3 Questions
What did The Shop agents want to do to Charlie and Andy?
Capture them and use their powers for the military
Who provided the couple with lunch at the farm?
Norma Manders
What did John Rainbird do to Dr. Wanless?
He killed him
Study Notes
- In 1969, a secret government agency called The Shop made experiments with a chemical drug called Lot Six. Lot Six altered the chromosomes on the test subjects, to experiment with psychokinetic powers, such as telekinesis.
- Two of the test subjects, Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson fell in love, and later married. They had a child, who they named Charlie, who was born with multiple abilities, including Pyrokinesis, the ability to start fires with her mind.
- Eight years later, Andy and Charlie flee across America, constantly looking for sanctuary from a group of government agents from The Shop, who are trying to find them, capture them, and harness their powers for the military.
- Charlie and Andy flee from New York to Albany hitching a ride in a taxi and later to a motel in Hastings Glen where they spend the night.
- With The Shop on their heels, Charlie and Andy leave the motel and hitch a ride provided by Irv Manders who promises to take them closer to St Johnsbury.
- Under the aliases, Roberta and Frank stay for lunch at the farm provided by Norma Manders. The couple already aware of the police search is suspicious whether Charlie may or may not have been held against her will by Andy. Irv, however, realizes there is a different story to it.
- But before he can be convinced by Andy, The Shop shows up at farm. Irv gets shot. To protect her father, Charlie sets The Shop agents on fire, the farm burning along with them.
- In Irvs Willys' Jeep, Charlie and Andy take off to Vermont. In Washington, John Rainbird extracts every piece of information out of Dr. Wanless about Charlie McGee. Then he kills him.
- Two days later Charlie and Andy arrive at the cottage in Tashmore Pond. The provisions untouched they settle down for the night. They even stay for winter where Andy crosses the frozen pond into the city to buy clothes and food.
- At the end of winter he decides its time to write to the newspapers. But The Shop gets to the letters first.
- Charlie finally escapes and tells her story to the public. John Rainbird and The Shop agents are eventually captured and killed.
Test your knowledge of the plot and events in Stephen King's novel Firestarter. Follow Charlie and Andy's journey as they flee from a secret government agency, The Shop, and harness their supernatural powers to survive.
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