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Have you ever been certain

your telephone would ring in the next ten seconds?

Or have you ever walked down a strange street

and had the feeling that you knew

what lay beyond the unturned corner?

Yes? Then you've had a brief encounter

with the world of the unknown.

You are ready for the actual human experience that follows.

This is the tiny Mediterranean island of Cabrejorma.

Latitude 39 degrees north,

longitude three degrees east.

150 miles from the coast of Spain...

Mitchell Campion's magic island.

And who is Mitchell Campion?

Well, everyone who knows him...

That is, those who are really close to him...

Think of him as a perfectly normal, average American male.

But do they know everything about him?

Uh, por favor, es posible para mí...

Por f... Por favor... es posible...

Es posible... MAN: M uevete, muevete.

Ya voy. Ya voy.

Uh, Señor... Un momento, Señor.

Uh, um... por favor, eh...

es posible, um, para mi...

We have no rooms, Señor.

Ah, Señor Campion.

Why, yes, for Señor Campion, we will always have a room.

We will find a room.

Let me see.

Señor Rodriguez... he will leave about 2:00, I see.

Say, how'd you know my name?

Ah, but, of course, I remembered.

Oh? Remembered what?

Why, you, Señor.

I beg your pardon?

Well, it is only one month since you left.

Oh, no, no, no.

You've confused me with somebody else.

Is it too early for lunch?

I'm starving.

No, the dining room is open as always.

I'll leave my bag here for now, all right?

Sí. Good.

Hey, how did you know my name?

No entiendo.

I... do not understand, Señor.

Okay. Never mind.

¿Sí, Señor?

Señor Campion!

Bienvenida.

It is so good to see you again.

Sit down, sit down.

Uh, and for this time of day, your usual...

Uh, uh, how you say?

Uh... brunch.

I remember, no?

Well, uh, look, uh, Miss, I, uh...

Uh, momentito.

You see?

Carla remember.

And-And Juan already

prepares the ham and the eggs, uh...

How-How you call it, uh...?

Country style.

Uh, look, uh, look, just-just a minute.

¿Sí, Señor?

I-I appreciate all this special attention,

but, uh, I'm afraid you made a mistake.

Ah, the tomato juice.

It-It is not as you like it?

Well, yes, as a matter of fact, that's just the way I like it,

but, uh, well, you don't understand.

I don't know how you know my name,

or how you happen to know how I like my ham and eggs

or any of it, but, uh, I'm not whoever you think I am.

You are not Señor Campion?

Well, yes, I am.

Señor Mitchell Campion from Ohio.

Yes, but, uh,

I've never been on this island before in my life. Never.

Don't you understand?

Ah, sí, claro.

Of course I understand.

You have never been here before.

No, no. No, really. I have really never been here before.

Look, I don't know how you know so much about me, or...

but believe me, I have never been here.

Of course, claro, I understand.

You have never been here before.

Never been here before.

Oh, this is ridiculous.

Uh, uh, muchacho?

¿Sí, Señor?

How long have you been working here?

Working here?

Two years, Señor.

And have you ever seen me before?

Hmm, no, Señor.

Nunca.

Ah, well, that's a relief.

Psst. Psst!

Why doesn't Señor Campion want to be recognized?

Oh, who knows?

Take that upstairs, huh?

♪ ♪

Uh, give me a beer.

Oh, make it a cognac.

Miguel!

You did come back.

I knew you would. I told them you would.

Wait, look, look, there's been some sort of mistake.

Mistake?

I don't mean to offend you. I...

I can't imagine what's causing all this confusion,

but I know... I know you honestly think you know me,

but believe me, I have never seen you before in my life.

Miguel, what is it?

What is what?

Miguel!

No, no. My name is not Miguel!

It isn't?

Well, I beg your pardon, Mr. Campion.

Now, tell me, why did you come back?

Oh, now, what is this? What is this... some sort

of joke or what?

A joke? Some of us here did not find it very funny.

Who? What are you talking about?

I, for instance.

I did not find it very funny.

What? What didn't you find very funny?

Now, look, I arrived here this morning.

I have never been here before in my life.

Oh, yes.

Well, what do you want?

Miguel, are you all right?

Well, you must forgive him.

Gino... you know how he is.

After all, he's Francesca's brother.

You must understand how he...

Understand. I understand, all right.

Everybody on this island is insane!

Miguel, wait!

¿Sí, Señor?

You said I was here before... last month.

Well, apparently, everybody

on this idiotic island agrees with you.

¿Sí, Señor?

Yeah, but I wasn't, and I can prove it.

Now take a look in your register and show me my name

any day before today.

Muy bien.

Wildest thing I ever heard of.

Even if there was somebody who looked like me.

♪ ♪

Miguel?

Francesca?

Fran... cesca?

♪ ♪

I know you.

I do.

Francesca.

Is it true, Miguel?

You really do not remember?

I don't know.

When Alexis told me, I could not believe it.

Alexis?

Have you been ill? Is that it?

Alexis... What?

Or is it that you prefer not to remember?

Look...

Why did you leave?

Why did you not say something?

I don't know what I'm supposed to...

Why did you come back?

Come back?

Do you want me to tell you that it was all a mistake?

That it was not you, that it could not have been?

Do you want me to release you?

All right.

I do.

You have no responsibility here.

You can go.

You can forget it all.

Forget what?

No, please... forget what?

Oh, Miguel, please!

Try to be patient with me.

I'm... I'm all mixed up.

All I... I know is,

ever since I set foot on this island,

people have acted like they know me.

I thought at first

they were mistaking me for somebody else...

but the moment I saw you, uh...

the moment I saw you was like...

like a... door beginning to open on a...

a room that I know somehow.

Miguel.

