The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Silence (1961)

Jonathan Harris: George Alfred

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• Col. Archie Taylor : Oh, hello, Alfred. Franklin told me you were waiting.

  George Alfred : Only to pose this question to you. Very succinct Archie, very brief. How long?

  Col. Archie Taylor : How long what?

  George Alfred : How long are you going to keep on with this..this prolonged practical joke?

  Col. Archie Taylor : Well, not much longer.

  Franklin : [Hand's the Colonel his hat] 

  Col. Archie Taylor : [Takes his hat from Franklin]  Thank you, Franklin.

  Col. Archie Taylor : You should see our boy down there. 4 and a half months, not a sound out of him. It's incredible. That fop won't take it for another month. This I'll guarantee you.

  George Alfred : For your sake, I hope that's the case.

  Col. Archie Taylor : My sake?

  George Alfred : You have the money, Archie?

  Col. Archie Taylor : I find that insulting, Alfred.

  George Alfred : I'm sorry if it is. I think he's going to beat you, Archie. I think that boy down there is going to remain silent for the entire year. And I think you're going to owe him $500,000. I just hope you've got it

• Col. Archie Taylor : [Walking nervously back and forth] 

  George Alfred : A rather monumental occasion isn't it, Archie? 12 months ago, to the moment you destroyed yourself. Much as I told you you would.

  Col. Archie Taylor : Your little reminders are gratuitous, Alfred. Besides it's not yet 10:00.

• George Alfred : The letter you sent me is the most incredible thing I have ever read. Archie we're old friends, I must tell you...

  Col. Archie Taylor : My communication to you, Alfred, was not as an old friend, but as my Lawyer. Is the wager I have in mind legal?

  George Alfred : No wager is legal in this state.

  Col. Archie Taylor : Well, is it against the law, then? Is there anything criminal in it?

  George Alfred : I don't see anything criminal in it, no.

  Col. Archie Taylor : Alfred, that is exactly what I wanted to hear from you.

• George Alfred : Tennyson, I've known Colonel Taylor for a long time. This is not a capricious man. I warn you, he's is in deadly earnest.

  Jamie Tennyson : Do you know my Wife, Sir? Her name is Doris. She's a lovely thing, frail, beautiful, fragile. Like a Cameo Brooch. But her tastes run to unfragile things, sizable baubles for sizable price tags. She shops at Tiffany's the way other women enter a Supermarket. My miserable misfortune is that I happen to be very much in love with her. I am also desperate in need of money. I may sound melodramatic, but it happens to be true.