S.1. Ep. 13 "The Four of Us are Dying"

Arch Hammer

Harry Townes plays Arch Hammer, a conman who can change his face into anyone he chooses. Arch uses his power to change his face into people who have died in order to mess with other peoples' lives. He turns into three different people throughout the episode.












1. Johnny Foster, played by Ross Martin, a lounge trumpet player who died in a train wreck.
2. Virgil Sterig, played by Phillip Pine, a gangster who was shot and thrown into a river.
3. Andy Marshak, played by Donald Gordon, a boxer who ran away from home. He is the only man who is still alive.


When Arch turns into Andy, he runs into an old man who turns out to be his father. His father freaks out on him and Arch pushes him to the ground. After Arch returns to his hotel room, a detective arrives to arrest him and take him down to the police station. Arch tricks the detective by changing his face back into Andy's face and runs outside. There outside the hotel door is Andy's father with a gun. Arch begins to studder and panic as the older man points a gun in his direction. Andy's father shoots Arch in the stomach. As Arch begins to die, his face changes through the three different faces. All four of them were dying.



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March 4 in Redwood, Ca. Simon Gann, a known conman, was finally sentenced to 16 months in prison. Fox Reno's online new site published his charges and actions. The 30-year-old pretended to be a millionaire and talked women out of their money. Gann used the name Saleem Dutante and thrived off counting cards at casinos. He has performed his conman act since 2003. The Almanac gives better details on Gann's act.

Facebook is home for many scam artists. Most recently through the Associated Press, scam artists are using photographs of soldiers to lure women into giving up personal information and above all, money. The internet makes con artistry much easier and a lot easier to be anonymous. Always be careful what you sign up for on the internet and never give away any personal information. By 2011, you'd think we should know the basics of the internet.

S.1. Ep. 12 "What You Need"

Steve Cochran plays Fred Renard, a lonely, distraught, angry man. He sits in a bar, alone, drinking the same drink when a short, kind-faced man enters the bar. He's a peddler who somehow knows exactly what you need. He gives a young woman a bottle of stain remover. He gives another man, a former baseball player, a bus ticket to Scranton, PA. Suddenly, the ball player receives a phone call at the bar. It's his old manager offering him a career as a coach.. in Scranton, PA. He has a stain on his shirt and the young woman walks over and takes his stain out with the bottle of remover.

Fred stares at the man the entire time he is giving people 'what they need'. Fred approaches the small man on the street, asking him quite threateningly, what he needs. The man reaches for a pair of scissors and hands them to Fred. As Fred goes to his hotel room, his scarf is stuck in the elevator. He screams for help then remembers the scissors and cuts his way out of death.

Fred stalks the little man for what he needs. But the little man explains that he knows he has a talent but he can only use it sparingly. Fred is upset with this and continues to harass the man.

Late one night, Fred is aggravated that he can't get what he needs and nearly attacks the little

man, who we find out name is, Pedott, played by Ernest Truex. Finally, Pedott tells Fred that he cannot give him the things he needs most. Fred pushed Pedott out of the way and goes through his things. He finds a pair of too small shoes that

have leather soles. Fred hates them but assumes they're what he needs. Pedott tells Fred the

shoes are what he needs. Suddenly, Fred goes to attack Pedott and gets hit by a car.

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Abraham Maslow wrote an article in 1943 titled, A Theory of Human Motivation. In it, he defined what he believed are the basics of human needs through what is known as Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Click the pyramids for more definitions.

In 2004, the pyramid was amended to fit the natural shift of our generations.

What we need are not materialistic. Most of the time, human beings feel empty inside and try to fill the void with objects, possessions, etc. However, just making someone else happy can fill that void. It's kinda like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Grinch took everything but when he saw that the Whoo's didn't need things, just each other and a crazy little diddy, he wanted to share the JOY and HAPPINESS, too.

An article on Peak Oil Blue Blog, shares my ideology that our hierarchy of needs have shifted dramatically because the United States economy is dwindling. Maslow's pyramid worked for his time but now it's out-dated. Psychologists now are looking towards Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef's theory of American needs. Since we like shapes, we'll call it the Max-Neef circle. The circle gives ten major needs that all human need:

• Idleness
• Subsistence
• Freedom
• Affection
• Identity
• Protection
• Understanding
• Creation
• Participation

Max-Neef states in an interview with Democracy Now! reporter, Amy Goodman, the United States is becoming an underdeveloped nation.

