The Twilight Zone Episode, “Nightmare as a Child”

I would describe the little girl in this episode of the Twilight Zone as solemn, wise, and mysterious. When the little girl comes to Helen’s apartment, she asks her if she had seen anyone who looked familiar today. Helen thought and realized that she had seen a man in a car stopped at a stop sign in front of the school. I asked the question, who is the man that she saw in front of the school, and why is the little girl asking about him? A few minutes later, the little girl hears someone coming and leaves Helen’s apartment saying that the man is scary and that he something to be afraid of. This made me wonder, what will happen next? I thought it was a little creepy and mysterious when the man knocked on the door and I wondered why the little girl was so scared of the man. The man tells Helen that he worked for her mother when Helen was a child. He talks to her about her mother’s death and says that he was the first to find her dead body. This causes Helen to remember the details of what happened on that day that she had blocked out of her memory for so long. When the man showed Helen a picture that he said was Helen when she was younger, I thought that Helen would recognize the picture and it would spark a memory or thought. The girl in the picture looked just like the little girl, Markie who had come to her apartment earlier. The man reminded Helen that her nickname as a child was Markie and showed her that Markie and Helen were one and the same. This still makes me wonder, why did Markie come to Helen’s apartment? I think it may have because it was the best way for Helen to remember her past.