[Eerie music]
(Narrator) You unlock this door with the k e y of ima Gina t/on.
Beyond it is another dimension...
A dimension of sound,
a dimension of sight,
a dimension of mind.
You're moving into a land of both shadowand substance,
of things and ideas.
You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.
Well, rollie, I kept it from you long enough.
The fact is we're lost.
[Whines]
And you know something else?
Take a look at this.
Almost empty.
Well, you just earned yourself a steak.
[Hanks]
How do?
Hi, can you fill it up?
I don't see why not.
It's right there behind the license plate.
Oh, sure.
Probably bone dry.
Doubt I could've gone another mile.
How'd you leta thing like thathappen?
I listened to a friend of mine.
He told me I could cut a couple of hours
off my trip to Albuquerque by taking the back route.
Nice scenery, he said, no traffic.
If I'd ha ve gone the way/ know,
I'd ha ve been home bynow.
You mean you're lost.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Say, you couldn't show me the way
to a big highway around here, a nice, big highway
with a lot of signs?
Oh, ah, you just go back to the fork,
take the other road to bredon.
That's about 80 miles.
And when you get there, ask somebody for a map.
Nice little town you got here.
What do you call this place?
Peaceful valley.
It's peaceful, all right.
Is there a restaurant around here?
Up there, up the street,
but it's closed.
You'll be better off in bredon.
Well, I know, but I'm hungry right now.
So is my dog.
[Whimpers]
Well, I'm sorry.
We don't get many visitors here.
Well, I can see why.
That'll be $4.42.
Here's a tenner.
I hope I got change.
Here you go.
[Growls, then barks]
Rollie, shut up.
[Barks again]
[Cat screeches]
Rollie, rollie, come back here!
Not yet. Wait a minute.
[Barking]
Nine...
Rollie, get away from that cat!
9.50, 9.75... ten.
Ten, right.
[Barking continues]
[Loud humming]
Rollie?
Hey, kid, what'd you do to my dog?
Nothing.
What do you mean, nothing? I saw you.
You leave me alone!
Listen, I'm not gonna leave you alone
till you tell me what you did to my dog!
(Narrator) You've seen them.
Little towns, tucked a wa y far from the main roads.
You've seen them, but have you thought about them?
What do the people in these places do?
Why do they stay?
Philip redfield never thought about them.
If his dog hadn't gone after that cat,
he'd have driven through peaceful valley
and put it out of his mind forever.
But he can't do that now,
because, whether he knows it or not,
his friend's shortcut has led him
right into the capital of the twilight zone.
You scared my little girl.
That makes us even.
Your little girl scared me.
What do you mean?
I don't know what she did,
but she made my dog disappear.
What?!
She pointed some kind of a machine at my dog,
and he disappeared.
Are you feeling all right?
No, I never feel all right when I see that kind of thing.
It makes my blood pressure rise.
Easy, now, m/ster.
Let's look around the yard.
He's bound to be here somewhere.
What's his name?
Rollie is his name.
Here, rollie! Here, rollie!
He was standing right...
You look around. I'll go out back.
Don't worry. We'll find him.
He couldn't have disappeared.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
He did.
Here, roll/e!
Rollie?
[Whistles]
Roll/e!
[High-pitched whistling]
[Barking]
Rollie?
Come on, fella, come on.
Where you been, huh?
You've been a bad boy, haven't you, huh?
Rollie, rollie, rollie.
Well, where was he?
In the back.
I guess he must have found another cat.
Uh, yeah. Yeah, sure.
Well, thanks a lot.
That's all right.
The way sissy disappears sometimes,
I know how you must've felt.
Uh, sissy's your little girl?
Yeah.
What was that thing she had in her hand?
What thing?
Well, it was a brown box and a kind of a wire
with a little deal over here, uh...
Now, wait a minute. Don't tell Mei imagined that.
Oh, no, no. It, um...
Oh, it must have been her radio.
All right.
Well, I'm sorry I bothered you.
Come on, boy.
Come on, rollie, get in here, get in here.
Did you see all that?
All what?
Never mind.
[Car starts up]
Hey, bredon's the other way!
I want to talk to dorn.
(Male voice over apparatus) He's not here.
