The Outer Limits, “Blood Brothers”

This episode of the Outer Limits is about mad scientists and mutations of monkeys. The beginning scene takes place in a lab where a scientist is studying many monkeys in cages. The scientist, Spencer bumps a vile and the contents break on the floor. I wondered what type of substance was in the vile. Is it associated with the mutation of monkeys?  An alarm goes off in the lab saying, “Outbreak Alert”, and one of the monkeys bites his hand. Will this be important or cause something later in the story? I was thinking that there may have been something different about that monkey, and the idea that it bit Spencer would tie into the story later. After the lab incident, Spencer was talking to Trisha who is a reporter. They discussed a fatal disease in Spencer’s family history. Spencer said that his brother was tested and did not have it, but Spencer did not want to get tested himself. I wonder if this disease is connected in some way to the monkeys in the lab.

Later in the episode, Spencer goes to check on how the research is going in the lab. One of the scientists tells him about an experiment with one of the monkeys. A chemical was given that would normally cause a mammal to die, but the monkey had survived. In follow-up experiments, other fatal chemicals were tested and the monkey did not die. I wonder if this is the monkey that bit Spencer. What would this mean if it was the same monkey?