Nightcrawlers

Nightcrawlers is the third and final segment of the fourth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. It is taken from a short story of the same name by Robert R. McCammon, first published in the 1984 collection Masques. Just prior to a number of various customers coming into a diner during a heavy rain, a state trooper, Dennis Wells, known to the workers, comes in and describes a massacre at a local motel... more

Nightcrawlers is the third and final segment of the fourth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. It is taken from a short story of the same name by Robert R. McCammon, first published in the 1984 collection Masques. Just prior to a number of various customers coming into a diner during a heavy rain, a state trooper, Dennis Wells, known to the workers, comes in and describes a massacre at a local motel. Then after a near-collision between two cars on the road just outside, a Vietnam veteran named Price comes into the diner. While Price is having coffee, he asks for a cold beer, but the cook, Bob, tells him that the diner does not have a liquor license. Price laments how a cold beer would taste good and a can of Budweiser appears in his hand. After a confrontation with Wells, who says he "wishes he could have gone" to Vietnam, Price is compelled to describe how he fled and abandoned his unit during the war, condemning all of them to death in... less