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13.

The Obsolete Man






"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone."



Set in the future, this is a story about Romney Wordsworth played by the classic Burgess Meredith and his battle to stay alive. He is being prosecuted for the crime of being obsolete. He is both a librarian and religious, two things that are condemned in this future society. However, Romney would not go down without a fight. On the night he was to die, the chancellor shows up and Wordsworth locks the door and reveals that he has a bomb strapped to him and that if he was gonna die the chancellor was gonna go with him. All the while this is broadcast over a video camera in his room. Wordsworth reads passages from his bible until midnight hits, right before the bomb is set to go off the Chancellor cires "In the name of God, let me out" and Wordsworth lets him go free, knowing that the chancellor had just admitted there was in fact a God, which the government had been denying the entire time. The final scene was the chancellor, who after all that, was also sentenced to being obsolete.

This was a harder one to explain, it's easier just to watch it. But I love it cause it invovles religion back in a time when religion wasn't as taboo as it is today.



"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete, but so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for mankind-in the Twilight Zone."

12.


Stopover in a Quiet Town





"Bob and Millie Frasier -- average young New Yorkers who had attended a party in the country last night, and on the way home, took a detour. Most of us, on waking in the morning, know exactly where we are; the rooster or the alarm clock brings us out of sleep into the familiar sights, sounds, aromas of home and the comfort of a routine day ahead. Not so with our young friends. This will be a day like none they've ever spent, and they'll spend it in the Twilight Zone."



You gotta love a shocking ending, and although this one has been done a lot, it hadn't been back then. A married couple wakes up and have no idea where they are. They think they got too drunk the night before and blacked out. But why were they in a strange home? And why was no one around? What I love most about this episode are the subtle hints throughout it. The draws not opening, the telephone having no wire, and then finally, the best part, the train they get on that leaves them exactly where they started from. As the couple becomes more and more exhaspirated and scared, finally a huge shadow looms over them, and low and behold it's a giant girl who picks them up. Revealing all along that they were trapped in a little girls doll house.


"The moral of what you've just seen is clear: if you drink, don't drive. And if your wife has had a couple, she shouldn't drive either. You might both just wake up with a whale of a headache, in a deserted village, in the Twilight Zone."

11.

And When The Sky Was Opened






"Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: A crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: The ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours. But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of the hospital door."



First off this episode has one of my favorite titles. If I was to have a band, a name that would be strongly considered would be And When The Sky Was Opened. (Random Fact:The screamo band The Number 12 Looks Like You was named after the Twilight Zone episode of the same name). But anyways, this episode is a tad odd. It involves three astronauts who dissapear from the radar midflight, and when they crash down, nobody remembers them. They call home, but their wives, parents, all have never heard of them. And then one by one, they begin disappearing. The three goes down to to, then the two to one, and then finally just Cornel Forbes is left. He checks himself into a hospital, and the final shot is the camera brushing over the once occupied bed, where he has now disappeared as well. It's a different twist, cause there is no explanation, no surprise ending, just the case of what happened. And for that it gets number 11


"Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington, a man named Forbes, and a man named Gart. They used to exist, but don't any longer. Someone or something took them somewhere. At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man. And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar, this too does not exist. And if any of you have any questions concerning an aircraft and three men who flew her, speak softly of them, and only in the Twilight Zone."