Genetic engineering of human beings is now commonplace, but not perfect. Detective Ray Venable is in charge of a team responsible for hunting down deformed children suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome.

Opening narration

"With every scientific advance we grow closer to unlocking the mysteries of life and creation. But what have we gained if, in the process, we lose our humanity?"

Plot

The GRS monster children are now adults who commit murders. Detective Ray Venable has a "secret" son with GRS, Dylan, who is harassing his family. During Ray's investigation, it is revealed that Ray and his wife Marie sent Dylan away with an agency that discreetly locks away the GRS victims without disclosing details to parents who ultimately prefer not to know the fate of their children.

Ray injects himself with a serum to temporarily enhance his sensory abilities (like GRS people) in order to hunt Dylan. He does this successfully—only to find out that it was a plot by his son, who placed the serum so that Ray would find it.

His son forcefully injects more of the serum into his dad (and reveals to him that his rage/murderous intentions were not caused by the drug), so that Ray now has irreversible GRS and transforms into a monster. Ray kills Dylan, but his family is terrifed of him because he looks like the other GRS monsters.

Closing narration

"The most powerful thing we pass along to our children may not reside in the genes...but in the soul."

Notes

• The episode is a sequel to Season 2's "Unnatural Selection".

Cast

• Gary Cole as Detective Ray Venable
• Louis Del Grande as Detective Renfro
• Jason Gray-Stanford as Dylan Venable
• Lynda Boyd as Marie Venable
• Jill Teed as Dr. Carolyn Florey
• Anthony Ulc as Detective
• Joel Palmer as Jesse Venable
• Kavan Smith as Lt. O'Neill
• Rachel Cronin as GRS Girl - Melanie
• John Maclaren as Rosen (as John MacLaren)
• Judith Maxie as Mayor Grant
• Fred Henderson as Acosta
• David Cameron as Medic
• Kevin Conway as the Control Voice (voice)

The Outer Limits (1995)
Season 1	"Sandkings" • "Valerie 23" • "Blood Brothers" • "The Second Soul" • "White Light Fever" • "The Choice" • "Virtual Future" • "Living Hell" • "Corner of the Eye" • "Under the Bed" • "Dark Matters" • "The Conversion" • "Quality of Mercy" • "The New Breed" • "The Voyage Home" • "Caught in the Act" • "The Message" • "I, Robot" • "If These Walls Could Talk" • "Birthright" • "The Voice of Reason"
Season 2	"A Stitch in Time" • "Resurrection" • "Unnatural Selection" • "I Hear You Calling" • "Mind Over Matter" • "Beyond the Veil" • "First Anniversary" • "Straight and Narrow" • "Trial by Fire" • "Worlds Apart" • "The Refuge" • "Inconstant Moon" • "From Within" • "The Heist" • "Afterlife" • "The Deprogrammers" • "Paradise" • "The Light Brigade" • "Falling Star" • "Out of Body" • "Vanishing Act" • "The Sentence"
Season 3	"Bits of Love" • "Second Thoughts" • "Re-generation" • "Last Supper" • "Stream of Consciousness" • "Dark Rain" • "The Camp" • "Heart's Desire" • "Tempests" • "The Awakening" • "New Lease" • "Double Helix" • "Dead Man's Switch" • "Music of the Spheres" • "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" • "Bodies of Evidence" • "Feasibility Study" • "A Special Edition"
Season 4	"Criminal Nature" • "The Hunt" • "Hearts and Minds" • "In Another Life" • "In the Zone" • "Relativity Theory" • "Josh" • "Rite of Passage" • "Glyphic" • "Identity Crisis" • "The Vaccine" • "Fear Itself" • "The Joining" • "To Tell the Truth" • "Mary 25" • "Final Exam" • "Lithia" • "Monster" • "Sarcophagus" • "Nightmare" • "Promised Land" • "The Balance of Nature" • "The Origin of Species" • "Phobos Rising" • "Black Box" • "In Our Own Image"
Season 5	"Alien Radio" • "Donor" • "Small Friends" • "The Grell" • "The Other Side" • "Joyride" • "The Human Operators" • "Blank Slate" • "What Will the Neighbors Think?" • "The Shroud" • "Ripper" • "Tribunal" • "Summit" • "Descent" • "The Haven" • "Déjà Vu" • "The Inheritors" • "Essence of Life" • "Stranded" • "Fathers & Sons" • "Starcrossed" • "Better Luck Next Time"
Season 6	"Judgment Day" • "The Gun" • "Skin Deep" • "Manifest Destiny" • "Breaking Point" • "The Beholder" • "Seeds of Destruction" • "Simon Says" • "Stasis" • "Down to Earth" • "The Inner Child" • "Glitch" • "Decompression" • "Abaddon" • "The Grid" • "Revival" • "Gettysburg" • "Something About Harry" • "Zig Zag" • "Nest" • "Final Appeal"
Season 7	"Family Values" • "Patient Zero" • "A New Life" • "The Surrogate" • "The Vessel" • "Mona Lisa" • "Replica" • "Think Like a Dinosaur" • "Alien Shop" • "Worlds Within" • "In the Blood" • "Flower Child" • "Free Spirit" • "Mindreacher" • "Time to Time" • "Abduction" • "Rule of Law" • "Lion's Den" • "The Tipping Point" • "Dark Child" • "The Human Factor" • "Human Trials"

Story Arcs
Innobotics Corporation	"Valerie 23" • "Resurrection" • "The Hunt" • "Mary 25" • "In Our Own Image"
Major John Skokes	"Quality of Mercy" • "The Light Brigade"
Alien Infiltration	"Birthright" • "The Voice of Reason"
Strong Brothers Investigate Conspiracies	"The Voice of Reason" • "A Special Edition"
Dr. Theresa Givens' Time Machine	"A Stitch in Time" • "Better Luck Next Time" • "Final Appeal"
Genetic Rejection Syndrome	"Unnatural Selection" • "Criminal Nature"
The New Masters	"The Camp" • "Promised Land"
Dr. Martin Nodel	"Double Helix" • "The Origin of Species"
USAS	"The Joining" • "The Vessel" • "In the Blood"
Earth Coalition-Free Alliance Conflict	"Phobos Rising" • "The Human Factor" • "Human Trials"
Jack the Ripper	"Ripper" • "Better Luck Next Time"
Nicholas Prentice	"Tribunal" • "Gettysburg" • "Time to Time"