The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street （怪物是由于在枫树街）.pdf

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street ROD SERLING CHARACTERS Narrator Tommy Steve Brand Don Martin Myra Brand, Steve’s wife Woman Voice One Voice Two Voice Three Voice Four Voice Five Pete Van Horn Charlie Sally, Tommy’s mother Man One Les Goodman Ethel Goodman, Les’s wife Man Two Figure One Figure Two 136 ACT ONE (Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various heavenly bodies stand out in sharp, sparkling relief. The camera moves slowly across the heavens until it passes the horizon and stops on a sign that reads “Maple Street. ”It is daytime. Then we see the street below. It is a quiet, tree -lined, small-town Ameri can street. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders, talking across from house to house. Steve Brand is polishing his car, which is parked in front of his house. His neighbor, Don Martin, leans against the fender watching him. An ice -cream vendor riding a bicycle is just in the process of stopping to sell some ice cream to a couple of kids. Two women gossip on the front lawn. Another man is watering his lawn with a garden hose. As we see these various activities, we hear the Narrator ’s voice.) Narrator. Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front-porch gliders, hopscotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor. (There is a pause, and the camera moves over to a shot of the ice-cream vendor and two small boys who are standing alongside just buying ice cream. ) Narrator. At the sound of the roar and the flash of the light, it will be precisely six-forty-three p.m. on Maple Street. (At this moment Tommy, one of the two boys buying ice cream from the vendor, looks up to listen to a tremendous screeching roar from overhead. A flash of light plays on the faces of both boys and then moves do