1 00:00:01,126 --> 00:00:04,254 [Eerie music] 2 00:00:09,968 --> 00:00:12,429 (Narrator) You're tra vel/ng through another dimension. 3 00:00:12,513 --> 00:00:15,432 A dimension not onl y of sightand sound, but of mind. 4 00:00:15,516 --> 00:00:19,186 A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are tha t of ima Gina t/on. 5 00:00:19,228 --> 00:00:23,023 Tha t's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop, the twilight zone. 6 00:00:26,693 --> 00:00:30,697 I can tell you, gentlemen, the most idiotic thing occurred in the market today. 7 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:33,825 Just idiotic. I've been doing a little dabbling in the syndicate. 8 00:00:33,909 --> 00:00:36,286 It has some oil holdings in the western part of Texas. 9 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:39,039 Jack brewer handles our New York operation for us. 10 00:00:39,081 --> 00:00:42,251 Anyway, he came on the floor today. I just happened to be there. 11 00:00:42,334 --> 00:00:45,379 This was about 10:00, 10:30 this morning. 12 00:00:45,462 --> 00:00:48,298 He has a sheaf of papers in his hand he waves to me. 13 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:51,510 Now, I can assure you if there is anybody that I don't want to see 14 00:00:51,593 --> 00:00:54,555 before noon on any given day, it is Jack brewer. 15 00:00:54,638 --> 00:00:59,101 He's a raucous sort, a little crude, nouveau riche. You know the type. 16 00:00:59,184 --> 00:01:02,646 Charlie, old man, you don't mind if I sit here, do you, boy? 17 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:05,107 Well, well, where was I? Oh, yes, Jack brewer. 18 00:01:05,190 --> 00:01:08,277 He, uh, walks across the floor to me and with an intense voice, 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,530 a voioeabsolutel y shak/ng with intensity. 20 00:01:11,613 --> 00:01:13,657 He sidles up to me and he whispers, 21 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:16,326 he's got the most miserable habit of whispering sotto voce, 22 00:01:16,410 --> 00:01:19,246 so that everyone in the world can hear him. Anyway, he says to me, 23 00:01:19,288 --> 00:01:21,748 "Jim, I gotta sorape up a quarter of a mill/on, 24 00:01:21,832 --> 00:01:25,502 and you're the only one that can handle it for me." This is brewer speaking to me. 25 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:29,506 A quarter of a mill/on dollars! And I am supposed to sorape it up for him. 26 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:33,176 I mean, iam supposed to sorape it up as though it were some kind of res/due 27 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:35,929 that could be literally scooped up off a floor! 28 00:01:35,971 --> 00:01:39,182 To makea long story short, he arr/ves a t the bus/est time of the morning, 29 00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:42,185 absolutel y the bus/est time, and he sa ys to me, 30 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:44,438 "Jim, I've got an opportunity to corner... 31 00:01:44,521 --> 00:01:46,148 I just got your letter. 32 00:01:46,231 --> 00:01:48,984 Sh! Our young friend is discoursing again. 33 00:01:49,067 --> 00:01:51,528 I looked a little askance at him 34 00:01:51,612 --> 00:01:55,240 because the boor wouldn't know a corner of the market from a railroad roundhouse! 35 00:01:55,324 --> 00:01:58,952 The only thing worse than his talking so much is his transparency. 36 00:01:59,036 --> 00:02:01,204 In about 30 seconds, Alfred, 37 00:02:01,288 --> 00:02:06,001 he will very nonchalantly ask for a loan from anybody within earshot. 38 00:02:06,084 --> 00:02:08,879 As a matter of fact, just last week he asked me 39 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:11,298 for the loan of a quarter of a million dollars. 40 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:14,217 The letter you sent me is the most incredible thing I have ever read. 41 00:02:14,301 --> 00:02:16,803 Archie, we're old friends. I must tell you that... 42 00:02:16,887 --> 00:02:22,643 My communication to you, Alfred, was not as an old friend, but as my lawyer. 43 00:02:22,684 --> 00:02:25,729 Is the wager I have in mind legal? 44 00:02:25,812 --> 00:02:27,814 No wager is legal in this state. 45 00:02:27,898 --> 00:02:32,027 Well, is it against the law, then? Anything criminal in it? 46 00:02:32,110 --> 00:02:34,154 I don't see anything criminal in it, no. 47 00:02:34,196 --> 00:02:39,576 Alfred, that is exactly what I wanted to hear from you. 48 00:02:39,660 --> 00:02:43,664 [Rings bell, man continues talking] 49 00:02:43,747 --> 00:02:46,750 Franklin, would you take this note across the room 50 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:49,044 to young Mr. Tennyson over there. 51 00:02:49,127 --> 00:02:52,589 You tell him it's from me. Ask him to read it immediately. 52 00:02:52,673 --> 00:02:55,592 Why, yes, sir. 53 00:02:55,676 --> 00:02:59,054 (Narrator) The note tha t this man ls carrying across a club room 54 00:02:59,137 --> 00:03:01,682 is in the form of a proposed wager, 55 00:03:01,723 --> 00:03:05,227 but it's the kind of wager that comes without precedent. 