Magnum Mania!

Echoes of the Mind (2)

Episode ID: 86
Episode Number: 5.2
Air Date: 10/4/1984
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley), John Hillerman (Fr. Paddy McGuinness), Deborah Pratt (Gloria)

Guest Stars

Sharon Stone (Diane Dupres), Carolyn Seymour (Lady Ashley), George Innes (David Billingsworth), June Chadwick (Sara)

Plot Outline

It's double trouble for Magnum when he finds himself falling for sexy Diane Dupres, only to discover that her seductive twin sister, Deidre, claims that Diane is a paranoid hysteric with a history of attempted murder. Unsure of who to trust, Magnum must find out which of the sisters is telling the truth as he encounters one bizarre twist after another about Diane and Diedre's true identities.

Rating

9.0 (8 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Part 2 of this episode features one of the most dramatic and shocking endings of the entire series.

2 Higgins and Agatha have been friends since they first met in 1975.

3 Ian Freebairn-Smith, the series' original music composer who was replaced by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter early in season one, is referred to in this episode. Higgins mentions to Agatha about a soldier he once knew, Lt. Freebairn-Smith, who was eaten by a tiger!

4 According to David Billingsworth, Higgins' father was a "General".

5 Kengi the gardener is briefly seen on the lawn of the estate. He's also seen in "No Need to Know" (1.5), "Computer Date" (2.14) & "Professor Jonathan Higgins" (5.13). Kengi never has any speaking lines in the show.

6 In exchange for a favor, Magnum gives Rick his two Lionel Richie "best seats in the house" concert tickets.

Quotes

1
Diane (points gun at Magnum): Sorry darling. You really are wonderful, but survival is survival.
Magnum: Don't let her kill me Diane.
Diane: Run Thomas, run.
Magnum: I can't Diane....Diane, Diedre's dead.
(Diane shoots the lamp next to Magnum)
Diane: How's that for dead!
Magnum: She's dead. You don't need her to survive.
Diane: Liar!!
Magnum: Isn't that what the doctor's told you? You don't need Diedre to survive.
Diane: She can't live without me! I'm the strong one! I've always been the strong one!
Magnum: No...Diane's the strong one. She's the one who lived.
Diane: No! (Fires another shot)
Magnum: Diedre's dead Diane. You can live without her.
Diane: No, I can't. I can't control her. She'll come back, maybe not for years, but she'll come back and when she does, she'll kill you!
Magnum: No, you can get her out of your life forever. We can do it together. I love you.
Diane: I love you.
(Diane cocks gun and points it at her head)
Magnum: Nooooo!!!
(Diane kills herself)
[audio]

Flubs

1 David Billingsworth states that "there are no girls in the Higgins family", to which Fr. Paddy replies by naming off several illegitimate half sisters. However, in "Lest We Forget" (1.10), Higgins claims to have a full-blooded sister (unnamed) living in Sussex, England with four children.

2 When Lady Ashley and her Solicitor are sitting at the dinner table waiting for Higgins, Father Patty shows up and fishes for an old cigarette in the ash tray. As he searches for a cigarette, you can see there are 3 cigarettes in the ash tray, all with a colored filter. He picks up one of the 3 cigarettes with the colored filter, however, after he lights the cigarette, the camera cuts to a close up of Father Patty and you can clearly see that the cigarette is not the same one he picked up just seconds before, as this cigarette has a white filter. (Noted by IslandHopper)

Wish to add something? Got a correction? Shoot me an email.

---

---