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00:00day after tomorrow. The place, a far corner of the universe. The cast of characters, three men
00:07lost amongst the stars. Three men sharing the common urgency of all men lost. They're looking
00:14for home. And in a moment, they'll find home. Not a home that is a place to be seen, but a strange
00:22unexplainable experience to be felt. We're hitting atmosphere. Keep your fingers crossed,
00:37Pete. This may be it. It better be. We're about out of fuel.
00:5220.95 parts oxygen, 78.09 nitrogen. I don't get it. That's air. Gravity. Unit one.
01:22It's incredible. Conditions identical to Earth, and yet we're 655 million miles away from Earth.
01:32Wait a minute, Pete. These instruments could be wrong. What's the difference? We're not going
01:40anywhere now. Yeah, I guess you're right.
01:52How far did you say we were from Earth? 655 million miles.
02:08We're back on Earth. No. No? Well, what do you call that, a Martian? Here, boy, come on.
02:28Well, anyway, look at those trees. It's got to be Earth. Well, what do you call that?
02:44It's called a tractor. They were in use on Earth during the 20th century before the total war.
02:58You mean we're on Earth 200 years ago? It's an interesting theory, Pete, and as possible as
03:06any other except that, to my knowledge, Earth has never had more than one sun.
03:12All right, you explain it. The only thing I'm certain of is that we're not on Earth.
03:20We're not alone.
03:21Excuse me, sir.
03:36My name is Weber.
03:39We hate to bother you.
03:46What's the matter with him?
03:48Seems to be in some sort of a trance, or...
03:51Let's get out of here.
04:09Hey, look! There's somebody!
04:11Hey, mister! Mister!
04:13I'll be biting.
04:22Mister?
04:25Hey, wake up!
04:27Do you hear that?
04:37The music! A band!
04:39Do you hear it?
04:40There's somebody here!
04:42It seems to be coming from...
04:44over there.
04:45The music's coming from that loudspeaker...
04:54being piped in from somewhere.
04:58Look!
04:59The music's coming from that loudspeaker...
05:08being piped in from somewhere.
05:11Look!
05:16Concert's over.
05:17The music's coming from...
05:19The music's coming from...
05:23The music's coming from me
05:33will be...
05:36Well, any ideas, Professor?
05:56Well, I suppose it could be some sort of illusion.
06:02Yes.
06:04Maybe we're being made to see and hear what we hope to find.
06:08The sights and sounds of home.
06:12No.
06:14No, it's all wrong.
06:16This is more than 200 years ahead of our time.
06:20Or it could be that time itself is suspended here.
06:25Well, time may have, in a sense, have speeded up for us or slowed down for them.
06:35You mean they might actually be moving?
06:38It's possible.
06:40Then why can't we see it?
06:42Well, you don't see the movements of a clock's hands.
06:45Nevertheless, they do move.
06:46Well, this clock has no hands.
06:59Carl, do you really believe what you're saying?
07:02No, of course not.
07:07But they're not just statues.
07:09They're flesh and blood.
07:11Or something that feels like flesh and blood.
07:15There's something real.
07:17It's got to be here.
07:20Now, I say separate and meet back here in one hour.
07:24Well, it's better than huddling together like frightened children.
07:27Remember, we meet back here in one hour.
07:34Well, it's better than that.
08:34Hello?
08:41Anybody there?
08:44Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
08:55I'm very sorry.
08:56I'm very sorry.
09:03I'm very sorry.
09:10I'm very sorry.
09:17I'm very sorry.
09:24I'm very sorry.
09:31I'm very sorry.
09:38I'm very sorry.
09:39I'm very sorry.
09:41I'm very sorry.
09:45I'm very sorry.
09:46I'm very sorry.
09:47I'm very sorry.
09:48I'm very sorry.
10:50You're the prettiest of them all.
10:53But tell me something, Your Majesty.
10:56What's wrong with you?
10:58What's wrong with everybody in this crazy place?
11:02Answer me.
11:03Can't you talk?
11:04Can't you move?
11:06Answer me!
11:06I'll be right back.
11:36This is the way it was on Earth not so very long ago.
11:40My great-grandfather showed me pictures of it.
