As they look over their menus, one of the men, Marvin, apprehensively shows a picture of a young woman to the other man, Ira, who smiles.
Marvin suddenly begins to wonder if Ira and his wife Valarie are having problems, because he has been seen mooning over this picture.
She reminds him of the ideals they believed in then and he laments about it, and when he starts to justify becoming a corporate sellout she thinks he has become "a drag" and disappears.
The costumes may change, but the cast remains: the arrogant, the radical, the naive, and the cynical; the misplaced and the spaced.
Each, a stage in the growth of a generation as it treads the tail-end of the twentieth century on a long journey...through the Twilight Zone.Roughly half a year before the episode aired, J. M. DeMatteis commented "I have a feeling that the show that appears will not bear much relation to what I wrote.