Her Pilgrim Soul

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“Her Pilgrim Soul”

The Twilight Zone episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 12, Segment 1

Written by

Alan Brennert

Directed by

Wes Craven

Guest stars

Kristoffer Tabori : Kevin Drayton
Anne Twomey : Nola Granville
Gary Cole : Daniel
Wendy Girard : Carol
Katherine Wallach : Susan
Richard McGonagle : Lester
Betsy Licon : Nola (age 5)
Danica McKellar : Nola (age 10)

Original airdate

December 13, 1985

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Her Pilgrim Soul is the first segment of the twelfth episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. The title is a literary allusion to When You Are Old, a poem by William Butler Yeats.

This was made into a one-act stage musical by Alan Menken and paired with James Tiptree, Jr's "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" as a stage production titled Weird Romance: Two One Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction. The James Tiptree Jr. story "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" was made into an episode of the short-lived SCI FI Channel anthology series Welcome to Paradox.

1 Synopsis
2 Closing narration
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Synopsis

Two scientists create a holographic projector. One day a fetus appears in the projector. The two watch as the fetus matures into a woman, growing at a rate of ten years a day. They find out that Nola, as she calls herself, was once a young woman who lived in the early twentieth century.

Kevin, the lead scientist, begins to fall in love with this impossible creation. He begins spending more time at the lab than at home, his home life deteriorating over the few days. During day five, an adult Nola relives a miscarriage of losing a baby girl. The other scientist, Dan, later discovers the miscarriage was the cause of Nola's death in real life and that Robert, Nola's real life husband, never forgave himself for her death.

As the holographic Nola ages and nears her farewell, she uses a voice modifier machine to call Kevin's wife. Posing as Kevin, Nola tells her to come pick him up. In the final conversation between Kevin and Nola, it is revealed that Kevin is a reincarnate of Robert. Nola fades away, as Kevin's wife enters the lab as they have an emotional reunion.

[edit] Closing narration

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And bending down beside the golden bars, murmur, a little sadly, how love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid her [Yeats' original: "his"] face among a crowd of stars. A variation on William Butler Yeats to all those who have loved and lost, and loved again, on Earth or in— the Twilight Zone.

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