History Recap / TheTwilightZone1959S2E15TheInvaders

* SquareCubeLaw: The woman in the cabin violates it rather flagrantly.

!!Tropes:

The woman goes up to her bedroom and hears something on the roof. On the top she finds a small UFO that drops down a stairwell and a tiny alien completely covered up in an astronaut costume comes out. Terrified, the woman goes back into her shack and starts hiding.

The woman goes to the roof with a hatchet and starts beating the UFO to death. After no dialogue the whole episode, we hear the commander of the spaceship notifying central control that the planet is inhabited by giants and this makes the woman beat it harder despite them saying they have no counter attack and the ship is destroyed. After a few final swings, the UFO has been destroyed.

The audience is shown the damaged ship that has the words U.S Air Force Space Probe No. 1 inscribed on it revealing the invaders were humans the whole time on a planet inhabited by giant humanoid creatures. With the woman going down relieved.

-->'''Creator/RodSerling''': This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying. This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress. This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror which is even now coming at her from the Twilight Zone.

-->'''Rod Serling''': These are the invaders. The tiny people from the tiny place called Earth, who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined. The invaders, who learned that a one-way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag. And we have just seen it entered in a ledger that covers all the transactions of the universe, a bill stamped 'paid in full,' and to be found on file in the Twilight Zone.

* WhamShot: The United States Air Force's name on the saucer, revealing that the invaders were from Earth.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[SilenceIsGolden Given the nature of this episode]], this is the only time that Rod Serling gave his opening monologue at the ''start'' of the prologue segment, rather than at the end. Also, it's the only time we clearly see him walk on and off screen.

* BottleEpisode: The whole episode takes place in a small, dark cabin with just one cast member. The space ship is a [[PropRecycling recycled prop]], and the invaders themselves are simple hand puppets.

* WhamShot: The United State Air Force's name on the saucer, revealing that the invaders were from Earth.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[SilenceIsGolden Given the nature of this episode]], this is the only time where Rod Serling gave his opening monologue at the ''start'' of the prologue segment, rather than at the end. Also, it's the only time we clearly see him walk on and off screen.
* SilenceIsGolden: Famously, no dialogue in this episode, other than Serling's narration and a little dialogue at the very end that is used for TheReveal.

She finds the other alien who blew a hole through her wall prompting her to follow it to the roof

!!Tropes

* HumansThroughAlienEyes

A woman (Agnes Moorehead) living in an old shack with no modern appliances is cleaning up her house for the night. Suddenly, she hears a loud noise coming from above her and after it drones on for a little while, it stops.

* BottleEpisode: The whole episode takes place in a small, dark cabin with just one cast member. The space ship is a [[PropRecycling recycled prop]], and the invaders themselves are simple hand puppets.

-->'''Rod Serling''': These are the invaders. The tiny people from the tiny place called Earth. Who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined. The invader, who learned that a one way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag. And we have just seen it entered in a ledger that covers all the transactions of the universe vastness of the universe, a bill stamped 'paid in full,' and to be found, on file, in the Twilight Zone.

* TwistEnding: The invaders were humans all along.

A woman living in an old shack with no modern appliances is cleaning up her house for the night. Suddenly, she hears a loud noise coming from above her and after it drones on for a little while, it stops

-->Rod Serling: "These are the invaders. The tiny people from the tiny place called Earth. Who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined. The invader, who learned that a one way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag. And we have just seen it entered in a ledger that covers all the transactions of the universe vastness of the universe, a bill stamped 'paid in full,' and to be found, on file, in the Twilight Zone.

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler: The ending after a set up for AliensAreBastards]]
* TwistEnding:[[spoiler: The invaders were humans all along]]

The audience is shown the damaged ship that has the words U.S Air Force Space Probe No. 1 inscribed on it revealing the invaders were humans the whole time on a planet inhabited by giant humanoid creatures. With the woman going down relieved