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2. You're traveling
through another dimension-Copy !req
3. a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind.Copy !req
4. A journey into a wondrous land
of imagination.Copy !req
5. Next stop, the twilight zone.Copy !req
6. Yeah?Copy !req
7. Oh, hello, george.
I been expecting your call.Copy !req
8. Yeah, I been sitting here
waiting for you.Copy !req
9. Yeah, it's kind of
a hot night out, ain't it?Copy !req
10. Yeah, well, that's what I want
to talk to you about, george.Copy !req
11. I was wondering
what you had in mind tonight.Copy !req
12. Now... now,
wait a minute, george.Copy !req
13. Now, I been sitting here
three, four hours now.Copy !req
14. I been roasting to death
out there and...Copy !req
15. well, I like to go
out of my mind, george...Copy !req
16. george?Copy !req
17. George, look, will you...Copy !req
18. george, will...Copy !req
19. george, will you let me...Copy !req
20. will you listen to me, george?
Will you listen to me?Copy !req
21. Now, look, I'm not trying
to cop out, george.Copy !req
22. I am not trying to cop out.Copy !req
23. I'd just like to know what
you had in mind, that's all.Copy !req
24. You know I got a tendency
toward nerves, george,Copy !req
25. and, well, you can sit in
a hotel room only so long and...Copy !req
26. well, it's such a hot night
outside, george.Copy !req
27. George, look,
I'm not complaining, george.Copy !req
28. You know I'm not complaining,
george.Copy !req
29. I'm going to do the job,
whatever it is. You know that.Copy !req
30. You got a number one boy
here, george.Copy !req
31. I'm going to do the job, but...Copy !req
32. george?Copy !req
33. Hey, george?Copy !req
34. George?Copy !req
35. This is mr. Jackie rhoades,
age 34,Copy !req
36. and, where some men leave
a mark of their livesCopy !req
37. as a record of their
fragmentary existence on earth,Copy !req
38. this man leaves a blot-
a dirty, discolored blemishCopy !req
39. to document a cheap
and undistinguished sojournCopy !req
40. amongst his betters.Copy !req
41. What you're about
to watch in this roomCopy !req
42. is a strange mortal combat
between a man and himself.Copy !req
43. For, in just a moment,
mr. Jackie rhoades,Copy !req
44. whose life has been given over
to fighting adversaries,Copy !req
45. will find his most formidable
opponent in a cheap hotel roomCopy !req
46. that is, in reality,Copy !req
47. the outskirts
of the twilight zone.Copy !req
48. Yeah?Copy !req
49. Yeah? Who is it?Copy !req
50. George.Copy !req
51. How are you, george?Copy !req
52. I'm in the pink.Copy !req
53. How are you, jackie?Copy !req
54. Oh, I'm all right, george.
I'm all right.Copy !req
55. I'm just a little nervous
about the action tonight.Copy !req
56. I was...Copy !req
57. it's a gorgeous place
you got here, jackie.Copy !req
58. Well, four bucks a night,
you can't go wrong, you know.Copy !req
59. Four bucks a night.Copy !req
60. No, you can't go wrong,Copy !req
61. but you could get
roasted to death,Copy !req
62. or poisoned by
small creatures.Copy !req
63. What about tonight,
george? What's the job?Copy !req
64. Does it make
any difference?Copy !req
65. Difference?Copy !req
66. No, no, no. It don't
make no difference.Copy !req
67. I was just wondering.Copy !req
68. I just wondered what you
had in mind. That was all.Copy !req
69. What would you like to do,
jackie?Copy !req
70. What's your heart's desire?Copy !req
71. Oh, you're kidding me, george.Copy !req
72. You're pulling my leg.Copy !req
73. I know you.
You're pulling my leg.Copy !req
74. Well, if it was up to me,
I'd... I'd, uh...Copy !req
75. well...Copy !req
76. if it was up
to me, george,Copy !req
77. I'd like some decent
odds for a change.Copy !req
78. I don't mind a little
shakedown- a little bunco-Copy !req
79. but it's just that I'm
getting all the hard stuff.Copy !req
