Alan Talbot (George Grizzard, The Chaser from Season 1) is in love, and even though he’s only known Jessica (Gail Kobe, A World of Difference, also from Season 1 and The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross from Season 5) for four days, he wants her to know everything about him, so they’ve made plans to go back to his hometown.
The only problem is that once he gets there, nothing is as he remembers it. The buildings aren’t in the same place, his house isn’t his, and he can’t even find the place where his parents are buried. So they go back to the city and he looks up the names that were on the grave where he thought his parents should be and he finds another name, and he goes to find that person. The person he finds holds a secret, for he looks just like Alan, and he has a story to tell.
As it turns out, Walter Ryder Jr. created Alan just a week ago, and he filled Alan with memories of the town, but the memories are twenty years old – so that’s why the town doesn’t match with what it is like now. When Alan finds out, he cannot cope, and then he is furious, and finally he knows what he must do. Since Walter wants to create the perfect man, he gives him his chance, and he sacrifices himself so that Walter may take his place, and have Jessica, which Walter does. The story isn’t bad, but the ending is a bit weak.
