Aqua Vita

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"Aqua Vita"

The New Twilight Zone episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 26b

Directed by

Paul Lynch

Written by

Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch

Original air date

October 4, 1986

Guest actors

Mimi Kennedy : Christine
Joseph Hacker : Marc
Barbara Horan : Shauna
Christopher McDonald : Delivery man

Episode chronology

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List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes

Aqua Vita is the second segment of the twenty-sixth episode (the fourth episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. It was written by Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch, writers who went on to become story editors of the syndicated version of the hit show from 1988 to 1989.

Plot

Christine is a news anchor in her 40s. After a surprise birthday party given by her husband Marc, she begins to wonder about losing her job to someone younger. Once she hears a supposedly younger reporter named Shauna is actually past forty and incredibly young-looking, she learns about this new substance, a bottled water called "Aqua Vita" which has the ability to make one look younger with its use. She is finally convinced and orders it, and is amazed by the results.

Christine soon learns that, although the first batch is free, the following shipments cost more and more. She begins to spend massive amounts of money in order to keep up with the steadily rising prices and ensure delivery. An unfortunate side effect of Aqua Vita is that ceasing drinking the water daily results in rapid aging. When this effect becomes apparent in Shauna, Marc confronts Christine and he tells her that no matter what he loves her. They contemplate what to do next; he decides to drink the remaining water in order to join her in old age.

Closing narration

“

There is indeed a fountain of youth, but not the one Ponce de Leon dreamed of. The true fountain of youth lies in the human heart, and its healing properties are without price. An oasis flowing everfresh from the headwaters...of the Twilight Zone.

”

External links

TV.com Twilight Zone episode Aqua Vita

v t e The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message From Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "The Wall" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "Cat and Mouse" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Special Service" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Father and Son Game"

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