The Twilight Zone, Season 2

The Twilight Zone (1985-1989) was an American science-fiction/fantasy anthology television series based on Rod Serling's classic TV anthology show, The Twilight Zone. The show contains mostly ironic or special situations with a twist at the end, whi… more »

[The Chancellor has just escaped the bomb that destroyed Wordsworth's quarters; now he enters the hall of judgment where our story began]

Subaltern:
[speaking as the new Chancellor] Stand where you are. No further. You have been removed from office; the field investigators have declared you Obsolete.

[The former Chancellor stares incredulously]

Chancellor:
Obsolete?

Subaltern:
You have disgraced the State, you have proven yourself a coward, you have therefore no function. You are Obsolete.

Chancellor:
But I'm not. I'm not Obsolete.

Subaltern:
You are Obsolete!

Jurors:
Obsolete! Obsolete!

Subaltern:
YOU ARE OBSOLETE!

Jurors:
Obsolete! Obsolete! Obsolete! Obsolete! Obsolete! Obsolete!

Chancellor:
You're making a terrible mistake. A tragic mistake! I'm not Obsolete! I work for the State, I help the State! I help give the State its strength! How can you call me Obsolete!? HOW CAN YOU?! [Silence fills the chamber] Please, I'm not Obsolete.

[The Subaltern snaps his fingers. A guard slowly walks up to the Chancellor, who tries to run, but he finds one side of the crowd rising against him, he goes in the opposite direction, and the same happens, he looks desperately around]

Chancellor:
Please... please, I'm not obsolete. I have a function, I have a purpose. Please... I want to serve the State, please! Please, no! I'm not obsolete! No, no, I- I- please, please, I'm not- I'm not obsolete, no! I want to serve the State... Please! Please! NO! I want to serve the State! Please! [the growling jurors close in on the ex-Chancellor, who breaks away with a yell and is chased across the room to the new Subaltern's seat] PLEASE, I'M- I'M NOT OBSOLETE!!! [He is grabbed, pulled down the length of the table, and dragged off to be killed as he screams]

Rod Serling:
The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for "mankind" - in the Twilight Zone.

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