The Twilight Zone 1x16

Directed by Alvin Ganzer

Eleanor Audley as Mrs. Whitney • Mitzi McCall as Waitress • Adam Williams as Woodward • Inger Stevens as Nan Adams • Leonard Strong as The Hitch-Hiker • Lew Gallo as Mechanic

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

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1. The Hitch-Hiker First Aired: 22 January 1960

2. There is a fifth dimension. Beyond that which is known to man.

3. It is a dimension as vast as space.

4. And as timeless as infinity.

5. It is the middle ground between light and shadow...

6. between science and superstition.

7. And it lies between the pit of man's fears...

8. and the summit of his knowledge.

9. This is the dimension of imagination.

10. It is an area which we call: The Twilight Zone.

11. Her name is Nan Adams. She's 27 years old.

12. Her occupation, buyer at a New York department store.

13. At present on vacation, driving to Los Angeles, California.

14. How fast were you going, miss? - Oh, 60, 65. Something like that.

15. Blowout, skid marks, shoulders like pudding and going 65 miles an hour.

16. You're very lucky. By rights, you shouldn't have called for a mechanic.

17. Somebody should have called for a hearse.

18. Just follow me into town, miss. Maybe I got a new tyre for you.

19. Minor incident on highway 11 in Pennsylvania.

20. Perhaps to be filed away under 'Accidents you'd walk away from.'

21. But from this moment on, her companion to California will be terror.

22. Her route, fear. Her destination, quite unknown.

23. Five bucks for the call. $24,90 for the tire. The total is $29.70.

24. It's cheaper than a funeral. - You can say that again.

25. Here you are, miss. Change from your two 20s.

26. Checked the other tires for you. They look okay.

27. Anything wrong? - No.

28. No, I was just looking at that hitchhiker.

29. What hitchhiker?

30. He's gone. Guess he got picked up. - Probably.

31. Funny, I saw him a little while ago while, you were changing the tire.

32. He probably got a lift right after we passed him.

33. Thank you very much for your help. - It's okay, miss.

34. Have a nice, safe trip.

35. Thank you.

36. I saw him again 50 miles further on. And on the stretch through Virginia.

37. Just standing there. Not menacing, really.

38. If anything, drab, a little mousy.

39. Just a shabby, silly-looking, scarecrow man.

40. I shouldn't even think about him at all, but, it's that coincidence.

41. That wherever I go, there he is. Wherever I stop, I see him.

42. No matter how far I travel or how fast I go, he's ahead of me.

43. I'm on a turnpike now.

44. I don't know why it is, but I'm frightened.

45. A fear just about as vague as its object.

46. Maybe it isn't really a fear. It's more just a sense of disquiet.

47. A feeling that things are a little wrong.

48. It's vague because that's what that hitchhiker is. He's vague.

49. I wonder why it is he's always there.

50. I wonder why I can't shake him.

51. Many hitchhikers around here? - Hitchhikers, here? Ooh.

52. Rare, huh? - It couldn't be no rarer.

53. The guy would be a fool hitching a ride on a turnpike.

54. Miles and miles straight away. And practically no speed limit.

55. What car is gonna stop and pick up a guy? Would you?

56. A guy might get a ride by the toll house before the turnpike starts.

57. Its a long ride. Most cars wouldn't pick up a guy for that long a ride.

58. And then, it's kind of lonely country around here.

59. Flatland, hills, that sort of thing.

60. Did you see anyone hitching? - No, I was just wondering.

61. Is something wrong, miss? - I don't know, I...

62. I was just thinking...

63. I was just thinking how good it's gonna be to be able to stop driving.

64. It's getting so...

65. I hate that car.

66. You'll have to wait a minute, miss. Construction ahead.

67. Heading west? - No, I'm not heading west, sorry.

68. I'm not heading west, I'm just going up the road a little way.

69. Miss, where are you going?

70. Now the fear is no longer vague.

71. The terror isn't formless. It has a form.

72. He was beckoning me.

73. That thin, gray man in the cheap, shabby suit. He was beckoning me.

74. He wanted me to start to cross.

75. He wanted me to die. I know that now.

76. I don't know what to do now.

77. Should I turn around and go back to New York or go on ahead?

78. Stabbing little thoughts gouge my brain. Ugly, frightened thoughts.

79. Projections of tomorrow and the next day.

80. Driving through plains and the desert.

81. Unspeakably, nightmarishly alone.

82. And I know I'll see him.

83. I'll see him at detours, at railroad crossings.

84. He'll be looking at me at stoplights. I don't know what to do now.

85. I just don't know what to do.

86. Three days and three nights now of driving.

87. Past Tennessee into Arkansas. Three days and three nights.

88. Stop for food and then drive. And the routine goes on.

89. Towns go by without names, landscapes without form.

90. Now it isn't even a trip, it's flight.

91. Route 80 isn't a highway anymore, it's an escape route.

92. So I keep going. I've got to get where I'm going.

93. I can't let that hitchhiker close in on me.

94. On the fourth day, halfway across New Mexico I took a side road.

95. Hoping to lose the hitchhiker.

96. At 11:00 at night, the engine stopped. I sit there in the front seat.

97. Refrigerated by fear: Out of gas.

98. Please, somebody Help me.

99. Yeah? What is it? What do you want? - I'm out of gas.

100. My car's down the road. - Come back in the morning.

101. Please. I can't stay here all night. I have to have some gas.

102. Lady, it must be past midnight. - It's only a little bit after 11:00.

103. Well, we close up here at 9:00.

104. Please. I've got to have a can of gas. I can't stay there by myself.

105. There's a suspicious-looking man. - What about this man?

106. What was he doing?

107. Nothing, I...

108. He just stands there

109. I've been seeing this man all the time. He doesn't do anything.

110. That's nothing to wake a man up in the middle of his sleep about.

111. I think he's trying to rob me.

