The Twilight Zone: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Episode score
8.1
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Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
- 39.
- Season: 2
- Episode: 3
- First Aired: 10/14/1960
- Prod Code: 173-3641
- (Opening Narration)
Narrator: This is Mr. Jackie Rhoades, age thirty-four, and where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on Earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters. What you're about to watch in this room is a strange, mortal combat between a man and himself, for in just a moment Mr. Jackie Rhoades, whose life has been given over to fighting adversaries, will find his most formidable opponent in a cheap hotel room that is in reality the outskirts of the Twilight Zone. edit » - George: It's a gorgeous place you got here, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, four bucks a night, you can't go wrong, you know, four bucks a night.
George: You can't go wrong, but you could get roasted to death, or poisoned by small creatures. edit » - George: Anyone ever tell you what you look like? You look like a man trying to catch a subway at five o'clock. You always look like someone's squeezing you through a door. What do you do to sleep at night, Jackie, hide in a locked closet? edit »
- Jackie: But George, I got no guts.
George: You're going to get guts, Jackie, I don't care where from. You get them under the bed, you buy them from a vendor, you grow them in a pot, I don't care, but you get them and you do the job. edit » - Jackie: Listen to me, listen to me. I'm having an argument with a big piece of glass. edit »
- Jackie: Why don't you cut it out! Will you do that? Will you knock it off? What do you want from me anyway? I'm asking you, what do you want from me? I'm still waiting to hear. What do you want from me?
Mirror-Jackie: I want to take over, Jackie. I want to call the shots. I want you to let me out. I want a chance to live. I want to live with all the guts and goodness you left behind. I want to live the dreams you dreamed and never had the guts to live. edit » - Mirror-Jackie: It don't make any difference, Jackie, because you're not going anywhere. You go out that door, you're finished. We're both finished. That's the door to nowhere. Jackie, Jackie, let me out. I wanna take over. I gotta take over. I want a decent job, some friends.
Jackie: I got a job, I got friends, I got everything I want.
Mirror-Jackie: You got nothing, you got nothing but a pain inside. You got no friends, no honor. You got nothing. You are nothing. It's time to be something. Jackie, let me out. Let me take over, Jackie. This is your last chance. edit » - (Closing Narration)
Narrator: Exit Mr. John Rhoades, formerly a reflection in a mirror, a fragment of someone else's conscience, a wishful thinker made out of glass, but now made out of flesh and on his way to join the company of men. Mr. John Rhoades, with one foot through the door and one foot out of the Twilight Zone. edit »
- The mirrored wardrobe prop was later used in episode 73, "It's a Good Life." edit »
- The entire episode is set in a single, small room. edit »
- Included on volume 15 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. edit »
- Rod Serling makes his entrance apparently standing on a wall parallel to the floor! This effect is achieved by shooting Serling against a back-screen of an overhead shot of the room. edit »
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