1 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,010 You're traveling through another dimension, 2 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:15,010 a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind 3 00:00:15,510 --> 00:00:17,010 a journey into a wondrous land 4 00:00:17,050 --> 00:00:19,080 whose boundaries are that of imagination. 5 00:00:19,180 --> 00:00:20,700 That's the signpost up ahead. 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,320 Your next stop, "The Twilight Zone". 7 00:00:31,030 --> 00:00:32,530 All right, mother, 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,030 remember, the rule of the house today is 9 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:38,030 the moment this is over, you go back upstairs. 10 00:00:38,070 --> 00:00:39,540 That's fine, Chris. 11 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:41,040 You know I always follow 12 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:43,040 the rules of the house... 13 00:00:43,070 --> 00:00:46,040 except when I don't agree with them. 14 00:00:55,650 --> 00:00:57,650 Hey, you haven't got your hat on. 15 00:00:59,150 --> 00:01:00,660 Grandma! 16 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:04,160 My angel! 17 00:01:04,460 --> 00:01:06,460 Mother, you know the doctor told you 18 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:07,960 not to exert yourself. 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,370 Oh! I don't exert. 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,870 Billy is a feather. 21 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:15,570 Chris... Chris, get the lights. 22 00:01:15,610 --> 00:01:17,070 Everybody sit down. 23 00:01:17,110 --> 00:01:18,570 All right. 24 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:20,580 Billy, shut your eyes. 25 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,080 Here, mother. 26 00:01:22,110 --> 00:01:24,580 Don't open them till I tell you to. 27 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:26,080 Happy birthday, Billy. 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,080 Open them! Happy birthday! 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,080 Happy birthday, Billy! 30 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:31,590 Isn't that beautiful? 31 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:33,090 No, no, no, no, wait, Billy. 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,590 Wait, my boy. 33 00:01:34,630 --> 00:01:37,090 First you have to blow out the candles 34 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:38,590 or it's no good. 35 00:01:38,630 --> 00:01:42,100 Now, you take a deep breath, like... 36 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:44,600 and then blow them out, all of them. 37 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:48,100 Good, good! 38 00:01:48,140 --> 00:01:49,100 Good boy. 39 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:50,610 You make a wish? 40 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,110 What was it? 41 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,210 You tell grandma, ja? 42 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,210 Don't you think we could all hear the wish, Billy? 43 00:01:57,250 --> 00:02:01,220 No, that's a secret between him and me. 44 00:02:01,250 --> 00:02:03,720 Isn't that so? 45 00:02:03,750 --> 00:02:05,720 Now... mm! 46 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,220 Oh, mother, 47 00:02:08,260 --> 00:02:10,730 why don't you let Syl cut the cake, huh? 48 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,730 You think I'm too old to cut a cake, eh? 49 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,230 When I am that old 50 00:02:16,270 --> 00:02:20,240 you get the shovel and dig the hole. 51 00:02:20,270 --> 00:02:22,240 Shovel! 52 00:02:22,270 --> 00:02:24,240 Yes, my angel! 53 00:02:24,270 --> 00:02:26,740 Oh... oh, Billy! 54 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Oh, darling. 55 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,250 Oh, my angel. 56 00:02:32,750 --> 00:02:35,250 I am so happy. 57 00:02:35,290 --> 00:02:38,250 My heart is full, I... 58 00:02:38,290 --> 00:02:39,760 I like to say something. 59 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:41,760 Could I say something? 60 00:02:41,790 --> 00:02:42,760 Sure. 61 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,260 My little Billy- 62 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,270 my wonderful little boy. 63 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:54,270 He gave me life again. 