"Gimme a Kiss" Trivia Quiz

Answer: The 1960s

Ilonka sees the woman in the chamber below the basement but, in her fright, she accidentally loses her match flame. By the time she relights, there's no one in the room with her. It's only a few more moments before Kevin manages to bring the elevator back down to retrieve her.

They gather all of the members of the Midnight Club when they head back upstairs and, telling them little, they bring them into the elevator and down to the chamber to surprise them. What they find when all of them have flashlights in hand is that the chamber is massive, and the walls, ceiling, and floor are all meticulously painted. They theorize that the room was a meeting place, and when Ilonka locates a roster book for The Midnight Club, discarded on the floor, they all realize that their predecessors must have used it.

Most frightening, perhaps, is that the roster book, commemorated in January 1969, contains their credo on the front page and was founded by Julia Jayne.

The club determines that their founding members must have founded the same chamber as they did, meeting there and using it, but not creating it; much of it seems much older.

Answer: Spencer

Sandra is the one that tells the others they need to leave. While the others investigate the roster book, she finds distressing items across the room, specifically black robes, an ancient bowl, and a sheathed blade. She's the first to get back on the elevator and head upstairs and others follow, but Ilonka, Kevin, and Anya stay to investigate.

Most importantly, to Ilonka, is that the roster is too uncanny to ignore. In 1969, the Midnight Club had eight members, just like they do. They wrote their stories in there and, eventually, the pages winnowed out...until the ones containing the bloody handprints and a crudely-drawn hourglass.

The anxiety and fatigue towards their discovery carries into their group therapy session the next day. Dr. Stanton suggests forgoing the meeting since it's non-compulsory, but Sandra speaks up, explaining that she and others may still be mourning Tristan's death. Because of the frequent losses they face at Brightcliffe, it's normal, and unfortunate, for some to fall into the trap of turning to things that aren't good for them. She recommends they turn to prayer since it's helped her in the past, but the rest of the group isn't keen on the idea. Spencer in particular opposes her idea that if God doesn't fill the empty spots in their lives, bad things can slip in. The church, after all, ruined his life and tore apart his family.

Answer: Good Humor

Ilonka heads out for a walk in the woods to locate the tree with the hourglass marking and when she does she finds others with unique carvings in the immediate vicinity (like a crescent moon with the initials G.B.). She's found there by Shasta who, hiking through the woods again, spies her sketching on her way past the blackberry patch.

Before she forgets, Shasta reveals that she's been carrying around a gift in case she were to come across Ilonka again-- some items from her company, Good Humor Wellness, made from natural items from the very woods they walk through. Ilonka is thrilled, knowing the brand and being interested in naturopathic remedies, so Shasta says she'll bring more.

Ilonka admits that she's out in the woods looking at the trees with the carvings. She asks about the Paragon, but Shasta says she doesn't know about them. What she does recommend, however, is using the library at Brightcliffe to research natural medicines (provided Stanton kept the books). In the 610s, she'll find medicine and health.

Before she leaves, Shasta lets Ilonka know that she knew she was in the woods because she saw her on the cameras in the trees, there to observe her property. While the stream is on the Brightcliffe side of the property line, the carved trees are on hers. This said, Ilonka is welcome at any time.

Answer: A senior prom

When Ilonka returns to Brightcliffe she helps Kevin get ready for a big day. After getting a blood transfusion and dressing in his finest formalwear, Kevin gets his make-up done to remove the pallor so that he can meet with Katherine and attend her senior prom.

The two are interrupted the moment they finish when Sandra knocks on the door looking to find if anyone's seen Spence. Still rattled by group therapy, she's looking for an apology for Spence's outburst, but Kevin remarks he seemed angry and she should talk to him to find out why. The argument blows up a bit, however, when Sandra says what's on her mind about the cellar discovery, the danger they're all getting themselves into, and the fact that people think she's too black and white. She storms off, leaving them to think about what she's said.

Soon, Katherine arrives with a limo and a corsage. The others see him off before heading inside. Cheri asks Ilonka if she's okay, but it was a rough afternoon. Doing Spence's makeup, she says, reminded her of not only how hard it is to look like one's self with how sick they all are, but what death takes from them. At least, they agree, Spence will probably have a good time.

Answer: No

Spence heads to the medical office to have his blood drawn for tests and Mark tries to cheer him up, acknowledging that he was disappointed to have missed saying hello to Spence's dad on Family Day. Spence's dad, he says, was always a nice guy while his parents struggled with his own coming out.

Spence reveals that things are getting worse; he developed a sarcoma and the meds aren't working. Mark suggests that new antiretrovirals are being made to help combat AIDS, and they might be just around the corner.

When Spence leaves the room after his session, he heads down the hall and passes Tristan's old room, and as he goes by, the wall speaker crackles and whispers his name. He goes to try the door but it's locked, and when he speaks into the intercom looking for a response, the person inside speaks back. Spence, frightened, goes to Mark to find a way to unlock the door, but when they check it out, it seems it was unlocked the whole time. No one is in the room.

Answer: Detective story

In the late evening, Anya awakens to find Ilonka throwing up in the bathroom. She offers some old morphine pills as a way to calm her nerves, but Ilonka says no; she'd prefer to stick to her scheduled and specificially-provided meds.

