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Nan swings and smashes open the alarm clock!

Nan tastes one of the beans. They taste fine, even though they're cold and mostly flavorless. Nan hands the open can over to Pablo, who is grateful, then places the clock on the ground. It's time to take action.

Nan brings the can to the sink so she'll have a working surface, then cleverly punctures a hole in the lid with the spike. It smells like beans. She pries open the lid and it looks like beans too.

Nan offers to use the axe but Pablo is reluctant. He says it will get beans everywhere. After a moment he says if she's going to do that, at least do it over the sink, so they don't lose more food than necessary. Every bean counts!

I believe an Anon from the board put it best: "Axe the can a question. Then axe the alarm clock a couple of questions as well."

Nan doesn't have her usual tools. They were lost along with her flashlight when she re-entered the hotel. Nan's not particularly hungry, but Pablo says he is. He hasn't eaten in two days or more, by his count, though again he admits he has a poor grasp of how time passes here. On that note...

Nan thanks Pablo for helping her out there. It was very brave. Pablo is modest over his involvement. It was mostly her doing. Nan gives Henry a brief look over, but he has no visible wounds she can discern. Pablo seems to be having trouble getting the can open. He mentions that the...

The rat quickly scurries away into the darkness, knocking something clattering onto the floor of Room 117. Pablo picks up the CANNED BEANS.

Nan asks if Pablo has ever tried killing these things. He says yes. It seems the uninvited things can die, just like anyone. But he's not sure about the others -- the Padre, the Pilgrim... He slowly, cautiously approaches behind the dresser. There is a rat in the hole, again. ...and...

Nan and Pablo back away to the opposite side of the room, and Pablo scoops up the axe, holding it at the ready. The faint, almost metallic clattering noise continues, intermittently. It doesn't seem to be growing louder.

Something rattles behind the dresser.

Nan asks what happened to Alan. Pablo gets very quiet and says the Pilgrim carved him apart. Nan ponders quietly a moment and shows Pablo the cross-shaped pendant and alarm clock, but they mean nothing to Pablo. Finally, she asks if he's tried breaking a window to escape. He says yes, the...

Nan asks about Pablo, wanting to take the opportunity to learn what she can. Pablo says he was told to come in as the janitor here -- thus, why he has the key to the closet. But he didn't even get to meet the manager before he found himself trapped here, just like Nan. Nan asks about the...

Nan makes sure Henry is breathing all right, then turns to Pablo and, scared by recent events, demands to know more about the monsters and the lights. Pablo's voice is very quiet. He says he doesn't know why they are still alive. Nan asks again, if it's true that those things don't enter the...

Nan hurries to the door, wanting to drop the unconscious figure off to safety first. But just when a confrontation seems unavoidable, the tall figure steps out of the light, disappearing back into the darkness beyond.

Nan grabs the man's feet and quickly turns around. A tall, dark figure is standing just in front of the light. Vaguely silhouetted, Nan can't quite make it out. Pablo shouts angrily. He tells Nan to hurry and get the man into the room. He'll hold this thing off. He yells at the figure. He...

Nan nudges the fallen figure on the ground, hoping for a response. He groans slightly. Nan nudges again...

Nan tells Pablo to keep watch at the edge of the light. She keeps the axe and approaches the slumped figure slowly. She calls out, but there's no response.

Nan asks Pablo if he knows what's going on. Pablo quickly answers no. He says he doesn't recognize the man at the end of the hall. He asks Nan what they should do -- if they're going to get him or leave him, and who should do what.

Nan spins around, her axe at the ready, and instinctively sidesteps. At the end of the hall, a slouched figure rests motionless against the wall.