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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. This object, should any of you
have lived undergroundCopy !req
8. for the better parts
of your livesCopy !req
9. and never had occasion
to look toward the skyCopy !req
10. is an airplane, its official
designation, a do-3.Copy !req
11. We offer this
rather obvious commentCopy !req
12. because this particular
airplane,Copy !req
13. the one you're looking at,
is a freak.Copy !req
14. Now, most airplanes take off
and land as per schedule.Copy !req
15. On rare occasions, they crash.Copy !req
16. But all airplanes can be counted
on doing one or the other.Copy !req
17. Now, yesterday morning,Copy !req
18. this particular airplane ceased
to be just a commercial carrier.Copy !req
19. As of its arrival,
it became an enigma,Copy !req
20. a seven-ton puzzle made out
of aluminum, steel, wireCopy !req
21. and a few thousand
other component partsCopy !req
22. none of which add up
to the right thing.Copy !req
23. In just a moment,Copy !req
24. we're going to show you
the tail end of its history.Copy !req
25. We're going to give you
90 percent of the jigsaw piecesCopy !req
26. and you and mr. Sheckly here
of the federal aviation agencyCopy !req
27. will assume the problem
of putting them together,Copy !req
28. along with finding
the missing pieces.Copy !req
29. This we offer
as an evening's hobby,Copy !req
30. a little
extracurricular diversion,Copy !req
31. which is really the national
pastime in the twilight zone.Copy !req
32. Flight 453 to kansas cityCopy !req
33. now ready for boarding
through gate number 14.Copy !req
34. Flight 453, gate 14.Copy !req
35. Passengers, please board.Copy !req
36. Let's go in there!Copy !req
37. What about it?Copy !req
38. You need a can opener?Copy !req
39. What, do they got
a hot poker game in there?Copy !req
40. You tell me.Copy !req
41. What about it?Copy !req
42. You dead, asleep or what?Copy !req
43. George, what's going on here?Copy !req
44. There isn't any luggage.Copy !req
45. Hey, george!Copy !req
46. Ask them who's
responsibleCopy !req
47. for forgetting
all the luggage.Copy !req
48. You better come in here
and check me out.Copy !req
49. I don't know what
yourproblems are,Copy !req
50. but you're going to have
to tell the passengersCopy !req
51. their luggage has
been delayed.Copy !req
52. Some idiot let
this plane take offCopy !req
53. without so much as
an envelope in there.Copy !req
54. I'd be happy to,
except for one thing.Copy !req
55. What?Copy !req
56. There aren't any passengers!
Come here.Copy !req
57. Robbins, you better
call the airport policeCopy !req
58. and get them over here.Copy !req
59. I'll get bengston
in operations.Copy !req
60. I hope...Copy !req
61. what?Copy !req
62. I hope he lets me
finish the storyCopy !req
63. before he has me committed.Copy !req
64. There was nobody
on the plane,Copy !req
65. absolutely nobody.Copy !req
66. I don't know...
how could it stopCopy !req
67. without somebody
on that plane?Copy !req
68. All right, ladies
and gentlemen,Copy !req
69. would you knock
it off, please?Copy !req
70. This is mr. ShecklyCopy !req
71. from the federal
aviation agency.Copy !req
72. He'd like to continue
the questioning.Copy !req
73. She's all
yours, sir.Copy !req
74. Gentlemen, this is
not a formal hearing.Copy !req
75. It's more in the nature
of a preliminary meeting.Copy !req
76. As your operations
chief noted,Copy !req
77. we're here to unearth
as many facts as we can.Copy !req
78. I'd appreciate hearing from you
only facts.Copy !req
79. You can save us all
a lot of timeCopy !req
80. if you'd avoid
personal hypotheses,Copy !req
81. so we can keep the air clearCopy !req
82. and not clutter it up
with six dozen theories.Copy !req
83. Theories happen
to be my business.Copy !req
84. In the 20-odd years,
I've been with the f.a.a.Copy !req
85. I've got a pretty
good recordCopy !req
86. in putting together
jigsaw puzzles.Copy !req
87. Maybe some of them
haven't beenCopy !req
88. as abnormal as this one,Copy !req
89. but I'll lay
my betting averageCopy !req
90. on the line
any hour of the day.Copy !req
91. All right?Copy !req
92. Let's get down to business.Copy !req
