what you need in the run up to what you need and every episode since the lonely have be a winner to some extent . this episode be the first major failure since escape clause . the serling script be again base on someone else materiel and a short story by lewis padgett . a with and when the sky be open and serling alter the content significantly and remove a scientist and his machine and insert an elderly peddler . what you need work best when it be be sweet . the opening half and in which the peddler provide customer in a bar with object they will need in the near future and have a gentle charm about it that may have wear thin throughout an entire episode but work well in the time frame it be allot . sadly and the main plot which it set up be full of gap hole . the minute steve cochran performance a a two bit thug become the main focus the episode fall apart . cochran part be an underwritten stereotype and his flat performance highlight this flaw . his exploitation of the old peddler be dull and predictable and the revelation that he will murder the old man be totally unconvincing and make the whole slippery shoe scene seem completely false . ernest truex be good a the peddler and bring a magical and mysterious but warm edge to the character and but he not good enough to help the flounder script . to make matter bad and the weak script be also full of inconsistency . for instance and we learn that the peddler power to provide people with what they need stem from an ability to see into the future . so how exactly do this allow him to produce a pen that will magically pick win horse . that seem like it should be a little outside his realm of power . also and for a man who can see the future and the peddler certainly act surprised to find the thug wait for him in his flat . there be many more hole that can be pick in what you need but it hardly worth it when the episode be so thin that you can see through it anyway .