1 00:00:01,251 --> 00:00:03,670 [Theme music playing] 2 00:00:09,927 --> 00:00:12,930 (Narrator) You're tra vel/ng through another dimension. 3 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:16,225 A dimension not onl y of sightand sound, but of mind. 4 00:00:16,308 --> 00:00:20,062 A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are tha t of ima Gina t/on. 5 00:00:20,145 --> 00:00:22,272 Your next stop, the twilight zone. 6 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:36,995 Yes! 7 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,543 You see what I mean? Did you see that? 8 00:00:42,584 --> 00:00:46,463 The right English, the right draw, perfect position, right? 9 00:00:46,547 --> 00:00:51,134 What do I get? Fats brown, that's what I get, fats brown. 10 00:00:51,218 --> 00:00:54,721 Well, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of hearing his name! 11 00:00:54,763 --> 00:00:57,724 I'm the best pool cue on Randolph street. Me. 12 00:00:57,808 --> 00:00:59,893 Jesse Cardiff, and you know that! 13 00:00:59,977 --> 00:01:04,565 All right, all right. Fats was good. I mean, he was good, right? 14 00:01:06,233 --> 00:01:08,110 But he's dead. You hear me? He's dead. 15 00:01:08,193 --> 00:01:10,612 He's been dead for over 15 years, 16 00:01:10,696 --> 00:01:13,156 but every time iturn around I hear his name! 17 00:01:15,367 --> 00:01:18,453 "Oh, you're pretty good, Jesse, but fats is better. 18 00:01:18,537 --> 00:01:21,415 Fats is the best!" Fats, fats! 19 00:01:22,541 --> 00:01:24,459 I'll say it again. 20 00:01:24,543 --> 00:01:27,004 [Shouting] Fats brown is dead! 21 00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:29,172 And buried in the ground. 22 00:01:29,256 --> 00:01:33,927 And if he was alive and in this room I could beat him. 23 00:01:34,011 --> 00:01:37,764 I'd give anything, anything to play him one game! 24 00:01:37,806 --> 00:01:41,810 (Woman) Fats brown, fats brown. 25 00:01:41,893 --> 00:01:46,773 Report to lister's poo/ room, Randolph street, Chicago. 26 00:01:46,857 --> 00:01:50,444 Fats brown. Fats brown. 27 00:01:50,485 --> 00:01:52,613 Lister's poo/ room, 28 00:01:52,654 --> 00:01:55,782 Randolph street, Chicago. 29 00:01:55,866 --> 00:01:58,952 If you were here, fats brown, I'd show you who was the best. 30 00:01:59,036 --> 00:02:01,705 One game, one lousy game. 31 00:02:01,788 --> 00:02:03,540 A t your service. 32 00:02:13,592 --> 00:02:17,846 Jesse Cardiff, pool shark. The best on Randolph street. 33 00:02:17,929 --> 00:02:20,766 Who will soon learn that trying to be the best at anything 34 00:02:20,849 --> 00:02:23,143 carries its own special risks 35 00:02:23,226 --> 00:02:26,146 in or out of the twilight zone. 36 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:50,003 You called? 37 00:02:53,298 --> 00:02:54,925 Um, but you're... 38 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:57,719 Dead? Not reall y. 39 00:02:57,803 --> 00:03:00,597 As long as people talk about you, you're not really dead. 40 00:03:00,681 --> 00:03:03,016 As long as they speak your name, you continue. 41 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:06,895 A legend doesn't d/e just because the man does. 42 00:03:06,978 --> 00:03:10,023 Oh, no. No, it's impossible. 43 00:03:10,065 --> 00:03:12,776 Nothing's impossible. 44 00:03:12,859 --> 00:03:16,113 Some things are less likely than others, that's all. 45 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,878 [Sighs] It isn't a rib. 46 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:33,755 I mean, it's you. You're... 47 00:03:33,839 --> 00:03:37,342 James Howard brown, known to my friends as "fats." 48 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:44,474 I know it's a shock, but then you called me, I didn't call you. 49 00:03:44,558 --> 00:03:48,061 Oh, well, I-I didn't mean anything, see? I was kinda... 50 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:52,065 I understand it was just big talk. Is that it? 51 00:03:52,107 --> 00:03:54,776 You like to play with fire, but you don't like to cook. 52 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:57,154 You're not as good as you claim, and you know it. 53 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:59,239 Deep down, you know that you're second-rate. 54 00:03:59,322 --> 00:04:01,867 Now, wait a minute! 