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Episode 33 (Season 2, Episode 11)

The Outsiders

The Outsiders (airdate: Feb 24, 1989).  A young couple in a parking garage are making their way to their car.  A beggar comes out and asks them for some spare change.  They tell him they don't have any.  He says "Too damn bad" and the couple are killed by the gang the beggar is with.  Catherine meets with an Oriental man the next day who is donating food to the tunnels.  Catherine makes the delivery and Vincent and the children come to meet her.  Zach takes the other children and the food so Vincent and Catherine may be alone.  Geoffrey is carrying eggplants down the spiral staircase when a wild boy attacks him. The boy is a member of the gang who murdered the couple earlier.  Geoffrey tries to make friends with the child, but an adult arrives and Geoffrey runs away. Father cares for Geoffrey's wound.  Later the council decides to try and befriend the family who are below the main tunnels.  The group terrorizes Father and the tunnel welcoming party.  The group asks how many there in the community and Father leaves the leader saying that they have come and will go in peace.  The council later discusses what to do about the family.  Vincent goes to Catherine and warns her to stay away until all danger has passed.  The family continues to move closer and closer to the main tunnels until Mary has to leave her chamber which she has lived in for 19 years.

    Zach is carrying a box with Vincent right behind him.  Geoffrey turns a corner and screams.  Vincent grabs Zach so he can't see what is up ahead.  It is Randolph who has been brutally murdered and strung up with chain in a cross form.  The Tunnel Council meets again. William wants to attack the family but Father wants only Randolph's murderer found.  They decide to send the children to stay with helpers above and the adults will travel in groups until the danger is passed.  Catherine meets Father and two others at her building tunnel.  Father asks her to take some children above and she agrees.  He then shocks her by asking her to get him a gun.  A group of children are being taken above when three members attack them and kill Matthew and Simon.  Vincent comes up behind and kills the murderer.  Catherine waits above for the children not knowing that they have been attacked.  She goes into the tunnels and when she hears someone approach, she hides in a dark spot.  The gang member goes a little farther on, then comes back after Catherine.  She throws sand in his face and runs into a dead end.  He traps her and she pulls the gun and shoots him in the knee.  She runs while he is down but the rest of the gang surrounds her.  The gun is dropped in the scuffle and Vincent is on his way to her.  Vincent arrives and kills each members slowly.  Catherine begs him to stop and crawls over to him to calm him down.   One of the gang members' children appears with the gun and holds it on Vincent.  Catherine tries to distract the child but the little boy shoots Vincent then, runs away.  Vincent has been hit but he is still conscious.  In his chamber, Vincent sits with Father and Catherine, his arm in a sling.  Father leaves and Catherine begs Vincent to talk to her.  He doesn't say anything, just wallows in his despair and guilt.  She tells him that he had to do what he did and that there are dark places in everyone.  Vincent finally answers her that part of him feeds in that darkness.  He gets lost in it.  He asks Catherine to leave him and as she walks out she tells him "I love you."

Guest cast: Anthony James as the family leader, Dennis Phun as Long, Scott Tsuratani as Edward, Dan Bell as Dak, Chance Michael Corbitt as Zeke, Ritch Brinkley as William, Jonathan Perpich as Randolph, Philip Waller as Geoffrey, Zachary Rosencrantz as Zach.

Writers: Michael Berlin, Eric Estrin, P.K. Simonds Jr., Alex Gansa, and Howard Gordon.

Director: Thomas J. Wright.