112. If he does, then you come back here. And I'll call the sheriff.

113. No, please help me, please.

114. Lady? - Yes.

115. That's what I am. I'm a lady.

116. What are you doing out so late? You work here? This your place?

117. I ran out of gas. The car's down the road, but he won't give me any gas.

118. I saw your car. The keys are in it. - Do you live around here?

119. No, I'm on my way back from leave.

120. Where you headed? - My ship. I'm heading San Diego.

121. Do you want a ride? - Are you kidding me?

122. I mean it. I'll take you all the way to San Diego. Will you drive with me?

123. Lady, you don't have to ask twice. You got yourself a rider, honest.

124. I don't have any gas, though. We'll fix that up. You try the people here?

125. The man's in bed. - Let's get him out of bed.

126. Hey, pop, you got some customers out here.

127. Do you mind If I take off my shoes? My feet feel like two hot bricks.

128. No, go right ahead.

129. You know, I keep thinking I'll wake up or something.

130. Middle of the night, no cars, no nothing. Who do I meet?

131. Lady who looks like a movie star.

132. When I tell the guys on the ship...

133. Do you know what the odds are for even one guy believing me?

134. I said: 'Do you know what the odds are for one guy to believe me?'

135. I'll write an affidavit. We can get a notary to sign it.

136. You hitchhike much? - Back and forth on leave mostly.

137. It's tough in this open country. Trucks they'll pick you up.

138. But you have trouble with cars.

139. You know, most people in cars won't pick up hitchhikers at night.

140. Oh, I suppose not.

141. If you got a good pickup and a fast car, you could go places faster...

142. than another person in another car. - I suppose.

143. For instance. If I'm driving across the country at 45 miles an hour.

144. Could a fellow like you waiting for a lift...

145. beat me to town after town, provided he got picked up every time...

146. in a car going about 65 to 70 miles an hour? Could he?

147. I suppose. Maybe he could, maybe he couldn't.

148. What difference does it make?

149. No difference, really.

150. Just a silly kind of idea I had here sitting in the car.

151. I guess it's a good way to spend your time, though, huh?

152. What's going on? What's the matter? - Did you see that man?

153. The one standing beside the road. - Honey, I didn't see anybody.

154. There was nothing there. You trying to run us off the road?

155. The thin, kind of gray-looking man? - I didn't see anybody.

156. Lady, you must be overtired. I didn't see nobody. Nothing.

157. I saw him.

158. Look, lady, maybe you'd better let me drive, huh?

159. You must have seen him that time. - I didn't see anybody.

160. What were you trying to do? - I was trying to hit him.

161. Yes, I thought maybe if I could kill him, I could make him stop.

162. Where you going? - No place in particular. Just away.

163. I'm going to put distance between me and this automobile.

164. Please don't go. I don't know what came over me. Don't go.

165. Look, baby, I'd like to get back to my ship in one piece.

166. And that will not happen this way. - I promise I'll drive more carefully.

167. I'm sorry. But you'll have to excuse me.

168. You can't go, you understand that?

169. I'll take you all the way into San Diego. Even right to the docks.

170. Thanks, but no thanks. - Look, I like you.

171. I really like you very much. That's why I picked you up. I liked you.

172. I thought that we could be friends, and you could to take me out.

173. Really. Please?

174. I'm sorry, ma'am. - No, please. Please.

175. I know you think I'm out of my mind.

176. This man's been following me all the way across the country.

177. Help me and just stay with me till I reach the coast.

178. Please don't go. Please?

179. Just give me my shoes.

180. You listen, honey. What you need is a good night's sleep.

181. You don't need a boyfriend, just a good night's sleep.

182. I'll see you around. - No. Don't go.

183. I'm outside of a diner near Tucson.

184. There's a pay phone outside, and I'm going to call to New York.

185. Put in a call to my mother. So I can speak to someone familiar.

186. Someone I love.

187. Someone to bring back reality to me. Just a voice.

188. A warm, familiar voice. So I won't lose my mind.

189. Operator, I'd like to make a call to New York. My name is Nan Adams.

190. Telephone number is Trafalgar 41098.

191. Hello, mother? - This is Mrs Adams' residence.

192. Whom do you wish to speak to, please? - Who's this?

193. This is Mrs Whitney. - I don't know any Mrs Whitney.

194. Is this Trafalgar 41098? - Yes, it is.

195. Where's my mother, Mrs Adams? - She's still in the hospital.

196. A nervous breakdown. - There's nothing the matter with her.

197. What do you mean, a nervous breakdown?

198. It's all taken place since the death of her daughter.

199. The death of her daughter? What do you mean, the death of her daughter?

200. Who's this? What number is this? - It's all been very sudden.

201. Nan was killed six days ago in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania.

202. A tire blew out and her car turned over.

203. Very odd.

204. The fear has left me now.

205. I'm numb, I have no feeling.

206. It's as if someone had pulled out some kind of a plug in me and...

207. everything, emotion, feeling, fear, has drained out.

208. And now I'm a cold shell.

209. I'm conscious of things around me now.

210. The vast night of Arizona,

211. The stars that look down from the darkness.

212. Ahead of me stretch a thousand miles of empty mesa.

213. Mountains, prairies, desert.

214. Somewhere among them, he's waiting for me.

215. Somewhere I'll find out who he is. I'll find out.

216. I'll find out what he wants.

217. But just now, for the first time...

218. looking out at the night...

219. I think I know.

220. I think I know.

221. I believe you're going my way?

222. Nan Adams, age 27.

223. She was driving to California. To Los Angeles.

224. She didn't make it. There was a detour...

225. through the Twilight Zone.