Nightsong

"Nightsong"
The New Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 27b
Directed by	Bradford May
Written by	Michael Reaves
Original air date	October 11, 1986
Guest appearance(s)
Lisa Eilbacher: Andrea Fields Antony Hamilton: Simon Locke Kip Gilman (credited as Kenneth David Gilman): Ace
Episode chronology

"Nightsong" is the second segment of the twenty-seventh episode (the third episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot

Andie, a nighttime disc jockey at a radio station, apparently in a funk and after a short relationship with a fellow D.J., discovers a record in her library by a former lover, with whom she broke up five years earlier. She discovers that her fellow D.J. is the one who found it and thought she would get a kick out of it.

However, after starting "Nightsong" during her shift, this former lover, Simon Locke, shows up at the station. She confronts him angrily about the fact he walked out on her and never came back. She turns and he's gone. She leaves the station after her shift and a motorcycle almost hits her. Simon pulls her out of the way. Her car won't start so she just walks away. He follows her. They begin rehashing everything about their relationship.

Simon and Andie end up in a coffee shop and she questions why he hasn't produced anything since they broke up. They discuss the good times of their relationship. She suddenly realizes she doesn't want to get tricked again, so she walks out on him. At home, she can't seem to get away from "Nightsong", as she finds it playing on her stereo. She discovers Simon and talks to him again, this time about the fact that his songs were about their relationship. He seduces her but he stops, and says that they can't have their relationship back. She's angry but he tries to explain why they can't get back together.

Simon takes Andie out towards the ocean on a back road. He tells her that maybe he was running from her all the time or maybe from success. He careens off onto a dirt road. They stop and get out near the edge of a cliff. He drags her down the hillside. They stop and he tells her how when she played his song, he decided to come back to explain what happened. He pulls back some brush to reveal a wrecked motorcycle and a skeleton. Locke had died in a motorcycling accident. Afterwards, she goes back to work and gets a call requesting "Nightsong". She plays the tune dedicating it "from Andrea to Simon, with love"...

Notes

The song, "Night Song" was written by Stephen Stills and Neil Young, and performed by Stills. The song, with additional overdubs, wound up being included as the last track on the 1988 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, American Dream.

External links

"Nightsong" at the Internet Movie Database
"Nightsong" at TV.com

The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "The Wall" "Cat and Mouse" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Special Service" "Father and Son Game"

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