The Outer Limits

Nicole Eggert as Sarah Burnham

in episode: "Revival"

Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his
faith when his wife died, is the front man, the one who lays his hands on the deaf and lame. But Sarah is the key to
act, working backstage and communicating with Ezra through a tiny earphone about the plants she's scattered
through the audience. It's all going well until one day a strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra near
the end of a revival meeting. Luke is not a plant, but when Ezra lays his hands on him, he not only rises from his
wheelchair, but he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and his mother Serena
approach Ezra with a proposition. If Ezra will teach Luke the secret of the revival circuit, Luke will continue to work
his mysterious magic at Ezra's side. But Luke and Serena are no ordinary true believers. They are aliens who can
devour a human being in seconds and who have come to colonize Earth using religion as a tool. Soon, the police are
asking Ezra about the connection between his revival show and the disappearance of a number of young women.
Meanwhile, Luke's gifts have caught the attention of Reverend Sam Garland, the head of the Evangelical Television
Network, who offers Ezra and Luke an hour slot. As he grows more suspicious - and a little jealous - of his protégé,
Ezra tries to shut him down. But can the faith of an unbeliever and the wiles of a religious con-man triumph against
the power of an extraterrestrial being?

Pictures Courtesy of Alberto

Since: November 19, 2001
Updated: November 20, 2007