However, while the later works made it feel relatively sophisticated, here flashing lights and typical "sci-fi" sound effects make it all seem like something that could have been made in the 1940s. The revelation at the centre of this story was done before, and done again, in everything from Blade Runner (debatably) to The Outer Limits.
Sadly, the rest of the episode doesn't really live up to his performance, and, without giving away spoilers, it does all feel a little "pulp". You'll hear of it through a jungle grapevine in a remote corner of the Twilight Zone.George Grizzard ( The Chaser) plays a double role well in this season opener. Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power. The episode ends as the lion leaps towards Alan for the kill. When he opens the bedroom door, he finds a lion on the bed, as well as his wife's corpse. Relieved, Alan enters and pours himself a drink. He offers the bum money to escort him through the park, but the bum disappears while Alan's back is turned.Īlan continues on, and finally reaches the safety of his apartment. Alan meets a bum and asks him about the jungle noises, which the bum claims not to hear.
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He tries to take a taxi home, but the driver dies suddenly while stopped at a traffic light. He heads home on foot, still hearing the sounds of the jungle all around him (including tribal drums), becoming more and more nervous and jumpy. He answers it and hears nothing but sounds of the jungle.
He attempts to use a pay phone, but it's out of order. He attempts to return to the bar but it is locked and he has forgotten his lion's-tooth amulet inside. Alan begins to head home but finds his car won't start. Supposedly the tooth will protect him against a lion attack. Later, he is in a bar having a drink with a friend before heading home, and shows him a lion's-tooth amulet Doris has given him. When the other board members scoff, he points out their own superstitions: one carries a rabbit's foot, another practices astrology, and even the building does not have a 13th floor. He warns that the local witch doctors have threatened to use black magic against anyone associated with the project. In the hallway of his apartment building, just outside his door, is the carcass of a dead goat.Īlan attends a board meeting, where they discuss the dam and the fact that, although the natives will benefit from it in the long run, they are upset that they will be displaced in order to build it. He dismisses her pleas and opens the door to leave for work. When he confronts her about them, she says she is frightened by the natives opposed to the dam and begs him to stop construction. He discovers she has secretly kept several items given to her by a local shaman for protection. Plot Īlan Richards and his wife Doris have recently returned from Africa, where Alan's company is constructing a hydroelectric dam. Alan Richards, a modern man of a modern age, hating with all his heart something in which he cannot believe and preparing – although he doesn't know it – to take the longest walk of his life, right down to the center – of The Twilight Zone. The carcass of a goat, a dead finger, a few bits of broken glass and stone, and Mr.
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