The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

To Serve Man (1962)

Lloyd Bochner: Michael Chambers

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• Michael Chambers : *SPOILER*

  [to the audience] 

  Michael Chambers : How about you? You still on Earth, or on the ship, with me? Well, it doesn't make very much difference because sooner or later we'll, all of us, be on the menu. All of us.

• Michael Chambers : [narrating]  This is the way nightmares begin - or, perhaps, end. Very simple, direct, unadorned. Incredible, and yet so terribly real, that even while they're happening we live with them, and digest them, and assimilate them. And if it's twelve o'clock noon, that's what you preoccupy yourself with. You don't think about twelve o'clock noon on the next day or the day after that. But that's what we should have been thinking about - tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We were preoccupied with hands on a clock - when we should have been checking off a calendar.

• Michael Chambers : What time is it?

  Kanamit : There is no time in space. This is to say there is no chronology that can be calibrated.

  Michael Chambers : I said what time is it, what time is it on earth? Can you tell me that without an exercise in euclidean geometry? Now, just tell me what time it is on earth.

  Kanamit : On earth it would be 12:00 noon.

• Michael Chambers : Well, that makes the cheese a little more binding, wouldn't you say, Colonel?