"A Girl's Life"
Airdate: November 12, 1999

While walking out alone in the woods, Heather (Heather Matarazzo) is struck by lightning. Fresh from an experiment that requires him to wear a glowing suit, Michael (Eric Close) is allowed by an uncharacteristically sympathetic Dr. Morris (Dennis Haysbert) to peek in his daughter's hospital room. On the brink of death, Heather sees the glowing figure, and not recognizing Michael, mistakes him for an angel.

Things start to go badly for Heather when she relates her near death experience to a classroom full of her peers. However, while not everyone who hears and reads her tale believes, enough do to cause problem for Dr. Morris. It turns out that the believers you see are watching the skies right over the area where the experiments involving a top secret force field are supposed to take place, but because of the scrutiny, they cannot proceed.

I'm not at all comfortable with what Theo forces Michael to do, but in the end, he is proved right when he predicts that the only person that Heather needs to believe in her, her mother Lisa, will.

Again this show has managed to keep me off balance. And most of it has to do with Dr. Morris. At turns sympathetic and cold blooded, sometimes within the same scene, it's frustrating trying to get a handle on him. But of course, that's half the attraction, isn't it? I may not know where I'm going, but I sure am enjoying the ride.

-- Linda M. Najera

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