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At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose. Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait. As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life. The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants - a hot box. The water that killed the reanimated plants wasn't cold, but hot. As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box. Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
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At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose. Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait. As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life. The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants - a hot box. The water that killed the reanimated plants wasn't cold, but hot. As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box. Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - triggering of which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
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Quinn closes, and Gary douses the fire. Megan hears a distant buzz - which grows louder. They ''run''.
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Quinn closes, and Gary Tucker douses the fire. Megan hears a distant buzz - which grows louder. They ''run''.
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On a high tree branch, Vange spots a hornet’s nest, and decides to knock it down. A horrified Quinn and Andy warn that no good will come of it. With a branch, Vange manages to dislodge the nest. It falls to the ground - silent, for now. Tonight, Quinn has a tale of the dangers of incautious meddling - with life and death. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of the Reanimator”.
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As Mr Doyle hurries past, Julie shows him her work, but he seems not to notice her.
-->'''Julie:''' Mr Doyle?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m going to be in my workshop. Don’t disturb me, alright?
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leaving Julie none the wiser as to why several plants have suddenly died.
On the bare floor, she sees trails of turquoise goo.
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
In the workshop, Mr Doyle peers into a small glass bottle of bright blue liquid. He applies several drops to a potted dead plant. Within seconds, its bare branches sprout large, bright green leaves.
A second call from Peter startles Julie into swivelling around. In so doing, she accidentally steps through the laser beam. With a harsh alarm, a mechanical door slides across the doorway. Mr Doyle peers through its window, but fails to see Julie crouched beneath it.
Overwhelmed, Julie runs upstairs to tell Peter and Jake about Mr Doyle’s fantastic fertiliser.
After a moment of bemused silence, Jake surmises the claim to be an April Fool. Peter is distinctly unimpressed.
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off the lights.
From outside the front door comes a sharp, rapid tapping. From inside the workshop comes a similar tapping. Suddenly afraid, Julie runs for the door. From beneath it slides the stem of a plant. In fear, Julie backs away - into a hulking, ambulatory mass of leaves.
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures. It and its accomplice surround her. She sinks to the floor, and screams in fear…
One of the plant people switches off the light. Each pulls off the uppermost part of its leafy body, revealing two familiar faces.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
Their prank concluded, the two [[{{Pun}} leave]].
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridal dress.
Suddenly, on the other side of the room, Mr Doyle re-enters. Julie crouches behind the room’s central workbench. Seconds later, she looks up, to find Mr Doyle looking gently down at her.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door is a little much. But you see, I don’t want my competitors knowing what I’m up to.
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' An experiment. You could call it kind of a super fertiliser. Now, just watch…
Onto a potted dead plant, he drips a few droplets of blue potion. As before, green leaves swiftly bloom.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
Julie touches a leaf, and finds a glutinous, transparent secretion.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
As if in disagreement, the shoot’s coils around the beaker shatter it, spilling the blue potion.
From a kettle, Mr Doyle pours water onto the regenerated plant, which instantly causes it to shrivel and die.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
As he shelves the shrivelled plant, Julie spies the framed photo. She swiftly snatches a small bottle of blue potion, and pockets it.
On bidding Mr Doyle goodnight, Julie hurries back up to the greenhouse, fretfully phones home, and explains the bizarre situation to Peter.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it on his wife. She died last year.\
To the cemetery, Julie leads Peter and Jake.
From a distance, they see Mr Doyle, spade in hand, stooped over his wife’s gravestone. Suspicious of being watched, he lifts a hessian sack, and hurries away.
Still suspicious of a prank, Peter snatches from Julie the bottle of blue potion, and proposes to put it to the test. While Julie pleads frantically, Jake mildly urges him to stop.
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'May he be forgiven'? Sounds like a bad dude!\
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat. Before the gravestone of Ian Kazex, a patch of frozen grass starts to steam…
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets.
From behind her shuttered window comes a persistent rattle.
She calls Peter, who arrives with Jake.
Jake slowly approaches the window, and boldly flicks up the blind - to reveal a cluster of wind-disturbed branches.
-->'''Jake:''' This is getting old.
