RL Stine: The Wrong Number

RL Stine

♡ The Wrong Number – It began as a prank… And ended in murder! It began as an innocent prank. Call someone on the phone, shake them up a little with some sexy whispers and then hang up. But when one of the numbers is on Fear Street, readers can be sure there is more than “innocence” in store! An innocent joke turns perilous when a prank caller specializing in heavy breathing and sexy whispers dials the number of a house on Fear Street. Welcome to Fear Street. Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself… and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you? “Please come quickly… you’re my own hope!” It began as an innocent prank, when Deena Martinson and her best friend Jade Smith make sexy phone calls to the boys from school. But Deena’s half-brother Chuck catches them in the act and threatens to tell their parents, unless they girls let him in on the fun. Chuck begins making random calls, threatening anyone who answers. It’s dangerous and exciting. They’re even enjoying the publicity, and they uproar they’ve caused. Until Chuck calls a number on Fear Street. To his horror, Chuck realizes he has called THE WRONG NUMBER. The jokes are over when murder is one the line. The murderer knows who they are and where they live – and they have nowhere to call for help.

Deena just got a new phone thanks to her dad who works at the phone company. Her friend Jade thinks it would be fun to make some prank calls. After calling a few people, Deena pranks this guy from school, Rob, telling him in a sexy voice that she has the hots for him. Things are about to change though because her half-brother Chuck is moving to town after getting tossed out of his last school. Deena thinks everything will be sunshine and lollipops, but it is pretty far from that. On the way home from picking Chuck up, they get into a car accident. Their dad tells them to get out of the car because people are crashing in front of and behind them. Chuck manages to save a dog from one of the wrecked cars right before it bursts into flames. He follows that up by getting into a fight with a kid at school and pulling a knife on him which gets him suspended.

Jade thinks Chuck is super hot even when he’s being a dick. She comes over and convinces Deena to make some more prank calls. Deena calls Rob yet again and Chuck overhears. He decides to make a prank call of his own and tells the bowling alley that there’s a bomb inside. The pranking gets out of control after he starts calling people, claiming that he is the Phantom of Fear Street. One night, they are hanging out and having fun when the girls get scared by a bat flying around outside. When they run into the house, Chuck makes a few jokes about Fear Street, and they start telling him the stories about it. Chuck picks a number from the phone book of someone who lives on the street, and when he calls, he hears a woman begging for her life and screaming for help. They rush over to the house, walk through the broken back door, and find the woman laying dead on the floor. When a man in a mask walks out, they jump in the car and take off. He follows them, but turns around and leaves. Later that night, the cops arrive on their doorstep. Mr. Farberson came home, found his wife dead, and claims that the teens broke into his house and killed his wife in a botched robbery attempt. He managed to get their license plate number before they left. They let Deena go, but arrest Chuck.

After talking to Jade, the girls decide to go back and talk to the cops. They tell them what happened that night, but the cops think they’re lying to protect Chuck. The whole story gets leaked to the paper, so everyone knows about their prank calls. Rob realizes that Deena was his sexy caller and asks her out, but she’s way too busy trying to save her brother. They realize that Farberson was the guy in the house when they hear him talk on TV, but the cops still don’t believe them. The two dress up in wigs and go to the restaurant that he owns. Jade pretends that she is there to apply for his job and they go through his files when he leaves for a few minutes. They find a receipt for an airline ticket but since it’s for two people, they assume he was going on vacation with his wife. They find out that his last assistant recently quit and Jade calls her and sets up an appointment to meet with her by claiming that she’s doing a survey.

Linda Morison lets them into her house, but leaves the room when someone calls. Jade listens as she calls Farberson “darling” and begs him to get something out of her house. They take off, but follow Farberson when he gets something from her house. It turns out that it’s a dead cat, which is disappointing because they thought it was the mask he wore during the robbery attempt. They decide to break into his house and look for evidence. Deena tells Chuck and he flips out, but he can’t do anything since he’s still in jail. They find a letter from his wife, saying that she is leaving him and won’t give him another dime of her money to waste on his pipe dream of a restaurant. When Farberson comes in, they hide in the closet. He finds them and grabs Jade but Deena gets away. He finds her and drags her upstairs, locking her in the room with Jade. They drag a dresser across to the door and climb out the window. They manage to get on one of the branches, but he runs downstairs and grabs a chainsaw. Just as he starts cutting through their branch, the cops show up. It turns out that they had always suspected him but they had no proof. Chuck actually agreed to stay in jail until they could gather some evidence.

