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Back tagline: It’s not whether you win or lose… unless you’re playing deadly games!
Summary: Al was sprawled out on top of the bed, half covered by just a sheet. His body was wet with perspiration. His face was beet red and filled with terror.
“No!” Al bellowed in his sleep. “He can’t be! It was all a joke! I was only joking! Noooo!” His features contorted into a gruesome mask of revulsion.
And then Al suddenly rose from the bed and came at Chip like a lunatic caught in a trance. Before Chip knew what was happening Al had his meaty hands around Chip’s neck.
Chip tried to pry his brother’s hold loose as he realized he couldn’t get any air.
He slapped his brother in the face as hard as he could, but Al’s grip only tightened.
“Al!” Chip croaked hoarsely as Al’s steel-like fingers bit into the skin of his throat.
Al was strangling him to death!
First impressions: Cover-wise, we’ve got a nice, retro colour scheme this time and the little window opens up to reveal a young couple being confronted by a knife-wielding person in a hoodie. I’m not really sure what relevance, if any, it has to the title, [Note from future: None, in the setting depicted at least] and the blurb doesn’t give anything away about the plot either which is annoying. It seems to be a chunk from the story utilising a cliffhanger to draw us in, but again I’m not sure what correlation this particular scene has to the title or cover, so I don’t really find it that enticing. An actual summary of the plot would have been better so I know what I’m getting into! What are the titular fatal games? What do they have to do with the blurb/cover image? Let’s find out!
Recap
Roll call:
Chip – A budding superstar quarterback whose family moves to Elm Street.
Al – Chip’s obnoxiously terrible older brother.
Alicia – Blind Date‘s traumatised heroine and Chip’s love interest.
Scott – Alicia’s ex-boyfriend who’s grotesquely disfigured and possibly unhinged.
Johnny – Scott’s friend who lost his mind after was sent to an insane asylum after Blind Date’s events.
We begin with a prologue as the dreamy Freddy Kruger’s in the basement of his house near the blazing boiler. A football tumbles down the stairs and the familiar Freddy rhyme is being sung by some skipping girls out in the yard. Freddy’s warned the children not to play in his yard, so when a boy’s voice calls down asking for the ball back, Freddy encourages him to come retrieve it himself. The kid warns that he’ll sic his brother onto Freddy if he doesn’t give the ball back, but Freddy isn’t bothered and wouldn’t mind meeting the brother. Freddy spears the football with a razor finger and holds it inside the boiler, talking out loud for our benefit about how he was a good football player as a kid but he was always penalised for being too rough. He had a killer of a pass, though…
The main story begins with our hero, Chip Parker, having a nightmare, charging across an empty field to catch a spiralling football. Chip’s 6’2″ ‘with shoulders that could be depended on’ by any coach or girl, and he always catches the ball. We also learn that he’s so handsome he’s ‘sure to be voted the best-looking in his graduating class’, except he won’t be graduating with his peers because his family is moving soon. [To or from Springwood?] Anyway, he catches the ball but smacks face-first into a wall, shattering his nose. He falls to the ground in pain and opens his eyes to find a hooded figure standing over him that he seems to recognise as his brother, Al. To Chip’s horror, the figure whips out a switchblade with a red dragon on the handle [That’s Johnny’s knife from Blind Date! We love continuity. But why is it in the dream?] and, with his eyes burning red like fire, plunges it into Chip’s chest, cackling horribly.
Chip wakes up safe and sound after midnight in his bedroom inside the apartment he shares with his mother and sibling, Al. Strangely, his bedroom door is open even though he’d closed it before going to bed to shut out Al and their mother’s arguing. Not that it had helped; he could hear them through the closed door, and their arguments are always the same:
“Al—grow up! Stop feeling sorry for yourself! Get a life!”
“I’ve got a life. The sorry life you and your loser husband gave me when you adopted me.”
“Don’t talk about your father that way! Have a little respect for the dead. Your father, may he rest in peace—”
“He wasn’t my father. He was Chip’s father.”
“He raised you like a son, and for that you should be grateful. Instead of being spiteful and petty all your life because you were adopted. Instead of being mean to your brother all your life. If you can’t act like a decent human being then just leave. You’re eighteen!”
And on and on, his mother and Al, bickering.
[Al seems awful lol] Chip’s father had been a janitor at Chip’s school, Middleton High, until a few months ago when a boiler blew up in the basement and scalded him to death. [Oof, poor dad] His dad was an alcoholic but not an abusive one, except the one time he slapped Al for driving drunk. The drinking problem had caused Chip’s dad to lose most of his jobs, but the janitor role seemed to be working out for him until he was killed. Now, his mother has had to swallow her pride working menial jobs to support the family.
Anyway, Chip struggles to get back to sleep, the nightmare still too fresh in his mind. What did it mean? Who was the hooded figure who slammed him in the face, ‘smashing his nose open like an overripe blackberry?’ [So it was a hooded figure, not a wall? Okeh] He also remembers there was something particular about the knife, but he can’t remember what. Chip listens to the sounds of the dingy apartment building around him, such as the fat woman next door cursing, the couple above him arguing, etc, and thinks about how similar it is to every other feral place his family has lived in since they’d moved to Middleton when Chip was a baby. He’s looking forward to going to Springwood High and his family’s move to Elm Street, even if the infamous Freddy Krueger had lived on the same road. Chip can vaguely remember hearing about Krueger’s murders when he was a kid because they were all over the news for weeks. He’d inexplicably burst out crying whenever they showed a picture of Freddy on screen and nothing would calm him down. Al used to pick on him for it, of course; Al’s extremely good at prodding sore spots — ‘Heartless taunts. Obnoxious behaviour. Chip had become accustomed to it all.’ Earlier, Chip thought he heard a floorboard creak outside his open door but dismissed it as his imagination, but he knows someone’s out there when he hears it again as well as heavy breathing. He thinks he sees the glint of a knife in the glow of the full moon and thinks it’s Al mucking around, but when he asks who’s there, a voice ‘as soft as fresh dirt on a grave’ replies, ‘”It’s your father.”‘
Of course, it is Al goofing around, roaring with laughter as he steps into the room. [Someone kill this guy ASAP plz] In case you’re wondering, Al is two inches taller than Chip with a weightlifter’s physique and his blonde hair cut spiky on top and short on the sides. [He sounds like a hard dude!] Al, who’s using the switchblade he always carries to slice pieces of apple into his mouth, boasts about how easy Chip is to scare. He’d heard Chip tossing and turning and wanted to make sure he hadn’t wet the bed, and suggests the move is getting to Chip because he’s worried he’ll meet his real father there. Apparently one of Al’s ongoing jokes is that Chip’s mother had an affair with Freddy Krueger as a teenager when she lived in Springwood, and he’s Chip’s real father. Al loves to insist the reason they moved from Springwood in the first place was because of Chip’s real dad. Chip can hold his own, though, and he gets Al good here:
“Your real daddy will be glad to have his son living nearby,” Al went on. “Reunited at last.”
