Amy waits in the storage room in the deserted West Wing, but when the door finally creaks open, it's--David, who heard her walk past his door. Amy accuses him of being scared, but David says no one is allowed in the West Wing--ever. To prove he's not afraid, he picks up the phone but gets no response. He's jealous because Quentin has spoken only to Amy--after all, Quentin is HIS ancestor. He suggests they have a (all together now) séance to get Quentin to speak. I've seen the adults call people from the dead a lot, he says expansively, and he knows exactly what to do. The kids light a candle, sit at a table with the phone, call to Quentin.
Nothing happens, but once again the door creaks open to reveal--Vicki, silhouetted in the light. What are you doing here? she asks David. We were just playing a game, he explains. Vicki introduces herself to Amy. For the first time she styles herself Vicki Clark, David's governess. She sends David back to his room and talks to Sarah for a while. Did you know Chris? Amy asks. Yes, Vicki replies sadly, almost certainly remembering not the cheerful handyman but the feral vampire. Vicki promises to get Chris to see Sarah first thing in the morning. But As Amy lies awake thinking of Chris, he is lying unconscious on the floor of his attic room at the Collins Port Inn. The floor is tracked with muddy prints from his bare feet.
The next morning, Chris arrives at Collinwood, where he and Carolyn greet each other as old friends. She too introduces Vicki as Vicki Clark. Amy wants to live with Chris, but he wants to put her in a home. [Maybe the self-employed Tom worked only while Amy was at school.] Carolyn is outraged at this idea and vows to speak to her mother about letting Amy stay at Collinwood--but she does seem interested in Chris. David comforts Amy and hopes she can stay so they can have another séance.
In the evening--the third night of the full moon--the waitress clears a table just as Chris and Carolyn enter the Blue Whale. (It gets dark early in Collinsport, but the clock on the wall reads 1:00!) The waitress comes to take their order. Carolyn orders a daiquiri and Chris a shot of Irish whiskey. (Well, it was 1968!) Carolyn tries to talk Chris into settling down but without success, although Carolyn hopes that will change. Chris smiles faintly and they clink glasses. But Chris keeps glancing at his watch.
When the waitress brings the check, Chris glances up at her--and sees a five-pointed red star superimposed over her face. Noticing his shocked expression, she asks if something is wrong. His eyes full of terror, Chris tells Carolyn hastily, I'll call you tomorrow. He pushes some money at the waitress, then rushes from the table and out the door. The waitress checks her face in a mirror. The clock on the bar wall says 1:00 [but a full moon would rise much earlier in the evening, wouldn't it?]
Once back in his attic room at the hotel, Chris nervously checks his reflection in the mirror, even touching his face as if he mistrusts what he sees. He looks out the window for a moment, then turns away. He takes a out a leg iron with a chain attached, clamps it around one ankle, and wraps the chain around the radiator. Then he bolts himself to the radiator with a padlock. He sits on the floor, leaning back against the radiator and looking almost sick with dread. Inevitably his ordinary, pleasant face is horribly transformed. [Welcome, Alex Stevens! The werewolf appears to be much shorter and slighter than Chris!] The creature pulls at the chain to free itself.
We get our first real action scene! The clock at the Blue Whale still reads 1:00 as the waitress prepares to lock up. She hears a knock at the door. We’re closed, she calls out without turning around. She begins to turn of the lights and set the chairs upside down on the tables. She hears something growling, and we can see the werewolf looking through the window. But she is utterly unprepared for the creature that crashes through the window, snarling as it rushes at her. The air fills with her horrified, ineffectual screams.….
