You're traveling through 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.

That's the signpost up ahead, Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

In the Monsters are due on Maypole Street,

we saw the neighborhood tear itself apart when a drop of suspicion turned into a wave, our neighbour turned against neighbour. As we found out, that was an alien plot to use one of humanity's worst traits against them, it worked a season later and rod sailing

now returns to that theme but mixes up the ingredients a little bit he reduces the

number involved he makes the location even smaller but this time he actually puts

an alien into the mix.

But don't tell the audience which one it is, or don't even tell them that the alien is really

there and maybe lighten up the tone a little.

So these are our ingredients and in Rod Sailing in the Twilight Zone, Douglas Brody wrote that with the situation

in place, this allows Sailing and Montgomery Pittman to develop one of Zones's telling themes.

Normalcy is a myth. Under close scrutiny, seemingly everyday people all at once appear suspicious.

So in tonight's episode after reports of a strange object coming down in the area,

Troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry investigate to find a set of tracks leading from a crash site to a local diner, in

which as a cook, a bus driver, and seven passengers who had been on his bus.

But the driver only remembers that there was actually six, so the troopers are soon asking,

will the real Martian please stand up?

Wintery February night, the present. Order of events, a phone call from a frightened woman,

notating the arrival of an unidentified flying object. Then the checkout you've just witnessed

with two state troopers verifying the event, but with nothing more enlightening to add beyond evidence

of some tracks leading across the highway to a diner. You've heard of trying to find a needle

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