Deja Vu (The Outer Limits)
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"Deja Vu" 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...

television show. It first aired on 9 July 1999, during the fifth season.

Introduction

A teleportation
Teleportation
Teleportation is the fictional or imagined process by which matter is instantaneously transferred from one place to another.Teleportation may also refer to:*Quantum teleportation, a method of transmitting quantum data...

 experiment goes wrong, the wormhole it created expands and engulfs the scientists. Suddenly they're back to the day before, but only one man seems to remember what happened.

Opening narration

Plot

Dr. Crest (Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon is an American actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, acting in several of the Happy Madison films, for playing Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds, and providing the voice of the title character, Glenn Martin on Glenn Martin,...

) is stuck in an ever decreasing time loop
Time loop
A time loop or temporal loop is a common plot device in science fiction in which time runs normally for a set period but then skips back like a broken record. When the time loop "resets", the memories of most characters are reset...

 caused by his experiment. Through his iterations he tries to solve the mystery that caused the experiment to go wrong. He believes he has found the problem after discovering an eco-terrorist, Julie (Jennifer Copping), among his workers, but the loop continues.

Finally, he figures out that the one sabotaging the project is none other than his friend Colonel Glade (Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox
Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox is an American character actor, singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Personal life:Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico...

), who tried to modify the teleporter into a bomb to save his career. Dr. Crest is able to remove the bomb alterations and get outside of the teleportation area, while the Colonel stands by the device as it explodes.

The show ends by showing the Colonel stuck in an infinite loop, repeatedly reliving the second he died.

Closing narration

Cast

  • Kevin Nealon
    Kevin Nealon
    Kevin Nealon is an American actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, acting in several of the Happy Madison films, for playing Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds, and providing the voice of the title character, Glenn Martin on Glenn Martin,...

     as Dr. Mark Crest
  • Terri Hawkes
    Terri Hawkes
    Terri Hawkes is a Canadian actress. She first gained fame as a voice actress, her most definitive role being that of Sailor Moon for most of the first season, all of the second season, and all three movies...

     as Dr. Cleo Lazar
  • Jennifer Copping as Julie Alger
  • David Lewis
    David Lewis (actor IV)
    David Lewis is a Canadian actor. He played Kevin Mitchum on the PAX series Hope Island in the 1999 to 2000 television season. He played Walt Lawson in the 1999 film Lake Placid. He also worked in The Butterfly Effect 2. Lewis played Richard Allen on CBS's Harper's Island. His next movie will be...

     as Oakridge
  • Ronny Cox
    Ronny Cox
    Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox is an American character actor, singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Personal life:Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico...

     as Col. Lester Glade
  • Dean Marshall
    Dean Marshall
    Dean Stewart Marshall is a Canadian actor, known for his role as a Sgt. Bates on Stargate Atlantis.Marshall began performing from a young age in a steel band. His family was originally from Trinidad and Tobago. He joined the Canadian Forces as a teenager for a short time...

    as Corporal Hanford
  • Angela Moore as Rutherford

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