S.1. Ep. 5 "Walking Distance"

Gig Young plays Martin Sloan, a cranky, exhausted, employee of a company and the city of New York. He pulls up to a gas pump and honks his horn until the attendant approaches him. Sloan notices his hometown is only about a mile down the road and begins to walk back to where he grew up. Only thing is, he not only goes back to the town but the time, too. The initial eerie action that pulls the audience into the concept of the episode is when Martin make a comment about the owner, Mr. Wilson, sleeping in his office before he died. The clerk gives him a strange stare. Martin exits and the clerk opens the office door to tell Mr. Wilson they need more chocolate syrup.

Martin begins to walk around the town and sees the things he used to enjoy. The bandstand, merry-go-round and the sounds of summer. Suddenly, he sees the childhood version of himself, played by Michael Montgomery, carving his name into a post of the bandstand. Martin heads to his childhood house and tries to tell his parents it is him, their kid, Martin. Stunned and shocked, they shoo him away. Martin goes out to find his younger self to tell him to enjoy every moment of his childhood before he has to become an adult and slave away on the corporate grind.

Despite his efforts, Martin scares his younger self off the merry-go-round and younger Martin breaks his leg.

Later that evening, his father comes to the merry-go-round with Martin's wallet. He tells him he believes who he is however, he cannot stay because he already lived this summer of his life. He has to let his younger self live it. Martin agrees but he tells his father he just had to come back, listen to the band play, jump on the merry-go-round and eat cotton candy. His father tells him the the advice, stop looking behind and look ahead.

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