Lone Survivor story
A man (John Colicos) adrift in a lifeboat labeled Titanic is picked up. Directed by: Gene Levitt. Story by: Rod Serling.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cowardice | major | The survivor suffered for having been a coward. |
| punishment in the afterlife | major | The survivor's punishment for breaking the maritime law of women and children first was to drift the seas in a lifeboat and be picked up by doomed ship after doomed ship. |
| remorse | major | The survivor, a man, expressed remorse over having donned a women's dress to get on a Titanic lifeboat. |
| the afterlife | major | The survivor suffered an unusual punishment in his afterlife. |
| the ship Titanic | major | The Lusitania picked up a survivor of the Titanic who was adrift in a lifeboat. The Titanic sank in 1912; the Lusitania in 1915. |
| what if I were a ghost | major | The captain of the Lusitania became away that they were actually ghosts. |
| ghost ship | minor | The Flying Dutchman was mentioned and we must have speculated that the life boat was from a ghost titanic of sorts. |
| the universe is a dream | minor | The survivor learned that his world was not real. |
| what if I had amnesia | minor | The survivor did not even remember his name. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | minor | Nobody would believe the survivor's incredible story - they thought he was a German spy. |