"The Eternal Enemy" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sandra

As day breaks at Brightcliffe, Dr. Stanton holds a meeting in her office to give some good news the likes of which patients at the manor next-to-never end up hearing. After extra tests, an endoscopy has shown that while there are still polyps and lesions on Sandra's small intestine, they've been receding. The terminal diagnosis placed upon her was in error and it means she will be going home.

Sandra is shocked by the news. She doesn't have lymphoma, but she doesn't quite know how she feels. Worst, in her mind, she doesn't know what she's going to tell the others.

Kevin wakes up in Anya's old bed, where Ilonka brought him after finding him in the basement, and he admits to having found himself waking up in the basement on more than one occasion as of late. He's even woken up in the bed down there. Between the dreams and the sleepwalking he blames the meds, but Ilonka can't use medication to explain the ghosts she's been seeing or the way that Brightcliffe seems to transform.

Answer: Sandra

Ilonka calls the kids to an emergency meeting in the library on account of the events that have been occurring in the building but it seems that only she and Kevin are seeing these visions. Cheri says that there's a term for that-- folie a deux, a delusion shared by two.

Natsuki, on the other hand, recalls a story her mother told her about Toshi no Taberu Hito, 'the eater of years', which looks like an old woman but who would be found in places where people were going to die and eat the years they would've had.

Spence, however, says that Ilonka and Kevin could simply be wrong and seeing things due to their meds. They've always looked for proof from beyond, but they need to keep their cool. Ilonka knows that something is going on though, especially since she has the news that someone has been cured, implying the ritual worked. She apologizes, but she thinks it's herself.

Sandra admits it-- it's her. Stanton told her. She's leaving tomorrow and her parents are coming to pick her up. Her endoscopy, which she took a week before the ritual, showed the signs of her body healing, so it couldn't be the ritual.

Ilonka points to the other signs in the building, like the voice Spence heard on the intercom, but Sandra admits that it was her too. She did it when she was trying to convince him to have a little more faith, but it was wrong of her to do.

Answer: Her prom photos

As Ilonka runs from the library, she passes through the main lobby and accidentally runs into Katherine, Kevin's girlfriend, who's arrived a day early for Family Day. Though Ilonka plans to run out as fast as she can, Katherine insists on showing off her senior prom photos and she thanks Ilonka for the work she did with his make-up as he was nervous about how he looked. She asks how she can find her way to the beach to set up a picnic for herself and Kevin, but that's when Ilonka goes off, suggesting Katherine is treating Brightcliffe like it's a country club. She comments that Kevin is working hard to put on a good face for Katherine, but he's hurting to make her feel normal. Kevin walks in to find this conversation happening, and that's when Ilonka departs.

Later, Kevin talks to Spence about the Ilonka situation and it leads to a talk about breaking up with Katherine. Spence isn't even the one to bring it up; he just says that Kevin should do what he wants. It's clear he wants to be with Ilonka, but he feels that Katherine deserves a good memory of him.

Answer: True

Ilonka heads to Shasta's and when she arrives, she tells her that she needs a place to stay; she can't go back to Brightcliffe after everything that happened. The ritual, she says, didn't work. She needs a night or two.

This said, Shasta talks to her quickly about going back. For her, Brightcliffe is a special place and there's a power there that doesn't exist anywhere else. She knows that the ritual works. She knows it better than anyone else because she is Julia Jayne and she walked away from Brightcliffe. And Ilonka found her when she was looking because she was right about all of it.

After enjoying dinner, Ilonka and Shasta discuss what happened in the years after the healing and Shasta says she came back to open Good Humor. The woods and the spring have been good for that, but the real power and magic come from the house and Stanton won't grant her access.

Shasta suggests that they just go ahead. After the Midnight Club, Ilonka should let her into the building and they should just head into the basement while everyone is asleep and they'll use the ley lines there to heal her once and for all.

Answer: Game night

Mark takes Spence for a drive and insists that he has an opportunity to see a bit more; it'll cheer him up. Sometimes, he says, he forgets how little Spence gets out, so he takes the opportunity to bring him to his community. They arrive just in time for game night, but before that, they're painting rally signs to fight for their rights at the Capitol.

When Mark brings Spence back to Brightcliffe, Spence thanks him for bringing him along and states his appreciation for the fact that even when he told the others he had AIDS, they didn't seem scared. It's because if and when they die, Mark says, everyone needs love.

That night, the Midnight Club finds the library doors open and Spence, pondering his day, looks at the empty chairs. Sandra arrives late, worried that people are angry when, in reality, they're thrilled with her better health.

Ilonka shows up late as well, and when she enters the room she apologizes for her actions towards everyone. As everyone takes a seat, Spence takes the storyteller's seat and states the incantation before starting his tale, 'The Eternal Enemy'.

Answer: A VCR

Spence's story is about time and fear, he says, and it's about a guy named Rel who goes to Kline University who, new to town as a transfer student, doesn't have a ton of friends. He does want to know Christopher Perry, the resident genius, though. He can't stop thinking about him, really.

The loneliness in a new place was what compelled Rel to buy a new VCR since, with it, he could record the old sci-fi movies Christopher liked. That night, Rel had a nightmare of machinery, surgery, and terrifying implants and he woke up in a cold sweat.

The next day, Rel would drum up the courage to talk to Christopher while the latter worked on his robot, a midterm robot, in the common room. Once they start hitting it off, Rel brings up his new VCR and invites Christopher over for the evening-- they can watch "Terminator".

