Dead Man's Eyes (The Twilight Zone)
| "Dead Man's Eyes" | |
|---|---|
| The Twilight Zone (2nd revival) episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 1 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Jerry Levine |
| Written by | Frederick Rappaport |
| Production code | 108 |
| Original air date | October 9, 2002 |
| Guest actors | |
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"Dead Man's Eyes" is the eighth episode of the science fiction television series 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone. The episode was first broadcast on October 9, 2002, on UPN.
Opening narration
| “ | Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Laurel Janus has always gotten exactly what she wants. But with the murder of her husband, Laurel's life of luxury has been shattered. Now, all she wants, is to see justice done. A justice that can only be found in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
Plot summary
Laurel Janus is a distraught widow and former rehab patient on the verge of a total mental collapse. She is heavily invested in finding her husband's killer and discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of his killer.
Step by step she goes through the last minutes of his life, seeing her husband argue with his partner, the prime suspect. But she sees the suspect leave and her best friend come in — the two were having an affair. But in the end she sees who really killed her husband — herself. She had blacked it out due to her alcohol problems just as Becca arrives with two police officers. Forced to confront the truth, she goes insane and is put away in an asylum. The final scene shows Laurel in her cell repeated stating that it was her who did the crime as Forest Whitaker appears in her cell and narrates that Laurel's vision of justice has finally come into focus.
Closing narration
| “ | Laurel Janus' vision of justice has finally come into focus. The verdict: guilty... guilty of a life lived in complete denial. And now... serving out her sentence... in a lonely corner... of the Twilight Zone. | ” |
Episode notes
This episode is the third in a series of Twilight Zone episodes where clothing items from the deceased carry information from them, previously used in "Dead Man's Shoes" from the original series and "Dead Woman's Shoes" from the 1985 series. It also revisits the concept of eyeglasses which allow the wearer to view events from a different time, used in the episode "20/20 Vision" from the 1985 series.