Segment 1 : “The Warning” - A couple goes into a hotel when the husband sees a man pushing a casket. Rob and his wife split up to look for the seminar room and he instead finds the casket and the casket salesman he saw earlier. The couple leaves and heads to the elevator to go downstairs. The salesman is on the elevator and Rob is afraid of him, not realizing his wife can’t see the man. The husband wants to take the stairs, when all of a sudden the elevator and all it’s passengers fall to their deaths. The salesman had saved the couple’s lives even though he was never found.
Segment 2 : “Bus Stop” - Jerry Wright stops next to a bus stop and meets Terry and gives her a ride home. The next day he gets enough confidence to look for her to ask her out and meets her younger sister, Laura, who invites him inside. While looking at the pictures on the mantel, Laura recounts when Terry died almost eight years ago and Jerry pays dumb initially. After introducing himself, Laura tells him that Terry promised to send her “Mr. Right” to look after her. Jerry confesses about the previous day and they get married a year later.
Segment 3 : “The Cure” - Kyle Jarvis, a struggling pre-med student, works part-time as a waiter and is involved with Tammy, the wealthy daughter of a captain of industry. Tammy is afraid of what her parents think of Kyle and he is concerned that Tammy is ashamed to introduce him to her parents. While waiting tables, a man has a heart attack and Kyle gives CPR and saves his life. Soon after the man’s daughter arrives and it is Tammy!
Segment 4 : “The Guardian” - Mark and Danny, his younger brother, come from a very religious mother. Mark loves basketball and shots hoops and watches “Big Al”, a former high school star play in the afternoon at the Clayton Street Park after school. On night, Mark decides to stay later at the park and is harassed by a couple of gang members. However, Big Al shows up and scares the bullies away. The next day when Mark tries to thank Al, he insists he wasn’t the one who helped.
Segment 5 : “The Gift” - Mildred Graceson is going to die and has developed a tight friendship with her live in nurse, Beverly. Mildred’s daughters resent their mother’s fondness for sentimental collectables and seem to be looking forward to their inheritances. After Mildred passes on, the daughters immediately ask Beverly to move out quickly but say she can have any mementos that she wants since they consider it all worthless. Beverly picks the figures from Mildred’s old wedding cake and the teakettle. Later that night, the kettle whistled despite not being turned on and the steam melts the base of the figures and revels two diamond earrings worth thousands of dollars.