80. You know I almost got
picked up the last two times.Copy !req
81. Remember the heist?Copy !req
82. That kind of stuff
ain't for me, george.Copy !req
83. Except they pick me up
one more time, george,Copy !req
84. it's three strikes
and out.Copy !req
85. I'm long gone,
and for good.Copy !req
86. Boy, it's so hot in
here, ain't it, george?Copy !req
87. Ain't it hot?Copy !req
88. Anybody ever tell you
what you look like?Copy !req
89. You look like a man trying
to catch a subway at 5:00.Copy !req
90. You always look like
somebody's squeezing youCopy !req
91. through a door.Copy !req
92. What do you do to sleep
at night, jackie,Copy !req
93. hide in the locked closet?Copy !req
94. Now, look, george,
I'm not knocking you,Copy !req
95. and I don't see whyCopy !req
96. you all the time
gotta knock me.Copy !req
97. All I'm asking
from you is...Copy !req
98. george, what's the job
I've got to do tonight?Copy !req
99. All right, I'll
tell you, jackie.Copy !req
100. Tonight, I'm going
to let you be a man.Copy !req
101. I'm going to let you
show some muscleCopy !req
102. for a change.Copy !req
103. No shakedowns, no
deliveries to a fence-Copy !req
104. nothing little, jackie.Copy !req
105. Not tonight.Copy !req
106. Tonight, jackie, you're
getting up in the world.Copy !req
107. Now, there's an old manCopy !req
108. runs a little bar
on 38th streetCopy !req
109. between lexington
and sixth.Copy !req
110. He's a feisty old bum.
He's always giving us trouble.Copy !req
111. He don't want to pay
off for the jukeboxes,Copy !req
112. he don't want to
pay for protection.Copy !req
113. We lecture him
all the time,Copy !req
114. but he spits
in our eye.Copy !req
115. So, tomorrow morning,Copy !req
116. they find the old gleep
sprawled across his bar.Copy !req
117. And then all the rest
swing in line.Copy !req
118. Now, that's
simple, jackie.Copy !req
119. Even you
can understand.Copy !req
120. Kill him?Copy !req
121. You want me to kill him?Copy !req
122. You're the one, jackie.Copy !req
123. But, george, I can get sent up
for just carrying that thing.Copy !req
124. George,
this one ain't for me.Copy !req
125. Listen, you're in hock to
me for your collar buttons,Copy !req
126. so don't tell me what's
for you and what isn't.Copy !req
127. But I never done anything
like this before, george.Copy !req
128. I'm strictly
breaking and entering.Copy !req
129. I'm nickels and dimes.Copy !req
130. You put me in an alley,
I do a mug job,Copy !req
131. but I got to do it
from behind.Copy !req
132. I got no guts, george.Copy !req
133. You know that, george.
I got no guts.Copy !req
134. Why don't you get
a couple other guys, huh?Copy !req
135. Get a couple
of torpedoes?Copy !req
136. 'Cause every torpedo I got in
the line is gonna get picked upCopy !req
137. the minute they find
that old gleep.Copy !req
138. Because you're not
going to get picked upCopy !req
139. because you're nickel-and-dime
and everybody knows it.Copy !req
140. You never did
a job like thisCopy !req
141. because you never could
do a job like this,Copy !req
142. and that's why you're
gonna do this one, jackie.Copy !req
143. And that's how you're
going to get away with it.Copy !req
144. But, george,
I got no guts.Copy !req
145. Get guts, jackie! I
don't care where from.Copy !req
146. You get them under the bed,
you buy them from a vendor,Copy !req
147. you grow them in a pot.Copy !req
148. I don't care,
but you get them,Copy !req
149. and you do the job.Copy !req
150. Now, he closes
that bar at 2:00.Copy !req
151. You be there when
he's about to lock up,Copy !req
152. and you do it.Copy !req
153. And I'll be back
here at 2:30, jackie.Copy !req
154. And if I find outCopy !req
155. that you welshed
on me, jackie-Copy !req
156. that you chickened out-Copy !req
157. you're dead.Copy !req
158. Hey... george.Copy !req
159. Hey, george!Copy !req
