The Twilight Zone Recap: What's in the Box

Cabbie Joe Britt just wants his television to work again. So when the repairman leaves he settles in to watch tag-team wrestling, but finds a nice surprise - he can get channel 10 (wrestling is on channel 9). Strangely, however, channel 10 shows Joe and his wife of 27 years Phyllis as they were just a few moments ago in the kitchen, and then it shows him knocking her to her death out the window!

Almost as if they combined two episodes from Season 2, Static and A Most Unusual Camera. In the first, an older gentleman remembered bits from the radio as if they were playing live, but everyone else heard only static. In the second, a camera showed pictures of what was about to happen. Here, only Joe could see the video, and though it showed what had happened in the past, the most interesting part was that his wife became so upset that he did indeed end up killing her.

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