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A
loud, obnoxious salesman named Bob is celebrating his first big sale, drinks
way too much, and then attempts to drive home that night. He is almost
run off the road by another driver, right next to a bar called the "Kentucky
Rye." He decides to go in and calm his nerves, and finds everyone
there is his friend. There is a woman who just stares at him, but he thinks
she's attracted to him. The bar owner tells him that the bar is for sale,
when Bob says that it's a great place and must rake in the money.
When the bar owner says the price is $1,500, Bob is sure the guy is
kidding but is assured he's deadly serious. Bob remembers that
he has most of his commission left, but still lacks $100. A stranger steps
forward and says he'll loan it to him. Bob takes the money, and
the bar is his. The bar owner starts to laugh in a demoniacal way, and
everyone disappears except for the stranger, and the bar is now dark,
silent and cobweb-shrouded.
Bob shakes his head to clear it,
and remembers that the stranger was the man who almost ran him off the
road. He says this to the stranger, but the stranger stops him, and tells
Bob HE is the one who ran the stranger off the road, killing him, because
Bob was driving drunk. The stranger points out the window, where
police cars and ambulances are loading up the dead from the accident.
The woman who had been staring at him in the bar is out there; the stranger
says that it's his wife, who is now a widow. Then the stranger vanishes.
Bob watches as they lift the stranger's lifeless form into the
ambulance, and is stunned when he sees his own dead body being loaded
up. He hears the devil's laughter again, realizes he's also dead, and now
trapped in his own silent hell within the "Kentucky Rye."
Bob Spindler, new owner and sole customer of the "Kentucky Rye." A hell of a tavern, where last call goes on forever...in the Twilight Zone." |
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