The Twilight Zone | Father's Mardi Gras Punishment (S5, E25) | Paramount+

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Come on, let us take the masks off.

[00:00:02]Father, I appeal to you now. It's more than just discomfort. It's becoming quite unbearable.

[00:00:12]What is it, Father?

[00:00:13]It's there. What you've all been waiting for, I believe, Wilfred.

[00:00:19]Now you can dig deep in the treasury.

[00:00:23]Are you feeling weaker, Father? At last, a note of hope in your voice, Emily.

[00:00:30]Why must you always say such miserable, cruel things to me?

[00:00:33]>> I quite agree, Father. Why, indeed, Emily? Because you're cruel and miserable people.

[00:00:40]Because none of you respond to love.

[00:00:43]Emily responds only to what her petty hungers dictate. Wilfred responds only to things that have weight and bulk and value.

[00:00:52]He feels books. He doesn't read them.

[00:00:55]He appraises paintings. He doesn't seek out their truth or their beauty.

[00:01:01]And Paula there lives in a mirror. The world is nothing to her but a reflection of herself and her brother.

[00:01:10]Humanity to him is a small animal caught in a trap to be tormented.

[00:01:16]His pleasure is the giving of pain. And from this, he feels the same sense of fulfillment most human beings get from a kiss or an embrace.

[00:01:26]You're caricatures, all of you.

[00:01:30]Without your masks, you're caricatures.

[00:01:43]And now, you're all very rich.

[00:01:50]Now you own everything that I have owned.

[00:01:55]You kept your bargain. You wore the masks.

[00:02:00]Enjoy yourselves, demons.

[00:02:04]Live the full life.

[00:02:08]May God pity you.

[00:02:33]He's dead.

[00:02:38]At long last, he's dead.

[00:02:41]>> Good.

[00:02:42]Now, let's celebrate.

[00:02:50]What's the matter?

[00:02:51]What's the matter with you all?

[00:02:54]>> [music] [sighs] >> I called you just as soon as I found out, Doctor.

[00:03:46]This must be death.

[00:03:48]No horror, no fear.

[00:03:51]Nothing but peace.