"Joy Ride" is the first segment of the thirty-third episode (the ninth episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Plot[]
Two girls and two brothers, trying to find something to do one evening, hotwire a classic car and go joy riding. After finding a loaded gun in the car, the driver, Alonzo, starts to become a little consumed by the car. He suddenly knows there are cigarettes in the glove compartment. Greg wants him to pull over after they start noticing all the cars are suddenly styled like 1950s cars and the streets start to look unrecognizable.
Soon, a police car pulls them over. The officer wants to know what they were up to, since a local store was robbed earlier. Greg remembers the store and that it was torn down years ago. Alonzo pulls out the gun, shoots the cop, and takes off. In the fracas, Adrienne was shot and is bleeding badly. Alonzo refuses to take her to the hospital but pulls into a parking lot and shoves Adrienne out. Suddenly Greg and Deena don't see her anymore, and she looks up and realizes she's not shot anymore. Alonzo takes off again, possessed. He finally pulls over to let Greg and Deena out after they demand to be let out. Greg tries to appeal to Alonzo again, but Alonzo just pushes Deena out. Greg doesn't see her after she is pushed out.
Greg finally decides to jump while Alonzo is driving and falls on the ground outside the parked car right where it was when they hot-wired it. It turns out the car was used in a hold-up and a cop was shot. The old man who owned it died before he confessed, and Alonzo was living out the night it all happened. But Alonzo didn't kill anyone, nor did they actually drive anywhere. It is possible that this was the man's way of confessing.
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| Season 1 | "Shatterday" • "A Little Peace and Quiet" • "Wordplay" • "Dreams For Sale" • "Chameleon" • "Healer" • "Children's Zoo" • "Kentucky Rye" • "Little Boy Lost" • "Wish Bank" • "Nightcrawlers" • "If She Dies" • "Ye Gods" • "Examination Day" • "A Message From Charity" • "Teacher's Aide" • "Paladin of the Lost Hour" • "Act Break" • "The Burning Man" • "Dealer's Choice" • "Dead Woman's Shoes" • "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" • "The Shadow Man" • "The Uncle Devil Show" • "Opening Day" • "The Beacon" • "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" • "Her Pilgrim Soul" • "I of Newton" • "Night of the Meek" • "But Can She Type?" • "The Star" • "Still Life" • "The Little People of Killany Woods" • "The Misfortune Cookie" • "Monsters!" • "A Small Talent for War" • "A Matter of Minutes" • "The Elevator" • "To See the Invisible Man" • "Tooth and Consequences" • "Welcome to Winfield" • "Quarantine" • "Gramma" • "Personal Demons" • "Cold Reading" • "The Leprechaun Artist" • "Dead Run" • "Profile in Silver" • "Button, Button" • "Need to Know" • "Red Snow" • "Take My Life...Please!" • "Devil's Alphabet" • "The Library" • "Shadow Play" • "Grace Note" • "A Day in Beaumont" • "The Last Defender of Camelot" |
| Season 2 | "The Once and Future King" • "A Saucer of Loneliness" • "What Are Friends For?" • "Aqua Vita" • "The Storyteller" • "Nightsong" • "The After Hours" • "Lost and Found" • "The World Next Door" • "The Toys of Caliban" • "The Convict's Piano" • "The Road Less Traveled" • "The Card" • "The Junction" • "Joy Ride" • "Shelter Skelter" • "Private Channel" • "Time and Teresa Golowitz" • "Voices in the Earth" • "Song of the Younger World" • "The Girl I Married" |
| Season 3 | "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" • "Extra Innings" • "The Crossing" • "The Hunters" • "Dream Me a Life" • "Memories" • "The Hellgramite Method" • "Our Selena is Dying" • "The Call" • "The Trance" • "Acts of Terror" • "20/20 Vision" • "There Was an Old Woman" • "The Trunk" • "Appointment on Route 17" • "The Cold Equations" • "Stranger in Possum Meadows" • "Street of Shadows" • "Something in the Walls" • "A Game of Pool" • "The Wall" • "Room 2426" • "The Mind of Simon Foster" • "Cat and Mouse" • "Many, Many Monkeys" • "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" • "Special Service" • "Love is Blind" • "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" • "Father and Son Game"
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