The Outer Limits: Season 2, Episode 21

Vanishing Act (21 Jul. 1996)

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Trevor wants to celebrate New Years in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks he has abandoned her -- ten years ago.

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Trevor wants to celebrate New Years in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks he has abandoned her -- ten years ago.

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Interesting time travel story
26 August 2009 | by (Canada) – See all my reviews

I'm usually not a big fan of time travel because of the logic issues or of Jon Cryer. But I enjoyed this, there where no time travel paradoxes that I could detect and Cryer was well suited in this role.

It was interesting to see how life goes on without you, and how small things can have large impacts on the future (Chaos theory). My first child was a complete accident, that I can trace back to my mother breaking her arm. This relates to this story as the time traveller has a son during his first stop, then later the son tries to help his father. Eventually the father is able to return to his original time, thus eliminating his son's birth.


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