Writer:	Rod Serling
Director:	Lamont Johnson (I)
Star:	Rod Serling (Narrator/Host)
Guest Star:	Larry Gates (Dr. William Stockton),  Joseph Bernard (Marty Weiss),  Jack Albertson (Jerry Harlowe),  Peggy Stewart (Grace Stockton),  Sandy Kenyon (Frank),  Michael Burns (Paul Stockton),  Jo Helton (Martha Harlowe),  Moria Turner (Mrs. Weiss),  Mary Gregory (Frank's Wife),  John McLiam (Neighbor),  Scotty Morrow ((Boy) (uncredited))

Included on volume 8 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

The Stocktons have closed and locked themselves in their bomb shelter; they won't let anybody else in, because there's air and provisions for only the three of them. Their neighbors are all gathered in the basement, just outside the shelter.)
Marty Weiss: ...Jerry, you know Bill better than anybody. Go down and tell him to pick out one family.
Frank Henderson: ONE family...meaning YOURS, Marty. Right?
Marty Weiss: Well, why not? I've got a 3-month-old baby!
Mrs. Harlowe: What's that got to do with anything? Is your baby any more precious than one of MY kids?
Marty Weiss: I never said that! Listen, if you're going to argue over who deserves to live more than the next person...!
Frank Henderson: You shut your mouth, Weiss! That's the way it is when the foreigners come over here. Pushy, grabby semi-Americans! Crowding us out of our own country! Tainting our bloodlines!
Marty Weiss: Why, you garbage-mouthed beast, I'll...!
(he attacks Frank and they grapple murderously until Jerry pulls them apart)
Jerry Harlowe: ...Keep THAT up, and we won't even NEED a bomb to slaughter us! (edit) Jerry: (the "enemy missiles" have been positively identified as harmless satellites, after the Stocktons' neighbors have already broken down their shelter door) ...We could throw a nice big block party, just like old times! Anything to get back to normal! Right, Bill?
Bill: (dazed) ...Normal? ...I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once; I don't anymore.
Jerry: Oh, we'll pay for all the damages, Bill.
Bill: ...Damages? I wonder...if any of us has any idea what those "damages" really are. Maybe one of them was finding out what we're really like when we're "normal." The kind of people we are, just underneath the skin--and I mean all of us--a lot of naked, wild animals who put such a price on staying alive that they'll claw their own neighbors to death just for the privilege! We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder... if we weren't destroyed even without it. (edit) (Closing Narration)
Narrator: No moral, no message, no prophetic tract. Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise in logic from the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone. (edit)

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