[Eerie music]
(Male presenter, off) There is a fifth dimension
beyond tha t which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vastas space
and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between lightand shadow
between science and s upers tit/on
and it lies between the pit of man's fears
and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of ima Gina tion.
It is anarea which we call the twilight zone.
Her name: X -20.
Her type.“ An experimental in tercep Tor.
Recent his Tor y.' A crash landing in the moha ve desert
after a 31-hour flight 900 miles into spa ce.
Incidental da ta .' the ship, with the men who fle w her
disa ppea red from the radar screen for 24 hours.
Well, hello, colonel. How are you feeling?
I'm fine, lieutenant.
I'm... I'm fine.
Um... is major gart here?
Well, of course.
He's here.
Of course.
Go on in.
He'll be glad to see you.
Thank you.
Isn't that one of the space pilots...
The ones that crashed?
Yeah, that's colonel Forbes.
(Male presenter, off) But the shrouds tha t 00 ver m ys teries
are notal wa ys made out of a tarpa ulin
as this man will soon find out
on the other side of a hospital door.
(Gary well, the prod/gal col onel! Welcome.
Hey, howabouta shot of straight orangeade?
How are you feeling?
Are you serious?
One more thermometer in my puss,
I'm gonna absent myself without leave.
Come on, what's it like in the outside world?
Yeah, it's fine.
Well, tell me about it.
Talk to any of the guys?
Well, what? tabout the ship, clegg?
Did you check her over?
It's fine, the ship's fine.
No, no, they put it under wraps.
Hey, you got off on a toot, didn't you?
You don't look so good.
How do I look?
A little hung over maybe.
[Chuckling]
Oh, you got another one of those?
Hey, steady, colonel, steady.
Bill, something has happened.
S-S-Something I just don't understand.
Well, go on.
First, I want to get orientated.
I want you to answer some questions, all right?
Yeah, all right.
When did I leave here?
Well, don't you know?
Look, I don't know anything anymore!
Look, all I need... all I need is somebody's help, all right?
Look, at 9:30 yesterday morning,
I walked out of here, didn't I?
Yeah, about that time, I guess.
Who did I walk out with?
Nobody was with you.
That's what I mean.
You say nobody!
What's that say?
Go ahead, tell me, what's it say?
Well, in effect, it says
those two in trepid vo ya gers into the unknown
returned from the unknown in a sligh tl y den Ted aircraft.
What about the picture?
Who's in the picture?
(Gert, reading) ”ool onel ole gg Forbes and major William gart
”taken just before their historic flight
tha t ended in a m ys terious disappearance and crash."
That's what you remember, huh?
You and me and the x—zo taking off.
About four hours up we black out
and 24 hours later, we end up in a crashed aircraft in the desert.
We don't know where we've been or what's happened.
Is that right?
That's right.
Oh, now, what's the matter? Isn't that right?
Bill...
There were three of us in that aircraft...
You and me and a colonel named harrington.
Oh, yeah, harrington.
Ed harrington!
Now, look, he was 36 years old.
He was my best friend. I'd known him for 15 years
and you'd known him for five.
That ship took a crew of three, and we were the three.
And there were three of us when they brought us
to the hospital after picking us up in the desert...
You and me and harrington.
Ha rring ton and I were just s cra tched, '
you were the one with the busted leg!
Yesterday morning, they discharged harrington and me.
There were three beds in this room...
Yours and mine and harrington's.
Clegg...
I don't know anybody named harrington.
He wasn't on the crew with us.
The x-20 carried two men, you and me...
Nobody named harrington, nobody else at all.
When you walked out of here yes terda y morning,
you walked outal one.
There's never been three beds in this room, onl y two.
Yours...
And mine.
I think you better be looked after.
Please.
I knew you'd say that, bill,
and I don't blame you for saying it either.
But... but... let... let me...
Let me describe to you what I remember.
I ook, I'll give you a breakdown chronol ogicall y
of ever ything tha t happened as of yes terda y morning.
Bill...
You said goodbye to us from tha t bed
and... and... you said...
You said, "harrington, look after Forbes.
