Friday the 13th/Jack-in-the-Box

Jack-in-the-Box
Season 3, Episode 17
Airdate	May 5, 1990
Written by	Dennis Foon
Directed by	David Winning
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Jack-in-the-Box is the seventeenth episode of the third season of Friday the 13th, and the sixty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Robey (Micki Foster), Steven Monarque (Johnny Ventura)

and Chris Wiggins (Jack Marshak)

Guest Stars: Wayne Best (Brock Garrett), Marsha Moreau (Megan Garrett)

with Lori Hallier (Helen), Alan C. Peterson (Mike Riley), Bonnie Beck (Sandra Baker), Jill Hennessy (Lifeguard), Earl Pastko (Merv), Ron Byrd (Rick)

Plot Overview

A friend of Micki's is killed. His daughter finds that he gave her a jack-in-the-box for her birthday. She discovers that playing it can drown people, briefly reuniting her with her father. She continues to use it to target those who killed him, despite his own warnings.

Notes

Manifest

• The Drowning Sailor's Jack-in-the-Box (recovered)

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• Johnny expresses sympathy for Megan in regards to the killing of his father ("The Prisoner") and his subsequent attempt at using a cursed object to bring him back ("Bad Penny").

• The final shot pans across the vault, showing some of the previous recovered items including the Cupid of Malek from "Cupid's Quiver", the lantern from "Bedazzled", the Cross of Fire from "Night Prey", the 18th century smoking pipe from "Pipe Dream", the pen from "Mightier Than the Sword", the monkey idols from "Year of the Monkey", the aspirator from "Epitaph for a Lonely Soul", the movie camera from "Scarlet Cinema", the Demonolator's sacrificial knife from "Demon Hunter", the doll from "The Inheritance", the porcelain cup from "A Cup of Time", and the Indian ceremonial rattle from "The Shaman's Apprentice"

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The tune the jack-in-the-box plays is the sea shanty "Drunken Sailor".

Goofs

• The Indian ceremonial rattle can be seen in the vault despite the last we heard of it, it was placed back in the burial cave to be guarded by shaman spirits.