Almost a decade later, Dan has been successfully able to avoid alcohol. Slowly, Dan joins Alcoholics Anonymous in an attempt to try and learn to control his addiction. In the years since Jack's death, Dan Torrance has grown into an alcoholic in his own right, mainly to try and suppress the abilities that his connection with the Shining bring into the real world.

Instead, he ends up freezing to death and being buried underneath snow and ice. Danny is able to escape the maze and reunite with his mother, while Jack never escapes the maze. But a clever trick by Danny lets him sneak away and lure Jack even further into the maze. Jack follows Danny and Wendy across the hotel grounds, eventually chasing Danny into the hotel's hedge maze. Wendy and Danny proved clever enough to avoid his wrath, although Jack manages to catch chef Dick Hollarann (who'd come back to the Hotel to help Danny) by surprise and kill him. Jack became increasingly unstable the longer he remained in the hotel and was eventually was convinced by the spirits to turn on his family and try to kill them. RELATED: Doctor Sleep Is a Visually Stunning Love Letter to The Shining Suddenly, he's greeted by the ghostly Lloyd the bartender, who pours him a drink. After Wendy accuses Jack of hurting Danny, he ends up at the empty hotel bar, where he jokingly offers to sell his soul for a single drink. A mix of the isolation and the spirits that haunt the hotel quickly prove to be too much for Jack's sanity.

As a recovering alcoholic who was in a bad place with his family, Jack took a job at the Overlook Hotel as the winter caretaker, where he could be close to his wife Wendy and their young son Danny. Whether they were aware of it or not, the Knot always had a connection to the place where Dan Torrance's life changed forever.Jack Torrance was the main character of The Shining, and Jack Nicholson famously portrayed the patriarch of the Torrance family in director Stanley Kubrick's famous adaptation of the Stephen King novel. One of these towns is Sidewinder, which just happens to be the nearest small town in Colorado to the Overlook Hotel. King also reveals that the Knot maintains certain 'company towns' as safe havens by controlling small business through shell corporations.

People don't tend to notice a bunch of older people making their way across the country, stopping at the occasional gas station or driving too slowly on the highway. They also prefer the nomadic lifestyle of retirees in RVs because it makes them inconspicuous when they're on the hunt. And when they feed, members of the True Knot can de-age rather dramatically, in a way that makes them look 20 years younger overnight. The True Knot are nomads for a number of reasons, in part because they'd attract attention if they ever stayed in one place, thanks to both their tendency to abduct children who shine and their strange aging process.

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