The cops get the evidence from the girls and arrest Farberson. Jade and Chuck make up and I guess he gets to go back to school or something. Oh and Rob officially asks out Deena and she finally agrees to go on a date with him.

RL Stine Fear Street - Missing

RL Stine

Fear Street

♡ Missing – First their parents disappeared. Then the real terror began… What would happen if one day your parents did not come home? What if they disappeared without a trace, and what if something terrible had happened to them? This is what happens to Mark and Cara on one frightful night… when they take a wrong turn down the fateful block called Fear Street. Returning home one night to find that their parents have disappeared, Mark and Cara Burroughs are plunged into a nightmare as they try to locate the missing adults. Cara and Mark are throwing a last minute party when she takes the time to think about things. Their young, very young as she keeps saying, parents are computer specialists who always accept jobs in new cities and then join a bunch of clubs to meet new people instead of spending time with their kids. They had a fight that morning because they thought Mark spent too much time with his new girlfriend Gena. A random cop shows up on the doorstep in an unmarked car. He acts a little shifty when asking about her parents and says there was a robbery a few houses down. After giving her his card and asking her to call anytime, he gets in his car which barely make a sound and leaves. Cara figures that’s the perfect time to end the party. Both think it’s weird that their parents aren’t home and didn’t call until they find that the phone is out. They then hear footsteps upstairs and freak out until their cousin Roger walks out. Turns out that he moved in and they keep forgetting he’s there. That must be hard on his ego. Cara goes upstairs and flips out because their parents bed is unmade and they always make it, while Mark is just disappointed that he didn’t asks Gena to stay longer. Roger shows up long enough to scare them again with a black box in his hands. He claims it’s his Walkman and that he forgot his headphones before shoving it in his pocket and running back to his room in the attic. Right before they leave, Cara finds something on the bed. It’s a little tiny skull made from ivory. She thinks it’s weird because it feels cold in her hand, but Mark just laughs it off. Mark wakes up in the middle of the night, stubs his toe and sees the little skull staring at him, but he can’t remember taking it to his room. Later, he looks outside and sees a black van on the street, which he saw earlier in the night. He then sees Roger climb inside. After falling asleep and waking up again, he sees the van still there and the skull in a new spot.

The next morning, he tells Cara what he saw. Since Roger left for the day, they sneak up to his room and go through his stuff. They wind up finding a loaded gun hidden in a drawer and Cara finds that he hasn’t used any of his books and never wrote any notes despite supposedly being a college student. Cara then goes to their neighbor’s house. The woman is a smoker, which we never see in YA books anymore, and asks a bunch of probing questions about her parents before saying that the place where they work has a lot of government contracts. Cara calls the phone company to come out and check her line, and when she gets home, she finds her parents’ car, which they use to get to work, in the garage. Cara and Mark skip school to see where their parents work and to get some help. They see the same van sitting outside, but the guy driving it says that he doesn’t know a Roger. Mark doesn’t believe him for some reason. They get to the place where their parents work and meet a bunch of people never heard of them before. The CEO even comes down and tells them that no one by those names work there or ever had worked there. Mark stops to call Gena and talk to her, but she acts really weird. When Cara gets home, she finds Mark sitting in the dark. He says that Gena dumped him and that she said she had to break up with him. He went over to her house to talk to her, but her dad answered the door and she said she was so upset over something that she had to stay home school all day. Nice dad to let her stay home for no reason. Cara then calls the cop from the other night and he agrees to investigate her parent’s disappearance. When she hangs up though, she realizes that Roger was listening in on an upstairs extension. When Roger comes downstairs, Cara accuses him of spying on them. After she brings up him being suspicious and the gun he has, he accuses her of spying and says that the gun belonged to his dad, who was a cop. He died a few days after giving it to him. He also claims that he too saw the van but never ever got inside it. Cara doesn’t believe him and when he leaves, she decides to follow him. Mark stays home and gets a call from Gena. She cries and tries to tell him something, but when he presses her, the phone disconnects. Since he’s a hormonal teen, he goes right to her house and cuts through the Fear Street woods. Something starts following him, which turns out to be an enormous dog. Mark manages to break its neck realizing that the dog was specifically trained to sneak up on people without making a noise. The dog also had a collar with a skull on it that looks just like the one they found in their parents’ room. He then goes to Gena’s house, climbs up a trellis to her window, and slips and falls. This is one of those annoying books that bounces back and forth between two different characters using first-person, so we go back to Cara. After tracking Roger to a coffee house, she sees him sit down inside with the guy from the van. Roger sees her, accuses her of spying again, and then introduces him as his college advisor. Cara makes up an excuse to leave, sees them talking all secretive, and then starts heading home, only to find someone following her.