Well, you better find him. It's important.
We've got an outsider...
And he saw something.
Now, you just take it easy, rollie.
I'll find you a steak somewhere.
[Door opens]
I'm sorry, but we don't have any openings.
Oh?
Now, why is that?
Well...
All the rooms are taken.
Well, I guess everyone's out, then.
Well, the keys...
Yes. Everybody's out.
I wasn't looking for a room, anyway.
I was just looking for a restaurant.
I'm sorry, but it's closed.
You mean you only have
one restaurant in peaceful valley?
Yes, sir.
Where do you eat?
At home.
What about the guests?
Well, they do eat, don't they?
I-I have to go now.
Look, just a minute, miss.
My name is Philip redfield. I'm a reporter.
Now, if I begin to sound a little nosy,
I suppose it goes with the job.
You don't mind, do you?
Well, maybe you can tell me something.
Ever since I landed here in peaceful valley,
people have been trying to get rid of me.
Now, why is tha t?
Well, we just don't get very many outsiders here.
So I heard.
Yet you manage to fill up a hotel.
I'm sorry, but I really have to go now,
and I think you should, too.
Well, you better get your subscription
to the paper renewed.
A lot of things have happened since '53.
Thanks for everything.
[Steam hissing]
Rollie.
Are you all right, sir?
My dog is dead.
I don't know how this could've happened, I...
There wasn't a car around anywhere.
Perhaps it was a rock.
Well, wouldn't it be around somewhere?
Well, you could've
knocked it into the woods.
Come along, Mr. Redfield.
We've got to get you to a doctor.
We'll take care of your car.
What about my dog?
Well, we'll take care of your dog, too.
You have nothing to worry about.
Wait a minute!
Wait a minute, I don't want to go back to your town!
Well, you have to be examined.
I'm all right.
You don't know that.
There could be internal injuries.
If anything happened to you,
it would be on our conscience forever.
Come along.
We insist.
No, w-wait...
Wait, now.
[Beeping]
[Muffled bark]
There you are, good as new.
We certainly haven't been treating you very well,
have we, old fella, hmm?
Come on. Here. Come on.
Is this a doctor's office?
In a way.
Thank you, gentlemen. You can leave now.
Mr. Redfield.
Please sit down.
How do you feel?
Terrible.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Perhaps it would help to learn your dog is well.
My dog is dead.
Oh, no... no, no, merel y stunned.
He's really quite happy now.
How do you know?
Mr. Swanson...
One of the men who helped you... called in.
He thought you might be pleased.
Well, I am...
If it's the truth.
My, you do have a suspicious nature, don't you?
Oh, uh...
Forgive me.
My name is dorn.
I'm the mayor of peaceful valley.
The gentlemen to my left:
Mr. Connelly, Mr. Evans, my associates.
Which one is a doctor?
Doc...?
Oh, oh, oh, of course.
But you don't really need a doctor, do you, Mr. Redfield?
Because if you did,
we'd get one here immed/a tel y.
Please... sit down.
We'll try not to detain you long.
Then you couldn't go anywhere in a wrecked car, now, can you?
We'd just like to ask you a few questions,
if we ma y... uh, justa few.
Perhaps you'd like to begin.
Mr. Redfield,
it's been reported you saw something unusual
in the yard next to the gasoline station.
Would you please tell us about it?
My dog chased a cat.
The details, please.
Well, that's it.
Are you quite sure you saw nothing more?
Yes.
Mr. Connelly, your question.
I was simply wondering, Mr. Redfield,
why you told the girl at the hotel
that people were trying to get rid of you.
Now, wait a minute, look.
What is this,
some kind of a quiz hour?
My car is out there wrecked somewhere.
I'm already a day late for work.
Your car's being repaired.
By who, tha t sta tion a ttendant?
Why, he couldn't even find the gas tank.
It is being repaired.
Uh, just a few more questions, please.
I understand you mentioned
you're a newspaper reporter by occupation.
So?
Oh, noble calling...
But limited.
I suppose you have that novel
in the planning sta ge.
Who told you about that?
No one, but isn't it a fact
that most reporters aspire to be novelists?
I wouldn't know.
Are you married?
Engaged?
No. Now, look.
