Her Pilgrim Soul

Infobox Television episode
Title = Her Pilgrim Soul
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Scene from Her Pilgrim Soul
Season = 1
Episode = 12, Segment 1
Airdate = December 13, 1985
Production =
Writer = Alan Brennert
Director = Wes Craven
Guests = Kristoffer Tabori : Kevin Drayton
Anne Twomey : Nola Granville
Gary Cole : Daniel
Wendy Girard : Carol
Katherine Wallach : Susan
Richard McGonagle : Lester
Betsy Licon : Nola (age 5)
Danica McKellar : Nola (age 10)
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
Next = I of Newton

"Her Pilgrim Soul" is the first segment of the twelfth episode from the television series "The New Twilight Zone". The title is a literary allusion to When You Are Old, a poem by William Butler Yeats.

This was made into a one-act stage musical by Alan Menken and paired with James Tiptree, Jr's "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" as a stage production titled "Weird Romance: Two One Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction". The James Tiptree Jr. story "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" was made into an episode of the short-lived SCI FI Channel anthology series "Welcome to Paradox".

ynopsis

Two scientists create a holographic projector. One day a fetus appears in the projector. The two watch as the fetus matures into a woman, growing at a rate of ten years a day. They find out that Nola, as she calls herself, was once a young woman who lived in the early twentieth century.

Kevin, the lead scientist, begins to fall in love with this impossible creation. He begins spending more time at the lab than at home, his home life deteriorating over the few days. During day five, an adult Nola relives a miscarriage of losing a baby girl. The other scientist, Dan, later discovers the miscarriage was the cause of Nola's death in real life and that Robert, Nola's real life husband, never forgave himself for her death. As the holographic Nola ages and nears her farewell, she uses a voice modifier machine to call Kevin's wife. Posing as Kevin, Nola tells her to come pick him up. In the final conversation between Kevin and Nola, it is revealed that Kevin is a reincarnate of Robert. Nola fades away, as Kevin's wife enters the lab as they have an emotional reunion.

Closing narration

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/her-pilgrim-soul/episode/34368/summary.html TV.com - The Twilight Zone (1985) episode: Her Pilgrim Soul ]

References

*Zicree, Marc Scott: "The Twilight Zone Companion". Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)