64 00:02:55,270 --> 00:02:56,770 An old woman 65 00:02:56,810 --> 00:03:01,780 good for nothing no more but to complain. 66 00:03:01,810 --> 00:03:04,480 He held out his hands to me and... 67 00:03:06,980 --> 00:03:08,980 made me alive. 68 00:03:09,020 --> 00:03:11,490 Why are you crying, grandma? 69 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:14,990 I don't know, my angel. 70 00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:17,490 Maybe because I won't be here with you 71 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:18,990 for very long. 72 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:21,700 Why? 73 00:03:21,730 --> 00:03:23,700 I will be away. 74 00:03:23,730 --> 00:03:24,700 Where? 75 00:03:24,740 --> 00:03:26,200 Nowhere, Billy. 76 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,700 Grandma's going to be right here next year 77 00:03:27,740 --> 00:03:29,200 and the year after that. 78 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,910 No... don't lie to him. 79 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:34,910 I will be gone. 80 00:03:34,950 --> 00:03:36,910 It's time for presents. 81 00:03:36,950 --> 00:03:38,910 Come on, Billy! 82 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,920 Gram, I wish you... 83 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,420 is anything wrong? 84 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,420 No, it... 85 00:03:46,460 --> 00:03:48,920 just a little short of breath. 86 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:52,530 Bang! 87 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:53,530 Bang, bang! 88 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,030 How do you like that, huh? 89 00:03:55,070 --> 00:03:56,030 This is the one 90 00:03:56,530 --> 00:03:58,030 I want you to open next. 91 00:03:58,070 --> 00:03:59,030 Wait till you see it. 92 00:03:59,070 --> 00:04:01,540 This is the one you asked for, remember? 93 00:04:01,570 --> 00:04:05,040 Billy, don't you want to see what grandma got you? 94 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,040 Oh, boy! 95 00:04:15,050 --> 00:04:17,050 A telephone! 96 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:19,550 For us, Billy- for you and me. 97 00:04:19,590 --> 00:04:21,560 So you can always talk to grandma 98 00:04:21,590 --> 00:04:24,060 even when she's not here- anytime. 99 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,360 Can I talk to grandma now? 100 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,360 Good... go ahead. 101 00:04:28,860 --> 00:04:30,870 Hello. 102 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:33,870 Is there somebody who wants to talk to grandma? 103 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:35,370 It's me! 104 00:04:35,410 --> 00:04:36,870 Who are you? 105 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:38,870 It's me, Billy! 106 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,280 Oh, Billy... 107 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:51,790 take me upstairs now, Chris. 108 00:04:52,290 --> 00:04:53,790 Don't you want to play? 109 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:55,290 I want to, Billy. 110 00:04:55,330 --> 00:04:57,290 You just talk on the telephone- 111 00:04:57,330 --> 00:04:58,790 I will hear you. 112 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,300 Don't be sick, grandma. 113 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:07,300 Don't be sick. 114 00:05:07,340 --> 00:05:09,300 This is me, Billy. 115 00:05:09,340 --> 00:05:11,310 Please don't be sick. 116 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:13,310 As must be obvious, 117 00:05:13,340 --> 00:05:15,810 this is a house hovered over by Mr. Death, 118 00:05:16,310 --> 00:05:17,810 that omnipresent player 119 00:05:17,850 --> 00:05:20,320 to the third and final act of every life. 120 00:05:20,350 --> 00:05:23,320 And it's been said, and probably rightfully so 121 00:05:23,350 --> 00:05:25,320 that what follows this life 122 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,820 is one of the unfathomable mysteries- 123 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:32,630 an area of darkness which we the living reserve for the dead. 124 00:05:33,130 --> 00:05:34,630 Or so it is said. 125 00:05:34,660 --> 00:05:38,130 For in a moment, a child will try to cross that bridge 126 00:05:38,170 --> 00:05:40,640 which separates light and shadow. 127 00:05:40,670 --> 00:05:43,640 And of course he must take the only known route: 128 00:05:43,670 --> 00:05:47,640 That indistinct highway through the region we call 129 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,640 "The Twilight Zone". 