-->'''Peter:''' Call us when the pizza gets here.
As Julie sips from a glass of water, she glimpses a silhouette move past the window.
Downstairs, through the back door window, she sees a distant figure shamble across the snow.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
She half-opens the front door.
In looms a suited man with a heavy stubble and a deathly grey face. With a leering hiss, he lunges for her.
Julie screams and manages to latch the door half-closed.
Ready for their pizza, Peter and Jake arrive. Julie urges Peter not to open the door. The Zombie has gone.
Peter pulls on his coat, and steps outside, in search of the pizza man.
Julie follows him with further words of caution.
Scoffing, Peter turns around - and finds himself face to face with the snarling Zombie.
Back at the cemetery, they find the grave onto which Peter spilled the potion to have been recently dug up from beneath.
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, a crazed growl announces the return of the Zombie. They run.
Unsure what to do, they stop to think. Julie realises the Zombie to be after the regenerative blue potion. On the ground, Julie sees a puddle - and recalls Mr Doyle pouring chilled water on the reanimated plant.
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose.
Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait.
As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life.
The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants.
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’s a hot box. It wasn’t cold water, it was hot water that killed the chemicals.\
As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box.
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he and Jake. Shocked out of his stupor, he runs to the hot box.
In the heat, the Zombie convulses, groans, collapses, and exudes a cloud of steam.
A none-too-pleased Mr Doyle arrives, and asks what’s going on.
At sight of the liquefied husk on the floor, Peter runs off in search of somewhere to puke.
Mr Doyle solemnly surveys the empty potion bottle and the remains of the Zombie.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrong to meddle with fate. This experiment is over.
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
-->'''Julie:''' Mr Doyle?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m going to be in my workshop. Don’t disturb me, alright?
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leaving Julie none the wiser as to why several plants have suddenly died.
On the bare floor, she sees trails of turquoise goo.
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
In the workshop, Mr Doyle peers into a small glass bottle of bright blue liquid. He applies several drops to a potted dead plant. Within seconds, its bare branches sprout large, bright green leaves.
A second call from Peter startles Julie into swivelling around. In so doing, she accidentally steps through the laser beam. With a harsh alarm, a mechanical door slides across the doorway. Mr Doyle peers through its window, but fails to see Julie crouched beneath it.
Overwhelmed, Julie runs upstairs to tell Peter and Jake about Mr Doyle’s fantastic fertiliser.
After a moment of bemused silence, Jake surmises the claim to be an April Fool. Peter is distinctly unimpressed.
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off the lights.
From outside the front door comes a sharp, rapid tapping. From inside the workshop comes a similar tapping. Suddenly afraid, Julie runs for the door. From beneath it slides the stem of a plant. In fear, Julie backs away - into a hulking, ambulatory mass of leaves.
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures. It and its accomplice surround her. She sinks to the floor, and screams in fear…
One of the plant people switches off the light. Each pulls off the uppermost part of its leafy body, revealing two familiar faces.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
Their prank concluded, the two [[{{Pun}} leave]].
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridal dress.
Suddenly, on the other side of the room, Mr Doyle re-enters. Julie crouches behind the room’s central workbench. Seconds later, she looks up, to find Mr Doyle looking gently down at her.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door is a little much. But you see, I don’t want my competitors knowing what I’m up to.
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' An experiment. You could call it kind of a super fertiliser. Now, just watch…
Onto a potted dead plant, he drips a few droplets of blue potion. As before, green leaves swiftly bloom.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
Julie touches a leaf, and finds a glutinous, transparent secretion.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
As if in disagreement, the shoot’s coils around the beaker shatter it, spilling the blue potion.
From a kettle, Mr Doyle pours water onto the regenerated plant, which instantly causes it to shrivel and die.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
As he shelves the shrivelled plant, Julie spies the framed photo. She swiftly snatches a small bottle of blue potion, and pockets it.
On bidding Mr Doyle goodnight, Julie hurries back up to the greenhouse, fretfully phones home, and explains the bizarre situation to Peter.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it on his wife. She died last year.\
To the cemetery, Julie leads Peter and Jake.
