Episode 25

Day 7
It is nighttime. The Outlaws, Seymour, the kitten, and the ghosts are outside the mansion. They begin to follow the wagon wheel tracks down the path as they hear two wolves howl from opposite directions. A wolf appears on the path ahead of them. Conrad yeets his sugar shiv toward it, but misses. The wolf howls and runs up to them. Two wolves run up from behind them down the path. The wolf in front runs up to Conrad, who pulls out his belt to whip it. One of the two wolves leaps at Remy, who bashes it away with her souped-up bat. She then attempts to light one of her stakes on fire. Robin whips out Rudolfo’s sword and the snowman buckler and spears the wolf with his sword. He lifts the wolf into the air (wolf kebab style), rage lighting his eyes. Remy wigs out, dropping the stake and bat, throwing up her hands and screaming. PT tries to scramble up the tree nearest him, but slides down onto his bottom. Conrad, seeing Robin alight with fury, attempts to whip the sword out of his hand, though he fails.

One of the wolves, seeing Robin’s attack, flees into the woods. The one who was tearing up PT’s clothes runs over to attack him, though PT boops him on the snoot with great force. Conrad points out to the others that Robin is being encouraged by the sword, and Robin, after watching Remy vomit profusely in regards to the wolf kebab, sheathes the sword.

The gang continues to follow the tracks, though they become fainter as they go along. Conrad sniffs the dirt path and looks more closely, discovering that the tracks are still present.

Day 8
The Outlaws arrive back in town, deciding that they will go see Blood Zamenhof at his office for medical attention. PT gets down on his hands and knees, kissing the ground and praising their luck, and the gang spots a man and his cow. He gives his name as Jarble Broccoli and tells them that there is no hospital.

[Slide wipe transition to Blood’s office]

PT and Conrad begin ringing a bell at the receptionist’s desk and yelling for assistance. The good doctor emerges, wearing a surgeon’s suit and covered in blood. The gang agrees to assist him in return for his medical care.

Day 9
Blood tells Remy and Robin to decide who will be secretary and who will be nurse, and they rock-paper-scissors for it. Remy will play nurse while Robin plays secretary.

A small wooden addition, rather similar to a barn, has been built onto Blood’s office and serves as the in-patient area.

Remy goes rooting around the place, and finds that the cabinets are full of unlabeled liquids and solutions. A biohazard bin overflows with bloody rags. The files are full of chicken scratch and strange illustrations and schematics. She flips through the files, noting that Blood seems to have files on everyone in town who has visited. She finds a torn file of one of the Night Guard, folds it up, and slips it into her pocket.

Robin flips through the check-in booklet, in which Blood has scrawled down the names of those who have come in. He notices a check-in and check-out of someone who left just before the Outlaws arrived. Next to the illegible name (or words? Or symbols?) is a biohazard symbol. The front door busts open, and Jarble Broccoli enters with a teenage girl, asking after Zamenhof. He explains that his daughter, Jorf Flamenco (she took her mother’s name), is sick and needs assistance.

Conrad and Remy head toward the in-patient suite where Robin has brought Jarble and his daughter Jorf. Jarble explains that Jorf went to go see her friend last night, she returned just fine, but got sicker over the course of the night. The doorbell rings, and Robin goes to check the door.

Blood Zamenhof enters, free of blood and viscera. Robin explains that Jarble and Jorf have arrived. Zamenhof sprints back to the in-patient room, clearly distraught over the fact that some of them have touched Jorf and she appears very infected. Jorf was visiting her friend Cuppy Gimble (not his older brother, Guppy) the night previous.

Remy wheels PT out of the suite, Conrad following with his IV drip. Blood explains that the Gimble boy came in yesterday, noting that he has some sort of bacteria “eatin’ up his organs” and that they are “eroding very quickly.” Blood told him not to see or touch anyone.

Jarble explains that the Gimble family grows “big ole carrots” and that he himself is a potato farmer. Robin and Remy begin furiously washing their hands and arms. Conrad attempts to follow Blood back to check on Jorf, though he refuses his assistance.

Jarble insists upon leaving to get some items of comfort for his daughter. Conrad attempts to intercept him via tackle, though he fails and Jarble throws himself out the door. Conrad yells “and stay out!” after him. Robin follows Jarble. He steps in front of him and attempts to convince him to come back to Blood’s office. Jarble points behind Robin, indicating a very sickly Papa Gimble attempting to drag himself down the road with a pitchfork. He suddenly drops, face-first onto the ground. Robin turns to Jarble and says, “Get inside. Now.”

Papa Gimble’s back explodes into a bunch of outstretching tendrils, which reach toward Robin and Jarble.