The Gift (The Twilight Zone)

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1961 – Summer 1962
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. Two
  2. The Arrival
  3. The Shelter
  4. The Passersby
  5. A Game of Pool
  6. The Mirror
  7. The Grave
  8. It's a Good Life
  9. Deaths-Head Revisited
  10. The Midnight Sun
  11. Still Valley
  12. The Jungle
  13. Once Upon a Time
  14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
  15. A Quality of Mercy
  16. Nothing in the Dark
  17. One More Pallbearer
  18. Dead Man's Shoes
  19. The Hunt
  20. Showdown with Rance McGrew
  21. Kick the Can
  22. A Piano in the House
  23. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
  24. To Serve Man
  25. The Fugitive
  26. Little Girl Lost
  27. Person or Persons Unknown
  28. The Little People
  29. Four O'Clock
  30. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
  31. The Trade-Ins
  32. The Gift
  33. The Dummy
  34. Young Man's Fancy
  35. I Sing the Body Electric
  36. Cavender Is Coming
  37. The Changing of the Guard

"The Gift" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

A humanoid alien crash-lands outside a mountain village just across the Texas-Mexico border. He accidentally kills a police officer and is wounded by another. When he reaches a village bar, he collapses. A sympathetic doctor operates on him, removing two bullets from his chest. The alien (who refers to himself as "Mr. Williams") becomes friends with Pedro, an orphan whose job is to clean the bar. Pedro receives a gift from Williams, who tells Pedro that he will explain it later. Meanwhile, the bartender notifies the army about Williams' location. Williams attempts to escape, but soldiers and villagers corner him. He tells Pedro to show the gift, but it is taken from him and set on fire, and Williams is shot and killed. The doctor picks up the remains of the gift from the fire. He reads it aloud: "Greetings to the people of Earth. We come...in peace. We bring you this gift. The following chemical formula is...a vaccine against all forms of cancer..." The rest is burned away. As the doctor states, "We have not just killed a man; we have killed a dream."

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There are definite references and allusions peppered through the episode in reference to Christ, where the alien is a supposed picture of Christ. Pedro and the alien speak of God and how He sent Christ down onto the world once. When the doctor finds out that the bartender has alerted the army of the alien's presence, he claims that at the bartender's baptism, they improperly named him and should have called him "Judas." After the claim, the bartender continues to count his coined money, a probable reference to Judas selling out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. Also, the alien's vaccine book to cure cancer could be seen as a parallel to Christ coming to cure spiritual death.

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