Quarantine

"Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. A man awakens from an apparently long sleep. His caretaker, a young woman, wants him to confirm that he was put in cryogenic sleep in June 2023. Then she reveals he's been asleep for 324 years. The woman, Sarah, brings the man, Matthew, outside to see a small farm town. He is confused as to why he wasn't brou... more

"Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. A man awakens from an apparently long sleep. His caretaker, a young woman, wants him to confirm that he was put in cryogenic sleep in June 2023. Then she reveals he's been asleep for 324 years. The woman, Sarah, brings the man, Matthew, outside to see a small farm town. He is confused as to why he wasn't brought to a city, but she claims there are no more cities, freeways or factories. Sarah takes him into what she calls the surgery area and they perform surgery without need of anesthetic or instruments. She and two others use psychic abilities to take out the cause of the incurable disease that put him into the cryogenic sleep. Matthew is overwhelmed when he sees Sarah reach into his body and pull out the cancerous tissue, painlessly. Although they are no longer technologically advanced, humans have made progress in 300 years. Matthew begins... less