James Stewart is superb as the nervy, hysterical paralysed war veteran who can only blink after being tormented in a Japanese POW camp - then becomes convinced the florist is his former guard. He starts to recover his facilities enough to move around and make phone calls (which makes this less horrifying although I suppose it was necessary to push the story along) and tries to kill him. But it's all the work of his shrink - that's right, years before
Shutter Island. I would have preferred it if he'd killed the guy but there you go. Very strong ep though.
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