"Greed should be among those who have nothing. No. The more you have, the more greedy you become..."- Manfred Max-Neef

But for us internet nerds, here's our pyramid.

S.1. Ep. 11 "And When the Sky Was Opened"

Rod Taylor plays Colonel Clegg Forbes and Jim Hutton plays Major William Gart, two men who were the first to fly into space on on the X-20 DynaSoar. During their test flight, they were lost off radar and crashed landed into a desert. Col. Forbes comes to the hospital after he was discharged earlier that morning to visit Major Gart. Nervous and shakey, Forbes asks Gart if he remembers Colonel Ed Harrington, played by Charles Aidman. Forbes shows Gart the newspaper and only the two of them on the front page.

Forbes begins to have flashbacks of the morning. Harrington and Forbes visit Gart in the hospital. Harrington picks up the newspaper and the three of them are on the cover. The two healthy men go out for a drink. Harrington drops his glass of beer and tells Forbes that he has a feeling that he doesn't belong. That none of them should have lived through the crash. Harrington goes to call his folks but they say they don't have a son. He calls Forbes over and tells him the shocking news. Harrington looks into the booth and Harrington is gone!

Forbes tries to prove and re-prove Harrington's existence but its no use. The scene returns to the hospital where Forbes tries make Gart remember Harrington. Suddenly, Forbes repeats what Harrington says at the bar. None of them should have made it through the crash. Forbes freaks out and runs from the run. Gart gets up to chase after him but there's no one there. He picks up the newspaper and on the cover is only himself!

Gart goes back into his bed and a nurse closes the door. The doctor asks the nurse if there's an available room. She replies yes and leads him to the room where Gart and the men stayed. She opens the door to reveal an empty room.

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I may not be a doctor but I am an experienced military brat. My dad served in the army for over two decades. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is serious business. For example, we can't watch firework shows because it reminds my dad of bombs exploding in Iraq. When the neighbors set them off, he hides in the basement.

PTSD can bring on flashbacks, vomiting, dizziness, hallucinations and nightmares. Soldiers sees some ridiculous and horrible things no human should ever possess the power to perform nor have to witness.

An article on MSNBC from late 2010 gave readers a look into the pain of a PTSD sufferer. Staff Sgt. Andrew Pogany was tried by the United States Army for "cowardly conduct as a result of fear" after only being in Iraq for a couple of days. He fought the case and retired with medical benefits.

Pogany saw a shredded body of an Iraqi soldier and began to vomit and hallucinate. The Army sent him back home for medical review and then tried to prosecute him for being a coward.

WARNING. GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH LINK BELOW.

I'm assuming he saw something twice as bad as this.

Poor dude.

If you have the guts to go to Iraq even for a day, you are NOTHING of a coward.

S.1. Ep. 10 "Judgement Night"

Nehemiah Persoff plays nervous Mr. Carl Lanser. He can't remember where he's from, how he got on the boat and why he can't shake the feeling the boat is going to sink. He talks to the captain and other people aboard the ship about his strange feelings. Inside his room, a fellow shipmate finds German naval officers cap. When Lanser flips the hat over, there is his name inside. The longer he stays on the ship, the more memories come back to him. He sits at the bar to have a drink and 1:15 a.m. sticks in his head. Suddenly, the engines stop. Lanser freaks out and begins to ramble about the U-boat coming. He runs about the ship screaming for everyone to leave. A group of people stand at the end of the hall and Lanser yells at them. Next thing he knows, they're all gone. The German U-boat begins to attack the S.S. Queen boat. A view of the German captain is shown and there is Lanser as the captain.

After the ship sinks, Lanser is at his desk. Another soldier walks in and asks Lanser if they are damned in the eyes of God because there were people on the S.S. Queen. They gave them no warning of attack. The soldier makes the comment that perhaps there's a special hell for them. A hell where they have to relive death a thousand times. As soon as the soldier finishes speaking, Mr. Lanser is back on the S.S. Queen except this time he knows how he got there.

Nazis deserve a special hell. Thank god for Call of Duty: World at War because it allows players to shoot zombie Nazis.