160. George!Copy !req
161. George! Please, george!Copy !req
162. Look at you.Copy !req
163. Look at you. What's the beef?Copy !req
164. Go out and get rid
of an old man.Copy !req
165. Some dopey old man.Copy !req
166. He's going to be 90 years old,
maybe 100 years.Copy !req
167. That's what he is-
some dopey old man- a gleep.Copy !req
168. Hey, that's what george
called him- a gleep.Copy !req
169. That's what
george called him- a gleep.Copy !req
170. Boy, I wish I could trade you,
and I could use another model.Copy !req
171. Aw, it's not your fault.Copy !req
172. It's not my fault.Copy !req
173. It's just the breaks,
that's all.Copy !req
174. Why am I scared?Copy !req
175. Why am I, all the time, scared?Copy !req
176. I'm all the time scared.Copy !req
177. Oh, man, I've had a long haul.Copy !req
178. How many nights in a tank?Copy !req
179. How many nights in stir?Copy !req
180. How many nights in a cheap,
lousy little room like this?Copy !req
181. Four bucks a night
to roast to death.Copy !req
182. Nail biter.Copy !req
183. Scared, nervous
little nail biter.Copy !req
184. Hey, george! You ain't no judge
of people, george!Copy !req
185. You ought to peel cantaloupes!Copy !req
186. You ought to stick
with apples and oranges, george,Copy !req
187. because you ain't no judge
of people!Copy !req
188. Jackie rhoades the killer!Copy !req
189. Hey, jackie rhoades, killer!Copy !req
190. I know you, jackie rhoades.
You ain't no killer.Copy !req
191. But you got to kill tonight.Copy !req
192. Kill or be killed.Copy !req
193. So you do the job
and you're dead anyway,Copy !req
194. because you know you never
got away with anything.Copy !req
195. You live till tomorrow,
and that's how it ends.Copy !req
196. Boy, I wish
I could trade you in.Copy !req
197. No matches.Copy !req
198. Cigarettes and no matches,
that's me all over.Copy !req
199. That's jackie rhoades,
the halfway boy.Copy !req
200. That's the story of my life.Copy !req
201. Hello, jackie.Copy !req
202. Come back here!Copy !req
203. You're not running out
on me this time!Copy !req
204. You talking to me?Copy !req
205. You talking to me?Copy !req
206. Who you...?
Yeah, sure you are.Copy !req
207. Now me and the mirror,
we're having a talk.Copy !req
208. I've had it, huh?Copy !req
209. All my marbles are gone.Copy !req
210. This is how it happens.Copy !req
211. This...Copy !req
212. yeah, this is
how it happens,Copy !req
213. but you ain't lost
your marbles yet,Copy !req
214. and I mean to see
that you keep them.Copy !req
215. Who are you?Copy !req
216. I'm you, jackie,
and you're me.Copy !req
217. How's that?Copy !req
218. You're me
and I'm you?Copy !req
219. Oh, this is crazy.Copy !req
220. This is really crazy.Copy !req
221. This is crazy! Crazy!Copy !req
222. Jackie, I'm part
of you, jackie.Copy !req
223. Another part of you.Copy !req
224. Don't you even
remember me?Copy !req
225. You used to know me
a long time ago, jackie.Copy !req
226. A very long time ago,
you were up for grabs.Copy !req
227. You could have gone
one way or the other.Copy !req
228. You could have gone
my way or your way.Copy !req
229. You went your way.Copy !req
230. You know what
that means, jackie?Copy !req
231. No, I don't.Copy !req
232. A cheap, weak, scaredCopy !req
233. half vulture,
all mouse.Copy !req
234. That's what
you are, jackie.Copy !req
235. All right,
so knock me.Copy !req
236. So I'm this and I'm that,
and I'm this and I'm that.Copy !req
237. Look, here, buddy,Copy !req
238. whatever I am,Copy !req
239. I got flesh and bones
and I breathe.Copy !req
240. And. In just a couple
of hours from now,Copy !req
241. I'm going to put
the finger on somebody!Copy !req
242. So, ha-ha!Copy !req
243. What do you do
for a living, huh?Copy !req
244. Haunt people in mirrors, huh?Copy !req
245. Listen to me, boy. Listen to me.Copy !req
246. I'm having an argument
