Rod Serling tells us the town we see has been deserted for five years after a war.\u00a0 He tells us this could be a century in the future or a million years in the past.<\/p>\n
A shapely young woman in a military uniform arrives in the town.\u00a0 Her face is covered in grime and she seems very wary of her surroundings.\u00a0 Walking down the street she sees a building with a sign that says restaurant.\u00a0 She walks in and rummages through the shelves until she finds a food can.\u00a0 She opens it but before she has a chance to examine its contents, she sees a man enter wearing a military uniform different from hers.\u00a0 She immediately throws a kitchen cleaver at him and follows it up with a frying pan.\u00a0 He dodges the missiles and attempts to restrain her but she continues to pummel him with kitchen ironmongery so he clocks her in the jaw and knocks her cold.<\/p>\n
The man (played by Charles Bronson) walks over to the can of food and starts eating the chicken drumsticks it contains.\u00a0 On a personal note, the chicken always made me a little hungry but I think I might have hesitated to eat canned chicken that was over five years old.<\/p>\n
Now the man goes over to the unconscious woman (played by Elizabeth Montgomery a very attractive actress of the day) and checks to see if he has broken her jaw.\u00a0 Satisfied that she is intact, he picks up a pot of water and pours it over her face.\u00a0 This revives her and she cowers at his feet.\u00a0 Neither speaks the other\u2019s language but he tries anyway to tell her that there is no longer any reason for them to be enemies.\u00a0 He pushes the can of chicken toward her and leaves the building.<\/p>\n
He walks down the street and finds a barber shop.\u00a0 He gathers a razor and some soap and water and proceeds to give himself a shave.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the girl has finished her meal and has followed him into the barber shop.\u00a0 As he finishes his shave, he tosses her a bar of soap and she washes her face.\u00a0 Now feeling slightly more human they walk out on the street together and inspect the town.\u00a0 They walk over to the movie theater and see a poster for a war-time romance film which makes them smile but then they both notice two skeletons with rifles.\u00a0 Each grabs a rifle and points it at the other but the man soon decides to just ignore the threat and walks away with the rifle strapped over his shoulder.\u00a0 The girl follows behind him and they end up in front of a clothes store and they both look at a mannequin wearing an evening dress.\u00a0 The girl says something that must mean pretty and the man goes into the window display and takes the dress off the mannequin and throws it to the girl.\u00a0 He walks to next door and points to it to tell her to go inside and change into the dress.\u00a0 After hesitating for a moment, she goes inside and he waits across the street on the curb.<\/p>\n
Inside she begins to get undressed but the storefront is a recruiting station and there are pictures of the armed forces and they represent her army as the enemy.\u00a0 This angers her and she runs out the door and fires two energy rounds at the man (so it is not the 20th<\/sup> century anyway).\u00a0 She misses him with the shots but keeps the rifle trained on him.\u00a0 He reacts in shocked disbelief but soon walks away and is gone.<\/p>\n In the next scene the girl is sleeping in the barber shop during a rain storm and looking very lonely.\u00a0 The next day the man is on a second story porch putting on some civilian clothes and gathering some jars of preserved fruit.\u00a0 When he looks down, he sees the girl\u2019s head poking above a car parked across the street.\u00a0 He yells to her to go away because, \u201cthis is civilian territory.\u201d\u00a0 But she walks around the car and he can now see that she is wearing the evening dress.\u00a0 Smiling, he throws her a jar of fruit and walks down the street in front of her.\u00a0 She hurries to catch up to him and lifts her dress to walk faster and we can see she\u2019s still wearing her army boots.\u00a0 She catches up to him and they walk on hand in hand.<\/p>\n Bronson and Montgomery are perhaps the least likely couple I could imagine in a love story.\u00a0 But damned if this isn\u2019t a very affecting and enjoyable teleplay.\u00a0 It\u2019s especially interesting that Bronson was given all the lines.\u00a0 He is usually the strong silent type in his movies.\u00a0 Good Zone.\u00a0 A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rod Serling tells us the town we see has been deserted for five years after a war.\u00a0 He tells us this could be a century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,4,244,240,1661],"tags":[38,1355,1194,44,309,265,1691,154,1692,838,1656],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-tv-reviews","category-tv-reviews","category-twilight-zone","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-rod-serling","tag-sci-fi","tag-sci-fi-tv-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-sff-tv-show-reviews","tag-tv-review","tag-tv-reviews","tag-twilight-zone","tag-two"],"yoast_head":"\n