Grace Note (The Twilight Zone)
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"Grace Note" is the second segment of the twenty-third episode of the first season (1985–1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone
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After coming home on a stormy day, Rosemarie finds the house empty and a note to come to the hospital. It's Mary and she's been calling for Rosemarie. Mary awakens and tells Rosemarie she wants to show her something. Mary tells her to follow the music and she'll see. Rosemarie walks out the door and down the hall until she finds herself still in the hospital, but so different. She walks outside and sees the date on the newspaper as Saturday, March 22, 1986. She hails a cab and asks to go to the Met. She finds the performance sold out and tries to buy a ticket and discovers SHE is the one singing onstage, to an audience who loves her. After the performance, she manages to get backstage to see her future self and runs into her other sister Dorothy. As she puts on a pendant with Mary's picture in it, the future Rosemarie remembers...
Rosemarie, from 1966, hurries back to the hospital and her own time, so that Mary gives her a present for her upcoming birthday—a pendant with Mary's picture in it. Mary says that it was her wish to see that she would be the big opera star and to never forget her, after she's gone...
The New Twilight Zone
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Synopsis
It is March 1966 and Rosemarie Miletti is hurrying to her singing lesson. Her teacher, Maestro Barbieri, tries to encourage her more as she tries to break into opera. However, he must comfort her as she explains how, as the oldest child, she must put her family's needs before her own and her sister Mary's leukemia is out of remission. After her lesson and a day of work, Rosemarie comes home to her mother's incessant chatter, getting the family ready for dinner, and checking on Mary. Mary makes Rosemarie promise that when she becomes a big opera star that she won't forget about her, after she's gone.After coming home on a stormy day, Rosemarie finds the house empty and a note to come to the hospital. It's Mary and she's been calling for Rosemarie. Mary awakens and tells Rosemarie she wants to show her something. Mary tells her to follow the music and she'll see. Rosemarie walks out the door and down the hall until she finds herself still in the hospital, but so different. She walks outside and sees the date on the newspaper as Saturday, March 22, 1986. She hails a cab and asks to go to the Met. She finds the performance sold out and tries to buy a ticket and discovers SHE is the one singing onstage, to an audience who loves her. After the performance, she manages to get backstage to see her future self and runs into her other sister Dorothy. As she puts on a pendant with Mary's picture in it, the future Rosemarie remembers...
Rosemarie, from 1966, hurries back to the hospital and her own time, so that Mary gives her a present for her upcoming birthday—a pendant with Mary's picture in it. Mary says that it was her wish to see that she would be the big opera star and to never forget her, after she's gone...