"1:13 AM" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Two

Ben returns to the Apollyon after his eventful first night in the evening shift with Mr. Nas and he tries to get answers out of Constance who, defensively, reminds that he never referred to their shared patient as a vegetable-- he has Lewy body dementia. He's perfectly able to move, he just so rarely does. Their job is just to make the man comfortable, and that's it.

In the other room, Mr. Phibes continues his work. Constance has Ben sit with a plate of cookies while she finishes her shift. He doesn't count the points on them, but each cookie bears thirteen.

Ben eavesdrops on the conversation taking place in the other room and overhears that Mr. Nas' bodily markers point to him having gained two years almost overnight. Mr. Phibes and Constance both seem thrilled by this news, as unreal as it may seem.

Answer: A tail

Once Constance's shift is over, Ben wheels Mr. Nas through the apartment to his nightly bath and places him in the tub, preparing for another awkward sponging in murky water. A closer look, bears some confounding changes to Mr. Nas though. In addition to a pair of small, bony protrusions emerging from the top of his skull, Mr. Nas' feet appear to have been replaced by cloven hooves beneath the surface, if only for a few moments. A tail splashes in the tub when Ben cleans the man's back, leaning him forward to finish the job.

When Ben looks closer, Mr. Nas turns to watch him and smiles.

Answer: Sunflower

When Ben puts Mr. Nas back into bed he takes the opportunity, with free rein of the apartment, to look around. None of it eases his mind, really. Once he starts photographing the paintings, relics, and oddities scattered throughout the floor, he starts noticing that anything not simply decrepit, old, and frightening is actually linked to the number thirteen. A quick check of his AI search links "The Last Supper" on the sitting room wall to the number (specifically the Judas figure); the sunflowers in a vase nearby connect to thirteen via the Fibonacci Sequence; the segments on a turtle's shell in the hall number thirteen.

It all leads to another panic attack as Ben's triskaidekaphobia flares up again. He takes out his inhaler while he eyes a sketch of the devil on another wall.

Answer: Clowns

At a clown school, an instructor leads their students to understand that the world needs the joy of clowns now more than ever. They tumble, they joke, they mime and they pratfall because it's important to pass those learnings down. Unfortunately for them, a new clown has arrived in their establishment-- Twisty.

The tall clown lets himself in despite the instructor's insistence that they do not accept late arrivals. When there's a continued refusal to allow him to join, he takes a pile of knives from his bag and kills everyone in the room. All thirteen of them.

But it appears to be a dream. Ben awakens from the nightmare as the clock on his laptop rolls over to 1:13:13.

Answer: An ulcer

In the middle of the night, Ben makes his way through the apartment following the sound of Mr. Nas' sounds of discomfort, and he finds the man standing next to the window in his sitting room. As he bares himself to the storm, Mr. Nas' cloak falls off his shoulders and it becomes apparent that his body is changing. Ben approaches from behind as Mr. Nas turns to face him, showing that the old man has been vomiting a copious amount blood.

When Constance arrives in the morning, Ben expresses his concern about the black blood, but Constance chalks it up to an old ulcer that never completely healed.

Answer: Candy striper

Constance almost seems to brush off Ben's worries entirely, sitting him down for a cup of sanka and reasoning that everything will be alright. She has to ask though-- in their time together, she's found out a lot about him and his life, but he's never asked her about hers.

She tells him without any real prompt that she started in the hospice business after her husband cheated on her with their maid. All of her children were growing up by that point, so she took matters into her own hands, opting to give back instead of mire herself. She went to Belle Reve Memorial Hospital, starting as a candy striper there, and she did that well.

But while she worked at Belle Reve, she saw plenty of men who, in their immense stress, exhibited the same symptoms as Mr. Nas. When they took Mr. Nas off some of his medications, this is what resulted. She says that before Ben's next shift, she'll give him a Pepto and see how it goes.

Answer: He's old

Although Ben takes Constance's story about others with the same symptoms at close-enough-to-face-value, he can't really explain the things that have appeared on his head. Constance laughs this off as well-- he's old! His prehistoric skull keeps shifting! "To live is to suffer," she acknowledges.

Constance concludes that back when she took the candy striper job, she had a motive to learn care and medical instruction, and it was because of her children. She admits to having been emotionally absent to them at the time, and she thought that taking care of them, or saving them, would change things.

Ben notes that he thought she said her children were thriving. She lied.

Before he leaves, Ben asks about her old maid. Constance is truthful about this. A bullet through her eyesocket made her see the error of her ways.

Answer: Tarot card

Ben has a video call with his boss at Sunset Hospice to discuss the oddity that is Mr. Nas since he's not put at ease by the recent events and discussions. He asks, specifically, to speak to his predecessor to better understand what's going on, but this isn't a possibility. As his boss discovers in the moment, Rosalyn Myers, who worked at the Apollyon before him, took her own life.

Over a reheated dinner, Ben watches a video of himself and Kira taken shortly before the plane crash, but he's interrupted by a news message on his phone. According to the report, thirteen were killed in a bloody massacre at a Los Angeles clown school. According to the police, the attack occurred at 10:13pm (1:13am on the east coast), and the killer, Twisty the Clown, left behind a tarot card bearing the number thirteen.

Answer: False

Dressed in a sequin gown, Constance beckons her daughter, Adelaide, to the window to look at the moon. The two share the moment and their love for one another with Constance admitting that it's wonderful to have her back in this mortal coil with her, despite all odds. Who knew, Constance says, that a little dirt nap would help her complexion?

Of all the children under Constance's care, she has to admit, Addy was the most aware of something. What Addy feels in this moment is that the moon is powerful. The pair of them work together, in spite of this wolf moon, to decorate a tree signifying thirteen days after the birthday of Jesus Christ-- the Epiphany and Rauhnacht.

Answer: Moira O'Hara

Ben stops by a bodega on his way back into work, scratching the black cat on the counter while he picks up a sandwich and an energy drink, and he decides to test his luck with a scratch ticket, letting the clerk pick one at random. When he scratches the card, he's somehow unsurprised to scratch three 13s. The cat next to him, howling, scratches his hand before he rushes out, leaving the winning ticket behind.

At Mr. Nas' apartment, guests seem to be appearing, all of whom would normally be fit for a cemetery instead of a celebration. While Kai Anderson puts an upside-down star on the tree, Constance's son, Tate, clad in the rubber fetish suit, holds the ladder still. As the elevator dings, Kai's sister, Winter, guides a mask-clad woman into the room. Constance appears to be expecting all the company.