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Twilight Zone: Mirror Image

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    You're traveling
    through another dimension
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    a dimension not only
    of sight and sound, but of mind
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    a journey into a wondrous land
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    whose boundaries
    are that of imagination.
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    That's the signpost up ahead.
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    Your next stop,the twilight zone.
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    excuse me.
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    hm?
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    uh, the bus to Cortland.
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    what about her?
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    well, it was due
    a half an hour ago.
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    yup, half hour ago.
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    when will it be in?
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    hard to say.
    been raining hard.
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    road's slick.
    maybe a bridge or two out.
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    that'll play hard
    with the schedule.
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    well, when do you
    think it will be in?
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    she'll be in
    when she'll be in.
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    that's all.
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    I told you that
    the last time you asked.
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    the last time I asked?
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    the last time I asked
    was right now.
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    look, all I want from you
    is a civil answer.
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    you're getting a civil answer.
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    the trouble is every ten minutes
    you're up here requiring one.
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    situations just don't
    change that rapidly
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    and you want to know
    about the Cortland bus.
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    it was late when you asked
    a half hour ago
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    late when you come back
    15 minutes later
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    and it's late now.
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    and all the asking
    in the world
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    ain't going to push it none.
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    but this is the first time
    I've been up here--
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    the very first time.
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    either you need your eyes,
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    now what's the matter?
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    nothing.
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    nothing's the matter.
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    Millicent Barnes, age 25,
    young woman waiting for a bus
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    on a rainy November night.
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    not a very imaginative type
    is miss Barnes.
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    not given to undue anxiety of
    fears or for that matter
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    even the most
    temporal flights of fancy.
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    like most young career women,
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    she has a generic
    classification
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    as a "girl with a head
    on her shoulders."
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    all of which is mentioned now
    because in just a moment
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    the head on
    miss Barnes's shoulders
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    will be put to a test.
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    circumstances will assault
    her sense of reality
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    and a chain of nightmares
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    will put her sanity
    on a block.
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    Millicent Barnes,
    who in one minute will wonder
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    if she's going mad.
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    well, shall we run through it
    again, miss?
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    oh, no thank you.
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    I was just noticing
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    it isn't very much but,
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    but that bag--
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    what about it?
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    well, it's just like mine.
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    it's identical,
    even to the broken handle.
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    what is this,
    some kind of a game?
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    what?
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    that is your bag--
    you checked it.
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    oh, no, that isn't my bag.
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    it looks just
    like my bag, but my--
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    well, how--?
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    will you go over there
    and sit down?
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    you're either walking
    in your sleep
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    or hung over or something.
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    go back over there
    and sit down
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    and breathe
    through your nose
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    and let me read my magazine.
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    when the Cortland bus comes
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    there'll be a loud sound
    of an engine, a door opening,
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    people will come in here.
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    then you'll know
    the bus is here.
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    but I didn't check my bag.
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    and anyway, when I
    saw that, my bag--
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    Are you all right, miss?
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    yes, of course
    I'm all right.
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    I'm perfectly all right.
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    why? don't I look all right?
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    you look fine.
    you look just fine.
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    It's just that when you were
    in here before--
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    before?
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    what do you mean before?
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    I've never been
    in here before.
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    honey, you were just in here
    a few minutes ago.
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    me?
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    I've never been
    in here before.
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    what's the matter
    with this place anyway?
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    somebody keeps taking my bag
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    somebody says I keep
    asking about the bus
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    and you tell me I've
    been in here before.
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    just take it easy. everything's
    going to be all right.
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    of course everything's going
    to be all right!
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    nothing wrong to begin with.
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    the only thing wrong
    with you people
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    is you need some sleep
    or something.
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    let me get you a
    cold cloth, honey.
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    I don't think you're well.
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    no, I don't need that.
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    no, I'll be all right.
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    I must be overtired
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    but I'll be all right.
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    excuse me.
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    yes?
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    I wonder if you saw someone
    sitting in my seat a minute ago.
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    I don't thinks so, miss.
    I wasn't looking very close.
