The Prime Mover

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For the physical term, see Prime mover. For the theological term, see cosmological argument.

The Twilight Zone original series Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1960 – Summer 1961 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: King Nine Will Not Return The Man in the Bottle Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room A Thing About Machines The Howling Man The Eye of the Beholder Nick of Time The Lateness of the Hour The Trouble With Templeton A Most Unusual Camera The Night of the Meek Dust Back There The Whole Truth The Invaders A Penny for Your Thoughts Twenty Two The Odyssey of Flight 33 Mr. Dingle, the Strong Static The Prime Mover Long Distance Call A Hundred Yards Over the Rim The Rip Van Winkle Caper The Silence Shadow Play The Mind and the Matter Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? The Obsolete Man

“The Prime Mover” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 57
Season: 2
Original air date: March 24, 1961
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Richard L. Bare

[edit] Cast

Dane Clark,
Buddy Ebsen, and
Christine White.

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Ace Larsen discovers his partner, Jimbo Cobb, has telekinetic powers after a car crashes outside their cafe. Ace plans to use those powers to win big in Vegas, and he takes his girlfriend Kitty with them. Ace wins many jackpots, but Kitty is repulsed and leaves, so he picks up a cigarette girl and bets the pile in a game of craps, just when Jimbo's telekinesis unaccountably fails him. They go home and Ace proposes to Kitty. Jimbo drops his broom, and quietly picks it up again telekinetically.

[edit] Trivia

The term prime mover originates in the works of Aristotle, referring to "the being outside the universe." Later, St. Thomas Aquinas, in an attempt to reconcile the views of the ancient Greeks and the Roman Catholic Church, simply capitalized the term (making it Prime Mover) to make it refer to God.