History Recap / NightGalleryS2E15

* TheBusCameBack: The same Igor from [[Recap/NightGalleryS2E3 "With Apologies to Mr. Hyde"]] reappears in this segment to attend Ludwig's funeral, even being reprised by Jack Larid.

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-> Teleplay by: Creator/RodSerling
-> Story by: R. C. Cook

-> Teleplay by: Gerald Sanford & Garrie Bateson
-> Story by: Shamus Frazer

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ludwig can turn himself into a bat and back again at will.

The elderly Lydia Bowen (Elsa Lanchester) enjoys tending to her garden for hours on end and claiming that she can make anything grow. She is visited by business magnate Michael J. Saunders (Cameron Mitchell), who wishes that she sell her property so he can build a factory on the land. Michael decides to play dirty when Lydia refuses to sell and hires an "enforcer" named Crowley (George Keymas) to give her a warning, which he does by chopping off one of her fingers. Lydia plants the severed finger in her garden before she dies of shock and blood loss, and it's through that finger that Michael finds out Lydia ''can'' make anything she plants in her garden grow...and that does mean ''anything''.

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The elderly Lydia Bowen (Elsa Lanchester) enjoys tending to her garden for hours on end and claiming that she can make anything grow. She is visited by business magnate Michael J. Saunders (Cameron Mitchell), who wishes that she sell her property so he can build a factory on the land. Michael decides to play dirty when Lydia refuses to sell, and hires an "enforcer" named Crowley (George Keymas) to give her a warning, which he does by chopping off one of her fingers. Lydia plants the severed finger in her garden before she dies of shock and blood loss, and it's through that finger that Michael finds out Lydia ''can'' make anything she plants in her grow.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The segment has one of the somber paintings ever featured on the show, being a bleak and desolate funeral service in progress. In reality, it's a lighthearted and humorous comedy story wherein no one dies or suffers, and the funeral service depicted is anything but bleak.

* FaintInShock: Milton does this as Jenny sets the parlor on fire.

!! The Tune in Dan's Cafe

-> '''Rod Serling:''' We don't ask you to believe this particular painting; Death's head hovering over a jukebox. But it ''does'' point out the all-inclusive quality of the occult. Phantom specters can be found not only in haunted houses, but in places you'd least expect to find them... places like this. Our painting is called: '''The Tune in Dan's Cafe.'''

* [[ArcWords Arc Song]]: The country tune that keeps repeating on the jukebox in Dan's Cafe.

* BrokenRecord: The segment concerns the country song playing on the jukebox in the titular cafe, which skips over and over right at the lyric that the song was playing when Roy was gunned down.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before we see the flashback of Roy's death in full, the episode features shots of Dan's Cafe the night it happened, including the place getting shot up by the police, whenever the "'Til death" lyric repeats itself, set to the lyric in question.

* HauntedTechnology: It's hinted that Roy's ghost possesses the jukebox in Dan's Cafe, hence why it only plays that specific song, why it keeps repeating the specific lyric that was sung when he was killed, and why Red screams when she returns there.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Red cheated on her career criminal boyfriend Roy with another man and ratted him out to the police for a reward, who killed him in the resulting shootout. When she returns to the cafe with her new lover five years later, it's strongly implied that Roy's ghost enacts bloody vengeance on her before the song shuts off for good.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Roy treasured his girlfriend Red, but learned that she was cheating on him and sold him out to the cops for a cash reward. After dying in the resulting shootout, his ghost inhabits the cafe's jukebox, waiting for Red to return. She does so at the end, and it's hinted that Roy gets his revenge.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Roy was a proud criminal who planned to steal $5 grand from a store, but his ghost possesses the cafe's jukebox to get revenge on Red, the unfaithful girlfriend who sent the cops after him.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Roy's death and Dan's Cafe being shot up is set to the country tune that's been playing (and repeating) throughout the segment.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Michael's employee Ernest grows disgusted with him after learning that he hired Crowley to maim Lydia to force her into selling her home. Michael himself retorts that he didn't want Lydia to die, either, and that Crowley went way too far in persuading her to sell, but he's still satisfied with the result nonetheless.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lydia tells Michael how she once planted a piece of wood in her garden and it started growing. Near the end of the segment, she plants her severed finger, which allows her to regrow into a new body.

* GilliganCut: After Michael hires Crowley to viciously "persuade" Lydia into selling her cottage, the episode cuts to the sheriff's office, where three officers are discussing the attack that he made and how he killed himself in his haste to escape.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack / RecurringRiff: The segment repeatedly features a harrowing synth rendition of "Greensleeves", fitting for the plant motif.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The segment has one of the creepiest paintings ever featured on the show, being a bleak and desolate funeral service in progress. In reality, it's a lighthearted and humorous comedy story wherein no one dies or suffers, and the funeral service depicted is anything but bleak.

-> ''Words like 'til death...'til death...'til death...'til death...''

* FemmeFatale: Red, who ratted Roy out, pocketed the cash she got from doing so, and ran off with her new lover as he died.