One last question, please.
Did you indeed come to peaceful valley by mistake?
I mean, no one knows
you're here?
No, no one knows I'm here.
But I'll tell you this:
A lot of people are gonna know iwas here.
Oh, dear.
Now, what's the story on this place?
My dog didn't disappear chasing a cat,
and my car didn't crash into any rock.
Now, what did happen?
Come back in an hour, Mr. Redfield.
Perhaps then you'll get the answers to your questions.
All right, I will. Where's the phone?
There's one at the hotel.
You think it's wise letting him go like that?
He'll be watched.
[Thumps hands on table]
Well, gentlemen...
It's happened.
It had to, eventually.
No! It didn't have to.
And it wouldn't have if we kept our wits about us,
but we didn't.
We were so complacent,
so infernally sure of ourselves and complacent.
Dorn.
Mr. Evans,
would you explain the point of keeping
the hotel open and the restaurant closed?
I don't think...
Doesn't it seem more likel y
that there would be more inquiries
for food than for rooms?
There hasn't been either in over 16 years.
You see? Complacency.
And I'm as much to blame as anyone.
If only the little Johnson girl hadn't been so careless.
If only fredericks hadn't acted suspiciously
at the gasoline station.
If onlyi hadn't panicked and raised the wall!
You had to.
There wasn't any choice by then.
So now...
An innocent young man who hasn't done anyone any harm
must suffer for our mistakes.
How do you get long distance on this thing?
You just pick it up, but you...
Hello, operator? Operator, get me long distance.
But what?
Nothing.
(Female voice over phone) Opera Tor.
Iwanna put through a call to Albuquerque.
The number's chapel 77205,
and I want it to be station to station, please.
Justa moment.
That's quite a mayor you got.
He makes you feel really welcome.
Have you talked to dorn?
Yeah, I talked to him. He's a great guy.
My dog vanishes, my car crashes into thin air,
and he wants to know if I'm writin' a novel.
Hello?
Yes.
I'm sorry. The circuits are busy.
All right, miss. Will you keep trying and call me back?
My name is redfield.
Well, I see they haven't gotten back.
Pardon me?
Your guests.
Oh, well, no.
That's because there aren't any guests.
Isn't that right?
You really should've left, Mr. Redfield.
Well, I tried to,
but my car smashed into a rock that wasn't there.
How do you suppose that happened?
I-I don't know.
What is your name, or is that a secret here, too?
Ellen Marshall.
Well, Ellen, I want you to contact me
as soon as my call comes through.
Now, this is important. Will you do that?
Yes, of course. Where will you be?
I'm gonna check on my car now,
and I'll be at the mayor's office in a couple of minutes...
Probably starving to death.
[Whimpers]
Rollie!
Rollie, how are you, boy?
Huh? How are you?!
I had you counted out, did you know that, huh?
How are you, rollie?
Ifed him.
Oh, well, thanks, but what about my car?
It's pretty banged up.
I know, but you were supposed
to be trying to fix it.
Didn't anybody tell me.
Well, I'm telling you!
I can't do anything unless it's official.
Well, look, all right, it is official...
About $200 worth of official
if you get it fixed as soon as you can.
Sorry.
Well, you're going to be sorrier.
[Whimpers]
[Barking]
(Dorn) Come in, Mr. Redfield.
I thought you told me
my car was gonna be repaired.
Please sit down.
I don't wanna sit down!
I wanna know why nothing's been done to my car,
why it's just sitting out there.
Primarily because you won't be needing it anymore.
Oh, no? Well, why?
Because you are never going to leave peaceful valley.
(Male presenter) Twilight zone will continue after sta tion ident/f/ca tion.
(Dorn) You are never going to Lea ve peaceful valley.
You see, the situation is rather complicated, Mr. Redfield.
Although we hold no brief against you personally...
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Sure.
I think I got this thing figured out.
Oh?
Well, sure... peaceful valley is a town
full of lunatics, and you guys head the list!
Now, what do you mean,
I'm not ever gonna be able to leave here?
Just that.
Well, who's going to stop me?
We are.
There's nothing you can do, Mr. Redfield.
Well, how's this?
[Device emits high-pitched hum]
[Hums]
Now, let us continue.
