Gimme a Kiss
As Ilonka lights a match, she scrambles for another, quickly. A woman is gone. Kevin heads back down to pick up Ilonka, eventually alerting the rest of the kids and getting them to come check this room out.
The Midnight Club was founded by Julia Jayne, as it happens. Their usual mantra before every meeting is written in a book on the wall.
Sandra finds a ritual dagger and hoods for the cultists, which spooks most of the kids. They all leave, except Ilonka, Anya and Kevin. Searching through the book, they find a number of different stories and the hourglass symbol again… written in blood. Now, the other kids head up in the lift and leave the trio alone in the dark… with no idea what’s going to happen next.
Sandra’s awkward group therapy session ensues as she indirectly tells everyone they need to find other ways to grieve the loss of Tristan rather than poking around things that should be left alone. ..
Ilonka heads into the forest, where she runs into that strange woman, Shasta, again. This time, Ilonka leaves her number with Shasta and encourages her to read in the library. Section 600 is medicine and 619 is Experimental Medicine, to be precise. This could hold a clue to a cure for her condition. ..
Ilonka is encouraged to head back at any time, pointing to a camera up on the trees where she’s been keeping an eye on proceedings. ..
While Kevin is getting ready for his prom, Spence is checked out by Mark who takes some blood. As he wanders into the hallway, the communications for the recovery room crackle, with a faint voice whispering “hello.” Despite the room originally being locked, when Spence gets Mark to check it out, there’s nothing there. ..
Kevin returns from his prom night and is excited to start the Midnight Club. However, he soon realizes that everyone called him brave and they even made him prom king too. This makes Kevin feel a bit pityful, so he decides to stay away from the club.
Sandra tells her story of how she and Spence have been struggling recently. She says that her meds don’t seem to be working anymore, and she’s not sure what to do. She begs Spence to give her a kiss, but he doesn’t seem to want to.
Detective Fisher is a detective story with a black and white noir sheen. Alice talks about her experience in school, including with her best friend Jake.
Jake has been the target of ridicule and bullying since he was caught kissing Kirk in the stands. When word gets out that he’s still alive, Jake decides to fake his death in order to get away from his tormentors. However, things don’t go as planned when Kirk turns up dead. Jake must now come to terms with his role in this tragedy and try to rebuild his life. ..
Alice is the unreliable narrator who kills Kirk in the story. She was jealous of him and wanted to kill him because he gave her oral herpes. The story ends with Alice being killed.
Ilonka takes out her phone to snap a picture of the book. She looks excited, and Kevin can tell she’s been looking for this for a long time. They decide to take the book with them, and head back to the library.
When they head back to Anya’s room, they find her in a rough way. Moments before this, Anya checked the wall, where her shadow unnerving stood up and reached out with long, skeletal hands. Is she dead? We’ll have to wait and see.
The Episode Review
The latest episode of the horror series “The Walking Dead” ended with a cliffhanger that left many viewers wondering what would happen next. The last five minutes of the episode were genuinely scary, and showed off the artistic flair of the series. However, the majority of the episode was not as horror-filled as viewers had hoped. ..
The overarching mystery involving the cultists is quite good, while Anya is easily the best character out of the bunch. She clearly has a lot of demons in her past, and the ending with her being stalked by the shadow is certainly a throwback to her earlier story about her two sides.
Anya’s future is still up in the air as this latest development leaves the door wide open for where this may go next. ..
