Anne Henderson is the young daughter of a well-to-do family who is engaged to be married to an up and coming investment banker Robert.\u00a0 One morning she goes horseback riding on the family estate and a strange middle-aged woman wearing a black cape and riding outfit on a black horse spies her from the top of the hill and screeches something frantically at Anne and starts galloping madly toward Anne.\u00a0 Anne flees from her at top speed and barely escapes from the woman who keeps screaming incoherently at her.<\/p>\n
When Anne arrives home, she dissolves into tears and chokes out her story as her parents and fianc\u00e9 try to console her.\u00a0 When she finishes her story, her father calls the police and assures her the woman will be caught.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile someone rings the doorbell and as an altercation is heard with the butler Anne realizes that her former boyfriend David is at the door and demanding to speak to her.\u00a0 Against the wishes of everyone else she agrees to speak to him.\u00a0 Her father warns David that he has one minute to conclude his conversation and leave before the police will be summoned.<\/p>\n
David begs Anne to break off her engagement to Robert and marry David.\u00a0 She claims she can\u2019t and when she attempts to run up the stairs David restrains her.\u00a0 When Robert intervenes, David pushes him away and Mr. Henderson produces a revolver and warns David that he will certainly shoot him if David does not leave immediately.\u00a0 David leaves.<\/p>\n
The scene fades out to the same external location with caped woman in black arriving at the Henderson home.\u00a0 It\u2019s Anne twenty-five years later.\u00a0 She is aged, bitter and alcoholic.\u00a0 Her mother is still living there with Anne and her husband.\u00a0 Mr. Henderson has passed away.\u00a0 Anne reviles his memory to her mother blaming him for not forcing her to grow up and learn common sense.\u00a0 Mrs. Henderson slaps Anne\u2019s face but Anne slaps her right back.\u00a0 Anne now tells her mother that once again today she has seen her younger self riding on the property and once again she has relived that scene, she remembers from her past but from the point of view of the woman in black.\u00a0 She is chasing her younger self trying to warn her not to marry her present husband.\u00a0 And now we meet Anne\u2019s husband.\u00a0 It\u2019s David (shocking reveal)!\u00a0 He\u2019s also alcoholic and maudlin.\u00a0 They\u2019re about to lose the house because of his spendthrift ways.\u00a0 And they hate each other sincerely.<\/p>\n
Next scene we go back twenty-five years again to the night after the events seen.\u00a0 The Hendersons are giving an engagement party for Robert and Anne.\u00a0 Anne goes out on the front porch obviously bored with the proceedings.\u00a0 When Robert comes out to join her, she asks him to go inside and get her a jacket for the cold air.\u00a0 When he leaves David appears in the distance and calls Anne over.\u00a0 She runs to him and hugs him.\u00a0 He begs her to run away and marry him.\u00a0 She agrees and they run into the night.<\/p>\n
Back twenty-five years later Anne jumps back onto her horse and just in case we haven\u2019t had enough she relives the pursuit of her young self again.<\/p>\n
Is Rod Serling channeling one of the Bronte sisters?\u00a0 This story sucks.\u00a0 None of the characters is likeable or even interesting.\u00a0 Bah!\u00a0 C-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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