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Philip Redfield is a reporter who stops for gas (attended by Sandy Kenyon, also starring in The Odyssey of Flight 33 from Season 2 and The Shelter from Season 3). Unfortunately his dog chases a cat, and when he goes to catch him, sees the little girl who owns the cat zap the dog with some device - and his dog disappears!

The door is answered by a man (a very young James Doohan) who insists that the dog didn't disappear, but ran around back. When the reporter's back is turned, he makes the dog reappear, then brings him back around as if nothing happened. The reporter is suspicious, but goes along anyway, so as not to act crazy. He then goes off in search of something to eat and finds the restaurant closed and the hotel booked up, but no one is in their room. When he tries to leave town he runs into something, but nothing is there. The car is ruined and the dog is killed.

As the townspeople escort him off, other townsfolk revive the dog using a device similar to that held by the little girl. Meanwhile, he undergoes an inquisition by three town leaders who are trying to figure out what he knows. Obviously he knows very little, but he's starting to get very suspicious. They ask him to leave and come back later. While he's gone, he finds his dog, who has been fed by the gas station attendant (he doesn't seem to notice that he's now alive again).

And when he returns, the three town leaders tell him about the fantastic technology left 104 years ago by a genius, but that he cannot return to the regular world. He can be executed, or he can stay with the town. He elects to stay with the town, in a house of his choosing, but he soon finds out it is a prison. The girl that runs the hotel befriends him and the are going to run away. He uses the technology to create a gun, which he uses to steal the technology, and int he process he shoots the town leaders.

Once they get beyond the town borders, she turns on him, and turns him into those leaders, who are now healed by their superior technology. As it turns out, they were testing him, to see if the outside world is indeed ready. They aren't. So he is "executed". In reality it means his mind is erased and he finds himself back at the gas pump, getting his change and moving on, as if nothing happened. All in all, it was a long episode that was okay, but not very good. In this case I like the shorter episode format better.