The evil Jack has just wiped out Bod's entire family. He creeps up to the little toddler's bedroom with the express intention of finishing the job. As he stealthily tiptoes his way through the bedroom, this vicious killer can make out the shape of a child in the crib, its head, limbs, and torso lit up by the gleaming moonlight.
Just as he's about to plunge his bloody knife into the helpless wain's chest, Jack suddenly realizes that this isn't a child after all; it's a teddy bear. Jack's sense of smell is evidently stronger than his eyesight, for he can smell the child's distinctive scent, which he follows down the stairs and on through the middle of the house.
Much to Jack's chagrin, the baby has escaped. But how? Ever since he learned to walk, Bod has been an inveterate wanderer, forever climbing up things and getting into and out of them. And it's those wandering skills of his that will save Bod from the evil clutches of the man Jack.
On that fateful night when Jack came to murder his family, Bod had been woken by the sound of something on the floor beneath him falling with a crash. Once awake, he quickly became bored, and so to occupy himself he made the effort to escape from his crib. He did this by using his teddy bear as a step to help him climb over the high railing. Once he was out of the crib, the was able to make his way out of the bedroom and down the stairs, putting himself out of harm's way as Jack went about his grisly business.
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