Jakes now taking his own lesson to heart.
Jake just happens to be right in time to do some good.
The Harry of 1960 is a long ways away from the hollow-eyed, slow-speaking janitor Jake knew.
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Mrs. Price is a God-fearing woman suspicious of Jakes writing-a-book cover story (arent most writers communists?)
Mrs. Price explains her strict payment requirements: $3 in advance.
Once again, Jake is delighted by pre-inflation 60s pricing.
When he was drunk, he was always mad.
Its these bros who finally summon Frank from the shadows.
Harrys father is surprisingly charismatic and unfazed by Jake asking for him.
He sits down at a table with Jake and his boisterous friends, Calvin and Dickey.
Jake chums up with Frank and pals the only way he knows how: quoting James Agee.
Like many a privileged hipster intellectual before him, Jake thinks this makes them more real somehow.
One of Franks buddies makes a crack about the Dunning patriarch sleeping on the couch.
Frank brushes him off, saying hes not divorced.
In the car, as Calvin and Dickey sleep, Frank interrogates Jakes cover story.
Frank asks what its called.Halloweentown, Jake replies, to much laughter.
Stephen King apparently isnt a big Disney Channel fan.
So classic Halloween fun.
Franks grandfather was a roving butcher, and his father worked in the slaughterhouse.
Neither of them had what Frank calls the worst job you could possibly have: working the hide cellar.
Incoming episode title alert!
Frank takes Jake to the kill floor, the room where the eponymous slaughtering happens.
For inspiration, Frank tells Jake to think of that bitch ex-wife of yours.
Jake ultimately declines to slaughter the innocent cow, which doesnt bode well.
Jake realizes this and decides to try a different route.
Back at the Price home, Jake ends up in a conversation with Mr. Price about his war service.
He asks Jake if he served.
Then Jake knows the truth, Mr. Price says: Theres no such thing as a war hero.
Mr. Price responds with the story of his Bronze Star.
Later, he found out his commanding officer nominated him for the Bronze Star.
Suddenly Franks at the door.
Frank tells Jake his favorite part about owning his own butcher shop is making his own rules.
Somewhat less conflicted about killing now, Jake runs to go buy a gun.
Jake can buy five guns for all she cares.
America: same as it ever was.
Jake has only Als experience to go off.
And this investigator thinks the past gave him cancer to stop him from interfering.
Its no cancer, but Jake does wake up Halloween morning with some disturbing food poisoning.
He pukes in the sink, bathed in the red lights that seem to indicate the past is angry.
He asks the befuddled clerk for Gatorade and then quickly settles for the 60s equivalent of cold medicine.
There, he runs into none other than Bill the bartender.
Bill, apparently, is on a mission, too.
so you can placate a knife-wielding Bill, Jake reveals hes from the future.
At first Jake thinks he may have interfered enough to stop it, but then Doris screams.
Frank went in the back door.
Now its Franks turn to be the person from the past telling Jake you shouldnt be here.
Frank slaps the gun away and takes a swing with his weapon, the slaughterhouse hammer.
The two men grapple back and forth as a terrified Doris looks on.
As Frank wrestles Jake to the ground, the time traveler screams at Doris to run.
She does, only to be replaced by her young son.
Frank lunges after him, and thats when Jake garrotes him from behind with a spare piece of rope.
Bill appears at the foot of the stairs just in time to see Jake earn his Bronze Star.
Jake walks out of the house, telling the Dunnings nothing more than dont go in the bedroom.
His bloodied visage scares the trick-or-treaters outside, who whisper among themselves about hearing shots fired.
Upon his return home, Mrs. Price asks Jake if she needs to call the sheriff.
Jake tells her that no matter what this looks like, I didnt do a bad thing.
Here, then, is a classic time travel paradox, this one about ethics rather than physics.
All theyd know is you just shot a baby.
Mrs. Prices religion is to Jakes benefit here, however.
Declaring that God will be the final judge, she sends Jake on his way.
Driving away, Jake is bothered by the literal and figurative blood on his hands.
Thats when Bill reappears.
Holding Jake at gunpoint, the erstwhile bartender holds up one of Jakes newspaper clippings of the Kennedy assassination.
What the hell is this?
he asks, then tells Jake to get in his car.
