Spur of the Moment
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“Spur of the Moment″ is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone
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Twenty-five years later, Mitchell is a dissolute failure, who has driven the ranch Anne's late father left her into bankruptcy
, and himself and Anne to alcoholism
. Anne has a fight with her husband and goes horseback riding, where she sees herself as a young woman on a horse. She now realizes that she was the terrifying woman in black who had frantically chased her younger self, not to threaten but to warn her not to make the mistake of eloping with Mitchell. Unfortunately, the older Anne is unintelligible to the younger Anne. Anne is her own "ghostly double"
, who, whenever horseback riding, can see her younger self. However, try as she might she can never catch up, and thus can never change her past/future.
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
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Synopsis
A young woman, Anne, is engaged to be married to a respectable investment broker, while rebellious David Mitchell is trying to get her to elope with him. One day while horseback riding, she sees a terrifying woman dressed in black on horseback, who begins yelling at her to stop. The woman in black gallops toward her at full speed, and the young woman flees in terror, escaping her pursuer. Just before she is to be wed, Mitchell forces himself into her home past the butler, and exposes Anne's father's weakness in the face of Mitchell's overbearing, relentless presence. Mitchell convinces Anne to elope with him.Twenty-five years later, Mitchell is a dissolute failure, who has driven the ranch Anne's late father left her into bankruptcy
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....
, and himself and Anne to alcoholism
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
. Anne has a fight with her husband and goes horseback riding, where she sees herself as a young woman on a horse. She now realizes that she was the terrifying woman in black who had frantically chased her younger self, not to threaten but to warn her not to make the mistake of eloping with Mitchell. Unfortunately, the older Anne is unintelligible to the younger Anne. Anne is her own "ghostly double"
Doppelgänger
In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune...
, who, whenever horseback riding, can see her younger self. However, try as she might she can never catch up, and thus can never change her past/future.