- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: If I gotta stay here another day, I'm gonna go nuts! Look, look. I don't belong in heaven - see? I wanna go to the other place.
- Mr. Pip: Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This *is* the other place!
- [laughs malevolently as Valentine tries to get out of the room, to no avail]
- Mr. Pip: [spontaneously appearing behind Rocky] Yes, Mr. Valentine, what can I do for you?
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: [in a fit] Will you stop creeping around?
- Mr. Pip: Anything you say, sir.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: "Anything I say, anything I say." Knock it off, will you!
- Mr. Pip: Why? Is something wrong?
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: No, no, nothing's wrong; everything is just peachy! Look, I've been in this dump for a month and I can't stand it anymore!
- Mr. Pip: But I don't understand.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: Alright, I'll spell it out for you, Fats. I'm bored! *Bored*! I mean, there's no excitement around here, no kicks!
- Mr. Pip: Yeah, but the gambling, I thought you enjoyed that!
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: I do! But when you win *every* time, that ain't gambling, that's charity!
- Narrator: [Closing Narration] A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he's ever wanted - and he's going to have to live with it for eternity - in The Twilight Zone.
- Narrator: [opening narration] Portrait of a man at work, the only work he's ever done, the only work he knows. His name is Henry Francis Valentine, but he calls himself "Rocky", because that's the way his life has been - rocky and perilous and uphill at a dead run all the way. He's tired now, tired of running or wanting, of waiting for the breaks that come to others but never to him, never to Rocky Valentine. A scared, angry little man. He thinks it's all over now but he's wrong. For Rocky Valentine, it's just the beginning.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: What's going on here? Where am I?
- Mr. Pip: Mr. Valentine, do you remember when we met earlier today? I told you I was in a sense, your guide and you said you needed a guide like a hole in the head.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: Yeah.
- Mr. Pip: Well, as a matter of strict fact, you had a hole in the head only a short time before: a bullet hole.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: Yeah, that's right. The cops, they... Then I must... I must be dead!
- Mr. Pip: Mmm-hmm.
- Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine: If I'm dead, then all of this, the joint, the clothes and the booze, then I must be in heaven. Yeah! That's it! That's it! I'm in heaven, right? And you're my guardian angel, something like that?
- Mr. Pip: Oh, something like that. Yes, Mr. Valentine.