From a distance, they see Mr Doyle, spade in hand, stooped over his wife’s gravestone. Suspicious of being watched, he lifts a hessian sack, and hurries away.
Still suspicious of a prank, Peter snatches from Julie the bottle of blue potion, and proposes to put it to the test. While Julie pleads frantically, Jake mildly urges him to stop.
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'May he be forgiven'? Sounds like a bad dude!\
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat. Before the gravestone of Ian Kazex, a patch of frozen grass starts to steam…
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets.
From behind her shuttered window comes a persistent rattle.
She calls Peter, who arrives with Jake.
Jake slowly approaches the window, and boldly flicks up the blind - to reveal a cluster of wind-disturbed branches.
-->'''Jake:''' This is getting old.
-->'''Peter:''' Call us when the pizza gets here.
As Julie sips from a glass of water, she glimpses a silhouette move past the window.
Downstairs, through the back door window, she sees a distant figure shamble across the snow.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
She half-opens the front door.
In looms a suited man with a heavy stubble and a deathly grey face. With a leering hiss, he lunges for her.
Julie screams and manages to latch the door half-closed.
Ready for their pizza, Peter and Jake arrive. Julie urges Peter not to open the door. The Zombie has gone.
Peter pulls on his coat, and steps outside, in search of the pizza man.
Julie follows him with further words of caution.
Scoffing, Peter turns around - and finds himself face to face with the snarling Zombie.
Back at the cemetery, they find the grave onto which Peter spilled the potion to have been recently dug up from beneath.
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, a crazed growl announces the return of the Zombie. They run.
Unsure what to do, they stop to think. Julie realises the Zombie to be after the regenerative blue potion. On the ground, Julie sees a puddle - and recalls Mr Doyle pouring chilled water on the reanimated plant.
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose.
Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait.
As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life.
The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants.
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’s a hot box. It wasn’t cold water, it was hot water that killed the chemicals.\
As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box.
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he and Jake. Shocked out of his stupor, he runs to the hot box.
In the heat, the Zombie convulses, groans, collapses, and exudes a cloud of steam.
A none-too-pleased Mr Doyle arrives, and asks what’s going on.
At sight of the liquefied husk on the floor, Peter runs off in search of somewhere to puke.
Mr Doyle solemnly surveys the empty potion bottle and the remains of the Zombie.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrong to meddle with fate. This experiment is over.
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
to:
As Mr Doyle hurries past, Julie shows him her work, but he seems not to notice her.
-->'''Julie:'''her. A preoccupied Mr Doyle?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m goingDoyle hurries to be in my his workshop. Don’t disturb me, alright?
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leavingOn the bare floor, Julie none sees a trail of turquoise goo. She follows it into the wiser as to why darkened workshop. A laser beam, several plants have suddenly died.inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake. From above, Peter calls for Julie. She mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
On the bare floor, she sees trails of turquoise goo.
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
In the workshop, Mr Doyle peers into a small glass bottle of bright blue liquid. He applies several drops to a potted dead plant. Within seconds, its bare branches sprout large, bright green leaves.
leaves. A second call from Peter startles Julie into swivelling around. In so doing, she accidentally steps through the laser beam. With a harsh an alarm, a mechanical door slides across the doorway. Mr Doyle peers through its window, but fails to see Julie crouched beneath it.
Overwhelmed, Julie runs upstairs to tell Peter and Jake about Mr Doyle’s Doyle's fantastic fertiliser.
After a moment of bemused silence,fertiliser. Jake surmises the claim to be an April Fool. Peter is distinctly unimpressed.
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off thelights.
lights. From outside the front door comes a sharp, rapid sharp tapping. From inside the workshop comes a similar tapping. Suddenly afraid, Julie runs for the door. From beneath it slides the stem of a plant. In fear, Julie backs away - into a hulking, ambulatory mass of leaves.
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures.It and its accomplice The creatures surround her. She sinks to the floor, and screams in fear…
One of the plant people switches off the light.fear. Each creature pulls off the uppermost part of its leafy body, revealing two familiar faces.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
the faces of Jake and Peter. Their prank concluded, the two [[{{Pun}} leave]].
