Mirror Image is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.Details
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- Original air date: February 26, 1960
- Writer: Rod Serling
- Director: John Brahm
- Notable cast members: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton
Synopsis
A woman named Millicent is waiting at a bus stop for a bus to Buffalo, New York. Upon looking at a wall clock she notices the bus is late. She walkes up to ask the man at the ticket counter, but he says this is her third time there. Millicent refuses this.
Later she goes to the bathroom to wash her hands and another woman there insists this is her second time there. Again, Millicent refuses this. Upon leaving the bathroom, she sees herself in the mirror--sitting on the bench.
While she waits some more, she notices a bag just like hers in the luggage pile behind her. She mentions this to the ticket counter man, who says it's her bag. She doesn't believe this until she notices her bag isn't beside the bench anymore.
Still later, she meets a man waiting for the same bus. They talk about the phenomena. The man, attempting to calm Millicent, says it's either a joke or a misunderstanding caused by a look-alike. Just then the bus arrives and the two prepare to board it, but just as they start to, Millicent looks in the window and see herself. She runs back into the stop.
The man follows her in and agrees to wait for the 7: 30 bus. While they wait, Millicent, laying on the bench wrapped in a blanket, insists the strange events are caused by a double from a parallel world.
The man believes the explanation is "too metaphysical". He tells Millicent he'll call a friend to drive them to Buffalo but in reality calls the police. After Millicent is taken away the man believes he can rest in peace until he sees a double take his hat and suitcase. He chases himself until the double disappears. Trivia
An interesting fact about this episode is that the location of the bus station that provides the setting can be placed by lines of episode dialogue, which refer to previous stops at Binghamton and future stops at Cortland and Syracuse. Knowledge of central New York, where Mr. Serling was born (Syracuse) and raised (Binghamton), can lead to the conclusion that this bus station is in Ithaca, NY. In fact the Ithaca bus station resembles the set design, the walls covered by depression-era mosaics. The fact that Mr. Serling's production company was called Cayuga Productions (Ithaca is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes), and that he later taught at Ithaca College, makes it all a more likely reality.[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Mirror Image ]
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