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So what exactly was the plan here?

posted 7 years ago by jakemon45 (1133)
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The delivery guys were to lock up the house from the outside. To keep Barlow in, of course (which beings he got out of the crate, he would have gotten out of the house anyway, but I digress). Straker comes back and is really none too concerned to find out they didn't lock the place up. Barlow is off doing his thing and Straker never seems to be upset that whatever they had planned was now off the rails. I mean, logically it seems the plan was to keep him in the house and Straker deliver the kidnapped kid to him, right? Well, then what? Just keep that up forever?

[–] Xonioc (76) 7 years ago

Hmm, I am not sure what the plan was. So the work hands didn't lock the place up, which meant the 1st kid vampire could escape.

But I thought that was Straker's plan all along, to let loose the vampire plague into the town...?????

But the intended locking up of the basement, meant that Straker had intended containing Barlow and the kid. Or did he????

Confusing indeed.