Essence

To this point, the bulk of SUSPENSE episodes have been of the horror variety. However, here we get a good old-fashioned mystery story- albeit one that is actually quite horrifying if you stop and think about what's at the core of it. Anyway, this is a solid episode that would have been very much at home as an episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'. The acting is solid across the board...Adrienne Wilkinson and Elizabeth Gracen play their parts appropriately 'big', which makes Skyler Caleb's understated performance more effective. As for Dana Perry-Hayes, she does a nice job of portraying an elderly woman who has a little more steel in her backbone than meets the eye.