56 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:08,355 It stands alone in the annals of bet making 57 00:03:08,397 --> 00:03:12,359 as the strangest game of chance ever offered by one man to another. 58 00:03:12,401 --> 00:03:14,945 In just a moment, we'll see the terms of the wager 59 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:17,197 and what young Mr. Tennyson does about it. 60 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,867 And in the process, we'll witness all parties spin a wheel of chance 61 00:03:20,951 --> 00:03:25,956 in a very bizarre casino called the twilight zone. 62 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:33,213 Do you know what icould do with a quarter of a million dollars in a deal like this? 63 00:03:33,255 --> 00:03:36,216 Well, I can tell you this. I could treble it, quadruple it. 64 00:03:36,258 --> 00:03:40,595 With an initial investment of a quarter of a mill/on dollars, I could take this plastics... 65 00:03:40,679 --> 00:03:44,599 Excuse me, Mr. Tennyson. A note for you from colonel Taylor. 66 00:03:44,683 --> 00:03:47,018 Just put it down somewhere, Franklin. 67 00:03:47,102 --> 00:03:50,939 Excuse me, Mr. Tennyson, his instructions are that you read it immediately. 68 00:03:51,022 --> 00:03:53,191 I beg your pardon? 69 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:07,456 Acts like he had seen a ghost. 70 00:04:07,539 --> 00:04:10,000 This is-this is absolute nonsense. 71 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:13,462 What about it, Tennyson? 72 00:04:13,545 --> 00:04:17,090 Is this some kind of a joke? I mean, really, colonel, if it is a joke, 73 00:04:17,132 --> 00:04:19,342 it suggests a sense of humor quite beyond me. 74 00:04:19,426 --> 00:04:23,930 It is nota joke. You know me reasonably well, Tennyson. 75 00:04:24,014 --> 00:04:28,935 You know tha t humor is perhaps the least devel oped aspect of my character. 76 00:04:29,019 --> 00:04:32,272 I am quite serious. 77 00:04:35,609 --> 00:04:38,278 Would you mind terribly, Tennyson, 78 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,115 if I acquainted the members with my proposition? 79 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:46,369 Well, that's your business, colonel, quite your business. 80 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:49,790 But I do believe that you will make yourself highly suspect. 81 00:04:49,831 --> 00:04:52,125 I'll take that risk. 82 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:58,215 I propose a wager to Mr. Tennyson here. 83 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:04,137 The wager is to take the following form. I will bet him $500,000. 84 00:05:04,221 --> 00:05:06,056 [Men murmur] 85 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,351 That he cannot remain silent for one year. 86 00:05:11,186 --> 00:05:13,897 The wager carries with it the following conditions: 87 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:16,066 He will be placed in a room for observation 88 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:19,069 by me or by anyone of us, at our discretion. 89 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:23,573 He will be furnished with anything he desires by way of diversion. 90 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:28,745 But he will not be able to speak one single word for 12 months. 91 00:05:28,829 --> 00:05:31,665 Not one single word. 92 00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:33,708 He will make his wants known 93 00:05:33,792 --> 00:05:37,546 in writing, not by voice. 94 00:05:37,629 --> 00:05:40,507 What about it, Tennyson? 95 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:44,386 Well, may I ask what is the reason for this wager? 96 00:05:44,469 --> 00:05:48,557 What I'm about to say might horrify the average person, 97 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,602 but to someone as insensitive as you it probably won't mean a thing. 98 00:05:56,773 --> 00:06:00,068 I dislike you intensely, Tennyson. 99 00:06:00,151 --> 00:06:03,864 It goes much beyond the ordinary distaste 100 00:06:03,905 --> 00:06:06,449 I feel for someone without breeding, 101 00:06:06,533 --> 00:06:09,786 without principles, without manners. 102 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:12,873 Your voice has become intolerable. 103 00:06:12,914 --> 00:06:18,795 I sit here each night and the sound of it makes me wince! 104 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:23,884 I cannot ask you to resign from the club. I haven't got that right. 105 00:06:23,925 --> 00:06:28,847 So it occurred to me that I'd be willing to offer a large sum of money 106 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:34,311 just to have some quiet. 