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Afterward, Elaine tracks down Peddler at a homeless encampment in the Belmont Tunnel, but he refuses to explain where he got his boots and threatens to smash her head in with a metal pipe if she does not leave. With this evidence, she convinces Detective Madden to visit the tunnel to question Peddler. However, Madden only finds a box filled with burned clothing. He considers the case closed and urges Elaine to quit bothering him. | Afterward, Elaine tracks down Peddler at a homeless encampment in the Belmont Tunnel, but he refuses to explain where he got his boots and threatens to smash her head in with a metal pipe if she does not leave. With this evidence, she convinces Detective Madden to visit the tunnel to question Peddler. However, Madden only finds a box filled with burned clothing. He considers the case closed and urges Elaine to quit bothering him. | ||
During breakfast with Dr. Lanier, he suggests that Elaine check the hotel's furnace to see if the clothes were stolen from the garbage. While there, she witnesses Letti Gordon invite Peddler into the hotel for a meal, but despite running into the kitchen behind them, Peddler disappears, having been | During breakfast with Dr. Lanier, he suggests that Elaine check the hotel's furnace to see if the clothes were stolen from the garbage. While there, she witnesses Letti Gordon invite Peddler into the hotel for a meal, but despite running into the kitchen behind them, Peddler disappears, having been taken up to the 13th floor by Letti, who used a secret knob to cause the elevator to stop at the otherwise hidden floor. Peddler is murdered after Letti shoves him out of the elevator onto the floor. | ||
Elaine begins looking into the history of the hotel and discovers that in 1900, Avery Block, the leader of a [[Satanism|Satanic]] cult, took a fire axe from the wall and murdered 16 people seemingly at random. He believed he could achieve immortality by killing 16 people on the 13th floor of the Wessex because the | Elaine begins looking into the history of the hotel and discovers that in 1900, Avery Block, the leader of a [[Satanism|Satanic]] cult, took a fire axe from the wall and murdered 16 people seemingly at random. He believed he could achieve immortality by killing 16 people on the 13th floor of the Wessex because the 13th floor was a gateway to [[Hell]]. Block was never captured and after the murders, the hotel owner sealed the floor, going so far as to conceal its existence by constructing a decorative concrete frieze to cover the exterior windows around the outside of the building. | ||
After Gail Myers from the city engineer's office mysteriously disappears, Elaine partners with Detective Madden to successfully access the hidden 13th floor by stopping the elevator between floors and climbing through the hatch in the ceiling. Madden is quickly murdered and Elaine is forced to flee into the hotel as she is pursued by the other cult members including Letti. | After Gail Myers from the city engineer's office mysteriously disappears, Elaine partners with Detective Madden to successfully access the hidden 13th floor by stopping the elevator between floors and climbing through the hatch in the ceiling. Madden is quickly murdered and Elaine is forced to flee into the hotel as she is pursued by the other cult members including Letti. | ||