- Rod Serling - Narrator: [Opening Narration] Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Phillipine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight, as if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear - yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat, and these are the faces of war.
- Rod Serling - Narrator: [Closing Narration] From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.' And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone.
- Capt. Phil Riker: [after Fitzgerald saw a light on Smitty's face and dies minutes later] Fitz?
- Lt. Fitzgerald: I was up seeing Smitty.
- Capt. Phil Riker: Yeah, I know. I read his tag. Doc said he's gonna be OK.
- Lt. Fitzgerald: No, he isn't. I took a look on his face. I took a look at his face and I knew. And a minute later, he's gone.
- Capt. Phil Riker: Same thing?
- Lt. Fitzgerald: Same thing. The look... funny light or whatever it is. And I knew, Phil. I knew.
- Capt. Phil Riker: Fitz, I can't explain this, but...
- Lt. Fitzgerald: I don't want you to explain it. How can you explain it? I mean, how can anybody explain it. I just want you to believe it, Captain, that's all I want from you. I want you to believe it.