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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 landCopy !req
5. whose boundaries
are that of imagination.Copy !req
6. Your next stop,
the twilight zone.Copy !req
7. She's all set,
mr. Radin.Copy !req
8. How about the
sound system?Copy !req
9. You check that out?Copy !req
10. She's all
ready to go.Copy !req
11. I don't know where you
got your sound effectsCopy !req
12. but you'd swear
a bomb was exploding.Copy !req
13. I mean a big bomb.Copy !req
14. That's precisely the way
it's supposed to sound.Copy !req
15. That about do it,
mr. Radin?Copy !req
16. That about does it.Copy !req
17. You got quite
a setup here.Copy !req
18. This part of
the illusion too?Copy !req
19. No, this room is
not an illusion.Copy !req
20. I venture to guessCopy !req
21. that it's the best
designed bomb shelterCopy !req
22. on the face of the
earth- who knows?Copy !req
23. The hydrogen bomb
is not an illusion.Copy !req
24. But tonight it's
for gags, huh?Copy !req
25. Something of the sort.Copy !req
26. A practical joke,
let's say.Copy !req
27. You can say
that again.Copy !req
28. When they start
those sound effectsCopy !req
29. and that stuff
on the screenCopy !req
30. you'd swear the world
was getting blasted.Copy !req
31. That's the idea.Copy !req
32. I have three guests
coming this evening;Copy !req
33. rather special
guests.Copy !req
34. You did this to fool
three of your friends?Copy !req
35. Must be kind of
special friends.Copy !req
36. They are; they are, indeed-
very special friends.Copy !req
37. What you have just looked atCopy !req
38. takes place 300 feet
underground,Copy !req
39. beneath the basement of
a new york city skyscraper.Copy !req
40. It's owned and lived in
by one paul radin.Copy !req
41. Mr. Radin is rich, eccentric
and single-minded-Copy !req
42. how rich,
we can already perceive.Copy !req
43. How eccentric and single-minded,
we shall see in a moment,Copy !req
44. because all of you
have just enteredCopy !req
45. the twilight zone.Copy !req
46. Good evening, friends.Copy !req
47. Just step across the hall to
the door straight ahead of you.Copy !req
48. Please come in, if you will.Copy !req
49. Sit down, make
yourselves comfortable.Copy !req
50. Please sit down.Copy !req
51. How good of
you to come.Copy !req
52. Colonel hawthorne,
mr. Hughes,Copy !req
53. mrs. Langsford.Copy !req
54. It's radin,
isn't it?Copy !req
55. Aren't you paul radin?Copy !req
56. You have an excellent
memory, reverend.Copy !req
57. And you, colonel,
do you recognize me?Copy !req
58. I believe I do.Copy !req
59. Served under me once,
didn't you, radin?Copy !req
60. I did indeed, second lieutenant,
infantry regimentCopy !req
61. under your command,
africa, 1942.Copy !req
62. I recall it vaguely.Copy !req
63. I seem to recall
something else too.Copy !req
64. It's not surprising it
doesn't flood back to you.Copy !req
65. You had a few thousand
men under you.Copy !req
66. I was only one.Copy !req
67. But then again, you didn't
court-martial all of them.Copy !req
68. That distinction
you reserved for me.Copy !req
69. Ah, yes, I do recall.Copy !req
70. You refused to lead
an assault on a hill;Copy !req
71. refused in the face
of a direct order.Copy !req
72. The delay cost us
almost a company of men.Copy !req
73. That was your contention
to the court-martial board,Copy !req
74. and so I was stripped of rank,
dishonorably discharged.Copy !req
75. You were fortunate,
mr. Radin.Copy !req
76. Were I to have
dictated the sentenceCopy !req
77. I would have had you shot.Copy !req
78. I'm sure you would have,
colonel.Copy !req
79. I'm sure you
would have.Copy !req
80. But what a wretched host I am
