Something I don't understand...

[MikeT]

If Dewey hid in the shadows and wound the clock.

Who was winding the clock for it to go "WRONG!" after he died?

[Dante]

I think he just wound the clock whenever it needed winding, and it didn't need winding for every time it struck. For example, the clock in this room needs winding on around a weekly basis, but not an hourly one.

And Dewey was exaggerating a little when he said he hid in the shadows. He could go anywhere if he just pretended Frank or even Ernest to be his identity (rather than being frank and earnest about his identity, ho ho). That's what happened when he gave Sunny the Vernacularly Fastened Door.

[lauren]

Good observation mike...Hmmmm another mystery that will most likely never be answered....

[jman]

I agree with Dante.

[Hooky]

I think that Frank and Ernest found out that their brother died, and if the clock somehow DID need winding in that short space of time, they would have done it themselves.

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miket said:

If Dewey hid in the shadows and wound the clock.

Who was winding the clock for it to go "WRONG!" after he died?

well, he had just wound it that night and clocks only need to be wound every 24 hours(mine does) and the hotel burned down less then 24 hours after he died.