![]() Then we get the twist ending which some might find too far-fetched, although with today's comic-book concepts of parallel worlds and multi-verses, maybe it's believable now more than then. Things look as if they might improve for her when a kindly young man comes in out of the rain and tries to reason with her, but even he gives up and eventually calls the police to take her away for her own safety, which they do in a very abrupt and sinister fashion. The grumbling old station manager and a female cleaning attendant keep telling her they've just spoken to her and that maybe she's ill, but how else to explain what is going on when she shockingly sees what looks like an identical image of herself sat in the very same seat in a mirror's reflection. Then she starts to question her sanity when it appears she has been there before minutes before. The action takes place In the confined setting of a sparsely populated bus station, late at night with the rain pouring outside. Coincidentally for the woman who was slated to play the doppelgänger Madeleine / Judy in Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo", until she fell pregnant and had to be replaced by Kim Novak, Miles's character here also appears to be pursued by a double, which no one else can see. It usually helps too if it's directed by Hollywood veteran John Brahm, is written by Rod Serling himself and has a major star in the lead role, as here, with Vera Miles. This is the way I like my "Twilight Zone" episodes, contemporary, mysterious and eerie.
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