* GoldDigger: Red, who cheated on Roy and ratted him out when she got tired of waiting for him to pull off his big job.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Roy treasured his girlfriend Red, but learned that she was cheating on him and sold him out to the cops for a cash reward. After dying in the resulting shootout, his ghost inhabits the cafe's jukebox, waiting for Red to return. She does so at the end of the episode, where it's hinted that Roy gets his revenge.

* LaughingMad: The witch who attends the funeral.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Ludwig doesn't threaten Milton that much, instead approaching him as a client who wants to stage his own (very belated) funeral. He only gets confrontational when Milton angrily assumes that his desire to have him hosting his own funeral is a morbid joke, which he can't abide during working hours. Despite the fact that his service went off the rails, he tells Milton in a recorded message that he got all of the arrangements for his service perfectly right, granting him his full respect and a hefty payment.

* DenserAndWackier: For all intents and purposes, this segment is basically an extended blackout sketch. Case in point, all of Ludwig's guests are over-the-top, Milton is completely unbothered by the service going off the rails, and the ending is a blatant HereWeGoAgain situation.

-> '''Rod Serling:''' Good evening. Please come in. These little object d'art that you see surrounding me, you won't find in your average art museum. Because these are unusual paintings and statuary that come to life, or death, whatever the case may be. Because this is: the Night Gallery. For the horticulturist amongst you, here's a dandy. A lady who plants things, and then steps back and watches them grow. Roses, rhododendrons, tulips, and things never before to be found coming out of the ground... just put in. The subject of this painting has: '''Green Fingers.'''

* UnfinishedBusiness: As Dan notes, Roy's ghost makes the jukebox play only the repeating country song he and Red listened to all the time because he's waiting for her to come back, who ratted him out and split the cash reward she got with her new lover, so he can get revenge.

* NothingIsScarier: The ending of the segment, where it's hinted that Roy's ghost kills the unfaithful ex-girlfriend who ratted him out. We only hear her screaming as the song's "Til' death" lyric continues over and over, so we can only imagine the visuals. Then, when it's over, she's nowhere to be seen.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Roy was a proud criminal who planned to steal $5 grand from a store but his ghost possesses the cafe's jukebox to get revenge on Red, the unfaithful girlfriend who sent the cops to kill him.

* ArcSong: The country tune that keeps repeating on the jukebox in Dan's Cafe.

!!Green Fingers
Mike Saunders, a greedy developer determined to buy a plot of land, asks a thug to intimidate the owner, a little old lady with "green fingers", into selling her home, only for the incident to result in her death. However, thanks to her talent for planting, that isn't the end of the story...

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Mr. Saunders directly addresses the camera after going mad.
* CommunityThreateningConstruction: Mr. Saunders wants to buy Mrs. Bowen's land, but she refuses; she's lived here too long, first with her husband and then by herself after his death.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mrs. Bowen tells the developer how she once planted a piece of wood that started growing. This hints what will happen when she plants her fingers.
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is less dark than the original story, in which the conflict with the developer isn't present and the clone [[KillAndReplace Kills and Replaces]] Mrs. Bowen.
* GreenThumb: The old lady who is being pushed to move out of her home by a realtor claims she can make anything she plants grow. Even, it turns out, bits of herself.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Gardening doesn't sound like a very impressive skill, even if Mrs. Bowen can make dry wood grow again by planting it. However, then she plants her fingers after the thug hacks them off. The fingers grow into a new Mrs. Bowen overnight, giving her a second chance at life and scaring the developer to insanity.
* LaughingMad: Mike, driven a bit crazy by the sight of the clone, chuckles insanely after giving the final line.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Mike's hair goes gray from the shock of seeing Mrs. Bowen's clone.
* MeaningfulEcho: Mrs. Bowen tells Mr. Saunders while he's trying to convince her to sell that she has green fingers and whatever she plants grows. After her fingers grow into a new Mrs. Bowen, she repeats the words.
!!The Funeral
A funeral director receives a most unusual request when a vampire comes to him, asking for help staging the funeral he didn't get at his actual death.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The episode has one of the creepiest paintings ever featured on the show, but in reality, it's a lighthearted and humorous story.
* EverybodyLives: Sort of. At least one of the characters died before the story opens, but, given that he's a vampire, it didn't slow him down.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: The vampire doesn't threaten the funeral director at all. He just approaches him as a very unusual client who wants to stage his own (very belated) funeral.
* TheFunInFuneral: A vampire pays to host his own funeral, given that he never got one when he actually died. It quickly becomes less than dignified thanks to the guests.
* HereWeGoAgain: Having successfully handled a funeral for a vampire, the funeral home director finds himself dealing with another unusual client to whom the vampire recommended him.
* LighterAndSofter: The episode is a comedy wherein no one dies or horribly suffers.
!!The Tune in Dan's Cafe
A married couple whose relationship is going downhill come into a diner, where the jukebox will only ever play one song...a tune that is tied to some rather nasty local history with another pair of lovers.
* BrokenRecord: The episode concerns a jukebox in a cafe that skips over and over right at the spot that was playing when a criminal inside the diner was gunned down.
-->''till, death...'till, death...'till, death... 'till death...''