Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) meets a strange little girl sitting on the stairs outside her apartment; after inviting her in for hot chocolate, it becomes apparent that the girl, who identifies herself as Markie, knows everything about Helen, right down to the fact that she has a scar on her arm.
When a man, Peter Selden (Shepperd Strudwick), also shows up at the apartment, Markie does a runner, afraid of the new visitor. Selden seems familiar to Helen, but she can't quite place him. What follows isn't, to be honest, all that surprising, making this one of the least memorable episodes of Season 1 of The Twilight Zone.
Spoiler ahead (as if you hadn't already figured it out): Markie is Helen's subconscious, helping her to remember a disturbing event from her childhood-the murder of her mother by Selden.
Query: Why has Selden left it almost twenty years before tying up loose ends? Surely an earlier opportunity must have presented itself.
5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.
When a man, Peter Selden (Shepperd Strudwick), also shows up at the apartment, Markie does a runner, afraid of the new visitor. Selden seems familiar to Helen, but she can't quite place him. What follows isn't, to be honest, all that surprising, making this one of the least memorable episodes of Season 1 of The Twilight Zone.
Spoiler ahead (as if you hadn't already figured it out): Markie is Helen's subconscious, helping her to remember a disturbing event from her childhood-the murder of her mother by Selden.
Query: Why has Selden left it almost twenty years before tying up loose ends? Surely an earlier opportunity must have presented itself.
5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.