![]() ![]() ![]() The lesson is received all too well, which leads us to the ending of Doctor Sleep. He’s come to teach him how to trap the dangerous ghosts who will stop at nothing to come and find him. ![]() You see, Dick is now also a ghost, having been killed at the Overlook, but he hasn’t come to feed off of Danny. Once he entered the hotel, Jack Torrance cut him down with an ax, killing him.Īnd yet, at the beginning of Doctor Sleep we see Dick talking to young Danny on a bench in the aftermath of the Shining events. Indeed, the opening of Doctor Sleep recaps the events of the end of The Shining, and if you’ll recall, young Danny called to Dick when his dad was going insane, which led Dick to venture up to the Overlook Hotel during the snowstorm. Since the fateful events of Danny’s childhood, he’s been trapping the Overlook ghosts in his mind-a trick that was taught to him by Dick Hallorann, who was played by Scatman Crothers in The Shining and who is played by Carl Lumbly in Doctor Sleep. Danny knows that Rose won’t stop coming after Abra, so he decides to lead her into a trap in the one place that just might be able to bring the vexing antagonist down: The Overlook Hotel.Īs Danny explains it, The Overlook Hotel is full of ghostly apparitions who feed off of those who have The Shining. So at this point in the film, all of Rose the Hat’s followers have been killed thanks to an ambush crafted by Danny, Abra, and Danny’s friend Billy ( Cliff Curtis), the latter of whom was tragically killed during said ambush. ![]()
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