with a big piece of glass.Copy !req
247. Listen, glass, I'm leaving.Copy !req
248. See, I'm pulling out.Copy !req
249. I'm pulling out.Copy !req
250. I've had it with you.Copy !req
251. I'm a mouse, huh?Copy !req
252. Well, you're nothing!Copy !req
253. Jackie...Copy !req
254. jackie.Copy !req
255. Now, jackie...Copy !req
256. jackie, don't pass out
on me now.Copy !req
257. Jackie, we've got
a big night ahead of us.Copy !req
258. Where you going?Copy !req
259. What's it to you?Copy !req
260. Everything.Copy !req
261. Everything you do
is everything to me.Copy !req
262. Can't you get that?Copy !req
263. Oh, yeah, yeah,
now I get it.Copy !req
264. I'm talking to myself.Copy !req
265. That's just who
you are talking to-Copy !req
266. part of yourself- the part
you never let come out.Copy !req
267. Now, listen, buddy.Copy !req
268. You got no invitation
to come out now,Copy !req
269. so you can go right back
where you came from.Copy !req
270. Who needs you?Copy !req
271. You do.
You've always needed me.Copy !req
272. Wait a minute.Copy !req
273. Now I get it.Copy !req
274. Yeah, now I get it.Copy !req
275. You're chicken, too.Copy !req
276. You're scared
I'll get caughtCopy !req
277. same as me.Copy !req
278. You're scared
this is the last job,Copy !req
279. so you make a big noise
like a conscienceCopy !req
280. so the big man don't sayCopy !req
281. you been goofing off
all my life.Copy !req
282. It means more than
that to me, jackie.Copy !req
283. You think I can
keep quiet nowCopy !req
284. while you go out and
get us both killed?Copy !req
285. Killed?Copy !req
286. That's right.
You said so yourself-Copy !req
287. you never got away
with nothing,Copy !req
288. and you know you won't
get away with this.Copy !req
289. And I got
a right to live.Copy !req
290. You had the same chances
as me- no chance.Copy !req
291. So, if I'm wrong
and you're right,Copy !req
292. then how come every move
I made turned out wrong?Copy !req
293. How about that, huh?Copy !req
294. Because, every time
I tried to talk to you,Copy !req
295. you listened
to somebody else.Copy !req
296. That was your mistake.Copy !req
297. Okay, wise guy,
you know so much,Copy !req
298. then how come you don't
know the big thing?Copy !req
299. Big thing?Copy !req
300. Don't you ever
look in a mirror?Copy !req
301. I was a runt.
I was a skinny little runt.Copy !req
302. When you want to join
a street gang,Copy !req
303. you got to go
along with them.Copy !req
304. You back down,
they give you business.Copy !req
305. They call you a chicken,Copy !req
306. and yell,
"you ain't got it!"Copy !req
307. Yeah, you went
along with them.Copy !req
308. And you made me
go along, too.Copy !req
309. The first time, we
were ten years old.Copy !req
310. Remember that?Copy !req
311. The class picnic?Copy !req
312. The teacher had a locket,
and the catch broke,Copy !req
313. and she laid it down,Copy !req
314. and some of the big kids
dared you to swipe it.Copy !req
315. Well, I didn't
want to swipe it.Copy !req
316. I told you,
I was a runt.Copy !req
317. They dared me.Copy !req
318. And, a year later,
they dared youCopy !req
319. to break into that
grocery store with them,Copy !req
320. and you went along,Copy !req
321. and you dragged
me along, too,Copy !req
322. and we got caught.Copy !req
323. And you spent
the next 11 monthsCopy !req
324. in reform school,
and so did I.Copy !req
325. What did that
prove, jackie?Copy !req
326. Yak, yak, yak, yak.
Talk my ear off.Copy !req
327. No wonder
I cut you down.Copy !req
328. You're walking on your
lower lip all the time.Copy !req
329. What do you want from me anyway?Copy !req
330. You know what I want.Copy !req
331. No, I don'tCopy !req
332. but I'll tell you
what I do know-Copy !req
333. I got to go out
and do a job.Copy !req
334. I got to knock off an
old gleep on 38th street.Copy !req