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridaldress.
dress. Suddenly, on the other side of the room, Mr Doyle re-enters. Julie crouches behind the room’s central workbench. Seconds later, she looks up, to find Mr Doyle looking gently down at her.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door isher. He gently offers a little much. But you see, I don’t want my competitors knowing what I’m up to.
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Andemonstration of his experiment. You could call it kind of a super fertiliser. Now, just watch…
Onto a potted dead plant, he drips a few droplets of blue potion. As before, green leaves swiftly bloom.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nucleibloom - he's learned how to create DNA.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
DNA. Julie touches a leaf, and finds a glutinous, transparent secretion.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
secretion. As if in disagreement, the shoot’s shoot coils around the beaker shatter and shatters it, spilling the blue potion.
potion. From a kettle, Mr Doyle pours water onto the regenerated plant, which instantly causes it to shrivel and die.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
die. As he shelves the shrivelled plant, Julie spies the framed photo. She swiftly snatches a small bottle of blue potion, and pockets it.
On bidding Mr Doyle goodnight, To Peter, Julie hurries back up confides her fear of Mr Doyle's intention to the greenhouse, fretfully phones home, and explains the bizarre situation to Peter.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it onreanimate his dead wife. She died last year.\
To the cemetery, Julie leads Peter and Jake.
Jake. From a distance, they see Mr Doyle, spade in hand, stooped over his wife’s gravestone. Suspicious of being watched, he lifts a hessian sack, and hurries away.
away. Still suspicious of a prank, Peter snatches from Julie the bottle of blue potion, and proposes to put it to the test. While Julie pleads frantically, Jake mildly urges him to stop.
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'Maypours some over a grave marked "may he be forgiven'? Sounds like a bad dude!\
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat.forgiven." Before the gravestone of Ian Kazex, a patch of frozen grass starts to steam…
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets. \n\nFrom behind her shuttered window comes a persistent rattle.\n\nShe calls Peter, who arrives with Jake. \n\nJake slowly approaches the window, and boldly flicks up the blind - to reveal a cluster of wind-disturbed branches.\n\n-->'''Jake:''' This is getting old.\n-->'''Peter:''' Call us when the pizza gets here.\n\n As Julie sips from a glass of water, she glimpses a silhouette move past the window. \n\n Downstairs, through the back door window, she sees a distant figure shamble across the snow.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
snow. She half-opens the front door.
door. In looms a suited man with a heavy stubble and a deathly grey face. With a leering hiss, he lunges for her.
her. Julie screams and manages to latch the door half-closed.
Ready for their Having ordered pizza, Peter and Jake arrive. Julie urges Peter not to open the door. The Zombie has gone. \n\n Peter pulls on his coat, and steps outside, in search of the pizza man.
man. Julie follows him with further words of caution.
follows. Scoffing, Peter turns around - and finds himself face to face with the snarling Zombie.
Zombie. Back at the cemetery, they find the grave onto which Peter spilled the potion to have been recently dug up from beneath.
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, abeneath. A crazed growl announces the return of the Zombie. They run.
Unsure whatrun to do, they stop to think.Mr Doyle's greenhouse. Julie realises the Zombie to be after the regenerative blue potion. On the ground, Julie sees a puddle - and recalls Mr Doyle pouring chilled water on the reanimated plant.
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’shose.
hose. Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait.
bait. As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life.
life. The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants.
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’splants - a hot box. It wasn’t cold water, it was hot The water that killed the chemicals.\
reanimated plants wasn't cold, but hot. As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box.
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
box. Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he andJake.Jake, now worn by Julie. Shocked out of his stupor, he runs to the hot box. \n\n In the heat, the Zombie convulses, groans, collapses, and exudes a cloud of steam.
steam. A none-too-pleased Mr Doyle arrives, and asks what’s going on.
on. At sight of the liquefied husk on the floor, Peter runs off in search of somewhere to puke.
puke. Mr Doyle solemnly surveys the empty potion bottle and the remains of the Zombie.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrongZombie, and decides to meddle with fate. This experiment is over.
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
call it a day on his experiment.
-->'''Julie:'''
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m going
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leaving
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
After a moment of bemused silence,
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off the
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures.
