Perhaps one of the best episodes of the first season. In it, a man of current time tries to escape his life by visiting his old town. He unknowingly travels back in time into his youth but there can only be one of him at the same time. This episode has a neat little message that sometimes it’s better to move on but find things in your current life that once made you happy.
Quote: Maybe you haven’t been looking in the right place. You’ve been looking behind you, Martin. Try looking ahead. – Robert
Highlight
– “Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, occupation, vice-president, ad agency, in charge of media. This is not just a Sunday drive for Martin Sloan. He perhaps doesn’t know it at the time but it’s an exodus. Somewhere up the road he’s looking for sanity, and somewhere up the road he’ll find something else.”
– Martin Sloan entering the same ice cream store of his youth
– Finding the young version of himself
– Martin visiting his parents and trying to convince them of who he is
– Chasing himself on the merry-go-round
– Causing an accident on himself in the merry-go-rounds
– His little message to himself
– The conversation with his father and the advise he gives him
– “Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps there’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he’ll look up from what he’s doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there’ll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he’ll smile then too because he’ll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man’s mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone.”
Rating: 9.5/10