The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Masks (1964)

Virginia Gregg: Emily Harper

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• Jason Foster : [dying]  ... It's what you've all been waiting for, I believe. Now you can dig deep in the treasury.

  Emily Harper : Are you feeling weaker, father?

  Jason Foster : At last, a note of hope in your voice, Emily.

  Emily Harper : Why must you always say such miserable, cruel things to me?

  Wilfred Harper : I quite agree, Father!

  Jason Foster : Why indeed, Emily. Because you're cruel and miserable people. Because none of you respond to love. Emily responds only to what her petty hungers dictate, a prime example being her marriage to Wilfred... a marriage which broke her dear late mother's heart, in every sense! Wilfred responds only to things that have weight and bulk and value. He feels books; he doesn't read them. He appraises paintings; he doesn't seek out their truth or their beauty. And Paula there lives in a mirror. The world is nothing to her than a reflection of herself. And her brother. Humanity to him is a small animal caught in a trap to be tormented. His pleasure is the giving of pain, and from this, he receives the same sense of fulfillment most human beings get from a kiss or an embrace! You're caricatures. All of you. Without your masks, you're caricatures.

• Jason Foster : You all came here for one purpose: to watch me go and cry bon voyage, to put coins on my closed eyes, and with your free hands, start grabbing things from my shelves.

  Emily Harper : Father, that's cruel.

  Wilfred Harper : That's truth! You came to reap everything I've sown. To collect everything I've built. Well, I shall not disappoint you. Everything is yours. Everything's prepared, the will is made. The four of you inherit everything I own. Everything. Money, house, property holdings, stocks, bonds. Everything.

  Wilfred Harper : Father, you're breaking our hearts.

  Jason Foster : Oh, that's the most touching thing you ever dredged up by way of conversation, Wilfred. But, I must include this addendum, this small proviso. You shall wear your masks until midnight. If anyone of you should take them off, from my estate you shall each receive train fare back to Boston. And that's it!

• Emily Harper : I don't like being so ill, Father, if that's what you mean.

  Jason Foster : Don't you? Well, I find that hard to believe. Considering that in the past twenty-five years, you've been at death's door so often, it's a wonder you haven't worn a hole in the mat.

• Emily Harper : Can you believe she said that, Father? The younger generation! "They jest at scars which never felt a wound"!

  Jason Foster : Emily, I believe my trouble is hardening of the arteries and a very weak heart. But if you don't stop massacring Sarah Bernhardt, I believe I shall succumb to an intestinal disorder!