One of the plant people switches off the light.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridal
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door is
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' An
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it on
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'May
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat.
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, a
Unsure what
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’s
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he and
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrong
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
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[[caption-width-right:350:"When the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA."]]
On a high tree branch, Vange spots a hornet’s nest, and decides to knock it down. A horrified Quinn and Andy warn that no good will come of it. With a branch, Vange manages to dislodge the nest. It falls to the ground - silent, for now. Tonight, Quinn has a tale of the dangers of incautious meddling - with life and death. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of the Reanimator”.
In an otherwise empty greenhouse, Julie works on a potted bonsai tree.
As Mr Doyle hurries past, Julie shows him her work, but he seems not to notice her.
-->'''Julie:''' Mr Doyle?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m going to be in my workshop. Don’t disturb me, alright?
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leaving Julie none the wiser as to why several plants have suddenly died.
On the bare floor, she sees trails of turquoise goo.
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
In the workshop, Mr Doyle peers into a small glass bottle of bright blue liquid. He applies several drops to a potted dead plant. Within seconds, its bare branches sprout large, bright green leaves.
A second call from Peter startles Julie into swivelling around. In so doing, she accidentally steps through the laser beam. With a harsh alarm, a mechanical door slides across the doorway. Mr Doyle peers through its window, but fails to see Julie crouched beneath it.
Overwhelmed, Julie runs upstairs to tell Peter and Jake about Mr Doyle’s fantastic fertiliser.
After a moment of bemused silence, Jake surmises the claim to be an April Fool. Peter is distinctly unimpressed.
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off the lights.
From outside the front door comes a sharp, rapid tapping. From inside the workshop comes a similar tapping. Suddenly afraid, Julie runs for the door. From beneath it slides the stem of a plant. In fear, Julie backs away - into a hulking, ambulatory mass of leaves.
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures. It and its accomplice surround her. She sinks to the floor, and screams in fear…
One of the plant people switches off the light. Each pulls off the uppermost part of its leafy body, revealing two familiar faces.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
Their prank concluded, the two [[{{Pun}} leave]].
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridal dress.
Suddenly, on the other side of the room, Mr Doyle re-enters. Julie crouches behind the room’s central workbench. Seconds later, she looks up, to find Mr Doyle looking gently down at her.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door is a little much. But you see, I don’t want my competitors knowing what I’m up to.
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' An experiment. You could call it kind of a super fertiliser. Now, just watch…
Onto a potted dead plant, he drips a few droplets of blue potion. As before, green leaves swiftly bloom.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
Julie touches a leaf, and finds a glutinous, transparent secretion.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
As if in disagreement, the shoot’s coils around the beaker shatter it, spilling the blue potion.
From a kettle, Mr Doyle pours water onto the regenerated plant, which instantly causes it to shrivel and die.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
As he shelves the shrivelled plant, Julie spies the framed photo. She swiftly snatches a small bottle of blue potion, and pockets it.
On bidding Mr Doyle goodnight, Julie hurries back up to the greenhouse, fretfully phones home, and explains the bizarre situation to Peter.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it on his wife. She died last year.\
To the cemetery, Julie leads Peter and Jake.
From a distance, they see Mr Doyle, spade in hand, stooped over his wife’s gravestone. Suspicious of being watched, he lifts a hessian sack, and hurries away.
Still suspicious of a prank, Peter snatches from Julie the bottle of blue potion, and proposes to put it to the test. While Julie pleads frantically, Jake mildly urges him to stop.
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'May he be forgiven'? Sounds like a bad dude!\
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat. Before the gravestone of Ian Kazex, a patch of frozen grass starts to steam…
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets.
From behind her shuttered window comes a persistent rattle.
She calls Peter, who arrives with Jake.
Jake slowly approaches the window, and boldly flicks up the blind - to reveal a cluster of wind-disturbed branches.
-->'''Jake:''' This is getting old.
-->'''Peter:''' Call us when the pizza gets here.
As Julie sips from a glass of water, she glimpses a silhouette move past the window.
Downstairs, through the back door window, she sees a distant figure shamble across the snow.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
She half-opens the front door.
