The Twilight Zone - The Shelter.

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You're traveling to another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop, the twilight zone. Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please. No birthday celebration is complete without an after dinner speech. And so let's get to the business at hand the honoring of Dr. William Stockton. How's Jerry? Well today is one year old her and admits to being over 21. And who in the short space of 20 years has taken care of not only us, our children, but even our grandchildren. Whose grandchildren? As a matter of fact I doubt if there's a single person in this room who still does not owe the good doctor for a visitor too. What about the hammering at all hours of the night? That's another thing we owe and for. Hi, yes, yes. The good doctor's bomb shelter. Well I'm afraid we'll have to forgive him for all that. Despite the fact that what the doctor thinks of as far sightedness on his part has been a real pain in the neck to the rest of us. What with all the concrete trucks and the nocturnal hammering and all the rest of it? That's better. Well anyway, when Grace, Grace mentioned that it was the good doctor's birthday, we all decided to take a hand in the proceed. I had my idea something was going on. I know you guessed I did hand off. As a little personal aside I'd like to conclude this way. That'll probably be the best part of the speech. Doc, you're a very beloved fellow and rightly so. And you may not have the biggest practice in medical history. That's true. Well I'm going to show you there is a single sabote in the entire 50 states whose patients have such a regard. Such affection, such respect for their man with a little black band as we do for all. Wow, John! Very true. You dirty dog. First a surprise party which I am poor and then that sloppy, sentimental speech. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. Yes, Paul, hey, what is it? Picture went out on the TV and said, who's the announcement? Paul did it, everybody. Paul did it. How was that? What did you say Paul? Well the announcer said something about turn to the Conor Ed station on the radio. Are you sure that that's what you heard Paulie? He's sitting here wrong, Paul. That's what he said. He said turn to the Conor Ed station and then everything went completely blank. I think you know that because you're going to mind me having any more time. I'm going to record one of these things. Repeating speech. Four minutes ago the President of the United States made the following announcement. I quote, I see. At 11.04pm Eastern Standard Time both are distant early warning line and Blistix early warning line reported radar evidence of unidentified flying objects flying to southeast. As of this moment we have been unable to determine the nature of these objects but for the time being in the interest of national safety we are declaring a state of yellow alert. The civil defense authority is request that if you have a shelter already prepared go there at once. If you do not have a shelter, use your time to move supplies of food, water, medicine and other supplies to a central place. Keep all windows and doors closed. We repeat, if you're in your home go to your prepared shelters or to your basement. What you're about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen. It's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone. I'll fill up as many as you can, Grace. I'm going to check the air filter down there, we'll get the rest of the stuff later. Looks like we're going to lose the power any minute now. Do you have this hardy any water coming through this tap? Easy honey, easy. I think it's perfect and it costs $100 an ounce. Maybe in an hour so it'll be worth even more than that. What else, Paul? We've got all the can goods down for it. You're all at the find. How about the fruit cell? I'll put those in too. I'll go up to my bedroom and get my bag and put that in too. What about the book system? Your father told you to get his bag. There's time, Grace, there's plenty of time. We'll need books and things. I don't know how long we'll have to stay down there. What about light bulbs? Where do you keep the light bulbs? All on the top shelf here at this cup of bill. All we don't have any, I ran out. I was going to buy some at the store yesterday because there was a sale on it. Oh, Bill, I'm talking like the midi-ed. Now, how much more time is there? There's no telling, Grace, honey. Conrad says from the first alarm we might have anywhere between 15 minutes and a half an hour. 15 minutes. I'm just winging it, Grace. I don't know for sure. I don't think anyone does. I'll keep filling him up. Bill, there's no gold water. There's no making any difference anyhow. I think we've got enough water. You bring a jug with you, Gracey. Paul and I'll get the rest. Are you two stay here? I'll get the rest of the water. Oh, wait a minute. I've slipped. Paulie, there's a small tool. Get in the garage. Will you run out and get it? Right. I'll get the rest of the water. Grace. Now, if it is a bomb, there's no assurance it'll add near us. And if it doesn't, we'll get it. But if it does, Bill, New York is only 40 miles away. New York's going to get it. We know that. So we'll get it too. All of it. Poison, radiation, the whole mess. We'll get it. We'll be in a shelter, Grace, and with any luck at all, we'll survive. We've got food and water enough to last us for two weeks. Maybe even longer if