Paradise

Episode aired Jun 16, 1996
TV-PG
45m

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6.6/10

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Corrie Clark, Heather Hanson, and April Telek in The Outer Limits (1995)

Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

Dr. Christina Markham's mother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solutio... Read allDr. Christina Markham's mother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.Dr. Christina Markham's mother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.

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Not So Golden Girls Redux

A beautiful woman has a sexual encounter with a cop at the beginning of the episode. After they are finished she immediately ages to the point of total decomposition. A doctor is brought into this along with a forensic specialist. We are informed that her mother has Alzheimer's and doesn't even recognize her. When she goes to see her mother, she encounters a friend of her mother's, also infirm, who talks about going "into the light." Her mother uses the same expression but because she sees the daughter as an intruder, she won't say what "the light" is. Another ancient body is found in the woods and this sets off a huge effort to discover what is going on. The acting is quite good, including Mel Harris who starred on the show "Thirty- something" back in the day. I can't say much more other than that reason for all this is just a bit more than we are prepared for.

Trivia
Embossed above the bar in the opening scene, reads "... get out of these wet clothes & into a dry martini." The famous quote, which has multiple subtle variations, has Hollywood origins that are murky, at best. One edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributed the quote to Alexander Woollcott, but a later edition and other sources attribute it to Robert Benchley, who says it to Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor (1942). According to writer and director Billy Wilder, however, during shooting, Benchley told him he got it from his friend, Charles Butterworth. The martini quote is spoken by Butterworth in Every Day's a Holiday (1937) five years earlier. As 'Holiday' starred and was written by Mae West, and given her risqué personality and persona, West is a likely candidate for its origin.