What did you...?
How did I get in this chair?
You were disassembled over there...
And reassembled there...
With this.
What is that?
I'm afraid you wouldn't understand, Mr. Redfield,
even if you were a physicist, which you are not.
Let us say/t isa dev/ce
by which we move things about.
All things are collections of atoms with spaces in between.
Even you, Mr. Redfield.
And a Toms are in a given ma thema tical arrangement.
This device breaks them up, stores them,
and puts them together again in the same order.
That's ridiculous.
Perhaps, but...
It saves a lot of time
when you want to move furniture around.
Dorn.
Yes, Mr. Evans.
Let's get this over with.
I'm sorry.
You sensed a story in this town, Mr. Redfield,
and you were right.
You turned off onto the road to peaceful valley.
You saw certain things that defied logic.
People began to behave oddly,
and you became curious, so...
So we had to stop you.
And now we must do even worse,
because, Mr. Redfield,
you stumbled upon the best-kept secret in the world.
What secret?
Our gift, Mr. Redfield,
bestowed upon the people of this village 104 years ago.
A man came to peaceful valley, from what land or...
What planet, nobody knows.
He was a brilliant scientist
many hundreds of years before his time, but...
He was also wise, as you shall see.
From his brain came equations
the likes of which no one had ever seen or dreamt of...
Not on this planet, at any rate.
Of course, / cannot tell you what? t theyare.
Mr. Redfield, you are aware, I trust, that the basis
of this complicated thing we call life is energy.
It's a fr/ghten/ng and myster/ous force.
The scientist's equations unlocked this force,
and from it came the greatest power for good... or evil
the universe has ever known.
He decided to entrust his secrets...
His equations and the machines that he had built...
To three men he had selected,
and he instructed them to give the benefit of this power
to the people of peaceful valley for their comfort.
But under no circumstances were they to release the secret
to the outside world.
It was to remain in peaceful valley...
Until humanity learned the ways of peace.
That is your story, Mr. Redfield.
You see why we cannot allow you to leave us.
No, I can't say that I do.
Perhaps if we showed you.
Mr. Redfield.
This is the original desimulator,
somewhat larger than the one
we moved you around with upstairs.
More or less the same principle here,
but with a big difference.
It works in what we call the time dimension.
It has many, many uses.
For example...
Mr. Evans.
Mr. Connelly,
would you hand me the letter opener?
Don't be frightened, Mr. Redfield.
[Desimulator hums]
[Flicks switch]
Come with me, Mr. Redfield.
On this console, among other things,
we have a duplicating machine, but not like others.
Ah. Here's something.
On this card,
we have a statement
giving the atomic structure
of a ham sandwich on white bread
with mus tard.
Of course, we have larger machines
for the bulkier items,
but this will give you an idea.
[Machine humming]
[Humming intensifies]
[Humming reaches high-pitched crescendo]
I believe you said you were hungry, Mr. Redfield.
Well, not anymore.
Look, what was that thing I ran into out there?
Oh, you mean in the car.
I'm, uh, sorry about that, but we had to stop you.
It was an energy field:
A wall of loosely-packed atoms, so to speak.
Purely an emergency device.
This lever operates it.
Come with me, Mr. Redfield.
And these are the sacred papers,
as we call them...
The equations from which everything you see came about.
[Sighs]
Well, I think I could use a drink.
Do you have any idea what you have down there?
Of course.
And you mean you don't intend
to share it with the rest of the world?
Oh, good heavens, no.
Why?
Well, I've already explained, Mr. Redfield.
The world isn't ready.
But peaceful valley is?
Well, obviously.
We have no war here, no crime, no violence, no greed.
Unlike your world, we live in peace.
We use the power for good, not for evil.
Well, how can you be sure the rest of us wouldn't?
Come, now, Mr. Redfield,
the history of civilization has been written in blood.
But that's because people wanted things!
With that power...
With this power,
they would destroy the universe.
They're children.
But this one machine...
It could stop sickness and sufferings.
It could cure disease.
Well, couldn't it?
Yes.
And you just let people...
Well, don't you have any conscience about it?
Yes.
That's why we will not release the secret.
The same power that could be used to heal sickness
can also be used to destroy the innocent.