we use it wisely. Then what, Bill? Then what? We crawl out of here like go first. Tip to throw all that rubble up above? The rubble and the roign, and the bodies of our friends? Bill, why is it so necessary to survive? What's the good of it? Wouldn't it just be a little better? Easier, just quicker if we just... I got the tools, Bob. Anything else you need from out here? Grace, that's why we have to survive. That's the reason. He may only inherit rubble now, but he's 12 years old. He's only 12 years old, Grace. Now. This is Colonel Rad, your emergency broadcasting station. Bolly. Good, put it down over there. I'll get the rest of the water. The main tune to this. We repeat our previous announcement. We are in the state. How's it going, Bill? We're collecting water, which is what you should be doing. You better get on home and get into your basement. I bought up the windows of my room. We don't have any cellar. The bandages are in the market. We have the only house in the block. Everything is your back and call. Even got an electric laundry right off the kitchen. The windows of modern science are at the beginning. I bring my friends over here. Over here? If we're sitting ducks over there. You don't have any protection at all. Jerry, what do you use our basement? Your basement? What about your cellar? We have to get into a cellar. It's the only place we can survive. I don't have any room, Jerry. There's not room or supplies. Anything is designed for three people. Bring it on. We'll bring it on. We'll sleep standing up. Please, Bill. You've got to help me. I have to keep my family alive. We won't use any of your stuff. What about here? That's a 10 by 10 room, Jerry. With an air filter designed to supply three people. Will you bring your own air? Just give us a chance. What did Howard's bill never get out? When that door gets closed and locked, it stays closed. There'll be radiation and heaven knows what else. I'm sorry, Jerry. As God is my witness, I am sorry. But I built that for my family. What about mine? What do we do? Just lock in the front floor. I'll do it. That's no concern of mine. Right now, at this given moment, it's my family I have to worry about. I think I want to say bye once for my own life. I'm not going to do it. You understand? I'm not going to do it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, please. I kept telling you, Jerry. All of you get ready. Bill, the shelter. Forget the card parties in the barbecues for maybe a few hours a week. Forget them. And make the admission to yourself that the worst was possible. But you didn't want to listen. Jerry, none of you wanted to listen. Bill, the shelter was to admit to the kind of age we lived in. And none of you had the guts to face that. So now you've got to face something far worse, Jerry. Oh, God, please God protect you, Jerry. It's on my hand. No. It's simply on my hand. I'll work to be God. I'll work to be God. It's got to be God. You're already in the shelter, Marty. I told you they'd be in the shelter. He's right, Marty. He's locked himself in. Okay, he's got to let us in. We have no windows and half the basement. And I don't have anything to plug them up either. And the basement wouldn't help anyway. I can't help you, Marty. He's downstairs. Yes, in the shelter. Yes, Bill. Bill. Bill. It's mine. We've got the kids with us. Marty! Bill! Bill, please let us in. Marty, please. Imagine getting us, please. Bill, Bill, it's Marty. Please let us in, though. Marty, Marty, I would if I could. Do you understand? I swear to you, I would. Bill, please. Please, Bill. It's Marty. Marty, I can't, Marty. Don't stand there asking me. I can't. I can't, and I won't. I feel sorry for you, Bill. I really do. You probably will survive. But you'll have blood on your hands. You're a goddamn hell! You're supposed to help people! Ow! That was a million years ago. A million years ago. Marty! Get out of here. Do you hear me? Get out of here, Marty! Marty! Marty! Marty! Marty! Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Can you slam the door right by face? Well, go back. I can't. Jerry, ask him again. Let's go. Jerry, ask him again. Ask him again. Please, I don't want to leave. I don't want to leave. Please, please. Please. Please. I just know it will run in a minute. You won't let anybody in. Oh. What do we do? I'll tell you what we ought to do. We ought to find one basement to go to work on that. Pull all of us up. Fold one or everything. I tell you, just as in fair, he's down there in a bomb shelter. Perfectly safe while I can't talk. I sit around and wait for a bomb to drop. Why don't we just go down to his basement and break down the door? Frank, Frank, wait a minute, Frank! Frank, wait a minute! We can't all fit in that bomb shelter. We'd crazy to even try. Why don't we pick out one family? Draw lots of something. What difference would it make I keep telling you he won't let anybody in? We could all go down there and tell him he's got the whole street against them. We could do that. What? Good water to work. I keep telling you, even if you'll break down the door, we can't all fit in that bomb shelter. We'd be killing everybody if we had no reason. If it says the life of even one of my kids, I call that good reason. Jerry, Jerry, you know him better than any of us. You're his best friend. Go down there again. Talk to him. Please, with him, tell him to pick out one family. We'll draw lots of something. One family. Meaning you're his Marty, huh? Why not? I've got a