55 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,662 Are you afraid? Look, I've come a long way, boy, and not to be fooled with. 56 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:10,959 I've seen your kind before. A little skill, a knack, style, 57 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:13,670 but when the heat's on, you fold. 58 00:04:13,754 --> 00:04:18,091 That isn't fair. You never seen me play. Maybe I can beat you. That's possible, isn't it? 59 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:21,136 It's possible. Things change. Records get higher. 60 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:23,680 But you'll never get the job done with your mouth. 61 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:27,350 All right, fat boy, dead or alive, let me tell you something. 62 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:30,979 Maybe you are some kind of a legend. A tin god. You know what you are to me? 63 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:33,940 You're a big balloon waiting for someone to stick a needle in it. 64 00:04:33,982 --> 00:04:36,276 Well, I'm the someone and here's the needle. 65 00:04:36,359 --> 00:04:38,945 You're like all the other legends. You live on a reputation. 66 00:04:39,029 --> 00:04:42,699 I heard a man in this very pool swear that he saw you make a nine-cushion bank. 67 00:04:42,783 --> 00:04:45,243 You don't believe it? 68 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:48,830 It's impossible. You hit the ball that hard. He had more imagination than brains. 69 00:04:48,914 --> 00:04:50,624 Then you'll play me? 70 00:04:50,665 --> 00:04:51,958 Yeah. 71 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,002 And what about the stakes? 72 00:04:54,085 --> 00:04:55,712 The stakes? 73 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:58,381 Something to make the game more interesting. 74 00:05:01,676 --> 00:05:03,512 Here, any or all of it. 75 00:05:03,595 --> 00:05:07,891 Come on, use your wits, boy. What good is money to me? 76 00:05:07,974 --> 00:05:10,185 Then what? 77 00:05:10,268 --> 00:05:14,147 Something to make my long journey worthwhile. 78 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:16,024 Name it. 79 00:05:16,107 --> 00:05:19,736 You said you'd give anything for a game with me. 80 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:22,656 Anything? 81 00:05:22,697 --> 00:05:25,242 What are you talking about, mister? 82 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:28,495 Just what kind of stakes are you talking about? 83 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:32,040 Life or death. 84 00:05:32,123 --> 00:05:34,334 You beat me and you live. 85 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:37,879 You lose and you die. 86 00:05:43,552 --> 00:05:47,556 It's interesting to see how much faith you have in yourself. 87 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:49,599 You know something? 88 00:05:49,683 --> 00:05:54,104 For my money, you don't wanna be the best bad enough, boy. 89 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:59,109 Why, when / was your age, I would have jumped at the chance. 90 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:02,112 But then, / was something better than second-ra te. 91 00:06:02,195 --> 00:06:04,239 You better watch yourself. 92 00:06:04,322 --> 00:06:07,284 You know, it takes more than skill to be a champion. 93 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:12,330 It takes equal parts of talent, luck, work and nerve. 94 00:06:13,623 --> 00:06:15,584 A quality you sadly lack. 95 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:19,963 Nerve. You mean insanity. Risk my life on a game of pool? 96 00:06:20,046 --> 00:06:22,716 /nsan/ty, if you prefer. I am justa pool pla yer. 97 00:06:22,757 --> 00:06:26,052 There's probably no less important thing on the face earth. 98 00:06:26,136 --> 00:06:29,097 But Mark this in your book. I'm the best. 99 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:31,433 It's a proud thing to be the best at anything. 100 00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:33,268 But then you wouldn't know about that. 101 00:06:33,351 --> 00:06:34,477 Where you going? 102 00:06:34,561 --> 00:06:36,605 I'm going back. 103 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:39,774 You say I don't wanna be the best bad enough, but you're wrong. 104 00:06:39,858 --> 00:06:44,070 Do you know how many hours, how many years, how much of myself I've put into this game? 105 00:06:44,112 --> 00:06:47,490 How many nights I've slept on that table right there? Yeah, I did that. 106 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:50,493 I madea deal with the owner so / could practice after the place closed. 