Chip ignored Al.
“Let’s face it, Chip—you’re just a chip off the old block. Like father, like son.”
“At least I would know what my father looked like if I saw him,” Chip finally said. Sometimes it was hard to ignore Al. “That’s more than you can say.”
[Hahahahaha Chip fkn destroyed him with that one] Al’s not impressed and points his knife at Chip, who climbs out of bed and starts getting dressed. Since Al thinks Chip’s real father is waiting for him on Elm Street, why keep him waiting? Chip wants to go now, and Al’s attitude immediately shifts; Chip has clearly gotten to him. Still, Chip calls him out for being too scared, and Al agrees to pack some things into the van and drive over now.
An hour later, the pair arrive at Elm Street with Chip’s black cat, Maggie, who’d stowed away in the van, and pass the dilapidated house that belonged to Freddy Krueger. [Although I’m pretty sure they don’t know he lived there] They continue on to their own house, which Mrs. Parker had gotten so cheap because of its history — this is where Evan lived in the first book and the site of Tiffany’s and Ellen’s murder. Chip remembers the cheerleaders from when his old school had played against Springwood in the past. While Al makes several insensitive comments about Chip’s deceased father, Chip examines the home’s exterior from the van and notices a hooded figure pacing back and forth in the upstairs bedroom that will soon be his. Al is also unnerved, although he’s putting on a brave face, and wants to go teach what he assumes is some local kids a lesson for trespassing in his new house. Maggie the cat is just as skittish as the boys and ends up running off into the night, and as the boys move towards the front door, they hear an awful screech coming from inside. [Did Evan’s spirit get his hands on poor Maggie?]
Despite the fear, Chip feels compelled to find out what made the noise so after Al fetches a tyre iron from the van, they venture through the front door, which is already open a crack. [I wouldn’t be going in there lol] Chip can’t help but think of Evan Walker, who’d allegedly hung himself after stuffing Tiffany and Ellen’s bodies in the fiery boiler. [But there were three corpses in there when Alicia got her sight back at the end of Blind Date. I like the continuity, but is it really that hard to keep track of it in book 2 of the series? Come on, Bruce] Using a flashlight, Chip notices Maggie’s paw prints on the dirty living room floor, [How do you know it’s Maggie’s? It could be any cat’s] accompanied by large footprints which head upstairs.
Praying his pet’s still alive, Chip follows both sets of prints up the stairs and down the hall to what will be his bedroom, where he’d seen the figure through the window. There’s a loud bang inside the room and Chip drops the flashlight, which refuses to turn on again. Behind him, Al lights up a cigarette and its red glow briefly hypnotises Chip, as if taking him to ‘the part of his mind that remembered his dreams.’ Refusing to chicken out before Al, Chip enters the bare bedroom and is greeted by Maggie, who darts across the room towards him. Rubbing against his leg, she glances nervously at the bathroom door where the larger footprints in the dust disappear. Then there’s a loud crash from inside!
Chip barges in, hooting and hollering and prepared to strike with the tyre iron, but the grotesque form in the bathtub turns out to be a pretty teen girl who’s gotten tangled in the shower curtain. After Chip helps free her, introductions are made and we learn the girl is Blind Date’s Alicia Norris, now with a white streak in her hair à la Nancy Thompson. [I wonder if each book will prominently feature previous characters instead of more as a cameo, like in Fear Street and Nightmare Hall?] They move back into the bedroom and get to know each other some more, and Chip’s surprised at how comfortable he feels around her already. She explains she was walking by earlier when she saw the real estate agent opening the windows and leaving a key under the mat, so she snuck in, and Chip decides not to push it when she doesn’t elaborate why she did this. They bond over their experience with nightmares before Al strides in, having fled in fear as soon as Chip entered the bathroom. Chip doesn’t tease the big chicken about it in front of Alicia, though, and Al moves to the window to pry off the shutter that’s been banging continuously since the first book using his trusty switchblade.
The boys explain why their mother bought the house despite its traumatic past — their mother likes to fix things up and couldn’t resist the rock-bottom price tag. She also found a small shop with low rent off the main street and plans to make it a doughnut shop. Al continues to be insufferable, insisting Mum will be bankrupt in a week and should have just thrown a big party with the insurance money from their father’s death, and Alicia learns that Al’s adopted and was born in Springwood. [Maybe Al is Freddy’s kid and he’s just projecting onto Chip?!] Alicia informs them of her own father’s death when she was little, [Ohhh, we never learned when it happened in the first book, but I thought it was more recent than that. Makes it much worse that her mother was never able to overcome her grief since it’s been that long] and then Al starts asking about the history of the house. Alicia’s clearly uncomfortable and after some incessant questioning from Al about Evan, she breaks down in tears. Her sobbing doesn’y deter Al,who wants to know why she was snooping around in the house. Alicia agrees that she owes them an explanation and confesses to looking for clues, some kind of answers; it’s the first time she’s been back here since everything happened. And then she faints. Chip rests her head on his denim jacket and is quite struck how peaceful she looks lying there in the moonlight — ‘As peaceful as a corpse.’ [Chip, wtf]
Chip scolds Al for traumatising her with his murder talk, but Al just asks ‘”So what should we do with her?”‘ in a tone that sends a chill up Chip’s spine. [Oop] Chip doesn’t respond, too captivated by the sleeping beauty, and he wonders if she’d wake up if he kissed her. [Don’t do it, Chip] She eventually stirs, looking terrified until realising where she is, and then she glances at Al’s switchblade. Something about the red dragon on the handle stirs in Chip’s subconscious, [Oh, so Al’s switchblade has the red dragon on it too. Is this the one that belonged to Johnny, or does Al coincidentally own the same one]? but he still can’t place it and doesn’t have time to connect the dots because Alicia’s gone and fainted again.
