The Twilight Zone 1x18

Directed by William Claxton

Jack Perkins as Ground Crewman • Alexander Scourby as Maj. Gen. George Harper • Kenneth Haigh as Lt. William Terrance Decker • Robert Warwick as A.V.M. Alexander 'Leadbottom' Mackaye, R.A.F. • Simon Scott as Maj. Wilson • Alexander Scourby as George Harper • Kenneth Haigh as William Decker • Robert Warwick as Alexander 'Leadbottom' Mackaye

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

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1. The Last Flight First Aired: 5 February 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. Witness flight lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps.

12. Returning from a patrol somewhere over France. The year is 1917.

13. The problem is, the lieutenant is hopelessly lost.

14. Lieutenant Decker will soon discover...

15. that a man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles...

16. but also in time.

17. And time, in this case, can be measured in eternities.

18. All right, mister. Get out of there.

19. What do you think you're doing?

20. Who in the name of...?

21. What do you mean running this antique in front of an approaching aircraft?

22. Don't you understand what I'm saying? Are you French?

23. I'm British. Are you American?

24. Can't you see this is an American base?

25. What, all this? We had no idea you were so advanced.

26. You better come with me.

27. Major Wilson to see you, general. - Sit down, major.

28. Well, what is this?

29. This man. He's apparently British. He landed his ship on our field.

30. His ship, I might add... - Who are you?

31. 2nd lieutenant William Decker, sir. Royal Flying Corps.

32. You mean Royal Air Force.

33. No, sir. Royal Flying Corps.

34. What are you doing here? Why are you dressed like that?

35. I beg your pardon, sir? - Some kind of an air show nearby?

36. Air show, sir? - Are you making a film?

37. I didn't quite understand you, sir. - You don't understand?

38. What are you...? Why are you wearing this costume?

39. This is my uniform, sir. - Your...

40. At ease.

41. Excuse me, sir. Where exactly am I?

42. Where exactly did you think you were?

43. I thought I was landing at 56th squadron, R.F.C.

44. 56th squadron R.F.C.?

45. Wasn't that...?

46. What's today's date? - March 5.

47. What year?

48. Why, 1917.

49. 1917? - Yes, that's correct.

50. Well, isn't it? - It's March 5, 1959, lieutenant.

51. Look here.

52. You're not joking with me, are you?

53. Good lord.

54. You don't seriously expect us to believe that...

55. It's true. When I took off this morning, it was 1917.

56. That cloud.

57. While I was passing through it, I couldn't hear my engine.

58. It was like being swallowed in a vacuum.

59. The same sort of thing happened to Guimard.

60. The French fighter pilot. - He disappeared one day while flying.

61. At the memorial service, the cardinal said...

62. 'He belonged to the sky and the sky has taken him.'

63. Who do you think you're fooling, Decker?

64. Sir, I swear to you when I took off this morning it was March 5, 1917!

65. Mack and I were... Captain Mackaye.

66. Yes, we're in... - Alexander Mackaye?

67. How did you know?

68. What have you got to do with... - How did you know?

69. You're going to tell us you don't know that Alexander Mackaye...

70. Air vice-marshal Alexander Mackaye is en route to this base...

71. for a tour of inspection.

72. But that's impossible.

73. Why is it impossible, lieutenant Decker?

74. Because he's dead.

75. It's ingenious. - This could be checked on, sir.

76. If we wanted to waste our time, yes.

77. If it's a hoax, it's certainly an elaborate one.

78. If it's a hoax, major.

79. Nobody goes to such incredible lengths just to play a joke.

80. Who said it was a joke?

81. Alright, sir, what is it?

82. We'll find out when Mackaye arrives.

83. We could ask the Ministry of War in London about this Decker.

84. I think you believe him. - No, sir.

85. I can't help feeling there's more to this than just a hoax.

86. Exactly.

87. You think he wanted to kill Mackaye? - We'll know soon enough.

88. The man was genuinely shocked when he heard Mackaye was coming here.

89. If he'd meant to kill the man, he wouldn't have left it in his plane.

90. Major, if you'll excuse me. - This doesn't make any sense.

91. Major. If you'll excuse me. - Yes, sir.

92. Lieutenant. - Why am I a prisoner here?

93. Not quite as bad as all that. - I'm being kept here, am I not?

94. I'm only following orders, Decker.

95. What earthly good is it going to do for me to see Mackaye?

96. Why are you so afraid of seeing him? - I'm not afraid.

97. I'm not afraid of anything. - Well, then?

98. Well, all right, I'll see him. - Good.

99. About that white cloud you spoke of. - I've told you everything.

100. Do you realize you're asking us to believe something rather incredible?

101. A cloud of silence?

102. A World War I pilot landing at an American Base in France in 1959?

103. That doesn't happen every day. - Well, it happened today.

104. I've told you I'll see Mackaye. Why don't you leave me alone?

105. You really feel you know him? - Know him?

106. 'Old Leadbottom?' - Leadbottom?

