The Rip Van Winkle Caper

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Simon Oakland in "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"
Season = 2
Episode = 60
Airdate =April 21, 1961
Production = 173-3655
Writer =Rod Serling
Director =Justus Addiss
Guests =Simon Oakland : DeCruz
Oscar Beregi, Jr. : Farwell
Lew Gallo : Brooks
Music =
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Next = The Silence

"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" is an episode of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone".

Opening narration

ynopsis

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks, a band of four gold thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell (Beregi), hide in a secret cave in the desert. Farwell has designed suspended animation chambers and set them for 100 years, figuring that by 2061, nobody will remember the robbery and the gang will be in the clear.

When they wake up, everything starts to go awry. One of the gang is already dead, a mere skeleton, because a rock had fallen and shattered his glass chamber. Greed soon begins consuming the others. Brooks demands that DeCruz drive the getaway car. DeCruz kills Brooks by running him over with the getaway truck, but then finds that the brakes do not work and barely escapes before the vehicle crashes into a ravine. Consequently Farwell and DeCruz must walk through the desert in summertime, carrying as much gold as they can.

Later, Farwell, who is older and somewhat obese, loses his canteen, and DeCruz forces him to ante up one gold bar for each sip of water. When the "fee" goes up to two bars, Farwell strikes DeCruz with the gold bricks, killing him. Farwell then continues to a highway, lugging the gold he refuses to abandon. Finally, weak and dehydrated, he collapses. A futuristic car drives up and Farwell offers his gold to the couple inside in exchange for water and a ride to the nearest town, but expires a few moments later.

As the man gets back into his car to report Farwell's death to the police, he quizzically remarks to his wife, "Can you imagine that? He offered this to me as if it was really worth something." The wife vaguely recalls that it had, indeed been valuable sometime in the distant past. The husband replies, "Sure, about a.... hundred years or so ago, before they found a way of manufacturing it," and tosses the gold bar away.

Closing narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

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

*imdb title|id=0734674|title=The Rip Van Winkle Caper
* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/the-rip-van-winkle-caper/episode/12644/summary.html TV.com episode page]
* [http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649555532&pid=DaBYFGwyorUEX4tXylSC7cwO_LXOczW8&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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