The best episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE are the ones that have a wonderful and unexpected twist at the end. This one, then, is one of the best because it has one of those perfect endings that make you love the show.
A group of crooks heist a huge shipment of gold--making them immensely wealthy. However, the gang's leader is smart--so smart that he has devised a way to get away with it. They will go into suspended animation until they are no longer wanted and they can spend the loot any way they wish. Unfortunately, instead of waking up just after the statute of limitations is up, they end up many years in the future and their transportation out of this desert cave is useless, so they are forced to trek to civilization with the treasure. Along the way, greed sets in and the group is reduced again and again by murder and dehydration until it's evident that even the "brains" of the operation is destined to die of thirst.
A group of crooks heist a huge shipment of gold--making them immensely wealthy. However, the gang's leader is smart--so smart that he has devised a way to get away with it. They will go into suspended animation until they are no longer wanted and they can spend the loot any way they wish. Unfortunately, instead of waking up just after the statute of limitations is up, they end up many years in the future and their transportation out of this desert cave is useless, so they are forced to trek to civilization with the treasure. Along the way, greed sets in and the group is reduced again and again by murder and dehydration until it's evident that even the "brains" of the operation is destined to die of thirst.