Answer: By betting on sports scores

Christopher comes over in the evening and brings wine and cheese-- the perfect pairing for "Terminator"-- but when they start playing the copy that Rel recorded on the VCR the night before, it ends up starting with a news report covering the scores of a football game. Rel's frustrated, having spent $200 on a VCR, but Christopher says it's alright. There's a great bar off-campus, he recommends, and they could just shoot pool for the night. Rel agrees.

And it's worth his effort. He and Christopher get along well. Both of them drop that they're not straight as they half-watch the football game on TV, but the real concern comes from the action on the screen. As one of the teams scores, they realize the game is live...which is odd since the VCR had the scores. As they watch the game occur in real time, they get an idea.

That night, they pop the tape into the VCR and find that the timestamp is for their very day. Flicking to the live news it is, sure enough, of the present day. They have no choice but to confirm that Rel's VCR is recording from the future.

Naturally it means trying the process again, letting the machine record another night of news and playing back the VHS. They get more sports scores, head back to the bar, and place their bets. And they get away with it too, for at least another week. But they found something else too-- each other. When you add time to anything, Spence says, you get change.

Answer: His mother's

One day, when Rel and Christopher wake up and check the VCR, the tape doesn't take them straight to the sports scores, but instead a tragic report on the death of a fellow student, Michelle Dixon, who's killed when an air conditioner falls on her head from a third-storey window. Rel suggests they find a way to stop it, but they realize they only have four minutes to do that. Rel rushes out of the building and races to save Michelle and, somehow, he manages to reach her in time, saving her life. Christopher, however, spots someone watching eerily from the crowd.

The next day, when watching the news live, Rel and Christopher agree that they need to stop pressing their luck and they need to stop watching the VCR. Chris, heading to his mother's for a vacation, leaves the address he's heading to while Rel stays back. They can figure out what to do when Chris gets back.

But Rel doesn't listen. That night, though he sits up and tries to stop himself, Rel pops the tape into the VHS and records. He sleeps fitfully, dreaming of awful machines, and when he wakes up he checks the video to find a news report indicating that Christopher has been brutally murdered at his mother's house in Pasco. He picks up the phone and gives Christopher's mother's house a call, but he's given an electrical shock by his own phone.

It's why he goes to Pasco and brings the tape with him. Unfortunately, when he arrives, a futuristic gas canister is tossed in the window. Christopher and his mother collapse unconscious, but Rel watches as the front door is broken into, the doorknob being lasered out.

Answer: A cyborg

A hooded figure stalks into Christopher's mother's house and Rel fights him with a standing lamp, electrocuting him to knock him to the ground, but when Rel pulls back the man's hood he's revealed to be an older man who looks similar to Christopher. The man asks Rel why he thinks he's a normal college student when really he's trying to kill everyone; the man's there to save Christopher.

The man explains that Rel was created in his lab, Robotic Experimentation Logistics, and that Rel's not human; he's a defective cyborg model. Before a few weeks ago, he wasn't even fully-made. The truth is that Rel came back in time forty years.

As Rel removes the flesh from his hand to reveal the robotic skeleton inside, he denies the possibility behind his true nature and he lashes out, beating the older man with the lamp base to reveal that he too is a cyborg-- the first of them. He was Christopher once, but he got sick and started replacing parts until he was more than human.

Rel suffers from diseases that make him defective, fear and sadness, both of which Christopher cured from the future. This is where Rel ends, he says. Fear leads to suffering, and the world deserves to live in a fearless state. Rel tells him that he's not defective, but he understands what must be done. As he puts his hand to the magnetic tape on the floor, he's put to his end.

The next morning, Christopher awakens to find the tape on the living room floor and he plays it, finding the truth about Rel, his future, and what could be. Spencer explains that Rel shows him what his fate can be if he made the effort to eliminate fear and, in doing so, how he will lose his humanity. And in that moment, the future changes because Rel wasn't defective at all. He was perfect.

As Spencer's story comes to an end, he tells the others that he appreciates the love that he feels from them because all of them are perfect. To Sandra, specifically, he says that she needs to make the future something good on behalf of all of them.

Answer: No

The Midnight Club heads to bed after Spence's story but Ilonka stays awake until 3am to open the front door of the building for Shasta. What she finds, however, is that Shasta isn't alone, having brought other women to fulfill the need to have five sisters for the ritual, something she never said she'd need. They head to the elevator nonetheless and descend into the chamber to commence the plan.

After lighting candles, Shasta and her women form a circle with Shasta sitting in the centre. As they cut their hands and place their blood on Shasta's forehead, they begin to chant while Ilonka watches on, joining once she hears their words. But Shasta pours a liquid into several small cups with her blood, offering them up to the others. One is placed into Ilonka's hands and the blessing is called upon, but Ilonka asks about their sacrifices and the burning of their possessions as they did the previous time. Shasta says this one is different.

Ilonka brings the liquid to her lips and asks what it is. Shasta claims it to be tea. Moments before she can drink it, however, Dr. Stanton finds the women in the basement and yells at them to stop, telling Ilonka to put the cup down despite Shasta's urging. It has to be now or never.

The hesitation is enough. In that moment, Ilonka watches as the other women start to vomit uncontrollably. Shasta crawls towards her in an effort to force the drink into her mouth but Ilonka backs away, knocking her head on the wall and falling unconscious.