107 00:06:50,577 --> 00:06:54,164 I haven't been to the movies in years. I haven't dated a girl, read a book 108 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:56,499 because it would take time away from the game. 109 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,418 Still talk and nothing else. 110 00:06:58,501 --> 00:07:02,839 I'm good, mister! I'm... i'm-I'm good. 111 00:07:06,343 --> 00:07:08,595 But am I that good? 112 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:12,015 You'll really never know until you're ready to risk everything. 113 00:07:12,098 --> 00:07:14,100 Look, will you stop pushing, huh? 114 00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:17,520 You know, where I come from, there's a race driver. 115 00:07:17,604 --> 00:07:20,857 Go to the track and whisper his name. Say "tazio nuvolari." 116 00:07:20,941 --> 00:07:23,109 And watch the heads nod up and down. 117 00:07:23,151 --> 00:07:26,279 Or go to a bullring and hear of manolete. 118 00:07:26,321 --> 00:07:30,283 Both men faced death daily and both are legends. 119 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:33,995 You never make the grade at anything by playing it safe. 120 00:07:38,166 --> 00:07:40,710 Oh, boy, this is nutty. 121 00:07:42,379 --> 00:07:44,381 You accept the terms? 122 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:47,968 Life or death? 123 00:08:14,911 --> 00:08:17,247 [Balls clatter/fly] 124 00:08:27,632 --> 00:08:31,761 You know, the big game hunter has his elephant gun. 125 00:08:31,845 --> 00:08:36,349 And the fencer, he uses a blade from Lima. 126 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:40,270 This cue was made for me special, St. Louis. 127 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,440 Cost $600. 128 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:49,029 Yep, I made my living with it for 35 years. 129 00:08:52,824 --> 00:08:54,743 Name the game. 130 00:08:54,826 --> 00:08:56,786 Rotation? 131 00:08:56,870 --> 00:09:00,540 Kelly. 14.1 rack. 132 00:09:00,623 --> 00:09:02,917 Eight-ball. 133 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:06,212 Well, let's-let's see how good you really are. 134 00:09:06,296 --> 00:09:09,090 Uh, 14.1 rack, one game, 300 points. 135 00:09:09,174 --> 00:09:11,718 You got a coin? 136 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:14,637 Toss for break? You call it. 137 00:09:14,721 --> 00:09:16,765 Tails. 138 00:09:16,848 --> 00:09:19,559 Change your mind? 139 00:09:19,642 --> 00:09:21,478 You can, you know. 140 00:09:25,899 --> 00:09:28,693 Heads. My break. 141 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:50,006 I know what you're thinking, son. 142 00:09:50,090 --> 00:09:52,133 "The man who breaks is at a disadvantage. 143 00:09:52,217 --> 00:09:55,678 Once he scatters the balls, the other man has a clear field." 144 00:09:55,762 --> 00:09:57,222 Sure. 145 00:09:58,264 --> 00:10:00,016 Safe. 146 00:10:08,108 --> 00:10:09,776 Wow. 147 00:10:09,818 --> 00:10:12,112 Two balls into the rail. 148 00:10:12,195 --> 00:10:15,907 A perfect break and no advantage given. Now it's you turn to scatter them. 149 00:10:21,913 --> 00:10:23,164 Safe. 150 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:32,423 Do something with that. 151 00:10:45,311 --> 00:10:47,355 Fifteen ball in the corner pocket. 152 00:10:51,693 --> 00:10:54,654 [Chuckles] There's a funny thing. 153 00:10:54,737 --> 00:10:58,575 I was thinking if I sink it, you're really in trouble. 154 00:10:58,658 --> 00:11:00,535 With luck, I can run the table. 155 00:11:00,618 --> 00:11:03,288 And if you miss, you Lea ve me w/de open. 156 00:11:16,634 --> 00:11:18,261 Nine ball in the corner. 157 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:23,099 Ten ball, three cushion, in the side. 158 00:11:30,857 --> 00:11:32,192 How about that, fat boy? 159 00:11:32,275 --> 00:11:33,610 Not bad. 160 00:11:35,445 --> 00:11:38,198 That was great. 161 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:40,116 You know, you're like all the others. 162 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,452 When I was a kid, I knew a lot of guys like you. 163 00:11:42,535 --> 00:11:46,080 Guys who were good at things like music and arithmetic and basketball. 164 00:11:46,164 --> 00:11:49,042 Guys who would do anything to make me feel about that big. 165 00:11:49,083 --> 00:11:50,627 But you fooled them, right? 166 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:55,423 Yeah. Yeah, I did, that's right. I did. 167 00:11:55,506 --> 00:11:57,759 Two ball in the corner pocket. 