Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) ( 1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing).Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with).Next on The Twilight Zone, " Twenty-Two". Bennett Cerf, who describes it as "an age-old horror tale whose origin is unknown." We've dressed it up in some hospital wrappings and enlisted the performance of Miss Barbara Nichols. This is Room 22 and on the other side of its doors lies an adventure that is as fascinating as it is inexplicable. Poole, a human coin, on edge for a brief time - in the Twilight Zone." Preview for Next Week's Story "One time in a million, a coin will land on its edge, but all it takes to knock it over is a vagrant breeze, a vibration, or a slight blow. His mind-reading ability is gone, but he is a man changed for the better. Smithers a long-overdue vacation.Īfter work, as Hector returns home with Miss Turner, he inadvertently knocks the standing coin over. Bagby that he deserves to be accounts manager, but when the bank manager resists reason, Hector uses his knowledge of his boss's adultery to blackmail him into granting the promotion and into giving Mr. With Miss Turner's telepathic encouragement, Hector makes the case to Mr. Sykes has been arrested for gambling with company money. Bagby fires Hector, but reinstates him when he discovers that Mr. When Smithers proves to be innocent of the plan, he admits having fantasized for years about stealing money from the bank but would never go through with such a plan because he is too much a coward. Smithers, apparently planning to steal cash from the bank, and alerts Mr. Shortly afterwards, Hector hears an old, trusted employee, Mr. Hector also "hears" the thoughts of Miss Turner, a co-worker who admires him from afar and wishes he would be more assertive, and decides to take her into his confidence and reveals his psychic abilities to her. Bagby, and thwarts the businessman's plans. Sykes, thinks about taking out a large loan to pay for a run at the horse track to win back money he has embezzled from his company. He first "hears" his boss thinking about a weekend affair he is planning with his mistress. He discovers that he is able to "hear" other people's thoughts, and is surprised to hear the things people are thinking around him. Hector Poole, a sensitive, insecure bank clerk, gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. Poole, a bright human coin - on his way to the bank." Episode Summary But in one freakish chance in a million, it'll land on its edge. What are the odds? Half the time it will come up heads, half the time tails.
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