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00:00May I show you something?
00:21No.
00:23No, that's not what I'm looking for.
00:30No, that's not what I'm looking for.
01:00No, that's not what I'm looking for.
01:07What's going on, ma'am?
01:13Uh, housewares?
01:15That would be the mezzanine, ma'am.
01:20What in particular were you looking for?
01:22Uh, thimbles.
01:24Gold thimbles.
01:25You had them advertised.
01:27That would be specialties, ma'am.
01:31The ninth floor.
01:34I'm not accustomed to such service.
01:47Ma'am?
01:48Well, there were a whole lot of people waiting for the elevator.
01:50I seem to have a private one.
01:51Well, this is an express elevator, ma'am.
01:52To the ninth floor.
01:53The others are all locals this time of day.
01:55Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store.
01:59Carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary run-of-the-mill errand.
02:06Ninth floor.
02:07There must be some mistake.
02:08There's nothing here.
02:09There must be some mistake.
02:10There's nothing here.
02:11Uh.
02:12Uh.
02:13The, there must be some mistake.
02:16of the mill errand.
02:26Ninth floor.
02:31There must be some mistake. There's nothing here.
02:34Miss Marshall White on the ninth floor. Specialties department, looking for a gold thimble.
02:48The odds are that she'll find it.
02:50But there are even better odds that she'll find something else.
02:54Because this isn't just a department store.
02:57This happens to be the Twilight Zone.
03:04What's someone helping you?
03:17Can I show you something?
03:19Why, yes.
03:21I'm sorry.
03:22Can I show you something?
03:25Why, yes.
03:27I'm sorry.
03:28I'm sorry.
03:29I'm sorry.
03:30I'm sorry.
03:31I'm sorry.
03:32Why, yes.
03:34I was looking for a gold thimble.
03:36A gift from my mother.
03:38A gold thimble.
03:40I think we have something you'd like.
03:42This way, please.
03:44This way, please.
04:02How about this?
04:03It's 14 karat gold and quite distinctive looking, I think.
04:13Don't you?
04:16Well, yes.
04:18Yes, I think this will do.
04:20This is a charge.
04:25Is this a charge, miss?
04:27I beg your pardon, a charge?
04:30No, no.
04:31I'll pay for it.
04:34You want it gift wrapped?
04:36Yes, please.
04:39No, on second thought, I'll wrap it myself.
04:41Miss, that's $22.80 plus tax.
04:47$25 even.
04:57Oh, that's odd.
05:01What is Marsha?
05:04Well, you hadn't any merchandise here at all.
05:07Except the thimble.
05:08Except the very thing I needed.
05:11The whole floor, it looks so empty and...
05:15You called me Marsha.
05:17Did I?
05:18I'm sorry.
05:19That was forward of me.
05:20I apologize.
05:21How did you know my name?
05:23I've probably seen you around the store.
05:25No, you haven't.
05:28I've never seen you.
05:30Now, look, I don't want to make a big thing out of this,
05:31but what kind of a place is this?
05:33I mean, all I want is one small item, a gold thimble.
05:36I come up on a floor that hasn't a single thing in evidence,
05:39except what I'm looking for.
05:41Well, you may be a little more sophisticated than I am,
05:42but this I call odd.
05:44Please come again.
05:47Anytime.
05:56Miss White?
06:00Are you happy?
06:04I beg your pardon.
06:06Am I what?
06:07Am I happy?
06:12Well, you'll forgive me, but that's really none of your business.
06:14Really?
06:18It's none of my business.
06:22All right, Miss White.
06:23Suit yourself.
06:24It's none of my business.
06:34Going down.
06:44Well, did you find what you were looking for?
06:58As a matter of fact, I did.
07:01Also, as a matter of fact, it was the only thing for sale on that floor.
07:05Somebody ought to latch on to an efficiency expert or something.
07:07One entire floor devoted to the sale of a single gold thimble.
07:12An extremely oddball sales lady somebody ought to look into.
07:20This is scratched.
07:22Well, I didn't notice that before.
07:24I can't send this to my mother.
07:29It's scratched and it's dented too.
07:31Look.
07:32Look here.
07:33Complaints, third floor.
07:35Look at this thing.
07:37It's scratched.
07:38It looks as if somebody stepped on it or something.
07:44Third floor.
07:45Complaints.
08:05Well, I distinctly told her that all the gold thimbles we have are in gifts.
08:09And that if the item were damaged, we certainly would make it good.
08:13Either by replacement or refund.
08:14Oh, I distinctly told her that, Mr.
08:16Then what is the problem, Mr. Armbruster?
08:20Well, the problem is that the customer claims that she didn't get the item in gifts.
08:24She got it in another department.
08:26Mr. Armbruster.
08:28Just tell her to take it back to the department where she purchased the item.
08:33Well, that's just the point.
08:35She has some idiotic story about having purchased a gold thimble on the ninth floor.
08:42Ninth floor.
08:44Mr. Armbruster.
08:46I trust you inform the lady that this store has no ninth floor.
08:53Mr. Sloan, believe me, sir, I have tried desperately, I really mean desperately to acquaint her with this fact, but she still insists that she was taken to the ninth floor and waited on by a rather odd woman.
09:03An odd woman yet.
09:04Hmm.
09:05A personality trait that she would be particularly knowledgeable about.
09:10Well, anyway, this woman who allegedly waited on her.
09:12Never mind, Armbruster.
09:14I've talked to her.
09:15Yes, yes.
09:16Well, she's waiting right outside, sir.
09:26Miss White.
09:27This is our manager, Mr. Sloan.
09:30Perhaps I can help you, Miss White.
09:32Perhaps you can.
09:34This thimble, it's dented and scratched.