130 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,760 I want to see grandma. 131 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,770 Oh, honey, we can't see her right now 132 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,270 because she... she's not feeling very well. 133 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,080 She isn't in any pain. 134 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,580 Can we see her? 135 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:31,590 Well, I wouldn't advise it, not that it would hurt her, 136 00:06:31,620 --> 00:06:34,090 but I... I don't think she'd even recognize you. 137 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,590 Oh, we'd recognize her. 138 00:06:36,630 --> 00:06:39,090 All right, Chris. 139 00:06:39,130 --> 00:06:42,100 Honey, you might as well put him to bed. Yeah. 140 00:06:42,130 --> 00:06:44,100 I want to see grandma. 141 00:06:44,130 --> 00:06:47,100 Billy, try to understand this. 142 00:06:47,140 --> 00:06:48,600 Your grandmother's sick. 143 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,610 She's very sick. 144 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,610 So why don't you wait till she gets well again. 145 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,610 I want to see her now. 146 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,110 Come on, honey, don't do that. 147 00:06:56,150 --> 00:06:58,110 Come on now. 148 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,620 Well, all right, Billy, just for a minute. 149 00:07:08,620 --> 00:07:09,620 Billy... 150 00:07:09,660 --> 00:07:12,130 if your grandmother acts kind of strange 151 00:07:12,630 --> 00:07:15,630 remember, it's just because of all the medicine. 152 00:07:16,630 --> 00:07:19,630 Here... blow your nose. 153 00:07:19,670 --> 00:07:21,140 Good boy. 154 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:30,150 The family would like to see her now. 155 00:07:46,060 --> 00:07:48,060 Grandma! 156 00:07:51,070 --> 00:07:53,070 My angel... 157 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:56,570 Are you sick, grandma? 158 00:07:56,610 --> 00:07:58,570 Not no more. 159 00:07:58,610 --> 00:08:02,080 Then why don't you get up? 160 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,080 Hello, ma. 161 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,080 Who are you? 162 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,090 I'm your son, Chris. 163 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,090 Your son. 164 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,090 No... no. 165 00:08:16,130 --> 00:08:22,100 My son was taken away... from me by a woman. 166 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,100 This is my son now- 167 00:08:28,140 --> 00:08:31,110 Billy, my son. 168 00:08:35,810 --> 00:08:39,310 What's the matter, grandma? 169 00:08:39,350 --> 00:08:42,820 It will be so lonely. 170 00:08:42,850 --> 00:08:47,320 I wish you could go with grandma, Billy. 171 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,820 Where? 172 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,630 Away... 173 00:08:51,660 --> 00:08:55,630 far away, Billy. 174 00:08:55,670 --> 00:08:59,130 Together, the two of us. 175 00:08:59,170 --> 00:09:04,140 Just you and me, Billy. 176 00:09:04,170 --> 00:09:07,640 No one else. 177 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:10,650 Just you and... 178 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:12,650 me. 179 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,650 Grandma. 180 00:09:16,150 --> 00:09:18,750 Grandma! 181 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,780 Billy! 182 00:09:45,820 --> 00:09:47,280 Billy? 183 00:09:50,290 --> 00:09:52,790 Billy, didn't you hear me calling you? 184 00:09:52,820 --> 00:09:54,290 No. 185 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,290 You know you're not supposed to play 186 00:09:56,330 --> 00:09:57,290 so close to the pond. 187 00:09:57,330 --> 00:09:58,790 What are you doing? 188 00:09:58,830 --> 00:10:00,800 Looking at the fishes. 189 00:10:00,830 --> 00:10:02,300 Well, it's getting cold. 190 00:10:02,330 --> 00:10:03,800 Let's go inside now. 191 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,310 What's that? 192 00:10:10,340 --> 00:10:11,810 Your grandmother's bracelet. 193 00:10:12,310 --> 00:10:13,810 Honey, why don't you go up 194 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,310 and play in your room for a while, huh? 195 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,620 Chris... 196 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,540 What's the matter? 197 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,820 Oh, it's... it's Billy. 