- A distraught widow on the verge of a mental breakdown discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of the killer.
- Stanley Coe has been convicted for the murder of Nicholas Janus. The judge announces that the jury has recommended that the death penalty not be used as punishment for Coe. She sentences Coe to a prison term of 15 years to life for the murder. As Coe is led away, Nick's widow, Laurel (Portia de Rossi) rages her anger that Coe will be allowed to live.
The narrator tells how Laurel was born into a life of wealth and privilege, but her husband's death has shattered her idyllic world, and she is now consumed with a quest for justice.
Laurel grabs the district attorney, who prosecuted the case; accusing him of blowing it. The DA, Lew Gallo, insists that Coe having been convicted at all, based on the evidence used, was a win for Laurel. Calming down a bit, Laurel begs for the clothing her husband had worn on the night of his murder. Lew says he'll see what he can do.
Laurel's best friend, Becca Niles (Kristin Lehman), offers to drive Laurel home, but she declines, saying she's okay. This despite having only gotten sober sixteen weeks ago after having been drinking and popping pills. But she gratefully thanks Becca for having been there.
As Laurel gets in her car, she anxiously fingers a bag containing some of her husband's personal effects. She smiles as she takes Nick's glasses out of the bag, and puts them on her dashboard. But her smile turns to tears as she holds his watch, a gift from Laurel. On the back of the watch is a custom inscription Laurel had requested, proclaiming her love for him.
Laurel blinks suddenly, staring at Nick's glasses. Picking them up, she slowly puts them on. Glancing at her rear-view mirror, she's startled as she thinks she sees Nick's face in the mirror. She plucks the glasses off, looking spooked.
Laurel tells Becca about it, and insists that even though she knows it couldn't have been real, it felt so real that she wished she hadn't been sober, because then she'd have a good excuse to explain the experience. Becca glances around at all the newspaper clippings devoted to Nick's murder and the trial of Coe, and tells Laurel that the only way to get past her grief is to let go and move on. She needs to get rid of all the clippings, and donate her husband's things to charity.
Laurel starts to do as Becca suggested, packing things away meticulously. But she can't pack away the glasses and finds herself staring at them intermittently while packing up the boxes. Finally, she's haunted enough that she puts them on again. She sees nothing out of the ordinary, however, and takes them back off.
But as she starts to put the boxes on the curb to be picked up by sanitation, the glasses continue to haunt her, as if calling out to her. She puts them on again and sees a vision of Nick arriving home and finding Coe waiting for him. It's shown that Nick and Coe are former business partners who have split, and Coe wants to know why Nick hadn't been returning his phone calls. Nick, distracted, only says that he must have forgotten to check his answering machine. Looking frightened, Laurel plucks off the glasses. She staggers back into the house, holding her head. Although she appears to have a splitting headache, she puts the glasses back on again.
She sees Nick and Coe arguing inside the house. Coe is confronting Nick on keeping separate books in the business, bleeding the company dry, even having stolen from Coe himself. Coe believes that Laurel is the reason for this; Nick had recently checked her back into rehab, and Coe is aware of her being very used to a pampered lifestyle. Nick demands that Coe leave her out of the issue, and insists he never stole a dime from the company.
Laurel sees Nick and Coe both reach for something on a nearby counter, and believes she's reliving the moment of Nick's murder. She grabs the glasses and pulls them off, her face twisted in pain.
Laurel again tells Becca about the experience, now convinced that the eyeglasses are allowing her to see Nick's final moments. One thing about the fight doesn't make sense, however-- the vision Laurel saw was in the house's living room, but when the police found Nick's body, it was in the upstairs bathroom. Although not very believing about the glasses showing Laurel all these things, Becca says it's possible that Coe dragged Nick's body upstairs, even though the why of it doesn't make sense. Becca finally asks Laurel why she continues to torture herself if the visions are, in fact real; she can't change anything that's happened, nor bring Nick back. Laurel finally admits she can't put it behind her. Becca offers to take Laurel along on a trip to a cabin belonging to another of Becca's friends, who has loaned it to Becca for the weekend.
