The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

And When the Sky Was Opened (1959)

Jim Hutton: Major William Gart

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• Major William Gart : [after Forbes explained the story to Gart]  Clegg? I don't know Ed Harrington. I've never heard of him before. I think he must be an illusion or something.

  Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes : [eerily calm]  Oh, I know he's not an illusion. I know. He's been yanked out of here. He's been taken away. He told me, remember? He told me maybe someone or something made a mistake. Let us get through when we shouldn't have gotten through. It's gotta come back to get us, somebody up there.

  [Overcome by the same feeling Harrington has] 

  Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes : Oh, Bill, this is weird. It's just plain weird; like I just don't belong. Just like I... I don't belong.

  [sees he no longer has a reflection in a mirror, horrified] 

  Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes : Oh, no! OH, NO! I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN! BILL, I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN! I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN!

  [runs out of room] 

  Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes : I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN!

  Major William Gart : [hobbling after Forbes]  Clegg! CLEGG!

  [looks into the hallway to find that Forbes has disappeared] 

  Major William Gart : Somebody get him! Somebody get him... Somebody... Somebody get him...

  Nurse : [sees Gart standing in his doorway and walks over to him]  Major, you shouldn't be out of bed. Why, if the doctor could see you...

  Major William Gart : Somebody's got to help him. Colonel Forbes. Somebody's got to help him right away.

  Nurse : Who?

  Major William Gart : COLONEL FORBES!

  [sighs] 

  Major William Gart : You know Col. Forbes. Why, he was brought in here with me. Why, he was right over here on this...

  [turns to see there is only one bed in the room, his. The bed next to him which Forbes' occupied has disappeared] 

  Major William Gart : Oh, my dear god.

  Nurse : Major. Major, let me help you get into bed. And I'll-I'll call the doctor. Come here.

  [helps Gart into bed] 

  Nurse : A-Are you alright?

  [leaves the room] 

  Nurse : Major? Major Henderson?

  [when the nurse leaves, Gart looks at the newspaper and sees only his photo. Horrified, he also disappears]