Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
Each [house] the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining.
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38. CLOSE SHOT – THE SPOT LIGHT 38.
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39. REVERSE ANGLE – LOOKING TOWARD FACES OF THE PEOPLE 39.
As they stare at it.
MAN ONE
That's Les Goodman's house. He's got lights!
40. PAN SHOT ACROSS FACES OF THE PEOPLE 40.
As they stare, somehow caught up by this revelation and desperately frightened by it.
What conclusion can be drawn by the crowd’s reaction to the light at Les Goodman’s house?
Les Goodman will attack the neighborhood because he is an alien in disguise.
Man One will play an important part in the future events of Maple Street.
The crowd will be unsettled by Goodman’s working light and respond with distrust.
The residents of Maple Street will stay at Goodman’s house until they get their lights back.