Since it so representative and prototypic, "Back There" is an apt episode to describe the entire and overall concept of Rod Serling's magnificent series of "The Twilight Zone". Over a game of cards, four men are debating a typically "hypothetical" situation. Suppose you could go back in time with the knowledge you have from today. Would you, as one simple and single individual, be able to alter the course of history? These are the type of discussions that we all have occasionally, with friends over a few bottles of wine, for example. They are fun but harmless, because everybody knows the discussed situation will never happen. Well, the trademark of this series is these situations do occur in "The Twilight Zone"; - suddenly and just like that! Pete Corrigan leaves the poker game on the evening of April 14th 1961, but out on the street he somehow finds himself catapulted back in time, to April 14th 1865. He remembers from history class this is the infamous night when President Lincoln got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in a Washington theater, and it's only a few hours away from happening right underneath his nose! So now, and not long hypothetically, can he prevent the murder and change history by doing so? "Back There", standard as it may be, is a fantastic episode with a compelling plot and a powerful performance by Russell Johnson. The biggest pleasant surprise is the 1865 setting and the Lincoln murder plot, especially since the men were debating the 1929 Wall Street crash during the intro. I thus automatically assumed that our protagonist would end up in 1929, but Serling ingeniously tricked us there! I also very much liked the denouement, and I'll surely use this learning in the next hypothetical debate I have: you may not be able to alter the course of history, but small changes that occurred during the process can make a world of difference to the lives of a few people.