
Margaret comes down to help him and manages to free him, but, while they are walking up the stairs of the basement, they find their father looking down at them.Ĭalmly, Dr. Casey is grabbed at the waist by two long plants tendrils. Suddenly, Casey remembers that he forgot his shirt and goes back to the basement to find it, only to hear the plants' breathing and groans. The kids decide they've seen enough and leave the basement at roughly the same time Dr. The plants seem to be beckoning the kids with their tendrils. The three kids begin to hear a breathing sound coming from several plants. Upon entering, they find a wide variety of gigantic green plants, some of which seem to be bearing fruits.ĭue to the intense humidity of the basement, Casey takes off his shirt and sets it down. Brewer to the airport, giving Margaret, Casey, and their friend, Diane an opportunity to go down into the basement and investigate Dr. Brewer is forced to travel to Tucson to visit her sister Eleanor, who has been hospitalized. When Margaret and Casey try to go down to the basement to see his works, their father, whose hand is bleeding, yells "Stay out of the basement!"

Brewer was a specialized botanist, but he was recently fired from his workplace. Brewer, to play with them, but he declines their invitation, as he has work to do in the basement. Margaret and Casey Brewer are playing Frisbee outside. Is it just part of their father's "harmless" experiment? Or has the basement turned into another little shop of horrors? In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and seedy. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. Especially when of the plants he is growing down there.

But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement.
