Come Wander With Me

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1963 – Summer 1964
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. In Praise of Pip
  2. Steel
  3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
  4. A Kind of a Stopwatch
  5. The Last Night of a Jockey
  6. Living Doll
  7. The Old Man in the Cave
  8. Uncle Simon
  9. Probe 7, Over and Out
  10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
  11. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
  12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
  13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
  14. You Drive
  15. The Long Morrow
  16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
  17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
  18. Black Leather Jackets
  19. Night Call
  20. From Agnes—With Love
  21. Spur of the Moment
  22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  23. Queen of the Nile
  24. What's in the Box
  25. The Masks
  26. I Am the Night—Color Me Black
  27. Sounds and Silences
  28. Caesar and Me
  29. The Jeopardy Room
  30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
  31. The Encounter
  32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
  33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
  34. Come Wander With Me
  35. The Fear
  36. The Bewitchin' Pool

“Come Wander with Me” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Rock-A-Billy Kid, Floyd Burney, arrives at a small town in search of a new song. He is directed to a dilapidated shop in the woods run by a reclusive old man. After his offer of money in exchange for an original song is rebuffed, Floyd wanders off through the woods, not seeing a nearby tombstone inscribed with his name.

Next to a lake, he encounters a pretty but mysterious woman, Mary Rachael, who reluctantly plays a song for him about two lovers who meet in the woods and are torn apart by tragedy. Floyd offers to buy the song rights from her, but she claims it isn't for sale. As he tries to seduce her, a jealous young man named Billy Rayford shows up and attacks Floyd, who defends himself, killing Rayford.

Mary Rachael's song reflects the event, and foreshadows a future attack. As Floyd runs off, he looks back and sees that Mary Rachael's clothes have changed; she is now dressed in black, with a black shawl, mourning.

Soon, Billy Rayford's brothers arrive to chase after Floyd. As he prepares to flee, Mary Rachael begs him to stay, hoping things will be different this time. She implies that these same events have occurred before. Ignoring her, he runs away and finds himself back at the shop in the woods. The old man declines to help him hide, and in his anger, Floyd kills the old man, then hides among the old musical instruments in the shop.

Billy Rayford's three brothers arrive at the shop, see the old man's body, and when Floyd bumps a music box, the brothers close in on him. The camera returns to the image of the tombstone in the first scene. Rod Serling warns that, "In the Twilight Zone, some things are not for sale."

[edit] Trivia

  • Last episode in the series to be filmed.
  • The 'Come Wander With Me' song, composed by Jeff Alexander and sung by Bonnie Beecher herself, was used almost 40 years later on the soundtrack of the 2003 film "The Brown Bunny" and in a 2006 television commercial for a Dutch insurance company (RVS), that showed René Magritte-like flying men with open umbrellas.
  • The song 'Come Wander With Me' is on the mixed disc 'Late Night Tales' by the group Air.
  • The lyrics for the song are:

He said come wander with me, Love
Come wander with me
Away from this sad world
Come wander with me
He came from the sunset
He came from the sea
He came from my sorrow
And can love only me

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