We jump into Alicia’s mind now as her thoughts whirl about everything that’s happened recently. We learn that her relationship with Scott had ended abruptly sometime after she gained her eyesight back, [I’m gonna assume it was because of his insecurities about his new appearance. Good riddance anyway, Scott sucked] and we also find out exactly what she saw when she opened her eyes in the basement that day:
..the first thing she saw was Ellen and Tiffany squished into the boiler, feet first, heads last, eyes gouged out of their sockets. Evan was nearby, hanging from some rusty pipes, a noose around his neck. His eyeballs were out, too.
The police assumed that Evan had killed himself after desecrating the other bodies. Why not? Weird Evan had been a scapegoat all his life. It seemed like a nice, tidy conclusion.
But it wasn’t nice and tidy, Alicia knew.
Murder seldom was.
[I said it earlier but I’ll repeat it now, there were three bodies in the furnace when Alicia got her vision back, and definitely no mention of Evan hanging from the ceiling lol. Also, the cops think Evan murdered the girls, gouged his own eyes out and then hung himself???? Huh? Maybe the adults of Springwood are still trying to suppress the memory of Freddy Krueger, and this was the best cover story they could come up with] Alicia has vague memories of Dr. Hawke standing over her, only it wasn’t Dr. Hawke, but something inhuman and evil beyond words, and then she’s overwhelmed by a wave of nausea.
She’s only out for a moment this time and immediately asks Al where he got the knife. He doesn’t like her nosiness, despite harassing her nonstop for answers minutes before, and Chip explains that it’s from the brotherhood Al’s in and ‘”All the gang members carry red dragon knives.”‘ [So Johnny’s a gang member? Is their gang this Red Dragon?] Chip, wanting some time alone with Alicia, suggests Al go search for the fuse box so they can turn the power on, but as usual, Al isn’t gonna let Chip have his way. He does end up disappearing down the hall a short time later anyway to check out his new bedroom, and Alicia immediately seems more at ease once he’s gone. Chip assures her he’s not as tough as he makes out and his courage is borrowed from the brotherhood, who actually are named the Red Dragons. [So there was an ANOES-Mortal Kombat crossover long before MK9!] Alicia mentions a guy she knows who used to carry the same knife (Johnny) and Chip informs her that according to Al, the Red Dragons have members all over the state, but he’s unable to comprehend why she seems so hung up on the gang.
Anyway, there is a wood stove in the bedroom, [If you’re dumb like me and thought a wood stove was just a normal stove made of wood (which wouldn’t make sense anyway??), it’s not that at all, but like an oven-like fireplace thing. I can’t think of another way to describe it haha] and Chip notices that it seems to have been used recently when he peeks inside. It’s a bit chilly, so he uses some matches and part of a stack of old newspapers nearby to start a fire within the stove. A ferocious blaze erupts immediately, sending Chip staggering backwards, and the entire house shakes ‘with a monstrous clank.’ A startled Alicia jumps into Chip’s arms for safety before noticing steam coming from the radiator and realising Al must have turned on the water valve downstairs. Chip notices Alicia isn’t in any hurry to leave their embrace, and since she’s looking up at him expectantly, he kisses her. [That was fkn quick lol]
They’re interrupted by Al’s voice calling up through an air vent in a corner of the room asking them to check the lights. They’re still not working so Chip tells him to keep trying, then joins Alicia back by the stove. When asked if she goes to Springwood High, Alicia confesses that she dropped out. She still might finish, but she’s not sure; she’s got an art scholarship for when she graduates, but everything seems so pointless to her now. [Poor Alicia. I hope she doesn’t get killed off] She doesn’t seem keen to elaborate so Chip moves the conversation back to himself, explaining how he and Al are both seniors because Al flunked a grade. Al doesn’t care about classes because he’s going to play pro football one day, even though Chip’s explained to him he’ll need to go to college because they don’t draft kids out of high school. Their old coach arranged tryouts for them to play for Springwood High, so hopefully they make it on the team. They both want to play quarterback, however, even though Al can play defence too, but Al reckons quarterback is where the money’s at in the pro leagues. Chip asks if Scott Martin is still Springwood’s quarterback, and Alicia vaguely informs him that Scott likely won’t be playing anytime soon due to injury.
Just as the pair are about to kiss again, Chip notices someone standing in the hallway and the room explodes with light as Al enters the room, having found the fuse box. Al’s impressed by how fast Chip’s moved with Alicia and comments that the stories about Elm Street can’t all be true — ‘”The neighbours around here actually seem to be quite friendly so far.”‘ [Hahahaha] A few minutes later he’s watching from the window as Chip walks Alicia home, and then notices someone in a hoodie dart out of the shadows, heading for his backyard. Al scurries down to the yard to confront the trespasser because ‘No one messed with Big Al’ [Tough guy!] and yells out to the figure, who sprints all the way to the back fence and jumps over it. Al shouts out again and when the figure turns to him, he realises he’s seen this face before; it’s a Red Dragon brother!
Al chases him down a path through the woods that leads to a cemetery and considers turning back, but continues on simply because the figure is a brother. Al takes the brotherhood very seriously because he’s been alone his whole life since ‘the warmth and the attention and the love had all gone to Chip.’ [Probably because you pushed your adopted parents away from the start with your insufferable attitude] Al searches the cemetery for his Red Dragon brother and finds him at a newly set grave. As Al silently approaches the hooded figure, he sees the name on the tombstone: Ellen Sawyer. [Ooh, it’s Johnny!] The hooded guy then turns slowly and looks at Al, his eyes ‘as red and as bright and as hot as the breath of a dragon’ [Just like in Chip’s dream! Has Freddy taken over Johnny now, somehow?]
Over to Chip a short time later, who’s just dragged his futon into his new room. He’s spent the last hour or so unloading the van by himself because Al’s disappeared, and he’s not sure if he should be worried or not. He falls asleep thinking about what a great kisser Alicia is, unable to believe his luck on his first night in Springwood, but it’s not Alicia that he dreams of. Instead, his nightmare is of Evan Walker in red smoky ghost form hanging from a noose with empty eye sockets. Ghost Evan drifts over to one corner of the room and points at Chip, then the floor, flames from his fingertips hitting the ground. Chip realises that Evan wants him to go down into the basement where the murders happened but finds himself unable to move, and then the ghost starts moving towards him!
