He hits the rewind button on it, and time rewinds. Jonah sits down at the bus stop, waits for the next bus, and starts toying with the cassette recorder. It pulls away just before he can get there. Jonah goes to catch his bus and sees a newlywed couple get off. Jonah takes it and the homeless man says he will not regret it. In gratitude, the homeless man gives him an old tape cassette recorder that has been badly patched together with duct tape. The homeless man loses, but Jonah gives him the money anyway. The man asks for $5 and, when Jonah refuses, offers to bet him for it over a coin flip. He asks her for $500 out of the fund they have set aside to start their own restaurant, but his wife refuses.Īs Jonah goes home for the night, he runs into a homeless man outside the casino. Jonah tells his wife April, a waitress at the casino, that he does not believe it and that he wants to beat the house just once. He recently lost big against the casino owner, Trevor Black, who claims that 'the house always wins'. Jonah Beach is a patron and compulsive gambler at a local casino.

But Jonah may have just found the edge he needs to win, courtesy of the Twilight Zone.' Plot All of his adult life he's been trying to beat the house and always coming up short. Opening narration ' Jonah Beach has a problem.

Twilight zone casino episode