168 00:11:57,842 --> 00:12:00,803 I knew that somewhere there was something I could be good at. 169 00:12:00,887 --> 00:12:04,641 One day, I was about 16, I wandered into here. 170 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:07,810 It was cool and dark, like, like being underwater. 171 00:12:07,894 --> 00:12:10,355 I used to come back. I used to watch them play. 172 00:12:10,438 --> 00:12:14,067 One day I picked up a cue, I asked an old man, he was sitting right over there, 173 00:12:14,108 --> 00:12:17,153 I said, "you wanna play, mister?" And I beat him. 174 00:12:17,237 --> 00:12:20,073 The first time I ever played him, and I beat him! 175 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:23,326 I knew I had an eye for this game. 176 00:12:27,914 --> 00:12:29,290 What happened to it? 177 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:31,751 I almost made it. 178 00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:39,634 Funny thing. In geometry, "almost" isn't enough. 179 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:41,344 Geometry? 180 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:44,264 Mm-hm. Pool is geometry 181 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,601 in its most challenging form. 182 00:12:48,643 --> 00:12:51,854 A science of precise angles and forces. 183 00:12:57,777 --> 00:12:59,821 Fourteen in the end pocket. 184 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:08,621 Angles and forces, huh? You sewed yourself up pretty good. 185 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:23,928 Thirteen ball corner pocket. 186 00:13:25,805 --> 00:13:27,098 Ha! 187 00:13:30,226 --> 00:13:31,811 Your shot. 188 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:37,150 Six, corner. 189 00:13:37,233 --> 00:13:39,027 Four, corner. 190 00:13:40,653 --> 00:13:42,155 Twel ve. 191 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,458 Thirteen in the corner pocket. 192 00:13:56,419 --> 00:13:58,546 Four ball, corner. 193 00:14:00,882 --> 00:14:02,675 Two ball, corner. 194 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:09,932 Five ball in the side. 195 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:28,201 Fifteen in the side pocket. 196 00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:43,549 [Whistling] 197 00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:49,305 I've got 59, you've got 7 points. 198 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,641 The game is young yet, very young. 199 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:53,518 Rack them up. 200 00:15:10,076 --> 00:15:12,078 One ball, end pocket. 201 00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:23,381 Seven. 202 00:15:28,052 --> 00:15:29,595 Five. 203 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:33,683 Eleven. 204 00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:39,730 Eight. 205 00:15:43,067 --> 00:15:44,944 [Ball clatters in pocket] 206 00:15:58,124 --> 00:16:00,126 [Cue hitting balls] 207 00:16:10,011 --> 00:16:12,180 (Jesse) Ten ball /n the corner pocket. 208 00:16:33,784 --> 00:16:36,496 You needed those four balls to win. 209 00:16:36,537 --> 00:16:39,749 See the score? I got 299, you got 296. 210 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:41,751 Yeah, yeah, I see the score. 211 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:43,878 Well, I need that one to win. 212 00:16:45,046 --> 00:16:46,881 You need all of them. 213 00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:49,884 Just that one. 214 00:16:58,142 --> 00:17:01,437 Bank the five in the corner. 215 00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:46,566 You know something, Jesse? 216 00:17:46,649 --> 00:17:49,068 There's more to life than this pool hall. 217 00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:52,321 It isn't right your being all cooped up in here like this. 218 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:54,907 You ought to get out a little, see what's going on. 219 00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:57,618 You didn't get to be the best sitting on a park bench. 220 00:17:57,702 --> 00:18:00,162 You spent a lot of time with that cue in your hands. 221 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:03,624 Of course I did. But/ took time out to live, too. 222 00:18:03,708 --> 00:18:06,419 I've been places where they never heard of billiards. 223 00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:08,296 15 ball in the corner pocket. 