But after Becca leaves, Laurel finds a message on her answering machine; it's from DA Lew Gallo's assistant. Coe has won a new trial on appeal, and Laurel will probably be needed to testify again.
Laurel thinks this is good, because now she'll have more to say and can probably convince a jury to dole out the death penalty after the conviction is upheld. She puts on Nick's glasses again and sees the altercation between Nick and Coe. Coe has Nick down on the floor and picks up a crystal trophy to hit him, but at the last minute, backs away and says that Nick isn't worth it. He puts the trophy back down and leaves. Taking the glasses off again, Laurel stares into space in horror, now believing Coe is innocent.
At the courthouse, Laurel is explaining this to Gallo, who is very unbelieving of what Laurel claims she saw. Insisting she just wants to see the person who truly killed Nick, face justice, she asks that Coe be released and a new investigation opened, but Gallo says that these 'visions' are inadmissible in court.
Back at home, Laurel puts on Nick's glasses again. She looks very apprehensive as she traces her husband's steps from the living room to the upstairs bathroom, where he treats a bruise on his cheek. He hears a noise and thinks Coe has returned, but the silhouette of a woman is seen in the doorway. Nick says, "It's you," and then "I'm glad you're here, because I really need you tonight, Becca."
Hearing Becca call her name, Laurel plucks off the glasses and steps out of the bathroom; Becca has arrived to take Laurel to the cabin. Laurel seems disoriented and Becca confronts her on wearing Nick's glasses again. She lightly grabs at Laurel's wrist, and Laurel turns, the motion causing her hand to hit the glasses against the wall and break them.
Laurel now becomes agitated, accusing Becca of breaking them on purpose and confronting her on sleeping with Nick. Becca looks heartbroken, but admits she did sleep with Nick, saying it just happened and she wishes she could take it all back. But an argument soon arises in which Becca says she thinks Nick slept with her as a way of dealing with Laurel's antics; her love of wealth and pleasure, and her constant booze-and-pills binges. Becca says she thinks Nick stole from the company because he wanted to leave Laurel but didn't want any of her lavish wealth, which came from her family.
Laurel now thinks that Becca is the one who killed Nick. She starts to stagger away from Becca, who says she came to the house to end the affair with Nick, but found Nick already dead when she arrived, and she said nothing to the police to hide the fact that she was sleeping with Nick. Laurel staggers to the bathroom and locks herself in.
As Becca pounds on the door, begging Laurel to come out and talk to her, Laurel struggles to slip the dislodged lens back into Nick's glasses and she puts them on again. She sees Nick talking to Becca, whose silhouette is still visible in the doorway. Nick says he knows Becca regrets their affair and will support whatever choice she makes, including ending it, but he's still leaving Laurel; he can't handle checking her into and out of rehab repeatedly, anymore.
Laurel sees Becca hit Nick from behind with the trophy; she sees the vision go black. She blinks repeatedly in pain and dread.
But suddenly the woman hitting Nick comes into focus, and it isn't Becca at all-- it's Laurel. She watches in utter horror, seeing herself, face twisted in rage, bashing Nick with the crystal trophy again and again.
Laurel throws the glasses aside and the cracked lens shatters. She shakes her head frantically side to side, saying, "I loved him. I couldn't have." She screams in despair, her face looking almost monstrous, as we fade to black.
Becca brings police to the mansion. They kick in the bathroom door, guns drawn. They and Becca are seen staring in near disbelief.
We cut to Laurel, smiling in a disturbing way, as she repeats, "I know who the killer is. It's me. I killed him. It's me." The camera pans out from Laurel's face to show that she's wearing a hospital gown, sitting on the floor in a padded cell. The narrator says that Laurel's vision of justice has finally come into focus, and she's now serving out her sentence in a lonely corner of The Twilight Zone.
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