335. And, if I don't do it
by 2:00 a.m.,Copy !req
336. you can take
what's left of meCopy !req
337. and scrape it off
that mirror with a spoon!Copy !req
338. I ain't got much time.
I got to go now.Copy !req
339. You got less time
than you think.Copy !req
340. But you never had time.
You didn't have timeCopy !req
341. when that parole officer
tried to help you.Copy !req
342. You could have
listened to him,Copy !req
343. but you joined another gang.Copy !req
344. Six months later,
you were in jail again,Copy !req
345. and that parole officer
couldn't help youCopy !req
346. any more than janey reardon could.Copy !req
347. Janey reardon.Copy !req
348. Janey reardon.Copy !req
349. Janey reardon.Copy !req
350. She was a nice kid.Copy !req
351. She was a
beautiful woman.Copy !req
352. She tried to
set you straight.Copy !req
353. I loved her, jackie.Copy !req
354. I loved janey reardon.Copy !req
355. You loved her?Copy !req
356. You got a nerve.Copy !req
357. How could you love anybody?Copy !req
358. You're just a piece of glass.Copy !req
359. I could love, jackie.Copy !req
360. I could love.Copy !req
361. I needed her, jackie.Copy !req
362. So did you.Copy !req
363. I tried to tell you
how much we needed her,Copy !req
364. but you graduated
from the gangCopy !req
365. into the shakedown rackets.Copy !req
366. Big shot, huh?Copy !req
367. Two years we
spent in the penCopy !req
368. on that one.Copy !req
369. And, when
we got out,Copy !req
370. janey reardon
had gotten marriedCopy !req
371. and moved away.Copy !req
372. She walked out of
your life, jackie.Copy !req
373. Out ofourlife!Copy !req
374. You cheated me out of her.Copy !req
375. Don't tell me your troubles.
It's nothing to me.Copy !req
376. Dames I can take or leave alone.Copy !req
377. Dames you can take
or leave, huh?Copy !req
378. That's a statement
for the press.Copy !req
379. You wouldn't want to have
a girl, would you, jackie?Copy !req
380. Somebody sweet and pretty.Copy !req
381. Somebody who would love you.Copy !req
382. Somebody who'd be kind
and gentle with you.Copy !req
383. You don't need that,
do you, jackie?Copy !req
384. Why don't you cut it out?Copy !req
385. Will you do that?Copy !req
386. Will you knock it off?Copy !req
387. What do you want from me anyway?Copy !req
388. I'm asking you,
what do you want from me?Copy !req
389. I'm still waiting to hear.Copy !req
390. What do you want?Copy !req
391. I want to take over,
jackie.Copy !req
392. I want to call the shots.Copy !req
393. I want you to let me out.Copy !req
394. I want a chance to live.Copy !req
395. I want to live
with all the gutsCopy !req
396. and goodness
you left behind.Copy !req
397. I want to live
the dreams you dreamedCopy !req
398. and never had
the guts to live.Copy !req
399. Fat chance, buster.
Big fat chance.Copy !req
400. I'm me and
you're you!Copy !req
401. And that's no statement
for the press.Copy !req
402. That's the goods.Copy !req
403. I'm going out
and knock me off an old man now,Copy !req
404. and I'm going to cut meCopy !req
405. a nice slice of cabbage
for my troubles.Copy !req
406. I'm calling the shots!Copy !req
407. And neither you or anybody elseCopy !req
408. is telling jackie rhoades
what to do!Copy !req
409. Neither you or anybody else!Copy !req
410. Yeah?Copy !req
411. Oh... yeah, george.Copy !req
412. Uh... george, I'm doing
what you told me, george.Copy !req
413. I'm just on my way out now.Copy !req
414. Yeah, george. I'm just leaving.Copy !req
415. Yeah. Honest, george. Honest.Copy !req
416. I'm... I'm... I'm on my way now.Copy !req
417. Yeah. Yeah, I'm... I'm...Copy !req
418. I'm going to leave right now,
george.Copy !req
419. I'll meet you back here
at 2:30, okay?Copy !req
420. Yeah. I'll meet you
right back here, george.Copy !req
421. Okay.Copy !req
422. Hey!Copy !req
423. Hey, there.Copy !req
424. Hey, where are you?Copy !req
