The Shining

The drive is terrible. Hallorann almost wrecks the car and hits a guardrail. The plow driver pulls him back onto the road. He gives Hallorann blue mittens that his wife made. The plow driver says he understands Hallorann’s predicament; the driver believes the boy at the Overlook is in trouble, even if he does not know how he knows.

Four hours later, Hallorann reaches Sidewinder. He smells oranges, and an outraged voice in his head calls him racial slurs and screams at him to stay away. It shocks Hallorann enough to cause him to hit the embankment. In the images and sounds, he hears the noise of a mallet smashing into something soft. He worries that he is already too late.

The sounds stop as Wendy waits in her bedroom after hearing Jack talk about murdering her with someone. She believes that he is out of the pantry. When she reaches the elevator, it is filled with confetti.

The clock strikes midnight. The ballroom lights turn on to shouts of “unmask!” Wendy sees Jack coming towards her with the mallet. He hits her when she runs, breaking two of her ribs. He hits her shin, and she knocks him down on the stairs before plunging the knife into his lower back. He screams and collapses. He gets up and follows her. She keeps struggling up the stairs.

Larry Durkin rents one of his snowmobiles to Hallorann after he mentions Howard Cottrell—the plow driver. He gives Hallorann a heavy parka and a ski mask. On the way to the Overlook, Hallorann grows more frightened with each mile. When he reaches the Overlook, a hedge lion stops him in the road. They start to fight, and the lion scratches and rips his flesh.

As Wendy runs from Jack, she encounters several partygoers. Jack hits her between the shoulder blades. She crawls, and he crawls after her. She makes it to the bedroom and manages to close the door. She does not understand how he can still move.

Jack pounds on the door with the mallet. When he is almost through the door, she goes into the bathroom. She knows it is not him who is trying to hurt her; it is the Overlook. He stares at her through a crack in the bathroom door. She grabs a razor blade from the medicine cabinet and slashes his hand as he reaches through to grab the doorknob. She hears a motor outside, and suddenly Jack leaves. She faints on the bed in her room.