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Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Bob Wilson and his wife Julia board a passenger flight en route to their home town. Bob has only recently been released from a mental hospital where he spent six months in therapy after suffering a nervous breakdown on a previous flight. Although he's been cured, Bob is still extremely uncomfortable about taking this flight. The plane takes off and Julia takes a sleeping pill to help her get some rest. Bob is riveted wide awake however and tries to read a newspaper. He stops reading when he notices something bizarre outside his window. He sees a furry, humanoid creature lumbering across the wing of the plane. Bob summons the flight attendant over to him, but when he tries to point it out, the creature is nowhere to be seen. Julia awakens, but Bob only partially tells her the truth about what he had seen. At Julia's recommendation, Bob finally agrees to take a sleeping pill.

A few moments later, Julia nods off, but Bob is still overwhelmed with agitation. Reluctantly, he pulls back the curtain on his cabin window, only to find the hairy creature staring right back at him. Bob again calls the flight attendant over and directs her to the window. The creature however, climbs over the top of the plane and she does not see him. After the stewardess leaves, the monster floats back down onto the wing of the plane and begins curiously looking around. It then starts tearing up part of the plating that covers the engine.

Bob awakens Julia and finally tells her that he has been seeing a strange "gremlin" crawling across the wing. She doesn't know what to make of this. He adds that the creature jumps away whenever somebody other than he looks out the window. This only serves to make Bob appear as if he's having another breakdown. Julia tries to be patient with him, but Bob finds her behavior to be patronizing. He tells her that this gremlin has begun tampering with one of the engines. Whether she believes him or not, Bob asks her to go to the flight engineer and bring him back so Bob can tell him what he's seen.

Julia brings the flight engineer to him, and Bob relays the same story that he had told to Julia. The engineer tries to keep Bob calm, but when Wilson points to the engine, he sees no evidence of the alleged damage caused by the gremlin. The flight engineer leaves and Julia goes to get Bob some water for his sleeping pills. At this point, Bob sees the gremlin on the wing of the plane again.