The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Where Is Everybody? (1959)

Jay Overholts: Reporter #2

Quotes 

• Reporter #1 : Do you consider this a success, sir?

  Air Force General : Very much so. The man was confined alone in a box for something in the neighborhood of 484 hours. That's roughly equivalent to a trip to the moon, several orbits, and return.

  Reporter #1 : And this was a simulated trip to the moon? Is that right, General?

  Air Force General : For all intent and purpose, yes.

  Reporter #2 : What about these wires attached to him?

  Air Force General : Electrodes. All of his reactions were charted and graphed; respiration, heart action, blood pressure.

  Reporter #3 : What happened to him toward the end, General? Before he... he pushed that button or whatever it was.

  Air Force General : What happened to him is that he cracked. Delusions of some kind, we assume. But let me tell you all something, gentlemen. If any one of you were confined in a box 5 feet square for two and a half weeks all by your lonesome without hearing a human voice other than your own, I'll give you especially good odds that your imagination would run away with you, too. Such as his obviously did.