"The After Hours" is based on the classic Twilight Zone series episode of the same name, written by Rod Serling and adapted for the NTZ by Rockne O'Bannon. The original starred Anne Francis as Marsha and Elizabeth Allen as the salesperson who says speaks in a very enigmatic way to her. This is one of the strangest episodes of the series, not the least of which because they have a Cabbage Patch-like doll wrapped in a corn husk. The segment has an aura of unreality to it, which does help the episode become more dream-like. I'm neutral on this segment…I don't really care for it but I don't dislike it. I much prefer the original, but even then that was never a favorite of mine.

Terry Farrell plays Marsha, and she's upbeat and bright in the role which gives us a clear idea of just when she starts to become frightened. The people playing the mannequins are suitably wooden in their parts. Anne Wedgeworth is the salesclerk who shows Marsha the corn husk doll, but it's tough for Wedgeworth to be mean. Setting this in a mall may have been the reason it just doesn't seem real. The original was fairly self-contained and claustrophobic since it was in a single small building, but the mall here is just too open. There seems to be thousands of places Marsha could hide in a mall, yet she doesn't even try to.