A Penny For Your Thoughts

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

Details

Episode number: 52 Season: 2 Production code: Original airdate: February 3, 1961 Writer: George Clayton Johnson Director: James Sheldon Music:

Cast

Synopsis

A bank clerk gains telepathic powers after making a coin stand on its edge. Able to read other people's thoughts - he is surprised to hear what people are thinking. Eventually he uncovers an apparent plot to steal money from the bank he is working for. The plot proves to be disproved - the veteran bank employee admits he was thinking about stealing money, but would never go through with such a plan. After work, the bank clerk returns home and inadvertantly knocks down the coin he stood up earlier and to his relief, is unable to read minds anymore.

Trivia

Themes

A play on the idea that people sometimes don't mean what they say, this episode proposes that sometimes people don't actually believe what they think.

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References

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