Fear Itself

This was quite a different episode. A man beset by abject terror, beginning at the age of six, when he is convinced he immolated his little sister in an orphanage, finds himself in a doctor's office, trying to find a way to change this. He is not only frightened; he is hallucinatory. He sees the fire and the man who tells him over and over that he has committed the most heinous act. He is also victimized in his real world by punks who travel in a pace and steal from him and tell him what they will do to him. As a radical procedure begins to work and he becomes more assertive (even meeting a nice girl with past issues of her own) he begins to confront some of the things ailing him. There are a couple of kickers. Even though he knows in his own mind he never started that fire, he continues to be haunted by the face of the evil man who did this to him. The other issue is that as he has responded to the treatment, he now has the ability to bring great fear to those with whom he finds anger. This is one of the more creative efforts and it is enthralling.