When the club convenes in the library they find that Kevin has returned from the senior prom having been given all the heartfelt sorries from the other attendees before being crowned prom king. The discussion ends, however, when Spence enters the room, quietly leaves a bottle of wine on the table, and takes a seat, not bothering to hide his sarcoma from the others. He cites the credo to get the festivities underway, but it's Sandra who speaks up, offering her story and sitting at the head of the table. She calls it 'Gimme a Kiss'.

Answer: The school reporter

Sandra's story starts on a Saturday-- April the 11th-- Detective Fisher arrives at her office in the station to find Alice Palmer waiting for her there. Three of her friends are gone, rather two are dead and one is missing, but Alice is there in the office, unsure of where to begin.

It began Friday morning in homeroom. There was Sharon, her childhood buddy; Kirk, her ex-boyfriend; Patty the upper-class girl; and Jake, her best friend. It began with Jake's journal and something that he and Kirk had done in secret-- kissing under the bleachers.

Spence calls Sandra out right then and there. If she thinks that's something she should be talking about after the events at group therapy, then she's awful for doing it. She insists, however, that there's a point.

The journal was a landmine waiting to happen. While Jake went to the principal's office for a matter regarding the article he'd written in the school paper, someone took his journal and posted the page about his and Kirk's kiss. The whole school found out. He'd been wronged, and all signs pointed to Patty being the one to post the entry. He wasn't angry for being attacked for what he did, but for what he was.

Answer: A yacht

Jake confides in Alice that whoever posted the page in the school deserves revenge. In his mind, Patty and Kirk could BOTH have published the page, making it the perfect crime. His decision, in turn, is to push them further and make them think they killed him.

Alice ends up helping Jake by inadvertently providing a backdrop for his fake crime. While hosting one of her famous yacht parties, Alice watches as Jake picks a fight with Kirk, setting it up so that Kirk seemingly pushes him over the railing and into the harbour. His plan is to avoid surfacing as long as possible, getting to shore, and showing up back at school on Monday-- just enough to make Patty and Kirk twist in the wind a bit.

Things go wrong shortly after. Though Jake uses Sharon's scuba equipment to make it to shore and he drives off to Sharon's family cabin to lay low for the weekend, a news report indicates that Kirk dove in after him, searching for his friend, but never resurfaced. The lights in the cabin go out.

After Kirk's body surfaced in the lake, Sharon spilled everything to Alice-- how she helped Jake fake his death and how she hoped to pick up the pieces since she had a crush on Jake-- but afterwards she, according to Alice, must have gone back to the cabin, shot Jake, and burned down the cabin to cover her tracks.

It all adds up. Since Alice's admission isn't compulsory, she's free to leave the detective's office. She heads out into the rain, but is grabbed by someone in the alley when she goes.

Answer: Jake

Alice awakens in her classroom, tied to a chair. Jake, sitting in the shadows bruised, bloodied, and worse for wear, wields a gun and calls her out for being the one to commit the attempted murder on his life. He explains that Sharon came to the cabin to tell him about Kirk; she wanted to come clean, but she was shot by Alice, waiting outside to toss in the molotov cocktail that set the building ablaze. He knows everything she did to kill him, but she never knew he filled the bathtub with water, put on his scuba gear, and hid inside until it was safe to emerge.

Alice admits it all-- why she killed Sharon, set fire to the cabin, photocopied his journal, and killed Kirk-- was because she was jealous. She wanted to break the two of them apart for what Kirk, her ex-boyfriend, gave to her. Wiping her make-up off, she indicates the truth: Kirk gave her oral herpes.

The Midnight Club is a bit surprised by this turn of events. 'Oral herpes?' Kevin asks. Sandra reconfirms it-- it's a big deal.

Alice takes her shot by swinging her chair at Kirk but he dodges it and accidentally fires the gun, the bullet striking Alice in the chest. As she dies on the floor, she apologizes for attacking love. Her noir proclamations of regret are interrupted, however, by the arrivals of the angels of Sharon and Kirk, both of whom have come to take her with them.

Sandra stops herself realizing that, like her other stories, this one seems to have come back around to angels; she can't seem to help herself. She apologizes to Spence for what she said earlier and Spence, having heard her out, comes around the table and gives her a kiss on the forehead. Amesh leads the table in an applause for her tale.

Answer: Religion

As the Midnight Club splits off to head back to their rooms, Spence loads Anya into the elevator. She sends him away once he loads her in, insisting that she can make it the rest of the way on her own, and he leaves, knowing better than to argue. As the elevator ascends she takes another pill.

In the library, Ilonka tells Kevin that he deserves better than the reception that he got from the other people at prom. As they turn off the light, Ilonka gets a spark of inspiration because when she looks at the books, she realizes that the Dewey Decimal System-- something Shasta brought up to her in the woods-- might be the answer to one of her mysteries. She searches 292.13-- it's in Religion...Other Religions-- and locates a black book marked with the hourglass symbol.

Upstairs, Anya gets off the elevator and struggles to keep consciousness. She drowsily collides with the doorframe to the recovery room and stares at her dark reflection, listening to the whispers in the hall around her. She makes it back to her room as quickly as she can, reminding herself that she's still there, but when she looks at her shadow on the wall, rising on its own from her wheelchair, she cries in terror.

Ilonka and Kevin return to the room to find her on the floor, knocked over and unconscious.