198 00:10:24,850 --> 00:10:27,820 He's been walking around in a trance all day. 199 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:29,820 Well, he misses her already. 200 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:31,830 You know how close they were. 201 00:10:31,860 --> 00:10:33,830 Yes, I know. 202 00:10:33,860 --> 00:10:35,830 What is that supposed to mean? 203 00:10:35,870 --> 00:10:37,330 I mean they were too close. 204 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:38,830 It wasn't right. 205 00:10:38,870 --> 00:10:40,340 You know that. 206 00:10:40,370 --> 00:10:43,340 You heard what she said, she called him "her son". 207 00:10:43,370 --> 00:10:44,840 She didn't mean that. 208 00:10:44,870 --> 00:10:45,840 Didn't she? 209 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:46,840 No. 210 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,840 Sylvia, for heaven's sakes 211 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,850 she was full of sedatives and she was dying. 212 00:10:53,850 --> 00:10:55,850 Oh, I'm sorry, Chris, it's just... 213 00:10:55,890 --> 00:10:58,350 I guess we're all upset today. 214 00:11:10,870 --> 00:11:14,370 Hey. Why don't you come over and play? 215 00:11:15,870 --> 00:11:17,870 Is it cold there? 216 00:11:18,370 --> 00:11:19,870 I had weenies for lunch. 217 00:11:19,910 --> 00:11:21,380 What did you have? 218 00:11:22,380 --> 00:11:24,880 Maybe they'll fix my tricycle. 219 00:11:26,380 --> 00:11:27,880 Billy. 220 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,280 Who are you talking to? 221 00:11:30,390 --> 00:11:31,390 Grandma. 222 00:11:31,890 --> 00:11:32,990 She's lonesome. 223 00:11:33,020 --> 00:11:36,890 She wanted to know if I can come stay with her. 224 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:38,390 Can I, mama? 225 00:11:38,430 --> 00:11:39,390 Can I? 226 00:12:12,630 --> 00:12:14,130 Mrs. Bayles? 227 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,130 Oh, just a minute, Shirley. 228 00:12:18,130 --> 00:12:19,630 Feel like being alone? 229 00:12:19,670 --> 00:12:21,640 No, that's the last thing I want. 230 00:12:21,670 --> 00:12:24,640 Well, I'll make us some coffee. 231 00:12:24,670 --> 00:12:25,640 Yes, Shirley, what is it? 232 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:26,640 Mrs. Bayles... 233 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,140 Mrs. Bayles. 234 00:12:28,180 --> 00:12:29,540 My name is Peterson. 235 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:31,050 I hate to bother you at a time like this. 236 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,050 The girl told me about your mother-in-law's funeral. 237 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,050 What is it? 238 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,550 Well, it's about your boy. 239 00:12:35,590 --> 00:12:36,550 Billy? 240 00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:38,050 He's all right, Mrs. Bayles. 241 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:39,550 I just put him down for his nap, 242 00:12:39,590 --> 00:12:41,560 and he's all right. But I'm not. 243 00:12:41,590 --> 00:12:43,160 I've been sitting here shaking for 20 minutes 244 00:12:43,190 --> 00:12:45,160 thinking about what might have happened. 245 00:12:45,190 --> 00:12:46,860 What might have happened, Mr. Peterson? 246 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:48,360 Your son almost got himself killed. 247 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,770 Ran right out in front of my car from nowhere. 248 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,170 Lucky thing I'm a cautious driver, Mr. Bayles. 249 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,170 Oh, excuse me. 250 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,170 Billy doesn't play in the streets. 251 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:57,670 I know, Mr. Bayles, 252 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,670 that's why I didn't say anything when he went out. 253 00:12:59,710 --> 00:13:01,180 All right, Shirley, what happened? 254 00:13:01,210 --> 00:13:02,680 Well, he played in the streets today. 255 00:13:02,710 --> 00:13:04,380 He ran right out in front of my car- 256 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:06,380 didn't even have time to put the brakes on. 257 00:13:06,420 --> 00:13:08,380 I couldn't have missed him by more than a few inches. 258 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,990 It wasn't my fault, Mr. Bayles, honest. 259 00:13:12,020 --> 00:13:13,490 All right, Shirley, 260 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,490 apparently it wasn't anybody's fault. 