Vinny saw the man that had left the card and he chased him. It was as if the were playing an immense game of tag all over the Castle Apartment district, with Vinny chasing relentlessly but never catching up. Eventually the chase led back the the Castle Apartments. The man was racing up the stairs, and Vinny was finally beginning to draw closer. When Vinny was just about to grab the man's collar, the man pulled open the 13th floor doorway, slipped through, and closed it. When Vinny pulled to open the door, he felt the resistance of the lock, and Vinny woke up. Vinny looked at the clock, it was 6:30 which was fairly late. Vinny got up and made himself a cup of coffee, and stepped into the hallway to check for mail. What he saw when he opened the door made him drop the mug in his hand. There standing face to face with him was the man!

Vinny swung but hit nothing. So he swung again with the same result. This time Vinny knew he should have hit him, something was different about this man. "Who are you? What are you?" shouted Vinny. " "I'm a friend, and I've come to help you" said the man. By now Vinny had collected himself, but he still had a question, "Where is Laney?" The man replied, "My daughters on the 13th floor... Find her!" As soon as the man said this everything went black and Vinny collapsed in the hall.

When Vinny woke up, he was in his bed again. But he knew this last experience wasn't a dream because he was fully dressed including his coffee covered shoes. Vinny was still unsure about Laney's father, was he real, was he a ghost? But Vinny didn't linger on the thought because he had more pressing matters to attend to. Vinny was going to look for the 13th floor.

First he went to the elevator, but there was no button to press that would take him to 13, so he got off and went to the stairs. Starting on his floor five, Vinny headed up the stairs checking each floor looking for some kind of fluke. He got to the very top of the stair well and it just stopped at floor 12 as anyone would expect, there was no floor 13. Disappointed and kind of embarrassed that he had gone looking for a floor that he knew didn't exist, Vinny turned around and began to walk back down. Suddenly, Vinny heard a slam! He whipped back around and right next where the 12 floor sign was on the wall, a wooden step ladder had fallen and crashed on the floor. Vinny looked at it and then looked  up... there was a hatch...