EPISODE

17. My Brother's Keeper

Siamese twins, one timid and kind-hearted and the other reckless and sadistic, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.

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Conjoined twin brothers Frank and Eddie ( Timothy Stack and Jonathan Stark ) have differing viewpoints about their condition. The relationship between them also becomes strained when the good-hearted, mild-mannered Frank does not want to be surgically separated from the crass and slovenly Eddie out of fear that the procedure could potentially kill them. However, when Frank finds love and Eddie resorts to murder, the former finally changes his mind. Also starring Jessica Harper.

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