Henry Bemis quotes from The Twilight Zone (1959)

Henry Bemis

Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need.

Henry Bemis

[laments the destruction of his glasses] That's not fair! That's not fair at all! There was time now. There was all the time I needed...! [tears up] That's not fair! That's not fair!

Rod Serling

Seconds, minutes, hours. They crawl by on hands and knees for Mr. Henry Bemis, who looks for a spark in the ashes of a dead world. A telephone connected to nothingness. A neighborhood bar, a movie, a baseball diamond, a hardware store, the mailbox of what was his house and is now a rubble. They lie at his feet as battered monuments to what was, but is no more.

Henry Bemis

Helen? Helen! Where are you?

Rod Serling

Mr. Henry Bemis on an eight-hour tour of a graveyard.

Well, Jiggs, don't you think that all of this is just a little bit too much the way it should be?

I don't get you.

Well, I mean it's so pat. I got tried and sentenced the same day. It doesn't work like that! But you see, that's the way that I saw it in my mind, and so that's the way it is! Or you take this place here, you and Coley and his harmonica or Phillips and his mother. It's like a movie. Real death houses aren't like that, but you see I've never been in a real death house, so that's my impression of it!

Fifteen more minutes. That's another thing. Why does this always happen around midnight?

Henry

Because that's when it happens!

Yeah, but why?

Henry

You tell me why.

According to Grant, he doesn't know anything about these matters except what he sees in the movies, and in the movies it always happens at midnight.

Henry

Because movies are technically accurate.

Yeah, that's strange too when you come to think of it.