"Dead Man's Eyes" is the eighth episode of the science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host....

. The episode aired October 9, 2002 on UPN

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Opening Narration

Plot summary

A distraught widow and former rehab patient on the verge of a total mental collapse, heavily invested in finding her husband's killer, discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of his killer. Step by step she goes through the last minutes of his life, seeing her husband argue with his partner, the prime suspect. But she sees the suspect leave and her best friend come in—the two were having an affair. But in the end she sees who really killed her husband—herself, and she then blanked it out due to her alcohol problems. Forced to confront the truth, she is put away for good in an asylum.

Closing Narration

Episode Notes

This episode is the third in a series of Twilight Zone episodes where clothing items from the deceased carry information from them, previously used in "Dead Man's Shoes

Dead Man's Shoes (The Twilight Zone)

"Dead Man's Shoes" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.This episode was remade in the first revival as "Dead Woman's Shoes" and in the second revival as "Dead Man's Eyes"...

" from the original series and "Dead Woman's Shoes" from the 1985 series. It also revisits the concept of eyeglasses which allow the wearer to view events from a different time, used in the episode "20/20 Vision

20/20 Vision (The Twilight Zone)

"20/20 Vision" is the forty-seventh episode "20/20 Vision" is the forty-seventh episode "20/20 Vision" is the forty-seventh episode (the twelfth episode of the third season (1988–1989) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.-Opening narration:-Synopsis:...

" from the 1985 series.