to neglect the lady present.Copy !req
81. Mrs. Langsford.Copy !req
82. Do you recall
who I am?Copy !req
83. Of course,
I do, paul.Copy !req
84. I taught you
in high school.Copy !req
85. I don't forget
my students.Copy !req
86. Oh, sometimes the names
and the faces get confusedCopy !req
87. but if I prod my memoryCopy !req
88. I usually can connect
a name and a face-Copy !req
89. and, in your case, a character.Copy !req
90. You flunked me, mrs. Langsford;Copy !req
91. dressed me down
before an entire class;Copy !req
92. called me names, humiliated me.Copy !req
93. Well, let
me say again,Copy !req
94. how good of
you to come.Copy !req
95. I'm delightedCopy !req
96. you accepted
the invitation.Copy !req
97. Invitation?Copy !req
98. The request that I come here
was an ultimatum.Copy !req
99. Your chauffeur said
it was a matterCopy !req
100. of life and death.Copy !req
101. Well, yes, yes, indeed.Copy !req
102. That's the way it
was broached to me.Copy !req
103. I was having my dinnerCopy !req
104. and my wife mary went
to answer the door,Copy !req
105. and when she came back,Copy !req
106. she had such a strange
expression on her face.Copy !req
107. Ah, mr. Hughes,
you've never ceasedCopy !req
108. to be a bit on the wordy
side, now, have you?Copy !req
109. It's odd, really, how changeless
we remain over the years.Copy !req
110. But then again, I suppose
certain lifetime habitsCopy !req
111. are not easily put aside.Copy !req
112. Paul, perhaps you'd be
good enough to tell usCopy !req
113. why we've been asked
to come here.Copy !req
114. I'd be delighted to.Copy !req
115. But first,
can I get you something?Copy !req
116. A highball, perhaps...Copy !req
117. or a cup of coffee?Copy !req
118. Reverend, how do you
take your coffee?Copy !req
119. Habits, mrs. Langsford-Copy !req
120. the incredible
persistence of habits.Copy !req
121. You call me paul, as if
I were still sittingCopy !req
122. in the front row
in your classroom.Copy !req
123. But what about you,
mrs. Langsford?Copy !req
124. A nice cup of tea?Copy !req
125. Thank you, no.Copy !req
126. Oh?Copy !req
127. How about you, colonel-
a tot of rum, perhaps?Copy !req
128. I would appreciateCopy !req
129. if you made your point
and let us leave.Copy !req
130. You've obviously called
us here for somethingCopy !req
131. and I would welcome
hearing whatever it is.Copy !req
132. How staunchly military, colonel.Copy !req
133. Drive, drive, drive!Copy !req
134. Get up against that objective
and wipe it out.Copy !req
135. Red flag in the mapCopy !req
136. and troops
out of the sun.Copy !req
137. The nerves of steel
and a concrete head.Copy !req
138. That will
be all, radin!Copy !req
139. Colonel, you are
no longer in command.Copy !req
140. I'm in command hereCopy !req
141. and what I command
is your attention.Copy !req
142. I called you
three hereCopy !req
143. for a very
specific purpose.Copy !req
144. I want to settle
three old scoresCopy !req
145. but will do it
in chronology.Copy !req
146. My dear old schoolmarm
shall begin-Copy !req
147. that staunch and
intrepid educatorCopy !req
148. that looks so
out of placeCopy !req
149. without her
severe spectaclesCopy !req
150. covering severe eyesCopy !req
151. looking out of
a severe faceCopy !req
152. and possessingCopy !req
153. that vast prerogative that comes
from the school board,Copy !req
154. and the vast courageCopy !req
155. that comes with pitting all her
wits and instinct and knowledgeCopy !req
156. against captive children.Copy !req
157. Are you finished, paul?Copy !req
158. My dear schoolmarm,
I've hardly begun.Copy !req
159. Well, then, may I make
an observation?Copy !req
160. Just a commentCopy !req
