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** Adric's debut story ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle "Full Circle"]]) and his swansong ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]]) both show him clutching the belt which once belonged to his late brother, Varsh. In the first instance, Varsh's friend, Keara, gives the belt to Adric after removing it from Varsh's body. In the second, Adric, knowing his own death is imminent, takes off the belt and holds it in his hands as the space freighter on which he is trapped crashes into the prehistoric Earth, [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed causing the extinction of the dinosaurs]].

* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' begins and ends with a conversation between two detectives as they're wandering through a dark alley trying to find a piece of evidence. The conversation is the same in both cases ("If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home..." "That's the problem with this job; got nothin' to do with life.") and one of the detectives appears in both.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': In the Season 4 premiere "Rise", Beckett is sitting on a [[TraumaSwing swing]], explaining to Castle how she had [[BrokenBird placed a wall around her heart after her mother's murder]]. In Season 4 finale "Always", she is sitting alone on that swing, having resigned from the NYPD after her suspension, looking at the empty swing next to her and [[LoveEpiphany thinking of Castle]], as the last remnants of the wall around her heart are [[RedemptionInTheRain washed away in the rain]].

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E103InHisImage In His Image]]", Alan Talbot comes to Jessica Connelly's apartment and jokes that he belongs to the Junior Woodchucks in the first scene after the prologue. In the final scene, Walter Ryder, Jr. does the same thing.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E141SpurOfTheMoment Spur of the Moment]]" begins and ends with a rider in black chasing a rider in white and a narration that begins "This is the face of fear..."
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]" begins with Major Ivan Kuchenko picking up a telephone handset and ends with him hanging up a telephone handset. In the first example, he's getting a call from Commissar Valisoff, who has planted a bomb in the room, and in the second example, he’s sending a call to Valisoff to kill him with said bomb.

** In the first scene of "Memories", Mary [=McNeal=] is using hypnosis to regress Lorraine Gustin to one of her past lives where she was a dressmaker whose shop was raided and burned by British soldiers during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. In the final scene, Mary uses hypnosis to help Ruth Gordon forget all of her memories of her past lives so that she can lead a happier life.
** At the start of "20/20 Vision", Warren Cribbens gains the [[SuperPowersForADay temporary ability]] to [[{{Seers}} see into the future]] when he bumps into Sandy and she breaks the right lens of his glasses. At the end of the episode, he catches her from falling off a ladder and the left lens is broken, which causes him to lose this ability.
** In the first scene of "There Was an Old Woman", the children's author Hallie Parker is saddened because no one has turned up to her last storytime session in the local library. She feels that she has [[AgeAppropriateAngst outlived her usefulness]] and her books have lost their appeal. In the final scene, she discovers that her books meant a great deal to Brian Harris and other deceased children, whose ghosts ask her to read to them.

** The Doctor's exile on earth is both [[Recap/DoctorWhos6E7TheWarGames handed out by]] and [[DoctorWhos10e1TheThreeDoctors lifted]] by the same Time Lord, played both times by Clyde Pollitt.

** The Doctor's exile on earth is both [[Recap/DoctorWhos6E7TheWarGames handed out by]] and [[DoctorWhos10e1 lifted]] by the same Time Lord, played both times by Clyde Pollitt.

** Also, in the pilot, when Henry dies and reappears naked in the East River, he tells the police officers on shore, "It's a long story." In the final episode, "The Last Death of Henry Morgan," [[spoiler: Jo shows him a picture of Henry, a young Abigail, and baby Abe which she found in the abandoned subway tunnel along with Henry's watch. When she asks him to explain it, he looks pole-axed a moment, exchanges a nervous glance with Abe, takes a derp breath, and tells Jo, "[[ArcWords It's a long story.]]" ]]

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/Forever2014'', Henry's anonymous caller tells Henry, "We're soul mates, Henry. We have eternity together. Might as well have some fun with it." At the end of the season, [[spoiler: after Henry has induced locked-in syndrome in Adam, he quietly tells him, "Don't worry, we'll find a way out of this. We've got eternity together."]]