Paul Radin is a very rich man with a NYC skyscraper with his name on it.\u00a0 In the sub-basement of this building (300 feet below the surface) he\u2019s built a nuclear bomb shelter with eighteen-inch-thick concrete walls encased in six inches of lead.\u00a0 And he\u2019s installed an audio-visual system that can mimic the experience of a nuclear explosion outside of the bunker.\u00a0 Mr. Radin is a devious man who has conquered the business world without any need for honor or a conscious.<\/p>\n
He has invited three people to his shelter.\u00a0 They are one of his old high school teachers, Mrs. Langsford, his former pastor Mr. Hughes and his commanding officer from the war, Col. Hawthorne.\u00a0 When they arrive, he reminds each of them of the time when each had humiliated him.\u00a0 His teacher had berated him for cheating and then trying to blame the incident on someone else.\u00a0 Col. Hawthorne had him court-martialed for refusing to follow a direct order to join a battle.\u00a0 And Mr. Hughes had exposed the fact that a girl committed suicide over Radin.<\/p>\n
Then Radin reveals why they were invited.\u00a0 He claims that he has classified information that a Russian nuclear attack will occur in a few minutes and New York will be obliterated, all except him in his shelter.\u00a0 And he has invited them to share his bomb shelter and survive.\u00a0 The proviso is that each beg his forgiveness for the offenses they committed against him.\u00a0 When they ask to leave, he demands that they stop the pretense and realize that as soon as they leave, they will panic and come running back.\u00a0 They leave undeterred and when he holds open the elevator door to give them one last chance the school teacher basically tells him that he is the one to be pitied because he will be trapped with himself.<\/p>\n
After they leave, Radin feels the detonation of the nuclear bomb.\u00a0 He takes the elevator to the surface and sees that the city is in rubble.\u00a0 He breaks down and mourns for his own loneliness in the empty world that is left.\u00a0 But then we see that all of this scene is in his imagination and that the city is untouched.\u00a0 Radin is lying by the fountain in front of his building crying hysterically.\u00a0 He\u2019s gone insane from frustration and fear.<\/p>\n
Between this episode and the earlier third season episode called \u201cThe Shelter,\u201d I get the idea that Rod Serling is miffed that some people had bomb shelters.\u00a0 I suppose he felt it wasn\u2019t egalitarian that some would survive. \u00a0All that aside, this is a pretty weak episode.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t seem very likely that a narcissist would crack up because some people didn\u2019t like him.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go with a C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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