Map of the Mind

// E0811 · Originally aired September 17, 1999

Diana literally loses her mind on an Earth where all artists are imprisoned and their brains surgically altered.

Written By // Robert Masello
Director // Paul Raimondi
Music // Danny Lux

Reviews

// Earth Prime

This episode once again demonstrates the production team’s almost perverse insistence on taking compelling ideas and executing them in the most half-assed way possible.

// Think of a Roulette Wheel

The human consciousness is connected to the multiverse. The multiverse is connected to the head bone. The head bone is connected to the dumb bone.

// External Reviews

Martin Izsak

Worlds Visited

Colorless World

A corporate United States has removed all forms of free expression as a way of controlling the populace, and those who resist are rounded up and placed in asylums.

Brunch World

There’s a bench, a restaurant and not much else.

Details

The sign reads OAKWOOD NEURAL REMAPPING INSTITUTE.
THINK ALIKE signs are peppered throughout the institute and are spray painted in the Art Gallery.
When Mallory changes clothes during the riot, the door he enters reads “Locker Room—Laundry.”
Jane White is in Room 12.
Sean Carter is an Intern studying in Cognitive Therapy.
Storefronts in Los Angeles include “Men’s Clothing Store,” “Max Von Bloom—Attorney at Law” and “Art Gallery.”
The notice at the art gallery reads “Notice: this facility has been found in VIOLATION of federal order #534B, the Creative Curtailment Act.”
There’s a music store down the street from the art gallery.
Doctor Ruskin operates in Room 108.
The Oakwood Institute is about three miles outside downtown L.A.

Character Information

Diana’s hobbies include painting.
Rembrandt grew up in a Baptist community.

Notable Quotes

“So did we slide into a prison without getting captured, thus eliminating the usual gunplay and middlemen?”—Maggie.
“Oh yeah, that’s right.”—Rembrandt, stupidly, after telling a guy that works at the insane asylum he just escaped from that he’s a singer, which is illegal on this world.
“I miss Tom Snyder!”—Pajama Guy.
“Everybody does!”—Rembrandt.
“When you grow up in a Baptist church some things just stick with you.”—Rembrandt after his Cuckoo’s Nest-style speech to the inmates.

Money Matters

Rembrandt and Maggie have enough money for a room at the Chandler and a couple of beers, but not enough for a ride into town by a taxi.

Nitpicks and Errors

Mallory comes flying out of the vortex head first. In the next shot, he’s laying face up in some plants. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
What is the deal with that black woman’s voice? It’s really odd, and it doesn’t synch up with her lips. Bad post-production editing?
“Brain Nazis?” Come on…
On a world where creativity is curtailed, do you really think they’d sell beer?

Guest Starring

Paul Sand as Doctor Malcolm White
Claudette Roche as Doctor Alice Ruskin
Michael McCraine as Jane White
Jonathan Brent as Sean Carter
Tamara L. Bass as Stacy
Phil Parolisi as Pajama Man

Script Archive

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