11:44Quiet and peaceful.
11:46You mean you like it here?
11:48I would if it were real.
11:50If I could be sure it wasn't all going to vanish in a puff of pink smoke.
11:54Well, as for me, it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here.
12:08Like it or not, this is home from now on.
12:18Charming.
12:21Lovely, isn't it?
12:23If you want it, it's yours.
12:27Yes, that's true, isn't it?
12:46You don't mind if we have a little look around, do you, sir?
12:50Not at all.
12:52You're most welcome.
12:57My name's Wickwire.
12:59Jeremy Wickwire.
13:03Oh, come, gentlemen, there's nothing to be afraid of.
13:06Truly, there isn't.
13:07But you're real.
13:10Well, of course I am.
13:12Isn't everybody?
13:15I used to think so.
13:18Oh, you mean...
13:20Do come inside.
13:22Come on.
13:23Won't you?
13:24Come on.
13:25Come inside.
13:26There's nothing to be afraid of, I assure you.
13:28Do you like it?
13:37We built it for a Mr. Jenkinson.
13:42But at the last moment, he decided that the one thing he wanted to be was a knight in armor.
13:47So he's out there in the medieval section, slaying a dragon.
13:51You mean there are other sections?
13:55Hmm?
13:56Oh, yes, of course.
13:58We have many sections.
14:01There's the Roman, the Egyptian, the Wild Western.
14:05But this is the most popular because it represents a period in American culture
14:09when creature comforts were most abundant
14:12and before peace on Earth became impossible.
14:18Now look, Mr., uh...
14:20Wickwire.
14:21Wickwire.
14:23We are from Earth.
14:25Oh?
14:26We were on a routine geological mission.
14:30We ran into a meteorite storm.
14:32Some of our equipment was knocked out.
14:34We got lost.
14:36Now, that was six months ago.
14:38We saw this asteroid and we landed.
14:40Our fuel is gone.
14:42We've got to stay here.
14:43I see.
14:45I see.
14:46Then you're not from the glades.
14:50The what?
14:51Uh, but you are from the Earth.
14:54Tell me, did they ever have that atomic war?
14:59Yes, in 1985.
15:00Most of the Earth's surface was destroyed
15:03and it's taken us 200 years to pick up the pieces.
15:07Oh, how sad.
15:09Mr. Wickwire.
15:11Now you've got to explain some things to us
15:13before we go out of our minds.
15:15Certainly, but you look hungry.
15:16Let me fix you a little lunch first.
15:18Then we'll talk.
15:19Wait a second.
15:21Now you tell us one thing right now.
15:23Where are we?
15:24Why, you're in a cemetery.
15:29Didn't you know?
15:35Please make yourselves comfortable.
15:38I'll be back in a few moments.
15:43Cemetery?
15:43Cemetery?
15:48Coffee will be served in a few minutes, gentlemen.
15:54May I propose a toast?
16:06To peace, my friends.
16:09To everlasting, eternal peace.
16:12Peace.
16:12Excellent.
16:26Lipra milk, isn't it?
16:28Yes.
16:29Mr. Wickwire.
16:32We're very confused.
16:34We need help.
16:35Well, sit down, my boy.
16:37Sit down.
16:39Come on, sit down.
16:40What is it?
16:41Now, you said that we were in a cemetery.
16:46What did you mean?
16:47Just exactly that.
16:49But before I explain,
16:51you must give me some information.
16:55If you were granted your dearest wish,
16:58what would your wish be?
17:00I'm not sure I know what you mean.
17:02I mean, where would you rather be?
17:04Right now.
17:05I'd like to be on the ship headed for home.
17:10And you, Captain?
17:12I'll go along with that.
17:16Splendid.
17:17And just one thing more.
17:19When you left Earth,
17:20what was the date?
17:23September.
17:23No, no.
17:25The year.
17:2621-85.
17:2821-85?
17:31Well, now I understand.
17:34Well, that's nice.
17:36We don't.
17:37You see, when you arrived here,
17:39I thought you were the men from Happy Glades.
17:41But by your behavior, of course,
17:42I could see you couldn't be.
17:44We're still not following you.
