The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of a honeymoon team en route across the Ohio countryside to New York City.
The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn't realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone.When newlyweds Don and Pat Carter's automobile breaks down in Ridgeview, Ohio, en route to New York City, they have lunch at the Busy Bee Cafe while they wait for repairs to be made.
Questioning the seer on this point produces eerily relevant answers, leading to the prediction that it is unsafe to leave the diner until 3 p.m. Don stalls for time, but Pat argues that the seer cannot predict the future and convinces him to leave a few minutes before 3, and the couple is almost struck by a car while crossing the street.
Pat remains skeptical, contending that the seer answers in generalities; she feels that Don is creating the links to his questions himself.
After their exit, a distraught older couple enters the diner, sitting at the seer's table, and the man asks questions about their fate, increasingly deflated by the answers.
When selecting a record in the jukebox to celebrate his promotion, Don chooses the Glenn Miller version of "American Patrol".