The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Jeopardy Room (1964)

Bob Kelljan: Boris - Vassiloff's Assistant

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Quotes 

• [Vassiloff and Boris are in Kuchenko's room cleaning up evidence] 

  Boris - Vassiloff's Assistant : [holding up his gun]  Commissar? It would've been better, wouldn't it?

  Commissar Vassiloff : It's alright. I'll get him in the next city. Now that I know that he is a most resourceful adversary.

  [the phone rings, Boris unthinkingly picks it up] 

  Commissar Vassiloff : NO, BORIS!

  [an explosion triggered by the phone goes off, Vassiloff and Boris are killed. The screen cuts to Major Kuchenko on a phone booth at an airport] 

  Phone operator : I'm sorry, sir. The line seems to be disconnected. I'm unable to reach your party.

  Major Ivan Kuchenko : It's alright, operator. I... I have reached them.

  [hangs up the phone as his flight to New York City is called for boarding] 

• Boris - Vassiloff's Assistant : What, are we not going to kill him?

  Commissar Vassiloff : The impatience of the bourgeois. They do not sip wine. They gulp it down like a soft drink. They do not caress women. They devour them. They do not sniff at the essence of a rare perfume. No, they try to jam it into their nostrils. Boris, the gentleman will die. Indeed, he will. But I want him to die with finesse, with subtlety and a degree of thought. That is a good death.

  Boris - Vassiloff's Assistant : I did not know there was a good death and a bad death.