Every now and again, Ester (Norma Crane) suffers from outbreaks of a
terrible fever, and on the saqme day, somewhere in the country a boarding
school, convent school or orphanage is burned down. Now this has to
be aweird coincidence since Ester is always well-watched during her
feverish nights and thus couldn't have been at the scene of the crime ...
and yet she claims she has something to do with it, or rather her evil
twin sister, Emily, whom she has never told anyone about. Everybody,
including ester's husband Bill (Grant Williams) thinks Ester's crazy or
has at least gone a bit off the hook, but then Emily actually calls Bill,
and shortly thereafter Ester predicts a fire in New York - which actually
breaks out shortly thereafter. Now this makes the police chief Wilson
(Dort Clark) go look for Emily - but he only finds out that Emily has died
years ago in a burning orphanage, and he finds enough witnesses to believe
that beyond a doubt. But then, what about the phonecall and the New York
fire? These things were real. Eventually, Bill persuades Ester, who
claims she can somehow and sometimes mindcontrol her sister, to will Emily
to come to her hometown. Bill wants to pick her up at the trainstation,
and he really meets a woman who's a dead ringer for his wife, but before
he can even talk to her, she has set the trainstation on fire and died in
the fire. Bill returns home and finds his wife in her home burned to
death, even though there was no fire. This is where host John Newland
steps in and explains that Ester could actually create a second body of
herself who started all the fires when she was suffering from fever ... The
rather silly ending aside, this is actually a pretty creepy episode that
manages to make the most out of its rather low budget and limited sets,
and that's carried by an at least competent cast, among whom not even
Norma Crane's overacting seems out of place.
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