261 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:45,220 Mr. Bayles... 262 00:13:45,250 --> 00:13:48,220 I think you'd better have a talk with your boy. 263 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:51,230 A talk? What about? 264 00:13:51,260 --> 00:13:53,730 Well... when I saw that he was all right, 265 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,230 I asked him why he did a crazy thing like that, 266 00:13:56,270 --> 00:13:58,230 running out in the middle of a busy street. 267 00:13:58,730 --> 00:14:00,840 He said somebody told him to. 268 00:14:02,340 --> 00:14:04,340 Somebody told him to? 269 00:14:06,340 --> 00:14:07,340 Who? 270 00:14:07,380 --> 00:14:08,840 He didn't say. 271 00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:11,650 Mr. Bayles, you know I'd never tell Billy 272 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,150 to do a thing like that. 273 00:14:13,180 --> 00:14:15,150 Who else did he talk to, Shirley? 274 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:17,150 No one, he didn't talk to no one. 275 00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:19,650 He just sat up in his room all day long 276 00:14:19,690 --> 00:14:22,160 just talking on that toy telephone. 277 00:14:22,190 --> 00:14:23,160 Honest. 278 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:30,670 Chris... 279 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:32,170 I'll be right there. 280 00:14:33,170 --> 00:14:35,170 I'm sorry, Mr. Peterson. 281 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,170 Don't be sorry, just be glad the boy's safe. 282 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:46,680 Listen. 283 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:50,690 Oh, for heaven's sake. 284 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,990 Hi, pumpkin. We're back. 285 00:14:54,020 --> 00:14:55,190 Billy, what's this business 286 00:14:55,220 --> 00:14:56,690 about your running into the street? 287 00:14:56,730 --> 00:14:58,190 You know, you had us worried. 288 00:14:58,230 --> 00:14:59,290 I'm sorry. 289 00:14:59,330 --> 00:15:00,800 Well, why did you do it? 290 00:15:00,830 --> 00:15:02,300 I don't know. 291 00:15:02,330 --> 00:15:04,900 Billy, who were you talking to 292 00:15:04,930 --> 00:15:06,000 on the phone just now? 293 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,000 Nobody. 294 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,000 Don't fib to me, Billy. 295 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,000 Who were you talking to? 296 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,510 No one! 297 00:15:10,540 --> 00:15:11,510 You're going to tell me! 298 00:15:11,540 --> 00:15:12,510 You hear, now? I mean it! 299 00:15:12,540 --> 00:15:14,510 Easy. 300 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:20,100 Hey... 301 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:23,020 Mom doesn't like me anymore, does she? 302 00:15:23,050 --> 00:15:25,520 Why, sure she does, Billy. 303 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,020 She's just upset. 304 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:31,030 Billy, I'm going to tell you something. 305 00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:33,530 Now, I want you to try to understand. 306 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,530 You're not going to see your grandma anymore. 307 00:15:36,570 --> 00:15:39,030 She didn't go away, like we said. 308 00:15:39,070 --> 00:15:42,540 She died, Billy. Do you know what that means? 309 00:15:42,570 --> 00:15:44,040 Yes... 310 00:15:44,070 --> 00:15:46,040 I know. 311 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,040 Billy, I know you're just pretending 312 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,040 to talk to her on that phone. 313 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,550 I know it's just a game you made up. 314 00:15:52,580 --> 00:15:53,550 But, Billy, for me, 315 00:15:53,580 --> 00:15:56,050 don't do it in front of your mother. 316 00:15:56,090 --> 00:15:57,050 Why? 317 00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:59,550 Well, because she... 318 00:15:59,590 --> 00:16:01,060 just don't, hmm? 319 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,560 Okay. 320 00:16:19,270 --> 00:16:21,780 ...to me about mommy. 321 00:16:35,490 --> 00:16:37,490 Darling, aren't you coming to bed? 322 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Chris, don't shut me out. 323 00:16:44,030 --> 00:16:46,000 Oh, I'm sorry. I was just... 324 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:47,500 I know. 325 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:49,000 Funerals stink. 