107. Yeah, well, when ever we fly...

108. When ever we flew over the German lines the soldiers fired at us.

109. One day Mack got hit in a most embarrassing spot.

110. I always called him Old Leadbottom after that.

111. It's a private joke, of course.

112. Mack's a proud fellow. He wouldn't like it if I bruited it about.

113. But why do you keep insisting that he's dead?

114. The last I saw of him he was caught in a circle of seven German planes.

115. There was nothing I could do. I was involved with three others.

116. Obviously, he got away.

117. I don't see how he could have. - Not only could have, he did.

118. He was one of Britain's great heroes during the blitz.

119. That was the second war we told you about.

120. Won the D.F.C. for knocking down three German bombers.

121. He saved hundreds of lives. Maybe even thousands.

122. Decker.

123. You manage, sir? - Yes, you can wait outside.

124. What's wrong, Decker? - I've got to leave.

125. Mackaye will be here in a while. - I can't see him.

126. He'll know me for what I am. I'm a coward.

127. I'm a coward.

128. I've always been a coward.

129. All my life I've been running away.

130. Pretending to be something I never was, never could be.

131. That's why I'm here. Because I was trying to run away.

132. I wanted so desperately to escape that I did escape.

133. I got by with my pretending well enough.

134. My kind of strained idiocy is exactly the brand we all put on.

135. We're playing a part, you know?

136. Boys on a lark. Laughing, joking, drinking. It's too much, all of it.

137. And turning into deadly, ice-cold killers in the sky.

138. Although not me, of course.

139. No, not me.

140. Up there, I'm just as afraid as I am on the ground.

141. Mack and I are supposed to go on patrols together. But...

142. I can usually manage to persuade him into splitting up.

143. I think he actually hopes he'll run into some trouble.

144. Me, I just linger in the clouds flying back and forth.

145. Dreading the possibility that I might see an enemy plane, and...

146. just hoping for enough time to pass so that I can go back.

147. Sometimes I think I'll land behind the German lines...

148. and I'll let myself be captured. The pilots are very well treated.

149. But I'm afraid of doing that even.

150. I'm afraid that I'd be discovered...

151. and discredited. I couldn't bear that.

152. I have to carry on the self-delusion.

153. You know...

154. I've actually fired bullets through the cockpit walls...

155. so that the chaps would be impressed.

156. God help me.

157. It isn't a crime to be afraid.

158. Everybody's afraid at one time or another.

159. I'm sure Mackaye would understand that.

160. What makes you think he knows anyway?

161. Because it was me that let the Germans trap him.

162. You were fighting three Germans... - I wasn't fighting anyone.

163. I was running.

164. When the Germans came at us, I left him up there to die.

165. But he didn't die. - I can't understand that.

166. Maybe he got helped somehow.

167. What's the matter?

168. What you said. - What?

169. That he got help. - It's certainly one possibility.

170. Maybe it was me that helped him.

171. I meant that somebody else... - There wasn't anyone within 50 miles.

172. Maybe it wasn't an accident that I landed here.

173. I was brought here for a purpose. To find out that Mack had survived.

174. To find out that time was giving me a second chance.

175. You've got to let me go. - But I can't.

176. You've got to. It's the only chance I have. It's the only chance he has.

177. But he's alive. He's coming here today.

178. How do you know that if I don't get back he won't be here?

179. How do you know that he won't have been killed...

180. 42 years ago unless I help him now?

181. That's insanity, Decker.

182. Hey, where do you think you're going?

183. Turn it off. - No.

184. Can't you understand? It's all those other lives he saved.

185. Are they to be lost as well? - Turn it off or I'll fire.

186. Well, fire. I'd rather die.

187. You're in trouble. You know that? - I know it, sir.

188. Your thought processes elude me. Letting that maniac loose.

189. How could you possibly...? Yes?

190. Air vice-marshal Mackaye, sir. - Fine. He is already here.

191. At ease.

192. Marshall Mackaye. - I'm very pleased to meet you, sir.

193. I trust you had a comfortable flight. - Yes, splendid.

194. This is Major Wilson. - How do you do, sir?

195. Won't you sit down, sir? May I?

196. Sir, did you ever know a man by the name of William Terrance Decker?

197. Terry Decker? I certainly should know him.

198. Saved my life. - What?

199. How did he save your life, sir? - We were out on patrol together.

200. As a rule, we'd have split up but on that day, we were flying together.

201. When a flight of Germans dropped down. - You fought them together?

202. Not at first. - What do you mean, sir?

203. I had a feeling that old Terry was lighting out on me.

204. He flew away? - Yes.

205. Climbed high. Disappeared in a cloud. - A white cloud, sir?

206. I don't know. I suppose so. - And then?

207. Then, out of nowhere, Terry came diving down.

208. His gun chattering away.

209. He got three of the blighters before they got him.

210. Saved my life. - Then he did get back.

211. Didn't the Germans usually bring back the personal effects...

212. of pilots who had been shot down? - Usually. What is this all about?

213. They brought back his? - No.

214. No?

215. Where in heaven's name did you get these?

216. They're his?

217. Yes. What the devil is this all about?

218. Maybe you'd better sit down, Old Leadbottom.

219. What did you call me?

220. Dialog from a play. Hamlet to Horatio:

221. 'There is more between heaven and earth than we can dream of.'

222. Dialog from a play written long before men took to the sky.

223. There is more between heaven, earth and the sky that perhaps can be dreamt of.

224. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky and the earth...

225. lies the Twilight Zone.