the humans), allowing them to set traps instead of merely running away. However, the doctor is killed, leading to the kidnapping of one of the hunter's son and their guide. The androids (two at that point, including the miner) release the son, as he had refused to hunt with the other hunters. The guide, however, is revealed to be another android and is kept captive, though the guide almost seems to prefer going with them than staying with the hunters. In the meantime, the hunter's son is... less