The "cursed object of the week" is almost secondary this time around: a "trephinator" that enables one man's brain to be transferred into another's, leaving the "donor" practically a vegetable that will die within hours and making the recipient smarter. That part of the story is not very well thought out - for example, Denis Forest's character is supposed to have "the I.Q. of a house plant" at the start, but what he does even before the trephinator is put to work is hardly the work of a retarded man. Anyway, what matters most in "Brain Drain" is the love story between Jack and an old flame of his whom he hadn't seen in 20 years (played by Carrie Snodgress). Chris Wiggins puts a lot of emotion into his role, making Jack look almost like a lovestruck schoolboy at times. The ending is inevitable (we know that Jack won't get married) but sad, and Jack's last few words are beautifully written. *** out of 4.
Review of Brain Drain