107 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:38,565 You see, Tennyson, you could not poss/bl y remain silent for a year. 108 00:06:38,607 --> 00:06:40,984 It's not in your na ture. 109 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:45,405 You're a shallow, talkative, empty-headed ne'er-do-well. 110 00:06:45,488 --> 00:06:49,159 And to remain silent would destroy you. 111 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:53,622 So what/assume will happen, you will perhaps withstand the pressures 112 00:06:53,705 --> 00:06:57,834 for three or four weeks, maybe a couple of months 113 00:06:57,918 --> 00:07:01,838 and then you will succumb. That's, again, your nature. 114 00:07:01,922 --> 00:07:05,842 In the meantime, iwill derive, 115 00:07:05,926 --> 00:07:09,429 oh, several months of exquisite silence. 116 00:07:09,512 --> 00:07:12,140 [Chucang] 117 00:07:12,223 --> 00:07:14,267 Well, Tennyson, 118 00:07:14,351 --> 00:07:17,270 does it appeal to your sporting blood? 119 00:07:17,312 --> 00:07:19,856 Oddly enough, it does appeal to my sporting blood. 120 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:25,195 Now, that, too, is patently ridiculous. There's nothing sporting about you, Tennyson. 121 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:29,032 I happen to know that you're delivering your nightly financial folderol 122 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,368 because you're in desperate straits. 123 00:07:31,451 --> 00:07:33,453 You've run through your inheritance, 124 00:07:33,495 --> 00:07:35,830 your debts are insurmountable, 125 00:07:35,914 --> 00:07:39,626 and you'd do practically anything for money. 126 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:43,004 Except, perhaps, to remain silent for a year. 127 00:07:43,088 --> 00:07:47,509 If this were Europe, colonel, or the company were a bit more sophisticated, 128 00:07:47,592 --> 00:07:51,221 I should be forced to invite you out for the things you've said to me. 129 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:55,225 The ground rules here, however, are just a little bit different. 130 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:59,479 I can either ignore you or call your bluff. 131 00:07:59,562 --> 00:08:03,900 Well, I choose to do the latter. I accept your wager. 132 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:10,031 Uh, just a few questions. 133 00:08:10,115 --> 00:08:13,076 Where am I to be incarcerated? 134 00:08:13,159 --> 00:08:16,246 Well, in the old game room downstairs. It isn't being used. 135 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:20,208 With the permission of the board of governors, I'll have some work done on it. 136 00:08:20,291 --> 00:08:23,753 You'll be in a glass-enclosed living room and bedroom. 137 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:26,506 There will be microphones placed all around the room 138 00:08:26,548 --> 00:08:29,050 which you are to leave untouched. 139 00:08:29,134 --> 00:08:32,929 Your every movement will be recorded and so will your voice 140 00:08:33,013 --> 00:08:35,849 when you decide to give up. 141 00:08:35,932 --> 00:08:41,938 You will perm/t me or anyone of us to observe you a tany time. 142 00:08:42,022 --> 00:08:44,691 When, uh, is this supposed to start? 143 00:08:44,774 --> 00:08:47,861 Well, the room could be prepared by tomorrow night. 144 00:08:47,902 --> 00:08:49,904 I've made all the necessary inquiries. 145 00:08:49,988 --> 00:08:53,033 You could enter anytime after 10:00 P.M. 146 00:08:53,116 --> 00:08:58,204 And so, at 10:00 P.M., June 3,1962 147 00:08:58,246 --> 00:09:00,582 you may leave the room. 148 00:09:00,665 --> 00:09:05,628 At that time I will ha ve a check for $500,000 waiting for you, 149 00:09:05,712 --> 00:09:09,132 assuming, of course, that the impossible happens 150 00:09:09,215 --> 00:09:12,844 and you're able to remain silent for those 12 months. 151 00:09:14,304 --> 00:09:16,431 I'll be back tomorrow night. 152 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:22,729 Uh, colonel, I would like to have that check certified 153 00:09:22,771 --> 00:09:24,981 and placed on deposit in my name. 154 00:09:25,065 --> 00:09:28,401 A photostat of it available and witnessed by every member of this club. 155 00:09:28,485 --> 00:09:33,615 That might be the usual procedure in a fish market or a pawn shop. 156 00:09:33,698 --> 00:09:36,826 But not in this club and not with me. 157 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:42,332 My credit is well-known so is my honor, as every member here will vouch for. 158 00:09:42,415 --> 00:09:45,835 There will be no check placed on deposit. 159 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:49,172 You'll have to take my word. 160 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,926 I see. 161 00:09:53,009 --> 00:09:56,179 It's my courage against your credit. 162 00:09:56,262 --> 00:10:00,934 Well, a year from tomorrow night both can be proved. 163 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:02,936 Franklin, get me my coat. 164 00:10:03,019 --> 00:10:04,771 Yes, sir. 165 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:19,369 Tennyson, I've known colonel Taylor for a long time. 166 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,871 This is not a capricious man. 167 00:10:21,955 --> 00:10:25,875 I warn you, he is in deadly earnest. 