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Picture if you will, a mirror in the window of a shop. Everyone who walks past it feels sad, a little worse about themselves. Eventually the shop is broken into, the mirror left smashed on the ground. Was it a normal mirror, merely showing the flaws and failures of humanity as they are? Or was it a portal... to The Twilight Zone? Daniel, a teenaged furry, awakens to find himself trapped in the body of the family cat, Charlie. Worse still, the cat has taken over his. While Daniel enjoys his new life of carefree laziness and self cleaning, Charlie struggles, understanding nothing of human language except a few parroted phrases. After making trouble around the family home and disgracing himself at school, the family realizes that there is something terribly wrong with their son, and prepare to have him taken away. Reluctantly, Daniel gives up his easy existence and communicates with his family through text and typing. After spending some time trying to convince them, the family comes to terms with what has happened. Daniel learns that the intellect of man carries with it responsibility, and helps his family to teach Charlie the ways of humanity. Several months pass, and a scientist friend of the family tells them he has a way to fix everything. Everything will be back to normal, no-one will remember a thing and it'll be like nothing ever happened. Charlie and the rest of the family jump at the chance, but Daniel has his doubts - he doesn't want to forget everything he's learned, and while he may not be happier that he was he is certainly wiser. He struggles as he is fitted into the scientist's machine, but as a cat there is little he can do to keep himself from being strapped down, clawing and biting as the switch is thrown. A human Daniel wakes up to his mother knocking on his door, telling him to stop napping and get ready for dinner. He gets up and opens the door. "Take that ridiculous get up off, we're having guests," says his mother. The sound of an animal stirring can be heard on the bed Daniel has just left. "I wonder what he's dreaming about?" "Him? Probably chasing mice." "Mom!" says Daniel, "that's racist." He removes his human head to reveal the furred face of an enormous, humanoid cat. The camera pans and follows him, revealing his mother and the rest of his family are the same, all humanoid cat people, the world bizarrely changed by the scientist's machine. We pan back to Daniel's room, and the family pet - a twisted, naked tiny human shape curled up on the bedclothes, sleeping fitfully. The mancat stirs, finally revealing his face as he stares directly into the camera. It's Chaplin
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