161. on how incredible
this whole thing isCopy !req
162. that a man like you,
a millionaire three times over,Copy !req
163. an important man who walks
with kings and heads of stateCopy !req
164. and industrial
tycoons-Copy !req
165. that such a man should
have a mind so tinyCopy !req
166. that it could broodCopy !req
167. over a high school incident
of 20 years agoCopy !req
168. and let it fester inside you
as you seem to have done.Copy !req
169. I have never liked humiliation,Copy !req
170. whether it happened 20 years ago
or in the past ten minutes.Copy !req
171. Humiliation?Copy !req
172. All right, paul, let's
talk about humiliation.Copy !req
173. Let's talk about
your humiliation.Copy !req
174. Mr. Radin was caughtCopy !req
175. cheating in
an examination.Copy !req
176. Not a crime,
of course,Copy !req
177. but perhaps a bit indicative
of the characterCopy !req
178. of the person who does it.Copy !req
179. And when he was accused
of this act,Copy !req
180. this cocoon-
soon to become tycoon-Copy !req
181. tried to plant his crib sheets
on an innocent student.Copy !req
182. How right you are,Copy !req
183. mr. Radin, that I stood you
up on your feetCopy !req
184. and in front of
the entire classCopy !req
185. I told you exactly
what you were.Copy !req
186. But no room was there
then, mrs. Langsford,Copy !req
187. for a moment of compassion,Copy !req
188. for an iota of sympathyCopy !req
189. for a poor, frightened,
desperate boy.Copy !req
190. Mr. Radin, I've dealtCopy !req
191. with frightened and desperate
children all my life.Copy !req
192. And it may surprise you to knowCopy !req
193. that I've lent them
more of sympathyCopy !req
194. and of compassionCopy !req
195. than I have lent
them of knowledge.Copy !req
196. But neither sympathy nor
compassion can be handed outCopy !req
197. wholesale,
like cheap bubble gum.Copy !req
198. The recipient must
be worthy of themCopy !req
199. and you never were.Copy !req
200. You were a devious,
dishonest troublemaker.Copy !req
201. And in spite of
all your millions,Copy !req
202. it's my guess you are still
devious,Copy !req
203. you are still dishonest.Copy !req
204. And I've no doubt, even now,Copy !req
205. you're
a troublemaker.Copy !req
206. You haven't changed,
mrs. Langsford.Copy !req
207. Mr. Radin, obviously
many years have passedCopy !req
208. between now and the time you
felt you'd suffered indignitiesCopy !req
209. at our hands,
but what's to be gained by...Copy !req
210. a great deal can
be gained, reverend.Copy !req
211. A very great deal.Copy !req
212. You, for example, accused me
of a lack of character,Copy !req
213. put a scandal over my head,
destroyed my reputation.Copy !req
214. Yes, I remember.Copy !req
215. A girl, mr. Radin,
a girl you drove to suicide.Copy !req
216. Because even at
that early stageCopy !req
217. you were not a man who held
honor in very high regard.Copy !req
218. You can go
to the devil, reverend!Copy !req
219. Radin!Copy !req
220. And you, too, colonel.Copy !req
221. Tonight,
my friends,Copy !req
222. you will all
go to the devil,Copy !req
223. and that is not a
figure of speech!Copy !req
224. Do you know why I built
this room down here?Copy !req
225. Those walls are 18
inches concrete with
reinforced steel.Copy !req
226. And around them,
six inches of lead.Copy !req
227. I have my own generator
system, my own air system.Copy !req
228. Yes, and out there,
beyond that door,Copy !req
229. a storeroom the size
of a warehouse.Copy !req
230. You understand
logistics, colonel.Copy !req
231. Does it occur toyouwhy I
should have gone to all thisCopy !req
232. trouble and expense?Copy !req
233. To begin a vigil, my friends.Copy !req
234. The long wait and the countdown.Copy !req
235. Yes. I have walked
with kings and tycoons,Copy !req
236. as you perceive, mrs. Langsford.Copy !req
237. I have walked with them,
and I have listened to them.Copy !req
238. I keep abreast of the times,
and usually well ahead of them.Copy !req
239. I know things
that are going to happen.Copy !req
240. I pay for the service.Copy !req
241. 48 hours agoCopy !req
242. I received a most
interesting bit of news,Copy !req
243. something that
perhaps only six menCopy !req
244. in the world know of...Copy !req
245. the world is coming
to an end this evening,Copy !req
246. ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
247. At 11:45, there will be no
more city, no more country.Copy !req
248. At 30 minutes after midnight,
there will be no more world.Copy !req
249. They are going
to bomb us,Copy !req
250. and we are going
to bomb them.Copy !req
251. By dawn, there will be nothing
left but rubble and bodies.Copy !req
252. And in a few moments
it will all begin.Copy !req
253. You'll be hearing
sirens very shortly-Copy !req
254. that's the red alert.Copy !req
255. That means their missiles
are on their way.Copy !req
256. Ours will follow
soon after.Copy !req
257. And you are to
survive, mr. Radin?Copy !req
258. Is that the idea?Copy !req
259. I am to survive, mr. Hughes.Copy !req
260. I am 300 feet underground.Copy !req
261. And what about you, reverend?Copy !req
262. Do you wish
to survive?Copy !req
263. Do the rest of you
wish to survive?Copy !req
264. Or am I to be
the only pallbearer?Copy !req
265. This is your civil
defense announcer.Copy !req
266. Repeating, the air defense
command has just declaredCopy !req
267. a take-cover signal.Copy !req
268. This is not a practice warning,
not a drill.Copy !req
269. An attack by enemy forces
is expected at any moment.Copy !req
270. You must seek the nearest
shelter immediately.Copy !req
271. If you are in your home,Copy !req
272. go to your prepared shelter
or to the basement.Copy !req
273. If you have no shelter
or basement,Copy !req
274. go toward the center of the
house, to the first roomCopy !req
275. or hall
that will put as many wallsCopy !req
276. as possible between you
and the outside of the house.Copy !req
277. Take your radio with you.Copy !req
278. If you are in any other type of
building, go to the basementCopy !req
279. or lowest floor and get as close
to the center of the buildingCopy !req
280. as possible.Copy !req
281. leave your shelter until told
it is safe to do so.Copy !req
282. This is not a test.Copy !req
283. This is a real take-cover...Copy !req
284. comments?Copy !req
285. Perhaps a little military
sophistry now, colonel.Copy !req
286. A quote from
general grant.Copy !req
287. Or you, reverend,Copy !req
288. something enriching
from the gospel.Copy !req
289. Such silence, mrs. Langsford?Copy !req
290. Nothing in that vast repertoire,Copy !req
291. that pilgrim's progress mind
of yours,Copy !req
292. to handle
the situation?Copy !req
293. A mental eraser to
wipe out reality?Copy !req
294. I've got to
get to my wife.Copy !req
295. By all means, reverend,
get to your wife.Copy !req
296. Hold hands and
die together.Copy !req
297. You turn my stomach,
mr. Hughes.Copy !req
298. "Get to your wife."Copy !req
299. That's not what's
on your mind.Copy !req
300. What's on your mind is
what's on the colonel's mindCopy !req
301. and the schoolmarm's mind.Copy !req
302. Your precious hide,
your sanctified flesh.Copy !req
303. That's what preoccupies
you at the moment.Copy !req
304. If I'm to die tonightCopy !req
305. I want to be with
someone I love.Copy !req
306. "Somebody I love..."
how theatrical!Copy !req
307. But more burlesque
than legitimate.Copy !req
308. Have the decency, reverend,
to depart this earthCopy !req
309. with just a fragment of
the truth in your mouth.Copy !req
310. Tell me to my face
that you're so scared,Copy !req
311. so miserably frightened,Copy !req
312. that you'd sell
your wife by the poundCopy !req
313. if it meant
your own survival.Copy !req
314. If those were the last words
I spoke before I died,Copy !req
315. they would also be
the worst falsehoodCopy !req
316. I ever uttered on earth.Copy !req
317. Now, will you open this door?Copy !req
318. Will you let me leave now?Copy !req
319. How did you
know, radin?Copy !req
320. How could you
possibly have known?Copy !req
321. What difference
does it make?Copy !req
322. If he'll let
us leave nowCopy !req
323. perhaps we can
reach our homes
before it happens.Copy !req
324. My dear friends, shall we drop
the pretenses now?Copy !req
325. Shall we, all of us now,
tell the truth?Copy !req
326. I told you
how this room
was constructed-Copy !req
327. steel, concrete and lead.Copy !req
328. It may be the only place on
earth where you can survive.Copy !req
329. Now, what is this nonsense
about going back to your homes?Copy !req
330. Do you mean to say that you
would walk out of here and dieCopy !req
331. when by simply sitting
here you could live?Copy !req
332. Are we to understand,
mr. Radin,Copy !req
333. that you will permit
us this luxury?Copy !req
334. You will allow
us to stay?Copy !req
335. Of course, colonel.
As a matter of fact,Copy !req
336. it's precisely why
I've asked you to come.Copy !req
337. Each of you in his own way
has tried to destroy me.Copy !req
338. But I'll not repay
the compliment.Copy !req
339. That is to say, I will not
require an eye for an eye,Copy !req
340. nothing as primitive
or as naked as that.Copy !req
341. What is your price,
mr. Radin?Copy !req
342. I'd be interested.Copy !req
343. The colonel would
be interested.Copy !req
344. I presume the reverend
and the schoolmarmCopy !req
345. would be interested.Copy !req
346. I submit,
dear friends,Copy !req
347. you're not
just interested.Copy !req
348. It's probably the only
thing in god's earthCopy !req
349. that has any meaning
left at all.Copy !req
350. But the price, colonel...Copy !req
351. you will beg my pardon,Copy !req
352. you will ask my forgiveness,Copy !req
353. and, if need be, will get
down on your hands and kneesCopy !req
354. to perform the function.Copy !req
355. "Pretty please
with sugar on it."Copy !req
356. How's that?
Speak up, teacher.Copy !req
357. "Pretty please
with sugar on it."Copy !req
358. It's what children say
to exact a favor.Copy !req
359. I don't want your
favor, mr. Radin!Copy !req
360. Let me out of here!Copy !req
361. If I'm to spend my last
quarter hour on earthCopy !req
362. I'd rather spend it
with a stray catCopy !req
363. or alone in central parkCopy !req
364. or in a city
full of strangersCopy !req
365. whose names
I'll never know.Copy !req
366. The door, radin.Copy !req
367. Will you open
the door now?Copy !req
368. Open up, radin.Copy !req
369. You're too blind
or you're too stupid,Copy !req
370. because none of you
seem to understand.Copy !req
371. All you have to do-Copy !req
372. literally, all you have
to do- is to say a sentence.Copy !req
373. Just a string of
silly, stupid words.Copy !req
374. Like a command, colonel,Copy !req
375. or like
a lesson, teacher,Copy !req
376. or like
a prayer, reverend.Copy !req
377. All you have to say
is you're sorry.Copy !req
378. All right,
you want to die, fine.Copy !req
379. But you'll be backCopy !req
380. inside
five minutes.Copy !req
381. There's the elevator!
Take it!Copy !req
382. Take the farce
to its conclusion.Copy !req
383. Go up into the street
and see the panicCopy !req
384. and the frenzy
and the horror.Copy !req
385. And then come back down
here to your salvation.Copy !req
386. Or you can watch it all
down here on that screen.Copy !req
387. You can see it all happen,
the whole thing.Copy !req
388. Watch the world being
