A Penny for Your Thoughts

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Infobox Television episode
Title = A Penny for Your Thoughts
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption =Dick York in "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
Season = 2
Episode = 52
Airdate =February 3, 1961
Production = 173-3650
Writer =George Clayton Johnson
Director =James Sheldon
Guests = Dick York : Hector B. Poole
June Dayton : Miss Turner
Dan Tobin : Mr. Bagby
Hayden Rorke : Mr. Sykes
Cyril Delevanti : Mr. Smithers
Music = uncredited
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = The Invaders
Next = Twenty Two

"A Penny for Your Thoughts" is an episode of the television series "The Twilight Zone".

Opening narration

ynopsis

Hector B. Poole, a timid bank clerk, gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. He discovers that he is able to "read" other people’s thoughts, and is surprised to hear the things people are thinking around him.

He first "hears" his boss thinking about a weekend affair he is planning with his mistress. He then "hears" a businessman, Mr. Sykes, trying to take out a large loan to pay for a run at the horse track to win back money he has embezzled from his company. Hector informs his boss, Mr. Bagby, and thwarts the businessman's plans. Hector then "hears" Miss Turner, a co-worker, has been admiring Hector from afar, but wishes he would be more bold. Hector "hears" her thoughts and decides to take her into his confidence by revealing his "gift" to her.

Eventually he uncovers an apparent plot by an old trusted employee, Mr. Smithers, to steal money from the bank. The plot is eventually disproved; the veteran bank employee admits he has been thinking about stealing money from the bank for years, but would never go through with such a plan. Mr. Bagby fires Poole, but later reinstates him when he discovers Hector was correct about Sykes. With the encouragement of Miss Turner, Hector uses his knowledge of Mr. Bagby's tryst to blackmail his boss into giving him not only a better position as an office manager at the bank, but Mr. Smithers a long overdue vacation.

After work, as Poole returns home with Miss Turner, he inadvertently knocks down the coin he stood up earlier. To his relief, his ability to read minds is gone; but he is still a changed man, for the better.

Closing narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

Trivia

*The music played just before Hector overhears Mr. Sykes, the music played is the same in Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.

References

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090

External links

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* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/a-penny-for-your-thoughts/episode/12636/summary.html TV.com episode page]
* [http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649555532&pid=xK1m9XrlFOkPGqWqdzlOd8CZUz3N_HsE&play=true&cc=1 Full video of the episode at CBS.com]

Twilight Zone links

*The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
*Episode List
*Season 2


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