Williams (The Gift)

Williams is the main protagonist of "The Gift", the 32nd episode of the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone, which aired in 1962. He is an alien pilot who sought to give Earth a gift, and is externally identical to a human, although he is much more durable, able to survive wounds that would be fatal to humans, and displayed no pain during a surgery without anesthetics.
Williams was portrayed by Geoffrey Horne.
== Biography ==
In the 1960s, an alien pilot traveled to Earth, carrying a gift to give to humanity, learning English and Spanish. He landed near a small mountain town in Mexico, just across the Texas border, sometime in the night. However, something went wrong with his ship, and he was forced to crash. Afterwards, he was confronted by two human police officers from the nearby town. He attempted to tell the humans that he came in peace, but one of the officers, Salvador, attacked him and tried to shoot him. In a struggle, the alien tried to take the gun from Salvador's hands, but it went off against Salvador's chest, killing him. The other officer, Sanchez, fired at the alien, wounding him with two bullets, but the alien escaped into the wilderness.
The next night, the alien, managing to steal human attire and concealing the gift in a poncho, arrived at the town, making it to a bar, finding a doctor, the bartender Manolo, and a young orphaned boy named Pedro within. Despite Manolo insisting that the bar was closed, the alien took on the name of Williams and asked for a drink, and Manolo reluctantly served him, but accidentally dropped the bottle. When Williams picked it up for him, Manolo saw blood still on Williams' hand, and ran to notify the authorities, but Williams knocked him out with the bottle before he could get out the bar, trying to explain to the humans what happened at the landing site and that he truly didn't want to hurt anyone, but then passed out.
The doctor, sympathetic, treated Williams' injuries, and Williams awoke on a cot with Pedro attending to him, the boy assuring Williams that the doctor would fix him. Williams noted that Pedro was one of the first people he met on Earth to not feel fear or anger towards him, to which Pedro responded that they were not so different, as Pedro considered himself to be a stranger too. Williams then had Pedro take and hide the gift from his poncho, promising to tell him what it was later on. The doctor then came in and checked on Williams, noting that his pulse was very strong for someone in his condition, but before he could operate to remove the bullets from Williams' chest, Williams asked for no anesthetics. Throughout the operation, he seemed to feel no pain, which made the doctor realize that Williams' wasn't human. Afterwards, Williams was met with Pedro again, where he told Pedro that it felt strange that he came to Earth with a mission to give, only to be forced to take clothes and shelter, and how only a young boy was not afraid of the unknown. Pedro, being told by the doctor of Williams' inhuman physiology, asked Williams where he was from. Williams replied that he was from beyond the stars, who had come to Earth with a gesture of goodwill, and that he believes in the same God, but also told Pedro that he would have to repair his ship and leave, although he promised to return when humans were no longer afraid of the unknown. However, Manolo had already contacted Officer Sanchez, who brought the Mexican army to the bar, quickly surrounding the area.
Manolo tried to lead the soldiers into Pedro's room, where Williams was held, only to find that Williams had already escaped the bar, and the village went into a panic, believing that a killer was on the loose. Williams, still recovering from the operations, was soon caught by the soldiers and surrounded by a mob of villagers. He tried to explain again that he came in peace, and that Salvador's death was an accident, but the soldiers refused to listen, ordering him to come forwards. Then, Pedro ran in, and Williams told him to give the gift, a book, to the doctor, who would be able to decipher what it was. However, Manolo took the book from Pedro, threw it to the ground, and on the increasingly frightened and superstitious orders of the villagers, took a torch and burned it. Williams was shocked that humans would refuse the kindness of his species, but Pedro stepped forwards to get to the book and Williams. Williams stepped towards him as well, but the townsfolk believed that Williams was going to attack Pedro, and the soldiers repeatedly shot Williams until he died. The doctor then picked up the book, and read it to those who remained, revealing that the book held a chemical formula for a vaccine to cure all forms of cancer, but the formula had been burned away.
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