Jeremy Wickwire

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Jeremy Wickwire

Background

Jeremy Wickwire is the caretaker of Happy Glades.

During the events of The Twilight Zone: Season 1 Episode 20 Elegy played by Cecil Kellaway

Captain James Webber, Kurt Meyers and Peter Kirby continue to search the area and when Webber jokingly speaks to what he thinks is another frozen person, Wickwire answers his question. Wickwire takes them into a house and tells them that the house was built for a Mr. Jenkinson who then decided he wanted to be a knight and so was placed in the medieval section. Webber tells him that they are from Earth and were on a geological mission when some of their equipment was destroyed during a meteor storm. Wickwire figures out that they aren't from The Glades and asks them if the Earth had the Atomic War. Meyers tells him the Atomic War was in 1985 and most of the Earth's surface was destroyed. Wickwire tells them that they are in a cemetery and goes to make them food. He comes back and offers them a drink and toasts to everlasting peace. He asks them what their greatest wish would be and Kirby says he would like to be on the rocket ship headed back to Earth. He asks what year they left and Webber tells him it was 2185. He explains that they are on Happy Glades, a mortuary where the departed could be placed in the scenarios where they would be happiest. He tells them that he is the caretaker and is also a robot. They all start to collapse and admits that he gave them an eternifying fluid in their drinks, because they are men and when there are men, there is no peace. They die and later, Wickwire dusts the bodies of Kirby, Meyer and Webber, which have been placed back in their rocket ship.