Gregory West is a playwright.\u00a0 His wife Victoria suspects her husband of engaging in a love affair with a mysterious blonde.\u00a0 When we first see Gregory, he is sitting in his study sharing a drink and a tender moment with Mary, the blonde Victoria is searching for.\u00a0 But outside the bay window of the room we see a dark-haired woman staring in.\u00a0 This is Victoria.\u00a0 She enters the house and calls into the study telling Gregory to let her in.\u00a0 When he does let her in, she searches for Mary and even checks the walls for hidden doors.\u00a0 When she finally tells that she saw him with a woman he explains what is going on.<\/p>\n
Gregory relates that for a playwright sometimes a character can have a will of his own and in fact one day a character he was writing showed up at the house and disputed with him over his actions.\u00a0 Then he explained that one day he thought up the character of Mary to give him a low-key companion who wasn\u2019t as intimidating as his \u201cperfect\u201d wife Victoria.\u00a0 He recorded a description on his dictation tape recorder and she appeared.\u00a0 And when he needed her to disappear, he cut the piece of tape on his recorder that contained her description and threw it in the fireplace and when it burned Mary would disappear.<\/p>\n
Victoria didn\u2019t believe a word of this and told Gregory that he was lying.\u00a0 So, Gregory demonstrated.\u00a0 He described her and narrated her reaching the house and walking into the house and into the study.\u00a0 And there she was, the woman that Victoria had seen through the window.\u00a0 But Victoria didn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 She thought it was a set-up.\u00a0 So, Gregory snipped the tape and threw it into the fireplace and Mary disappeared in front of Victoria.<\/p>\n
Now Victoria decides that she will have Gregory locked up in an insane asylum and tells him so.\u00a0 Gregory believes her and tells her that she herself is also a product of his imagination and shows her a piece of tape in an envelope with her name on it in a safe in the room.\u00a0 She scoffs at him and throws the piece of tape in the fire.\u00a0 And Victoria disappears.<\/p>\n
Sighing, Gregory starts up his tape recorder and starts describing Victoria, then stops, rewinds the recorder and instead conjures up Mary.\u00a0 Only this time he calls her Mary West, his wife.\u00a0 She appears and their mutual love and happiness is visible.<\/p>\n
Now Rod Serling is in the room and he\u2019s disparaging the reality of such an impossible story and Gregory takes offense and takes out an envelope with Rod Serling\u2019s name on it and throws it into the fire.\u00a0 Rod shrugs, smiles and disappears.\u00a0 And we are left with Gregory and Mary happily ever after in the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n
As you know I like the fun episodes.\u00a0 This is a fun episode.\u00a0 Even the usually dour Serling shows some humor.\u00a0 And of course, I always like when an insufferable woman gets her comeuppance.\u00a0 B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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