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Butterfingers
Kingdom Hospital Peter and Mary team up to save a suicidal veteran baseball player from being banished to the Kingdom's subterranean spirit world.

Written by: Stephen King
Directed by: Craig Baxley

With most of the staff at Kingdom Hospital focussed on the New England Robins' World Series bid, former first baseman Earl "Error" Candleton is listening to the game with a gun to his head. Having never lived down his error that cost the Robins a championship in 1987, Earl has taken inspiration from the suicide of billionaire Benton Knight. He relives all the slights and humiliations suffered over the last fifteen years until a ninth inning Robins loss prompts him to pull the trigger.

While the staff comes to grips with the bitter disappointment of another Robins defeat, Earl is rushed to the hospital. Once Stegman removes the bullet from his skull, the unusual level of activity in Earl's brain prompts Lona to ask for chance to examine him in the lab. As Lona enlists Elmer in a scheme to go around Hook for the MRI, Mrs. Druse senses a disturbance in the hospital's supernatural forces, while in the decaying world beneath the Kingdom, Earl assumes that he's in Hell.

As his drawing of the baseball veteran leads Peter's spirit to join Mary's effort to save Candleton, the danger of the MRI prompts Mrs. Druse to try and stop it - even as Stegman authorizes the procedure. As Peter and Mary look for Earl, news of a previously undetected pacemaker that could pose a threat to his life sends Hook to try and stop the MRI.

With Mary and Peter facing off against Paul as he works to bring Candleton under his spell, a series of minor delays allow Hook to stop the MRI. And convincing Earl to follow them, Mary and Peter take him back in time and change history by erasing his game-losing error.


 

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