(This takes the premise in the previously-reviewed "The men with the magic fingers" episode a bit further.)

JOHN BEAL...that's the actor's name I couldn't remember, the guy who sounds like a kindly uncle in "The ruby lamp" and "Time and again". For those of you who recall the latter (one of the RMT's absolute finest, which I'm fixin' to listen to again here at work), Beal embodied the ability to be simultaneously kindly and devious in that episode, and he duplicates the effort here.

He plays a brilliant and apparently wealthy <span><a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/scientists-and-inventors" target="_blank" title="scientist/inventor">scientist/inventor</a></span> here. A young, handsome doctor friend of his has fallen in love with Beal's stunningly gorgeous niece, Amelia. The doctor tells the scientist he wants to marry Amelia, but Beal's character says (paraphrasing Elvis) "nix, nix." He says she's a robot, designed to be irresistible to men. When the doctor calls his bluff, Beal's character proves it by sticking a pin deep into Amelia's arm. She says it didn't hurt at all. The doctor says she could have been hypnotized. Beal's character says that could be but points to her unstained arm and asks, "If she's human, where's the blood?" Cue the RMT spooky music. Remember the title "Life Blood"...it plays a role here (as blood also played a crucial role in "Time and again").

Beal's character takes care of that particular detail about his creation in the future. He also tells the doctor of the scheme he's hatched..to get "Amelia" to lure a former scientific associate (who unethically did some damage to the inventor on a former project of some sort) to break off his engagement to another woman and marry her, whereupon at some grand moment Beal's character can expose the new bride as a robot and shame the former associate (played by Ralph Bell).

The Elizabeth-Montgomery-in-her-younger-days-voiced Marion Seldes plays Amelia in a very good casting job. This original episode aired immediately before "You're going to like Rodney". Both were darkly memorable pieces of writing, even though there's a strange, hard-to-explain twist at the end of this one.
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