Thursday, January 20, 2011

What plan does Miles have to free Mae from jail?

After Mae accidentally kills The Man in the Yellow Suit by hitting him with a shotgun, she is sentenced to death by hanging and imprisoned in the town jailhouse. Realizing that Mae's hanging--which won't actually result in her death--will reveal the secret of the Tucks' immortality once and for all, Miles develops a plan to free her...


Miles, who excels at carpentry, plans to take the window out of Mae's jail cell so that she can climb out through the open space after it gets dark. In order to fool  the constable (who will be patrolling the jail to make sure that all is well), Winnie volunteers to climb through the window and wrap herself up in a blanket in order to pose as Mae. Miles can then put the window back in the frame in order to make it look like nothing is wrong. This gives the Tucks extra time to escape from Treegap. 

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