425. Hey, glass, come on out here.Copy !req
426. Come on. Do your job now.Copy !req
427. Hey, come on, I want to see
how I look, glass. Come on.Copy !req
428. It don't make any
difference, jackie,Copy !req
429. because you're
not going anywhere.Copy !req
430. You go out that door,
you're finished.Copy !req
431. We're both finished.Copy !req
432. That's the door
to nowhere.Copy !req
433. Jackie, jackie,
let me out!Copy !req
434. I want to take over.Copy !req
435. I got to take over!Copy !req
436. I want a decent job,
some friends.Copy !req
437. I got a job.
I got friends.Copy !req
438. I got everything I want.Copy !req
439. You got nothing. You got
nothing but a pain inside.Copy !req
440. You got no friends. You got
nothing! You are nothing!Copy !req
441. It's time to be something.Copy !req
442. Jackie, let me out.Copy !req
443. Let me take over, jackie.Copy !req
444. This is your last chance.Copy !req
445. All right, I'll let you
out of there.Copy !req
446. Come on out of there, wise guy.Copy !req
447. Come on out!Copy !req
448. What a phony.Copy !req
449. You're a liar!Copy !req
450. Get up, little man.Copy !req
451. I'm going to take your
skin off foot by foot.Copy !req
452. Nobody went to the old
man's bar tonight, jackie.Copy !req
453. Nobody at all.Copy !req
454. At last reports, he was
in excellent health...Copy !req
455. thanks to you.Copy !req
456. Thanks to you, you
raunchy little welsher.Copy !req
457. Well, what do you got to say
for yourself, crumb, huh?Copy !req
458. What have you got
to say for yourself?Copy !req
459. What have I got to say
for myself, george?Copy !req
460. Not much.Copy !req
461. I resign.Copy !req
462. That's it,
george.Copy !req
463. I resign.Copy !req
464. You what?Copy !req
465. I resign.Copy !req
466. You can have
your gun back,Copy !req
467. plus the following.Copy !req
468. Move out, george.Copy !req
469. And don't ever come back...Copy !req
470. for anything.Copy !req
471. Room clerk, this is jackie...Copy !req
472. this is john rhoades, room 14.Copy !req
473. I'm checking out.Copy !req
474. No, I'm not coming back.Copy !req
475. No, as a matter of fact,
nothing's all right.Copy !req
476. The room's too hot,
too small and too dirty.Copy !req
477. It's just the place for bums,
but not for me.Copy !req
478. Hey, hey,
what's to do now?Copy !req
479. What's to do now?Copy !req
480. Now we go look
for a job.Copy !req
481. Now maybe
we get married.Copy !req
482. Now maybe we stop
biting our nails.Copy !req
483. Exit mr. John rhoades, formerly
a reflection in a mirror,Copy !req
484. a fragment
of someone else's conscience,Copy !req
485. a wishful thinker
made out of glass,Copy !req
486. but now made out of flesh,Copy !req
487. and on his way
to join the company of men.Copy !req
488. Mr. John rhoades,
with one foot through the doorCopy !req
489. and one foot out
of the twilight zone.Copy !req
490. Rod serling
the creator oftwilight zone,Copy !req
491. will tell you
about next week's storyCopy !req
492. after this word
from our alternate sponsor.Copy !req
493. And now, mr. Serling.Copy !req
494. These are familiar items,
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495. television set, electric razor,
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496. the normal,
everyday accoutrementsCopy !req
497. that are part and parcel
of 20th century progress.Copy !req
498. But, next week, you'll see them
under different circumstances,Copy !req
499. and in a totally
dissimilar guise.Copy !req
500. They'll be machines,
but they'll also be monsters.Copy !req
501. Our story is called
a thing about machines,Copy !req
502. and it will be here
waiting for youCopy !req
503. in the twilight zone.Copy !req
504. Seethe new andy griffith show
each weekCopy !req
505. over most of these stations.Copy !req
506. Consult local listings.Copy !req