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Obviously someone recorded the sounds of the subway in the middle of the night but left off the shaking and jolts that would have made it far more realistic than it is. An express train that won't stop for twelve minutes features five people who suspect each other of being a maniacal killer, and all they can do is wait. No one can get in, and no one can get out, and having seen cops with guns chasing someone into the station (who by chance enters the car before the doors close), they aren't quite sure that he's the guilty party. "Ah civilization. What sins are committed in thy name", one of the passengers philosophizes, and that sets the tone for one of the oddest episodes of the series.

The sole woman on the train now wishes she had taken a cab, and a rather gruff man keeps spouting absurd philosophies about society that makes this become unintentionally funny. The presence of David Niven as the top billed star is questionable because he simply part of the ensemble, and gets equal amounts of dialogue as to everybody else.

Everybody overacts here, making this laughably bad, especially when the train stops in the middle of a tunnel and the lights flicker on and off, resulting in the discovery that an ax in the emergency equipment area is missing. It's obvious that the writer thought they were way too clever with all of the psychological mumbo jumbo they wrote, and the overly dramatic music doesn't help. This is fun to watch as an example of that famous "I Love Lucy" writing outcome: "Don't let this happen to you."