Trooper Robert Franklin (Peter Mark Richman) pays a visit to ex-New York fashion editor Charlotte Scott (Hazel Court) at her remote cabin to investigate her story of strange lights in the sky. At first, Miss Scott is rude to the officer, but eventually admits that she only acts superior to hide the fact that she's a frightened woman. That night, Miss Scott experiences a new level of terror when she and Robert are subjected to a series of inexplicable occurrences.
The Fear, the penultimate episode of The Twilight Zone, is a slight return to form after the abysmal Come Wander with Me. It's message, that that being frightened is normal and it's how we react to fear that makes the difference, isn't particularly insightful, but the story itself is quite a lot of fun, as is the wonderfully cheezy comic-book twist. The episode is directed in style by Ted Post, who also gave us the amusing Mr. Garrity and the Graves (Season 5, Episode 32), the predictable Probe 7, Over and Out (Season 5, Episode 9) and the highly enjoyable A World of Difference (Season 1, Episode 23).