Exec. Producer: William Sackheim
Producer: Herbert Hirschmann
Ass P: Rita Dillon
Dir: Arnold Laven

Mick: Leonard Nimoy

London, after World War Two. Mick is working at a garage + patrol station owned by Fred and Doris, a couple who like the shy, undemanding young man, “a man of simple but deeply felt needs, the most important of which is friendship, love, a meaningful relationship....unfailingly kind, totally dependable” as Doris puts it. They care for him and invite him for tea after work sharing their concern about him being alone. Mick says he’s used to be on his own. They worry too about repeated reports about someone stabbing former R.A.F.s in the area, - Mick has been in the R.A.F. during the  war. For both reasons they invite him to go with them this evening, but Mick seems to be determined to handle his loneliness alone. He seems to appreciate the offer and does not want to be impolite. So he tells Fred that he intended to go to the cinema tonight for a special flick. 

Mick goes to the cinema because he’s doing what he’s told Fred he would do, but in front of the display he does not seem anxious to get in. He buys a ticket and goes in, but the usherette does not take notice of him until he asks her for a back seat. She notices his R.A.F. coat and asks him: "Does it warm you?" Mick wonders. "The coat, is it warm?" "Yes," he answers. They talk a bit and Mick uses the word "nice". "That’s what I am", the beautiful usherette says, "nice". Again and again she comes back to the back row where Mick is sitting and sits beside him. He offers her to buy something for her from the sweets she’s selling, but she answers: "If you want to give a girl something, don’t give her something she can have anyway." After the cinema is closed at night she encourages Mick to follow her, entering a bus. Mick is undecided, but catches the leaving bus. She puts her head on his shoulder and tells him to wake her when the bus reaches the cemetery. There they leave the bus and have a coffee in a small cafe. "You wouldn’t catch me in an Air Force coat" the owner warns Mick referring to the recent killings of former Air Force staff. When they leave she says: ".... Before," "Before what?" Mick inquires. "Before the sky is falling down" she answers.   

They protect themselves from the rain under a tree and she tells him about her parents who have been killed by bombs from the Air Force saying "They are all the same, they all drop bombs." She shows him a hole in the fence which leads them into the cemetery. Mick’s button gets stuck and loose at the fence. To cut it off that it does not get lost, she takes a huge pair of scissors out of her bag. "Those look pretty lethal" Mick comments. "A flower pot is lethal if you use it that way," is her answer. In the cemetery she tells Mick that it is good to lie on the flat stones and asks him if he would like to hold her in his arms. Mick tells her that he will only be able to afford a flat and some flowers now and then for his wife, and asks her: "Will you be my girl?" "I won’t be a girl of yours, you dropped bombs." "I drove a motor lorry." He offers her his most precious possession:  His mother’s ring. 

She refuses and he had expected it, but it does make him sad. Saying she wants to walk home alone, she leaves him in the cemetery. The next day Mick is back at the cinema, but does not find her there. He finds her in the cafe they have been together before – with another R.A.F. private. She asks him to go away and Mick leaves. At home Mick sadly holds the rings in his hands while Doris brings him a cup of tea. To distract his mind Doris switches on the radio. A report is on telling about another murder of an R.A.F. member in a North London cemetery. Before dying the private had identified his murderer: A young woman who has been arrested by now. Mick goes to the police station. With a police woman at her side, the beautiful young woman is allowed to see Mick. "They bombed my house" she explains after Mick asked her why she killed the men. Mick tries to explain that it was not them, but the war, but she responds that she did not want a war. Because of her feelings for him, she had not killed him at the cemetery. Mick gives her the ring and she accepts it now asking him: "You’ll see, after all I am the only girl who’ll ever see how nice you are?"