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    what's the trouble?
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    no, no trouble.
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    I just thought I saw somebody
    I knew.
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    in here?
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    thank you.
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    I'm sorry to have
    disturbed you.
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    what's the matter with me?
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    what on earth is
    the matter with me?
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    what's happening?
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    delusions,
    that's what they are.
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    they're delusions.
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    I must be sick.
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    I must be running a fever.
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    I'm not even warm.
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    I don't have any fever.
    no fever at all.
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    excuse me, miss.
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    yes.
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    oh.
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    yes, what is it?
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    your bag, I think
    you dropped it.
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    oh, thank you.
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    the bus is late, isn't it?
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    it seems so.
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    over a half an hour late.
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    you do mean the bus to cortland,
    don't you?
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    that's the one.
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    I was supposed to be in syracuse
    tonight by 10:00.
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    the planes were all grounded
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    so I took a cab
    from binghamton.
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    it skidded into a tree
    a few miles outside of here.
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    I had to walk into
    town to get here.
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    forgive me, miss,
    you're not ill, are you?
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    oh, I don't know
    what's wrong with me.
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    i-- I really don't.
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    well, is there
    something I can do?
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    well, I don't know.
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    It's just that all sorts
    of queer things
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    have been happening to me.
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    I've been seeing things.
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    seeing things?
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    what sort of things?
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    I'm not sure
    I should tell you.
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    you'd probably want to move
    to another part of the room
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    or call the police or
    an ambulance or something.
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    well, why don't you tell me.
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    maybe I can help.
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    incidentally, my name is
    Grinstead, Paul Grinstead.
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    I'm from Binghamton.
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    how do you do?
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    I'm Millicent Barnes.
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    at least I was
    Millicent Barnes.
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    I'm a private secretary.
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    I quit my job here
    on Thursday
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    and I've got another
    job in Buffalo.
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    that's where I'm going tonight,
    to Buffalo.
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    everybody keeps telling me
    that I've been here before.
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    that man who takes the tickets--
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    he says I keep asking
    about the bus.
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    and the woman in
    the powder room
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    says I've been in there
    before, and I haven't.
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    and my bag here,
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    my bag!
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    there it is.
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    oh.
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    oh, thank god.
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    for a minute I thought
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    everything was starting
    all over again.
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    that man said i
    checked it and I hadn't.
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    but there was a bag,
    almost identical to mine
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    in the baggage room.
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    and then when I came
    out of the powder room
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    it wasn't there.
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    go on.
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    well, it sounds very strange but,
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    when I came out
    of the powder room
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    I looked in the mirror
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    and I could see the whole
    waiting room in the mirror
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    and I--
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    well, what did you see,
    miss Barnes?
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    I saw myself sitting
    right here on this bench.
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    it's delusions.
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    yes.
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    yes, that's what
    it must be.
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    delusions, some sort
    of delusions.
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    but I'm not sick.
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    I don't have a temperature.
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    I'm not running a fever.
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    but it's not just seeing things
    that don't exist.
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    why did that man and that woman say
    that they had seen me before?
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    I don't know.
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    this one's tough to figure out.
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    well, what's happening to me?
    what-- what's wrong?
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    I'm not some sort of kook,
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    I've never had any
    trouble like this before,
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    I mean, trouble with my mind.
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    of course you haven't.
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    there's an explanation
    someplace.
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    there's a reason.
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    maybe--
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    maybe what?
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    maybe there's someone here
    who resembles you.
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    that could be it.
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    or maybe someone is playing
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    some kind of a joke
    or something.
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    oh, is that possible?
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    oh, that's too fantastic
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    and that doesn't explain
    about the bag.
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    and anyway, if there is
    such a person, where is she?
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    where is this person?
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    bus to Cortland.
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    Syracuse, Buffalo,
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    now arriving.
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    let me take that for you.
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    looks heavy.
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    oh, thank you.
    you're very kind.
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    Forget it.
    you're easy to be kind to.
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    no, I mean, more
    than just kind.
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    we better get on the bus.
