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Joy Ride (The Twilight Zone)

"Joy Ride"
The New Twilight Zone episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 33a
Directed by Gil Bettman
Written by Cal Willingham
Original air date May 21, 1987
Guest appearance(s)

Rob Knepper: Alonzo
Brooke McCarter: Greg
Heidi Kozak: Deena
Tamara Mark: Adrienne

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Rob Knepper: Alonzo
Brooke McCarter: Greg
Heidi Kozak: Deena
Tamara Mark: Adrienne

"Joy Ride" is the first segment of the thirty-third episode and the ninth episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Two girls and two brothers who are looking for something to do one evening hot-wire a classic car and go joy riding. After finding a loaded gun in the car Alonzo, the driver starts to become mentally consumed by the car; for instance, he knows there are cigarettes in the glove compartment. His brother Greg wants him to pull over after they notice the cars around them are suddenly stylized after the 1950's and the streets are unrecognizable.

Soon, a police car pulls them over and the officer wants to know what they were up to since a local store was robbed earlier. Greg remembers the store and that it was torn down years ago. Alonzo pulls out a gun and shoots the cop, taking off in a blaze of smoke. In the fracas, Adrienne, one of the girls, was shot and is bleeding badly. Alonzo refuses to take her to the hospital but pulls into a parking lot and shoves Adrienne out of the car. Greg and Deena don't see her anymore as they are inside the car and Adrienne realizes she's not shot anymore. Alonzo takes off in the car again now fully possessed. He eventually pulls over to let Greg and Deena out after they demand to be released, and Greg tries to appeal to Alonzo. Alonzo, however, simply pushes Deena out of the car.

Greg finally decides to jump out of the car while Alonzo is driving and falls on the ground outside. The car is parked right where it was when they hot-wired it and it is discovered that the car was used in a hold-up years ago and a cop was shot. The old man who owned it died before he confessed and Alonzo was reliving the night it happened. In the end, Alonzo didn't actually kill anybody, nor did the four of them actually drive anywhere. The entire evening could have possibly been the stickup man's final confession.


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