326 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,010 I wanted to remember her the way she was. 327 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,510 Now I'll always think of her that way. 328 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:56,010 I know how hard everything's been on you, Syl. 329 00:16:56,050 --> 00:16:57,510 Everything you've had to go through. 330 00:16:58,010 --> 00:16:59,510 But mother never meant any harm. 331 00:16:59,550 --> 00:17:01,020 I suppose not. 332 00:17:01,050 --> 00:17:02,520 No, it's true. 333 00:17:02,550 --> 00:17:04,520 She had two children before me. 334 00:17:04,550 --> 00:17:05,520 She lost them both. 335 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:07,520 She just couldn't let go. 336 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,520 I was all she had. 337 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,030 Except for Billy. 338 00:17:11,060 --> 00:17:12,330 But Billy was me again. 339 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:13,830 A chance to go back. 340 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:16,330 To pretend all those other years never happened. 341 00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:22,840 I know it wasn't right or fair to you, Syl, 342 00:17:22,870 --> 00:17:25,340 but, believe me, no matter what she did, 343 00:17:25,370 --> 00:17:26,840 she did it out of love. 344 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,840 Love for whom? 345 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,350 Oh, Syl... 346 00:17:31,380 --> 00:17:32,350 Oh, I'm sorry. 347 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:33,850 I didn't mean that. 348 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,350 I really didn't. 349 00:17:36,850 --> 00:17:38,350 Why, you're trembling. 350 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,360 Let's go to bed. 351 00:17:52,370 --> 00:17:54,370 Hooray for peter pan! 352 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,370 That's a good story, grandma. 353 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:28,900 That's our secret, isn't it? 354 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:30,910 Nobody knows but us. 355 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:33,810 Can I have a chocolate ice cream bar? 356 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:42,320 My telephone! My telephone! 357 00:18:46,020 --> 00:18:48,020 My telephone! You broke my telephone! 358 00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:49,220 Syl, what is it? 359 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:51,230 What's the matter? Oh, I heard her. 360 00:18:51,260 --> 00:18:53,230 Who? She was there. There on the phone. 361 00:18:53,730 --> 00:18:54,730 Syl, snap out of it. 362 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:55,730 She didn't say anything, 363 00:18:56,230 --> 00:18:58,730 but I could hear her breathing. 364 00:18:58,770 --> 00:18:59,730 Syl... 365 00:18:59,770 --> 00:19:01,240 Billy... 366 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,240 Billy? 367 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,240 Billy! 368 00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:06,240 Billy? 369 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,140 Billy? 370 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:10,650 Billy! 371 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:14,150 Billy? Billy? 372 00:19:14,180 --> 00:19:15,150 Billy! 373 00:19:18,650 --> 00:19:19,750 Billy! 374 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:23,760 Oh, no... no... 375 00:19:23,790 --> 00:19:24,760 no... 376 00:19:24,790 --> 00:19:26,260 no, no, no... 377 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:27,760 no, no... 378 00:19:31,770 --> 00:19:33,770 she took him... 379 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,770 she took him away. 380 00:19:37,270 --> 00:19:38,770 She took him. 381 00:19:38,810 --> 00:19:39,770 Don't say that. 382 00:19:39,810 --> 00:19:41,780 Yes, she did. She took him. 383 00:19:41,810 --> 00:19:44,280 Oh, Syl, Syl, don't... don't say that. 384 00:20:00,290 --> 00:20:02,800 How are his chances? 385 00:20:02,830 --> 00:20:05,800 Well, they're not so good. 386 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,300 If we'd have got him a few minutes earlier... 387 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,810 well, the doctor will be here in a few minutes. 388 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,810 He'll give your wife something. 389 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:14,810 Thanks. 