The science involved in this episode is pretty questionable, so it takes a leap of faith to follow the entire 'frozen time' aspect of the story. And yet time wasn't entirely frozen, but in a state of quasi-suspended animation that was proceeding along very slowly undiscernible to the naked eye. The explanation for what occurred was offered by X-15 test pilot Jim Darcy (Dewey Martin) when he stated that his plane presumably broke the time barrier while his wife (Mary Murphy) experienced a parallel event when her car crash coincided with his passing out in the cockpit. A lot of film time is eaten up by the couple running back and forth to Darcy's military base to reason out a solution to their dilemma, and the dilemma of their young daughter about to get hit by a truck once time 'catches up' with them in a couple hours of their present state. There's also a brief segment in which a ghost-like apparition appears to the couple who laments its suspended existence between past, present and future, and suggests that he just might be replaced by one of them if conditions match precisely to the millionth of a second. Ultimately, Darcy hits upon a solution to save his daughter, and as suspended time coincides with real time, the memory of what the Darcy's experienced during their brief interlude appears to have vanished. What's kind of comical however, is how it took them longer to drive back to the military base than any of the times they hoofed it back and forth!
Review of The Premonition
