"[waves] [swings creaking] [shutter banging] [child laughing]" "[footsteps] [flame sizzling]" "What're we looking at?" "That." "Is that a hornet's nest?" "Yeah." "I've never see one up close." "What are you nuts?" "Ah, don't be a weenie, it's been up there for months." "It's empty." "What're you doin'?" "I'm trying to knock down that hornet's nest." "Oh yeah?" "That's a big..." "WHAT?" "Just... stop, alright?" "Stop what?" "Hey, isn't that a...?" "I..." "I warned you man!" "Chickens!" "Nothing's gonna happen!" "You better not have that thing with you!" "What if I did?" "I'd make you SIT on it!" "You're just scared..." "Quinn!" "You got a story?" "Yeah, I got a story." "It's about messin' with things that shouldn't be messed with." "Like a hornet's nest?" "Worse." "Like..." "life and death." "Sometimes things are the way they are for a reason." "And if you try to change that, you're gonna get burned." "If there's one thing the people in my story learned, it's that if you go lookin' for trouble, chances are..." "you're gonna find it." "Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society," "I call this story..." "Mr. Doyle!" "Just in time!" "What do you think?" "Mr. Doyle?" "What?" "Oh, Julie, I'm sorry." "My mind is somewhere else." "Any problems?" "Yeah, actually." "Well, good, good, good." "I'm gonna be in my workshop." "Don't disturb me, alright?" "Well, what happened to these plants they're... dead." "Are you sure she's even working today?" "My sister works here every day." "Julie!" "?" "You here?" "!" "?" "Ah..." "Yuck." "Julie?" "[alarm buzzes]" "Peter!" "You'll never believe what I just saw!" "Oh." "Hi Jake." "Hey." "What did you see?" "Oh, right!" "Downstairs, in Mr. Doyle's workshop." "He took blue stuff and dripped it on his plant and it started coming back to life and moving around like a spider monster or something!" "It was unbelievable!" "Oh!" "Huh... okay I get it." "You do?" "Yeah!" "April Fools, right?" "No!" "No I ..." "That's the weakest April Fools Joke I've ever heard." "It's so lame I thought there's no way that could be an April Fool's joke." "That's how bad it was." "It's no joke..." "Nice try, Jules." "Yeah, anyway, Mom and Dad are going out." "Pizza, alright?" "Yeah, sure." "Extra cheese, half pepperoni, half... spider monster plants." "See you later." "Peter!" "PETER!" "[tapping]" "We're closed!" "[tapping, banging]" "Mr. Doyle, there's somebody at the door." "Mr. Doyle?" "AHHHHHH!" "AHHHHHH!" "Don't hurt me!" "Please don't..." "Ah!" "Leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "AHHHHHH!" "April Fools!" "Hahhahha!" "I'm sorry Jules, he made me do it." "You creeps!" "Hey, just getting you back." "For what?" "For trying to fool us with that monster plant story." "You're gonna do April Fools?" "Do it right." "It's not a joke!" "I'll show you." "Would you just give it up, you're way out of your league." "C'mon Jake." "Look just, huh, let it go alright?" "We were joking around." "But I can prove it!" "And you ruined my Bonsai tree!" "Mr. Doyle?" "Mrs. Doyle." "[door slams upstairs]" "And why didn't you tell me you were interested in my experiments?" "Well, you've been kinda" " I mean, things have been kinda..." "weird." "And the motion-detector..." "C'mon." "If you're that interested, I'll show you." "I know the rigged door is a little much, but you see I don't want my competitors knowing what I'm up to." "I'm really embarrassed." "Don't be." "All you had to do was ask." "Okay..." "what are you doing down here?" "An experiment." "You could call it kind of a super fertilizer." "Just watch." "You see when the chemical touches the dead cells, it stimulates the nuclei to create DNA." "It's..." "coming back to life!" "Yes it's reanimating." "Un-real!" "Now look at that." "It's like it knows what's helping it regenerate." "What's the gooey stuff?" "Hum?" "Oh!" "That's a harmless by-product." "If..." "If you can reanimate plants, can you reanimate other things?" "It's late." "Time to go." "I'll see you after school tomorrow?" "Right... after school tomorrow." "G'night!" "Peter please be home." "Peter!" "It's me." "You gotta come back to the shop." "I know, but it's that stuff I told you about, it works, it's real!" "It brings stuff back from the dead!" "And I think..." "I think Mr. Doyle's gonna try and use it on his wife." "Cuz she died last year." "I'm only goin' along with this cuz I cut up your little tree." "I'm telling you, he's got this like... shrine to his wife." "She died?" "About a year ago." "And that stuff I told you about, it regenerates DNA." "I'm telling you, he's gonna do it!" "He's gonna bring his wife back from the dead!" "Huh, okay." "So, where's the punch line?" "See!" "?" "How'd you get him to play along...?" "Shhh!" "So much for your April Fools gag." "It's not a gag!" "This stuff really works!" "It brings stuff back from the dead!" "Okay, let's wake somebody up then!" "Nooo!" "Peter stop it!" ""In loving memory."