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 ti tion
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.
Telephone... you have a telephone?
Thank you.
Oh, this is madness.
It's impossible to make a call in New York.
You can say that again.
Thank you.
This is an outrage!
He's making another call!
It's only his fifth.
He doesn't even talk.
He just dials.
Maybe he's got a dialect, huh?
Mr. Roger sha ckleforth—-
a ge, youthful twenties.
Occupa tion, being in love.
Not just in love, but madl y, passiona tel y
ill ogicall y, miserabl y, all-consumingl y in love
witha young woman named Leila
who has a vague recollection of his face
and even less thana passing interest.
Ina moment you'll seea switch,
because Mr. Roger sha ckleforth
the young gentleman so much in love
will takea short, but very meaningful journey
into the twil igh t zone.
Oh, I simply can't stand this!
I must get in there next.
I will buy your place. A dollar.
Oh! Sold.
Thank you.
Sir. A dollar for your place.
Thank you.
Madame. A dollar for your place.
Why should first place be the same as the third?
Two dollars.
Two dollars? Very good.
There you are. Thank you.
Hello.
Hello, Leila darling, it's Roger.
Hello, Roger.
What is it?
May I come to see you?
Uh, no, no, I can't.
I couldn't bear to see anybody.
I'm a mess.
Oh, you could never be a mess.
Listen, darling, I have to see you.
Roger, it's impossible.
I must see you, darling, must!
Furiously, fiercely must!
I love you.
Roger, you've got to stop this.
You're acting like a baby.
I can't see you now, and that's that.
Well, then, talk to me.
Say something, say anything!
Say something?
All right, Roger, I'll say something.
Why don't you take a flying jump at the moon?
There now, you've finished, haven't you?
No, she hung up on me.
I've got to call her back.
No, I have an emergency.
Well, so have I.
It won't do any good to call.
I understand your problem.
I heard it through the door.
Here's the way to solve your problem.
Look, go and see this man right now.
Believe me, there is no other way.
That man will help you.
No, excuse me. Go and see him now
and your problems will be solved.
Thank you, thank you.
It's an emergency!
All right, all right.
Stop skulking around!
I... I wasn't skulking.
I just didn't know if, uh...
Common enough disease, not knowing if.
Sit down on that pile of books there.
Do I know you?
No, sir.
As a matter of fact...
Then you haven't come for a bottle of the glove cleaner?
Glove cleaner?
As a matter of fact...
Well, perhaps another time.
As a matter of fact...
You keep saying that!
Come to the point!
I don't know whyi camea tall.
You see, a man ga ve me your card, a stranger.
Oh, yes, satisfied former customer, most likely.
But I don't know why I came.
I was sitting there...
Of course you know why you came!
You want what I've got!
But I don't know what you've got.
Ointments, salves, powders, sovereign remedies,
nectars, lotus blossoms, toxins, tonics,
anti-toxins, decoctions, concoctions and potions...
All guaranteed.
I don't need anything like that.
Well, you must, you're here.
Yes, but I don't need any medicine.
You certainly need something.
You look feverish.
Oh, well, it's sort of... you know...
Nothing.
"Nothing" I don't supply.
"Something" is my specialty.
"Anything" is what you can get here.
You're ambitious, is that it?
You want success, money, admirers,
the world at your feet.
No, that's not it at all.
Power! You want power.
No, you don't understand.
All I want is Leila.
Leila?
Yes, if I have Leila
I can do all the rest myself.
Leila.
I might have known.
All he wants is Leila.
I offer him practically anything
and all he wants is Leila.
And I guess there's nothing
you can do about that!
That's the simplest of all...
The elementary parlor trick of my science.
You disappoint me.
No, you don't understand.
You see, I'm in love
with somebody named Leila
but she's not in love with me, and...
I don't know why I'm telling you this.
I do. I can arrange it so she'll love you.
How?
I promise you
she'll never leave your side.
When she isn't telling you she loves you,
she'll be gazing at you lovingly.
She won't even eat before you do
and nothing will be too much
for you to ask of her.
She'll worship you, she'll beg for kisses
and weep for joy at your touch.
And if in passing time
you should perhaps look at another girl
or even do a little more than look
she'll feel hurt, but she'll forgive you
and love you just the same.
