Odd Martin claims he drowned twenty years ago during a flood that destroyed his farm and livestock. The locals think he's a kook, except for one little boy who tells Martin that he knows the man is dead. A newly arrived manicurist arrives in town and takes a kindly fascination to the eccentric gentleman. A friendship follows between these two lonely souls, until one day Odd Martin decides to ask Ms. Weldon (Louise Fletcher) to marry him. Seeing as how he's already bought a dress she liked in a shop window, she agrees, to the astonishment of the townspeople.
This is one of those Bradbury stories that just seems to abruptly end leaving the viewer to reach their own conclusion. The young boy mentioned earlier follows the couple on their 'wedding day' to a cemetery, where they enter a mausoleum, and then the program is over. I won't even speculate on what kind of macabre ending might have been in store for Ms. Weldon, now Mrs. Martin. Maybe the best thing is to simply consider them the Odd Couple.
This is one of those Bradbury stories that just seems to abruptly end leaving the viewer to reach their own conclusion. The young boy mentioned earlier follows the couple on their 'wedding day' to a cemetery, where they enter a mausoleum, and then the program is over. I won't even speculate on what kind of macabre ending might have been in store for Ms. Weldon, now Mrs. Martin. Maybe the best thing is to simply consider them the Odd Couple.