Her Pilgrim Soul

Her Pilgrim Soul is the first segment of the twelfth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Two scientists create a holographic projector. One day a fetus appears in the projector. The two watch as the fetus matures into a woman, growing at a rate of ten years a day. They find out that Nola, as she calls herself, was once a young woman who lived in the early twentieth century. They debate over wh... more

Her Pilgrim Soul is the first segment of the twelfth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Two scientists create a holographic projector. One day a fetus appears in the projector. The two watch as the fetus matures into a woman, growing at a rate of ten years a day. They find out that Nola, as she calls herself, was once a young woman who lived in the early twentieth century. They debate over whether or not Nola is a real human soul somehow reintegrated into their hologram generator. Kevin, the lead scientist, begins to fall in love with this impossible creation. He begins spending more time at the lab than at home, his home life deteriorating over the few days. She talks with Kevin about her father and how he tried to keep her burgeoning intellectual desires from flourishing. They talk about the wonderful authors, like Yeats. During day five, an adult Nola describes her pregnancy and relives a miscarriage of losing a baby girl. The... less