6/10
Mirror Image
5 October 2014
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS** Inaugural episode of "The Twilight Zone" has a young Bruce Willis as the arrogant and full of himself Peter Novins find out that he isn't in control of his life which is slowly ebbing away from him. While getting tanked up at his favorite watering hole Peter mistakenly calls his home phone number and to his surprise Peter, his outer self, answers! At first thinking it's a joke it soon becomes evident to him that something strange and unexplainable is happening to him. Not even trying to get to his apartment to see who's occupying it Peter spends the rest of the week in some flea bag hotel trying to make sense in what he's going through.

As the days pass while communicating by phone with his other self the truth comes out in what a low life person Peter really is both in his personal as well as professional life. It seems that Peter's other self has corrected all the mistakes that he committed which has made him redeem himself at at his own expense. Also as the days go by Peter starts to lose his will to live as he slowly disintegrates not eating or sleeping as his other self completely takes over his life.

***SPOILERS*** It when Peter is near death in his hotel-room that the other Peter shows up to wish him good-by as he explains to him the errors of his ways that put him in the mess that he now finds himself in. In fact what Peter's other self did was make Peter a better man in him doing the right thing to those that he screwed over the years when he was riding high in life. Something that the real Peter couldn't do himself which in the end caused him to forfeit his life or existence.
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