17:46What's Happy Glades?
17:47The world's greatest mortuary.
17:49At least.
17:50That's what it used to be.
17:51You see, the management
17:54hit upon this scheme
17:55as a service to those who could afford it.
17:58This scheme being?
18:00This little asteroid
18:01where we would recreate
18:02the exact conditions
18:04under which the dear departed
18:05could be most happy.
18:08For an example,
18:10if the deceased always wanted to be elected mayor,
18:13he would achieve his ambition here
18:15for all eternity.
18:19You mean those people are all dead?
18:21No, no.
18:23Not all of them.
18:24Just a slight few.
18:25The others are imitations.
18:28In other words,
18:28this is the place
18:29where your dreams come true
18:31after you've stopped dreaming.
18:34Yes.
18:35That might be one way of putting it.
18:37Yes, that's very good.
18:39You expect us to believe that explanation?
18:42I hadn't thought of that.
18:45Don't you?
18:45Well, it's true, you know.
18:49Well, I'll admit
18:51we haven't come up with anything better
18:53but a cemetery
18:56out in space.
18:58Millions of miles from Earth.
19:01Why?
19:02Why?
19:03Yes, why?
19:05Now, your boss
19:06could have bought a piece of desert.
19:08Oh, no, no.
19:09You don't understand at all.
19:11Happy Glaive's promises
19:12eternal peace.
19:15Everlasting peace.
19:16You couldn't have that on Earth.
19:19Now, could you?
19:22He has a point.
19:23Uh, what about you?
19:26Me?
19:27Yes, you.
19:28Uh, how do you figure in all this?
19:31Why, I'm the caretaker.
19:34It's my job to make sure
19:35that our guests are not
19:37disturbed.
19:42Well, uh,
19:43when did this
19:44mortuary, or whatever it is,
19:47begin?
19:501973, I believe.
19:53Yes, yes.
19:55Uh, that'd make you
19:56a bit on the elderly side,
19:58wouldn't it, Mr., uh,
20:00wire, wick?
20:01Wick, wire.
20:03Now, I'm afraid
20:04you're forcing me
20:05into a rather
20:06embarrassing admission.
20:08You see,
20:09I'm not actually human.
20:13Oh, I am now,
20:15but when you've gone,
20:18I shall go back to sleep again
20:19until I'm needed.
20:22You see, I'm
20:23I'm merely
20:24a scientific device.
20:26I go on
20:28and
20:28and off again,
20:29like a machine.
20:31You understand?
20:35Yes.
20:36It's not very complicated,
20:37is it, really?
20:38He goes on
20:39and off.
20:40Yes.
20:41I think I must have been off
20:43for about 200 years.
20:45Now, look, mister,
20:46you think...
20:47All right, all right.
20:47Mr. Wickwire,
20:53we're staying here.
20:55Yes.
20:57I know.
20:59Yes, but...
20:59you said something about
21:02our being gone.
21:06No, that's the figure
21:07of speech, Captain.
21:08I meant
21:09departed.
21:12Gone on,
21:13as it were.
21:15Well,
21:17you know what he's saying,
21:18don't you?
21:21I told you
21:22not to trust him.
21:23I told you!
21:33We meant you no harm.
21:36I realize that.
21:38And I'm sorry.
21:39Truly, I am.
21:41The antidote.
21:43Give us
21:43the antidote.
21:45There is no antidote, Captain.
21:47Even now,
21:48the eternifying fluid
21:49is coursing through
21:50your veins.
21:52But it...
21:53it won't be painful.
21:55I assure you.
21:57But why?
21:59Why us?
22:02Because you are here.
22:04And you are men.
22:06And while there are men,
22:09there can be no peace.
22:11Kirby, Weber, and Myers.
22:38Three men lost.
22:39They shared a common wish.
22:42A simple one, really.
22:43They wanted to be
22:44aboard their ship
22:45headed for home.
22:48And fate,
22:49a laughing fate,
22:51a practical jokester
22:52with a smile
22:53that stretched
22:53across the stars,
22:55saw to it
22:56that they got their wish.
22:58With just one reservation.
23:01The wish came true.
23:03But only in
23:04the twilight zone.
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