224 00:18:08,379 --> 00:18:10,464 I ma y not look the part, Jesse, 225 00:18:10,548 --> 00:18:15,511 buti made love, walked uphill, swam in the ocean. 226 00:18:15,595 --> 00:18:19,932 When I think of the wonderful things there are to see and to do, it hurts me. 227 00:18:20,016 --> 00:18:22,101 Yeah. 228 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:26,272 To see you rotting your life away in this miserable, dark hall. 229 00:18:26,314 --> 00:18:28,524 You're lying. You're trying to distract me. 230 00:18:28,608 --> 00:18:31,444 That's a lousy thing to do. 231 00:18:31,527 --> 00:18:33,696 Fifteen in the corner. 232 00:18:33,779 --> 00:18:36,115 [Flapping] 233 00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:48,294 [Cue crashes loud/ y on floor] 234 00:18:48,377 --> 00:18:50,546 You made me do that! You made me miss! 235 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:54,884 Aw, come on, a little gamesmanship, a little fun and you come apart. 236 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:58,638 Kid stuff to make you break your concentration and you get wild. 237 00:19:28,834 --> 00:19:30,670 There it is. 238 00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:33,589 The game ball. 239 00:19:33,673 --> 00:19:38,636 All my life I've been waiting for this, it's... it's a pocket hanger. 240 00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:43,933 I sink that, I become the greatest. 241 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:46,936 If you sink it. 242 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,188 You're swea ting. Why you so nervous? 243 00:19:49,230 --> 00:19:53,109 Oh, for reasons I'm afraid you wouldn't understand. 244 00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:55,528 Oh, no, no, I understand all right. 245 00:19:55,569 --> 00:19:57,780 It means a lot, doesn't it? Even as a dead man. 246 00:19:57,863 --> 00:20:01,534 Have your name up there. "The unbeatable champ of all times!" 247 00:20:01,575 --> 00:20:03,577 Carries certain satisfactions, yes. 248 00:20:03,661 --> 00:20:05,746 "I'll give you a chance at my crown, Jesse, 249 00:20:05,830 --> 00:20:08,541 but only if you're willing to stake your life on the game!" 250 00:20:08,582 --> 00:20:11,001 Couldn't be a nice friendly, little game, huh? 251 00:20:11,085 --> 00:20:15,965 I take them as I find them. To you, pool is not a nice, friendly game. 252 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:19,885 It's a win-at-any-price affair. I acted accordingly. 253 00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:22,263 It didn't do you any good. 254 00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:24,974 You know, Jesse, there's still one ball on the table 255 00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:30,396 and it's taking you a mighty long time to get at it. Why? 256 00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:32,314 You wouldn't believe this, Jesse, 257 00:20:32,398 --> 00:20:35,234 but personally, I'd like to see you win. 258 00:20:35,317 --> 00:20:36,986 Yeah. 259 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:40,322 Believe me, I've only been doing my job. 260 00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:42,908 Someone has to keep the flame. 261 00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:46,912 Someone has to weed out those who haven't got what it takes. 262 00:20:46,954 --> 00:20:50,166 You see, the champions, the legends, 263 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:52,126 they serve as a purpose, 264 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:55,254 a challenge, an incenti ve. 265 00:20:55,296 --> 00:20:56,756 I don't need a challenge. 266 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:00,092 Everyone needs a challenge, Jesse. 267 00:21:00,176 --> 00:21:03,304 Someone great out of the past to say, 268 00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:06,140 "match what I've done, boy, and make it better." 269 00:21:06,223 --> 00:21:08,100 That's true in all walks of life. 270 00:21:08,142 --> 00:21:11,854 Music, politics, sports, you name it. 271 00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:15,941 Me, I'm only a pool player, 272 00:21:16,025 --> 00:21:17,276 but I'm the best. 273 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,070 You were the best. 274 00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:24,450 Wait a minute, Jesse. 