History Recap / TheOuterLimits1995S3E4LastSupper

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: An immortal could not hide remotely well in modern society, especially when she has to register as a citizen in a country with advanced identification technology. Jade has filed herself as a citizen too many times under different names with the same face, which allowed the FBI to find her records and catch her, and it's implied she has to keep moving with a different name to avoid being found and caught again. She gets found out easily by Dr. Sinclair when she appears on television which only happened because [[IdiotBall she chose to get romantically involved with a highly televised football player despite wanting to stay hidden from authorities.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dr. Sinclair is hunting Laura/Jade, the immortal woman whom he wants to experiment on. When his assistant manages to find her, the scientist stabs him in the chest.

* RealityEnsues: An immortal could not hide remotely well in modern society, especially when she has to register as a citizen in a country with advanced identification technology. Jade has filed herself as a citizen too many times under different names with the same face, which allowed the FBI to find her records and catch her, and it's implied she has to keep moving with a different name to avoid being found and caught again. She gets found out easily by Dr. Sinclair when she appears on television which only happened because [[IdiotBall she chose to get romantically involved with a highly televised football player despite wanting to stay hidden from authorities.]]

As the family has dinner, Frank is incredibly nervous and can't stop staring at Jade. He speaks with her in private and voices his theory that she is his and Laura's daughter, and warns her this would make her Danny's half-sister. She corrects him because she ''is'' Laura. She was born in the Middle Ages and as a teenager, her village was wiped out by the Black Death Plague. She discovered that not only had she survived, she stopped aging, she's immune to disease, and she rapidly heals from injuries. When Frank is skeptical, she pulls a textbook from his own shelf and shows him a portrait with her likeness on it that dates back to the 18th century (''Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan'' by Thomas Gainsborough). She sadly admits that through the centuries, she's had many many lovers, and she's tired of having to leave them behind before they discover her secret. She truly loves Danny and doesn't want to go through this again.

* PhlebotinumOverdose: A scientist pursues an immortal woman to unlock the secret of eternal life. He injected a tiny bit of her blood into a rat, which was still alive decades later. As his age had caught up with him, he decided to attempt the same on himself. He drew a little too much blood, however, causing him to de-age into a pre-fetal puddle of human tissue.

* YourCheatingHeart: After rescuing Laura/Jade Frank slept with her when already married to Carol.

After Frank draws the blood, Sinclair grabs it and injects it into himself without 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.

* 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.

* ByronicHero: Frank is one of these even down to the gritty black and white noir background. Despite being well-meaning, he's a traumatized Vietnam War veteran with a strained relationship with his wife and cheats on her with Jade, a random woman he rescued from a government lab. He keeps this a secret from her for 20 years which becomes harmful when the same returns and he believes her to be his daughter.

* IdenticalGrandson: Frank is initially convinced that Laura must be Jade's daughter, since they look exactly alike. It turns out that she ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld is]]'' Jade though.

* RealityEnsues: An immortal could not hide remotely well in modern society, especially when she has to register as a citizen in a country with advanced identification technology. Jade has filed herself as a citizen too many times under different names with the same face, which allowed the FBI to find her records and catch her, and it's implied she has to keep moving with a different name to avoid being found and caught again.

* 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.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Jade has spent centuries taking lovers and turning them into great leaders or notable figures with her guidance and plans to do the same with Frank's son.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Frank gives his son grief for calling Jade a freak after finding out she's an immortal whose been screwing around and walking the Earth since the Black Plague, saying she's a good person who deserves happiness for as long as his son can give it. Frank's son then changes his mind and returns to Jade to continue their relationship, with Frank and his wife Carol's approval. Frank completely ignores the fact his 20 year old son is clearly traumatized by the fact the same immortal woman had a love affair with his father, literally just viewed a man being de-aged into a pile of cells after injecting himself with Jade's superhuman blood implying a whole level of BodyHorror from her blood alone, and ignoring the horrible ramifications of a DecemberMayFlyRomance that being with Jade entails. [[EsotericHappyEnding The episode tries to make Frank look righteous for bashing his son for not wanting to stay hooked up with a woman with him and will most likely outlive and leave him like the rest of her various lovers.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality:

* ClassicalAntiHero: Frank is one of these even down to the black and white noir background. Despite being well-meaning, he's a traumatized Vietnam War veteran with a strained relationship with his wife and cheats on her with Jade, a random woman he rescued from a government lab. He keeps this a secret from her for 20 years which becomes harmful when the same returns and he believes her to be his daughter.

!!Tropes

* 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.]]

* DyingVocalChange: Dr Sinclair's regression extends to his voice, meaning that his last words are reduced to infantile screams as his increasingly-fetal body collapses in on itself.

* SurpriseIncest: Frank worries that Jade is his daughter, since he had sex with Laura, 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 from another woman, so he's afraid the trope is in play. However, it turns out that Laura and Jade [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld are the same woman]].

* 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 from another woman, so he's afraid the trope is in play. However, it turns out that she and Jade [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld are the same woman]].

* YourCheatingHeart: After rescuing Laura/Jane Frank slept with her when already married to Carol.

* DeathByDeaging: The ultimate fate of Dr Sinclair, due to underestimating Laura's immortality.

* 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]].

* 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.