The Twilight Zone: The Silence (1961)
Season 2, Episode 25
8/10
lots of twists and turns that end up in same spot
13 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
When one first watches this episode, and sees all the old guys in the club, one assumes they are all filthy rich. So the one guy who is sitting there with his lawyer watching a young guy prattle on to others is preparing to offer him a wager. So you get the idea that the old rich guy, is respectable and been around for a while and the young talkative guy is a newcomer and then lawyer is kinda sympathetic to both but more so the younger guy but wont show it.

So the older guy sends the butler, that great actor, i looked him up once, hes like real old and its 1961 here. he was one of those 1800's born people, hes like the only one i ve ever seen that doesn't freak me out a little and seems genuinely nice. I'm old enough to have met people born in the late 1800's when i was young and they were always such hard asses and frankly scary as hell. But i like the butler, Anyhow, for a whopping 500 grand (almost 4 million in our 2016 currency from what I'm reading, or if we are going with a ratio of what 100 dollars bought me in 2002 to compared to now, then 500 grand is 3.3 trillion in our time) he tells this guy, if he stays quiet for a whole year he will give him this money. So the guy agrees under the premise that he gets a prepaid check and the older guys like, no, you have my word, everyone here vouches for me. I was like "ut oh".

So the guy goes into this room , with windows and microphones, and is too be quiet for a year. But think about it, its not just being monitored being quiet, you have to poop , pee , man scape, whip the doodle, what ever else you do, all monitored. But he is successful for like 8 months and the old guy freaks. he offers him a 1000 , then 5,000 and not being an idiot , the young guy is like "Screw that" but not in talking but writing, cause he 'd loose his bet. Then the old guy is like telling him his wife is planning to leave him and is with some guy and all that. The young guy is sweaty but does nothing.

So it comes to the night where it is one year. Im questioning the trick ending to this episode. I figure the guy either made it so he cant talk surgically, some financial thing, or they do this trick on Criminal minds i once saw where they kept someone out of sunlight and changed the time a little each day so the bad guy didn't realize it was as early as it was . Turns out i missed out and saw the rich guy wasn't rich and couldn't pay the young guy cause he was a fraud. But then it turned out the young guy had a giant stitch gash on his neck from having his vocal cords trimmed, i was like "yuk" but then like "cool but then "oooh that's sad". no one won.
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