The Twilight Zone Recap: The Lonely
A man (the great Jack Warden), who insists that he killed only in self defense, is sentenced to 40 years in solitary confinement. On an asteroid. His only visitors are seen four times a year as they deliver supplies. One of the visitors (John Dehner, who also starred in The Jungle) shows compassion by dropping off a female robot on one trip, to ease the lonliness.
The only problem is that the convict falls in love with the robot, so that on the return trip, when he learns that he's been granted the long-sought pardon, he doesn't want to leave. Finding out that he only has 15 pounds of space on the rocket to freedom, he isn't sure what to do - he doesn't want to leave his beloved Alicia. So the compassionate Captain does the only thing he can - he shoots her in the face.
Perhaps not the most subtle episode, but not a bad one for the questions that it raises about both our society and ourselves.