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    I'll take your bag.
    -all right.
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    miss Barnes!
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    Millicent.
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    what's the matter?
    wait a minute.
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    on our way.
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    you and the lady
    coming or aren't?
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    no, we'll wait
    for the next one.
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    next one ain't due
    till 7:00 in the morning.
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    you've got a long wait.
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    that's all right.
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    okay.
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    I'm shutting off
    some of these lights.
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    "when not in use,
    turn off the juice."
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    that's what I always say.
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    I best be getting home.
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    oh, I sure hope
    she feels better.
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    thank you.
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    you've been very nice.
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    oh, it's all right
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    but off hand, mister
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    I'd say she needed
    some looking after.
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    you know what I mean.
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    you feeling better?
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    the bus.
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    it had to leave.
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    there'll be another
    before too long.
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    you didn't get on.
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    That's all right.
    I'm this late already.
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    a few more hours won't make
    any difference.
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    I've been thinking
    about something.
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    it's very odd, but,
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    I've been remembering.
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    remembering what?
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    about something I read or
    heard about a long time ago.
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    about different
    planes of existence.
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    about two parallel worlds
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    that exist side by side
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    and each of us has a counterpart
    in this world
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    and, and sometimes
    through some freak
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    through something
    unexplainable
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    this counterpart--
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    after the two
    worlds converge--
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    comes into our world
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    and in order to survive
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    it has to take over.
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    take over?
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    replace us.
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    move us out
    so that it can live.
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    that's a little
    metaphysical for me.
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    I remember
    reading it somewhere.
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    each of us has a twin
    in this other world,
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    an identical twin.
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    maybe that woman I saw--
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    Millicent, there's
    another explanation.
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    there has to be.
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    one that comes
    with more reason.
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    I can't explain it
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    but I know
    that's what's happened.
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    this other woman,
    my counterpart--
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    forget about it, please.
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    don't think about it.
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    I just thought of something.
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    I've got a good friend
    who lives in Tully.
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    I'll call him.
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    maybe he'll bring his
    car down here for us.
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    he might even
    drive us into Syracuse.
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    I'll call him.
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    all right, Millicent?
    shall I call my friend?
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    unasked, I'll tell
    you what I think.
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    I'd say she's got
    a leak in her attic.
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    parallel planes.
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    counterparts from another life.
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    you got a thing about sick
    people? is that it?
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    poor, poor kid.
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    I don't know
    what's going to happen.
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    go call your friend.
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    hm?
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    your friend in Tully
    with the car.
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    I don't have
    any friend in Tully.
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    she needs help, medical help.
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    I figured it would
    be easier this way.
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    I figured she'd come along.
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    poor kid.
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    can I use it?
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    go ahead.
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    who're you going to call?
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    the police, I guess.
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    I think they're the ones that
    could help us.
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    to tell you the truth, she
    kind of gives me the willies.
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    I'd as leave
    she left here somehow.
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    where are you?
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    where did you go?
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    what do you want?
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    where are you?
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    Millicent.
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    are you all right?
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    yes.
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    I'm all right.
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    how about getting
    some fresh air?
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    all right.
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    did you get
    her off all right?
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    yeah. they're gonna take her
    to the hospital for observation.
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    what was she talking about?
    something about another life.
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    I don't know. that's
    part of her illness, I guess.
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    you said the next
    bus is at 7:00?
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    you got about four
    and a half hours, pal.
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    you can take a snooze
    on that bench.
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    you'll be all alone,
    no noise whatsoever.
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    this place is like a tomb
    between night and morning.
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    maybe I will get some sleep.
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    hey.
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    hey!
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    hey!
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    hey!
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    hey!
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    where are you?
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    obscure and metaphysical
    explanation
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    to cover a phenomena.
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    reasons dredged
    out of the shadows
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    to explain away that
    which can not be explained.
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    call it parallel planes
    or just insanity.
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    whatever it is, you find it
    in the twilight zone.
Title:
Twilight Zone: Mirror Image
Video Language:
English
Team:
Film & TV
Duration:
24:58

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