He drinks too much."
That, that... those were your exact words.
And...
And I stood right at that door,
and... and I laughed.
Iswear to you, bill, I swear to you...
It happened! I know it happened!
[Uaughs] I'm gonna let you have it, fresh, punk kid.
Oh, I'm going to fix this bab y's wagon!
I'm gonna tell the medics he's a very sick cookie
and oughtta be kept under observation
for another seven years. And every Saturday night,
the colonel and I are gonna phone you from whatever bar
we happen to be in at the time, and if you're nice...
If you are real nice...
We'll even let you talk to our women.
Will you come on already?
I just can't stand these long goodbyes.
Would you both get out of here and leave me alone?
Let me suffer in loneliness
all by myself, huh?
(Harrington) Tha t's a good-I ooking guy in the middle there,
but who are the two slobs on the sides?
Well, Willy, we'll drop by
and see you tomorrow, maybe.
Well, get lost, um, who needs you?
[All laughing]
[Cheerful music]
(Man) Hey! You're Forbes and harrington, ain't you?
Ain't you the guys that was up in space?
Yeah, but we can still buy a couple of beers
for 30 cents earth money, huh?
You bet your life, but your money's no good here.
The drinks are on the house.
I don't get to serve many celebrities.
Now drink up, boys.
Thanks.
I don't even care that you cracked up the ship
and I'm a taxpayer.
Say, what's it like up there in outer space?
Well, it's... it's like, uh...
Like... way out.
What's the matter?
Is something wrong?
Well, I'll tell you after I taste the beer.
Happy landings, chaps, wherever possible.
Well, that's okay. That's okay.
That ain't the last glass of beer in the place.
You sick, ed?
No, I'm not sick.
I just got a very funny feeling.
Whew, I never felt anything like this before.
What kind of feeling?
It's like I didn't belong here,
like if I was to let myself go, I'd...
You'd what?
Like I'd disappear.
Whew!
Wow...
Whew!
Happy landings.
Well, sure.
I'm going to go call my folks.
Are you all right, ed?
Yeah, I'm all right.
[Coin falls through slot]
[Dialing]
Hello, operator, I'd like to make a collect call please
to des moines, Iowa,
the residence of Mr. James harrington.
Clegg!
Yeah?
Come here, please.
Would you come here quick?
What's troubling you?
Clegg, I just called home,
called my folks.
My mom answered the phone.
I told her who I was
and she said she didn't have any son named ed harrington.
That's what she said, clegg!
And then I asked to talk to the old man.
He got on and kept telling me to get off the phone.
He didn't wantany pra c tical jokes ter Bo thering his wife.
He said he didn't have a son at all.
What is it, clegg? What's it all mean?
Well, I don't know. It's just a gag, maybe.
No gag.
It's all part of this feeling,
this feeling I... I shouldn't be here,
that none of us should be here.
It's as if...
As if what?
As if maybe...
We shouldn't have come back from that flight at all.
Maybe somebody,
something, made a mistake
and let us get through and we shouldn't have.
Ed, you stay put. I'm gonna get you a good stiff drink...
Now, take it easy.
You stay put, all right?
You got a beer here, honey.
Where's my buddy's drink?
Who?
My buddy's drink.
Colonel harrington, the... his beer...
The beer he had in place of the one he dropped on the...
I don't know what you mean.
You came in here alone.
You a wise guy or something...? [Wrinkling]
[Soft wrinkling]
You're crazy!
You're... you're crazy!
You're crazy, you know that?
You're... you're... You're crazy!
Operator, I'd like Addison air force base, please.
Commanding officers residence.
What?
Well, call me back, will you?
[Knocking]
Ed, you...!
Amy! Oh, Amy, honey, I'm so glad to see you!
And you, colonel clegg,
are a devious, malicious, two-faced, two-timing...
No, look, I'm in trouble, Amy.
I know you won't understand this,
but I think I'm in bad trouble.
I have no doubt you are.
You send me a wire that you're going to meet me
at the bus station at 12:00 tonight.
Well, I was there at 12:00 and I was there at 1:00
and I was still there at 2:00.