Turns out that it’s Captain Farrday, the cop from before. He tells her that he hasn’t found out anything new about her parents but that they’ll show up. She then tells him all about her weird cousin, and he agrees to look into both him and the professor. As an added bonus, when she brings up the skull charm, he asks if he can see it. Luckily for her, probably, she can’ find it. Right after he leaves, she hears another car pull up. It’s only a friend from school though. Mark manages to keep himself from falling off the trellis and gets into Gena’s room. It looks completely clean and like no one had been there all day. There’s a noise in the hall and her dad rushes in with a gun in his hand. He calms down when he sees that it’s just Mark. Gena’s dad tells him that she was so upset over their breakup that she took off to stay with her cousin, but Mark notices that she left behind her book bag.

Cut to the next day or a few days later, with the two talking about everything that happened lately. Cara suddenly remembers Wally, a friend of their parents who works with them. They look him up in the phonebook and head to his house. Through Wally, they find their parents listed in the work directory, call, and get their voicemail, so they know their parents really do work there. When they get home, they find Roger dead in his room as Captain Farraday bursts through the door. Farraday accuses Mark of killing his cousin and marches them upstairs. The guy from the van bursts in. Cara shouts out who he is, and Farraday shoots him three times point blank. He then grabs the phone calls the police station to report it. Since Mark just saw two dead bodies, he really needs a drink of water. When he heads into the kitchen though, he finds out that the phone is dead again and that Farraday called no one. He keeps trying to find a way to warn his sister and then just snaps and calls out the other man. Farraday knocks him down and waves his gun around while shouting about how he was a cap until their parents did something and how he hates them. Before he can do anything, Gena rushes in with a hunting rifle. She keeps threatening Farraday and fires a shot at the wall behind him. They lock him in the garage, and she runs into the woods, telling them to follow her as she babbles about having to get there before the meeting starts.
Turns out that her dad belongs to some weird cult named the Brotherhood and the CEO of the company is the leader. They all put on robes and sneak into the meeting, where they see their parents in the center. Though they think their parents are the leaders, the group actually wants to kill them. Mark distracts them, which lets his dad jump up and reveal himself as a member of the FBI. After arresting a few people, they take their kids home and explain what happened. They are apparently top secret FBI agents bringing down subservient groups, which is why they move all the time, and both Roger and the professor were agents. Farraday was a cop they busted in the past who came back for revenge. As an odd footnote, there’s literally no mention of what happened to him after they locked him in the garage. They come home, drink cocoa and talk. Their dad tells them that all their covers are blown and they have to move. Gena stops by to tell Mark that she’s moving to Detroit to live with her mom while her dad is in jail. They kiss goodbye, Mark says he’ll call, and she gives him a gift before leaving. It’s a copy of the skull with a note inside that says she loves him and has her phone number and address in Detroit. Ah, it’s a classic story of teenage love mattering more than the federal government.