Chip screams himself awake and soon hears the floorboard creak outside his open door. He already knows it’s Al because it’s typical Al behaviour, and tells him to come in or piss off. Al walks in, smirking as usual, and teases Chip for having a nightmare. Chip feels the urge to take Al’s head and rub it into the hot coals inside the stove until he’s screaming for mercy, ‘and then he would rub even harder,’ but unfortunately he resists so we’ll have to keep putting up with the obnoxious asshole. Al finally gets sick of teasing and fucks off, and Chip moves to the stove to see if he can poke some more life into the diminished fire, but somehow the fire has rekindled itself already and ‘the flames were dancing high and lively.’ [Ooky spooky!]
Chip wakes up on a bright Saturday afternoon and wonders where Maggie is because he hasn’t seen her since last night. [Which makes complete sense because he’s been awake for two seconds??] Soon, he hears moaning coming from Al’s room, and it sounds he’s in pain so Chip bursts in to give us the scene depicted in the blurb. While being strangled, Chip manages to slap Al awake, who groggily asks what happened. Chip explains he was sleepwalking again and Al admits he’d been dreaming about Freddy Krueger. [Hurry up and kill him, Freddy!] Then Chip searches the house for his mother, and it’s made out as if she also stayed in the house overnight, which makes no sense. It’s also her first day at the doughnut shop, so it makes even less sense that he thinks she’d be home right now. He goes to the basement since she’d apparently said something about cleaning out the furnace, [Is it a boiler or a furnace? They’re not the same thing according to google. I’m pretty sure Blind Date used both words interchangeably too] and is met with a grisly sight in the furnace room:
At first Chip thought the walls were painted dark red. Strange choice of color for a basement, he thought.
It took just a little more light for Chip to realize that it wasn’t red paint after all. It looked like a slaughterhouse. The walls of the basement were splashed from ceiling to floor with blood.
[Stunning] Chip realises there must be more that happened before the girls had been crammed into the furnace and wonders why the real estate hadn’t had the walls cleaned already. He feels dizzy at the sight and takes a seat in what had been Dr. Hawke’s examination chair, but soon there’s someone calling down to him. There’s a hooded figure on the standing on the stairs, which turns out to be Alicia, who’s now dyed the white streak in her hair. Chip fondly remembers their goodnight kiss last night; Alicia had been eager for it, ‘as if she was staving for love’, [Poor girl] and Chip was more than willing. She’s wearing more make-up than she’d had on the night before, and Chip shivers with excitement when she tells him she missed him. [OK calm down, Alicia, you spent like 2 hours with him 💀 ] They start kissing on the stairs but are quickly interrupted by Al, who’s come down to the basement to lift some weights. Alicia is still clearly uncomfortable around Al, so Chip offers to give her a daylight tour of the house.
The lovebirds end up in Chip’s room where Alicia apologises for being a drag, admitting her struggle with moving on from what happened in the first book. Chip advises her not to relive it all on his account, but Alicia wants to talk about it. Maggie enters the room and Alicia mentions how Evan collected stray cats, which explains why the bedroom smells like felines. Upon learning Alicia was closer with Evan than he’d thought, Chip asks why he did it, and Alicia confesses that he might have been innocent. The only thing that could be proven was that Ellen was killed by a stab to the head that penetrated her brain; the knife was still in her skull when they found it. It wasn’t just any knife, though, but Johnny Murphy’s switchblade with a red dragon on it. Realising where she’s going with this, Chip assures her that the Red Dragons are just a bunch of juvenile delinquents who do low-level stuff like drinking, acting tough and joy riding, not murder, but Alicia believes Johnny’s responsible for her friends’ deaths. [What, just because of the knife?? Alicia should know better after what she experienced] She also reveals that Johnny’s family had him committed to a mental hospital after he started having nightmares and tried to kill himself. [I wanna say poor Johnny, but he was awful in the first book so I don’t care xxx]
Al briefly interrupts the conversation to be annoying and when he’s gone, Alicia asks why he’s such a creep. Al’s apparently been a lot worse since their father died and Chip explains how Al was the one who found him in the boiler room at Middleton — ‘”He said the steam scalded Dad’s face so bad the skin had peeled right off”‘. [Oof, bad way to go] Chip then details why Al hates his adopted family so much. It seems Chip really was the favourite, at least in his father’s eyes, because Mum was always working so wasn’t around much. Chip had always treated Al like a real brother, though, since he felt sorry for him, and Alicia suggests the pity might be the reason for Al’s animosity. Al’s never met his biological parents, but that doesn’t stop him going on about how much better his real father is that Chip’s. Chip can’t stop complaining now, confiding in Alicia about how Al’s always saying Freddy’s Chip’s real father because Chip looks more like him. Chip admits there is some resemblance, but it means nothing. [We’ll see about that!] A dead leaf blows in through the window and lands at Alicia’s feet. As if in a daze, she picks it up, and inexplicably walks out of the room. Chip tries to follow but is blocked by Al as Alicia’s heading out the front door.
Chip goes to be early that night and struggles to sleep, especially when a tapping noise alerts him to a hooded figure standing behind the wood stove. The figure’s face is horribly disfigured with a large gash from cheek to jaw, an eyeball hanging limply from its socket, some teeth missing and a club for a right hand, [Must be Scott! Why is his eyeball hanging out, though?] and Chip scrambles back in bed when it moves towards him. Chip hits the walland then starts smashing his head against it, ‘trying irrationally to knock out a hole through which he could escape.’ [Very irrational, Chip] Eventually he gets dizzy and when his vision clears, the figure is gone. [Is Scott a ghost? Or was it Freddy playing a trick or something?]
Al enters the room, curious about the banging, and soon the boys are discussing Monday’s football tryouts. Al seems to know a lot about the Springwood’s team already, explaining he knows someone who plays for them, but he won’t say who. He does, however, declare that the football stuff isn’t all this friend told him, but doesn’t elaborate when prompted. Instead, he gets really intense and announces that he’ll be quarterback and top dog of not just the school, but around the neighbourhood too. Al’s determined to be ‘”the straw that stirs the milkshake”‘ [Great metaphor hahaha] and passionately assures his brother that even though Chip’s always pitied him, it’s actually Al who pities Chip because ‘”I’m top dog around here, and I’m going to prove it.”‘ [Piss off, Al] This behaviour is weird, even for Al, so Chip asks if he’s on something, but the only response is Al’s finger gun.
