Inger Stevens plays a young woman named Nan Adams who is driving across country from New York City to Los Angeles.\u00a0 When we meet her, she is in rural Pennsylvania waiting while a mechanic changes out a tire that blew out while she was driving.\u00a0 He tells her how very lucky she was not to have been killed by the high speed blow out on that stretch of road.\u00a0 As she is leaving the area, she notices a hitchhiker looking at her.\u00a0 Later on, that day she happens to catch sight of this same tramp hitching at the side of the road.\u00a0 After several more days and numerous more sightings of this man she became terrified by his continuing ability to stay ahead of her on the road.\u00a0 Finally, in panic, she attempts to cross a railroad crossing and is almost hit by the train.\u00a0 Now she is sure the tramp is trying to get her killed.\u00a0 Later she convinces a sailor to ride with her to California and while driving she sees the hitchhiker and tries to run him over.\u00a0 This panics the sailor and he leaves Nan.<\/p>\n
Completely demoralized, Nan stops at a phone to call her mother back in New York City.\u00a0 She reaches the number but is told by someone she doesn\u2019t know that her mother has had a nervous breakdown after the death of her daughter Nan in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania several days before.<\/p>\n
Now she knows that the hitchhiker is death waiting for her to realize that she is already dead.\u00a0 And just as she gets back in her car, she sees the tramp in her rear-view mirror and he says \u201cI believe you\u2019re going my way?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Twilight Zone specialized in stories about people who were misinformed about themselves.\u00a0 Sometimes they didn\u2019t know they were manikins or robots or dead or on Earth instead of an asteroid.\u00a0 But you can always see it coming a mile away.\u00a0 Since this is the first \u201cdidn\u2019t know I was dead\u201d episode I\u2019ll take only half a grade off and give it a B- (plus Inger Stevens was a very pretty girl which counts for something with me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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