The Revelations of Becka Paulson

The Revelations of Becka Paulson

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption =
Season = 3
Episode = 15
Airdate = 6 June, 1997
Production = 59
Writer = Brad Wright/Story by Stephen King
Director = Steven Weber
Photographer =
Guests = Catherine O'Hara as Becka Paulson, John Diehl as Joe Paulson, Bill Dow as Doc Fink, Steven Weber as The Handsome Man, Marilyn Norry as Flo, Carla White, aka. Carla Boudreauas the soap opera actress
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = Music of the Spheres
Next = Bodies of Evidence

"The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" is an episode of "The Outer Limits". It first aired on 6 June, 1997, during the third season.

Introduction

'Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head while watching a soap opera. The bullets lodges in her brain, and begins to have some strange effects.'

Opening narration

"Even in the most innocent of minds, there are still secrets best left unrevealed."

Plot

In a stroke of 'luck', the bullet does not kill Becka, but her severe brain damage causes her to begin to hallucinate that the picture of a tuxedoed stranger on top of the TV (Who calls himself 'The 8 By 10' Man; in the original story it was a picture of Jesus) is talking to her. Under the advice of the 8 By 10 Man, Becka eventually decides to kill her worthless husband, and in a bit of 'damaged savantry', rigs up the television (under the 8 by 10 Man's instructions) to deliver a fatal electrical pulse to whoever touches the knob. Becka in the end tricks her husband into touching it, but as he begins to be fatally electrocuted, she finally realizes just what she's done and tries to save him. All she does is alter the circuit by touching him, and the two fall dead, the victim of a tragic quirk of fate that was in the end far from lucky.

Closing narration

"Perhaps the descent into madness... is not a solitary journey, after all."

Trivia

* The episode is based on the short story "Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" by Stephen King
* The Character Becka Paulson is also in the Stephen King story The Tommyknockers, in which she kills her husband in much the same way. However, in The Tommyknockers Becka Paulson's powers come from a strange alien craft lodged in the ground in the Maine wilderness.

External links

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* [http://www.scifi.com/outerlimits/episodes/season3/315revelations.html "The Revelations of Becka Paulson"] at Sci Fi


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