- Doris Richards: Remember what that Shaman said when we were drilling in Africa? He said that we were hurting the land, that we were making it bleed, that the land would make us pay.
- Alan Richards: [thinking of the animal on his doorstep] If you wanted to get hold of a dead goat on an hour's notice, where would you go?
- Chad: To a psychiatrist.
- [opening narration]
- Narrator: The carcass of a goat, a dead finger, a few bits of broken glass and stone, and Mr. Alan Richards, a modern man of a modern age, hating with all his heart something in which he cannot believe and preparing - although he doesn't know it - to take the longest walk of his life, right down to the center - of The Twilight Zone.
- [closing narration]
- Narrator: Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power. You'll hear of it through a jungle grapevine in a remote corner of the Twilight Zone.
- Alan Richards: I'll be back tonight.
- Doris Richards: You'll never be back.
- [he goes to the door]
- Doris Richards: Don't open that door.
- [he looks back, opens the door, finds a dead goat outside]
- Alan Richards: Are there any more souvenirs? We aren't in Africa anymore any longer, we are right here in New York. You understand what I'm saying ? This is for weak people. Ignorant, uncivilized people who don't know any better. Not for you, not for me. Doris, listen to me, we have done nothing wrong, we have nothing to fear. Least of all, from a bunch of witchdoctors 5,000 miles away. What are you afraid of?
- Alan Richards: It's my job to engineer an hydroelectric project, not pander to ignorant witch doctors.
- Chad: Leveling and drainage have already been started, as well as some preliminary work on the dam itself. Now our time of completion will have to be upped by about three to six months but this shouldn't affect our general cost more than a few thousand dollars in either direction.