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00:00Her name, X-20. Her type, an experimental interceptor. Recent history, a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a 31-hour flight 900 miles into space. Incidental data, the ship with the men who flew her disappeared from the radar screen for 24 hours.
00:30Well, hello, Colonel. How are you feeling? I'm fine, Lieutenant. I'm fine. The Major Guard here? Well, of course. He's here. Of course. Go on in. He'll be glad to see you. Thank you.
00:45Isn't that one of the space pilots, the ones that crashed? Yeah. That's Colonel Forbes.
00:55But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.
01:03Well, the prodigal colonel, welcome. Hey, how about a shot of straight R.J.?
01:21How are you feeling? Are you serious? You know, one more thermometer, my puss. I'm going to absent myself without leave from this establishment.
01:27Well, come on. What's it like in the outside world? Yeah, it's fine. Well, tell me about it. Who'd you see? Talk to any of the guys?
01:37Well, what about the ship, Clegg? Did you check her over? It's fine. The ship's fine. No, no. They put it on the wraps.
01:46Hey, you got off on a toot, didn't you? You don't look so good. How do I look? A little hungover, maybe?
01:53Oh, you got another one of those.
02:06Hey, steady, Colonel. Steady.
02:11Bill, something's happened. Something I just don't understand.
02:16Go on.
02:23First, I want to get oriented. I want you to ask some questions, all right?
02:30Okay, all right.
02:32When did I leave here?
02:34Yeah, well, don't you know?
02:36Look, I don't know anything anymore.
02:40Look, all I need, all I need is somebody's help, all right?
02:43Look, at 9.30 yesterday morning, I walked out of here, didn't I?
02:53Yeah, about that time, I guess.
02:56Who did I walk up with?
02:58Well, nobody was with you.
03:01That's what I mean. You say nobody.
03:03What's that say?
03:10Go ahead, tell me what's it say.
03:13Well, in effect, it says those two intrepid voyagers into the unknown
03:17returned from the unknown in a slightly dented aircraft.
03:22What about the picture?
03:24Who's in the picture?
03:24Colonel Clegg Forbes and Major William Gart,
03:32taken just before their historic flight
03:34that ended in mysterious disappearance and crash.
03:51That's what you remember, huh?
03:52You and me and the X-20 taking off.
03:57About four hours up, we black out.
04:00And 24 hours later, we end up in a crashed aircraft in the desert.
04:03We don't know where we've been or what's happened.
04:06Is that right?
04:07That's right.
04:10Well, now, what's the matter? Isn't that right?
04:18Bill.
04:18Bill, there were three of us in that aircraft.
04:25You and me and a colonel named Harrington.
04:30Oh, yeah.
04:31And Harrington.
04:34Now, look.
04:35Look, he was 36 years old.
04:36He was my best friend.
04:37I'd known him for 15 years and you'd known him for five.
04:40That ship took a crew of three.
04:49And we were the three.
04:51And there were three of us when they brought us back here to the hospital
04:53after picking us up in the desert.
04:54You and me and Harrington.
04:56Harrington and I were just scratched.
04:57You were the one with the busted leg.
05:01Yesterday morning, they discharged Harrington and me.
05:03There were three beds in this room.
05:06Yours and mine and Harrington's.
05:12Clegg.
05:15I don't know anybody named Harrington.
05:19He wasn't on the crew with us.
05:20The X-20 carried two men.
05:22You and me.
05:24Nobody named Harrington.
05:25Nobody else at all.
05:27When you walked out of here yesterday morning, you walked out alone.
05:31There's never been three beds in this room.
05:33Only two.
05:35Yours and mine.
05:43I think you better be looked at.
05:49Please.
05:50I knew you'd say that, Bill.
05:52And I don't blame you for saying it either.
05:53But let me describe to you what I remember.
06:01Look, I'll give you a breakdown chronologically of everything that happened as of yesterday morning.
06:06Bill.
06:08You said goodbye to us from that bed.
06:10And you said Harrington look after Forbes.
06:15He drinks too much.
06:17Those were your exact words.
06:19And I stood right at that door.
06:23And I laughed.
06:26I swear to you, Bill.
06:27I swear to you.
06:29It happened.
06:30I know it happened.
06:33I'm going to let you have it, fresh punk kid.
06:39Oh, I'm going to fix this baby's wagon.
06:41I'm going to tell the medics that he's a very sick cookie and ought to be kept under observation for another seven years.
06:45And every Saturday night, Major Gart, the colonel and I are going to phone you from whatever bar we happen to be in at the time.
06:51And if you're nice.
06:51If you are real nice.
06:53We'll even let you talk to our women.
06:55Will you come on already?
06:56I just can't stand these long goodbyes.
07:01Why won't you both get out of here and leave me alone?
07:03Let me suffer in loneliness all by myself, huh?
07:06Oh, that's a good-looking guy in the middle there.
07:10But who are the two slobs and the sides?
07:13Well, Willie, we'll drop by and see you tomorrow, maybe.
07:17Well, jet lost.
07:18Who needs you?
07:19Well, let's go.
