Old Ben admits to Jenny he is not a criminal, but the king of his planet Ben fled because he hated the responsibility of leadership. The two men approach and address Old Ben as 'Your Majesty'. Old Ben comes back to Jenny's room and makes her well again. One of the men uses a device to make Jenny deathly ill, using her as bait for Ben. They recognize Old Ben's handiwork, but Jenny refuses to tell them anything. The two strangers run into Jenny walking down the stairs without her brace. Old Ben says he must flee to another planet, but before departing he uses a device to heal Jenny's leg.

Old Ben tells Jenny that he is an alien from another planet, and that his appearance is only a disguise, as he is a fugitive from justice. Jenny takes the 'mouse' back to her room. Old Ben takes on the form of a mouse, fooling the men into thinking he has left his apartment. Jenny overhears the conversation and limps upstairs to Old Ben's apartment to warn him. They enter the apartment building, identify themselves as police, and question Agnes about Ben. This phenomenon is observed by two men who are watching the house from across the street. As they approach the row house, Ben causes his roller skates to dematerialize. Old Ben carries her to her home, where she lives with her shrewish and unsympathetic aunt, Agnes Gann. Old Ben's favorite of the children is Jenny, who walks with a leg brace.

The kids are accustomed to Old Ben's supernatural abilities, referring to them as his 'magic'. When they play ' Spaceman', Old Ben takes on the form of a shelled monster. When it is Old Ben's turn at bat, he hits the ball over the fence and out of sight. Plot Īt a public park, a group of children are playing softball with Old Ben, an elderly but playful gentleman.

What would you have if you put these two different things together? Well, you'd have an old man named Ben who knows a lot of tricks most people don't know and a little girl named Jenny who loves him - and a journey into the heart of the Twilight Zone. It's been said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible fantasy, the impossible made probable.

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