History Recap / TheOuterLimits1995S3E4LastSupper

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Immortal Jade lifts her shirt to show Frank her birthmark. Unfortunately, her boyfriend (Frank's son) and his wife walk in on them and take it the wrong way.

In a flashback, Frank was a Vietnam veteran who came home from the war traumatized. He became estranged from Carol and eventually got a job as a security guard for a military lab. Inside the lab was a woman who was strapped to a table and repeatedly cut open and screaming in pain. Horrified, he tried to rescue her. The lead scientist, Dr. Lawrence Sinclair, intercepted their escape attempt and claimed the woman isn't human, and their research on her will achieve miracles. Frank declared him a madman and fought him. Sinclair accidentally shot an oxygen tank that blew up the building. Frank and the woman barely escaped and assumed everyone else was killed. The woman introduced herself as Laura. While on the run, the two shared a romantic and sexual relationship. Eventually, the two went their separate ways, then Frank reconciled with Carol and had Danny.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Laura/Jade doesn't age, is immune to all diseases and poisons, and also has an incredible HealingFactor. She grows tired of the endless cycle of having to leave her lovers behind. When her boyfriend learns her secret, he's repulsed, until his father (one of her past lovers) lectures him on how she is a good person who deserves happiness, so stay and love her as long as possible.

* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Laura/Jade, an immortal woman, finds this out the hard way when she's discovered by the US government and experimented on. Thankfully, she's rescued by a military guard who can't stand to see it happen, but the scientist who conducted the experiment finds out years later she's still alive and wants to finish his work as he's convinced her blood will make him immortal too...

* SuperhumanTransfusion: Dr. Sinclair is pursuing Laura/Jade so he can collect her unique blood and inject it into himself to both heal his own wounds and reverse his aging. He does manage to get hold of it but miscalculates the stuff's potency, eventually shriveling up into a pool of cells.

* MadScientist: Dr. Lawrence Sinclair is pursuing Laura/Jane, who he previously tortured as part of a secret military experiment, to obtain more blood from her, believing it can make him immortal.

* SurpriseIncest: Frank worries that Laura is his daughter, since he had sex with Jade, who he's sure has to be her mother due to their resemblance, around the time she would have been conceived. She's in a relationship with his son, so he's afraid the trope is in play. However, it turns out that she and Jade [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld are the same woman]].

* SurpriseIncest: Frank worries that Laura is his daughter, since he had a relationship with Jade, who he thinks has to be her mother due to their resemblance, around the time she would have been conceived. She's in a relationship with his son, so he's afraid the trope is in play. However, it turns out that she and Jade [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld are the same woman]].

* KarmicDeath: A MadScientist tortures immortal woman Laura/Jade while trying to figure out the secret to her immortality and eternal youth. Eventually, [[ProfessorGuineaPig he injects himself with a syringe of her blood]]. It makes him younger... and younger... and younger until he's reduced to a puddle of raw cells.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Laura/Jade is an immortal woman who actually stopped ageing at twenty. She explains that she was the last survivor of the Black Death sweeping through her village as a late teenager when she found out that she had a HealingFactor.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Laura/Jade is an immortal woman who actually stopped ageing at twenty. She explains that she was the last survivor of the Black Death sweeping through her village as a late teenager when she found out that she had a Healing Factor.

* HealingFactor: An immortal woman who goes by the names "Laura" and "Jade" reveals that she was actually born in medieval Spain before her village was ravaged by the Black Death. She was the only one to survive, but hasn't aged or gotten sick since, and all her wounds recover soon enough. A government scientist takes samples of her blood to replicate the effect, [[spoiler:but vastly underestimates its potency when he injects himself with it and de-ages into a puddle of cells.]]

* GreenEyes: The immortal Laura/Jade's eyes are shown to be a very striking [[MeaningfulName jade-green]] to signify that there's something unnatural about her.

* FlashbackEffects: The flashbacks are shown in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]].

* TheBlackDeath: Jade discovered that she was immortal at 20 years old when everyone else in her village in Spain died of the Black Death and she survived.

-->'''The Control Voice:''' Before we allow ourselves to be consumed by our regrets, we should remember the mistakes we make in life are not so important as the lessons we draw from them.

After Frank draws the blood, Sinclair grabs it and injects it into himself with hesitation. His body is wracked with convulsions. Frank knocks his gun away, but Sinclair says he is too late as he reverts to a young man. He laughs and says he is invincible, but then his body continues to get younger, until he's reduced to a puddle of raw cells. Frank unties everyone. Carol admits Jade is different, but Danny is horrified and calls her a freak. Hurt, she leaves the room. Frank angrily lectures Danny that no matter what Jade is, she is a woman who deserves some happiness.

Sinclair breaks into the house and hits Danny over the head before taking him hostage with a gun. With this threat, he rounds up the others. He ties up Danny and Carol and forces Frank to tie up Jade. Sinclair boasts that he's known for over 20 years about Jade's healing powers. While she was a prisoner, he injected a drop of her blood into each of his lab mice, and they are still alive and healthy (mice normally live for about 3 years).