In looms a suited man with a heavy stubble and a deathly grey face. With a leering hiss, he lunges for her.
Julie screams and manages to latch the door half-closed.
Ready for their pizza, Peter and Jake arrive. Julie urges Peter not to open the door. The Zombie has gone.
Peter pulls on his coat, and steps outside, in search of the pizza man.
Julie follows him with further words of caution.
Scoffing, Peter turns around - and finds himself face to face with the snarling Zombie.
Back at the cemetery, they find the grave onto which Peter spilled the potion to have been recently dug up from beneath.
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, a crazed growl announces the return of the Zombie. They run.
Unsure what to do, they stop to think. Julie realises the Zombie to be after the regenerative blue potion. On the ground, Julie sees a puddle - and recalls Mr Doyle pouring chilled water on the reanimated plant.
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose.
Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait.
As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life.
The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants.
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’s a hot box. It wasn’t cold water, it was hot water that killed the chemicals.\
As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box.
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he and Jake. Shocked out of his stupor, he runs to the hot box.
In the heat, the Zombie convulses, groans, collapses, and exudes a cloud of steam.
A none-too-pleased Mr Doyle arrives, and asks what’s going on.
At sight of the liquefied husk on the floor, Peter runs off in search of somewhere to puke.
Mr Doyle solemnly surveys the empty potion bottle and the remains of the Zombie.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrong to meddle with fate. This experiment is over.
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
Quinn closes, and Gary douses the fire. Megan hears a distant buzz - which grows louder. They ''run''.
-->'''Vange:''' '''''I’M SORRY!''''' '''''I’M SORRY!!''''' '''''I’M SORRY!!!'''''
!!This episode provides examples of:
*TheLostLenore: Mr Doyle, bereaved of his wife, invents a potion with which to regenerate living tissue.
*MadScientist: Averted with Mr Doyle, who is benevolent, and only needs to see a reanimated corpse to be deterred from his endeavour.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: A regenerative potion reanimates the corpse of an implied violent criminal. Perhaps because of the potion, he doesn’t look decomposed, but seems unable to talk, and is rather a brute.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Never again will Vange poke a hornet's nest...
*ThePrankster: Peter and Jake prank Julie by dressing up as plant monster type things.
*ShoutOut:
** The title and premise recall those of ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator''.
** The regenerative blue potion seeps into the grave of a man implied to have been a violent criminal, resulting in a fearsome zombie. This recalls ''Film/Frankenstein1931'', in which the reanimated Creature is given the brain of a murderer.
[[caption-width-right:350:"When the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA."]]
On a high tree branch, Vange spots a hornet’s nest, and decides to knock it down. A horrified Quinn and Andy warn that no good will come of it. With a branch, Vange manages to dislodge the nest. It falls to the ground - silent, for now. Tonight, Quinn has a tale of the dangers of incautious meddling - with life and death. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, he calls this story “The Tale of the Reanimator”.
In an otherwise empty greenhouse, Julie works on a potted bonsai tree.
As Mr Doyle hurries past, Julie shows him her work, but he seems not to notice her.
-->'''Julie:''' Mr Doyle?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Oh, Julie! I’m sorry. My mind is somewhere else. Any problems?
-->'''Julie:''' Yeah, actually -
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Well, good, good, good. I’m going to be in my workshop. Don’t disturb me, alright?
He hurries through a wooden sliding door, leaving Julie none the wiser as to why several plants have suddenly died.
On the bare floor, she sees trails of turquoise goo.
She follows the trail into the darkened workshop. Down a brief flight of stairs, a laser beam, several inches above the floor, bars the open doorway of an expansive room. Inside, Mr Doyle bustles about.
Back upstairs, the shop bell rings. In walk Julie’s brother Peter and his friend Jake...
From above, Peter calls for her. She desperately mimes a futile shushing gesture, and inches closer to the doorway, the laser beam mere centimetres from her ankles.
In the workshop, Mr Doyle peers into a small glass bottle of bright blue liquid. He applies several drops to a potted dead plant. Within seconds, its bare branches sprout large, bright green leaves.