All of a sudden they hear crying coming up through the air vent and determine it’s coming from the basement. [Not sure how exactly, when they’re two floors above it… Now that I think about it, Al must have been calling up from the basement last night after turning on the water valve… Surely air vents don’t work this way lol] Armed with a knife and a dumbbell, they creep down there and notice the basement window had been shattered. The door to the furnace room/Dr Hawke’s office is open and in the light of the blazing boiler, the boys see a hooded figure sitting in the examination chair, feeding things to the fire. Maggie darts out of the room as they approach, startling Chip, and the hooded figure whirls around. It’s the same guy that Chip saw in his room earlier, looking much more grotesque in the light. The long gash is scabby and peeling, and ‘the eye that hung down was moving around as if it had a life of its own’, [Is this whole eyeball thing something that could actually happen? That’s crazy if so. Surely it’s not very practical to have?] and what Chip had previously thought was a club hand is actually just a cast. Al turns the overhead light on and Chip realises recognises who the figure from previous football matches — it’s Scott Martin!
Chip tells Al who it is, who tactlessly asks what happened to Scott’s face. Scott explains how Evan Walker had bashed him with a tyre iron after a car accident, including his passing hand, so he won’t be playing football ever again. He also reveals he’s been burning love letters between him and his ex-girlfriend Alicia because that’s over and ‘”She could never deal with this face.”‘ [Did she say that or are you projecting, Scott?] Scott believes there’s something evil in this house and fills the boys in on Alicia’s blindness and how Dr. Hawke had cured her. He explains how Hawke had died weeks earlier but was revived, and that’s when all the weird stuff started happening. He briefly recaps what happened to his friends, and we learn that Dr. Hawke’s body had been found in his bed, like he’d died in his sleep or something. Scott has a different theory, though, proposing that Dr. Hawke had been dead all along and his body had been taken over by an evil spirit, which now resides in Alicia.
Scott goes on to tell them about how he’d rescued Alicia from the examination chair at the end of the first book and had been shocked by the blood-drenched walls, which prompts Chip to briefly hallucinate the blood dripping off the walls and coming toward him. When Scott entered to room to rescue Alicia she’d been in the middle of a nightmare, talking to someone, which Scott discerned was her making a deal with the evil spirit — the spirit could live inside Alicia in return for bringing back her vision. [He doesn’t say what he heard, just that she was talking, so I doubt this is actually true]
There’s a loud crash from the other door in the basement, which the boys haven’t opened yet, but Scott warns them not to go in because that’s where the evil spirit lives. [I thought I lived in Alicia? Make up your mind, Scott] Undeterred, Chip investigates what turns out to be a utility closet and notices a cheeseburger wrapper on the floor as well as a peephole in the wall that looks into the office. There’s also a draft coming from behind another wall, which Chip realises is partly hollow! He pushes on the fake wall and a secret door swings open to darkness.
It seems to be a tunnel or shaft, [Very Barbarian, which was one of my favourite movies of 2022] and Chip speculates that someone’s been using it to sneak in and out of the house, which explains the burger wrapper. He plans to board the door up as soon as possible, and they call out to Scott but get no reply. Al thinks he escaped through the smashed window and wonders if the house makes people nuts, and Chip agrees, admitting he’d be nuts too if he witnessed what Scott had seen down here. Speaking of down here, Chip wants to know who the hell Al’s been talking to at night while lifting weights, because his voice has been coming up through the air vent. I think it’s safe to assume it’s Johnny, but Al gaslights Chip instead by insisting he’s just hearing things.
It’s Monday afternoon at Springwood High now, and Chip’s noticed that everyone seems to know who he is, or at least know he moved into Evan Walker’s house, having copped many curious and fearful looks. While at his locker before his last class, Chip meets Charlie Chadwick, a minor character from the first book who also deserved to be maimed or murdered but somehow escaped punishment. Charlie remembers playing against Chip and Al in previous years and admires how while playing defence, Al broke two of Springwood’s halfback’s ribs. Charlie departs with a warning for Chip — Scott Martin was the best quarterback Springwood has ever had and irreplaceable, so if Chip thinks he can just waltz right onto the field and be quarterback, he better think again, ‘”Even if Roger Dawson does suck and Barney Peters throws like a girl.”‘ [So you’re not interested in winning, Charlie? Like, what’s the issue here?] A nearby guy in a wheelchair tells Chip not to take Charlie too seriously, introducing himself as Boomer Harrison, another character from the first book who should have died, but maybe his punishment is worse than death given his promising football career. They remember each other from last year’s game, and Chip recalls that Boomer had legs like tree trunks. Now, though, there’s just empty space below his knees. As Boomer wheels off, Chip recalls Scott mentioning his name and realises Boomer’s connected to the whole Evan-Alicia-Scott thing as well.
On his way to biology, Chip thinks he spots Al ahead of him in the crowded stairwell. At least, it looks like Al from the back, with the same build and wearing the same hooded sweatshirt, but the figure doesn’t turn around when Chip calls out to him. The hooded guy seems to be forcing his way through the crowd towards Barney Peters, and Chip gets the overwhelming feeling something very bad is about to happen. He attempts to reach Barney first, yelling his name when he briefly loses sight of him and the hooded guy. He spots Barney turn around a few feet away, and in a split second he’s falling down the concrete stairs, his face slamming into the edge of a step. He comes to a rolling stop at the bottom in a tangled heap, ‘his jaw snapped open at a grotesque angle, his face a bloody pulp.’ Chip rushes to help as Barney tries to sit up, only for Barney to immediately accuse him of pushing him down the stairs. The crowd all jumps on this, especially when a hooded figure near the back shout out that he saw Chip do it.
By the end of his last class, everyone seems to be avoiding Chip as much as possible, including the Springwood Owls who quickly stop talking as soon as he arrives for tryouts. We learn that Boomer is the team manager and when a breeze blows the blanket covering his legs, Chip sees that he does have legs after all, ‘but what was left of them resembled two shriveled french fries. It was as if they had been crushed flat and useless.’ [Oof] Coach Cuttler knows of Chip’s quarterback talents and is excited to have him on the team since Scott Martin dropped out of school, but Al’s arguing with him because he wants a chance at being quarterback too. The team only needs a starter and a backup, though, and Chip’s seemingly filled Scott Martin’s spot without even trying out, so Cuttler wants Al in the free safety position. Boomer reveals to Cuttler that Barney’s injured after falling down the stairs, with a possibly accusatory glance at Chip, so Al might get a chance after all!