168 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:29,212 Do you know my wife, sir? Her name is Doris. 169 00:10:29,295 --> 00:10:32,882 She's a lovely thing. Frail, beautiful, fragile. 170 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:37,554 Like a cameo brooch, but her tastes run to unfragile things. 171 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:40,723 Sizable baubles to sizable price tags. 172 00:10:40,807 --> 00:10:45,353 She shops at Tiffany's the way other women entera supermarket. 173 00:10:45,436 --> 00:10:49,732 My miserable misfortune is that I happen to be very much in love with her. 174 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:52,986 I am also desperate in need of money. 175 00:10:53,069 --> 00:10:57,031 I may sound melodramatic, but it happens to be true. 176 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:24,267 Any time now, Mr. Tennyson. Any time. 177 00:11:48,166 --> 00:11:50,668 [Footsteps approach] 178 00:12:03,181 --> 00:12:05,266 Oh, Mr. Tennyson's dinner, hm? 179 00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:06,768 Yes, sir. 180 00:12:06,851 --> 00:12:09,562 Is he eating well, appetite good? 181 00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:13,608 Not very much up to a week ago, sir, but he's eating very well now. 182 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:18,112 Well, tha t's nice. And I hope he sta ys in perfect heal th. 183 00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:21,574 I wouldn't want this experience to damage him in any way. 184 00:12:21,658 --> 00:12:25,161 Quite the contrary, sir. He seems in excellent spirits. 185 00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:29,749 And it's nine weeks now, sir. Nine weeks today that he's been in there. 186 00:12:29,832 --> 00:12:31,960 Nine weeks? 187 00:12:32,043 --> 00:12:34,379 Well, tha t's reall y quite incredible. 188 00:12:34,462 --> 00:12:39,259 I ga ve him four weeks poss/bl y, to hold out, sixat the outs/de. 189 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:42,345 Nine weeks! 190 00:12:42,428 --> 00:12:46,349 There's a little bit more gristle there than I gave him credit for. 191 00:13:06,703 --> 00:13:08,830 Will there be anything else, sir? 192 00:14:08,264 --> 00:14:12,185 Oh, hello, Alfred. Franklin told me you were waiting. 193 00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:14,103 Only to pose this question to you. 194 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:17,607 Very succinct, Archie, very brief. How long? 195 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:19,942 How long what? 196 00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:24,572 How long are you gonna keep on with this-this prolonged practical joke? 197 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:28,201 Well, not much longer. Thank you, Franklin. 198 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:30,703 You should see our boy down there. 199 00:14:30,787 --> 00:14:35,375 Four and a half months, not a sound out of him. It's incredible. 200 00:14:35,458 --> 00:14:39,462 That fop won't take it for another month. This I'll guarantee you. 201 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:42,048 For your sake, I hope that's the case. 202 00:14:42,090 --> 00:14:44,550 My sake? 203 00:14:44,634 --> 00:14:47,470 You have the money, Archie? 204 00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:50,306 I find that insulting, Alfred. 205 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:52,725 I'm sorry if it is. 206 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:55,061 I think he's gonna beat you, Archie. 207 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:58,981 I think that boy down there is gonna remain silent for the entire year. 208 00:14:59,065 --> 00:15:02,568 And I think you're gonna owe him $500,000. 209 00:15:02,652 --> 00:15:05,613 I just hope you've got it. 210 00:15:26,426 --> 00:15:29,762 You can hear me, Tennyson, can't you? 211 00:15:29,804 --> 00:15:32,473 I've been giving this considerable thought. 212 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:36,018 You fulfilled your part of the bargain admirably. 213 00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:40,857 As a matter of fact, you have completely surprised me, Tennyson. 214 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:44,527 But the fact is I feel the whole thing has gone too far. 215 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:47,363 It's becoming inhuman. 216 00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:50,867 I'm prepared to offer you $1,000 dollars 217 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:53,286 and you may walk out today. 218 00:15:53,327 --> 00:15:56,831 Right this moment, if you choose. 219 00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:27,528 It's going to be an early spring this year, Tennyson. 220 00:16:27,612 --> 00:16:31,073 You ought to see it. 221 00:16:31,157 --> 00:16:35,661 In that time of the year when a young man's fancy lightly turns... 