The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness (1986)
Lisa Jane Persky: Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King")
Quotes
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[Gary, now having taken over Elvis' life, is now in a hotel room in Vegas in the early '70s now fully in the King's persona, talking to someone off-screen]
Gary Pitkin : His mama knew. I think. I was good, but I wasn't that good. Nah, she knew her boy was dead. Maybe that's part of what killed her. After she was gone, it was a lot easier. The rest of 'em believed it all. Maybe they wanted to believe, maybe... maybe they needed to believe. Sometimes, I wake up and I believe it myself. I've been him longer than I was me. Sometimes, I wonder if it woulda come out differently if I hadn't stolen his life. I wonder if he woulda lived to do his way. Maybe he woulda been a better King than me, maybe there woulda been no King at all. I get headaches just thinking about it. I get these terrible dreams; he won't leave me alone. I talk to him all the time. He says I still owe him. It won't be much longer now. It's been a long show.
[singing "My Way"]
Gary Pitkin : "But now... . the end is near..." At least I had the music. Nobody could ever take that away from me. I tried to do it all the way I remember. The way he woulda liked it, make it up to him. I did the movies, he woulda liked that. And he woulda liked Vegas too; the Bally's. But it's never enough. It's never enough. I have to live it all.
[Gary as Elvis has been talking to a younger version of Sandra, Gary's manager in his past life]
Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : You're just tired, Elvis. You're the King. You're the only King.
Gary Pitkin : Yeah. Sometimes I think so too.
Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : Is there anything I can do for you? You look so sad.
Gary Pitkin : Nah, baby, you just -- just be yourself. That's all I could ever ask of you.
[There's a knock at the door and one of Elvis' people brings in some of his wardrobe]
Gary Pitkin : You got to be you.
[the wardrobe gets hung up in Elvis' closet]
Gary Pitkin : Look, baby, I gotta get ready. But I got something for you.
Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : For me?
[Gary as Elvis takes a sweat band from the wardrobe, dabs it a bit on his neck and puts it around Sandra. He plants a small kiss on her cheek]
Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : [starstruck] Oh, Elvis. I'll never forget this. I gotta go tell my girlfriends. They'll just die!
[she rushes to the door, but just before leaving...]
Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : I love you, Elvis.