and the detectives stare at the one-sided exchange, thinking Jonathan mad. Jonathan now realizes that Caesar has abandoned him and is willingly arrested. After the detectives lead Jonathan out of the room, Caesar turns his head around and addresses Susan, who lingered and is the last to leave. She triumphantly tells him she knew all the time he could speak. He says he likes her for her "hip attitude" and offers to help her run away to New York City. Caesar assures Susan that Jonathan will now be gone "a long, long time" and that the two of them are now "a team." Finally, Caesar hints Susan should kill her aunt with poison darts. She says nothing and smiles. Closing narration Cast Jackie Cooper as Jonathan West / voice of Caesar Suzanne Cupito (Morgan Brittany) as Susan Sarah Selby as Mrs. Cudahy Stafford Repp as Pawnbroker Don Gazzaniga as Detective Kenneth Konopka as Mr. Miller Sidney Marion as Watchman Robert McCord as Man Watching Audition Olan Soule as Mr. Smiles Production notes The writer of the episode, Adele Strassfield, was the secretary of William Froug, the producer of the second half of the final season of The Twilight Zone. According to Froug, they worked out this episode together. Strassfield is billed in the credits as "Adele T. Strassfield", not "A.T. Strassfield" as Zicree inexplicably avers in The Twilight Zone Companion; Serling also announced her as "Adele T. Strassfield" in a promotional announcement for the episode that aired the previous week. Strassfield is the only woman credited with writing an original teleplay for the original version of The Twilight Zone, though several women received credit for stories that were adapted for the show. She later wrote a first-season episode of Gilligan's Island with executive producer Froug's assistance. The dummy used in this episode to portray "Caesar" was originally created in the 1940s by puppet maker Revello Petee. The same dummy was used one year earlier in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode, "The Dummy". A figure of the puppet can be seen at Disney's Hollywood Studios in the dark corner of a barred-off exhibit to the side of one of the elevator exits of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride. See also The Great Gabbo, a 1929 film about a mad ventriloquist, starring Erich von Stroheim Dead of Night, a 1944 anthology film featuring a mad ventriloquist segment "The Dummy", a