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As Death awaits midnight to strike so he can collect the poor girl's soul, Lew falls back on his one skill: sales. He manages to make a pitch so enthralling, so captivating, so distracting that he actually makes Death miss his appointment. ''The pitch for the angels.''
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As Death awaits midnight to strike so he can collect the poor girl's soul, Lew falls back on his one skill: sales. He spends the time leading up to midnight selling his wares to Death. Then with one minute remaining, he manages to make a pitch so enthralling, so captivating, so distracting that he actually makes Death miss his appointment.appointment, by pitching himself as a manservant to Death to convince him to take Lew instead of Maggie. ''The pitch for the angels.''
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* PostMortemPossessions: When street vendor Lew Bookman performs a HeroicSacrifice by distracting Death from taking a child's life to [[BalancingDeathsBooks balance his books]] (the titular sales pitch for the angels), Lew has to go in the kid's stead. Death allows Lew to take his briefcase full of wares to the afterlife and assures him that he earned his place "[[{{Heaven}} up there]]".
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* BatmanGambit: If you consider that Death wouldn't actually need anything Bookman is selling (and thus would be unlikely to be moved by any pitch), one interpretation of his actions is that he never really intended to take the Maggie and only targeted her because he knew it would motivate Bookman to make his big pitch. (It was in Death's dossier that Bookman was a FriendToAllChildren, after all.)
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* BatmanGambit: If you consider that Death wouldn't actually need anything Bookman is selling (and thus would be unlikely to be moved by any pitch), one interpretation of his actions is that he never really intended to take the Maggie and only targeted her because he knew it would motivate Bookman to make his big pitch. (It was in Death's dossier that Bookman was a FriendToAllChildren, after all.)
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Lew has the chance of a lifetime to avoid his certain death; but in turn, a [[BalancingDeathsBooks child will take his place instead.]] Since it's by the supernatural personification of death, no one besides him will know he was responsible for it. [[WouldntHurtAChild This is still more than enough for him to chose to go instead.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Lew has the chance of a lifetime to avoid his certain death; but in turn, a [[BalancingDeathsBooks child will take his place instead.]] Since it's by the supernatural personification of death, no one besides him will know he was responsible for it. [[WouldntHurtAChild This is still more than enough for him to chose choose to go instead.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Lew has the chance of a lifetime to avoid his certain death; but in turn, a [[BalancingDeathsBooks child will take his place instead.]] Since it's by the supernatural personification of death, no one besides him will know he was responsible for it. [[WouldntHurtAChild This is still more than enough for him to chose to go instead.]]
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-->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But, throughout his life, a man beloved by children, and therefore, a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places - but it did happen in the Twilight Zone.
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