390 00:21:13,970 --> 00:21:16,470 Mother... 391 00:21:16,970 --> 00:21:18,970 if you can hear me, listen. 392 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,480 You said you loved Billy. 393 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,480 At his birthday, you... 394 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,990 you picked him up and... 395 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:33,490 and you hugged him. 396 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,490 And you said he gave you life again. 397 00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:42,000 If you really love Billy... 398 00:21:42,030 --> 00:21:44,000 give him back. 399 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:50,500 He's only five. 400 00:21:52,010 --> 00:21:53,510 He hasn't even started. 401 00:21:57,010 --> 00:22:00,510 He doesn't know anything about going to school... 402 00:22:03,020 --> 00:22:06,520 or girlfriends... 403 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,520 or wearing long pants... 404 00:22:09,020 --> 00:22:11,030 even pitching a baseball. 405 00:22:14,030 --> 00:22:17,530 He's hardly been out of this room... 406 00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:20,530 out of this house. 407 00:22:20,570 --> 00:22:23,540 There's a whole world he hasn't even touched. 408 00:22:31,050 --> 00:22:34,050 Mother... 409 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,550 you said Billy gave you life again. 410 00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:40,050 Now you can give him life. 411 00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:46,060 If you really love him, let him live. 412 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,560 Give him back! 413 00:22:51,570 --> 00:22:54,570 Give him back, ma. 414 00:22:57,570 --> 00:22:59,070 Ma? 415 00:23:15,090 --> 00:23:16,590 Yeah... 416 00:23:16,630 --> 00:23:18,590 yeah, we got him. 417 00:23:20,390 --> 00:23:21,900 Yeah... 418 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,900 yeah! 419 00:23:24,930 --> 00:23:26,900 Mrs. Bayles? 420 00:23:26,940 --> 00:23:28,900 I don't know how we did it, 421 00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:30,910 but he's going to be all right. 422 00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:33,910 Chris! 423 00:23:35,910 --> 00:23:37,410 Oh, Chris! 424 00:23:39,910 --> 00:23:42,420 A toy telephone, an act of faith, 425 00:23:42,450 --> 00:23:45,420 a set of improbable circumstances all combine 426 00:23:45,450 --> 00:23:47,920 to probe a mystery, to fathom a depth, 427 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,430 to send a facet of light into a dark after-region 428 00:23:51,460 --> 00:23:53,430 to be believed or disbelieved 429 00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:55,930 depending on your frame of reference- 430 00:23:55,970 --> 00:23:59,430 a fact or a fantasy, a substance or a shadow- 431 00:23:59,470 --> 00:24:03,940 but all of it very much a part of "The Twilight Zone". 432 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,440 Rod Serling, the creator of "Twilight Zone", 433 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,950 will tell you about next week's story 434 00:24:10,980 --> 00:24:14,550 after this word from our alternate sponsor. 435 00:24:14,580 --> 00:24:16,050 And now, Mr. Serling. 436 00:24:16,090 --> 00:24:19,550 Next week, you'll ride up-front in this wagon on a trek west. 437 00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:22,060 Your itinerary is across the great plains, 438 00:24:22,090 --> 00:24:24,060 over the rockies to a point in New Mexico. 439 00:24:24,090 --> 00:24:26,560 And you'll ride alongside Mr. Cliff Robertson 440 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,060 in a strange tale of a handful of American pioneers 441 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,570 who made a detour in time 442 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,070 and found themselves one afternoon 443 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:34,570 on the fringe of the future. 444 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,070 Our story is called "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim." 445 00:24:37,110 --> 00:24:38,570 And, believe me, it's quite a view. 446 00:24:38,610 --> 00:24:40,570 I hope we'll see you then. 447 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,820 See the new Andy Griffith show each week 448 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,580 over most of these stations. 449 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,080 Consult local listings.