Love Is Blind (The Twilight Zone)
| "Love is Blind" | |
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| The New Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 62 |
| Directed by | Gilbert M. Shilton |
| Written by | Cal Willingham |
| Original air date | March 25, 1989 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Ben Murphy: Jack Haines |
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Ben Murphy: Jack Haines
Sneezy Waters: The Blind Singer
"Love is Blind" is the sixty-second episode and the twenty-seventh episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series The Twilight Zone.
Jack Haines is sitting in his pick-up truck, drinking whiskey and watching the door to a bar. When he finishes drinking, he pulls a gun from his glove compartment and goes inside. Haines walks up to a singer on stage and then walks back to the bar and orders a beer. The singer finishes his first song and begins introducing a second song when he pauses in reflection. He then begins a completely different tune. Haines is quite taken with the song and when he questions the bartender, he tells him that the singer just came in out of the rain looking for a dry place. He turned out to be a great singer but he was blind.
The singer sits down next to Jack and asks what he thought of his song and they begin talking. He tells Haines he meant the song to hit him where he lives, and the singer claims he has either an immense amount of talent or a terrible curse which allows him to reveal bad things that have happened to people via song. He even tells Haines that he knows his secret: that he wants revenge by shooting someone that wronged him. Haines says that if he's so talented then he should tell him which guy in the bar is sleeping with his wife. The singer claims he doesn't know anything but the pain he is feeling, and then Haines notices his wife has come into the bar and is seated at a nearby table. When he sees a man begin flirting with her Haines nearly pulls the gun out - but the singer stops him. It is revealed that the guy was merely flirting and had never seen her before.
Haines decides to sit at the bar and listen to the singer's story while watching to see if anyone else tries to talk to his wife. The singer, meanwhile, tells him about how he became blind: he was messing with a guy's wife and the guy shot him in the head. The bullet wound to the brain caused the singer's blindness, then passed through his head and hit his wife—killing her. The shooter hung himself himself out of guilt and somehow the singer acquired this talent to know about people's pain. He never knows when his power will activate but when it does he somehow knows the right song to sing and to attempt to stop the guy from giving in to his pain. He tells Haines that some guys listened and some didn't as one needs to decide for themselves. After the singer leaves, the wife is joined by her date, and Haines gets upset but listens to the singer instead while the majority of the bar dances. He is almost out the door when a flash of anger washes over him, so he walks over to his wife. He pulls out the gun but his wife steps in front of him. He shoots her instead of the date and runs out with half the bar chasing him. Running into the woods, Haines meets with the blind singer who tells him he's going the wrong way.
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