Paul Le Mat stars as a businessman with a new lease on life after receiving a heart transplant. It seems he is willed towards a waitress (Marianna Pascal), unable to accept her turning his date proposal down. She is still crippling from the loss of a fiancé whose heart went to Le Mat! As the heart that pumps through him, Le Mat finds his personality changing, the former ruthless side with no penchant for bargaining anything finds this humanitarian and pleasantness emerging. The organ personality disorder change plot is done well here, as you see Le Mat at the beginning cold and not negotiable towards a client who needs some leverage. Then, the desire for boots, fast driving, voluntary trips outside the office, request for plants near his desk and ever-increasing visits to the diner gradually bring Le Mat to life from a slumber of chilly businessman. The corporate environment is once again encumbered by the Twilight Zone as cold-hearted and shark-eat-seal. As Le Mat goes through his personality transformation, his company's devouring competition and clientele typicality develops opposite it's usual behavior. What matters is people and that was missing when Le Mat was missing a true *heart*. The Reagan economy often was under the microscope and examined, with plenty of vitriol leveled at the greedy and rich. Le Mat, to his credit, shows the personality change, making his character more likable and appealing as the story goes along. His persistent suitor, despite the waitress' resistance, is romantic with the TZ twist. Lori Haller (My Bloody Valentine) is a treat as Le Mat's secretary, sexy and witty. She just radiates...not sure why she was never quite the star she should've been.
5 Reviews
He Needs a Hair Transplant
Hitchcoc3 July 2017
Paul LeMat is a high powered architect who returns to work after receiving a heart transplant. He obviously has a hard-nosed reputation. As soon as he gets back he begins to act differently. He is pensive and more free spirited. He doesn't seem to take his job as seriously as those around him. One day he spies a woman on a beach and feels she is somehow connected to him. He begins to literally stalk her and she is completely resistant. Apparently, she had the love of her life die tragically just before they were to be married. Now this guy comes along. He is an utter nuisance. I remember Paul LeMat from American Graffitti. In this he looks like he walked out of a Breck commercial. No one else in this episode looks anything like him. It is distracting. Anyway, we are finally let in on the secret.
Fate and love was meant in a strange twist of meeting and chance.
blanbrn10 August 2019
This "Twilight Zone" episode from the end of 1988 New Year's Eve episode from season 3 called "Appointment on Route 17" was one that was a little strange and different and off beat. Tom Bennett(Paul Le Mat) is an arrogant and stiff money hungry business type guy who after a heart transplant mellows a little bit, and for sure his eyes open even wider when he spots and finds Mary a cute and attractive waitress at a local diner. However pain and tragedy is written all over Mary however you kind of figure things out it's like Tom was the second coming of her past lost love! Overall okay episode that shows the path of love and connection is often strange and odd.
"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know" : Blaise Pascal
sol121823 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** After undergoing surgery for a heart transplant full of himself big time businessman Tom Bennett, Paul Le Mat, underwent a major change in his personality. No longer looking to make the big bucks at the expense of other people's bank accounts without any consideration for those whom he deals with in the business world Tom has suddenly became a thoughtful and kind individual towards everyone that he comes in contact with!
What really brings the very best out of Tom is this girl he spotted by the waterfront with his friend and business partner Elise, Christopher Bondy, who seems to be connected to him in a big way; waitress Mary-Jo, Marianna Pascal. There's something about Mary-Jo that makes Tom's heart flutter and eyes tear up to the point where he totally neglects his business by his not being able to get her out of his mind.
Like a bloodhound Tom tracks Mary-Jo down to her place of work a greasy spoon diner on Route 17 outside of town. Spending all his time at the diner just to be close to Mary-Jo who finds him to be some kind of weirdo Tom stuffs his face with such drab blue collar food like cherry pie and bacon cheeseburgers instead of the rich and expensive grub he's used to eating like Oysters Rockefeller & Lobster Newburg.
***SPOILERS*** It soon becomes evident to Tom that somehow his heart operation has something to do with his sudden change of lifestyle! Sure enough Tom finds out that the heart beating in his chest is that of Jamie Alder Mary-Jo's boyfriend who was killed the week before in a motorcycle accident! Not knowing exactly what to tell Mary-Jo about the reasons for his strange attraction towards her Tom decides to just play it cool and act as if he were Jamie in the flesh without really telling Mary-Jo whom he really is. Tom's plan works to perfection in Mary-Jo somehow sensing that he, or his transplanted heart, is in fact her dead boyfriend Jamie Alder by him just, without trying to prove it, being himself!
One of the very best, old or new, of the "Twilight Zone" episodes that has you trying to hold back your tears as it comes to its really non surprising conclusion that you've probably gotten within its first five minutes on the screen. Both Paul Le Mat and Marianna Pascal, as Tom & Mary-Jo, are both wonderful in how they responded to each other. Not at first really knowing what was the link, Jamie's heart, that brought them together in the first place.
What really brings the very best out of Tom is this girl he spotted by the waterfront with his friend and business partner Elise, Christopher Bondy, who seems to be connected to him in a big way; waitress Mary-Jo, Marianna Pascal. There's something about Mary-Jo that makes Tom's heart flutter and eyes tear up to the point where he totally neglects his business by his not being able to get her out of his mind.
Like a bloodhound Tom tracks Mary-Jo down to her place of work a greasy spoon diner on Route 17 outside of town. Spending all his time at the diner just to be close to Mary-Jo who finds him to be some kind of weirdo Tom stuffs his face with such drab blue collar food like cherry pie and bacon cheeseburgers instead of the rich and expensive grub he's used to eating like Oysters Rockefeller & Lobster Newburg.
***SPOILERS*** It soon becomes evident to Tom that somehow his heart operation has something to do with his sudden change of lifestyle! Sure enough Tom finds out that the heart beating in his chest is that of Jamie Alder Mary-Jo's boyfriend who was killed the week before in a motorcycle accident! Not knowing exactly what to tell Mary-Jo about the reasons for his strange attraction towards her Tom decides to just play it cool and act as if he were Jamie in the flesh without really telling Mary-Jo whom he really is. Tom's plan works to perfection in Mary-Jo somehow sensing that he, or his transplanted heart, is in fact her dead boyfriend Jamie Alder by him just, without trying to prove it, being himself!
One of the very best, old or new, of the "Twilight Zone" episodes that has you trying to hold back your tears as it comes to its really non surprising conclusion that you've probably gotten within its first five minutes on the screen. Both Paul Le Mat and Marianna Pascal, as Tom & Mary-Jo, are both wonderful in how they responded to each other. Not at first really knowing what was the link, Jamie's heart, that brought them together in the first place.
Lori Hallier is not the waitress for this show
dreamman4512 March 2009
Lori Hallier was posted as the waitress on this show however she is Tom Bennett's secretary,another woman is named Mary Jo, the waitress on this and not Lori Hallier.Lori was the blonde secretary along side Paul Le Mat's character.I feel that who ever did this profile for her did not watch the twilight Zone episode very carefully and catch this blunder when writing the filmography for Lori Hallier.So I am hoping that in the future any and all information on celebrities be accurate. I am an avid celebrity trivia freak and have much knowledge on other celebrates as well movie and TV shows they appeared on.And i do hope that you will double check your information to provide better truth in all of the profiles for each celebrity.
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