Beyond Reality

Echoes of Evil (1x6)

Air date: Nov 08, 1991

Laura and J.J. discover that Dave, a thirty-year-old man, believes he is the reincarnation of Otto Leider, a WWII concentration camp commandant – and is carrying out a perverted mission of killing camp survivors. Using hypnotic regression, Laura and J.J. show Dave his past life: Dave "sees" Leider being accosted by a prisoner who claims to be his mother; when the woman offers proof, Leider shoots her. The knowledge that his hero Leider was actually a coward who murdered his Jewish mother is more than Dave can bear – his mind snaps, leaving him catatonic.