The Outer Limits (TV Series)

The Inheritors: Part I (1964)

Robert Duvall: Adam Ballard

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Quotes 

• Lieutenant Minns : No, nobody waiting for me.

  Adam Ballard : None of those other men have any ties either.

  Lieutenant Minns : Link after link. So many things in common. There's gotta be a reason, a purpose, is that it, Mr. Ballard?

  Adam Ballard : No clue, Lieutenant? No inkling what it might be? Something alien in your head. Something guiding you, pointing you, directing you.

  Lieutenant Minns : [softly]  No.

  Adam Ballard : What are you reading?

  Lieutenant Minns : Just something I found in the library. Idle curiosity. Morgan's Theoretical Analysis of Comprehensive Finance.

• Adam Ballard : Something wrong, Renaldo?

  Pvt. Robert Renaldo : Now, what could be wrong? I'm celebrating. I just finished my mission... whatever that is.

• Shop Superintendent : He's a brilliant man, Mr. Ballard... and a sad one.

  Adam Ballard : Sad?

  Shop Superintendent : I like him. I like him for the kind of man he is. Inside, Mr. Ballard, a troubled man, troubled by what he is doing, but when I asked him to explain what he's about to... he could not tell me.

  Adam Ballard : Could not?

  Shop Superintendent : Could not. It was as though... as though...

  Adam Ballard : As though what?

  Shop Superintendent : As though the DEVIL HAD HIM UNDER HIS THUMB! And he had no chance to get out of... to be his own man.

• Adam Ballard : [looking upon Renaldo's finished project]  Wanna show me what it does.

  Pvt. Robert Renaldo : [tormented]  Like everything connected with this... thing... if you need to know, suddenly you learn. If you need money, suddenly you get money! Anything. Anything to finish the job, the... the PROJECT! Nothing can stop it... but if you want to get it off your back, if you wanna walk out on it, oh no. You can't do that. You're hooked. The monkey's got you. You do what's inside your HEAD! No matter... how your insides are busting.

• Adam Ballard : These four men are medical miracles. They had bullets in their brains, they should have died but didn't, and when the bullets were removed another brain, an intelligence, got in and took over - and I mean intelligence. Three of these men developed IQs over 200.

• Art Harris : [trying to find something wrong, but...]  The lieutenant was so open and above board, everything he did and said, didn't even try to change his name. The VP said he was willing to bet that he was a completely honest and trustworthy man.

  Adam Ballard : [spotting something wrong]  He's a banker. He shouldn't gamble.

• Adam Ballard : How'd you know I'm a lieutenant, Johnny?

  Johnny Subiron : How'd you know I'm Johnny?