Frankly, you'd get the same shake
from a cocker spaniel.
But that's wonderful!
That's all in the world I want...
My Leila's love.
His Leila's love.
If it isn't his Leila's love
it's his Dorothy's love,
his rhea's love, or his Gwen's love.
Tell me, are you sure you wouldn't be interested
in the glove cleaner, as I call it?
There are many names for it
including "the eradicator."
But "glove cleaner"
is a nice, nondescriptive title.
Clean, colorless, tasteless
unidentifiable and sure.
I'm not interested in glove cleaners.
Why not?
It's sure, it's swift, leaves no traces.
It's perfect for its purpose.
I don't think you're making any sense.
My boy, that's all I make.
Which is why I'm such a lonely man.
You're sure you don't want to try
the glove cleaner?
It's very expensive.
Perhaps you can't afford it.
For instance this little bottle costs $1,000.
$1,000? Are all your prices like that?
Some are, some aren't.
Yeah, but that thing
that's gonna make Leila love me.
Oh, that.
That's only a dollar.
A dollar?
Love potions are my cheapest item.
And they're overpriced at that.
A dollar for my Leila's love?
It won't hurt her?
If anybody gets hurt, it'll be you.
But I don't expect you to believe me.
Put it in anything...
Her drink, juice, soup, coffee, water, anything.
You'll get exactly what you say you want.
Well, I don't really believe this but I'll try it.
Why, I'll try anything.
Thanks, professor.
You know, if this works, I'll be...
The happiest man in the world.
Hello, Leila.
Roger, I told you I was busy tonight.
Well, just a minute, just a little minute.
Flowers, see?
That's very nice, Roger, thank you.
Now if you'll just run along.
I couldn't have lasted the evening
without seeing you, Leila.
You don't know what it's like to love somebody
to love anybody so much and so desperately.
Look, champagne...
Just enough for two glasses.
That's not asking much.
Just spare me five minutes
and have one drink with me.
Roger, you are acting like a clod...
A silly, stupid, sophomoric clod.
I love you.
Stop saying that. I...
All right.
One drink.
Five minutes, and then you go.
I've got to put on my dress.
It's like...
It's like millennium.
Well, let's get this over with.
Well, your time's up.
Thank you very much
for the flowers and the champagne.
Now, goodbye, Roger.
Excellent champagne, wasn't it?
It'll pass.
What are you looking at me like that for?
Well, perhaps it's my last look.
All right, you've had it.
One last little kiss?
Roger, please, let's not prolong this any longer.
I haven't the time.
Now please go.
Now!
I don't love you.
I don't want you here.
I don't even like you at the moment.
Now please go!
Oh!
Here.
That's the best I can do.
And that took all my strength.
Roger...
Wait a minute.
Perhaps I am being cruel.
I don't mean to be.
I know.
Roger!
Let me... make it a little nicer.
What's happening?
What difference?
Come here, baby.
Leila, couldn't you please sit in a chair?
Oh, yes, my darling husband.
Oh, I'm sorry if it bothers you,
it's just that I love to kneel at your feet.
Well, kneel in a chair.
Okay.
Which chair, darling?
Uh, any chair, it doesn't matter.
Darling, do you want your slippers now?
No, they make my feet hot.
Oh, well, if your feet are hot now
I could soak my hands in ice water
and then caress them.
No, no, my feet are fine.
All right.
Darling, don't you want to smoke your pipe?
No, it bites my tongue.
It's not broken in very well.
Oh, well, I'd be happy
to break it in for you.
I could smoke it all day while you're at the office
and then when you came home...
Thanks, Leila, but no thanks.
You're welcome.
Oh, darling...
Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
I'll get a cigarette for you
in just a minute.
Just one minute.
There.
I should have put cigarettes
in that box by your chair.
Here.
There we go.
Thank you.
Would you like me to rub your back, darling?
You just finished rubbing my back.
I know, but I adore touching you
and I'd be glad to rub it again.
No, thanks, Leila.
Am I disturbing your reading?
No, no.
Did I disturb you by asking you
if I was disturbing you?
No.
No, no, dearest, not at all.
Oh, Roger.
I love you, Roger.
I'm so happy you're you.
