The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Where Is Everybody? (1959)

Earl Holliman: Mike Ferris

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Quotes 

• Mike Ferris : [to his reflection]  I'm sorry, old buddy; I don't recollect the name. The face is vaguely familiar but the name escapes me.

• Mike Ferris : Next time, it won't be just a box in a hangar, will it?

  Air Force General : No, Mike. Next time, you'll really be alone.

• Mike Ferris : [noticing he's wearing similar overalls to a man in a movie poster]  Air Force. Air Force. Air Force! I'm Air Force.

  [running into the theater] 

  Mike Ferris : Air Force. I'm in the Air Force! I'm in the Air Force! Hey, I'm in the Air Force!

• Mike Ferris : [in an empty police station]  I wish I could shake that crazy feeling of being watched... listened to.

  [picking up the dispatch radio] 

  Mike Ferris : Calling all cars. Calling all cars. Unknown man walking around police station. Suspicious-looking character. Probably wanted by the F...

  [he trails off as he notices a lit cigar] 

• Mike Ferris : [in an ice cream shop, talking to his reflection]  I'll tell you what my problem is. I'm in the middle of a nightmare I can't wake up from. And you're part of it. You and the ice cream and the police station and the phone booth, that little mannequin, this whole bloody town, wherever it is, whatever it is. I just remembered something. Scrooge said it. You remember Scrooge, old buddy? Ebenezer Scrooge? That's what he said to that ghost, Jacob Marley. He said, "You may be a bit of undigested beef, a crumb of cheese, a blot of mustard, a fragment of an undone potato. But there's more of gravy than of grave about you." You see, that's what you are. You're what I had for dinner last night. You must be. But now I've had it. I'd like to wake up. I'd like to wake up now. If I can't wake up, at least I'd like to find somebody to talk to.

  [noticing the local high school basketball schedule] 

  Mike Ferris : Well, I must be a very imaginative guy. Nobody in the whole bloody world could have a dream as complete as mine... right down to the last detail.

• Mike Ferris : [trapped in a phone booth]  All right, who's the wise guy? Who locked the door? It's a great gag. How about a hand, somebody? A little assistance. How about it? This is an absolutely hysterical town, and I'm growing very fond of it. This isn't funny anymore. I don't like this jazz. It's getting dull.

• Air Force General : How do you feel, son?

  Mike Ferris : I feel much better, sir. I'm sorry about toward the end.

  Air Force General : It's all right.

  Air Force Colonel : What was it like, Ferris? Where did you think you were?

  Mike Ferris : A place I don't want to go again, sir. A town; a town without people, without anybody. What was the matter with me, doc? Just off my rocker, huh?

  Air Force Colonel : Just a kind of a nightmare that your mind manufactured for you.

• Mike Ferris : Air Force. What does that mean? Was there a bo... that must have been it, a bomb. But if there was a bomb, everything would be destroyed, and nothing is destroyed.

• Mike Ferris : [looking up names in a phone directory]  Abel, Adams, Alan, Aleman. Look, boys, where are you? Where do you boys live, just in this book? Baker, Bartman, Belat, Bellman? Well, gang, who's watching the store? Who's watching any of the stores?

• Mike Ferris : [in an empty diner]  Say, I noticed there's a town just up the road. What's the name of it?

  [getting no response, he climbs over the counter and heads to the kitchen] 

  Mike Ferris : Customer.

  [going to the back door and opening it] 

  Mike Ferris : Hey, you got a customer out front. Customer!

  [closing the door] 

  Mike Ferris : Ham and eggs! Eggs over easy, hash browns. Hey! You got a customer out here. Ham and eggs, eggs over easy, hash browns. Hungry cash customer.

  [taking money out of his pocket] 

  Mike Ferris : I got $2.85, American money. Sure, American money. Well, we got that much settled. I'm an American. You see, there's some question about my identity. Let me put it to you this way, I'm not sure who I am. But I got $2.85, and I'm hungry. That much is established. $2.85 and I'm hungry!

  [going back out to the counter] 

  Mike Ferris : I'm gonna wake up in a minute, I know it. I'm gonna wake up.

• Mike Ferris : Hey, miss! Miss, over here! Look, I wonder if you could do me a favor. It's the craziest thing, but I've looked and I haven't seen anybody around. Maybe they're all asleep or something, but, well, literally, there hasn't been a soul. Look, I don't want you to think I'm nuts or anything. It's nothing like that. It's just that, well... it's just that I don't seem to remember who I am. Well, it's a real oddball thing, but when I woke up this morning, I... well, I didn't exactly wake up. I just... I just found myself out on that road walking. Amnesia. Isn't that what they call it? Well, that must be what I got, 'cause I just don't remember a thing and I can't seem to find anybody to ask. You're the first person I've seen. Look, I really don't want you to be frightened or anything, but I was wondering if there's a doctor or s...

  [as he opens the car door and it falls out, he realizes he's been talking to a mannequin] 

  Mike Ferris : I'm terribly sorry, madam. I can assure you that at no time did I mean to be so upsetting. As a matter of fact, I've always had kind of a secret yen for the quiet type. Get what I mean, babe?

• Mike Ferris : [grins thoughtfully, stares up toward the moon, and then quietly]  Hey, don't go away up there. Next time it won't be a dream or a nightmare. Next time it'll be for real. So don't go away... We'll be up there in a little while.

• Mike Ferris : Hey! Where is everybody?