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The Bad Weather Friend

Dean Koontz

The Bad Weather Friend

Dean Koontz

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The Bad Weather Friend Part 2, Chapters 29-38 Summary & Analysis

Part 2: “Harper, Craggle, and Bugboy”

Part 2, Chapter 29 Summary: “Intimidation”

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, child death, and child abuse.

They enter Handy’s house and hear music coming from the kitchen. There, they find Handy dancing with Jill. Handy notices the intruders first and stutters. Jill turns and glares at Benny, accusing him of being a stalker. Benny is stunned by her transformation into something ugly and cruel, but Harper comes to his defense.

Handy picks up a heavy cast-iron skillet, warning Benny that he does not want to hurt him. Exasperated, Jill takes the skillet from Handy. Spike warns her not to do anything, but she brandishes it at him, unafraid. Spike “sidelines” her just as he did Bob and then takes the skillet from her frozen hand and folds it like origami paper. He tells Handy that he has a few questions.

Part 2, Chapter 30 Summary: “Spike’s Folding of the Skillet Reminds Benny of Mengistu Gidada”

After seeing the mutated Prescott, the boys sit in the dorm room. Jurgen thinks that Prescott is too much for them to handle. He wants to contact the police, but Mengistu says that the police will not believe them. Jurgen concludes that in horror movies, whenever there is a lab full of monsters or aliens, “[i]t has to end in fire, everything and everybody is burned up” (170).

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