Episode
The Twilight Zone: Time Lapse
Overview
After an unconscious high-security patient arrives in his ward, Doctor Zack Taylor finds himself suffering from blackouts. On each occasion he wakes up partway along a byzantine assassination plot to kill the President's daughter with a plastic gun. He gets to the target's location, pulls out his gun, and...shoots an assassin behind the girl...
Details
- Series
- The Twilight Zone
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 2002-10-09
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Time Lapse is Episode 7 in Season 1 of The Twilight Zone. It aired on 2002-10-09. The runtime is 22 min.
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