The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Examination Day/A Message from Charity (1985)

Kerry Noonan: Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity")

Quotes 

• Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity") : [closing narration for "A Message from Charity"]  He reached out with his mind, searching for some trace of her... but found only silence. Peter Wood was alone...

  Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity") : [one year later at school, Peter is finishing his talk to his friends]  I got to go. I got trig at one. I'll see you later

  Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity") : A new year with new friends and a new confidence and, in time, he began to doubt whether it had ever really happened. Until, one day...

  Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity") : Peter

  Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity") : Charity.

  Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity") : Hi. For a minute, please Peter. Only for a minute. But I had to tell you, there is a message.

  Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity") : A what?

  Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity") : Look at Bear Rock, Peter. Under the bear's jaw on the left side.

  Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity") : Charity.

  [Peter then runs to Bear Rock] 

  Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity") : Harmon Brook is very different today. Its waters not quite as pure, its banks lined with tract homes and shopping centers. But Bear Rock is still there. And so is a message, a message from a girl long gone, and yet, not really gone in heart and mind. A last remembrance of friendship and first love.

  [Peter finds Charity's message chiseled into Bear Rock which is a Valentine-like heart with the initials "PW + CP"] 

  Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity") : A love that will live, only and always... in the Twilight Zone.