Markup View

Author: Unknown Troper

Aug 24th 2011 at 6:11:36 AM

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* ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Grave". A man makes a bet that he'll go to a grave of an outlaw named Pinto late at night and stick a knife into the grave to prove that he was there. He does not return. The next morning the people who made the bet with him go to the grave and find him there, with his coat pinned to the earth of the grave by the knife. One of the men [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yScuVGZ9xZQ#t=5m50s explains what happened]].
->Man: The whole story's right there - look at it. [snip] There's his kneeprints - he knelt by the grave. He pulled his knife from his belt and plunged it into the grave. But the wind was strong and it blew his coat-tail over the grave. Being dark, he didn't notice he put his knife through his own coat-tail, pinning it to the grave. Then he started to rise. As he did so, perhaps he was halfway up he felt a sudden tug - the knife holding his coat-tail. But in his own mind Pinto reached out and grabbed him. He was already scared half to death and that finished him. His heart gave way, that's all.