Black Box (The Outer Limits)
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"Black Box" is an episode of The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...

. It was first broadcast on December 11, 1998, during the fourth season.

Synopsis

A missing package contains powerful secrets, and everyone wants a piece of the action. A war vet (Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman
Ronald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...

) from a covert branch of the military has horrifying flashbacks that begin to affect his daily life.

Opening narration

Plot

Injured and shell-shocked in an ill-fated mission, Lt. Col. Brandon Grace returns to civilian life only to face a new set of battles. Estranged from his daughter, overwhelmed by his work, Brandon is haunted by horrifying flashbacks of his final mission — images that bleed over into his current reality, leaving him paralyzed with fear.

He believes he is being stalked by a mysterious Commando from his former tactical assault squad — the Aries Group, a secret branch of the military brought together for special assignments. Jennifer, a potential new client, always seems to be present during the assaults by the Commando, first as a silent and hidden observer then as a confidante. But, when the anonymous Commando kills his ex-wife, Grace's paranoid
Paranoia
Paranoia [] is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself...

 hallucination
Hallucination
A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid,...

s become his terrifying reality, and he becomes certain that he is next.

Jennifer pushes Brandon to dig into his memory, to find the reasons for the traumatic visions, and the identity of the mysterious soldier. But, Brandon is more interested in gaining his daughter's forgiveness — before it's too late.

Closing narration

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