93. Now, which one of you
is cousins?Copy !req
94. Right here, sir.Copy !req
95. You're the ramp
attendant?Copy !req
96. Yes, sir.Copy !req
97. You were on dutyCopy !req
98. when flight
107 arrived?Copy !req
99. That's right, sir.Copy !req
100. Ship came in normally...Copy !req
101. did you notice
anything abnormal?Copy !req
102. No, she came in
right on the button.Copy !req
103. She followed
my signal up the ramp.Copy !req
104. She stopped right on the mark
where I told her to.Copy !req
105. She cut her engines
when I gave her the signal.Copy !req
106. Did you see
the pilots?Copy !req
107. When I signal a plane in,
my attention's on the marksCopy !req
108. and on the aircraft
on either side of her...Copy !req
109. well, actually,
I don't remember...Copy !req
110. bengston, is your dispatcher
here from buffalo?Copy !req
111. Well, that's me, sir.Copy !req
112. I just arrived.Copy !req
113. Will you take
a look at this?Copy !req
114. Yes, sir, that's
the flight plan.Copy !req
115. Did you see
the pilot sign it?Copy !req
116. I was at his elbowCopy !req
117. this morning
at 11:12 a.m.Copy !req
118. Pilot william j. Slocum?Copy !req
119. Yes, sir.Copy !req
120. Copilot john o'brien,Copy !req
121. that's the name of
the first officer?Copy !req
122. Yes, sir.Copy !req
123. Did you see them
board the aircraft?Copy !req
124. Not...
not exactly, sir.Copy !req
125. I saw them leave
the dispatch officeCopy !req
126. and head
for the field.Copy !req
127. But to the best
of your knowledge,Copy !req
128. that was the crew
of flight 107Copy !req
129. when they took off from buffalo
at 11:30 this morning?Copy !req
130. To the best
of my knowledge.Copy !req
131. William j. Slocum,
john o'brien.Copy !req
132. Good pilots, both of them.Copy !req
133. Sober, reliable, the best men.Copy !req
134. I'm not casting any
stones, mr. Bengston.Copy !req
135. It's just that
the names are so...Copy !req
136. so familiar.Copy !req
137. Well, that'll
be all now,Copy !req
138. but stay around where
you can be reached.Copy !req
139. Mr. Sheckly...Copy !req
140. this is paul malloy,
our public relations man.Copy !req
141. Public relations, huh?Copy !req
142. How much public, and
what kind of relationsCopy !req
143. are you poor guys going
to have after this one?Copy !req
144. I got 22 years in this saddle
and I've never been licked yet.Copy !req
145. Oh, some of them
take a long time.Copy !req
146. Couple of tons of metalCopy !req
147. spread over 50 square miles
of countryside.Copy !req
148. Sometimes, all it is
is a misplaced air scoopCopy !req
149. or maybe a loose bolt
in the elevator hinge or...Copy !req
150. once in a blue moon,
a pilot with a psychosis.Copy !req
151. But it's always something.Copy !req
152. And that something
always shows up.Copy !req
153. You're talking about a crashed
aircraft, mr. Sheckly.Copy !req
154. We're talking about
a disappearing act.Copy !req
155. Now, look, this just
couldn't have happened.Copy !req
156. An aircraft can't take off
with a full crew, 13 passengersCopy !req
157. and land an hour and 20 minutes
later with nobody on it.Copy !req
158. It simply is not within
the realm of possibility!Copy !req
159. Mr. Malloy, you
are dead right.Copy !req
160. But the fact
is it happened.Copy !req
161. It can't
have happened.Copy !req
162. An airliner couldn't land
that perfectlyCopy !req
163. with nobody controlling it.Copy !req
164. There must be...
therehasto be an explanation-Copy !req
165. a legitimate, valid, believable,
understandable explanation.Copy !req
166. There's only one
possible explanation.Copy !req
167. These 13 people had parachutes.Copy !req
168. Now, they kept them
in the baggage compartment.Copy !req
169. That's why there
wasn't any luggage.Copy !req
170. Then, someplace between here
and buffalo, they jumped outCopy !req
171. for a gag
or something, I guess.Copy !req
172. That's brilliant.
That's just brilliant.Copy !req
173. And what about
the pilots, mr. Holmes?Copy !req
174. Or is that part
just elementary?Copy !req
175. Maybe they hid
in the restroom.Copy !req
176. Sneaked out of the planeCopy !req
177. after I went to make
the phone call.Copy !req
178. Oh, cut it out.Copy !req
