Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need.
“Time Enough at Last” · Season 1, Episode 8
In this episode: Henry Bemis (3), Rod Serling (2), Narrator (1)
The best laid plans of mice and men and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone.
Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself...without anyone.
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.
Helen? Helen! Where are you?
Mr. Henry Bemis on an eight-hour tour of a graveyard.
[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!
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