"The Burning Man" is the second segment of the eighth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
On a hot summer day, a woman and her nephew are driving along a dusty, country road. It is apparently dated in the 1930s or 1940s, by the style of clothes and the car. They soon come upon an old man in raggedy clothes who hails them to stop. They do stop and he hops in and says to just go, because someone...
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"The Burning Man" is the second segment of the eighth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
On a hot summer day, a woman and her nephew are driving along a dusty, country road. It is apparently dated in the 1930s or 1940s, by the style of clothes and the car. They soon come upon an old man in raggedy clothes who hails them to stop. They do stop and he hops in and says to just go, because someone is after him. When they ask who, he says the sun.
The old man starts talking of the seventeen year locusts coming and other wild theories about people and...evil. Specifically genetic evil, people who are born evil. When they stop to fix a flat tire, the old man continues telling the boy his strange theories, but the aunt is starting to tire of it. She apparently thinks the heat has gotten to him. When she can't take anymore, the aunt stops the car and throws the old man out. They try to laugh it off and head for a lake, where they stop and...
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