Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Ep55 Miniature

[@heyoldman2003]

Very interesting …well…. Charlie is set for life 😎

[@brian197686]

Does anyone know what the name of the episode is that has the people trapped in a room but in reality they were all just dolls in a bin? I think there was a soldier and a Ballerina and a few more I can't remember. My dad and I use to watch these religiously when they did the marathons.

[@happychristian1173]

Five Characters in Search of an exit

[@brian197686]

@@happychristian1173 Thanks!

[@oshunbleu6511]

I just watched it but can't remember the name .. :/

[@issac6803]

Yes & they all wanted ti escape. One had made it over & never heard from & one got a broken arm from falling

[@jimreily7538]

This SHOULD have been how this story ends: Charlie marries Harriett and lives happily ever after. The miniature gets thrown in the trash.. Charlie becomes addicted to sex, and cheats on Harriett with every woman he can meet..he trawls bars and seedy nightclubs, every night a different woman. He becomes an artist making miniatures. He wants to find a girl who looks like the miniature. He goes out to Vegas and meets a stripper, he marries her, without telling Harriett. They smoke crack and run out of cash. He robs a corner grocery at gunpoint, but flees the scene, and heads back East. He robs every 7/11 between Vegas and Boston, and every bank too. Eventually the FBI are on his tail. He does 15 years in a Federal Penitentiary. Harriett turns to alcohol, runs out of money and goes insane. Charlie joins a Latino prison gang (its revealed he has Mexican heritage), and gets tattoos all over his body. His favourite tattoo is of the miniature. He gets out of prison, heads back to Harriett, and hands her 250 grand in drug money he'd earned from the lower level gang members. They buy a mansion. But the drugs and sex come back to haunt them - Charlie can't wipe the miniature from his mind. Harriett has done things she wants to forget. They fight, and Charlie stabs Harriett. She shoots him, but neither are dead. Finally he crawls to his feet, takes the gun, puts it to Harriett's head. "I never loved you. You did this to me. All I wanted was to look at the little model wood carving, and you stopped me. You evil skank." He pushes the pistol to her head, pulls the trigger. Blood splatters the walls and his shirt. He sits down and puts the gun to his head, staring at himself in the mirror across the room. As he sees his reflection, he sees the miniature, the tattoo he got in prison of the miniature, on his face. He looks around at the blood and the dead body of his former wife. The devastation of his life. It all becomes clear. He was chasing a desire. The desire for the miniature to be real..the beauty of it. The grace of it. But none if it was real. It was all a desire. He takes the weapon and puts it in his dead wife's hand, altering the crime scene to make it appear as though Harriett killed herself. He cleans himself up, and uses his gang drug money to buy a ticket overseas. To the highest peaks of the world, isolated from all the desires and cravings. He lands in Tibet, and wanders in the ice, and snow for 3 days. At the end of his strength, he collapses in front of a Himalayan monastery, high in the mountains. The monks take him in. Charlie becomes a Buddhist monk, meditating on the impermanence of all things. He must atone for his devious and hurtful actions and does so, and finally reaches a state of blissful emptiness. He no longer craves the miniature. The source of all his problems. The drugs and the killings and the gangs and the prison. The miniature. He closes his eyes, and reaches ultimate peace.

[@brian197686]

I don't know if I should be impressed or frightened by the amount of thought you put into that.🤔

[@sergiosatelite467]

I’m impressed. I’d probably only add one thing: “he reaches ultimate peace…” then he opens his eyes again: the miniature is there.…everything goes dark…when the lights come back up, all the monks are lying down motionless…THE END. The credits begin to roll down to Tom Wait’s rendition of Young At Heart. We see an “In Memoriam” dedicated to the actress who played Charlie’s mother who died under slightly odd circumstances before post-production was done…

[@catlady8324]

That’s a masterpiece! 📖