Protesting hat she hardly knows him well enough to be married, she resolves o leave and spend a holiday week by herself at Lake Como to gather her thoughts ("just to know what I""m doing, just to be sure")."When he left for the men""s room, she revealed that she was a functioning alcoholic when she gulped down her first glass of Chardonnay while hurriedly ordering a second one from a startled waiter..." When she tried to flee outside, she found herself trapped inside the locked, dilapidated house with a duplicate entrance hallway.She discovered the cat that had saved her belonged to Ophelia Powers on Elm Street.She visited Ophelia whose home was filled with cats.The Catlady told her that the cat""s name was Midnight - an Egyptian Mau, "the rarest of breeds.Temple cats" with special powers.Patience realized that she couldn""t remember the previous day""s events, including her own murder, although she was surprised that she responded cat-like to catnip (and later enjoyed tuna fish straight from the can).Sanchez (Perla Walter) was reluctant about her leaving.Smoke poured from Chris"" van that was parked on the street, from the bong-smoking of two more hippie-like stoners inside:pothead Chuck (David Katims)his girlfriend Chili (Rachel Howard)Chris had invited her six friends to be guests at her two-story lakeside summer house, a property called Higgins Haven.