three month old baby. What difference does that make? Is your baby any more precious than one of my kids? I've never said that. Look, if you're going to argue about who deserves to live more than the next one, you shut your mouth wide! You're eating bread! Go! That's the way it is when the foreigners come over here. Pushy, grabby, semi-american! Why are you garbage-pre-delian? Please, Marti, please! Marti, you're mad with you! Kill him! Wait, Marti! Why don't you hear us a spotter, motherless? Keep it up, we won't need a bomb. You'll be able to slaughter each other. Marty, Marty, please, go down to the shelter, ask him, Marty, please. I've already asked him. They won't do any good. Search for him. Come on, Frank, let's go and take a look. How did you know in the radio? What are you doing out here? Doc's got himself locked in that shelter down there. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going down there and get him to open up that door. I don't care what the rest of you think. That's the only thing you have to do. Frank, Frank, come on. Let's do it right now. No, wait a minute. Five to keep those kids in the kitchen! Kill him! Kill Stokman! You've got a bunch of your neighbors outside who want to stay alive! Now, you can open that door and talk to us and figure out for us how many can come in there. Or you can just keep on doing what you're doing and we'll bust that way in there. Phil, Phil, can you hear me? This is Jerry, pay me in business out here! And I mean business and air. I've already told you, Jerry. You're wasting your time. You're wasting precious time to come and use for something else. Life's figuring out how you can survive. Why don't we get some kind of battering, man? Yeah, we could go over to bed, Avenue. Phil Klein has some heavy pipe in his basement. I've seen it. No. No. That would get him into the act, too. And who cares about saving him? No. No. If we do that, with it all those people know that we have a shelter on our streets, we'd have a whole mob to contend with a whole bunch of strangers. Sure. What ready if I got to come over here? This isn't their street. This isn't their shelter. Oh, this is our shelter. And on the next street, that's another country. Patronize whole industries. You idiot. You fool. You're insane. All of you. Maybe you don't want to live, Jerry. Maybe you don't care. I care. Believe me, I care. I want to see the morning sun come up too. But you're acting like a mob. And a mob doesn't have any brains. You're proving it by what you're doing. I say let's get that bettering, Rammel. Phil Klein, to keep his mouth shut as the way we want it. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I agree with Jerry. We should stop and think a minute. No, I think nobody cares what you think you are. No, I don't. I thought I made it clear upstairs. Yes, but I think that, Jerry. I still have something. I think the first order of business is to get you out of here. Let's get that bettering, Rammel. Bring some of that door. You've had your chance. Stop and remember that. You've had your chance. Bill, who are those people? Those people. Those people are neighbors. Our friends, the people we've lived with on a long side for 20 years. Come on, Paulie. We better get out of some of this furniture in this bunk. We'll have some protection case that door goes through. Come on, let's get it in there. Get it in there. Over it. Get in there. Over there. There you go. Man, heaven yeah. Over it. Over it. Over it. More. Over. The President of the United States has just announced that the previously unidentified objects have now been definitely ascertained as being satellites. Repeat there are no enemy missiles approaching. Repeat there are no enemy missiles approaching. The objects have been identified as satellites. They are harmless and we are in no danger. The state of emergency has officially been called off. We are in no danger. Repeat there is no enemy attack. The state of emergency has officially been called off. The state of emergency has officially been called off. I went off my rocker. You can understand that, can't you? I just went off my rocker. I didn't mean any of those things I said to you. We were all of us so scared, so confused. Well, it's no wonder, is it? I mean, you can understand why we all blew our tops a little. Well, I don't think Marty's going to hold it against a Frank. Just like I don't think Bill is going to hold off all this against us. We'll pay for the damages, Bill. We'll take up a collection right away. We could have a black party tomorrow night or something. A big celebration. I think we rate one now. Hey, hey, that's a great idea of black party. Anything to get back to normal, huh? Normal. I don't know. I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once. I don't know anymore. I told you we'd pay for the damages, Bill. Damages? I wonder. I wonder if any one of us has any idea what those damages really are. Maybe one of them is finding out what we're really like when we're normal. The kind of people we are just underneath the skin. I mean, all of us. A lot of naked, wild animals who put such a price on staying alive that they'll claw their neighbors to death just for the privilege. We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder. I wonder if we weren't destroyed, even without it. No moral, no message, no prophetic tract. Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise and logic from the Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone.