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there is a fifth dimension

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beyond that
which is known to man.

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it is a dimension as vast as space

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and as timeless as infinity.

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it is the middle ground
between light and shadow,

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between science and superstition,

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and it lies between
the pit of man's fears

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and the summit
of his knowledge.

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this is the dimension
of imagination.

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it is an area which we call
the twilight zone.

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her name is nan adams.

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she's 27 years old.

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her occupation, buyer
at a new york department store.

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at present on vacation,
driving cross-country

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to los angeles, california,
from manhattan.

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how fast were you going, miss?

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oh, 60, 65. something like that.

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blow out, skid marks,
shou lders like pu dding

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and going 65 miles an hour.

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lady, you're on the side
of the angels,

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by rights, you shouldn't
have called for a mechanic.

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somebody should have
called for a hearse.

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just follow me into town, miss.

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i'll see if i can fix
you up with a new tire.

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thank you.

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minor incident on highway 1 1
in pennsylvania.

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perhaps to be filed away

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under "accidents
you'd walk away from."

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but from this moment on,

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nan adams' companion on a trip
to california will be terror.

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her route, fear.

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her destination,
quite unknown.

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that's five bucks
for the call,

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$22.10 for the tire.
the tax, $2.60.

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whole thing comes to $29.70.

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it's cheaper than
a funeral, isn't it?

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you can say that again.

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Here you are, miss.

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change from your two 20s.

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checked the other
tires for you. they look okay.

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anything wrong?

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no.

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no, nothing's wrong.

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i was just looking
at that, uh,

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that hitch hiker.

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what hitchhiker?

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he's gone now.

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guess he got picked up.

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probably.

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it's funny, though.
i saw him a little while ago

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while you were changing
the tire.

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yeah, he probably got a lift
right after we passed him.

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probably.

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thank you very much
for all your h elp.

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it's okay, miss.

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have a nice, safe tri p.

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thank you.

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(adams, off) i saw him again
50 miles further on,

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and then again on the long,
straight stretch through virginia.

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just standing there.
not menacing, really.

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if anything, drab,
a little mousy.

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just a shabby,
silly-looking, scarecrow man.

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i shouldn't even think
about him at all, but,

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it's the coincidence
of the thing.

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the fact that wherever i go,
there he is.

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wherever i stop, i see him.

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no matter how far i travel
or how fast i go,

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he's ahead of me.

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i'm on a turnpike now.

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i don't know why it is,
but i'm frightened.

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a fear just about as vague
as its object.

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maybe it isn't really a fear.

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it's more just
a sense of disquiet,

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a feeling that things
are a little wrong.

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it's vague because that's
what that hitchhiker is.

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he's vague.

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i wonder why it is
he's always there.

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i wonder why
i can't shake him.

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do you get many
hitch hikers around here?

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hitch hikers, here? ooh!

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rare, huh?

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it couldn't be no rare.

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the guy would be a fool
h itching a ride on a turnpike.

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look at it. miles and miles
straight away,

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and practically no speed limit.

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now, what car is gonna stop and
pick up a guy under those conditions?

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would you?

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no. i wou dln't.

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now a guy might get a ride
before the turn pike starts.

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you know, maybe
by the toll house or something.

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but even then it would be
a mighty long ride.

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most cars wouldn't wanna
pick up a guy for that long a ride.

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and then, you know,it's kind of
lonely country around here.

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flat land, hills, 
that sort of thing.

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you didn't see anyone
hitching, did you?

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no! no, i didn't see
anyone like that

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i was just wondering, that's all.

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is something wrong, miss?

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i don't know, i--

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i was--
i was just thinking--

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i was just thinking...

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how good it's gonna be 
to be able to stop driving.

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it's getting so--

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i hate that car.

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you'll have to wait
a minute, miss.

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construction ahead.

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all right.

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h eading west?

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no!

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no, i'm not h eading west,
i'm sorry.

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i'm not h eading west, i'm just
going up the road a little way!

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miss, where are you going?

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(adams, off) now the fear
is no longer vague.

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the terror isn't formless.

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it has a form.

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he was beckoning me.

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that thin, gray man
in the cheap, shabby suit.

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he was beckoning me.

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he wanted me
to start to cross.

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he wanted me to die.

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i know that now.

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i don't know what to do now.

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i don't know if i should turn
around and go back to new york

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or go on ahead.

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stabbing little thoughts
gouge my brain.

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ugly, frightened thoughts.

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projections of tomorrow
and the next day

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driving through plains,
driving through the desert,

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unspeakably,
nightmarishly alone.

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and i know i'll see him.

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i'll see him at detours,
at railroad crossings.

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he'll be looking at me
at stoplights.

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i don't know what to do now.

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i don't know what to do.

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i just don't know what to do.

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(adams, off) three days 
and three nights now of driving

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past tennessee into arkansas.

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three days and three nights.

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stop for food and then drive.

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stop for food and then drive,
stop for food--

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and the routine goes on.

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towns go by without names,
landscapes without form.

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now it isn't even a trip,
it's flight.

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route 80 isn't a highway
anymore, it's an escape route.

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so i keep going,
conscious of only one thing,

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i've got to get
where i'm going

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and i can't let that hitchhiker
close in on me.

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(adams, off) on the fourth day,
halfway across new mexico

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i took a side road,
hoping to lose the hitchhiker.

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at 11:00 at night,
the engine stopped,

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and i sit there
in the front seat

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refrigerated by fear,
out of gas!

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please, somebody!

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please, somebody help me!

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yeah?

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what is it?

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what do you want?

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i'm out of gas.

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my car's down the road

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just a quarter of a mile or so.

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well, come back in the morning,
and we'll fix you up.

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please! i can't
stay here all night.

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i have to have some gas.

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lady, it must be past midnight.

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it's only a little bit 
after 1 1 :00.

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well, we close up
here at 9:00.

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please!

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i've got to have a can of gas.

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i just can't stay there
by myself.

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there's a very
suspicious-looking man there.

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what about this man?

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what was he doing?

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well,

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oh, nothing, i--

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i--

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he-- he just stands there

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and i've,

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i've been seeing
this man all the time.

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but he just stands there,

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and he doesn't do anything.

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that's nothing to wake a man up

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in the middle of his sleep about.

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well, i think he's
trying to rob me, i--

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well, if he does, then you come
back here

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and i'll call the sheriff.

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no, please h elp me, please.

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lady?

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yes.

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that's what i am.

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i'm a lady.

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what are you doing
out so late?

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you work here?
this your place?

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no.

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i ran out of gas.

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i'm just a little bit ways
down the road,

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but he won't give me any gas.

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i saw your car.

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you know, you left
your keys in it.

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do you live around here?

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no, no, i'm on my
way back from leave.

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where you headed?

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back to my ship.

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san diego, that's where she is.

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that's where i'm
heading. san diego.

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do you want a ride?

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are you kidding me?

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no, i'm not kidding,
i mean it.

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i'll take you all
the way to san diego.

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will you drive with me?

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lady, you don't
have to ask twice.

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you got yourself a rider, honest.

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i don't have any gas, though.

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we'll fix that up.

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you try the people here?

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the man's in bed.

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let's get him out of bed.

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hey, pop, you got
some custom ers out here!

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say, do you mind
if i take off my shoes?

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my feet feel like
two hot bricks.

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no, go right ahead.

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thanks.

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you know, i keep thinking

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i'll wake up
or something.

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middle of the night,
no cars, no nothing.

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who do i meet?

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lady who looks
like a movie star.

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when i tell the guys
on the sh i p,

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do you know what the odds are 
for even one guy beli eving me?

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i said, "do you know what the odds are
for one guy to believe me?"

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i'll write an affidavit.

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we can get
a notary to sign it.

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you hitch hike much?

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well, back and forth
on leave mostly.

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it's kind of tough
in this open country.

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trucks are all right,
they'll pick you up.

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but you have
trouble with cars.

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you know,
most people in cars

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won't pick up
hitch hikers at night.

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oh, i suppose not.

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i bet if you got a,

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good pickup and a fast car

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you could go places
faster than,

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than, say, anoth er
person in another car.

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i suppose.

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well, take me, for instance.

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suppose i'm driving
across the country

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at a nice steady clip

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of about, oh,
45 miles an hour.

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couldn't a fellow like you

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standing beside the road
waiting for a lift

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beat me to town
after town,

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provided he got
picked up every time

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in a car going about
65 to 70 miles an hour?

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couldn't he?

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well, i suppose.

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maybe he could,
and maybe he couldn't.

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what difference does it make?

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no difference, really, i,

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just a silly kind
of idea i had here

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sitting in the car.

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yeah.

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i guess it's a good way
to spend your time, though, huh?

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what's going on?
what's the matter?

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did you see that man?

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who?

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you must have seen him.

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the one standing
beside the road.

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honey, i didn't see anybody. 
there was nothing there.

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you trying to run us
off the road or something?

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the thin, kind of
g ray-looking man?

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i didn't see anybody.

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lady, you must be
overtired or something.

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i didn't see nobody-- nothing.

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i saw him.

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look, lady, maybe you'd
better let me drive, huh?

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you must have
seen him that time.

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uh-uh, i didn't see anybody.

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what were you trying to do?

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i was trying to h it him.

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what?

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that's right, i was
trying to hit him.

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i thought maybe if i could kill him,
i could make him stop.

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where you going?

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no place in particular.
just out of sight.

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i'm going to go anyplace
that puts distance

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between me
and this automobile.

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please don't go, i just--

00:18:53.543 --> 00:18:55.527
i don't know
what came over me--

00:18:56.311 --> 00:18:57.587
don't go.

00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.000
look, baby, i'd like to get
back to my ship in one piece.

00:19:01.466 --> 00:19:04.002
and driving with you--
that is a lousy guarantee
i'll ever make it.

00:19:04.006 --> 00:19:07.430
please don't go. i promise i'll drive
more carefully now. i promise.

00:19:07.515 --> 00:19:10.350
i'm sorry, lady, i'm sorry.
but you'll have to excuse me.

00:19:10.434 --> 00:19:13.145
you can't go, you understand that?
you just can't go.

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i'll take you all the way
into san diego.

00:19:15.314 --> 00:19:17.607
i'll drive you right
to the docks, i promise.

00:19:18.092 --> 00:19:19.277
thanks,

00:19:20.361 --> 00:19:22.070
but no thanks.

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look, i like you.

00:19:26.001 --> 00:19:28.201
i really like you very much,
as a matter of fact

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that's why i picked you up--
because i liked you.

00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.039
i thought
that we could be friends,

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and i'd kind of like for you
to take me out.

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really.

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please?

00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:45.503
i'm sorry, ma'am.

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no, please. please! look, 
i know you think i'm out of my mind,

00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.065
but i've been seeing this man.

00:19:52.065 --> 00:19:54.101
he's been following me all
the way across the country.

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h elp me and just stay with me
till i reach the coast.

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please don't go!

00:19:58.390 --> 00:19:59.359
please?

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just give me my shoes.

00:20:07.032 --> 00:20:08.033
now, you listen, honey.

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what you need is
a good night's sleep.

00:20:11.012 --> 00:20:15.000
you don't need a boyfriend,
just a good night's sleep.

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i'll see you around.

00:20:17.992 --> 00:20:18.959
no!

00:20:19.064 --> 00:20:20.063
don't go!

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don't go...

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(adams, off) now i'm outside
of a diner near tucson.

00:20:44.018 --> 00:20:47.000
there's a pay phone outside,
and i'm going to call home,

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back to new york.

00:20:48.494 --> 00:20:50.408
put in a call to my mother,

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so i can speak to someone
familiar, someone i love,

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someone to bring back
reality to me.

00:20:58.917 --> 00:21:00.052
just a voice

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a warm, familiar voice
so i won't lose my mind.

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operator, i'd like to make a call
to my home in new york city.

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my name is nan adams.

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the telephone number
is trafalgar 4 1098.

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hello, mother?

00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.000
(woman)
this is mrs. adams' residence,

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whom do you wish
to speak to, please?

00:21:32.067 --> 00:21:33.076
who's this?

00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:34.786
this is mrs. whitney.

00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.800
mrs. whitney?
i don't know any mrs. whitney.

00:21:38.873 --> 00:21:41.000
is this trafalgar 41098?

00:21:41.009 --> 00:21:42.251
yes, it is.

00:21:43.035 --> 00:21:45.087
where's my mother?
where's mrs. adams?

00:21:45.171 --> 00:21:48.440
she's still in the hospital.
a nervous breakdown.

00:21:48.445 --> 00:21:52.870
a nervous breakdown? but there's
nothing the matter with my mother.

00:21:52.870 --> 00:21:54.321
what do you mean,
a n ervous breakdown?

00:21:54.326 --> 00:21:57.500
well, it's all taken place
since the death of her daughter.

00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:01.370
the death of her daughter?

00:22:02.055 --> 00:22:05.000
what do you-- what do you mean,
the death of her daughter?

00:22:08.019 --> 00:22:09.003
who's this?

00:22:10.088 --> 00:22:11.080
what number is this?

00:22:11.095 --> 00:22:13.000
it's all been very sudden.

00:22:13.050 --> 00:22:16.077
nan was killed just six days ago

00:22:16.081 --> 00:22:18.747
in an automobile accident
in pennsylvania.

00:22:18.831 --> 00:22:21.569
a tire blew out
and her car turned over.

00:22:33.762 --> 00:22:35.000
(adams, off) very odd.

00:22:36.006 --> 00:22:38.016
the fear has left me now.

00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:42.053
i'm numb, i have no feeling.

00:22:42.537 --> 00:22:46.000
it's as if someone had pulled
out some kind of a plug in me

00:22:46.901 --> 00:22:51.096
and everything, emotion,
feeling, fear, has drained out.

00:22:52.081 --> 00:22:55.934
and now i'm a cold shell.

00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:59.946
i'm conscious of things
around me now--

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the vast night of arizona,

00:23:03.508 --> 00:23:05.500
the stars that look down
from the darkness.

00:23:07.045 --> 00:23:10.831
ahead of me stretch a thousand
miles of empty mesa--

00:23:11.016 --> 00:23:13.010
mountains, prairies, desert.

00:23:14.595 --> 00:23:17.722
somewhere among them,
he's waiting for me.

00:23:18.507 --> 00:23:21.051
somewhere i'll find out
who he is.

00:23:22.335 --> 00:23:23.812
i'll find out.

00:23:25.397 --> 00:23:27.191
i'll find out what he wants.

00:23:28.875 --> 00:23:33.948
but just now,
for the first time

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looking out at the night

00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.499
i think i know.

00:23:42.600 --> 00:23:44.000
i think i know.

00:23:58.572 --> 00:24:00.432
i believe you're going

00:24:01.100 --> 00:24:02.292
my way?

00:24:03.377 --> 00:24:06.379
(male narrator)
nan adams, age 27.

00:24:06.563 --> 00:24:10.442
she was driving to california,
to los angeles.

00:24:13.145 --> 00:24:14.404
there was a detour

00:24:15.100 --> 00:24:17.423
through the twilight zone.