If She Dies
"If She Dies" | |
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The Twilight Zone episode | |
Scene from "If She Dies" | |
Episode no. |
Season 1 Episode 5a |
Directed by | John Hancock |
Written by | David Bennett Carren |
Original air date | October 25, 1985 |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Andrea Barber: Cathy Marano | |
"If She Dies" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the first season (1985–86) from the television series The Twilight Zone. The teleplay, written by David Bennett Carren, was based on a 1982 story originally written by Carren for the Twisted Tales comic book.
Opening narration
“ | What if Paul Marano had turned right instead of left? Hit the brakes a millisecond quicker? Or if... if... if... The word ticks like a crazy clock trying to reclaim a single tragic second...from the Twilight Zone |
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Plot
After a recently widowed father's only daughter is put into a coma during a car accident, he is guided by the apparition of another girl to buy an old wooden bed from an orphanage sale at a convent next door to the hospital. He buys the bed and sets it up in his daughter's room without knowing why he has performed the actions he has.
That evening, he finds that the bed is haunted by the girl who asks him to find "Toby" for her. Returning to the convent the next day, he learns that the girl's name was Sarah and she died of tuberculosis while sleeping in the bed - many decades earlier - and that Toby was her teddy bear. The sister who remembers Sarah is reluctant to part with the bear but the father believes that Sarah is a ghost, and that the bear is the key to bringing her soul to peace.
The father takes his daughter from the hospital and places her in the bed, and she wakes up the next morning but asks for Toby before her father can explain anything.
See also
External links
- "If She Dies" on IMDb
- "If She Dies" at TV.com