Welcome to Winfield

Infobox Television episode
Title = Welcome to Winfield
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Scene from Welcome to Winfield
Season = 1
Episode = 17, Segment 1
Airdate = February 7, 1986
Production = 48
Writer = Les Enloe
Director = Bruce Bilson
Guests = Elisha Cook Jr. : Weldon
Alan Fudge : Sherriff
Henry Gibson : Mayor Abe
Jonathan Caliri : Matt Winnaker
Gerrit Graham : Griffin St. George
Dennis Fimple : Ray Bob
Chip Heller : Elton
Sally Klein : Mamie
Claudia Bryar : Townsperson #1
David Morick : Townsperson #2
JoAnn Willette : Lori Bodell
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = Tooth and Consequences
Next = Quarantine

"Welcome to Winfield" is the first segment of the seventeenth episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone.

Plot synopsis

A young man named Matt, who is near death, awakes from a coma and asks his girlfriend to save him. She agrees and takes Matt from his hospital room. Shortly after they leave Matt's hospital room, Griffin St. George a modern looking agent of death or grim reaper arrives to collect Matt's soul. Meanwhile, Matt and his girlfriend arrive at an uncharted town call Winfield. The town is a throwback to the old west and they discover that the town residents are well over a hundred years in age. Griffin St. George tracks Matt to Winfield, but the townspeople state to Griffin St. George that they never saw the boy. Not believing them, St. George find out from the town drunk that the whole town had struck a deal with the previous agent of death that they would not die. St. George takes the drunk back to town in order to collect all the townspeople. Upon arriving back at the town, he finds Matt ready to surrender if he leaves the townspeople alone. The townspeople are ready to sacrifice themselves in order to save Matt. After consulting on the phone with previous death agent, St. George decides to leave both Matt and the townspeople and goes on his way.

External links

* [http://postcardsfromthezone.blogspot.com/2006/01/142-welcome-to-winfield.html Postcards from the Zone episode 1.42 Welcome to Winfield]

* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/welcome-to-winfield/episode/34373/summary.html TV.com - The Twilight Zone (1985) episode: Welcome to Winfield]