179. That's quite an imagination
you have, mr. Cousins.Copy !req
180. I'll give you that.Copy !req
181. Hey, what if...?Copy !req
182. What if...?Copy !req
183. What if what?Copy !req
184. No, I don't know.Copy !req
185. It gets me.Copy !req
186. I'll tell you
this, though.Copy !req
187. I get spooked just
standing around here.Copy !req
188. I get more spooked
inside, though.Copy !req
189. All those empty blue seats
just staring at you.Copy !req
190. Look, boys...Copy !req
191. we have been theorizing
for six solid hours.Copy !req
192. I'm just a simple-minded
vice presidentCopy !req
193. in charge of operations,Copy !req
194. but I've got a passel of newsmen
out there bugging me to deathCopy !req
195. as to what kind of
haunted operationsCopy !req
196. we are running here.Copy !req
197. Tell them to keep
their shirts on.Copy !req
198. That's what you
should be telling themCopy !req
199. or a reasonable facsimile
of an explanation.Copy !req
200. Then you better get
me another headCopy !req
201. and a couple
of sets of arms,Copy !req
202. because I've been on
that phone for six hours.Copy !req
203. I've had every news service,
every television networkCopy !req
204. and a couple
of professional mind readersCopy !req
205. trying to figure out
what the great big mystery isCopy !req
206. we're supposed
to be hiding in here.Copy !req
207. And you know how long I can
keep it up, mr. Bengston?Copy !req
208. Maybe another 15 minutesCopy !req
209. and then the whole thing
is going to pop wide openCopy !req
210. and we're going to be stuck
with rotten egg on our face.Copy !req
211. And sheckly
and the governmentCopy !req
212. are going to take
our franchise away from us.Copy !req
213. Incompetence,
mental instability,Copy !req
214. and you name it,
you can have it!Copy !req
215. Have you checked outCopy !req
216. every one of the names
on this passenger manifest?Copy !req
217. No, I have not.Copy !req
218. That's all I need now
is to have a small armyCopy !req
219. of relatives
from upstate new yorkCopy !req
220. clutching at my lapels,Copy !req
221. asking me for a
definitive statementCopy !req
222. as to where
their loved ones areCopy !req
223. who took flight 107 out
of buffalo this morning.Copy !req
224. You mean to say,Copy !req
225. you haven't even
had one inquiry yet?Copy !req
226. Now, that's weird,
isn't it?Copy !req
227. Not a single inquiry.Copy !req
228. But the ship arrived
only six hours ago.Copy !req
229. Maybe they haven't had
time to miss anyone.Copy !req
230. No, I'm kidding myself.Copy !req
231. Of course, someone would have
made an inquiry by now.Copy !req
232. There goes
that old feeling again.Copy !req
233. What feeling?Copy !req
234. This passenger manifest...
the names look so familiar.Copy !req
235. Robbins, you said
something before.Copy !req
236. What do
you mean?Copy !req
237. About the
parachutes?Copy !req
238. No, no, no,
you said something else.Copy !req
239. You said you looked
inside the planeCopy !req
240. and you saw the blue seats.Copy !req
241. Yeah, I said
something like that.Copy !req
242. They are blue,Copy !req
243. but when I first looked in
the plane, the seats were brown.Copy !req
244. Wait a minute,
they were red.Copy !req
245. I remember thinking
how faded they were,Copy !req
246. but theywerered.Copy !req
247. What is all this nonsense?Copy !req
248. Haven't we got enough troubleCopy !req
249. without you guys worrying
about the interior decoration?Copy !req
250. Bengston, come here.Copy !req
251. Do you see a number
on that tail?Copy !req
252. Of course,
I see a number.Copy !req
253. Read it off to me.Copy !req
254. N-6-7-5-8-8.Copy !req
255. Hey, robbins.Copy !req
256. Do you see that same
number on the tail?Copy !req
257. N-8-0-4-7-5-8.Copy !req
258. Hey, what's the matter?Copy !req
259. Are we going crazy
or something?Copy !req
260. We're all seeing
different numbers.Copy !req
261. Gentlemen, I have a theory.Copy !req
262. Unfortunately, the only way
I can prove it or disprove itCopy !req
263. is going to put me
in considerable jeopardy.Copy !req
264. Any one of you ever hear
of mass suggestion?Copy !req
265. So?Copy !req
266. I think that's what
