Story:A woman returns to her parents new apartment immediately after an abortion. Mom and Dad are worried about her zombie like appearance and her new ability to speak French. Also disturbing is her fascination with caring for the \"little boy\". While the building maintenance man relates the story to Mom about how the apartment is haunted, Dad goes off to find her boyfriend and bring him to the apartment. When they arrive, they find that the daughter has lapsed into a coma. Amazingly, after summoning the doctor, she snaps out of it and acts as if nothing has happened.
The boyfriend relates that he used to live in this very apartment, and that his first wife jumped to her death while holding his son from this very balcony. Of course he met his wife during his service in the war - she was French you see.


Comment: I listened to this while on a short trip the other day, and I haven\'t had time to review the episode for character names and in-depth details. I remember reading a review of this episode years ago where the author posited that this tale was a statement against abortion. I\'m not so sure. Although I agree that the psychological trauma of the daughter could have been achieved using other methods, including childbirth, I think abortion was used because it was on the lips of most news discussions at the time. My belief is based on my inability to find a true moral to this story.
The father character is fairly well played, with the emotion believable, but the other characters are bland and not well \"fleshed out.\" I thought the storyline quite mediocre, and the dialogue uninspiring - merely words between conceptual storyline points. I expressed some reservations about Elspeth Eric\'s work in other comments.<br>