Night Visions Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

The Passenger List/The Bokor

44 mins

The Passenger List: Aviation investigator Jeremy Bell investigates the crash of a plane he himself saw go down. He comes to believe that his daughter may have been on board and becomes desperate to find the truth. It's not too long before it becomes apparent that his daughter has been dead for quite some time before the crash. Could the cracks in the objects all around him be symbolic of cracks in his sanity... Or his reality? / The Bokor: Diane and two other medical students have to cut up the cadaver of a Bokor, an evil voodoo priest, for school. As they cut the tattoo that's supposed to bind his powers, terrible things start to happen, including the disappearance of the Bokor's body.

Episode 2

Dead Air/Renovation

Thu, Jul 12, 2001

In "Dead Air", Tom Fallor is a douchey shock jock, who's working another late shift alone at the radio station during a stormy night. He's trying to provoke his listeners to tell him scary stories. One of them starts talking about murder, so Tom cuts him off. The next caller is a girl, who's apparently alone in her house and increasingly strange things are happening there. Her roommate is missing, someone has messed with her food and there's a bloody footprint on the floor. Tom thinks it's a prank call until the same strange things start happening to him in the station as well. Is the girl's story getting to him and he's losing his mind or is this some psycho's sick idea of a joke? In "Renovation", Keith Miller and his wife and baby son move into their new home. Keith's having nightmares and he thinks that being in a new surrounding might change that. However, not only do the nightmares not go away, but he soon begins hearing things and seeing a man, who may or may not be his abusive dead father. Is the house haunted or is he slowly losing his mind? His wife soon realizes that something is wrong and becomes afraid for their son's safety.

Episode 3

A View Through the Window/Quiet Please

Thu, Jul 19, 200143 mins

In "A View Through the Window", Major Ben Darnell is a brilliant physicist and a grieving father, whose estranged wife blames him for the tragic accidental death of their little son. He's called up to a top secret location, where the military is investigating a strange supernatural phenomenon. A portal to another place has somehow appeared in the middle of the desert and an invisible barrier is blocking it. The soldiers can see the people on the other side - a seemingly happy pilgrimesque family that's living in a picturesque farmhouse surrounded by a luscious green field, but the family can't see the portal or what's on the other side, so they're living their idyllic everyday life like normal. Darnell is stricken by them, since they represent everything he wishes for in his tragic life. He eventually realizes that the barrier disappears for a few seconds each day and decides to risk everything to cross over to the other side despite his commanding officer's direct order not to try anything until they learn more about these people and their world. In "Quiet Please", meekly overstressed Gerald is on a weekend getaway in the local state park. All he wants is to be left alone and enjoy some peace and quiet in the forest. However, he quickly runs into Camper Ben, who sees the park as his second home. Although Gerald insists on being left alone, Ben annoyingly always runs into him somehow. Things take a drastic turn when Ben's pet german shepherd ends up dead. Ben is sure that a grizzly bear is following them and that his unfortunate dog is just its first victim, but Gerald still just wants to be left alone.

Episode 4

Now He's Coming Up the Stairs/Used Car

Thu, Jul 26, 2001

In "Now He's Coming Up the Stairs", Dr. Michael Sears is a renowned psychiatrist with a unique talent. He's able to read people and see what their mental issue is and then transfer the illness onto himself. After years of doing this, he's having more and more trouble overcoming the illness once he absorbs it and he's using some pretty disgusting techniques to pull it off. His doctor warns him that if he doesn't quit these practices, he will die. Michael decides to take a long vacation, but he's immediately recognized by a young woman, who begs him to help her son. This proves to be Michael's strangest case yet, since the boy seems to be in some sort of a trance - all he does is move back and forth while repeating four phrases about how someone is coming for him. Michael realizes that the spirit of a man, who got killed in a car accident when he stumbled in front of the boy's mother's car, is seeking revenge from beyond the grave and this curse or trance is somehow his doing. Michael decides to take the case and absorb the curse. Will this be his greatest triumph or the last case he'll ever work on? In "Used Car", Charlotte is unhappy with her housewife status and wants to have a baby. Her husband buys her a new car. The car turns out to be haunted by the spirit of a girl who committed suicide. She has a strange effect on Charlotte and she starts investigating the dead girl's death. Is Charlotte going insane or is she really communicating with a ghost and if so, is the ghost a friend - or a foe?

Episode 5

Rest Stop/After Life

Young Sara, her brother Chuck, her best friend Vicki and Vicki's boyfriend Tim are driving through a mountainous forest area. Sara decides to pick up slightly disheveled but hunky hitchhiker Andy, despite everyone else's protests. Vicki has to go to the bathroom, so they pull up at a nearby rest stop in the middle of nowhere. The only other people there are a group of grungy young locals, who offer various unusual souvenirs to travelers. Chick and Vicki dislike them as much as they do Andy and Andy shows slight contempt for rich and snobbish Chuck and Vicki as well. When the gang enters the public restroom, everything seems normal. When they come out, their car is missing as well as the grungy vendors. Is this just a case of simple highway robbery or something far more sinister?

Episode 6

If a Tree Falls.../The Occupant

Three students, Devin, his girlfriend Bethany and their best friend Seth are having a relaxed philosophical discussion on their way home to campus. Devin can't except the other two's suggestion that the Big Bang was not God's work. Suddenly, their car hits a bump, goes of a cliff and falls into a lake. The three reach the shore only to realize that their dead bodies are still in the car. At first they are dumbfounded, but Seth and Bethany eventually conclude that this may be a bizarre example of the famous philosophical question: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" In other words, as long as no one knows they died, they will still exist and "live". They return to campus and try to adapt to their extraordinary situation, but religious Davin can't help but feel that they might be making a mistake and that cheating death may have harsher repercussions than death itself. Tension begins to grow between the three. Devin eventually learns that if God does exit, he is prone to irony.