You see, one secret would lead
to understanding the rest,
and that could be the end of the world.
I don't believe that.
Think, Mr. Redfield!
Think!
What did you do with professor Einstein's primitive equation,
e = m c squared?
It could have been used to bring waters to the deserts,
to feed starving millions.
Was it?
It was used to destroy countless thousands of human beings.
So you're just going to sit on your secrets,
use them to make ham sandwiches and roadblocks?
Ham sandwiches and roadblocks
are a bit better than total destruction,
wouldn't you say, Mr. Redfield?
Let's get on with this.
You're a bunch of hypocrites!
You talk about us, but what do you do
when you want someone out of the way?
What do you do?!
The same as we do!
You eliminate him!
Be quiet!
He has a point, Mr. Evans.
It's just what I've been pondering.
If we kill this man...
In what way do we differ from the outsiders?
But we do it out of necessity,
not out of choice!
Thank you Adolf Hitler.
It is for the good of the world.
We have nothing against you.
It's the law. We cannot go against the law!
And let him who discovers the secret be eliminated.
You can be eliminated in one of two ways:
Through death or through assimilation.
The choice is yours.
Will you die, or will you join us?
You mean live here the rest of my life?
Exactly.
Become one of us.
It really won't be so bad.
We'll provide you witha fine house
bu/I t to your spec/fica t/ons,
plenty of food,
time to write tha t no vel.
All your wants seen to.
Nothing or everything, eh?
Substantially, yes.
What will it be?
Everything.
Welcome to peaceful valley.
And this is your study.
I'm sorry about the typewriter,
but we couldn't find a card for anything newer.
Don't worry, though. It'll work fine.
And dorn promised that you'd have a new one.
Look...
Why are you going to all this trouble?
Oh, because dorn asked me to.
And-and because I wanted to.
Yeah, but why?
Because I-I don't want you to think
that i-I'm unfriendly.
I'm not.
In fact, I think you and I could be
very good friends, Mr. Redfield.
Do you play chess?
Is something wrong?
No, no.
Well, don't you like the house?
I-I tried to make everything nice for you.
Ellen, I like it. It's beautiful.
Are all the other houses in town this beautiful?
On the inside.
Well, I'm afraid you've wasted your time on me.
Why?
Because I'm not staying here.
Of course you are.
And what's that supposed to mean?
Well, if you keep thinking like this,
you'll have no choice.
Dorn won't trust you.
Well, he trusts me now, doesn't he?
Well, doesn't he?
I'm leaving Mr. Redfield's house.
If-if you get hungry...
Or if you want anything, just call me.
I showed you where the button is.
Ellen, wait.
You're not like the others here.
Yes, I am.
You're-you're different.
You're a human being.
[Ro/iie barking]
[Barking continues]
Rollie, get down.
Get down. Get down.
[Knocking]
[Crashing]
[Phone ringing]
Yes.
(Female voice) Mr. Redfield?
Yes?
On your call to Albuquerque...
(Both) The circuits are still busy.
[Knocking at door]
Come in.
Hello.
I brought you a new typewriter ribbon
and-and some, uh, erasers.
Have you started your novel yet?
Why not?
I don't know.
Maybe I don't concentrate so well in a prison.
I don't understand.
Well, you ought to; You got the same problem.
I'm locked in the house.
You're locked in the town.
What's the difference?
I can leave any time I want to.
Then why don't you?
Well, why should I?
Why should you?
We have everything we need.
Except freedom.
Face it... if you were to go
even a couple of steps outside of this town,
why, they'd nail you.
Have you ever tried?
No, but why should I want to try?
What could the outside world
have to offer that we don't have?
That's not the point, Ellen.
It's what you have to offer the outside world.
I mean, right now, at this very moment,
thousands and thousands of people are starving.
Don't you know that?
Well, you could feed them... you!
They're suffering,
and you could make them well.
They're breaking their backs
10,15 hours a day.
Don't you know that?
What do you care?
No, let them starve, let them suffer,
let them break their backs.
Let the children die
because their mother can't give them any milk!
What difference does it make to you?
You're happy!
Is this really happening?
All over the world.
Every minute of the day or night,
somebody is dying... alone.
