“Shadow Play” quotes from The Twilight Zone (1959)

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.

We know that a dream can be real, but who ever thought that reality could be a dream? We exist, of course, but how, in what way? As we believe, as flesh-and-blood human beings, or are we simply parts of someone's feverish, complicated nightmare? Think about it and then ask yourself, do you live here, in this country, in this world, or do you live instead in the Twilight Zone?

Rod Serling

Adam Grant, a nondescript kind of man found guilty of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Like every other criminal caught in the wheels of justice, he's scared, right down to the marrow of his bones. But it isn't prison that scares him, the long silent nights of waiting, the slow walk to the little room or even death itself. It's something else that holds Adam Grant in the hot, sweaty grip of fear. Something worse than any punishment this world has to offer. Something found only in the Twilight Zone.