Blind Singer

The Blind Singer is the secondary, but incredibly pivotal, protagonist of "Love Is Blind", the 27th episode of the 3rd season of the 1985-1989 iteration of The Twilight Zone, with the episode airing in 1989. Externally, the blind singer appears to be an elderly, blind human man, although he is truly some sort of supernatural entity, possibly an angel, capable of sensing the sins of the people he guards. His true nature is ultimately unclear, but he is capable of projecting possible futures in the form of songs. 
The blind singer was portrayed by Sneezy Waters. 
== Biography ==
In the 1980s, this entity took the form of a blind man, and was drawn to a bar during a storm, offering to play some songs in exchange for beer and work for a few hours. The bartender accepted, and the singer began playing throughout the night, waiting for a man named Jack Haines to arrive, sensing that Jack Haines was planning on murdering an unknown man who was going to secretly meet his wife at the bar, as Jack believed that his wife was cheating on him with said person. After Jack entered, the singer began singing a song about Jack, the song concerning a man in shock after killing. After the song, the singer approached Jack, asking what Jack thought of his song, before revealing the true subject of his song. Jack, thinking the singer was messing with him, demanded to know what the singer thought he knew about him, and the singer responded that he could sense the bad in Jack's life, claiming to have been blessed, or possibly cursed, with the ability to do so. When Jack claimed to be a happy man, the singer revealed that he knew what Jack planned to do, and mentioned that he had been to Hell when Jack told him to go there, also mentioning that Jack was already on his way there.
Jack then angrily grabbed the blind singer, but found himself unable to finish his threat, although the singer assured him he wouldn't call the police. Jack then asked the singer to point out the man who his wife was going to meet, but the singer said his powers only worked with Jack, urging him to abandon his plans before he does something he'll regret. Jack's wife, Elaine, then entered, and Jack watched her while staying out of her sight, the blind singer alongside him. The singer asked Jack to stay calm while a muscular man approached her, anticipating that Jack would be quick to act. Jack reluctantly stayed his hand, and found that the muscular man wasn't who she was there to meet, and was just trying to flirt with her before being brushed off. The singer told Jack that he could easily end up shooting the wrong person anyways, but Jack demanded that the singer go away. The singer told Jack that he couldn't, and then revealed that he knew that Jack had been cheating on his wife with many, many women. Jack, angered, took off the singer's sunglasses to see if he was really blind, finding that the singer's eyes were discolored.
The singer then claimed that five years prior, he worked as a trucker, and met a woman in a bar, flirting and drinking with her, only for the woman's husband to come up and shoot the singer in the head. However, the singer claimed that the bullet entered through one temple and out the other, killing the man's wife instead. The singer then recounted how the man later hung himself in prison, and how he supposedly got his abilities, musing about how sensing sins felt like sandpaper, and claimed that six months after the incident, he gained the ability to express the sins he sensed in the form of songs, also describing how he was drawn to certain places to prevent people from falling victim to a similar fate as the man who shot him. The singer then told Jack that he had dealt with men like him before, and how some listened while others didn't, and told Jack that he had to decide for himself, before going back to the stage to keep singing.
Then, without Jack realizing, the blind singer's song put Jack's mind in an illusion, where he saw a man named Taylor, his best friend, arrive and meet with his wife. Thinking that his wife was cheating on him with Taylor, Jack first began to leave, but then turned back with the intent of killing Taylor. Within the illusion, the blind singer stopped singing and tried calling out to Jack, who ignored him, although outside the illusion, the song continued. Within the illusion, Jack confronted Taylor and drew a pistol on him, but before he could shoot, Elaine got in the way, taking the bullets instead of Taylor. Jack, realizing what he had done, fled the bar into the woods, but ran into an image of the blind singer, who told him he was going the wrong way. Jack pushed him aside and kept running, only to run into another image of the blind singer, who told him that things didn't work out as he planned, and that there is no way he could escape the authorities. Due to the scenario being an illusion, Jack's attempt to keep running only led him back to the bar, where it was revealed that Taylor and Elaine were not having an affair, but were instead meeting to secretly choose wheels for Jack's truck in anticipation of their upcoming anniversary. Jack cried in grief, and as the policemen shone their flashlights on him, the illusion ended, Jack waking up back at the bar table as the blind singer finished his song.
The singer then approached Jack again, mentioning that his songs tend to have a "real mean course," and then warned Jack that this time, it's for real, as Jack noticed Taylor and Elaine walking out together, deciding not to attempt murder as the blind singer left. Outside, Jack discovered the blind singer in the passenger seat of his truck, although he decided not to ask how the singer knew which truck was his. The singer then asked for a lift down the road, but Jack then asked about the singer's injury, noting that he never heard of anyone surviving a wound like that. The singer merely brushed the question aside, and as Jack drove away from the bar, the singer vanished.
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