Do you have any idea how many bars I've been to?
How many motels?
Amy, please!
Clegg...
What's the matter?
What... what kind of trouble are you in?
Please tell me. I want to know.
I don't know how to begin to tell you this.
But, well, I sent you that wire
because I was getting discharged from the hospital this morning.
And ed and I were going to wait for you...
It was in the wire.
It was in the telegram!
What was?
I wrote down that ed and I were gonna get out this morning...
I wrote down "ed and I."
I've got it here some place.
Yeah, look!
See, "I'm getting out at 9:00..."
Illlm..."
Amy, I... I wrote down
that ed and I were leaving the hospital.
I... I... iwrote down
that ed and I, edandiwere...!
Ed... who's ed?
Don't you know?
I don't know any ed. Who's ed?
Ed. Harrington.
You know him, Amy! Ed! You met him a hundred times.
Ed. We've been to dinner together, we've been to dances together!
Ed! We've double-dated ed!
Clegg, what's the matter with you?
What's happened to you?
I don't know.
I swear to god I don't know.
[Phone rings]
Yes?
Put him on!
Hello, general? This is clegg Forbes, sir.
I'm terribly sorry to call you at this hour of the morning, sir.
Thank you, sir.
General... it's about ed harrington.
Ed harrington, sir. You remember ed.
We were in your wing at the field sir,
we were with you 19 months, sir.
Harrington, sir.
Ed harrington!
Ed harrington! Why doesn't anybody remember him?
I know.
This is a gag, isn't it?
That's what it is, isn't it, Amy?
This is a gag.
Oh, this is a big earthshaking, highly complicated
and fantastically conceived practical joke, isn't it?
Oh, he's still at the bar, isn't he, Amy?
That's where he is. He's still at the bar, isn't he?
He's still at the bar!
Ed?
Harrington!
Ed?
Ed!
Harrington!
Harri ngton!!
[Whimpers] Ed?
Harrington.
Harrington?
Harrington.
[Weeping] Please, ed.
Ed?
Please come back.
Please, harrington. Please, ed.
Please come back.
I don't know what I did then.
I just ran I guess all the way down the street like a crazy man.
Seems to me I heard a... a burglar alarm somewhere.
Amy.
I just left Amy standing there, I guess.
I... I don't even know what happened to Amy.
Clegg.
I don't know ed harrington.
I never heard of him before.
I think he must be an illusion or something.
Oh, I know he's not an illusion.
I know.
He's been yanked out of here.
He's been taken away.
He told me, remember?
He told me maybe...
Maybe somebody or some thing...
Made a mistake...
Let us get through when we shouldn't have gotten through.
They've got to come back to get us...
S omebod y up there.
Aw, bill...
This is weird, just plain weird.
Like I just don't belong...
Just like I... I don't belong.
Aw, no!
I don't want this to happen!
Bill, I don't want it to happen!
I don't want it to happen!
[Shoufing] Somebody get him!
Somebody get him!
Somebody... somebody get him.
Major, you shouldn't be out of bed!
Why, if the doctor...
Somebody's got to help him.
Colonel Forbes... somebody's got to help him right away.
Who?
[Ye/is] Colonel Forbes!
[Sighs]
You know colonel Forbes.
Why, he was brought in here with me.
Why, he was right over here in this...
Oh, my dear god!
Major, major, let me help you get into bed.
Come ahead, major.
And I'll... I'll call the doctor.
Come, major.
Are you all right?
[Shouting] Major! Major hangerson!
How are we fixed in this ward here?
Room 15 down here can take three patients, sir.
It's empty.
Let's take a look.
(Man) Mm-hmm, tha t will do for the ma la Ria pa tien ts.
Order some beds up from o-m, will you?
Yes, sir.
(Serling, of)? Once upon a time, there was a man named harrington,
a man named Forbes, a man named gart.
They used to exist, but don'tany I onger.
Someone or something took them somewhere.
A tleast, theyare 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 ifany of you ha ve any oues tions concerning an aircraft
and three men who fle w her, speak s of tl y of them
and onl yin the twilight zone.
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