222 00:16:35,703 --> 00:16:38,748 Well, you know that better than I do. 223 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:41,834 And young ladies, too. 224 00:16:41,876 --> 00:16:44,086 For example your wife. 225 00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:50,593 She must be lonely for you, Tennyson. 226 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,346 Desperately lonely. 227 00:16:53,429 --> 00:16:59,101 As a matter of fact, she-she has been seen with other young men. 228 00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:02,772 It's odd she hasn't paid you a visit, isn't it? 229 00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:05,191 Don't you think it's odd? 230 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:09,278 I happen to know you've written her many notes requesting a visit. 231 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:12,448 She hasn't responded, even to the notes. 232 00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:17,870 You may lose your wife, Tennyson. 233 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:20,414 I hope you're full ya ware of that. 234 00:17:20,498 --> 00:17:22,875 While you stay here behind glass, 235 00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:26,587 the very reason for all your agony ma y be sl/pp/ng a way from you. 236 00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:32,885 Why don't you leave, Tennyson? Why don't you leave right now? 237 00:17:32,969 --> 00:17:36,973 It still might be possible to save your marriage. 238 00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:01,247 [Voice echoing] Tenn yson, I sa w your wife again. 239 00:18:01,330 --> 00:18:05,418 She was getting into a little European sports car. 240 00:18:05,459 --> 00:18:09,297 There was a, you know, a nice young fellow driving it. 241 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:12,633 Your wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, wife. 242 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:17,263 Toda y is apr/I fools' da y, Tennyson. 243 00:18:17,305 --> 00:18:20,433 You remember April fools' day. I think it was named for you, 244 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:23,978 for only a fool would stay in there as long as you have 245 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:28,190 knowing precisely what's happening on the outside. 246 00:18:28,274 --> 00:18:32,778 Your wife, I mean, Tennyson, your wife, wife, wife. 247 00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:37,199 Tennyson, this nonsense must cease! 248 00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:39,952 You've got to get out of there. You really do. 249 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:43,748 Why, I could tell you some stories about your wife. 250 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:50,713 How about it, Tennyson? I might see my way clear to giving you $5,000. 251 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:53,716 That would pay off a lot of your debts. 252 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:56,636 And a little bracelet for your wife. 253 00:18:56,719 --> 00:19:01,474 Something to compensa te for the months of lonel/ness. 254 00:19:01,557 --> 00:19:05,394 How about it, Tennyson? $5, 000? 255 00:19:05,478 --> 00:19:08,564 $6,000, Tennyson. 256 00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:14,820 You're an idiot, you know that, Tennyson? 257 00:19:14,904 --> 00:19:17,823 You're going out of your mind in there. I know you are. 258 00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:20,076 You're ready to crawl up the walls. 259 00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:23,412 Listen, tenn yson, you cannot stay in there one more hour. 260 00:19:23,496 --> 00:19:25,956 Notano ther half hour. 261 00:19:31,754 --> 00:19:34,256 (Man) I wouldn't ha ve bel/eved it. 262 00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:37,718 A year in tha t room and not one word out of him. 263 00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:41,597 Two minutes is all the poor dev/I has got now. Two more minutes. 264 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:45,101 Lookatarch/e. Not the face of a happy man, would you sa y? 265 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:48,521 A rather monumental occasion, isn't it, Archie? 266 00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:52,692 Twelve months ago to the moment you destroyed yourself 267 00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:54,735 much as I told you you would. 268 00:19:54,819 --> 00:19:57,947 Your little reminders are gratuitous, Alfred. 269 00:19:58,030 --> 00:20:01,075 Besides, it's not yet 10:00. 270 00:20:01,158 --> 00:20:03,119 Whether it is or whether it isn't, 271 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:06,539 the destruction I'm talking about has already taken place. 