Twilight Zone

If the SciFi channel ever wants another revival of the Twilight Zone, I've got some dreams they could use as plot lines....

A mother and father take their 2 young children to their lake house to go fishing. They are cooking sausages on the grill, watching the water. A huge dragon flies out of the water and gouges the little boy's left eye out. Then the dragon turns into a pirate and steals the little girl's left eye with the aid of some fancy eye-theft headphones that leave a distinctive scar on the left temple.  The parents recall that their small niece is also missing her left eye and has the scar.

They drive home, agonizing about how their life is going to change. When they get back to the city, they go downtown. They're walking the streets and see a cab driver leaning on his car, which is parked outside of a church. They get closer and realize that he only has one eye. The left eye is missing.

They get to talking and figure out that a pirate also took the cabbie's eye. He is amazed by this revelation and says, "We have to tell my brother! He owns this costume shop here by the church!"

And then the terrifying pirate shows up. Turns out that it's the cabbie's brother. What a jerk, stealing his own brother's eye like that! And then lying to him for all those years, saying he was going to avenge him? So, cabbie is super-pissed.

The cab driver and the family march into the church, the mother encouraging her children to take off their eye patches to show that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

The people in the church start murmuring. They're saying, "I wonder if it was a pirate?" We then realize that there are several people inside the church who have lost an eye. For the first time in their lives, they are acknowledging to others how they lost their left eye. They didn't want to tell anyone before because they (naturally) assumed that no one would believe them.

An angry mob forms, and they rush out of the church. They find the pirate outside, surround him, and beat him to death.

The parents of the children end up separating. The dad sinks into a terrible depression. The mom starts having an affair with the cabbie, who now has tons of money and owns a casino. She is addicted to pills, which she began using to control her anxiety about having a pirate steal her childrens' eyes and ruin her perfect life.

The End