The Twilight Zone

[to his alter-ego, while getting weaker] I remember the archetypes from Jung. Are you my shadow, or my persona, ego or anima? When I first got loose, I guess I was the shadow. Now I'm the self. Now I'm becoming the shadow. No. You're becoming a memory. That's pretty ungracious. I was sick for a long time, Peter. I don't know what the trigger was that broke us apart, but it happened, and I can't be sorry. If it hadn't, I'd have been you till I died. Would be a lousy life, and a miserable death. Too late to worry about it now.

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Peter Jay Novins, both victor and victim, of a brief struggle for custody of a man's soul. A man who lost himself... and found himself... on a lonely battlefield, somewhere in the Twilight Zone.

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Wouldn't it be nice if once in a while everyone would just shut up and stop pestering you? Wouldn't it be great to have the time to finish a thought or spin a daydream? To think out loud without being required to explain exactly what you meant? If you had the power, would you dare to use it, even knowing that silence may have voices of its own... to the Twilight Zone?

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I... I can't believe this is happening. It's... it's all over. We've... just had a confirmation the first Soviet missile will reach the U.S. airspace in a matter of minutes. OK... OK... those of you listening should immediately go to the nearest public shelter. What's the point? It's over! It's over! We're history. Yeah, OK, I'll tell them. War... nuclear war has just broken out between the United States and Russia. ICBMs... full-scale nuclear war... There's not much... this is it. This is the end. We've had a verification Soviet missiles have entered U.S. airspace...

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Cathy Lowery: How was your morning? Bill Lowery: Pretty good, I guess. Except for one really strange thing that happened. I was leaving work, and this kid - Robbie? works in the mail room? - he stops me and he says... Cathy Lowery: Excuse me, sweetie, I don't mean to interrupt you, but this is gonna be done pretty quick and I wanted you to look in on Donnie before we eat. Bill Lowery: Is something the matter? Cathy Lowery: His cold's getting worse. He's so pale and awfully congested and he didn't touch his dinosaur when I took it in to him. Bill Lowery: [startled] What? What did you say? Cathy Lowery: I said, I think Donnie's cold is getting worse. Bill Lowery: No no no. Did you say "dinosaur"? Cathy Lowery: Mm-hmm, he wouldn't touch it and it's his favorite: tuna-fish. Bill Lowery: Why are you saying "dinosaur"? Cathy Lowery: What do you expect me to say? Bill Lowery: Did Robbie or someone for work call you and tell you to say "dinosaur" as a joke or something? Cathy Lowery: Robbie? W

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A question trembles in the silence: Why did this remarkable thing happen to this perfectly ordinary man? It may not matter why the world shifted so drastically for him. Existence is slippery at the best of times. What does matter is that Bill Lowery isn't ordinary. He's one of us. A man determined to prevail in the world that was, and the world that is, or the world that will be...in the Twilight Zone.

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