Why is Mark repeating information that Cherry already heard “last night” when the three of them were discussing the horsehead, the actor, and the guidebook? Oh right, this recap is just a standard convention used to help readers who forget these details.

Call me crazy, but how lousy does a guidebook have to be to make somebody delirious and confused? Did the guidebook recommend eating whatever mushrooms you can find in the woods? How can somebody be so confused that they couldn’t walk down a path or two until they found somebody’s house, or even find the car they drove in on? I mean, starving in Lost Forest? C’mon! This ain’t the Alaskan wilderness.

Okay, I get it. These are just minor details about reality that get in the way of the story. Plot-wise, the bottom line here is that Mark is talking himself into another one of his crazy ideas for a project he’ll try to sell to Bill Ellis and finally earn some money.