Red Snow (The Twilight Zone)

"Red Snow"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 21b
Directed by	Jeannot Szwarc
Written by	Michael Cassutt
Original air date	March 21, 1986
Guest actors
George Dzundza : Colonel Ilyanov Barry Miller : Polvin Vladimir Skomarovsky : Titov Victoria Tennant : Valentina Andrew Divoff : Vladimir Lillian Adams : Babushka Jack Ross Obney : Grishenko Kimberly Ann Morris : Galya Mike Kulcsar : Golodkin Tom Maier : Villager Rod Colbin : Minister

"Red Snow" is the second segment of the twenty-first episode of the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot

Russian KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent by train to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of local Soviet Communist Party officials. Ilyanov notes that the victims were drained of their blood. He meets a young woman named Valentina, whom the records improbably state had been exiled by Joseph Stalin 50 years before. One of the town's Party officials, Polvin, insists that Valentina is actually a descendant of the exiled woman.

Ilyanov and the mayor, Titov, search an abandoned church. They hear a wolf wailing in the distance. Ilyanov follows the sound and finds Valentina feasting on the wolf's blood. Ilyanov is knocked unconscious. On awakening, he insists upon returning to the abandoned church. Inside, he finds many empty coffins. Valentina and Polvin enter and explain that the church is haunted by vampires, and that they are themselves vampires. Titov explains that the townspeople have agreed to give sanctuary to vampires from all over Europe, in exchange for protection from criminals and wild animals. Valentina wants to kill Ilyanov, but Titov warns it will bring more intruders. Titov offers to make Ilyanov sympathetic to their situation. Ilyanov flees the church with Titov, but they are both attacked by wolves and Titov is mortally wounded. Titov dies and Ilyanov surrenders. Valentina offers him a mission that will benefit both the vampires and the State.

Ilyanov returns to Moscow and briefs his superior about the investigation. Titov is posthumously accused of being the murderer, and Polvin is appointed mayor. Ilyanov's superior expresses a wish that he had more men like Ilyanov. Ilyanov responds that he will. He smiles, revealing a set of fangs.

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The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "The Wall" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "Cat and Mouse" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Special Service" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Father and Son Game"

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