Ejecución
Título V.O.: Execution
Guión: Rod Serling, George Clayton Johnson (historia)
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Fecha de emisión en USA: 01/04/1960
Guest Starring: Albert Salmi (Joe Caswell), Russell Johnson (George Manion), Than Wyenn (Johnson), George Mitchell (Cowboy), Jon Lormer (Reverend), Fay Roope (Judge), Richard Karlan (Bartender), Joe Haworth (Television Cowboy)
Sinopsis: En 1880, en el viejo oeste, un criminal llamado Joe Caswell está a punto de ser colgado por asesinar a un hombre por la espalda. Pero cuando está ya colgando de la soga, Caswell desaparece sin dejar rastro. El motivo: ha sido objeto involuntario de un experimento en viaje temporal que ha llevado a cabo un científico de nuestros días.
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: Commonplace, if somewhat grim, unsocial event known as a necktie party. The guest of dishonor a cowboy named Joe Caswell, just a moment away from a rope, a short dance several feet off the ground, and then the dark eternity of all evil men. Mr. Joe Caswell, who, when the good Lord passed out a conscience, a heart, a feeling for fellow men, must have been out for a beer and missed out. Mr. Joe Caswell, in the last quiet moment of a violent life.
Closing Narration: This is November, 1880, the aftermath of a necktie party. The victim's name - Paul Johnson, a minor-league criminal and the taker of another human life. No comment on his death save this: justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. Tonight's case in point in the Twilight Zone.