Or bullets to the head, like Neo-Nazi leader David Lynch. The Examiner published an article stating the nation's most notorious Neo-Nazi leader was found dead inside his California home on Wed. March, 2 but a press release wasn't made public until today in case of skinhead group repercussions.

Thing about racist groups like Neo-Nazis is that they're just like drug dealers. Top dog goes down, there's always someone waiting in the wings for the exact moment to take over.

Step Brothers Sleepwalking Scene (HD)

RBM is a disorder where you act out while you're asleep.

This is the best modern cinematic example of RBM.

S.1. Ep. 9 "Perchance to Sleep"

Richard Conte plays Edward Hall, a man afraid to sleep because he may never wake up. Hall walks into psychiatrist, Dr. Rathmman's office, played by John Larch. He lies down a second and jumps back up. Hall explains he has a paranoid, overactive imagination. He tells the doctor he dreams in sequences, in chapters. Then he tells the doctor he has a serious heart condition. A week prior to his visit, he began to have chapter dreams of a nightmarish circus carnival. There he meets a girl named Maya, played by Suzanne Lloyd. She begins to follow him and leads him into a fun house. He wakes up and his heart is pounding ridiculously. Hall believes Maya is trying to kill him. The following night the dream continues and Maya puts him on a roller coaster. He freaks out and Maya tells him to jump, jump, JUMP! Hall walks toward the door of the office when he sees the receptionist, its Maya! He jumps back into Dr. Rathmman's office and jumps through the window.

Maya's real name is Miss Thomas. Dr. Rathmman calls Miss Thomas into the office, feels Hall's pulse and declares him dead. Turns out when Edward Hall walked into Dr. Rathmman's office and sat down, he never woke up. The whole episode was a dream.

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Dreams are a strange thing. The mind in an unconscious state revealing twisted back thoughts from our subconscious. Thankfully we don't die in our dreams.

I've woke up dead from dreams more times than I have fingers or toes. I've been murdered, raped, drowned, thrown from a cliff, hanged, stabbed, died in a hurricane and died in a car crash.

I've also witnessed my mother be decapitated by a truck tire running her over. The icing on the cake, it was during a rain storm.

That was traumatically gut-wrenching.

New York Times' reporter, Robin Finn, interviewed REM behavior disorder (RBM) sufferer and comedian, Mike Birbiglia. REM is rapid-eye-movement. Mike sleepwalks and does other actions in his sleep, for example, he jumped out of a closed second story window while asleep. Now, Mike sleeps in a sleeping bag when he goes to bed in order to contain his actions.

I recommend reading Mike's interview. He makes the best of his disorder and uses it for comedic purposes.

S.1. Ep. 8 "Time Enough At Last"

Burgess Meredith plays the well known Twilight Zone character, simple, lackadaisical, Mr. Henry Bemis.

Mr. Bemis is a bank teller who only wants to read. His boss won't let him read. When he gets home, his wife tears up, throws out, hides or strikes through any piece of literature. Even nutrition facts on cereal boxes are cut out. One day at work, Bemis walks downstairs on his lunch break. He enters the vault with his brown-bagged lunch, book and morning newspaper. The headline on the paper:

Suddenly, his book whips open and his pocket watch cracks. Bemis creeps up the steps from the vault into the post-apocalyptic setting. Everything is destroyed. He gets desperate and fears that he can't do this loneliness. He finds a gun and contemplates his suicide. He puts the gun to his head when he sees he has been sitting across from the imploded library! After he sorts all the books by month and year. He sits down with his first novel. He notices he missed a book. He goes to pick up the delicious pages when his thick glasses fall from his face and crack.

Poor, terrible, ironic fate for Mr. Henry Bemis.

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I believe this episode represents the shift from paper to soft-copy we are currently experiencing. Kindles, Nooks, e-Books, Readers. Newspaper are becoming null-and-void. I don't need to post a link to explain the phenomenon. Reading is becoming more popular, I believe, in shorter, more brief segments. Hence the popularity of blogs, online newspapers and e-books. Even more essays are becoming electronic rather than printed copy. Handbooks aren't given out, the links to the handbooks are dispersed instead.

Since we are an audience exercised on proving statements with facts and sources, here. Click this. That is the link to an article on Engadget, a technology website, to support the rapid sales of e-books on Amazon.

Buy newspapers! Support local journalists and those aspiring to journalists!

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