The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Shadow Play (1961)

William Edmonson: Jiggs

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• Adam Grant : Well, Jiggs, don't you think that all of this is just a little bit too much the way it should be?

  Jiggs : I don't get you.

  Adam Grant : 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.

  [laughs] 

  Adam Grant : 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 - that's my impression of it!

  Jiggs : Oh, man, you're really clipped. I don't know what you're talking about.

  Carol Ritchie : [in the Ritchies' home]  Well, the Brothers Grimm, as I live.

  Henry Ritchie : What're you doing up?

  Carol Ritchie : I'm not up. I'm down. Just like you and your funny friend here. Have they...?

  Paul Carson : Fifteen more minutes. That's another thing. Why does this always happen around midnight?

  Henry Ritchie : Because that's when it happens!

  Paul Carson : Yeah, but why?

  Henry Ritchie : You tell me why!

  Paul Carson : 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 Ritchie : Because movies are technically accurate.

  Paul Carson : Yeah, that's strange, too, when you come to think of it.