The Twilight Zone Recap: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
A group of criminals steal a million dollars in gold, and then they proceed to put themselves to sleep in glass coffins for 100 years, by when they figure they heat will be off, and they can freely spend their ill-gotten gains. The only problem is that they are in the middle of the desert, and they didn't bring along enough water - nor did they count on the factor of one's greed, and his ability to extract gold from the others in exchange for his water.
Unfortunately, at the end of the day, it turns out that after 100 years, gold is no longer as rare as it once was. Someone figured out how to make gold, meaning it wasn't worth anything. So the bungling burglars killed one another off for no reason whatsoever, leaving a pile of gold alongside an old, abandoned highway in the desert.