07:49Hey, you're Forbes and Harrington, ain't you?
07:51Ain't you the guys that was up in space?
07:52Yeah, but we can still buy a couple of beers for 30 cents Earth money.
07:56You bet you like, but your money's no good.
07:57Here, the drinks are in the house.
08:00I don't get to serve many celebrities.
08:02Now, drink up, boys.
08:04Thanks.
08:04I don't even care that you cracked up the ship.
08:07And I'm a taxpayer.
08:09Say, what's it like up there in outer space?
08:11Oh, well, it's, it's like, uh, like, way out.
08:21Please.
08:22What's wrong?
08:37Something wrong?
08:39Oh, well, I'll tell you after I taste the beer.
08:42Happy landings, chaps.
08:44Wherever possible.
08:44Well, that's okay, that's okay.
08:53That ain't the last glass to bear the place.
08:55You sick, Ed?
08:58No.
09:00No, I'm not sick.
09:02It's got a very funny feeling.
09:04I never felt anything like this before.
09:10What kind of feeling?
09:13It's like I didn't belong here.
09:16Like if I was to let myself go, I'd...
09:20You'd what?
09:22Like I'd disappear.
09:27Wow.
09:30Ooh.
09:30Ooh.
09:34Happy landings.
09:36Oh, sure.
09:42I'm gonna go call my folks, then.
09:48You all right, Ed?
09:49Yeah, I'm all right.
10:04Oh, operator, I'd like to make a collect call, please, to Des Moines, Iowa, the residence
10:14of Mr. James Harrington.
10:21Clegg.
10:22Yeah?
10:23Come here.
10:23Huh?
10:24Please, would you come here quick?
10:32What's the problem?
10:33Clegg.
10:35I just, uh, called home.
10:37Called my folks.
10:39My mom answered the phone.
10:40Yeah.
10:41I told her who I was.
10:43And she said she didn't have any son named Ed Harrington.
10:47That's what she said, Clegg.
10:49And then I asked to talk to the old man.
10:51And he got on and kept telling me to get off the phone.
10:53He didn't want any practical jokester bothering his wife.
10:57He said he didn't have any son at all.
10:59What is it, Clegg?
11:00What's it all mean?
11:04Well, I don't know.
11:06It's just a gag, maybe.
11:08No gag.
11:10It's all part of this feeling.
11:13This feeling that we shouldn't be here.
11:17That none of us should be here.
11:18It's as if...
11:22As if what?
11:25As if...
11:26Maybe...
11:27We shouldn't have come back from that flight at all.
11:31Maybe...
11:33Somebody...
11:35Something...
11:37Made a mistake...
11:39And let us get through.
11:41We shouldn't have.
11:41Get it, if you stay put, I'm going to get you a good stiff drink, all right?
11:50Take it easy.
11:53Stay put, all right?
11:54Let's go.
12:09Okay.
12:09See you next time.
12:13Obviously, we should have done that.
12:15Let me take you then.
12:17I'm gonna step you up here.
12:18You got a beer here, honey.
12:47Where's my buddy's drink?
12:49Who?
12:50My buddy's drink.
12:54Colonel Harrington, his beer, the beer he had in place of the one he dropped on the...
12:59I don't know what you mean, Colonel. You came in here alone.
13:10What are you, a wise guy or something?
13:11What?
13:11You're crazy!
13:20You're crazy!
13:24You're crazy!
13:25You know what?
13:27You're crazy!
13:39Operator, I'd like Anderson Air Force Base, please.
13:43Commanding officer's residence.
13:44What?
13:48Well, call me back, will you?
13:49Ed, you...
14:02Amy. Oh, Amy, honey, I'm so glad to see you.
14:05And you, Colonel Clegg, are a devious, malicious, two-faced, two-timing...
14:10No, no, no, no, look. I'm in trouble, Amy. I know you won't understand this, but I think I'm in bad trouble. I need you help.
14:16I have no doubt you are. You send me a wire that you're going to meet me at the bus station at 12 o'clock tonight. Well, I was there at 12, and I was there at 1, and I was still there at 2.
14:28Do you have any idea how many bars I've been to? How many motels?
14:31Amy, please!
14:34Clegg, what's the matter? What kind of trouble are you in? Please, tell me. I want to know.
14:42I don't know how to begin to tell you this, but, well, I sent you that wire because I was getting discharged from the hospital this morning. And Ed and I were going to wait for you.
14:57It was in the wire. It was in the telegram.
15:00What was?
15:01I wrote down that Ed and I were going to get out this morning. I wrote down, Ed and I, Ed and I, I've got to be here someplace. Yeah, look. See? I'm getting out at 9.
15:12Amy, I, I wrote down that Ed and I were leaving the hospital. I, I, I, I wrote, I wrote down that Ed and I, Ed and I were...
15:29Ed, who's Ed?
15:34Don't you know?
15:35I don't know any Ed. Who's Ed?
15:40Ed.
15:40Ed.
15:42You know him, Amy. Ed, you've met him a hundred times. Ed, we've been to dinner together. We've been to dances together. Ed, we've double dated Ed.