we're dealing with now-Copy !req
267. a kind of hypnosis.Copy !req
268. To put it more bluntlyCopy !req
269. or perhaps a little
less believably,Copy !req
270. I don't think this airplane
is really here.Copy !req
271. I think every
one of usCopy !req
272. had a little hypnosis
performed on him,Copy !req
273. a little suggestion.Copy !req
274. Someone somewhere told us that
a do-3 is inside this hangarCopy !req
275. and that it landed this morning.Copy !req
276. That's what they said.Copy !req
277. So every one of us
had pictured in his mindCopy !req
278. a do-3 as he knows one.Copy !req
279. Therefore, one of us
sees the seats as blue,Copy !req
280. another sees them as brown,Copy !req
281. still another sees them as red.Copy !req
282. I read one numberCopy !req
283. off the tail.Copy !req
284. Two other guys
read two others.Copy !req
285. Don't you understand
what I'm trying to say?Copy !req
286. This particular aircraft
doesn't exist.Copy !req
287. It really isn't
here at all.Copy !req
288. Are you mad?Copy !req
289. Are you trying
to tell usCopy !req
290. this is
an illusion?Copy !req
291. It's no illusion,
it's here.Copy !req
292. I can feel it,
it's here.Copy !req
293. I'm going to prove to you
that you're wrong,Copy !req
294. or I'm going to prove
to you that I'm wrong.Copy !req
295. And if I happen to be wrong,
I also happen to be dead.Copy !req
296. Robbins, will you roll the plane
outside and start the engines?Copy !req
297. Sheckly, are you sure
you know what you're doing?Copy !req
298. I know what I'm doing.Copy !req
299. Start the engines.Copy !req
300. If this plane
is imaginary,Copy !req
301. then so are those engines
and so are those props.Copy !req
302. So if I stick
my hand in them,Copy !req
303. nothing is going
to happen.Copy !req
304. But if my theory
is for the birdsCopy !req
305. and those props
are real,Copy !req
306. make sure you
notify my wife.Copy !req
307. Go ahead, do it.Copy !req
308. Well, gentlemen...Copy !req
309. I believe I've
proven my point.Copy !req
310. Bengston?Copy !req
311. Malloy?Copy !req
312. Cousins!Copy !req
313. Robbins!Copy !req
314. Bengston!Copy !req
315. Malloy!Copy !req
316. Bengston! Malloy!Copy !req
317. Hey, where are you people?Copy !req
318. Hey, bengston!Copy !req
319. Where are you peop...?Copy !req
320. What happened?Copy !req
321. Bengston, what happened?Copy !req
322. What are you talking about?Copy !req
323. Aren't you...?Copy !req
324. You're sheckly, aren't you?Copy !req
325. Aren't you sheckly
of the f.a.a.?Copy !req
326. What kind of a gag is this?Copy !req
327. Who do you think I am?Copy !req
328. What's going on?Copy !req
329. What is
the problem?Copy !req
330. What's the problem?Copy !req
331. Bengston, are you
off your rocker?Copy !req
332. One minute, there's a hangar
full of men and an aircraft.Copy !req
333. The next minute I proveCopy !req
334. that not only doesn't
the aircraft exist, but...Copy !req
335. what else didn't exist?Copy !req
336. Mr. Sheckly,
are you drunk?Copy !req
337. Or are you
sick or what?Copy !req
338. Bengston...Copy !req
339. bengston,
where's malloy?Copy !req
340. Malloy?Copy !req
341. Malloy, you better get upCopy !req
342. and zero in
your boss hereCopy !req
343. as to the cause and
effects of insanity.Copy !req
344. You...Copy !req
345. "miss penny jackson,
beautiful, young movie starletCopy !req
346. "is shown here arrivingCopy !req
347. "on trans-east airline,
flight 107Copy !req
348. which arrived from buffalo
this morning."Copy !req
349. What's going on?Copy !req
350. Who is this guy?Copy !req
351. How could they have
taken that picture?Copy !req
352. How could they
say it landedCopy !req
353. and everything
went...?Copy !req
354. Went what?Copy !req
355. You know this guy?Copy !req
356. Mr. Sheckly...Copy !req
357. this is paul malloy,
our public relations man.Copy !req
358. What are you talking about?Copy !req
359. I know who it is.Copy !req
360. What's going on here?Copy !req
361. Maybe you'd
better tell us.Copy !req
362. What is so oddCopy !req
363. about a picture of
a flight arrival?Copy !req
364. What's so od...?Copy !req
365. Bengston,
you check me out.Copy !req
366. Didn't that
flight arriveCopy !req
