Jordan Peele: When they come, what form will they choose? And if they present us with the right one, will we let them in, welcome them with open arms? Robert and Barbara are about to find out that it may not even matter what's inside, as long as it arrives in the right package. Open the doors. We've just received a delivery... from the Twilight Zone.
A grieving couple's move is interrupted by an otherworldly encounter, leading them to second guess what's worth leaving behind.
- Contrived Coincidence: The ending features the entire neighborhood being led by other aliens in the form of their own dead daughters. Yes, all of the couples living in proximity of Robert and Barbara have dead teenage daughters too, and seemingly no other children.
- Dead Person Impersonation: The alien takes the form of Robert and Barbara's deceased child to comfort them.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: As the alien explains, its function was to impersonate someone Robert and Barbara loved in order to conquer the planet, but impersonating the mind of Mags made her genuinely love them, and therefore made her not want to conquer the planet.
- The Mourning After: The episode takes place after Robert and Barbara's child's death.
Jordan Peele: It traveled here at speeds we cannot imagine, across distances we cannot understand, single-minded, perfectly designed to conquer, to absorb, only to be conquered itself by humanity. It will go on laboring now under a yoke of its own design in one of the remotest colonies... of the Twilight Zone.