A second call from Peter startles Julie into swivelling around. In so doing, she accidentally steps through the laser beam. With a harsh alarm, a mechanical door slides across the doorway. Mr Doyle peers through its window, but fails to see Julie crouched beneath it.
Overwhelmed, Julie runs upstairs to tell Peter and Jake about Mr Doyle’s fantastic fertiliser.
After a moment of bemused silence, Jake surmises the claim to be an April Fool. Peter is distinctly unimpressed.
At six pm, Julie locks the greenhouse door and switches off the lights.
From outside the front door comes a sharp, rapid tapping. From inside the workshop comes a similar tapping. Suddenly afraid, Julie runs for the door. From beneath it slides the stem of a plant. In fear, Julie backs away - into a hulking, ambulatory mass of leaves.
Julie screams, runs for the door, and opens it. In pops another of the fearsome plant creatures. It and its accomplice surround her. She sinks to the floor, and screams in fear…
One of the plant people switches off the light. Each pulls off the uppermost part of its leafy body, revealing two familiar faces.
-->'''Peter:''' April fools!
-->'''Jake:''' I’m sorry Jules - he made me do it.
Their prank concluded, the two [[{{Pun}} leave]].
In the once-more quiet greenhouse, Julie searches for Mr Doyle. In the workshop, she peers at a framed monochrome photo of a woman in a bridal dress.
Suddenly, on the other side of the room, Mr Doyle re-enters. Julie crouches behind the room’s central workbench. Seconds later, she looks up, to find Mr Doyle looking gently down at her.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Hey, why didn’t you tell me you were interested in my experiments?
-->'''Julie:''' Well, you’ve been kinda… I mean, things have been kinda… weird. And the motion detector…
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}}'' Come on! If you’re that interested, I’ll show you. I know the rig door is a little much. But you see, I don’t want my competitors knowing what I’m up to.
-->'''Julie:''' I’m really embarrassed.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Don’t be! All you had to do was ask.
-->'''Julie:''' Okay. What are you doing down here?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' An experiment. You could call it kind of a super fertiliser. Now, just watch…
Onto a potted dead plant, he drips a few droplets of blue potion. As before, green leaves swiftly bloom.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' You see, when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s coming back to life!
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes! It’s reanimating.
-->'''Julie:''' It’s unreal!
One of the thriving shoots coils around the bottle of blue potion.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Look at that! It’s like it knows what’s healthy to regenerate.\
He goes to get something from a side room.
Julie touches a leaf, and finds a glutinous, transparent secretion.
-->'''Julie:''' What’s the gooey stuff?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' Mm? Oh, that’s a harmless byproduct.
As if in disagreement, the shoot’s coils around the beaker shatter it, spilling the blue potion.
From a kettle, Mr Doyle pours water onto the regenerated plant, which instantly causes it to shrivel and die.
-->'''Julie:''' If you can reanimate plants… can you reanimate other things?
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' ...It’s late. Time to go.
As he shelves the shrivelled plant, Julie spies the framed photo. She swiftly snatches a small bottle of blue potion, and pockets it.
On bidding Mr Doyle goodnight, Julie hurries back up to the greenhouse, fretfully phones home, and explains the bizarre situation to Peter.
-->'''Julie:''' I think Mr Doyle’s gonna try and use it on his wife. She died last year.\
To the cemetery, Julie leads Peter and Jake.
From a distance, they see Mr Doyle, spade in hand, stooped over his wife’s gravestone. Suspicious of being watched, he lifts a hessian sack, and hurries away.
Still suspicious of a prank, Peter snatches from Julie the bottle of blue potion, and proposes to put it to the test. While Julie pleads frantically, Jake mildly urges him to stop.
Peter finds an interesting-looking gravestone.
-->'''Peter:''' 'May he be forgiven'? Sounds like a bad dude!\
He pours the potion onto the grave.
Jake snatches the bottle, and calls a halt.
The three retreat. Before the gravestone of Ian Kazex, a patch of frozen grass starts to steam…
Alone in her bedroom, Julie frets.
From behind her shuttered window comes a persistent rattle.
She calls Peter, who arrives with Jake.
Jake slowly approaches the window, and boldly flicks up the blind - to reveal a cluster of wind-disturbed branches.
