Fred Renard

Fred Renard is the main antagonist of the Twilight Zone episode What You Need. He is a thirty-six year old small-time thug described by the Narrator as a "violent, bitter failure of a man".

He was portrayed by Steve Cochran.

Biography
The episode begins with a peddler, Pedott, entering a café. Pedott has the uncanny ability to see the future and then give people what they need, first giving a woman a vial of cleaner and then giving a baseball player a ticket to Scranton, seconds before being called for a job in Scranton and has to have his jacket cleaned by the woman. This catches Renard's attention, prompting him to demand that Pedott give him what he needs. Pedott gives him a pair of scissors, puzzling him...until his tie gets caught in the doors of a lift at his hotel and he uses the scissors to cut himself free. Amazed, Renard tracks Pedott down and demands that Pedott give him another item he needs. Pedott provides Renard with a leaky pen that predicts a winning racehorse.

Renard once again tracks down Pedott and once again menaces him into giving him something he needs. Pedott gives him a pair of leather shoes. Renard begins following Pedott, only for a car to come speeding towards him. He attempts to run away, but the leather soles of his shoes are too slippery for him to escape across the wet pavement and the car hits him. Pedott explains to Renard's body that the shoes were what he needed, as he knew that Renard would one day kill him.

Pedott then gives a comb to a couple reading the newspaper report about Renard's death.

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