Somebody that you could help.
Don't say that.
Why not?
What difference does it make?
But...
But what would you do?
A terrible thing.
I'd take your secrets and give it to the world.
You mean you'd steal them and run away?
Very fast.
But you promised dorn that...
Look, Ellen, I promised myself first.
I'd-I'd try and be some kind of a decent human being,
maybe even try and help somebody out.
What's the use?
You don't even know what I mean.
You never wanted anything
you couldn't whip up in ten seconds
in one of your little machines.
Once I did.
When I saw you leaving peaceful valley.
And I've thought about you
since then, Philip.
Even asleep, I've thought about you.
And it hurts.
I don't know why, but it hurts.
Do you know why?
I think so.
Then what is it?
We have machines for so many things,
but I can't make this feeling stop.
And you won't, Ellen.
Not on your machines.
Don't you people ever fall in love?
I never have until now.
But-but nowi want us to be together, Philip.
Don't you want that?
I could want that very much in a real world.
But not here.
Look, I'm sorry, Ellen.
As long as I'm here in peaceful valley,
ijust want one thing: Out.
[Growls and barks]
I want us to be together.
All right, you wait here.
[Machine whirring]
[Alarm bell ringing]
[Ringing continues]
Put them back, Mr. Redfield.
Do as I say.
[Ringing continues]
Ellen, I want to tell you what happened back there.
It may change your mind about coming with me.
Whatever it is, I don't want to hear.
You have the papers.
Well, I know, but...
Have you seen them?
[Desimulator humming]
(Dorn) You see what would happen, Mr. Redfield,
if we gave our secret to the outside world?
The very first thing you'd do is make a weapon.
The second: You'd kill with it.
You tricked me.
Yes.
And you...
Everything a lie.
Not everything, Philip.
She cooperated because she thought
you would prove your good intentions...
As I did.
My colleagues were right.
You're just like the others.
If the end is just,
so are the means, what? tever they ma y be.
Pity.
You have just lost paradise, Mr. Redfield,
and you don't even know why.
I did the right thing.
I'd do it again.
Of course.
Now you're gonna do the same thing to me.
Not quite.
You will be executed, yes...
But not in the same way.
I've been studying the law, our law,
and I believe I've found a way
tha t will sa tisfy ever ybod y.
I... would have thought of it long before, but...
Please, try to appreciate our position.
Try to imagine a state
that has carried the death penalty on its books
for hundreds of years and has never had to invoke it.
That is the case here.
You see, you were our first prisoner, so to speak.
You forced us to examine our law.
Goodbye, Mr. Redfield.
I'm sorry to do this.
I was becoming fond of you.
[Machine whirring]
(Male voice) $4.42 out of ten.
There's five, and five is ten.
Sorry, I, uh, must have dozed off there a second.
That's what happens when you drive too long.
Yeah. You say bredon is back this way, huh?
Eighty miles.
[Growling]
Shut up, rollie.
Anything wrong?
No, no, I, uh...
Thought I saw somebody I knew, that's all.
Wishful thinking, I guess.
It's a nice little town you got here.
We like it.
[Engine starts]
Can I just back in here?
Yep.
(Narrator) You've seen them.
Little towns tucked a way far from the main roads.
You've seen them, but have you thought about them?
Have you wondered what the people do in such places,
why theystay?
Phil/p redfield thinks about them now
and he wonders, but onl y very la te a t night,
when he's between wakefulness and sleep...
In the twilight zone.
We move next on twilight zone into a shadowy area
that treads a very thin line between flesh and fantasy.
You'll see a performance by Dennis hopper that,
even from my rather close-in perspective,
strikes me as an exceptional one.
Our story is called he's alive,
and if this doesn't get you where you live,
you'll find it close byin the suburbs.
Need medical attention?
(Soldier no.1) We don't need any.
(Soldier no.2) Okay, Jack.
Hey, Jack!
You forgot your, um...
Your flag.
There'll come a day when guys like you
will crawl on your belly just to salute this.
(Soldier) Who's out there?
Who is it?
(Male voice, foreign accent) A friend, Mr. Vollmer.
Come do wn, Mr. Vol I mer.
Come down, and we will talk.