The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

On Thursday We Leave for Home (1963)

James Broderick: Al

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• Al : Isn't living tough enough here we shouldn't have to go by the book? Isn't it hot enough and miserable enough there shouldn't be rules? We shouldn't have to suffer by the numbers? Will somebody please make the simple comment there's more happiness going into that grave? More peace of mind than all the mourners put together. Nothing but anguish here. Captain Benteen, let us live with it our own way. Or let us die from it - in our own way!

  Captain Benteen : [addressing the crowd]  Young Mr. Baines would have us lie down in the sun. Young Mr. Baines would have us give in to death, while there is still life. He'd end the rules. Throw away the regulations. No more standing in line for water. We'll let the strong take away from the weak. And no more food rationing. Let the young steal from the old. And when that ship does arrive, it won't find a society. Just a pack. Not one human being left alive. Only animals.

• Col. Sloane : [Sloane shouts in the cavern]  Captain? Benteen?

  [Long pause, no response] 

  Col. Sloane : We know you can hear us. We know you're in here someplace. Come out. Please. Let us talk to you.

  [Long pause, no response] 

  Col. Sloane : We're leaving now, Benteen. We have to take off in five minutes or we'll lose our orbital position. It'll be too late for us.

  [Long pause, no response] 

  Col. Sloane : Benteen, it has to be now.

  Al : Captain, please.

  [Long pause, no response] 

  Al : Please come out!

  Col. Sloane : Benteen, remember this: if we leave without you, there'll be no ships returning here. This is where you'll live from this moment on. And this is where you'll die.

  [Still no response] 

  Col. Sloane : All right, Benteen. As you prefer. Come on, let's go, Baines.

  [Exits] 

  Al : Good-bye... Captain Benteen.

  [Exits]