Una Cualidad de Compasión
Título V.O.: A Quality of Mercy
Guión: Sam Rolfe, Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik
Fecha de emisión en USA: 29/12/1961
Guest Starring: Dean Stockwell (Lt. Katell/Lt. Yamuri), Albert Salmi (Sgt. Causarano), Rayford Barnes (Andrew J. Watkins), Ralph Votrian (Hanacheck), Leonard Nimoy (Hansen), Dale Ishimoto (Sergeant Yamazaki), Jerry Fujikawa (Japanese Captain), Michael Pataki (Jeep Driver)
Sinopsis: Agosto de 1945. Con la Segunda Guerra Mundial a punto de terminar, un destacamento de soldados americanos tiene sitiado a un grupo de japoneses. El nuevo teniente del grupo insiste en atacar, frente a la opinión del resto del pelotón, que creen que no merece la pena. Pero algo le sucederá al teniente que le hará cambiar de opinión...
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: It's August, 1945, the last grimy pages of a dirty, torn book of war. The place is the Philippine Islands. The men are what's left of a platoon of American Infantry, whose dulled and tired eyes set deep in dulled and tired faces can now look toward a miracle, that moment when the nightmare appears to be coming to an end. But they've got one more battle to fight, and in a moment we'll observe that battle. August, 1945, Philippine Islands. But in reality it's high noon in the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, but applicable to any moment in time, to any group of soldiery, to any nation on the face of the Earth - or, as in this case, to the Twilight Zone.
Curiosidades:
- El título hace referencia a una cita de 'El Mercader de Venecia', de William Shakespeare (acto IV, escena 1).