The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Number 12 Looks Just Like You (1964)

Pamela Austin: Valerie, Marilyn

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• Valerie : I've been thinking about what you said. I mean about what your father said. Well, I don't see why you're so concerned about him. He's dead. I mean, surely you've had other fathers. My mother's been married eleven times, and personally, I've liked the stepfathers better anyway.

  Marilyn Cuberle : Valerie, please don't.

  Valerie : Look, I know you've had nine fathers since the first one. Everybody marries everybody these days.

  Marilyn Cuberle : Valerie, stop.

  Valerie : I just don't see how anybody can stay married to the same husband for a hundred years. And besides, I've heard that your father was pretty dull.

  Marilyn Cuberle : Valerie, stop it! Stop talking about my father! Can't any of you understand? I loved him. I cared about him. He was good, and he was kind, and he cared about me, not what I wore, not the way I looked, but what I thought, what I felt. And what's more important, he cared about himself and his dignity as a human being. Valerie, he didn't die in the Ganymede Incident. My father killed himself. Because when they took away his identity, he had no reason to go on living.

  Valerie : [shocked]  I just don't understand you, Marilyn.

  Marilyn Cuberle : Valerie... Can't you feel *anything*?

  Valerie : Well, of course, silly. I feel - I feel good. I always feel good. Life is pretty, life is fun. I am all, and all is one.

  Marilyn Cuberle : [half-laughing, half-crying]  You can't understand, can you?

  Valerie : What?

  Marilyn Cuberle : [sobbing]  They can't understand! They can't understand! They can't understand!

• Marilyn : And the nicest part of all, Val, I look just like you.