272 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:08,958 There have been ugly rumors, Archie, 273 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:11,085 things you've done to him. 274 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:14,130 Like little asides innuendos, suggestions, 275 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:17,049 gossip about his wife. 276 00:20:17,133 --> 00:20:20,052 You place such a premium on honor, Archie, 277 00:20:20,136 --> 00:20:22,555 but you haven't acted like an honorable man. 278 00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:26,976 Please, don't go to the trouble of denying it. I'm sure much of it is true. 279 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:31,063 But the ugly affair has proved two things hasn't it, Archie? 280 00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:34,734 That that boy down there is stronger than you gave him credit for, 281 00:20:34,817 --> 00:20:38,320 and you are considerably weaker. 282 00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:43,159 How could he have done it? How could he have done it? 283 00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:47,079 It's impossible! 284 00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:51,584 [Clock bell rings ten times] 285 00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:38,380 You, uh, have me at a disadvantage, Mr. Tennyson. 286 00:21:39,882 --> 00:21:43,385 In a rather compromising situation. 287 00:21:43,469 --> 00:21:45,721 You force me into a position of 288 00:21:47,097 --> 00:21:49,809 rather distasteful candor. 289 00:21:52,353 --> 00:21:55,231 The truth is I am a fraud. 290 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,817 I ha ven't any money. 291 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,403 I offered you $1,000. Then $5, 000. 292 00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:05,241 I would have had to go out into the street to beg even that amount, 293 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:08,577 let alone a half a million dollars. 294 00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:13,249 It's true that I have pride, 295 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:16,252 bearing, taste, exceptional breeding, 296 00:22:18,921 --> 00:22:22,842 but/ lost most of mymoney some years ago. 297 00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:31,016 Now you have forced me to uncover the situation, 298 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:35,187 proving, Mr. Tennyson, proving that of the two of us, 299 00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:39,275 you are by far the more substantial. 300 00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:49,743 And I will naturally resign. I will not ask you to suffer my presence any longer. 301 00:22:52,288 --> 00:22:55,249 Tennyson, you can talk, your time is up. 302 00:22:55,332 --> 00:22:59,169 You can talk, gurgle, sing, chortle, anything you want. 303 00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:06,385 (Man) Wha t's he writing? Wha t is he doing? 304 00:23:06,468 --> 00:23:09,430 Why doesn't he talk? 305 00:23:12,349 --> 00:23:13,726 What does it say, Archie? 306 00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:15,060 What did he write? 307 00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:17,313 Why didn't he say something? 308 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:25,613 "I knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, 309 00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:32,119 so one year ago I had the nerves to my vocal chords severed." 310 00:23:32,202 --> 00:23:35,164 [Men gasp] 311 00:23:41,879 --> 00:23:44,840 (Narrator) Mr. Jam/e tenn yson, who almost won a bet, 312 00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:49,428 but who discovered somewhat bela tedl y tha t gambling can be a most unproduct/ve pursuit 313 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:52,181 even with loaded dice, marked cards, 314 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:55,351 or, as in his case, some severed vocal chords. 315 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,645 For somewhere beyond him, a wheel was turned 316 00:23:57,728 --> 00:24:00,147 and his number came up "black 13." 317 00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:02,441 If you don't bel/eve it, ask the croup/er, 318 00:24:02,524 --> 00:24:05,027 the very spec/al one who handles roulette 319 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:07,363 in the twilight zone. 320 00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:15,704 Rod serl/ng, creator of the twilight zone 321 00:24:15,788 --> 00:24:20,209 will tell you about next week's storyafter this word from our al terna te sponsor. 322 00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:22,836 And now, Mr. Serl/ng. 323 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,381 Next week on the twilightzoneyou'll sit in this courtroom 324 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,467 and you'll watch what is apparently the standard, everyday turning 325 00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:31,303 of the wheels of justice. 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