come pick him up from the laboratory. She then wakes Kevin and tells him she must leave. She reveals that Kevin is Robert reincarnated; his grief at her death carried into his next life, causing his unwillingness to fully devote himself to Carol and his fear of having children. Nola's unfinished business was to give him closure by experiencing a life with her. He brings out the Yeats book and reads their favorite passage. Nola fades away. Carol enters the lab, and they have an emotional reunion. A toy ball bounces out of the holographic chamber and into Carol's hands. Closing narration Production Alan Brennert's initial proposal for the episode did not contain the idea of Kevin being Nola's husband reincarnated and was more focused on scientific themes. CBS staff, while approving his proposal, suggested that the episode needed more of an emotional core. Reflecting on this, Brennert heavily revised the story into what he later described as "a sort of goodbye to a woman I loved very much" and who died at the age of 37 from leukemia in 1982. Director Wes Craven, having never filmed anything with such extensive green screen usage, was taken off-guard by how time-consuming the episode was to shoot. Each of the scenes with Nola had to be shot three times: once with the normal human characters and set, once with Nola and the green screen, and once with the background to be imposed over the green screen, allowing Nola to be rendered as a holographic image. Eventually he discovered that he could shoot Kevin and Nola together using a method involving the Nola actress standing in front of a black cylinder, thus saving time; most of the scenes with Anne Twomey playing Nola were shot using this method. To have Kevin remotely play chess with Nola, a crew member manipulated the pieces by moving a magnetic wand under the chessboard. Betsy Licon, who played age 5 Nola, performed well at the audition but experienced stage fright on the set. Craven could not coax her to speak loudly enough for filming purposes, so the voice of 5-year-old Nola was dubbed by Danica McKellar, who also played Nola at age 10. References External links 1985 American television episodes The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series season 1) episodes Television episodes about reincarnation fr:L'Hologramme de l'amour