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{{Infobox Television episode
| Title = Dark Rain
| Series = The Outer Limits
| Image =
| Caption =
| Season = 3
| Episode = 6
| Airdate = 14 February 1997
| Production = 50
| Writer = [[David Braff]]
| Director = [[Mario Azzopardi]]
| Photographer =
| Guests = [[Rachael Crawford]] as Sherry McAllister)<br>[[Susan Hogan (actress)|Susan Hogan]] as Dr. Marissa Golding<br>[[Alan Scarfe]] as Dr. Royce<br>[[Don Franklin]] as Tim McAllister
| Episode list = [[List of The Outer Limits episodes|List of ''The Outer Limits'' episodes]]
| Prev = [[Stream of Consciousness (The Outer Limits)|Stream of Consciousness]]
| Next = [[The Camp (The Outer Limits)|The Camp]]
}}


{{Television episode redirect handler|series_name=The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|season_num=3|episode_num=6}}
"'''Dark Rain'''" is an episode of ''[[The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' television show. It first aired on 14 February 1997, during the third season. Its plot is inspired by the novel ''[[The Children of Men]]''.

==Introduction==
A chemical war leaves most of humanity unable to reproduce. Sadly, only rare couples, such as Sherry and Tim McAllister, are able to have healthy normal children.

==Opening narration==
{{cquote|''Every child born is linked in a chain to generations past and future. But what happens when that chain is snapped?''}}

==Plot==
Sherry (a school teacher who has just advocated to her pre-teen students how important it is to be fertility tested and become sexually active and breed as soon as possible) and Tim McAllister conceive and become the focus of intense attention from the government. The couple slowly come to the realization of how important the pregnancy is to the government, and how far it will go to get what it wants in what could be the first non-mutated birth in ten years. They find themselves escorted under armed guard to a secret maternity hospital overseen by Dr. Clayton Royce, a USA governmental Secretary in charge of births, from which they are not allowed to leave. The McAllisters are truly horrified when they find that Dr. Royce has hidden designs on their new-born son as he intends him to be a permanent ward of the state.

The McAllisters are secreted out of the hospital by the terrorist group NWA (New World Army) who had infiltrated the hospital. They are taken to a remote, forested location where the NWA nurse reveals that many of the NWA are ex-army and that their terrorist activity is only a front to distract the government from the NWA's true purpose. There have been many healthy births over the past ten years. Dozens upon dozens of non-mutated children are being raised to re-establish human civilization after the current generation of adult humans in the rest of the world die.

==Closing narration==
{{cquote|''Just as we inherited the Earth of our forefathers, we too will bequeath this world — so long as there are children to claim the inheritance.''}}

==External links==
* [http://www.theouterlimits.com/episodes/season3/305.htm Dark Rain] at [http://theouterlimits.com/noflash/index.html The Outer Limits official website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667877/ Dark Rain] at [[IMDb]]
* {{tv.com episode|the-outer-limits/dark-rain-21471|Dark Rain}}
* [http://www.scifi.com/outerlimits/episodes/season3/306darkrain.html "Dark Rain"] at [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci Fi]]

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