As the brothers go change in the locker room, Al laughs when he finds out Chip’s been accused of shoving Barney down the stairs and suggests being near his daddy’s spirit is influencing him. Chip knows Al’s just trying to play mind games to throw him off his game, but remembers the dream he had the other night where he’d been smashed in the face by the hooded figure. He’d thought it was Al, but Al has never hurt him like that, holding back even in their worst fights – ‘At least he always had in the past, before they moved into the house on Elm Street.’ [If it was any other book series I’d say, “It’s just a dream, don’t take it so seriously,” but with Freddy involved he should definitely be taking it seriously. I wonder if this takes place after the movies. Like, is everyone aware of Freddy murdering kids in their dreams in the past?]
During Chip’s tryout, it’s immediately clear that none of the other players are interested in making him look good, effectively screwing up any play he might be able to make. As he’s debating what to do, a figure comes flying at him and a forearm slams him in the face, knocking him to the ground. [That pesky Al!] Dazed, Chip is unable to get back on his feet as a ‘the hooded figure from his dream’ towers over him. When he blinks his eyes back into focus, he realises the menacing figure is Al, a smirk plastered on his face, and then Chip passes out.
Chip wakes up at home on the couch with no memory of how he got there. He vaguely recalls getting hurt on the football field but is having trouble thinking straight, even hallucinating his mother as the hooded figure brandishing a knife. She asks him what happened, then angrily calls for Al when Chip explains that Al hit him. [Why is she only asking him about it now? Was she not notified of what happened? It seems pretty serious, especially if Chip’s still this disoriented] Chip clarifies that it happened during a game, and Al confirms he was told to take Chip home after he got his lights knocked out. [Take him to the damn hospital, he shouldn’t be sleeping with what is clearly a concussion]
Al starts talking shit about Chip being a lil bitch which breaks out into an argument between Mrs. Parker and Al, who heads for the fridge to gulp down orange juice straight from the jug like the pig he is. Chip’s mother is fed up with Al’s shitty attitude and Al continues to argue that they’re not his real family, talking shit about Chip’s dead dad once again. He also reveals he’s been hearing lots of stories about Mrs. Parker’s time in Springwood as a teen, insinuating that she had an affair and Al knows who Chip’s real dad is. Mrs. Parker has no idea what he’s talking about, but Al’s heard stuff from a guy who’s lived here all his life who’d been told by his parents. Thanks to this friend of his, [Presumably Johnny] Al also knows who his own real father was; a fireman who’d unfortunately perished in a fire. [Freddy died in a fire… I reckon Freddy’s Al’s dad for sure]
Sick of his bullshit, Mrs. Parker reminds Al that he needs her permission to play football and she won’t have any problem talking to his principal to take him off the team if he keeps running that big mouth. If he doesn’t want to obey the rules of her house he can leave, but Al is unfazed because ‘”A dump like this”‘ isn’t a big loss. Mrs. Parker’s screaming now, demanding he go find a job and his own place to live, [I would have kicked him out years ago, tbh] and after failing to defuse the situation, Chip goes outside to sit on the porch. He notices Scott drive past before deciding to check out the backyard, and in a small clearing that sticks out against the rest of the overgrown yard, he spots a tiny arm poking out of a fresh patch of dirt. He pokes the dirt away, revealing some kind of repulsive doll with it’s internal organs showing. [Evan’s destroyed project!] It has a resemblance to someone but he can’t quite place it, and because it’s so gross he starts kicking dirt over it again until something snags his foot. His struggles to free himself, which only entangles him more in the vine-like thing that’s wrapping itself around his leg and waist.
Then Chip notices a hooded figure by a hole in the hedge at the end of the yard, possibly holding a glinting switchblade, and calls out for help, hoping Al or his mother will hear him over their argument. The figure heads right for Chip and turns out to be an old man who’s come to free him from his entanglement. What Chip had thought was a hood is just an odd hat with fishing lures sticking out from it, and instead of a switchblade the man is holding a cigar, its wrapper glinting in the moonlight. The stranger introduces himself as Chip’s neighbour, Nick Murphy, [Old man Murphy!] explaining he’d seen Chip from his bedroom window and thought it was his grandson, Johnny, (Who Chip remembers from what Alicia had told him) so came to investigate. Old Man Murphy thinks he spotted Johnny running through the yard the other night, too, and peeking through his window, and doesn’t hold back with his opinion on his grandson as he admits he’d ‘”wring his neck tighter than that noose he used to hang himself”‘ if he’d caught him:
Chip’s mouth gaped open. “Johnny hanged himself?”
“Yup,” Mr. Murphy said, with more than a small note of pleasure. “Over at that loony bin where his parents locked him up. But as usual the boy couldn’t do even that right. They found him and cut him down and took him to the hospital where some young hotshot doctor pulled him back to life. Waste of time and money if you ask me.”
[Hahaha bless. I hope this isn’t going to be the exact same thing as the first book where it’ll turn out that Johnny did actually die and Freddy’s reanimated his corpse to live in] Murphy expresses more disdain for his grandson and Chip reveals that his family just moved here from Middleton. They’re interrupted by a crash from the kitchen, and both can see the outlines of Mrs. Parker and Al arguing through the kitchen shade. Mr. Murphy is sympathetic, and then suddenly blurts out that Johnny killed Ellen Sawyer. Remembering that Alicia believes the same thing, Chip questions how he can be so sure, and Mr. Murphy reveals that he saw the whole thing — ‘”Snatched her right off the street and murdered her. Right outside my house. I saw the whole damn thing!”‘ [That’s not the perspective we got when we were briefly with Old Man Murphy as Ellen walked past his house, but okeh… Also, it would have been Dr. Hawke, who Freddy was living inside at the time, or Evan who killed the girls, not Johnny. Why would Johnny kill his own girlfriend?]
