This teleplay was written by Charles Beaumont, based on his short story of the same name, and was directed by recurring director William F. Claxton.
The carcass of a goat, a dead finger, a few bits of broken glass and stone, and Mr. Alan Richards, a modern man of a modern age, hating with all his heart something in which he cannot believe and preparing – although he doesn't know it – to take the longest walk of his life, right down to the center – of The Twilight Zone.Alan Richards and his wife Doris have recently returned from Africa, where Alan's company is constructing a hydroelectric dam.
Alan attends a board meeting, where they discuss the dam and the fact that, although the natives will benefit from it in the long run, they are upset that they will be displaced in order to build it.
When the other board members scoff, he points out their own superstitions: one carries a rabbit's foot, another practices astrology, and even the building does not have a 13th floor.
He heads home on foot, still hearing the jungles and tribal drums all around him, becoming nervous and agitated.