The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Number 12 Looks Just Like You (1964)

Collin Wilcox Paxton: Marilyn Cuberle

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• Marilyn Cuberle : Yes, but is that good? Being like everybody? I mean, isn't that the same as being nobody?

• 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!

• Uncle Rick : You know what I think? You don't feel very well. What you need is a nice cup of Instant Smile. I'll see if...

  Marilyn Cuberle : [loudly interrupting]  I *had* a cup of Instant Smile! I don't *feel* like smiling all the time! Sometimes I want to cry or frown! Don't you understand?

  Uncle Rick : Marilyn, you are a very sick girl.

• Marilyn Cuberle : Am I very homely now?

  Lana Cuberle : No, darling, not to me. But afterwards, you'll be beautiful.

• Marilyn Cuberle : But I'm not ugly. I'm not pretty, but I'm not ugly.

  Professor Sigmund Friend : [laughing]  But to others you are.

• Marilyn Cuberle : Did you know that Dostoyevsky was an epileptic? He was ugly, he was deformed, but he wrote about beauty, about real beauty!

  Professor Sigmund Friend : Marilyn, I must warn you this kind of subversive...

  Marilyn Cuberle : These men wrote about life and about the dignity of the individual human spirit, and about love.

  Professor Sigmund Friend : This is enough!

• Professor Sigmund Friend : You see, the transformation must be performed when the body and the tissue are at the proper state.

  Marilyn Cuberle : No, I'll never change my mind.

• Marilyn Cuberle : I don't want to be transformed, I want to stay ugly.

• [first lines] 

  Lana Cuberle : I can't decide, 8 or 12. I think 12 might suit you better. What do you think, Marilyn?

  Marilyn Cuberle : [looks up, while browsing catalogue]  Hmm?

  Lana Cuberle : You weren't even listening.

  Marilyn Cuberle : I'm sorry, mother.

  Lana Cuberle : I don't understand you, darling. Most girls your age are thrilled to death when it comes time to pick a pattern. You haven't even looked at the ones the bureau sent over.

  Marilyn Cuberle : Oh, I looked at 'em.

  Lana Cuberle : [dreamily]  I remember how excited I was before I was done. I couldn't sleep for nights. I finally chose number 12. I guess that's everybody's favorite.

• Marilyn Cuberle : Oh, Mother - Mother, don't you understand? They don't care whether you're beautiful or not, they just want everyone to be the same, that's all!