The conversation is cut short by Al leaving the house and driving off, and Chip goes back inside to comfort his mother, who soon heads to the doughnut shop because there’s still lots to do. Alicia arrives on Mum’s way out, and soon she’s opening up to Chip about feeling like she’s always being watched. Chip mentions talking to Scott about what happened in the basement, and Alicia goes into detail about their break-up. After it all happened, they’d thought everything would be back to normal. Scott saw several plastic surgeons and was told his scars would heal in time, but somehow they got worse instead and his hand wouldn’t heal, turning into a claw; ‘”It was like there was a cancer inside of him, a cancer of fear, and it was twisting his face, his hand, his mind, making him even more deformed than ever.”‘ Eventually he refused to see Alicia anymore because he was so ugly, refusing to answer the door or her calls and ignoring the countless letters she sent, but yet she still had the feeling he still cared and was watching out for her. The feeling of being constantly watched is why Alicia doesn’t leave the house much and why she stopped going to school. Chip confirms that Scott is watching her and is keeping an eye on him and this house as well, explaining how he’d broken into the basement to burn her letters. Alicia agrees with Scott that there’s an evil spirit here and asserts that it’s not her, but she doesn’t seem so sure…
Over to Scott now, who’s keeping an eye on the house from his parked car. His worsening scars have left him quite unhinged and he believes the only way to end his nightmare is to eliminate the evil. With Al and Mrs. Parker gone, now is the time to strike, but it’s a shame Chip has to perish with Alicia and the house. Scott takes a 10-gallon gas container over to the broken basement window to pour some gas in there, but is interrupted by a hooded figure that plunges a knife into his heart. Then, cackling sadistically, the figure pours gas on Scott’s corpse and sets it ablaze before disappearing back into the night… [Yeah, surely that’s a Freddy-possessed Johnny, because normal Johnny surely wouldn’t kill one of his best friends!]
Back to Chip, who’s spent the last 10 minutes convincing Alicia she’s not evil and now changes the subject to the secret passage in the basement. According to Alicia, many of the houses around here were part of an underground railroad used to hide runaway slaves. Before they can explore it, there’s a loud knock at the door — It’s Nick Murphy, who leads Chip to the backyard explaining he saw the fire from his window and already called 911. Alicia follows after them and the teens are horrified to find Scott’s charred body roasting ‘like a cannibal’s barbecue.’ Chip comforts Alicia as a cop asks him some questions, and the cop reveals that it looks like Scott Martin was planning to burn down the house, ‘”but he burnt himself up instead.”‘
It’s time for the second day of tryouts now and Barney Peters is here, his face heavily bandaged. Prompted by Coach Cuttler, Barney admits Chip didn’t push him yesterday and was just the first person Barney saw when he came to, so he’d immediately blamed Chip in his disoriented state. The boys shake hands and then it’s time to play, but not before Al whines some more about wanting a shot at quarterback. Cuttler also confirms that it was Al who injured Chip yesterday, and Chip wonders why his brother has become so reclusive since moving to Elm Street and is spending so much time in the basement. Al had returned home at some point after the police and fire trucks left and went straight to the basement, and once again Chip could hear him talking to himself, mostly unintelligible words but he did mention Scott Martin.
Chip sits on the sidelines with Barney and watches while the current quarterback, Roger Dawson, does his thing, and Chip thanks him for clearing his name, admitting he’d had an inexplicable feeling that Roger was going to be pushed. Barney confirms he definitely was pushed, although he’s not sure by who, but Chip’s in the clear because Barney’s cousin from Middleton had told him what a great guy he is. Out in the field, Roger is making a run for it with the ball but is intercepted by Al, who knocks him off his feet and slams the poor guy to the ground. [Al really wants to be quarterback] Al takes the opportunity to take the ball all the way to the end zone while poor Roger writhes in pain on the ground, his broken leg bent at an impossible angle. Roger’s stretchered away to an ambulance and now it’s time for Chip to show what he’s made of on the field. Al is warned about being too hard on the team’s own players, but that doesn’t stop him from his same old tricks. Luckily, Chip successfully outsmarts his dangerous tactics and scores an impressive touchdown, leaving Al is absolutely fuming.
A few nights later, Chip accompanies Alicia to the cemetery so she can say her final goodbyes to Scott since she didn’t go to his funeral yesterday. [Why not? I wonder if she still feels like she’s being followed now that he’s dead?] Chip went and was surprised at how little people showed up considering Scott was a local hero just a few weeks ago; it was basically just Scott’s family and Boomer, so Chip wonders if there was so few people there ‘because Scott was a reminder of the curse that hung over Elm Street.’ Chip’s mother seems to be the only one who enjoys living there, although Al’s certainly taken a shine to it. Chip wonders what Al plans on doing after graduating, especially because it’s unlikely he’ll be playing quarterback anytime soon, which he’s relying on for his future. Chip and Al hardly speak anymore, with Al still spending all his time pumping iron down in the basement, bulking up significantly!
Anyway, Alicia wraps Steve’s letterman jacket around his tombstone, then spots Johnny over by Ellen’s grave in the distance. He’s disappeared by the time Chip turns around to look. As they walk back through the woods, they discuss how Johnny hung himself and was dead for several minutes and is probably still in hospital, so Alicia can’t really be sure it was him she saw. Chip remembers being told how Dr. Hawke had been dead for a few minutes before being revived and how Scott believed an evil spirit had entered his body, and has a sneaking suspicion that the evil spirit is now inside Johnny. [I think so! But there has to be some kind of twist as well, right?] The pair hear sirens in the distance and are eventually spooked by the noise of the woods and run all the way back to the clearing at the back of Chip’s house. As they near the fence, Chip glances back and spots a hooded figure watching them from the other side of the clearing.
Chip quickly hops the fence so he can help Alicia down the other side [Sure that’s why, Chip. Sure…] but the figure’s disappeared by then. After walking Alicia home, Chip notices his mother’s car is parked next to Al’s van in the driveway, which is strange because she was supposed to be working late. Old Man Murphy suddenly appears and asks if Chip’s mother is alright; she’d been taken away in an ambulance 10 minutes ago! Realising the siren he heard earlier was an ambulance, Chip’s first thought is that Al’s murdered his mother and rushes into the house.
He heads down to the basement confront Al after hearing voices, stepping past a puddle of blood at the bottom of the stairs. The voices are coming from the slightly open office door and Al hurries out when Chip calls to him, closing it behind him. Chip doesn’t ask about his mother right away for some reason, instead wanting to know what Al was doing in there and who he was speaking to, but Al just lies about it as usual. In regards to Mrs. Parker, Al smugly informs Chip she tripped and fell down the basement stairs and ‘”should really be more careful,”‘ which gets him a punch right in the kisser.
