I agree with other reviewers who have stated that this was a 20 minute idea stretched to 40. I always like watching Jimmi Simpson -his charm and presence got me through the first 3/4 of the episode. Then the final act happened and it all fell apart. We are supposed to believe that Annie wanted Phil to kill her husband all along. Somehow Phil stumbles across her home despite her vague descriptions. Phil confronts the homeowner, asking straight out if he has kidnapped Annie, and then ends up killing him. Annie appears and acts like she doesn't know what is happening and freaks out, calling the cops. We are then given a bit of a fake out that maybe Phil had genuinely been hearing voices (which would have been a more plausible and heartbreaking ending.) But no - turns out this was all part of Annie's plan to have her husband killed. Way too contrived! And given that their psychic connection still exists at the end of the episode, this means she will be stuck with Phil constantly in her head making her life miserable for setting him up. Makes no logical sense. The original Twilight Zone was more like a modern version of Aesop's Fables, whereby the twist at the end would impart some kind of lesson. What is the lesson here? And why does Phil deserve this?
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