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▶ "One Step Beyond": Episode of the Week (11/05)

"THE STRANGER" -- SEASON (3) EPISODE (22). February 28 1961. COMMENTARY (spoilers alert): A mysterious stranger who miraculously appears in the right place at the right time to save the lives of innocent people may sound like the premise from some long-forgotten 1970s superhero TV show, but "One Step Beyond" invests the concept with some gravitas in "The Stranger," thanks to Larry Marcus' meaningful teleplay and Newland's restrained direction. The story of Cole is actually a touching one that suggests even the most "guilty" of souls can seek forgiveness and try to be a better person. A prisoner on death row, Cole was once scheduled to donate his eyes to a 17-year-old blind girl, but because he received clemency for a time, the donation of the sight-saving organs was never made. The blind child later writes Cole a letter stating that she is glad he has not been executed. This child's complete goodness in the face of her own pain reveals to Cole his own terrible badness. Her words that "the meaning of life" is found only when one "reaches out" to another human being comes to haunt him. It becomes his mantra, and even after the letter has been forcibly taken from him, the words of purity and goodness ring in his ears. At first Cole cannot handle the pressure, the guilt of those words, but then he is led to seek forgiveness and redemption. Thus, in his own death (and after-life, apparently) Cole becomes a figure for good. Having learned his lessons in life, Cole apparently spends his eternity helping those in need. He was sighted at a fire, then at a cholera epidemic, and now at an earthquake. This is not an out-of-body experience, since Cole is already dead, but his appearance could qualify as some manner of apparition. What muddies the water a bit concerning the psychic concept of "The Stranger" is that Cole's is depicted as substantive, real. His corpse is found at the earthquake and its fingerprints match those of Cole, who is known to be buried in a cemetery some 6,000 miles from the disaster. There is no doubt, then, that Cole is physically (rather than spectrally) in two places at once: at the sight of a calamity and resting eternally in his grave. Since science tells us that no two set of fingerprints are identical, "The Stranger" leaves behind a chilling riddle. If you're ever in need of help and a man appears out of nowhere to keep you alive, look at him closely and see if he's wearing a prison jumpsuit . . . From John Kenneth Muir's definitive book "An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond":    • ▶ "One Step Beyond" Background: Guide Book.