The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

A Nice Place to Visit (1960)

Larry Blyden: Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine

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• Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : If I gotta stay here another day, I'm gonna go nuts! Look, look. I don't belong in heaven - see? I wanna go to the other place.

  Mr. Pip : Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This *is* the other place!

  [laughs malevolently as Valentine tries to get out of the room, to no avail] 

• Mr. Pip : [spontaneously appearing behind Rocky]  Yes, Mr. Valentine, what can I do for you?

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : [in a fit]  Will you stop creeping around?

  Mr. Pip : Anything you say, sir.

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : "Anything I say, anything I say." Knock it off, will you!

  Mr. Pip : Why? Is something wrong?

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : No, no, nothing's wrong; everything is just peachy! Look, I've been in this dump for a month and I can't stand it anymore!

  Mr. Pip : But I don't understand.

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : Alright, I'll spell it out for you, Fats. I'm bored! *Bored*! I mean, there's no excitement around here, no kicks!

  Mr. Pip : Yeah, but the gambling, I thought you enjoyed that!

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : I do! But when you win *every* time, that ain't gambling, that's charity!

• Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : What's going on here? Where am I?

  Mr. Pip : Mr. Valentine, do you remember when we met earlier today? I told you I was in a sense, your guide and you said you needed a guide like a hole in the head.

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : Yeah.

  Mr. Pip : Well, as a matter of strict fact, you had a hole in the head only a short time before: a bullet hole.

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : Yeah, that's right. The cops, they... Then I must... I must be dead!

  Mr. Pip : Mmm-hmm.

  Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : If I'm dead, then all of this, the joint, the clothes and the booze, then I must be in heaven. Yeah! That's it! That's it! I'm in heaven, right? And you're my guardian angel, something like that?

  Mr. Pip : Oh, something like that. Yes, Mr. Valentine.

• Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine : Everything I ever got out of this world I had to drag out of it.