Original Story by Charles Beaumont

Teleplay by Lynn Barker

A plain, timid woman, working at a thrift store, finds a pair of expensive high heel shoes in a box of items that had just come in. When she slips them on, she takes on an entirely different personality. Her entire demeanor changes and she leaves the store and hails a cab. She arrives at a palacial home, where she barges in and takes charge. She seems to be intimately familiar with the house and the maid, and the dog runs up to her as if it knows her. The maid demands that she leave, but after talking with the woman she is amazed to discover that the woman thinks she is Susan, the deceased wife of the home's owner. She knows everything about the maid's life, and walks upstairs to take a bath. While running the bath, the woman takes off the shoes. She is immediately herself again, and confused about where she is. The maid comes in and says she's calling the police, and the woman puts the shoes on again, frightened, so that she can leave. With the shoes on, she is again the deceased wife, and tells the maid that she's back. The husband comes home and finds a woman dressed in his late wife's clothes, with her personality but looking nothing like her. He tells her to leave, and they argue. She says that she didn't accidentally fall over the balcony, but that he pushed her and she was going to get her revenge. The man looks scared now. He leaves the room, and she goes for the gun she knows he hides. She chases him out of the house with the gun and threatens to kill him. The shoes hurt her feet, so she takes them off to massage them, and her own personality is back. Frightened at what is happening to her, she throws the shoes and the gun onto a garbage can, and leaves. The man goes home, where his maid tells him that she's quitting. She won't work for a murderer. Outside, a young black woman picks up the shoes from the garbage can and puts them on. The spirit of Susan is back again, and she picks up the gun and saunters into the house with a knowing smile on her face. We hear a single gunshot from the house.

Last revised: Tuesday, April 22, 2003