-->'''Jake:''' This is getting old.
-->'''Peter:''' Call us when the pizza gets here.
As Julie sips from a glass of water, she glimpses a silhouette move past the window.
Downstairs, through the back door window, she sees a distant figure shamble across the snow.
-->'''Julie:''' Hey! Pizza guy?\
She half-opens the front door.
In looms a suited man with a heavy stubble and a deathly grey face. With a leering hiss, he lunges for her.
Julie screams and manages to latch the door half-closed.
Ready for their pizza, Peter and Jake arrive. Julie urges Peter not to open the door. The Zombie has gone.
Peter pulls on his coat, and steps outside, in search of the pizza man.
Julie follows him with further words of caution.
Scoffing, Peter turns around - and finds himself face to face with the snarling Zombie.
Back at the cemetery, they find the grave onto which Peter spilled the potion to have been recently dug up from beneath.
As Julie starts to venture consultation of Mr Doyle, a gobbet of turquoise secretion falls from above and lands on the tip of her nose.
Just as she starts to explain the goo to be a side-effect of reanimation, a crazed growl announces the return of the Zombie. They run.
Unsure what to do, they stop to think. Julie realises the Zombie to be after the regenerative blue potion. On the ground, Julie sees a puddle - and recalls Mr Doyle pouring chilled water on the reanimated plant.
At Jake’s suggestion, they run to prepare Mr Doyle’s hose.
Peter aims the nozzle, Jake prepares to turn on the water, and Julie holds the bottle as bait.
As the growling Zombie lurches into view, Jake finally manages to turn on the water. The Zombie gets a good squirting. He appears to be down for good - but then lurches into life.
The three run into Mr Doyle’s workshop. Jake notices a red-lit side room, rowed with dead plants.
-->'''Julie:''' Hot! It’s a hot box. It wasn’t cold water, it was hot water that killed the chemicals.\
As Mr Zombie lurches into the workshop, Julie hastily directs a plan: with the potion, one of them must lure the Zombie into the hot box.
-->'''Peter:''' I can do that.\
Just as Julie and Jake run out, Julie, too late, remembers the laser beam - which lowers the workshop door, trapping Peter inside.
Peter is frozen with terror. He runs to the door, which opens - revealing one of the plant costumes earlier donned by he and Jake. Shocked out of his stupor, he runs to the hot box.
In the heat, the Zombie convulses, groans, collapses, and exudes a cloud of steam.
A none-too-pleased Mr Doyle arrives, and asks what’s going on.
At sight of the liquefied husk on the floor, Peter runs off in search of somewhere to puke.
Mr Doyle solemnly surveys the empty potion bottle and the remains of the Zombie.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' What have I done…?
-->'''Julie:''' I’m sorry Mr Doyle, this is my fault.
-->'''Mr Doyle:''' No, no, this is my fault… it’s wrong to meddle with fate. This experiment is over.
Some time later, as the three clear away the remains of the plant costume, Peter congratulates Julie’s use of the plant costume.
-->'''Julie:''' I got you last! April Fools.\
Quinn closes, and Gary douses the fire. Megan hears a distant buzz - which grows louder. They ''run''.
-->'''Vange:''' '''''I’M SORRY!''''' '''''I’M SORRY!!''''' '''''I’M SORRY!!!'''''
!!This episode provides examples of:
*TheLostLenore: Mr Doyle, bereaved of his wife, invents a potion with which to regenerate living tissue.
*MadScientist: Averted with Mr Doyle, who is benevolent, and only needs to see a reanimated corpse to be deterred from his endeavour.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: A regenerative potion reanimates the corpse of an implied violent criminal. Perhaps because of the potion, he doesn’t look decomposed, but seems unable to talk, and is rather a brute.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Never again will Vange poke a hornet's nest...
*ThePrankster: Peter and Jake prank Julie by dressing up as plant monster type things.
*ShoutOut:
** The title and premise recall those of ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator''.
** The regenerative blue potion seeps into the grave of a man implied to have been a violent criminal, resulting in a fearsome zombie. This recalls ''Film/Frankenstein1931'', in which the reanimated Creature is given the brain of a murderer.
