The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness (1986)

Jeff Yagher: Gary Pitkin, Elvis Presley (segment "The Once and Future King")

Quotes 

• [talking to Elvis regarding his future] 

  Gary Pitkin : You are gonna give away cars like people give out sticks of gum!

• [Gary, now having taken over Elvis' life, is now in a hotel room in Vegas in the early '70s now fully in the King's persona, talking to someone off-screen] 

  Gary Pitkin : His mama knew. I think. I was good, but I wasn't that good. Nah, she knew her boy was dead. Maybe that's part of what killed her. After she was gone, it was a lot easier. The rest of 'em believed it all. Maybe they wanted to believe, maybe... maybe they needed to believe. Sometimes, I wake up and I believe it myself. I've been him longer than I was me. Sometimes, I wonder if it woulda come out differently if I hadn't stolen his life. I wonder if he woulda lived to do his way. Maybe he woulda been a better King than me, maybe there woulda been no King at all. I get headaches just thinking about it. I get these terrible dreams; he won't leave me alone. I talk to him all the time. He says I still owe him. It won't be much longer now. It's been a long show.

  [singing "My Way"] 

  Gary Pitkin : "But now... . the end is near..." At least I had the music. Nobody could ever take that away from me. I tried to do it all the way I remember. The way he woulda liked it, make it up to him. I did the movies, he woulda liked that. And he woulda liked Vegas too; the Bally's. But it's never enough. It's never enough. I have to live it all.

  [Gary as Elvis has been talking to a younger version of Sandra, Gary's manager in his past life] 

  Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : You're just tired, Elvis. You're the King. You're the only King.

  Gary Pitkin : Yeah. Sometimes I think so too.

  Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : Is there anything I can do for you? You look so sad.

  Gary Pitkin : Nah, baby, you just -- just be yourself. That's all I could ever ask of you.

  [There's a knock at the door and one of Elvis' people brings in some of his wardrobe] 

  Gary Pitkin : You got to be you.

  [the wardrobe gets hung up in Elvis' closet] 

  Gary Pitkin : Look, baby, I gotta get ready. But I got something for you.

  Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : For me?

  [Gary as Elvis takes a sweat band from the wardrobe, dabs it a bit on his neck and puts it around Sandra. He plants a small kiss on her cheek] 

  Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : [starstruck]  Oh, Elvis. I'll never forget this. I gotta go tell my girlfriends. They'll just die!

  [she rushes to the door, but just before leaving...] 

  Sandra (segment "The Once and Future King") : I love you, Elvis.