History Recap / TheTwilightZone1985S1E5IfSheDiesYeGods

The widowed Paul Marano devotes as much of his time and energy as he can to his only daughter Cathy. Things unfortunately take a turn for the worse when the pair are caught in a car accident. While Paul survives with minor injuries, Cathy ends upin a coma. Unable to bear life without his little girl, Paul soon glimpses a different little girl on the roof of a local orphange. When he learns that this girl, Sarah, died many years ago, Paul theorizes that she may be working to help save Cathy's life.

* MeetCute: Todd and the woman who Cupid makes him fall in love with when they bump into each other at café. At the end of the episode, they meet once again when the woman crashes her car into Todd's. Having realized that they were meant to be together, they kiss in the middle of the street.

* CuteGhostGirl: Paul spots the ghost of Sarah, a young girl, on the roof of St. Amelia's Orphanage, but she disappears as soon as he turns his head. When he tells St. Agnes, a nun who works there, he learns that the orphanage is having a rummage sale, so he buys an antique wooden bed. That night, Sarah visits him in his bedroom, telling him that she's looking for Toby. The next morning, Paul pays a visit to the orphanage, where St. Agnes tells him that Sarah lived in the oprhanage and died of tuberculois in the same bed he bought yesterday many years earlier, her teddy bear Toby being her prized possession. Paul realizes that Sarah was helping him try to save Cathy by telling him to place his comatose daughter in the bed with Toby. When he does so, Cathy instantaneously makes a full recovery.

-> ''"What if Paul Marano had turned right instead of left? Hit the brakes a millisecond quicker? Or if, if, if... The word ticks like a crazy clock trying to reclaim a single tragic second -- from the Twilight Zone."''

-> ''"The delicate thistledown of romance blows willy-nilly in the scented breeze of chance. On the other hand, perhaps true love is just a crap shoot with the dice loaded and the odds rigged from on high Mount Olympus, a condo for immortals in that subdivision called -- The Twilight Zone."''

* KarmaHoudini: The cyclist who causes the car accident in the first place dissappears after it happens, and it's unknown whether he was questioned about the incident.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sarah wears a nightgown and has no shoes, given that she died in bed.

When his daughter gets into a coma, a man sees the ghost of a little girl.

After a man angers Cupid, the man decides to help Cupid with his own relationship problems.

!!This episode contains the following tropes:
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[[folder:If She Dies]]
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Paul Marano gets into a car accident on his birthday. He is uninjured but his young daughter Cathy ends up in a coma.
* CuteGhostGirl: Paul Marano sees a young girl on the roof of St. Amelia's Orphanage but she disappears as soon as he turns his head. When he tells a nun named St. Agnes, he learns that the orphanage is having a rummage sale as it is closing down and buys an antique wooden bed. As he leaves, Paul sees the strange girl again. That night, the girl visits him in his bedroom, telling him that she is looking for Toby. The next morning, he pays a visit to the convent and St. Agnes tells him that there was a girl named Sarah who died of tuberculois in the bed many years earlier. Her teddy bear Toby was her prize possession. Paul realizes that Sarah was trying to tell him to place his comatose daughter Cathy in the bed with Toby so that she could restored to health. He does so and Cathy recovers almost instantly.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison / GrandTheftMe / WhamLine: The first thing Cathy does after waking up at the end? She asks for Toby... despite not being able to know the bear's name...
* TitleDrop: Paul Marano's young daughter Cathy is in a coma. He twice laments "if she dies" to Dr. Brice, meaning that he can't face life without her.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Paul Marano speculates that the soul of Sarah, who died of tuberculois decades earlier, has not moved onto {{Heaven}} yet as {{God}} wants her to save the life of his comatose daughter Cathy.

[[folder:Ye Gods]]
* AllMythsAreTrue: Todd Ettinger discovers that Cupid, Megaera, Bacchus, Jupiter and all of the other gods and demigods of Myth/ClassicalMythology really exist.
* {{Animorphism}}: Megaera turned Cupid's lover Drusilla into a tree frog as she was angry that Cupid had cheated on her.
* DeathOfTheOldGods: Cupid tells Todd Ettinger that the gods and demigods of Myth/ClassicalMythology did not go away after the fall of UsefulNotes/AncientGreece and UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. They continue to exist but take little interest in the affairs of mortals, considering that they no longer believe in them. However, some such as Bacchus live on Earth. Under the name Ed Bacchus, he owns a wine label called Olympus Wines.
* {{Dominatrix}}: {{Implied|Trope}}. Todd Ettinger's friend Peter offers to set him up with a woman that he knows who is into some strange things. Todd turns down the offer as he wants a more substantial relationship with a woman.
* GodCouple: Cupid and Megaera were a couple in the late 19th or early 20th century until he cheated on her with a mortal woman named Drusilla. After Cupid convinced Jupiter to turn Drusilla into a demigod, Megaera [[{{Animorphism}} turned her into a tree frog]]. Todd Ettinger realizes that the only way that he can either meet the woman with whom Cupid has made him fall in love or have his intense love for her lifted is to help Cupid and Megaera patch up their differences. When he lures the two of them into his office and traps them there with a smell given to him by Baachus, Cupid apologizes and they resume their relationship. As a reward, Cupid arranges for Todd to run into the woman once again.
* IHaveManyNames: Todd Ettinger does not recognize the name Bacchus until he looks it up in a book on Myth/ClassicalMythology and learns that he was the Roman god of wine, known to the Greeks as Dionysus. Todd soon discovers that he runs Olympus Wines in downtown UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
* LockedInARoom: Todd Ettinger uses a spell provided by Bacchus to trap Cupid and Megaera in his office so that they can reconcile. They eventually manage to do so and get back together.
* MeetCute: Todd Ettinger and the woman with whom Cupid makes him fall in love first meet when they bump into each other at the reception of an outdoor café. At the end of the episode, they meet again when the woman crashes her car into Todd's. Having realized that they are meant to be together, they kiss in the middle of the street.
* NoNameGiven: The woman with whom Todd Ettinger falls in love after being struck by Cupid's arrow (four times) is never named.
* SummoningRitual: Todd Ettinger uses a spell provided by Bacchus to summon Megaera, one of the Furies, to his apartment in order to convince her to get back together with Cupid.
* TitleDrop: Todd Ettinger says "Ye gods!" after he [[SummoningRitual summons]] the Fury Megaera to his apartment.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison / WhamLine: The first thing Cathy does after waking up at the end? She asks for Toby... despite not being able to know the bear's name...

* YourCheatingHeart: Cupid cheated on Megaera with a mortal woman named Drusilla. As a result, Megaera broke up with him and [[{{Animorphism}} turned Drusilla into a tree frog]].

After a man angers Cupid, the man decides to help Cupid with his own relationship problems.