I’m Dangerous Tonight

An ancient sacrificial altar is delivered to Dr. Jonas Wilson at Tiverton College. Inside the container is a corpse wearing a red cloak, hinting at a ritual purpose. The discovery foreshadows the cloak's ominous power.

Wilson dons the crimson cloak and unleashes violence, starting with the killing of a security guard. The act signals the cloak's chilling influence taking hold. The incident marks the first explicit violent consequence of the artifact.

We are later told that Wilson killed his wife before taking his own life. The tragedy completes the initial wave of violence surrounding the cloak. The event seals a grim arc around the artifact's reach.

Psychology professor Gordon Buchanan delivers a lecture on animism, honoring Wilson. He explains how garments used in rituals can be possessed to reveal the worst traits of wearers. The talk sets up the central theory that drives the plot.

Amy, whose parents are deceased, lives with her aunt Martha and cares for her invalid grandmother. Her caretaking duties create tension with her personal needs and later with the dress's temptations. The backstory establishes her vulnerability to occult influence.

Amy attends Wilson's estate sale and buys a school play trunk that contains the cloak. Upon handling the trunk, she experiences visions of Wilson's murders. The trunk becomes the conduit through which the haunting enters Amy's life.

Back at rehearsal, Eddie tries on the cloak and engages in a brutal swordfight with a fellow actor, leading to his dismissal. Amy brings the trunk and cloak back to the production. The power of the garment begins to influence others around her.

During the night, Amy awakens under the cloak's pull and fashions it into a dress. The transformation signals the cloak’s growing hold over her choices. The garment's influence tightens its grip on her life.

Amy attends the Easter dance wearing the new dress. She dances with Gloria's boyfriend, Mason, and they kiss, but when Mason removes the dress she is no longer under the spell and apologizes, leaving the dance. The episode demonstrates the dress's fluctuating control.

Amy's grandmother tries to wrestle the dress away and falls down the stairs, dying instantly. The tragedy seems to be a warning about the dress's power. The family is shaken by the sudden loss.

At the funeral, Gloria apologizes for her anger and asks to borrow the dress for a future proposal. Amy claims she disposed of it, but Gloria later finds the dress in Amy's closet. The dress resurfaces as a catalyst for further violence.

Gloria, believing Mason's proposal is imminent, dons the dress and murders him after learning of his draft. The fatal act escalates the carnage and expands who is prey to the garment's influence.

Amy and Eddie share a kiss in his car, but Gloria, driving Mason's truck, rammed them and a high-speed chase ensues. Gloria ultimately drives off a cliff and dies in a fiery crash. The escape from the dress's influence is thwarted.

Wanda Thatcher, the coroner's assistant, starts murdering after finding the dress. Amy finds Wanda's contact info in Wilson's animism book. Eddie later claims he murdered Wanda and forced Amy into the dress, which briefly returns power, prompting them to destroy the dress.

Captain Aikman reveals Wanda's death was due to a fall, not murder. Amy destroys the dress by placing it in a woodchipper and buries the remnants with Wanda at her grave. Buchanan later digs up the grave and uncovers the dress's remains, suggesting the threat may not be fully gone.