Episode 7

Reunion/Neighborhood Watch

It's Veteran's Day and army lieutenant Dale Stillman is at the ceremony held in his town. He's a Gulf War veteran and a decorated war hero, who's been suffering from serious PTSD since the war and can't get a job. After the ceremony he sees three of his squadmates. They're glad to see one another and they ask him to join them for a drink at a bar. However, when Dale arrives at this reunion, there's no one there except for the bartender and two friendly laughing drinking buddies Wally and Gus, who also know Dale. He decides to wait for his comrades, but as the time passes he begins suffering from flashbacks that eventually turn into a disturbing waking dream. He's reliving the night when he saved one of his squadmates, but then got captured by the Iraqis, when he went to get some help. They threw him in a dungeon, where he was psychologically tortured and threatened by a sadistic interrogator. However, when Dale's teammates finally show up at the bar, he's in for a rude awakening.

Episode 8

Bitter Harvest/My So Called Life and Death

Shane Watkins is a small town teenager, who helps his mom and strict dad with the horses in their family's stable. His next door neighbor Jake Jennings, better known among the kids in town as Old Man Jennings, is a mean-looking old farmer, who lives alone and enjoys his privacy. Some of the kids believe in an old urban legend that he's a murderer and a son of a witch. Shane doesn't know what to believe, but he doesn't like Jennings either way. One day, Shane decides to show his friends that he's not afraid of Jennings, so he trespasses onto his farm. Jennings startles him, so Shane starts running away and steps on the button that activates the grain grinder. Jennings runs after him, but slips and falls hands first into the grinder and he loses both of them. After recuperating in the hospital, Jennings returns to his farm and asks Shane's father to send his son to help him out for a few weeks until he gets used to his difficult condition of being a double amputee. However, Jennings doesn't tell Shane's dad that Shane is responsible for what has happened to him. Shane refuses to go, but his father won't give in. Shane starts helping Jennings out but can't help but feel that Jennings is up to something.

Episode 9

The Doghouse/Still Life

Barry is a struggling musician, who's being hounded by a murderous loan shark, because the shark thinks Barry has the money his musician friend owes him. He beats up Barry badly, but Barry manages to stop a passing car and the driver, veterinarian technician Amanda, helps him escape and takes him in for a few days until things cool down. Her two pet dobermans seem friendly enough and help Barry feel safe. He even tries to kiss Amanda, but she politely stops him. However, the shark eventually locates him somehow, and breaks into the house. That's when the dogs show their true nature. Barry begins to realize that he might have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

Episode 10

Hate Puppet/Darkness

Greg Harris is a a happy mild-mannered architect, who while walking on the street and talking on the phone with his girlfriend Linda one day, in a moment of carelessness collides with a passerby and accidentally spills his hot coffee all over the man's face and clothes. The man, who turns out to be Russian, screams in rage and puts a curse in Russian on Greg - everyone he meets from now on will hate him. Greg doesn't take this seriously, but after several scary incidents, one more severe than the next, that culminate with an attempt on his life by a group of construction workers, he asks a police officer for help, only to learn that everything that's been happening to him on that hellish day is word for word the plot of the latest bestselling horror novel from a famous horror novelist, William Price. Greg refuses to believe this, but after even more tragedy, he eventually has no choice but to accept it as the only explanation. He breaks into Price's house, holds him at gunpoint and in desperation asks him to rewrite the end of his novel. However, the story has its own highly ironic ending to wrap itself up.

Episode 11

The Maze/Harmony

Young college student Susan Thornhill is a shut-in and that's how she likes it. When Wes, a well-meaning student, asks her out, she stands her ground politely refuses. The next day she sees Wes and, feeling awkward, tries to avoid him by going through a hedge maze to her class. Once she finds a way out a very different world meets her. The whole university has become a real ghost town and there's not a soul in sight. When she finally meets another person - her music teacher, she tries to kill her. Susan starts finding dead bodies everywhere on campus and arms herself with a knife. When she finally finds a newspaper, the date on it makes no sense to her. She concludes that the only way for her to get to the bottom of things is to reach the college library. However, what she discovers there disturbs her more than any horror movie. Sometimes all you can do is try to do the best you can with what you have got left.

Episode 12

Cargo/Switch

Mark Stevens is a young courageous and honest man, who works as the new cargo officer on a big cargo ship. One night he notices that someone is hiding in one of the giant shipping containers. He reports this to the ship's shady first officer and the elderly captain. They ignore his report, so he tries to get to the bottom of things by himself. It turns out that a bunch of Russian immigrants is locked in one of the containers and something deadly and hungry is locked in there with them. Stevens makes contact with a pretty woman inside, who claims that the monster that's in there with them is picking them off one by one. Stevens tries again to warn the captain about the situation, but he tells him not to dig into the matter any further. However, Stevens can't let the people in the container die, even if it kills him, and it just might.

Episode 13

Patterns/Voices

Psychiatrist Dr. Dan Critchley has a new interesting patient, Martin. Martin claims that, as a kid, he made in his mind a contract with God or whatever it is that makes the world go round, that if he performs a small ritual, something will or will not happen. In time, the number of these deals and rituals grew to such proportions that Martin had to spend a greater part of each day on them and, as a consequence, his family and professional life were eventually ruined. However, he kept on performing these countless little rituals daily anyway, because at this point, there were so many of them and they effected so many things that if he were to stop repeating them, the human civilization and maybe even the world itself would pretty much literally end. Amused by Martin's story, Dr. Critchley concludes that his patient is suffering from an extreme form of obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD for short. The good doctor decides to find out once and for all, who is the insane one - Martin, or the world.