The Outer Limits: Promised Land (1998)
Season 4, Episode 21
8/10
Sometimes Lessons Are Learned Slowly
5 June 2014
This is a sequel to a previous episode. A group of earth people have escaped bondage. They were held by robot overlords, even though the war ended long ago. Now they forage for what food they can, but the aliens contaminated the food supply. They are desperate. One loose cannon eats some of the food and most of the others follow. They are soon dying. A small group goes out find what they can. They held fast to not eating the forbidden fruit (this thing is full of Biblical images, even the names they take).

We are also shown another group of characters. They are aliens who are left from the war. They have learned hydroponics and other growing methods and continue to tend these things. There is a grandfather, a mother, and two sons. One day the younger son, who is a curious guy, comes upon the earth people. He is chased back to his house and it is obvious that one group has what the other want. The aliens are armed but the earth people are enterprising and desperate. Soon they begin to hit and run, stealing the vegetables the aliens are growing. The aliens have set up booby traps and one of the earthlings is impaled. It isn't long before an actual war takes place between them, even though they have both preached against it. It is survival now. What happens is quite interesting and hopeful.
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