The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Fever (1960)

Everett Sloane: Franklin Gibbs

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• Flora Gibbs : Franklin, that's the third time you've cashed a check.

  Franklin Gibbs : I know that.

  Flora Gibbs : Well, you've spent a great deal of money.

  Franklin Gibbs : I know that too.

  Flora Gibbs : Don't you think you ought to stop now?

  Franklin Gibbs : How can I stop? I lost a great deal of money. You said it yourself. I've got to win it back.

  Flora Gibbs : But what if you don't? What if you don't win it back, Franklin? You've been standing here nearly 3 hours.

  Franklin Gibbs : Yes, I know that too.

  Flora Gibbs : Franklin, dear, you know how awful you feel in the morning after you've been up too late at night.

  Franklin Gibbs : Flora, will you kindly shut your mouth! I hate a shrew, Flora! I hate a woman who stands in back of you and sees to it that you have miserable luck! And that's what you're doing to me now, Flora! You're giving me miserable luck! Now please go away and leave me alone!

• Franklin Gibbs : [after maniacally playing a slot machine for nearly 24 hours, it "deliberately" breaks down on him]  Give me back my dollar, you miserable dirty... That's my last dollar!

  [He attacks the machine and pushes it over; it crashes to the floor] 

  Franklin Gibbs : GIVE ME BACK MY DOLLAR!

  [he is dragged out of the casino by security guards] 

• Franklin Gibbs : [Franklin picks up the small stack of silver dollars he'd won in the casino, and is about to sneak out of the room to go back downstairs and try to win more, when his wife turns on the light and catches him in the act. So, he hastily feigns an excuse to try and justify his actions]  This isn't the kind of money I like to keep, Flora. This is tainted, this is... highly immoral. No good can come from money won like this. I'm going back in there and feed it back into the machine, Flora, and get rid of it.

  Flora Gibbs : [she stares at him, dumbfoundedly, then dismisses it and smiles]  Oh, Franklin, do you really think...?

  Franklin Gibbs : Of course. If there's one thing I know, Flora, it's morality, and I will not have this tainted money smelling up our pockets. I'm going back in there and I'm just going to get rid of it.

• Franklin Gibbs : [having just won his first jackpot]  Now you'll see the difference between a normal, mature, thoughtful man and these... these wild idiots around here. We'll... we'll put this in our room and take it home with us. But not these baboons around here, they'd throw it away. They'd compulsively put it back in the machine. But not the Gibbs'.