15:53Clegg, what's the matter with you? What's happened to you?
15:57I don't know.
15:59I swear to God, I don't know.
16:01Yes? Put him on. Hello, General? This is Clegg Forbes, sir.
16:14I'm terribly sorry to call you this hour of the morning, sir.
16:18Thank you, sir.
16:20General, it's about Ed Harrington.
16:23Ed Harrington, sir. You, you remember, Ed. We're in your wing at the field, sir. We're with you 19, 20 months, sir.
16:36Harrington, sir.
16:39Ed Harrington! Ed Harrington! Why does anybody remember him?
16:43I know. This is a gag, isn't it?
16:56That's what it is, isn't it, Amy?
16:58This is a gag.
17:00This is a big, earth-shaking, highly complicated, and fantastically conceded practical joke, isn't it?
17:13He's still at the bar, isn't he, Amy?
17:15That's what he is. He's still at the bar, isn't he?
17:17He's still at the bar!
17:25Ed!
17:29Harrington!
17:30Harrington!
17:34Eric!
17:35Eric!
17:39Harrington!
17:45Harrington!
17:47Harrington!
17:47Harrington!
18:00Ed?
18:09Harrington.
18:14Harrington.
18:24Harrington.
18:31Please, Ed.
18:34Ed?
18:39Please come back.
18:42Please, Harrington.
18:45Please, Ed.
18:47Please come back.
18:55I don't know what I did then.
18:57I just ran, I guess, all the way down the street like a crazy man.
19:03Seems to me I heard a burglar alarm somewhere.
19:09Amy.
19:10Amy.
19:13I just left Amy standing there, I guess.
19:16I don't even know what happened to Amy.
19:20Clegg.
19:23I don't know Ed Harrington.
19:25I never heard of him before.
19:27I think he must be an illusion or something.
19:32I know he's not an illusion.
19:34I know.
19:36He's been yanked out of here.
19:39I know.
19:42He's been yanked out of here.
19:46He's been taken away.
19:50He told me, remember?
19:54He told me, maybe.
19:56Maybe somebody or something made a mistake.
20:05Let us get through when we shouldn't have gotten through.
20:12Gotta come back to get us.
20:14Somebody up there.
20:16Somebody up there.
20:18Oh, Bill.
20:22This is weird.
20:25Just plain weird.
20:29Like I just don't belong.
20:35Just like I...
20:37I don't belong.
20:46Oh, no.
20:50Oh, no!
20:52Oh, no!
20:53I don't want this to happen!
20:54Bill, I don't want it to happen!
20:55I don't want it to happen!
20:56I don't want it to happen!
20:57I ain't going!
21:03Somebody get him!
21:04Somebody get him!
21:05Somebody...
21:07Somebody get him.
21:08Major, you shouldn't be out of bed.
21:09Why, if the doctor could...
21:10Somebody's gotta help him.
21:12Colonel Forbes.
21:13Somebody's gotta help him right away.
21:14Who?
21:15Colonel Forbes!
21:21You know Colonel Forbes.
21:23Why, he was brought in here with me.
21:25Why, he was right over here in this...
21:33Oh, my dear God.
21:35Major, Major, let me help you get in the bed.
21:37Come ahead, Major.
21:41And I'll call the doctor.
21:43Come in.
21:45Oh.
21:48Are you all right?
21:50Major!
21:51Major Henderson!
21:52How are we fixing this ward here?
22:02Room 15 down here can take three patients, sir.
22:05It's empty.
22:06Let's take a look.
22:07Mm-hmm.
22:08Mm-hmm.
22:09That'll do for the malaria patients.
22:10Order some beds up from QM, will you?
22:11Yes, sir.
22:13How are we fixing this ward here?
22:14How are we fixing this ward here?
22:15Room 15 down here can take three patients, sir.
22:16It's empty.
22:17Mm-hmm.
22:18Mm-hmm.
22:19Mm-hmm.
22:20Mm-hmm.
22:21That'll do for the malaria patients.
22:23Order some beds up from QM, will you?
22:24Yes, sir.
22:25Mm-hmm.
22:27Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington.
22:28A man named Forbes.
22:29A man named Gart.
22:31They used to exist, but don't any longer.
22:32Someone or something took them somewhere.
22:33At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man.
22:34And as to the activity, I think, we could take a look.
22:35I've looked at it and said it was no only true, what's wrong?
22:36Well, I know that's going to be the scene.
22:37And we've seen the scene.
22:38That's it.
22:39Cool.
22:40Now, I'm not going to look.
22:41I'm not going to look.
22:42You're going to look.
22:43I'm not going to look.
22:44You're going to look.
22:45I'm not going to look.
22:46Now, I'm going to look.
22:47Your teeth are all right.
22:48I'm not going to look.
22:50I'm going to look.
22:52I'm going to look.
22:53I'm going to look.
22:54Yes, sir.
22:55At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man.
22:59And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar,
23:03this too does not exist.
23:05And if any of you have any questions concerning an aircraft and three men who flew her,
23:10speak softly of them, and only in the Twilight Zone.
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