Acts of Terror (The Twilight Zone)

"Acts of Terror"
The New Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 46
Directed by	Brad Turner
Written by	J. Michael Straczynski
Original air date	December 3, 1988
Guest actors
Melanie Mayron : Louise Simonson Kenneth Welsh : Jack Simonson Kate Lynch : Claire Lee J. Campbell : Phil James Baron : Postman

Acts of Terror is the forty-sixth episode and the eleventh episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Opening narration

“

Louise Simonson, considered quite pretty once, not long ago. Before the arguments, and the years and the stick took it out of her. Louise Simonson, like so many, broken on the wheel, with one subtle difference...this wheel has a name.

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Plot

Louise Simonson is a doting housewife who looks for the daily mail. The mailman noticed a nasty bruise and says it could happen to anyone, but look after it. She excitedly brings in this mail from her sister to her husband, Jack. Jack reminds her that she should fix his lunch...now! She reluctantly fixes her husband's lunch. Then she plaintively asks if she can open the package. She does so, revealing a black sculpture that looks like a doberman pinscher. Jack, of course, acts like the "big man" he is and thinks it's a dig at him. So he hates it.

Louise is cleaning broken plates off the floor after Jack hated the eggs she made. He had also apparently beat her as well. Then, when he attempts to leave on a fishing trip, a doberman attacks him. He gets out to check it but the dog is gone. After he leaves on his trip, Louise has a friend over and she comments on how Jack beats her.

Jack returns from his fishing trip and he comments on the nice dinner Louise set up for the guests, Phil and Claire, they have over. While Jack and Phil are discussing some affair he's having with a woman named Denise, Louise overhears. Somehow, the sculpture disappears and Louise's rage gives it life. The dog attacks Jack in the garage but when he tries to shoot it, it vanishes again. Without evidence, the police aren't able to do anything. Jack pushes her and she finally confronts him. The dog appears again, everywhere Jack tries to go. He escapes as Louise explains that she calls the dog, but the dog attacks him. Jack begs Louise to call it off and somehow it broke the sculpture. He laughs but it doesn't make the dog go away. Louise somehow controls the dog and makes it stop.

Louise packs up and leaves. Jack thinks he is going to attempt to stop her...but the dog reappears to protect her. She tells him he is wrong for what he did to her. She pulls away, leaving him forever...

Closing narration

“

Louise Simonson, driven by pain and anger, into the desperate regions of the human heart, only to discover the preeminence of her own personal power and an act of recognition that reverberates in and out of the Twilight Zone.

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The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "The Wall" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "Cat and Mouse" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Special Service" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Father and Son Game"

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Acts of Terror (The Twilight Zone)

Opening narration

Plot

Closing narration

See also