Little Boy Lost (The Twilight Zone)

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“Little Boy Lost”
The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "Little Boy Lost"
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 4, Segment 1
Written by Michael Cassutt
Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
Guest stars Scott Grimes: Kenny
Season Hubley: Carol Shelton
Nancy Kyes: Frumpy Housewife
Nicolas Surovy: Greg
Original airdate October 18, 1985
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"Little Boy Lost" is the first segment of the fourth episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Opening narration

“ Carol Shelton, photographer, a modern woman with an age-old problem. She can make the artistic choices of light and shadow, which capture a lifetime of human pain or grandeur on film. But like each of us, she has trouble sometimes choosing which road of life to travel, especially when that road winds deep among the shadows, of The Twilight Zone. ”

[edit] Synopsis

A young photojournalist is being pressed to choose between a new job offer and marrying her boyfriend when she meets a boy, Kenny, that seems strangely familiar. At first, he pretends to have been sent by the modeling agency, and he appears to be stalking her. After hanging out with the child for a short time, though, she realises something is not right with him, especially when he becomes so disappointed about her choice to follow her career instead of her relationship. The boy tells her he would have been her son if she had followed the other path. The two begin to weep as the boy fades away.

[edit] Closing narration

“ The song unsung. The wish unfulfilled. Even with the dream in hand, there is the chill of an eternal loss ...fading ...fading. For every choice made, wrong or right, a thousand alternatives denied. When tomorrow calls, sometimes the heart must be denied. For Carol Shelton, there will be other tomorrows, other joys, and yet ...fading ...fading. For one trembling instant, she was given the opportunity to take snapshots of an alternate future. Snapshots forever undeveloped in the darkness of The Twilight Zone. ”

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