shoveled into a grave.Copy !req
389. It's your
last chance.Copy !req
390. It's your last chance,
I mean it.Copy !req
391. Tell me, reverend, is
life so stinking cheapCopy !req
392. that you can throw
it down a drain?Copy !req
393. Life is very dear, mr. Radin,
infinitely valuable.Copy !req
394. But there are other things
that come even higher.Copy !req
395. Honor is one of them-Copy !req
396. perhaps the most
expensive of them all.Copy !req
397. Amen.Copy !req
398. Try not to get
too lonely, mr. Radin.Copy !req
399. Use mirrors.
They may help.Copy !req
400. Put them all
around the room.Copy !req
401. Then you'll have the company
of a world full of radins.Copy !req
402. It'll be a fantasy,
of course,Copy !req
403. but then your whole life
has been a fantasy,Copy !req
404. a parade of illusions-Copy !req
405. illusions about what
people have done to you,Copy !req
406. illusions about what justice is,Copy !req
407. illusions about
what is the dignityCopy !req
408. of even the
lowest of us.Copy !req
409. A fantasy,
mr. Radin,Copy !req
410. and now you can have
it all to yourself.Copy !req
411. No, it's not true,
it's not a fantasy.Copy !req
412. No, it's not a fantasy!Copy !req
413. This is your civil defense
announcer.Copy !req
414. Our military authorities have
just ordered a take-cover alert.Copy !req
415. Attack by enemy forces
is imminent.Copy !req
416. Take cover immediately.Copy !req
417. If you are in your car driving
away from your city, continue.Copy !req
418. Keep on driving.Copy !req
419. Do not stop.Copy !req
420. When movement is
no longer possible,Copy !req
421. seek the best available refuge.Copy !req
422. That's enough!Copy !req
423. If you are outdoors on foot,
hurry to the nearest shelter...Copy !req
424. that's quite enough!Copy !req
425. Anybody?Copy !req
426. Anybody.Copy !req
427. Please...Copy !req
428. somebody...Copy !req
429. hey, mac, mac.Copy !req
430. Had a little
bit too much?Copy !req
431. Hey, mac.Copy !req
432. I didn't want
it this way.Copy !req
433. Let me take
you home, mac.Copy !req
434. I didn't want
it this way.Copy !req
435. No, somebody, please.
Mac...?Copy !req
436. Anybody, won't
somebody listen to me?Copy !req
437. Go on now, move along.
Move along, please.Copy !req
438. There isn't a thing
here to worry about.Copy !req
439. Move along, please!Copy !req
440. Please, move along,
please, please.Copy !req
441. It's okay now.
You're gonna
be all right.Copy !req
442. We're going
to help you.Copy !req
443. Isn't there
anybody left?Copy !req
444. Nobody?Copy !req
445. You're gonna be
all right.Copy !req
446. Nobody!Copy !req
447. Now, go on,
break it up.Copy !req
448. There isn't a
thing here to see.
Go on, go on.Copy !req
449. Nobody.Copy !req
450. Nobody...Copy !req
451. oh, god...Copy !req
452. god...Copy !req
453. mr. Paul radin,
a dealer in fantasyCopy !req
454. who sits in the rubble
of his own makingCopy !req
455. and imagines that he's
the last man on earth,Copy !req
456. doomed to a perdition
of unutterable lonelinessCopy !req
457. because a practical joke
has turned into a nightmare.Copy !req
458. Mr. Paul radin,
pallbearer at a funeralCopy !req
459. that he manufactured himself
in the twilight zone.Copy !req
460. Rod serling,
creator of the twilight zone,Copy !req
461. will tell you
about next week's storyCopy !req
462. after this message.Copy !req
463. And now, mr. Serling.Copy !req
464. Next week, through the good
offices of mr. Charles beaumont,Copy !req
465. we take a walk
in some dead man's shoes.Copy !req
466. It's the story of a hobo
who takes some shoesCopy !req
467. off a recently-deceased hoodlum,
and then discoversCopy !req
468. that if the shoe fits,
you have to wear it.Copy !req
469. And in this case, you have to do
as the shoes do-Copy !req
470. go where they tell you toCopy !req
471. and then perform some services
above and beyond the norm.Copy !req
472. I hope we see you next week
for "dead man's shoes."Copy !req
473. Seat belts can reduce serious
injury by one-third.Copy !req
474. Does your family have the
security of seat belts?Copy !req