VIII | The Wasps in the Window WellKOLCHAK DOES NOT QUIT. He digs, gets to the bottom of things.
It is late. He is watching a rerun of The Night Stalker on ABC, on his black and white TV in his bedroom. The episode is titled “The Sentry.” He is excited because the summary in TV Guide suggests that Kolchak encounters some kind of small tyrannosaur in an underground storage facility—a small tyrannosaur, for the Kid, meaning allosaur, no question. The show begins as usual with Kolchak entering an empty, darkened newsroom, whistling like the Kid’s father, tossing his hat onto the coat stand (which he always misses), and seating himself at a typewriter where he bangs out: DARREN MCGAVIN AS—then the title of the program. Then the clock and fan stop and he looks over his shoulder and the fra
