The Twilight Zone

You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

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 shadow and 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.

And you know something else?

Take a look at this.

Almost empty.

Well, you just earned yourself a steak.

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 let a thing like that happen?

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 have gone the way I know,

I'd have been home by now.

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.

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.

Rollie, shut up.

Rollie, Rollie, come back here!

Not yet. Wait a minute.

-Nine… -Rollie, get away from that cat!

Nine-fifty, 9.75… ten.

Ten, right.

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!

You've seen them.

Little towns, tucked away 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, mister.

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, Rollie!

Rollie?

Rollie!

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 me I 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.

Hey, Bredon's the other way!

I want to talk to Dorn.

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.

I'm sorry, but we don't have any openings.

Oh?

Now, why is that?

Well… all the rooms are taken.

Oh.

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?

No.

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 that?

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.

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.