CROSSING ZONE: A TRACT ON THE PUPPET PEOPLE (PART FOUR)

Wednesday's Child is full of woe.....

"Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an Army major -

a collection of question marks.

Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness.

No logic, no reason, no explanation;

just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness,

and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows.

In a moment, we'll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres.

We will not end the nightmare, we'll only explain it - because this is the Twilight Zone."

DOLL:
The Ballerina

BASED ON:

Susan Harper

PORTRAYED BY:

Susan Harrison

COMMISSIONED BY:

Mr. & Mrs. Harper

REASON IT WAS NEVER PICKED UP:

The death of Susan

The Harpers thought it might make for a nice 18th birthday present to give their daughter Susan a ballerina doll that looked like her.

Sadly, Susan was murdered by a masked mad man in the park, in the small-town New York suburb where she lived. The killer was a copycat, taking advantage of the original "crime" in which Susan was attacked in that same park.

The thing was.... Susan was never attacked in the first place. She faked it all just for the attention. And when the publicity began to fade, and instead revert back to Marjorie Stone, the popular girl in class, Susan killed Marjorie so that the attention would once again be hers alone. She hoped that Tom, the "big man on campus" who was going to be the prom king, might even ask her to the prom now that her rival Marjorie was dead.

After her death, Susan's parents could not bear to be reminded of her, and so they never went back into Manhattan for the doll.

SHOWS CITED:

'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' - "The Gloating Place"

BCnU!