Battling in the Twilight Zone

I nearly got into the Twilight Zone tonight. I was within one door panel when the top left hand flipper stopped working. It turned out that the connecting pin had come off and disconnected it from the soleniod. As you can't hit the piano without that flipper this turned out to be fatal.

But I reckon that if the pinball machine is now having to actually break to stop me, then I must have it seriously worried....