The Outer Limits: The Bellero Shield (1964)
Season 1, Episode 20
7/10
The Bellero Shield
15 August 2023
The real monsters are the humans in this story. The alien had no chance here.

Inspired by MacBeth. Scientist Richard Bellero Jr (Martin Landau) is caught between a rock and a hard place. In this case his powerful and rich father's lust for everlasting glory and his wife's desire for power.

Richard always sought approval from his father Bellero Sr (Neil Hamilton) and never got it. When Richard sends some lasers into space, he snares a Bifrost alien.

The alien is friendly enough and is protected by a powerful shield but it wants to go back to its home world.

Richard's ambitious wife Judith (Sally Kellerman) wants control of the shield device. With the help of her maid Mrs Dame (Chita Rivera) she manages to shoot the alien in order to steal the device.

Kellerman and Rivera very much steal the story, they really understood the subtext of the plot.
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