As they leave the living room, Tommy's father places the snow globe upon a television set. Tommy, who is shaking a snow globe, is told by his father to come and wash his hands. He sits there, all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. Here's my son, I talk to him, I don't even know if he can hear me. World of his own."įather: "I don't understand this autism thing, Pop. Grandfather: "He's been sitting there ever since you left this morning, just like he does every day. How's he been? ( referring to Tommy) He give you any trouble?" How was your day up on the building?"įather: "Well, we finally topped off the 22nd story. Tommy's father, still being portrayed by Ed Flanders (aka "Donald Westphall") arrives at the apartment wearing a hard hat. An exterior camera shot of the hospital cuts to Tommy Westphall sitting in the living room of an apartment building alongside his grandfather, now being portrayed by Norman Lloyd (aka "Daniel Auschlander"). With the aria "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (Doretta's Beautiful Dream) from Puccini's opera La Rondine playing, Tommy Westphall enters the office and runs to the window, where he looks at the snow falling outside St. Auschlander's office pondering the recent death from stroke of his colleague and mentor. In the last episode's final two scenes, Donald Westphall – having just returned to St.
Elsewhere have appeared on other television shows and those shows' characters appeared on more shows, and so on, a "Tommy Westphall Universe" hypothesis (postulated by Dwayne McDuffie) argues that a significant amount of fictional episodic television exists within a fictional universe imagined by Tommy Westphall. Elsewhere storyline exists only within Westphall's imagination. Elsewhere 's final episode, " The Last One", one interpretation of which is that the entire St. Westphall, who is autistic, played an increased role in St. Elsewhere, which ran on NBC from 1982 to 1988.
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Tommy Westphall, portrayed by Chad Allen, is a minor character from the drama television series St. Chad Allen as Tommy in " The Last One" (1988)
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