The Outer Limits (TV Series)

The Children of Spider County (1964)

Lee Kinsolving: Ethan Wechsler

Quotes 

• Ethan Wechsler : [enumerating the true charges against him]  I am gonna be tried for reading minds and for walking on moonlit meadows and for being a thing that goes bump in the night.

• Aabel : Shall we go?

  Ethan Wechsler : Where?

  Aabel : Where superstition and fear can never reach you again.

  Ethan Wechsler : There IS no such place on Earth.

• Ethan Wechsler : All four of these men, considered intellectually and physically superior in aptitude, performance and delivery, were born at the same place.

  Ethan Wechsler : The same state?

  Ethan Wechsler : In the same county - Spider County - and the same year, and within the same month. Their birth records are there and indicate a curious phenomenon. Each child was born at least two months premature. Immediately after birth, their fathers disappeared and were never heard from again. And each child, although unrelated - at least on the maternal side - had been given the same middle name: Eros.

  Ethan Wechsler : The Greek word for love.

  Ethan Wechsler : And it is also the name of an obscure planet in the galaxy Krell.