You're just perfect.
I love to say "I love you."
I love to love you.
Leila, I've got to go out.
Out. I've got an appointment.
I almost forgot.
Darling... will you be long?
I don't know. I may be late.
Would you like me to go, too?
No! No, I won't be late.
Why don't you stay here and hug my jacket or something?
Is anything wrong, Roger, darling?
No, dearest, I've got an appointment.
While you're gone,
my love will grow and grow
and when you get back...
Hi, there, professor.
Ah, yes, I've been expecting you.
You have?
Yes, I rather thought
you'd like to hear how things turned out.
I know how things turned out.
That potion sure works.
I know, I know.
How are things with you?
Things haven't changed with me in years.
Pretty ugly situation we've got...
With China, don't you think?
You don't look so good, either.
Me? Oh, I'm fine, fine.
I just dropped around to tell you
that things are fine.
I'm glad to hear it.
Ah, glove cleaner, huh?
Say, do you sell much of that stuff?
Now and again.
By the way, what's in it?
No trace, no odor, no taste.
No way to detect its presence.
And it's sure.
$1,000.
That's what you came for, isn't it?
Me? No, not at all.
Painless?
It's perfect for its purpose.
The only thing of its kind in the world.
Interesting.
She loves you as I said she would,
doesn't she?
A constant love. And nothing you
can do to her will change it.
She worships and adores you
and hangs on your every word.
Yes, yes, she does.
$1,000.
I am going out of my everloving mind.
I can't stand it anymore!
Naturally.
Isn't there some way we can quiet it down?
Isn't there some potion that'll transfer some of this love
to someone else? Like a cocker spaniel?
Not a chance. She's yours.
She's so nice to me. She's so very good.
I know.
The glove cleaner is the only way.
Well, I can't do that.
Uh, there must be another way.
This is the way.
The only way.
$1,000.
You don't know what it's like.
All the time... love, love, love.
I do know what it's like.
How do you think
I came to invent the glove cleaner?
But that's all my savings!
I know. It's always that way.
No trace, no odor, no taste.
No way to detect.
All right.
Ah, all made out, eh?
One thing I must caution you about.
You must use it immediately, hear me?
And you must use it all.
Why, will it spoil?
No, but you will.
Once you delay, you're lost.
If you fail the first time you try to use it
you'll never have courage to use it again. Never.
Goodbye, professor.
Farewell.
Always the same way.
First the stimulant...
Then the chaser.
My darling!
Woo! Party.
I thought we ought to have a party.
After all, it isn't everybody that's been married
six months like this.
Darling, what a lovely surprise.
When you went out you said you might be late,
and instead you come back with champagne and flowers!
Glasses. Can't have a party without glasses.
It's just like the first time.
Only this time you don't have to beg to stay.
Yeah, later. Listen, why don't you sit over there
and I'll bring it to you. Over there.
Alright.
Oh, darling, would you like to have candlelight?
It's so romantic. Let's have candlelight, huh?
Sure. Sure. Candlelight, shmandlelight, anything.
Oh, darling, it's so wonderful being married to you.
I've never been so completel y happy
in my whole life.
I've lived just to love you.
Onl y you.
That's nice.
Sweetest, how did you happen
to think of the champagne?
It just came to me.
I remember the first time
you brought me champagne...
How you looked.
Your eyes were filled with love.
And you watched me drink, and so sadly
because you thought it was going to be
our last drink, remember?
I remember.
Lover, lover, marshmallow, come here.
Come sit next to your Leila. Come on.
Oh!
There you go.
Oh!
Baby bunny.
I've got news for you, sweet little rabbit.
Rabbit.
Oh!
Oh, darling, we won't worry about it.
We don't need champagne.
We've got each other.
It's all right. I couldn't have done it.
I couldn't have gone through with it.
I could never have gone through with it.
Just think of it, darling.
This is only the beginning.
We'll be like this for the rest of our lives.
Won't we?
The rest of our lives.
Mr. Roger sha ckleforth,
who has discovered a t this la te da te
tha tlove can beas sticky as a va t of molasses,
as unpala table as a hunk of spoiled yeast,
and as all-consuming as a six-alarm fire
ina bamboo and canvas tent.
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