The Jeopardy Room

"The Jeopardy Room" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Trying to defect, former KGB Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room. Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, are watching him from a room across the street. Vassiloff is a sadistic killer who has tricked Kuchenko into drinking a sleeping draught in the hotel room after pretending to surrender to Kuchenko. Kuchenko wakens t... more

"The Jeopardy Room" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Trying to defect, former KGB Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room. Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, are watching him from a room across the street. Vassiloff is a sadistic killer who has tricked Kuchenko into drinking a sleeping draught in the hotel room after pretending to surrender to Kuchenko. Kuchenko wakens to find that Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room: Ivan must find it within three hours, or he will be shot by Vassiloff and Boris, who have a gun trained on him at all times. Vassiloff has hidden the bomb in the room's telephone, where it will be triggered by an incoming call. Ivan manages to escape and avoid being shot. Later, Vassiloff and Boris enter the room and try to figure out what went wrong. The phone rings, and Boris - without thinking - picks it up, causing an explosion which kills him and Vassiloff. On the other end of the... less