flask rolls away and is lost. David is unhappy, but decides it is destiny to help other unfortunate souls. Melinda hypothesizes that he gained back some of his compassion with the restoration of his integrity, and volunteers to stay as his assistant. They start by helping the elderly man and woman. Afterwards Melinda puts up a new sign on the entrance: "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium: Under new management". Production Alan Brennert wrote the teleplay for the episode based on the short story by William F. Wu. Wu got the idea for the story from a prompt given by Harlan Ellison at the Clarion Writers Workshop: "Where do lost things go?" Seven years after the workshop, the full concept of the story popped into his head as he was lying down for a nap. Writer Michael B. Tonin was responsible for bringing the short story to Brennert's attention. The production featured a huge number of "lost item" props, with the crew cracking jokes about having cleaned out the CBS property room. Actress Carol Bruce was shocked when she noticed that one of the prop skeletons was a real human skeleton rather than the usual plastic model. Wu, who was present for the filming and was a fan of Bruce's, took the opportunity to chat and have his photo taken with her. Science fiction writer Alison Tellure suggested the idea of a head in a jar which turns out to be alive. The original short story makes a subtle reference to an earlier short story with a mystic curio shop, "The Chaser" by John Collier, which coincidentally was also developed into a Twilight Zone episode, albeit for the original series rather than the 1985 incarnation. However, this reference was left out of the TV adaptation. Sequels A sequel episode titled "Missing Person" was developed for season two of "The Twilight Zone", this time with the teleplay written by William F. Wu himself, but the series was cancelled before it could be filmed. The plot revolved around a person who wakes up to find he is a "lost item" on a shelf in Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and cannot leave until someone comes and "finds" him. Though the TV episode was never produced, the short story version of "Missing Person" was published in Amazing Stories, as was a second sequel story, "Indigo Shade, Alizarin Light". All three Lost and Found Emporium