The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Shelter (1961)

Mary Gregory: Mrs. Henderson

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• Man : Why don't we get some kind of battering ram?

  Frank Henderson : Yeah, we could go over to Bennett Avenue, Phil Cline has some heavy pipe in his basement, I've seen it.

  Man : No, no, that would bring him into the act too, and who cares about saving him? No, if we do that, we'll let all those people know we have a shelter on our street. We'll have a whole mob to contend with, with a whole bunch of strangers.

  Mrs. Henderson : Sure, and what right have they got to come over here? This isn't their street, this isn't *their* shelter.

  Jerry Harlowe : Ohhhh, this is *our* shelter, and on the next street that's another country. Patronize home industries, you idiots, you fools, you're insane, all of you.

• Marty Weiss : ...Jerry, you've known him longer than any of us. Tell him to pick out one family. We'll draw lots, or -- or something.

  Frank Henderson : *One family*. Meaning *yours*, huh, Marty?

  Marty Weiss : Why not? I've got a 3-month-old baby!

  Mrs. Henderson : What's that got to do with anything? Is your baby any more precious than one of my kids?

  Marty Weiss : I never said that! Look, if you're going to argue about who deserves to live and who doesn't...

  Frank Henderson : You shut your mouth, Weiss...! That's how it is when the foreigners come over here: pushy and grabby semi-Americans, crowding us out of our own country! Tainting our *bloodlines*!

  Marty Weiss : Why, you garbage-spitting...!

  [He and Frank attack each other, but Jerry breaks them up] 

  Jerry Harlowe : Keep that up, and we won't even need a bomb; we can slaughter each other!