Directed by Mick Garris and based on his own short story. Jamie (
Henry Thomas) works in a laboratory that develops flavors for a food company. One day, he begins to suffer a series of hallucinations until he realizes that he's actually living the experiences of a woman in another city as if they were his own.
Tropes:
- Asshole Victim: Catherine's boyfriend was a domineering prick who became physically abusive when she made known her displeasure at his attempts to get her in a threesome (with a girl he was being intimate with when she arrived at his place). Possibly Catherine herself as well, as she agrees to let Jamie into her home solely to kill him because He Knows Too Much and gets killed in the ensuing scuffle.
- The Dulcinea Effect: Jamie falls in love with Catherine before actually meeting her.
- Fanservice: A man, looking through the eyes of a woman... it was bound to happen.
- How We Got Here: The episode begins with Jamie covered in blood and being interrogated by police.
- Impaled Palm: Catherine gets a blade through her hand in the final confrontation.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Jamie gets through the final scene and seemingly tells the whole story with an untreated shot through the leg.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Jamie suddenly starts seeing what an unfamiliar woman living in another part of the country is seeing. He becomes alienated from his family and tracks the woman down, thinking that they must be Mindlink Mates, but it turns out that she's just a criminal and immediately tries to kill him for knowing enough about her to put her away.
- The Unreveal: It's never answered why Jamie is mindlinked with Catherine. He thought it was to bring them together, but he was wrong.