?" "Nah!" ""Rest in peace." Nah!" "Peter stop!" "I'm serious!" "C'mon Pete, this isn't cool." ""May he be forgiven"?" "Sounds like a bad dude." "Don't!" "Rise and shine!" "Stop it." "Enough with this April Fools stuff, alright?" "It's getting too weird." "Well, she started it!" "Nothing's gonna happen." "It only works on plants." "There's no proof that... [tapping]" "Peter?" "Peter?" "What?" "Is... is..." "is Jake outside?" "What's a matter?" "There's, there's something outside the window." "[tapping]" "This is getting old." "Call us when the Pizza gets here." "Jake, I'm not April foolin' around." "Sure Jules." "Hey?" "Pizza guy?" "Okay, April Foo..." "AHHHHH!" "Peter!" "Jake!" "Ah, about time it got here, I'm starving." "No!" "Don't open it!" "Where is he?" "No, don't go out there!" "Hello!" "Pizza dude?" "It's not the pizza guy." "It's the guy from the grave that you poured that stuff on." "Would you a gimme a break!" "I don't think she's kidding." "I'M NOT!" "WOULD YOU GUYS LISTEN TO ME!" "THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!" "Don't YOU start too!" "I'm not falling for it." "Peter...she's not kidding." "What now?" "I'll just turn around and see..." "AHHHHHH!" "Oh man." "Oh man oh man!" "You didn't tell me this stuff actually worked!" "Yeah, yeah, she did." "Yeah, but... yeah but this is an April Fools joke!" "You keep telling yourself that, and in the meantime there's a zombie on the loose." ""May he be forgiven"." "And he's a bad Zombie too." "So what are we gonna do we do?" "Mr. Doyle!" "He'll know..." "What IS that?" "It's the gooh that..." "Ahhhh!" "Ahhhh!" "Ahhhh!" "It wants the liquid!" "It's what's keeping him alive!" "So give it to him!" "No!" "Okay, okay!" "Slow down, slow down!" "It's not coming." "She's right you know." "We can't just give it the stuff, we gotta stop it." "So let's find your boss then." "Water." "Yeah, so?" "That's how Mr. Doyle killed the plant." "He poured water on it!" "Cold water, from the freezer." "Alright, so all we gotta do is get the Zombie to step in this puddle." "Right?" "I think we need a little bit more water than that." "Is there a hose at Mr. Doyle's?" "Yeah!" "And it's freezing cold out here." "Okay c'mon!" "Okay, where's the faucet?" "On the side." "Alright, I got it." "What if dead-boy doesn't come?" "He'll come, alright." "Come... and... get it." "A little water please!" "?" "!" "I'm trying!" "Maybe it doesn't know where we are." "It knows." "This is what you want, isn't it?" "OKAY YOU'RE ON!" "NO WE'RE NOT!" "HUH, HANG ON!" "COME ON MAN!" "OKAY YOU GOT IT!" "Pff..." "What took you so long?" "Easy man!" "We got him, didn't we?" "Aaahhh!" "Ahhh!" "Why didn't it work?" "I don't know!" "All he did was take some cold water from the freezer." "He went inside..." "Took out some ice cold water..." "Uh, Julie?" "You ever look in here?" "Hot!" "It's a hotbox!" "It wasn't cold water, it was hot water that killed the chemicals!" "Great." "So all we have do is wait around till next summer... [bang]" "Someone needs to hide inside the hotbox." "I'll do that!" "As soon as the Zombie comes in here, lure him inside." "Jake and I'll hide and close the door behind you." "WHAT?" "WITH ME INSIDE?" "The heat should stop him." "Should?" "No!" "Watch out for the laser beam!" "Peter!" "Lead it into the hotbox!" "Pete!" "The Hotbox!" "Ahhhhh!" "What's going on?" "!" "I think I'm gonna puke." "Oh no!" "What have I done?" "I'm sorry Mr. Doyle, this is my fault." "No." "This is MY fault." "It's wrong to meddle with fate." "This experiment is over." "I gotta tell you, when I saw that costume," "I thought I was history." "Yeah." "That was pretty cool Jules." "And you know what that means?" "What?" "I got you last." "April Fools!" "The end." "Good one." "Was good." "I declare this meeting of The Midnight Society, closed." "I'm gonna get that nest." "Wait." "What's that?" "[buzzing]" "It's the fire." "No." "It sounds like... like bees." "The nest!" "Mad bees!" "RUN!" "Wait!" "That's where the nest is!" "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!"