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The Inner Child

  • Episode aired Apr 28, 2000
  • TV-PG
  • 45m
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6.4/10
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Laura Leighton in The Outer Limits (1995)
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Anne Reynolds, estranged from her mother, haunted by her dead father and terrified of being close to anyone, is attacked, injured and wakes up on the operating table a changed woman. Learnin... Read allAnne Reynolds, estranged from her mother, haunted by her dead father and terrified of being close to anyone, is attacked, injured and wakes up on the operating table a changed woman. Learning of a conjoined twin sister that was sacrificed so that she could live, the personality o... Read allAnne Reynolds, estranged from her mother, haunted by her dead father and terrified of being close to anyone, is attacked, injured and wakes up on the operating table a changed woman. Learning of a conjoined twin sister that was sacrificed so that she could live, the personality of the dead sister begins to take over.

  • Director
    • Ken Girotti
  • Writers
    • Grant Rosenberg
    • Leslie Stevens
  • Stars
    • Laura Leighton
    • Roberta Maxwell
    • David Lovgren
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    210
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ken Girotti
    • Writers
      • Grant Rosenberg
      • Leslie Stevens
    • Stars
      • Laura Leighton
      • Roberta Maxwell
      • David Lovgren
    • 2User reviews
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    Laura Leighton
    Laura Leighton
    • Anne Marie Reynolds…
    Roberta Maxwell
    Roberta Maxwell
    • Mrs. Reynolds
    David Lovgren
    David Lovgren
    • Eric Tanner
    Michael Ontkean
    Michael Ontkean
    • Dr. Field
    Gerry South
    Gerry South
    • Mugger
    Lyle St. Goddard
    Lyle St. Goddard
    • Paramedic
    James Tsai
    • Technician
    Moneca Stori
    Moneca Stori
    • Technician
    • (as Monica Gemmer)
    Kevin Conway
    Kevin Conway
    • Control Voice
    • (voice)
    Kathleen McClaine
    Kathleen McClaine
    • Libby Marshall
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ken Girotti
    • Writers
      • Grant Rosenberg
      • Leslie Stevens
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    9Hitchcoc

    Two for the Price of One

    This is a very good episode. The principle character, a young photographer, has lived her life on the edge, so when her car is disabled and she gets out to look, a man with a lead pipe mugs her. When she refuses and runs, he hits her from behind. She is brought to the hospital and codes. She is pronounced dead. About fifteen minutes later, she is going to be taken to the morgue and while being prepared, she sits up, alive, scaring the daylights out of the man sent to process her. She is a harsh, abusive, but beautiful woman who has spent her adult life in mourning for her father, the light of her world, when he took his own life. She blames her mother for this. She has also become a druggy and an alcoholic and pushes everyone away who tries to get close to her. A man she was living with is jerked around by her and can't figure her out. Upon checking herself out of the hospital, strange things begin to happen. For one, a weird growth moves around under her skin. Secondly, when she goes to sleep, she finds things have changed in her apartment. He doctor tells her that it has been discovered that the growth is brain tissue. She also finds out that when she was born, she was a Siamese twin and her sister was allowed to die so she could live. The brain tissue is residue from that person and it is becoming viable. The story moves forth with pain and emotion. What could be a maudlin, ridiculous plot, works on all levels. See this one.

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    • Trivia
      The scene beginning at 30:54 in this episode is the same building and Admitting entrance as that used in Beyond the Veil (1996), from 16:30.
    • Quotes

      Control Voice: Within each of us there is an internal voice that tempers our actions, but what happens when that inner self overwhelms the face we show the world?

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    • Release date
      • April 28, 2000 (Canada)
    • Production company
      • Atlantis Films
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      • 45m
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