- Mike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul. The tension increases and Mike has a breakdown.
- A man finds himself walking down a country road, not knowing who, nor where he is. He comes across a diner with a jukebox blaring and hot coffee on the stove - only no one's there. A little further down the road, he comes to the picturesque town of Oakwood, and finds it, too, seems deserted. The only sounds he hears are a clock tower and a pay phone ringing. At the local movie theater, an ad for Battle Hymn (1957) leads him to believe he's in the Air Force. In spite of no people to be found, he can't shake off the feeling that he's being watched.—garykmcd
- A confused young man in coveralls (Earl Holliman) wanders into the desolate town of Oakwood, looking for food and help in figuring out his identity. As he wanders through the recently deserted businesses and buildings, he experiences a paranoid feeling of being watched and believes he is in the throes of a bad dream, hoping he is not the last man on Earth.—LA-Lawyer
- Opening narration:
"The place is here, the time is now, and the journey into the shadows that we're about to watch could be our journey."
Mike Ferris (Earl Holliman), an amnesiac in an Air Force jumpsuit, finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched. As he inspects the town's cafe, phone booth, police station, drug store and movie theater, his desperation mounts. Finally he collapses, hysterically pushing the "walk" button of a stoplight again and again. In reality, the "walk" button is a panic button, and Ferris is an astronaut-trainee strapped into an isolation booth in simulation of a moon flight. After 484 hours in the booth, he has cracked from sheer lonliness. His wanderings in the vacant town have been nothing more than a hallucination.
Closing narration:
"Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting...in the Twilight Zone."
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