Jack is sitting in his chair, pouring over old invoices and papers when the boiler suddenly kicks on behind him, squealing, and clanking loudly. Jack looks at his watch and is terrified to see that he has not depressurized the boiler in nearly twelve hours. Remembering Watson's assurance that a forgotten boiler would explode at two hundred pounds psi, Jack runs to the boiler to find the gauge at two hundred ten pounds psi. As he prepares to depressurize, he suddenly thinks to himself that he should get Danny and Wendy, escape, and let the hotel explode. Following a visualization of the explosion, Jack's next thought is of suicide, and of a life insurance policy. Convinced that Wendy and Danny could make it out, Jack thinks to himself that this.....
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