Charlie's Angels Season 3

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Charlie’s Angel’s

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♡ Episode #24: Angels Remembered – Charlie calls the Angels to a meeting which is actually a birthday party celebrating the Angel’s third year together. Kris recalls her first case (from “Angels in Paradise”) in which Charlie is kidnapped and his identity is nearly exposed to the Angels. Another remembered caper is recalled in which Kelly was working undercover as a burlesque dancer and yet another was an incident of intrigue from “Angels On My Mind” in which a clairvoyant seeking Kris actually wanted to kill her. Sabrina remembers Doug O’Neal, a resourceful young man who was seeking large sums of money with the Angels’ help. Bosley remembers “Tinker Belle” from “Circus of Terror” and how she short circuited him. Charlie then brings up the number of odd disguises the Angels have used. Concluding their remembrances, they all toast their three years together and the future. Charlie calls the Angels to a meeting which is actually a birthday party celebrating the Angels’ third successful year together. The group recollects disguises, characters and their most unforgettable and dangerous assignments.
♡ Episode #23: Rosemary for Remembrance – Ex-mobster Jake Garfield is released from prison and wants revenge on the man he believes framed him, Lawrence Renaldi. When Renaldi is found dead, the Angels are shocked to learn who the killer is. Rosemary Garfield’s 1935 murder remains unsolved after 44 years. Her widower Jake was wrongly sent to prison for it but has been released. The Angels try to solve her murder and find out who is trying to kill him. Ex-mobster, Jake Garfield, has just been released from prison for the murder of his wife. He claims that he was framed by a racketeer named Renaldi, so his nephew hires the Angels to investigate when he is targeted for murder. When he meets Kris, he reconstructs the last night he spent with his wife with the intent of capturing her real killer. Ex mobster, Jake Garfield is released from prison and two attempts are made on his life. His nephew, Tim Stone, asks the Angels to investigate. Feeling he was framed, Jake wants to go after racketeer Lawrence Renaldi. His motive is revenge – revenge for the death of his wife. The official story is that Jake killed Rosemary out of jealousy. Kris is assigned to guard Jake and immediately realizes that she and the dead woman are similar in many ways. Jake also notices and the similarities cause him to reminisce constantly about his dead wife. The mourning widower recreates Rosemary’s birthday party the night of the murder – including giving Kris a diamond necklace. Suddenly, the gangster Rinaldi is found dead, Murder investigator, Gordon Sanders, encounters Kris and Tim Stone on the run from the delirious Jake. To their surprise, they all learn that Sanders murdered Rosemary for the diamond necklace (which has been missing all the while). They subdue the murderer who confesses to the crime.

♡ Episode #22: Angels In Waiting – Bosley dares the Angels to find him in a game of hide and seek and meets a woman named Ellen. Bosely is in danger when a man he sent to prison is released on parole, but the Angels uncover the plot.  After being called predictable, Bosley becomes annoyed and challenges the Angels to a game of hide and seek and to see if they can figure out the clues to his whereabouts. He meets an attractive woman but unknown to Bosley, he is actually a target for a dangerous ex-con. Bosley meets attractive Ellen Miles and takes time off from work to get to know her, unaware that Lawrence Wellman, whom Charlie and Bosley helped send to prison years earlier, has been released and is now following Bosley for revenge. Bosley, before going to work, meets a woman and wants to spend time with her. So, he goes to the office and makes a bet with the girls if they can find him he’ll do all the work. So, he leaves and says he’ll call them to give them a hint of where he is. After he leaves Charlie calls telling them to tell Bosley that a man whom they helped send to prison a few years ago for killing his wife has been released and to be weary of the press. But what they don’t know is that the man is following Bosley. Bosley is called “predictable” and becoming annoyed, challenges the Angels to find him in a game of hide and seek. He meets an attractive woman named Ellen and escorts her to the beach. Then he calls in with a clue to his whereabouts. Suddenly two shots are fired at Bosley and Ellen but when they turn out to be blanks, he quickly assumes they are an Angel prank. He calls in another clue but discovers the Angels haven’t left the office. The girls become worried when informed that Arnold Wellman, a prisoner on parole, went to jail in the first place on Bosley’s testimony. Sabrina deciphers the clues and the Angels head for the beach. Ellen spikes Bosley’s drink and takes him for a “ride” as the gunman follows. He escapes on foot but is chased. The Angels intercept Ellen and the gunman who are brother and sister to Wellman their revenge motive is nipped in the nick of time.