Even a penny is too much to know what the great deceiver has in store for you, or wants you to think he has in store. For engaged couple William Shatner and Patricia Breslin, being stuck in a roadside diner, it starts off as a novelty but quickly turns to obsession for Shatner. The questions start off simply but quickly become more serious and sinister, with the obviously superstitious Shatner getting more and more paranoid. The bobble headed Satan is creepy enough to see in small shots, but the close-ups are downright horrific as Shatner obviously starts to go mad in spite of Breslin's plea for him to stop.
Only two episodes after "The Howling Man", this seems to be a follow-up as the married couple seem to be dealing with the escaped evil of that classic episode. The young Shatner is perfectly obsessive with the need to know the future, and this of course indicates that their future will not be a happy one. The subjects of trinkets like rabbits feet and four-leaf clovers are dealt with subtlety as a way of warning the audience of how superstition can take over one's mind to the point of no return. The perfect little Ohio town is a great setting for such a sinister subject to be set in, and the final scene creates a bit of irony as well.
Only two episodes after "The Howling Man", this seems to be a follow-up as the married couple seem to be dealing with the escaped evil of that classic episode. The young Shatner is perfectly obsessive with the need to know the future, and this of course indicates that their future will not be a happy one. The subjects of trinkets like rabbits feet and four-leaf clovers are dealt with subtlety as a way of warning the audience of how superstition can take over one's mind to the point of no return. The perfect little Ohio town is a great setting for such a sinister subject to be set in, and the final scene creates a bit of irony as well.