I do this for personal reasons because the theme of this show was about a scientist who had developed the means to travel though time, and she felt a great need to set some things straight, seeking justice by tracking down serial killers before they took their first victims, and also, to get revenge for the time when she was abducted, held captive for 5 days, beaten and raped when she was a teenager.
Also, I would greatly appreciate it if my topic gets a few responses, thank you all in advance.
And, I also included some You Tube Videos of the episode.
Here is what this episode was all about.
Introduction:
FBI agent Jamie Pratt investigates a series of murders spanning a period of forty years â?? all committed with the same gun.
Opening narration:
"We all struggle to define ourselves; to live our lives with some sense of balance, with one foot in the past, and the other reaching... for an uncertain future."
Closing narration:
"Our yesterdays are like a string of pearls -- unbroken -- unchanging. But if we could change our past, would that also change who we are?"
Here are some more details of what this episode is all about.
The Outer Limits: A Stitch in Time Synopsis
Season two of the "new" Outer Limits was launched on January 14, 1996, with the episode titled "A Stitch in Time." Michelle Forbes plays FBI agent Jamie Pratt, who is trying to connect the dots in a murder case spanning half a century. All 17 victims were killed by the same weapon -- which in some instances hadn't even been invented at the time of the killings. The trail leads to demented researcher Theresa Givens (Amanda Plummer), who is determined to stamp out all of the world's evil by murdering criminals before they can ever commit their first crime -- a mission that requires a unique and potentially dangerous form of time travel.
Here is some more.
STITCH IN TIME
FBI agent Jamie Pratt has investigated some pretty strange cases in her time but this one may be the strangest of all. During the last fifty years, seventeen men throughout the country were all murdered with the same gun. This gun is traced to Dr. Theresa Givens, a scientist who recently left a top-secret government agency. This discovery deepens the mystery because Givens was only five years old at the time of the first murder. The gun itself hadn't even been made. While investigating further, Pratt discovers a secret that lies behind the locked door in Dr. Givens' office and learns first-hand of the temptations and dangers of undoing the evils of the past.
And finally, some more detailed information.
OK, here is what needs to be made very clear . . .Stitch in Time
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Stitch in Time" is an episode of The Outer Limits. It first aired on 14 January 1996, and was the first episode of the second season.
Introduction
FBI agent Jamie Pratt investigates a series of murders spanning a period of forty years â?? all committed with the same gun.
Opening narration
We all struggle to define ourselves; to live our lives with some sense of balance, with one foot in the past, and the other reaching... for an uncertain future.
Plot
The gun is traced to Dr. Theresa Givens, a former employee at a top-secret government project. Mysteriously, Givens was only five years old at the time of the first murder, and the gun hadn't even been manufactured.
As it turns out, Dr. Givens has used a property of developing fetal human brains to create a time machine and has been traveling back through time to kill condemned serial killers before they strike, all to prepare herself (mentally) for one final journey to stop the man who had kidnapped and raped her for five days when she was a teenager; the event having left her mentally scarred all her life.
Another angle of the episode is the rapidly deteriorating physical health of Dr. Givens. Already mentally scarred from the start from the trauma of her youth, Dr. Givens's physical health declines through the episode. FBI agent Jamie Pratt finally uncovers the truth and Givens eventually discloses to Agent Pratt that an unfortunate side-effect of altering time for the time traveler is the sudden merging of two completely different time streams into the brain at once upon return which, over time, has a visible physical impact (causing nosebleeds) and presumably will become fatal given enough occurrences.
Dr. Givens herself explains at the end that she is finally making the journey to change her past for fear that she will not survive much longer, but Pratt is pulled back in time with Dr. Givens. She assists in stopping the kidnapping and rescues the young Theresa, but the elder Dr. Givens is fatally wounded and dies. Agent Pratt returns to a world where Dr. Givens never experienced the traumatic incident of Theresa of the previous time line. But without that trauma, Dr. Givens was never motivated to travel back through time and preemptively murder known serial killers, one of whom eventually murdered a close friend of Agent Pratt (at the beginning of the episode this friend was dead, then alive later in the episode thanks to a temporal excursion by Dr. Givens, now dead again).
