The Fear story
A state trooper and a secluded woman (Hazel Court) experience strange incidents after the woman reports seeing lights in the sky. Directed by: Ted Post. Story by: Rod Serling.
12 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fear | choice | Robert and especially Charlotte conquered their fear and went out from the mountain cabin where they'd been hold up to confront the mysterious thing or force that had been terrorizing them during the night. |
| courage | major | Robert's refusal to be afraid amounted to courage. In the end (strangely) he commended Charlotte on her intrepidness (she'd spit giant aliens in the eye if they came?). |
| extraterrestrial being | major | It turned out that Robert and Charlotte were being terrorized by two tiny space aliens. |
| facing a home invader | major | Charlotte and Robert barricaded themselves indoors because there seemed to be a putative home invader on the loose. |
| law enforcement | major | The Highway Patrol trooper Robert Franklin was dispatched to the remote mountain cabin of brooding New York City magazine editor Charlotte Scott and ended up spending the night there to investigate some strange happenings going on outside her cabin. |
| Lilliputian being | major | Robert and Charlotte discovered the source of their plight to be two aliens no bigger than a man's thumb. |
| attitude of superiority | minor | Robert, a rural Highway Patrol trooper, called out the New York City magazine editor Charlotte for being a snob. |
| coping with stress at work | minor | Charlotte mentioned that she had had a nervous breakdown because of work pressure. |
| flying saucer | minor | Robert and Charlotte encountered a small flying saucer containing two aliens no bigger than a man's thumb. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | minor | Charlotte and Robert entertained the possibility that some lights in the sky she'd see might have been an alien spaceship. |