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The Purple Testament

Season 1, Episode 19

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An U.S. Army Lieutenant believes that he can see, in the faces of the soldiers, who is about to die.

Rod's Intro

" Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Phillipine Islands, 1945.  These are the faces of the young men who fight.  As if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear yellow white.  And these men were the models.  For this is the province of combat.  And these are the faces of war. "

Rod's Outro

" From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt.  The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.'  And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed.  Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found... the Twilight Zone. "

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Name The Purple Testament
Season 1
Episode Number 19
Type Regular Episode
Is Pilot False
Air Date Feb. 12, 1960
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