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Seeing is Believing
kapelusznik1824 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS**** Cobination "Sixth Sense & Night Gallary" episode about this young data processor Julie Desmond, Tippy Walker, who at her new job suddenly gets these strange visions about her father being murdered that took place before she was born. Going to Dr. Michael Rhodes, Garry Collins, who specializes in these type of matters, life before birth and after death, it becomes apparent in the evidence that Julie presents that she may be on to something. The one thing that doesn't quite check out in Juie's story is her fathers murder that she's been told about from her legally blind mom Mrs. Ruth Desmond, June Allyson, since she was born.

Dr. Rhodes in checking out Julie's story and the fate of her dad finds out that a number of things just doesn't quite check out. Not in who murdered Mr. Desmond but that he in fact hasn't been murdered like Julie, or Julie's mom, says he was but that he was actually the murderer. And even more strange he's alive and well, if you can call it that, in the state prison serving a life sentence for murder! This fact had been kept from Julie by her mom Mrs. Desmond who didn't want her to know that her "dead" father was in fact not only alive but a convicted murderer at that!

SPOILERS*** The "kicker" or truth to this strange tale of the supernatural is that what Julie saw was not her father being murdered but the person who murdered, in action and in living color, the man that her father was convicted of murdering! You wounder why a smart and intelligent girl like Julie never bothered to check up on her fathers so-called death all these years and see it was and old wives tale made up by her mother. Who's attempt to keep the truth from her daughter about her dad being behind bars for murder caused her through supernatural means to not only prove his innocence but reveal the person who's crime he's paying, with a life sentence, for!
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Kids are people too!
stones7827 September 2013
Forgive the corny summary line, but this episode has an aspect I don't think I've ever seen or heard about before, even if it wasn't carried out as perfectly as I would've liked. It starts with a painting of a daughter's adult head inside her mother's stomach, and it's revealed that this woman named Julie(Tippy Walker, in her final acting gig)actually saw how her father Frank Moore(Michael Strong)was framed for a murder he didn't commit; she sees this while as a baby in her mother's womb! The blind mother, Ruth Desmond, is played by a familiar face in June Allyson, although her role was more secondary to her daughter's. Regarding the murder, it turns out that the real murderer, not Frank, killed someone involved in extortion, and Frank tried to get in the way, but was knocked unconscious and a gun was put in his hand. It took Julie and Dr. Rhodes to share this vision in order to convince her mother that her husband is innocent, considering that Julie was lied to and was told that her father died, instead of being in prison. All in all, this was simply another solid episode with another wrinkle added in.
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