367. with nobody on it?Copy !req
368. No crew,
no stewardess,Copy !req
369. no passengers,
no baggage?Copy !req
370. No, mr. Sheckly.Copy !req
371. Flight 107
from our airlineCopy !req
372. arrived at 12:50
today on schedule.Copy !req
373. You mean to tell me,Copy !req
374. you're not missing
an aircraft?Copy !req
375. That's exactly what he's
telling you, mister.Copy !req
376. We're not missing
any flight 107,Copy !req
377. or any other flight.Copy !req
378. Well... how
could that be?Copy !req
379. You never missed
a flight 107?Copy !req
380. That's right.Copy !req
381. You were the examiner
on that one.Copy !req
382. On what one?Copy !req
383. We lost
just one flightCopy !req
384. in some 20-odd
years, just one.Copy !req
385. Flight 107.Copy !req
386. But, mr. Sheckly,Copy !req
387. that was some 17
or 18 years ago.Copy !req
388. Flight 107
out of buffalo.Copy !req
389. Flight 107
out of buffalo.Copy !req
390. But like I said, that
was 17, 18 years ago.Copy !req
391. Well, what
happened to her?Copy !req
392. Lost in the fog,
never found.Copy !req
393. We figured she must
have gone off course,Copy !req
394. went out over the ocean,
went down there.Copy !req
395. You never found her?Copy !req
396. Never found her.Copy !req
397. Mr. Sheckly here
investigated.Copy !req
398. But that was one caseCopy !req
399. you were never
able to button up.Copy !req
400. Nobody was ever able
to button it up.Copy !req
401. Just sits on
the books as lost,Copy !req
402. presumed crashed
for reasons unknown.Copy !req
403. Mr. Sheckly...Copy !req
404. why don't you let me
drive you home?Copy !req
405. For reasons unknown?Copy !req
406. But I never been licked
on a case yet... never.Copy !req
407. We've always
found the causes.Copy !req
408. Always.Copy !req
409. We've always
found the causes.Copy !req
410. Always.Copy !req
411. I never been licked
on a case yet.Copy !req
412. We've always found the causes.Copy !req
413. Always found the causes.Copy !req
414. We've always
found the causes.Copy !req
415. I never been licked
on a case yet.Copy !req
416. I guess so.Copy !req
417. Flight 107- 13 people.Copy !req
418. Pilot- william j. Slocum.Copy !req
419. Copilot- john o'brien.Copy !req
420. What happened to you?Copy !req
421. What went wrong?Copy !req
422. Where did you go down?Copy !req
423. Flight 107!Copy !req
424. Hey, flight 107!Copy !req
425. Why didn't you leave a clue?Copy !req
426. Why didn't you make a contact?Copy !req
427. Why didn't you?Copy !req
428. Why didn't you leave a clue?Copy !req
429. Why didn't you ever tell anyone
what happened to you?Copy !req
430. Picture of a man
with an achilles' heel,Copy !req
431. a mystery that landed
in his lifeCopy !req
432. and then turned
into a heavy weight,Copy !req
433. dragged across the yearsCopy !req
434. to ultimately take
the form of an illusion.Copy !req
435. Now, that's the clinical answerCopy !req
436. that they put on the tag
as they take him away.Copy !req
437. But if you choose to think
that the explanationCopy !req
438. has to do with
an airborneflying dutchman,Copy !req
439. a ghost ship
in a fog-enshrouded nightCopy !req
440. on a flight that never ends,Copy !req
441. then you're doing your business
in an old stand...Copy !req
442. in the twilight zone.Copy !req
443. Rod serling, creator
of the twilight zone,Copy !req
444. will tell you
about next week's storyCopy !req
445. after this word
from our alternate sponsor.Copy !req
446. And now, mr. Serling.Copy !req
447. Next week
onthe twilight zone,Copy !req
448. we use a camera like an x rayCopy !req
449. and look under the skin of a
neighborhood of men and women.Copy !req
450. It's a little experiment
in human nature and behaviorCopy !req
451. on the night
that a conelrad broadcastCopy !req
452. shatters their composureCopy !req
453. with an announcement
of terse terror-Copy !req
454. a bomb is coming.Copy !req
455. Most of our stories
are a little far out.Copy !req
456. This one is very close in.Copy !req
457. You'll see what I mean next week
when we present "the shelter."Copy !req
458. Be sure and watchgunsmoke
starring james arness,Copy !req
459. saturday nights over most
of these same stations.Copy !req