Al whips out his knife and insists he’d found her at the bottom of the basement when he got home and called 911. Chip doesn’t believe him and heads upstairs to confirm his story with the hospital, but they have no information for him other than his mother’s in the Intensive Care Unit, unconscious but stable. Al eventually follows him up, pissed about his bleeding lip, and warns that Chip’s last night has come, implying there’ll be a fight to the death. Al wants to make him squirm first so he doesn’t want to do it right now, but it will definitely be happening tonight. Then Al drives off in his van and Chip realises it’s just a matter of time ‘before all hell exploded like a fiery volcano, with Al the center of the eruption, swimming in the molten lava of his own hatred.’ [what a beautiful analogy!] Chip barricades himself in his room and gets a fire going in the wood stove before laying down. Soon he hears Al return home, and then voices drift up through the vent before the metal trapdoor on the wood stove opens by itself and red smoke pours out, just like in Chip’s dream!
Over to Alicia, who’s just woken from a nightmare of Johnny trying to throw her in the furnace in Chip’s basement. She hears voices downstairs and investigates, witnessing two policemen leaving. Her mother explains that Johnny had escaped the insane asylum Friday night; he wasn’t being guarded closely in the hospital wing because they thought he was too weak to get out of bed. The neighbourhoods are being canvassed and everyone’s being warned to be on the lookout. Alicia can’t believe they’re only telling the locals now, and she’s even more sure it was Johnny she saw at the cemetery. Remembering the secret passage Chip mentioned in his basement, she realises where Johnny’s been hiding out and dashes over to warn our hero despite her mother’s warning not to go back to ‘”the devil’s house!”‘
Back to Chip, who knows he isn’t dreaming this time as the red smoke morphs into the ghost of Evan Walker and moves over to the air vent, pointing at it. Chip gets on his hands and knees and listens at the vent [Something I would have done days ago because I’m nosy] — ‘”… had to do it … no choice … mother would have thrown you out … finish her off … trust me … finish him off … we are brothers … Red Dragon … brothers in blood … the house will be yours … Martin would’ve burned the house … clubhouse … I took care of Martin … you take care of Alicia to prove to me and the brotherhood … be number one … needs to be done … he’s the son of Krueger … chip off the old block…”‘ [So Johnny’s our killer this time! But is he possessed by Krueger, or just unhinged? Also, ‘chip off the old block’, as in literally Chip? Is that too on the nose? Surely Chip’s not really Freddy’s son] The voice continues to instruct Al to get Chip before Chip gets him and destroy the evidence by burning his corpse afterwards.
Realises he needs to do something, Chip heads down to the basement with his Walkman, nabbing a large, sharp knife from the kitchen on his way, with plans to record what he can of the conversation and hand it to the police. Chip peeks through the keyhole of the office door and sees Al with Johnny Murphy, both of them carving lines into their arms with their matching Red Dragon switchblades and looking maniacal. Then they smear their arms together as Johnny declares them now and forever ‘”of the same blood.”‘ Al seems hypnotised by Johnny’s words and eyes, which are burning like rubies, just like in Chip’s dream. Al nods dumbly and starts repeating that all others must die, as if in a trance.
There’s a sudden knocking from upstairs and Alicia calls out for Chip. The office door suddenly opens and Al and Johnny are pleasantly surprised to find Chip, who topples backwards to the floor. Al easily kicks Chip’s knife away and Johnny, in a perfect imitation of Chip’s voice, yells out for Alicia to come down to the basement. She stops halfway down the basement stairs when Chip tells her to run, but Johnny’s beckoning towards her, his fingernails now long, sharp and black like an animal’s claw. Johnny, in an oddly metallic, inhuman voice, invites Alicia to meet someone special, and Al explains that Johnny did some digging on Krueger’s file at the hospital and learned that Krueger did have a son after all, ‘”And he really was a chip off the old block.”‘ Johnny’s hand continues to morph into knifelike, razor-sharp fingers and his voice grows rough and gravelly as he declares he’d like everyone to meet his son, giving Al an affectionate squeeze on the shoulder [Knew it]:
Say hello to the nice people at home—Alfredrick!” Johnny tugged down his hood. Then he pulled a fleshy mask off his face with a sickening tear. The face underneath was hideously scarred and melted, the slimy brains exposed and shining like a bowl of glistening oatmeal.
[Alfredrick? Yuck]
Everyone is flabbergasted by the revelation and Al’s face fills with terror. Freddy Krueger cackles about life being a lot like football, but this game will end in sudden death! Al agrees, saying how great it is to finally meet his father, and then, PLOT TWIST, Al plunges his switchblade into Freddy’s heart! Freddy stumbles back and braces himself against the office doorway, and then flames suddenly shoot out of his mouth as he yanks the knife from his heart and plunges it into Al’s skull. Full of adrenaline, Chip bolts to the basement stairs, glancing over his shoulder to see Freddy declare he’ll be next. Despite Alicia’s efforts to get him upstairs, Chip stops in his tracks, Freddy’s burning red eyes drawing him in:
Then Al, the knife still sticking repulsively in his skull, suddenly leapt from the floor and slammed into Krueger with a football tackle, slammed into him with all his might as if he had been shout out of a cannon.
Al drove Krueger back, back into the fire, his momentum carrying both of them into the glowing furnace.
And then the boiler door slammed shit with a resounding clang as Chip and Alicia escaped up the stairs and out into the chilly night.
[It’s too little, too late for a redemption there, Al, but good on you] The book ends with an epilogue as Freddy Krueger stands among some flames and tosses a football into the air. It explodes in a shower of sparks that rain down over him as he quips that he loves a good halftime show:
His red eyes glowed and the pupils turned into little TVs. On the screens, Chip and Alicia were racing out of the house on Elm Street.
“But you know what they say: ‘It’s not over till it’s over …'”
Final thoughts
Another enjoyable Tale of Terror! I enjoyed how it was a new story that somewhat intertwined with Alicia’s, and hopefully that sort of continuation continues in the next book. I like how Freddy is present in the real world, but I think it would have been better if the scenario wasn’t a repeat of the last book, only with a different character. Hopefully the next one switches it up a bit somehow. Chip was a great protagonist too, much better than any of the guys in Blind Date, so hopefully he and Alicia’s romance will continue to blossom throughout the series. Hopefully Charlie will get his comeuppance at some point, because he deserves it just as much as everyone else in the first book!
There’s not really much else to say since I don’t really have any major complaints, besides the name not really making sense with the plot. 88 cannibal’s barbeques out 114!
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