275 00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:27,995 Before you shoot, think of this. Shoot that ball, 276 00:21:28,078 --> 00:21:30,289 and you may win more than you bargained for. 277 00:21:30,372 --> 00:21:33,793 There's nothing you can say that will stop me. 278 00:21:33,834 --> 00:21:35,336 Nothing. 279 00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:38,547 I'm sorry. I was required to say that. 280 00:21:58,275 --> 00:22:00,736 Win more than I bargained for, huh? 281 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:05,741 No. I beat you. I'm the best. 282 00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:08,035 I'm the best at something. 283 00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:09,829 Thanks. 284 00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:15,918 What do you mean, "thanks"? 285 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,212 I beat you, I'm the best, and I'm gonna live. 286 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,589 Of course you are, those were the stakes. 287 00:22:20,673 --> 00:22:23,008 Then what's with the thanks, fat boy? 288 00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:26,762 You'll find out when the time comes for you to leave Randolph street. 289 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:30,516 You sore loser. 290 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:32,268 I beat you. 291 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:34,395 I beat you fair and square. 292 00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:35,980 Take... 293 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,322 Hey. 294 00:22:46,740 --> 00:22:49,285 Come on. 295 00:22:59,253 --> 00:23:01,463 Well, you saw it, didn't you? 296 00:23:03,924 --> 00:23:06,886 I beat the king of the hill, fats brown! 297 00:23:11,849 --> 00:23:13,517 Jesse Cardiff. 298 00:23:16,437 --> 00:23:19,148 And now I'm the best. 299 00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,568 And I'm gonna stay the best 300 00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:25,070 because nobody is ever gonna take it away from me. 301 00:23:25,154 --> 00:23:27,406 Nobody ever! 302 00:23:31,035 --> 00:23:33,787 It's me, Jesse Cardiff, you hear? 303 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:36,498 Jesse Cardiff, Jesse Cardiff! 304 00:23:36,582 --> 00:23:38,584 Jesse Cardiff, Jesse Cardiff... 305 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:42,504 (Woman) Jesse Cardiff, Jesse Cardiff. 306 00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:44,548 Jesse Cardiff. 307 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:50,304 Report at once 10 Mason's poo/ hall, sandusky, Ohio. 308 00:23:50,387 --> 00:23:53,766 (Narrator) Mr. Jesse card/ff, who became a legend bybea t/ng one, 309 00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:57,353 but who has found out after his funeral tha t being the best of anything 310 00:23:57,436 --> 00:24:00,522 carr/es with it a special obligation to keep on pro v/ng it. 311 00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:04,568 Mr. Fa ts brown, on the other hand, ha ving relinouished the champion's mantle, 312 00:24:04,652 --> 00:24:08,614 has gone fishing. These are the ground rules in the twilight zone. 313 00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:17,289 (Male presenter) Rod serl/ng, crea Tor of the twilight zone, 314 00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:21,961 will tell you about next week's storyafter this word from our al terna te sponsor. 315 00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:24,171 And now, Mr. Serling. 316 00:24:24,254 --> 00:24:27,883 We've had some performances of great depth on the twilightzone, 317 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:32,137 and next week is no exception. A distinguished and incredibly talented young man 318 00:24:32,221 --> 00:24:36,308 lends us his services when Peter falk stars in the mirror. 319 00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:39,228 This is the story of a tyrant and his assassins, 320 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:42,898 a shattered dream and the death of a cause. 321 00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:46,110 Next week on the twilight zone, the mirror. 322 00:24:48,529 --> 00:24:51,407 [Eerie music] 323 00:25:16,557 --> 00:25:20,352 (Male announcer) Be sure and watch gunsmoke starr/ng James arness. 324 00:25:20,394 --> 00:25:23,689 Sa turda yn/ghts over most of these same stations. 325 00:25:42,581 --> 00:25:42,582 - - have you seen bill? 326 00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:43,703 - - Suddenly, bill sends me.