Memories (The Twilight Zone)

41st episode of the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone

"Memories"

The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.| Season 3
Episode 41
Directed by| Ryszard Bugajski
Written by| Bob Underwood
Original air date| October 29, 1988 (1988-10-29)
Guest appearances
Barbara Stock: Mary McNeal
Nigel Bennett: Jim Sinclair
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"Memories" is the forty-first episode and the sixth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a specialist in past life regression enters an alternate reality in which reincarnation is real and everyone remembers all their past lives.

## Plot[edit]

Past life regression therapist Mary McNeal has had great success in using hypnosis to make patients remember past lives, but when she tries to trigger memories of her own past lives, the recordings of her hypnosis technique just bore her to sleep.

One day Mary pays a house call, but her patient says she already knows about her past lives and dismisses her. Mary finds her office is now an employment counseling center. Accepting that reality is now changed such that she no longer has a job, she agrees to a session with Jim Sinclair, the employment counselor. She has no useful skills in her current life, since in this reality everyone remembers all their past lives, leaving no demand for regression therapists, so Jim asks her for her background from her past lives. She tells him she cannot recall any of them. He does not believe her, so she leaves.

Mary finds a woman outside suffering from exposure and offers to get help. The woman refuses and reminds Mary that the law grants people the right to commit suicide so as to move on from a unsatisfactory life to a potentially better one. Mary convinces her that she is needed here and runs to get help, but is abducted by Jim. Jim reveals he is a member of a paramilitary organization. He and his associate accuse her of pretending not to recall her past lives because she is a reincarnation of a notorious person who could face retribution for crimes in previous lives. They give her truth serum and interrogate her about her past lives, but she insists she does not remember.

Convinced she is telling the truth, they ask Mary to help them forget their past lives, to stop trying to avenge injuries or yearn for joys from the past. Mary goes to work with Jim, using hypnosis to make people forget about their past lives.

## External links[edit]

* "Memories" at IMDb

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The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1|

* "Shatterday"
* "A Little Peace and Quiet"
* "Wordplay"
* "Dreams for Sale"
* "Chameleon"
* "Healer"
* "Kentucky Rye"
* "Little Boy Lost"
* "Wish Bank"
* "Nightcrawlers"
* "If She Dies"
* "Ye Gods"
* "Examination Day"
* "A Message from Charity"
* "Teacher's Aide"
* "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
* "The Burning Man"
* "Dealer's Choice"
* "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
* "The Shadow Man"
* "Opening Day"
* "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
* "Her Pilgrim Soul"
* "I of Newton"
* "Night of the Meek"
* "The Star"
* "Still Life"
* "The Little People of Killany Woods"
* "The Misfortune Cookie"
* "Monsters!"
* "A Small Talent for War"
* "A Matter of Minutes"
* "The Elevator"
* "To See the Invisible Man"
* "Tooth and Consequences"
* "Welcome to Winfield"
* "Quarantine"
* "Gramma"
* "Personal Demons"
* "The Leprechaun-Artist"
* "Profile in Silver"
* "Button, Button"
* "Red Snow"
* "Take My Life...Please!"
* "Devil's Alphabet"
* "The Library"
* "Shadow Play"
* "Grace Note"
* "A Day in Beaumont"
* "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2|

* "The Once and Future King"
* "What Are Friends For?"
* "Aqua Vita"
* "The Storyteller"
* "Nightsong"
* "The After Hours"
* "Lost and Found"
* "The World Next Door"
* "The Toys of Caliban"
* "The Road Less Traveled"
* "The Card"
* "Joy Ride"
* "Shelter Skelter"
* "Private Channel"
* "Time and Teresa Golowitz"
* "Voices in the Earth"
* "Song of the Younger World"
* "The Girl I Married"

Season 3|

* "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"
* "Extra Innings"
* "The Crossing"
* "The Hunters"
* "Dream Me a Life"
* "Memories"
* "The Hellgramite Method"
* "Our Selena Is Dying"
* "The Call"
* "The Trance"
* "Acts of Terror"
* "20/20 Vision"
* "There Was an Old Woman"
* "The Trunk"
* "Appointment on Route 17"
* "The Cold Equations"
* "Stranger in Possum Meadows"
* "Street of Shadows"
* "Something in the Walls"
* "A Game of Pool"
* "Room 2426"
* "The Mind of Simon Foster"
* "The Wall"
* "Cat and Mouse"
* "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
* "Many, Many Monkeys"
* "Love Is Blind"
* "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
* "Special Service"
* "Father and Son Game"

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