The Ray Bradbury Theatre S1E3
Episode 3 "The Crowd"
A man is cruising around town with the latest "hip" tracks of its time but it gets rudely interrupted when the dog has the audacity to exercise their "right of way". The guy's car flips over and in rushes a crowd of passerbys. He is getting creeped out as they are all muttering.
In the hospital, the doctor is all up in his grill. When he comes to, he asks the doc how long he has been there.
24 hours.
He was trying to be best of his condition to chat with doctor mentioning how he swore that the street was empty and it is just so mind boggliing how a crowd of people in large numbers just so happened to appear if it were a really a matter of seconds.
Anyways, this guy gets discharged from the hospital where he runs into his long lost buddy. They both end up grabbing a drink and catching up. Doofus spills his alcohol. Buddy's upside down frown is now a frown. Dafuq.
The guy hears a car screech. As he looks out the window he not only sees the car accident but takes out his timer and like clockwork, he observes people are just coming out of nowhere crowded around the fallen pedestrian who got hit. 21 seconds time was all it took for them to gather.
He runs outside to inspect further while he friends dials for the ambulance. things are getting freakishly weird as he approaches his crowd. They just have such a weird ass haunting vibe to them. When the ambulance get there is when the crowd disperses. He sees a photo guy and asks a favor for him.
After he gets a hold of these pictures, he proceeds to show his friend why he gets the heebie jeebies from these folks. A singled a few photos out of the lineup and showed him that these people were the same people that were crowded around him when he had his own accident and it's hella sus. Friend doesn't really get it quite yet. May be he doesn't want to.
So this guy takes his top of the line camera and pans it over the city. Now he has a lots of VHS tapes that poor soul. Upon reviewing these tapes he shows his friend his finds.
The same people are literally at every scene of the crime.Why though? He is going through the list each time. Old man. Kid. Woman Younger man. just various other people of varying ages tend to be at the scene like wut?! Who do you think they are?
He then whips out more photos of the same people...FROM THE MORGUE! All those people have died in car accidents from the past so he theorizes that they wait for car accidents to happen so they can haunt the scene and breathe the air from the person so that he person dies or something.
Friend is hella sketpical and won't hear any of it. He proceeds to ask him yeah so what? What if he is right? What is he going to do about it? Go to the police or something? Just fuggetaboutit.
NEIN! He doesn't want to let it go despite the friend's protests thinking he is a little looney.
Being the ever so BFF he is, he tags along with him on a late night drive to see if he can track those fuckers down. The paranoid dude is in the passengers seat and while driving through this almost ghost town, he can hear people whispers I think? Or it could all be in his head idk. When the voices get too much, he tells his friend to stop the car so he can pursue it further.
After only taking a few steps, he recognizes an old man from the crowd who actually accosts him asking him what TF he is doing there then just scampers away. He wants to chase the old man down but his friend is like NUH UH! He however reliquishes anyway and says they will split up hoping to catch him on the otherside if he does switch directions.
Off he runs in between 2 buildings where he runs into a silhouette of a bulky man who then starts to charge so he runs away like a little girl. Only then did he find the old man who appeared behind him but he got spooked so much that he went in his friend's car and just took off without his BFF so like...what even????
He continues to drive and during which he keeps seeing the same people from the crowd that are just hang danging there which spooks him like a million times more. Driving so recklessly he ended up hitting his friend who popped out of nowhere!
Dumbass flips his car but immediately goes to his friend but the crowd already beat him to it and he continues to hear the voices.
One of the voices asks if he is dead. Yes. He is dead.
He makes his way into the crown to see his dead friend but holy fuck, he now sees his friend is now a part of that same crowd. He looks at his own dead body and retreats with the crown as the paranoid dude looks in sorrow at such irony.
The End