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Re: Twilight Zone
Posted by:
Sam
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Date: January 16, 2003 01:50PM
<HTML>Here is the synopsis, with Rod Serling's intro and conclusion, from the book 'The Twilight Zone Companion' by Marc Scott Zicree copyright 1982:
Judgement Night (first aired on 12/4/59)
"Her name is the SS Queen of Glasgow. Her registry: British. Gross tonnage: five thousand. Age: indeterminate. At thismoment she's one day out of Liverpool, her destination New York. Duly recorded on the ship's log is the sailing time, course to destination, weather conditions, temperature, longitude and latitude. But what is never recorded in the log is the fear that washes over a deck like a fog and ocean spray. Fear like the throbbing strokes of engine pistons, each like a heartbeat, parceling out every hour into breathless minutes of watching, waiting and dreading. For the year is 1942, and this particular ship has lost its convoy. It travels alone like an aged blind thing groping through the unfriendly dark, stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers. Yes, the Queen of Glasgow is a frightened ship, and she carries with her a premonition of death"
On board the Glasgow is a German named Carl Lanser, with nomemory of how he got there, yet with the feeling that he's met all the passengers somewhere before. things are made even more mysterious by Lanser's certainty that an enemy sub is stalking the ship, and by his premonition that something is going to happen at 1:15am. His fear proves correct: at one-fifteen a U-boat surfaces. Peering through binoculars, Lanser sees that its captain is...himself! The U-boat sinks the helpless freighter, then crew members machine gun the survivors. Lanser sinks beneath the waters. Later, on board the sub, a lieutenant suggests they might all face damnation for their action. Kapitän Lanser discounts this theory--not realizing that he is, in fact, doomed to relive the sinking of that ship for eternity.
"The SS Queen of Glasgow, heading for New York, and the time is 1942. For one man, it is always 1942--and this man will ride the ghost of that ship for every night for eternity. This is what is meant by paying the fiddler. This is the comeuppance awaiting everyman whent he ledger of his life is opened and examined, the tally made, and the reward or penalty paid. And in the case of Carl Lanser, former Kapitän Lieutenant, Navy of the Third Reich, this is the penalty. This is justice meted out. This is judgement night in the Twilight Zone."</HTML>
Judgement Night (first aired on 12/4/59)
"Her name is the SS Queen of Glasgow. Her registry: British. Gross tonnage: five thousand. Age: indeterminate. At thismoment she's one day out of Liverpool, her destination New York. Duly recorded on the ship's log is the sailing time, course to destination, weather conditions, temperature, longitude and latitude. But what is never recorded in the log is the fear that washes over a deck like a fog and ocean spray. Fear like the throbbing strokes of engine pistons, each like a heartbeat, parceling out every hour into breathless minutes of watching, waiting and dreading. For the year is 1942, and this particular ship has lost its convoy. It travels alone like an aged blind thing groping through the unfriendly dark, stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers. Yes, the Queen of Glasgow is a frightened ship, and she carries with her a premonition of death"
On board the Glasgow is a German named Carl Lanser, with nomemory of how he got there, yet with the feeling that he's met all the passengers somewhere before. things are made even more mysterious by Lanser's certainty that an enemy sub is stalking the ship, and by his premonition that something is going to happen at 1:15am. His fear proves correct: at one-fifteen a U-boat surfaces. Peering through binoculars, Lanser sees that its captain is...himself! The U-boat sinks the helpless freighter, then crew members machine gun the survivors. Lanser sinks beneath the waters. Later, on board the sub, a lieutenant suggests they might all face damnation for their action. Kapitän Lanser discounts this theory--not realizing that he is, in fact, doomed to relive the sinking of that ship for eternity.
"The SS Queen of Glasgow, heading for New York, and the time is 1942. For one man, it is always 1942--and this man will ride the ghost of that ship for every night for eternity. This is what is meant by paying the fiddler. This is the comeuppance awaiting everyman whent he ledger of his life is opened and examined, the tally made, and the reward or penalty paid. And in the case of Carl Lanser, former Kapitän Lieutenant, Navy of the Third Reich, this is the penalty. This is justice meted out. This is judgement night in the Twilight Zone."</HTML>
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Sam | 01/16/2003 01:50PM |
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Sam | 01/19/2003 03:14AM |
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Hmmmm
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