The Waiting Room story
A gunman (Steve Forrest) faces his day of reckoning. Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc. Story by: Alvin Sapinsley.
8 total · 3 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing one's own execution | major | The miscreants were being executed in the afterlife. |
| life in the American Wild West | major | We saw the gunslingers and other trappings of the wild, wild west. |
| punishment in the afterlife | major | Gunslinger Sam Dichter found himself in a saloon of the dead among a number of miscreants who were awaiting divine judgment. |
| live by the sword die by the sword | minor | The doctor went on about how they lived by the gun and were obliged to die by the gun. |
| sadism | minor | Sam had a taste for death and a talent for delivering it, we heard. |
| the calculus of human life | minor | The doctor pondered the ethics of saving murdering gunslingers knowing they would walk off to kill again. |
| what if I had to fight to the death | minor | Several gunslinger duels were mentioned. |
| what if I met my double | minor | Sam met his own stone-cold hanging corpse. |