In the end, Agent Pratt tracks down the decidedly healthier-looking Dr. Theresa Givens in the new time line, who -- despite lacking the motivation of preventing a traumatic event of her past -- has also built a time machine (which she knew was possible because, as a 15 year-old girl, she had seen Agent Pratt use one to return to her normal time).
The episode closes with Agent Pratt traveling back to 1980 and shooting the serial killer who would murder her best friend in the future.
Closing narration
Our yesterdays are like a string of pearls -- unbroken -- unchanging. But if we could change our past, would that also change who we are?
It says that . . . . .
. . . Dr. Givens has used a property of developing fetal human brains to create a time machine and has been traveling back through time . . .
During the episode, in a scene where Dr Givens was giving a lecture to university students, some anti-abortion protesters disrupted the lecture, and she tried to assure the protesters that no aborted fetuses were use to obtain fetal brain tissue, so we can assume that the brain tissue came from fetuses that had naturally miscarried, or perhaps small amounts, like a few cells, can be obtained without harming a developing fetus.
I just thought I should make that clear.
Anyway . . . . .
What happens to the time traveler is that, when she comes back to the present, she has new memories of the altered time line while still retaining her memories of the original time line, and after taking several trips back and forth through time, she added more and more new memories of more and more altered time lines, while still retaining the original memories of each time line before being altered by her many excursions through time.
Naturally this exacted a toll on her both physically and mentally, and she knew that she would not be able to survive too many more time trips. She felt the need to take one last trip, to go back to just before she was raped when she as a teenager to kill her assailant.
I love this episode.
So, I have downloaded 5 You Tube video segments of this particular episode, because I have a personal vested interest in saving these videos to my computer.
The reason why I say I have a personal vested interest is, because . . . as I had mentioned before a few times on these forums . . . when I was 17, I was once raped and beaten by an older man, and if I could go back in time before this had occurred, and change what had happened, to avoid getting into the situation in the first place, I feel that my life would be much better than it is now, because even after all these years, I still have to live with the memories. It never goes away.
In the meantime . . . . . here are some links to the 5 You Tube videos.
Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (1of5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFs5E8avEu8
Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (2of5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoCUYGB8G4&NR=1
Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (3of5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6e7m6ZNN_c&NR=1
Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (4of5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQoaLIO7ODI&NR=1
Outer Limits - A Stitch in Time (5of5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOlQsI49mos&NR=1
I hope you all take the time to watch this episode.
Yes, it's the complete episode, but it's broken up into 5 segments, but then, the actual program on TV was also broken up into segments for commercial breaks.
Yeah, if I could travel back in time, I would kill Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and many others before they took their first victims.
Who knows, but perhaps some child who was murdered by John Wayne Gacy, had he lived, he might have grown up to become a scientist who would discover a cure for cancer or diabetes. Who knows what all those kids might have been able to do if they had lived. Who knows. We might have had a moon colony or even a Mars colony by now.
Every time an innocent child is destroyed, our hopes for the future are destroyed.
So, If I could build a time machine, and go back in time, and kill these low-life scum-bag pedophiles who murder children, I would do it. I would be the serial killer of serial killers, or a serial killer . . . killer!
That's like being an anti-missile, missile.
Yes, I would gladly kill all these low-life scums over a period of 50 years or so, no make that 60 or 70 years, and all with the same gun! A gun that was made this year in 2009, and I would even go back to times before I was even born to kill some low-life killer of children before he took his first victim, and I would deliberately leave my finger-prints at the scene of the shooting. Then the FBI would have a jolly good time trying to figure out how my finger-prints showed up at the scene of a crime that occurred before I was born. Now, that'll drive 'em nuts!!!
I would do it in a New York minute, even if it meant going to the electric chair.
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
) Many movies and TV programs are just action shows, but this episode has both violent action and moral content. The prologue is wonderfully bizarre. The acting is great, and the entire show is rather haunting. Different themes that are touched upon include justice, grief, child abuse, the value of friendship, life resulting from death, and possibilities. While quite entertaining and suspenseful, "A Stitch in Time" is also quite deep, and makes the viewer think. Believe me, you'll not forget this show. This single Outer Limits episode certainly deserves to be mentioned in a topic all to itself. This truly is TV at its finest. Rod Serling would be impressed by this show.