For me- as a writer- this closing scene from an Twilight Zone Episode titled
” Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up”
taught me to not only look under the bed or into the closet to find the monster so that I could write about it
it taught me to get under the bed or into the closet and THINK like one.
Enjoy.
During a snowstorm, two state troopers are investigating a crash and are led to believe that it was a UFO. They follow footprints leading from the crash site to a diner, where a group of passengers from a bus to Boston are waiting for word that a bridge up ahead is safe to cross. Though the only patrons of the roadside eatery are bus passengers, there is one more diner than there were people on the bus. There is mutual suspicion among the stranded travelers, as the passengers each try to guess which among them is the alien. When they get permission to go across the bridge, however, they all leave.
Shortly, the businessman played by John Hoyt returns to the diner and tells the cook that the bridge collapsed and the bus and police car fell in killing all aboard the bus and the policemen. As the cook wonders how the businessman survived, he also notes that his clothes are not even wet. Soon the businessman unveils his third arm and stirs his coffee with his third hand, telling the cook that he is a Martian, and revealing that Mars plans to start a colony on Earth. Laughing, the cook tells him that he’s too late, and by taking off his paper hat and revealing his third eye, reveals that he is from Venus, which has already started a colony, and that the Martian invasion force has been intercepted.
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 64 |
| Written by | Rod Serling |
| Directed by | Montgomery Pittman |
ANITA'S OWL CREEK BRIDGE 