A nice episode of CBSRMT at its most Twilight Zoney. The story resembles several TZs--not only \"A Stop at Willoughby,\" which someone else mentioned, but also \"Valley of the Shadow,\" about a similarly impossible-to-escape small town. \"The Outsider\" made for quite engrossing listening, I thought, though I must confess to a feeling of letdown at the end. This kind of tale seems to demand a double whammy--something more at the climax, some new revelation that throws everything we\'ve heard before into a new perspective. Maybe the whole town suffered a catastrophe back in 1950 or whenever it was, so everyone we\'ve met in the show is dead--and our narrator has unwittingly brought them all back to life in 1980. Something like that. Thoroughly enjoyable.<br>