09:36Oh, it most assuredly is.
09:37Now, why don't you take it back to the gift department and...
09:41Mr. Sloan, I just explained to Mr. Armbruster here, I did not purchase this in the gift department.
09:45I was taken up to the ninth floor.
09:48That's what makes it so difficult to understand.
09:50You see, we don't have a ninth floor.
09:54I was taken to the ninth floor.
09:56I was waited on by a very odd woman.
09:58I paid cash.
10:00Your receipt?
10:03My receipt?
10:06I didn't get a receipt, but I paid cash.
10:11Look, I gave her a $20 bill and a $5 bill.
10:13She gave me this thimble and I...
10:14Well, there she is. There's a woman who waited on me, Miss.
10:20Miss, I wonder if you'd...
10:44Well, well, well, how is she?
10:57Oh, she'll be all right, Mr. Armbruster.
10:59She was just frightened, that's all.
11:01Well, what about this delusion of hers?
11:03I don't know. I didn't talk to her.
11:05But she's resting now.
11:07I think maybe even gone to sleep.
11:09Hmm.
11:10Well, tell her we're closing up now.
11:12Tell her to come back tomorrow and we'll get her a replacement on her merchandise
11:14or a refund or anything else she wants.
11:17Miss Pettigrew.
11:19We're closing up now.
11:21What I'd like to give her is a bus ticket.
11:23A one-way bus ticket to any department store west of Cleveland.
11:27Preferably Chicago or Los Angeles or Honolulu.
11:30Miss Pettigrew.
11:31Miss Pettigrew.
11:32Did you hear me?
11:33We're closing up now.
11:34Miss Keevers.
11:35You have a costume.
11:37Hurry, please.
11:39All right, I'm coming.
11:41First of all.
11:42Wendy, can you firstан up his house,
11:44Miss Pettigrew.
11:45Excuse me.
11:46Now, who knows where he just stands?
11:47instalрос General's house...
11:48I'm coming.
11:54I'm just standing here.
11:55Do what he needs to do.
11:59To be ready, her万一.
12:03To be ready, Assistant?
12:05We gotta go.
12:06Oh, my question.
12:07Be ready.
12:08Yeah.
13:39Somebody, please, I'm locked in here.
13:48Anyone?
13:51I need some help.
13:55Anyone?
13:57Anyone?
13:59Please?
14:00Anyone?
14:01Please?
14:03Anybody?
14:04Here you go.
15:35Marsha.
15:41Marsha?
15:42Who do you think you're fooling, Marsha?
15:55Come on, dear.
15:59Climb off it.
16:02You remember, Marsha?
16:05You know who you are.
16:07You know who you are.
16:16You know who you are.
16:23You know who you are.
16:29Marcia.
16:54You remember Marcia?
16:58Marcia.
17:01Marcia.
17:04Marcia.
17:05You remember Marcia?
17:08Marcia.
17:13Marcia.
17:18Oh, no.
17:21Oh, no.
17:25Now, Marsha dear, you'll forgive an observation, but you're acting like a silly child.
17:50Come now, Marsha.
17:55Come now, Marsha dear, you're acting like a silly child.
18:25Come now, Marsha dear, you're acting like a silly child.
18:29Come now, Marsha dear, you're acting like you're acting like a silly child.
19:20Think now. Concentrate.
19:25Remember now?
19:29All of us will try and help you.
19:35We'll help you concentrate.
19:40Remember now? Coming back to you?
19:47That's odd.
19:50It's really odd, but suddenly I seem to...
19:52Remember. Coming back now, is it?
19:58I'm a mannequin.
20:00That's what I am. I'm a mannequin.
20:02And it was my turn...
20:03Your turn to leave us for a month.
20:06Becoming much clearer now, isn't it?
20:08You left us for a month, and you lived with the outsiders.
20:12But you were due back yesterday, and you didn't show up.
20:16You know, Marsha, that's very selfish, my dear.
20:20All of us wait our turn, and we simply do not overstay it.
20:23Oh, it was my turn starting last night. I'm one day delayed already.
20:29Of course.
20:32Of course, I'm sorry. I forgot.
20:35When you're on the outside, everything seems so normal.
20:41As if...
20:42As if what, Marsha?
20:45As if we were like the others.
20:49Like the outsiders.
20:53Like the real people.
20:56Well, no serious harm done.
21:00I'll see you all in a month.
21:02Take good care of yourselves.
21:09And you'll all miss me.
21:15I'll be here.
21:16Bye.
21:20Bye.
21:21Bye.
21:21Bye.
21:22Bye.
21:32Did you enjoy yourself, Marsha?
21:36Was it fun?
21:39Ever so much fun.
21:49Ever so much fun.
22:02Good morning, dear. We're expecting a hundred dollars out of you today.
22:15Keep your powder dry, darling.
22:19Well, it'll sell.
22:27Good morning.
22:29Good morning, ladies.
22:30Here, here, here, here. Break it up. Back to your post, girls. It's nine o'clock.
22:35Really?
22:36Come on.
22:37Come on.
22:38Come on.
22:39Come on.
22:40Come on.
22:41Come on.
22:42Come on.
22:43Come on.
22:44Come on.
22:45Come on.
22:46Come on.
22:47Come on.
22:48Come on.
22:49Come on.
22:50Come on.
22:51Come on.
22:52Come on.
22:53Come on.
22:54Come on.
22:55Come on.
22:56Come on.
22:57Marsha White, in her normal and natural state.
23:01A wooden lady with a painted face, who, one month out of the year, takes on the characteristics
23:07of someone as normal and as flesh and blood as you and I.
23:11But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street?
23:20A rather good question to ask, particularly in the Twilight Zone.
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