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Evergreen
- Forest Whitaker: Meet the Winslows. A family searching for a way to control their troubled teen. How far they're willing to go will take them to a gated community whose address can only be found... in the Twilight Zone.
The Winslow family moves to the gated community of Evergreen. The rebellious eldest daughter, Jenna, soon discovers a dark secret within the estate.
Tropes for this segment include:
- Deadly Euphemism: Many around being made to be "useful" and serving the community.
- Downer Ending: Jenna is killed and turned into fertilizer, and her family callously moves on.
- Et Tu, Brute?: After realizing what happens to those who are sent to Arcadia, Jenna tries to escape with her sister Jules. However, she actually turns her in to the authorities and Jenna is made into fertilizer.
- Mythology Gag: The Winslows move to Maple Street, a reference to the classic episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street."
- Offing the Offspring: Unruly teenagers are processed into fertilizer for memorial trees.
- Stepford Suburbia: The children are forced to conform to the rigid standards of the community or else they are killed.
- Stealth Pun: The president of the HOA tells Jenna that her friend Logan will be "turning over a new leaf."
- Forest Whitaker: The Winslows have regained control of their family, but it cost them one teenage daughter. A deal that can only be made... in the Twilight Zone.
One Night At Mercy
- Forest Whitaker: Our congratulations to Dr. Jay Ferguson, who had just saved his first life. But tonight, he'll meet a patient who'll challenge all his assumptions about living... and dying... in the Twilight Zone.
Dr. Jay Ferguson has just started his career, only to encounter someone claiming to be Death, who has decided to stop doing his job. He doesn't believe it... until he discovers patients at the hospital are now incapable of dying.
Tropes for this segment include:
- And I Must Scream: Due to Death quitting his job, patients with what should have been fatal injuries are unable to die, leaving them in states of endless pain they can't escape.
- Bittersweet Ending: Jay is able to convince Death to return to his duties of killing, but as a result, Jay has to die (turns out the headaches he'd been having all the day were the result of a brain aneurysm). While upset, Jay accepts this is just how it goes and lets Death escort him to the afterlife.
- Death Takes a Holiday: Death decides to quit, which thrills Jay when he realizes this. Things are looking optimistic and hopeful right up until the point that a bunch of people who were immolated are brought into the emergency room, still alive because Death has quit. Naturally, after seeing this, Jay finds Death and convinces him to return to work, and is taken as Death's first victim as a result (he had been suffering "headaches" up until then, in reality the symptoms of an oncoming aneurysm).
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Death here is portrayed here as a kind soul not fond of killing.
- Wham Shot: After Death returns to work, he opens his book of people he has to kill, and Jay's name is in it.
- Forest Whitaker: Life and death walk side by side. They are partners in the cycle of existence. If you don't believe it, just talk to Dr. Jay Ferguson, now a first-year resident in the Twilight Zone.
