Replica

Very good acting and compelling cloning story variant.

The clone's initial horror at realizing what she is makes a whole lot of sense. In other clone stories, the clone would very quickly become murderous evil or whatever, especially once the original wakes up.

Here, the three of them struggle with finding a solution and you really do feel bad for the clone just as they do.

This is the rare OL episode where I would have liked more story, particularly when the Noras meet. Perhaps even after their solution. This could easily have supported 10-15 more minutes.

And I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't at all see the ending coming.

Maybe this would make a great plot for some lame sitcom. Two overzealous scientists (a husband and wife) have discovered a way to transfer the contents of a brain to a computer. They are also experts on cloning, although this is illegal. Wouldn't you know it, the wife decides its time to test the waters and volunteers to have her essence put in the computer. Unfortunately, she has a seizure and is left in a coma, seemingly brain dead, on a respirator. Hubby, who visits her every day, decides to clone her and pass the computer's knowledge into the new body. They get to know each other but, of course, original wife miraculously recovers. Now there are two wives living in close proximity. And they are identical, but wife two (the clone) has issues the first didn't have because time has passed. The clone wife loves the husband as much as the real wife. Alas! What will they do. It all works itself out like a bad short story.

I've been catching up on OL, as a big TZ fan. After the forth season, things have gone downhill in a hurry. The lameness of the characters and dialog distracted from a decent story. There was no tension build up, came off like a SciFi channel show.

This one is not only extremely well delivered by all the actors, it holds numerous mind-blowing messages. If you haven't seen The Outer Limits, at least make sure you see this episode. Not only that, if you're a Sheryl Ann Fenn fan, this shows her talents are award-worthy. In fact, it's ridiculous this episode was never given an Emmy or something similar.

I would like to give away the content, but that would be spoiling too much, and it's just too good to spoil this one. Go see it with an open mind and not knowing what it is about.

Sure, the ending might be a little predictable, but it's really scary to think this dates back to 2001. Just think about this concept being an actual possibility as we speak, would we know? ;-)