Miguel.

No, Francesca.

No, no, no.

Francesca, please.

Please.

Frances... Corazón, please.

Corazón, no, no.

Corazón.

Sí.

Sí, corazón.

Sí.

Corazón.

Oh, Miguel.

Querido.

Querido, Miguel.

There must be a way you can find out about it, no?

Miguel?

I do not understand, sir.

Your... your name is not here.

Well, it's got to be... You said I was here, didn't you?

Sí. It's a law every guest has to sign the register, isn't it?

Sí. Well, where is it?

I want to see it.

Your name is not there, señor.

Do you not insist, uh, you were not here,

that you were never here before today?

Why isn't it here?

Why?

I don't know, señor.

I don't understand.

You still say I was here, don't you?

Don't you? Of course, you were here.

I was.

I was!

There must be proof somewhere.

Somewhere.

Monsieur, we are closing.

Uh, check your passenger list.

I know my name must be on it.

Mitchell Campion.

Monsieur, we have no passenger list.

We only sell tickets.

One-way or round-trip.

That is all.

Oh.

Well, maybe whoever sold me the ticket or...

somebody on the ship might remember me.

Do you have a passport?

Yeah, yeah, sure.

If you were here last month from a foreign country,

it will be stamped by authorities.

What is it, Monsieur Campion?

What do you want?

Want? I...

Your passport was issued in New York City

on the 14th of June: ten days ago.

You could go nowhere before that.

Is your name Alexis?

Please, Miguel.

Whatever game there is...

No, no, no, please, please, listen to me.

I'm not playing any game.

Now, something is terribly wrong.

I know I've never been on this island before in my life.

I couldn't have been, but... But what?

Francesca.

I've... I've seen her.

I know her.

And a lot of other things.

This... this place... and you.

Miguel, are you saying the truth?

You really do not remember?

That's just it... I feel like I'm going out of my mind.

I couldn't have been here.

Not possibly.

And yet... more and more, I'm sure I was.

I think you're ill, Miguel.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

It has nothing to do with that.

Now, look, look.

Look at my passport, Alexis.

It's dated June the 14th.

That's ten days ago, ten days ago!

I have never been out of the United States in my life.

Now, can't you see, I couldn't have been.

You say, Miguel, you remember things.

Can you remember this?

That snapshot was taken here over a month ago.

Over a month ago.

That's impossible.

Over a month ago.

Oh, God, Alexis.

What is this?

I don't know, Miguel.

Oh, well, there has to be a logical answer.

I mean, a man can't be in two places at the same time.

No. That does not seem logical.

And yet, here we are.

Are you sure, Miguel?

Are you absolutely sure

that you couldn't have been here and...

and, say, forgotten?

Forgotten how?

Amnesia.

Something, anything.

Perhaps there was another passport.

Perhaps... Oh, no, no.

But you were here.

Yes, yes, I believe that,

but I also know that I couldn't possibly have been.

I was in a hospital in Paxton, Ohio,

during the time you say I was here.

I was in the hospital almost a month,

and I was unconscious most of that month.

Unconscious?

I was in a bad automobile accident.

Believe me, I... I couldn't have walked two steps

out of that bed even if I had wanted to.

Miguel... why have you come here now?

Well, uh...

I was discharged from the hospital.

The... the doctor ordered a long rest.

But why this island?

This is not the usual tourist place.

Well, I don't know.

I read about it a long time ago, and I...

I guess it stuck in my mind.

And the first time you left the United States,

you came right here.

Why?

Well, I... I guess I always wanted to come here.

What are you getting at?

I'm not sure.

If you really were in that hospital all that time...

Miguel, I have lived longer than you,

and I have thought more.

Do you really think there are no larger answers

to the small one we can supply?

Larger answers?

Oh, Miguel.

I had thought you had gone again.

I'm sorry, but I had to find out.

Now you know, don't you?

Oh, what a happy day that was.

Miguel, there are answers for everything.

Unfortunately, we know very few of them.

Querido.

Do not be so troubled.

Whatever that is confusing...

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Wait, wait.

Wait, I can prove this.

I can prove it.

¿Sí, señor? Hey, what room am I in?

I want my bag.

Your bag, señor, is right here.

Uh, Señor Rodriguez...

All right, all right, never mind, never mind.

It's my medical record.

The doctor told me to take it with me

when I left the States just in case.

"Mitchell Campion, admitted Paxton Memorial Hospital

"on April 30.

"Underwent surgery and postoperative care

"for head and chest injuries.

Discharged May 28."

That's three weeks ago.

Three weeks ago.

I don't know what to think.

I don't even know how to begin to think about it.

I only know one thing.

I have loved you before.

I love you now.

I always will.

Always.

That is all that matters to me.

Miguel?

You did not read far enough.

"During corrective surgery,

"the patient developed cardiac arrest.

"Adrenaline was used without response.

"A chest incision was made,

"and cardiac massage

"ultimately revived the patient.

"But for a period in excess of four minutes,

"all respiratory and circulatory functions

"having entirely ceased...

"the patient... was dead."

Four minutes, four hours.

Four years.

Who knows what time really is?

We dream complete experiences in seconds, don't we?

They say a drowning man relives his entire life in a moment.

Well, what about Mitchell Campion?

There have been many investigated cases

of the miraculous transportation of persons or things

over great distances in an instant.

It's called "teleportation."

It has something to do

with the still unsolved laws of time and space.

All we know is that the facts of this story

were carried by the news services

to every newspaper in the country.

In a moment, a program note about next week.

In some places, the ocean is seven miles deep.

So far, no one has descended even half that distance.

Next week,

one of the still unfathomed mysteries of the deep,

as a ship and her crew sail into the unknown.