![]() ![]() The blast crater is contained under a radiation proof dome - "The Peace Dome" - which serves as a memorial. The accident shocked the world from the brink of war. On the surface, it is revealed that the explosion was a Broken Arrow incident in which a bomb detonated at the local air force base, destroying the town. With no one to talk to, Harry buries himself in survival prep. Harry refuses since Nick is now contaminated, letting him back in will only cause both of them to suffer lingering deaths. He returns and implores Harry to let him back in, saying the town has been reduced to rubble, there is no daylight, and it is freezing (the hypothesized symptoms of a nuclear winter). After ten months, the radiation has not gone down and the generator has long since exhausted its power supply, leaving only candles and the red warning lamp for light. Harry silences him, pointing out that the radiation is still high, meaning whoever is out there must be scavengers. Six weeks later, Nick hears people moving above and calls to them. ![]() The radiation monitor is nearly at maximum, and Harry warns Nick that they cannot emerge until the radiation has died down. The blast destroys the raised antenna, cutting off all contact with the outside. A massive explosion occurs as Harry runs back to the shelter with Nick and shuts the door. She refuses, saying that Harry cries wolf too often. Harry raises the antenna while turning on the TV. Harry shows Nick the fallout shelter's communications, which include a hydraulic system that can raise and lower an antenna through tons of rubble, so he could communicate with other survivors after a nuclear attack. Harry confesses he is looking forward to the inevitable nuclear war so the world will be rid of moral degenerates and he and his family can start over "in a purified world". However, after his wife Sally leaves to visit her sister in Kansas City, taking their two children with her, Harry gets drunk and tells Nick, who works at Harry's gun store, about the shelter. ![]() He mandates that his family not tell anyone else about the shelter. Harry Dobbs has built a fallout shelter in his basement for himself and his family and is training them in postwar survival. The segment follows two men living in a fallout shelter following a nuclear explosion. " Shelter Skelter" is the second segment of the thirty-third episode and the ninth episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The Twilight Zone. 33rd episode of the second season of The Twilight Zone " Shelter Skelter" ![]()
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