In His Image

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“In His Image”

The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "In His Image"

Episode no.

Season 4
Episode 103

Written by

Charles Beaumont (From his short story.)

Directed by

Perry Lafferty

Guest stars

George Grizzard : Alan Talbot/Walter Ryder Jr.
Gail Kobe : Jessica Connelly
Katherine Squire : Old Woman
Wallace Rooney : Man
James Seay : Sheriff
George O. Petrie : Driver

Production no.

4851

Original airdate

January 3, 1963

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List of Twilight Zone episodes

"In His Image" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

1 Opening Narration
2 Synopsis
3 Closing Narration
4 Twilight Zone Links
5 External links

[edit] Opening Narration

“

What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't; it's the beginning. Although Alan Talbot doesn't know it, he's about to enter a strange, new world, too incredible to be real, too real to be a dream. It's called the Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Synopsis

Alan Talbot seems to be an average man. He leads a seemingly normal life, and even falls in love with a woman named Jessica Connelly. One day, however, he starts hearing strange noises that give him head pains and the urge to kill.

Upon visiting his home-town with Jessica, his memory seems to betray him, because nothing in the town is as he remembers. He seeks out answers when he comes face to face with his double. It turns out he's a robot created in the image of Walter Ryder, provided with Walter's memories from twenty years before.

Knowing of his impending demise, Alan tries to tell Walter all about Jessica so that Walter can replace him, but he malfunctions and tries to kill Walter. After the struggle with an ambiguous outcome, one of the two goes to Jessica in the morning and is implied that the two eventually marry. In the ending scene it is revealed that the man was Walter.

[edit] Closing Narration

“

In a way, it can be said that Walter Ryder succeeded in his life's ambition, even though the man he created was, after all, himself. There may be easier ways to self improvement, but sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line through the Twilight Zone.

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