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6/10
Writing on the wall
sol-kay19 July 2012
***SPOILERS*** Given his big chance to become a lifetime member of the A Street Duces street gang where a member's lifetime in the gang rarely exceeds 25 years Marcus Fisher, Todd Williams, is given the assignment by the gang leader Sting, Adrian Holmes, to knock off street artist Henry Santos, Davey Laurie. It's Santos who's has been dissing the Duces by painting over their graffiti with his own masterpiece's . Not really having his heart in it but desperately wanting to be accepted as a Duce Marcus confronts Santos doing one of his masterpieces and demands he stop his painting. As things turned out Santos in him foolishly grabbing Marcus's gun ended up killing himself with it!

Now a member in good standing with the Duces Marcus is troubled in him killing someone that he actually didn't want to kill. It was his victim Santos who in fact forced him, by grabbing his gun and pulling Marcus' trigger finger, to shoot him. Strange things started to happen to Marcus as the unfinished painting that Santo was drawing started to get finished all by itself! With Santos lying dead in the street and an unknown, or not yet painted in, assailant standing over him gun in hand! It's gang counselor and former gang member Rosas, Paul Rodriguez, who's on to what Marcus did and tries to get him to turn himself in before the mean city streets swallows him up for good!

***SPOILERS*** In a last desperate effort to hide his guilt Marcus tries to white wash over the incriminating painting that seems to being worked on by Santos' ghost only to have his white paint evaporate and the full vision, the killers or Marcus' face, of who killed Santos appear on the mural! Finally taking a sledge hammer and knocking in the wall where Santos' painting is Marcus is shocked to find out that it's now appearing on his chest! Marcus finally turns himself over to Rosas who's to take him gingerly down to he police station to be booked in Santo's death as well as him getting desperately needed psychiatric help from a court appointed psychiatrist!

P.S In the end Marcus finally did get the help that he needed by turning himself in by both having his conscience cleared and at the same time having the painting of his shooting Henry Santos suddenly disappear or clear off his body!
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7/10
"You're afraid of the truth, aren't you?"
classicsoncall17 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This story may have you thinking of "The Picture of Dorian Gray", but that comparison only goes so far. A graffiti artist attempting to paint over gang related graphics is confronted by a would-be gang member in a sort of initiation rite to see if he can cut it. When Marcus Fisher (Todd Williams) accidentally shoots and kills Henry Santos (Darcy Laurie), it sets up a chain reaction in which the wall which was being painted begins to transform into a scene of the murder, with Santos lying dead on the ground, and the image of Marcus gradually taking shape to tell the story of the confrontation. While members of the Deuces Gang welcome Marcus for his ambiguous heroics, he himself is consumed with guilt and the certainty that he will be identified and arrested for the crime. A street wise counselor (Paul Rodriguez) tries to break through Fisher's denial of the event, and eventually succeeds after further unsuccessful attempts to whitewash the images and even destroy the wall itself. As mysterious as the self fulfilling image is, the episode ends without irony as Marcus finally confesses to shooting Santos, thereby relieving himself the burden of guilt for taking a life, but knowing that he'll have to serve time for an act he was pushed into by the Deuces.
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6/10
A senseless killing....and the weird evidence.
planktonrules15 February 2022
Senseless gang murder painting fnished...with dead man in it.

The episode begins with a street gang noticing that someone is over painting the wall they recently tagged. The guy is simply wanting to create art and get rid of this gang sign. Marcus is pushed by the gang to 'man up'....to confront this street artist. But, oddly, the artist won't stop painting over the wall and he insists he's going to make a work of art...period. Soon there is a scuffle and the artist is accidentally killed by Marcus. But, because his gang friends saw this from a distance, they thought Marcus was tough and the applaud him for killing the guy.

Later, the partially painted wall begins to somehow continue painting the mural...but slowly there is a painting of Marcus killing the artist! This, combined with Marcus' conscience push him to the breaking point.

This is a decent but unremarkable episode...worth seeing but far from a must-see. My only real complaint is how sanitized the gang looks...as if it was a gang that would allow Urkel to join if he wanted!
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1/10
Excreted
talllwoood133 July 2023
I'm sorry this wasn't a Twilight Zone episode! This is just some awful after school special or one of those movies you get kids to watch to get them to stay out of the gang life. The person(s) who bought the rights to The Twilight Zone for this one particular reboot were so out of touch and had no idea what they were doing half the time. I hope this was straight to VHS or DVD as this is just embarrassing. Rod Serling wouldn't even wipe with this script.

The acting is extremely hit and miss. The character has some heart so it's realistic how guilt can happen to even the strongest of people who aren't sociopaths and or psychopaths but just the way that he admits to his guilt at first as he hints around the neighborhood is about as Twilight Zone as Tupac is a country artist.
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8/10
A Club You Want to Not Be In
Hitchcoc10 July 2017
A tagged, a street artist, finds a man redoing his art on a wall. He gets angry and confronts the guy, who ignores him. A gun is pulled and the stranger is accidentally killed. This leads to a street gang embracing the killer; it's as if he has passed an initiation. Now the painting begins to change showing the murder. No matter how much effort to cover up the painting, it keeps coming back with more detail. This leads to severe worry and guilt. This kid is admired by everyone in his culture, and he feels he has no right to the attention. The painting continues to evolve until it is clear who the murderer is. Pretty well done copy of a rather hackneyed theme.
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