Ah, so now the last story is finally beginning to make sense (or at least as much sense as it's going to). Mark needed to save Rusty and the little spotted dog so that he could get the camera back in order to go and take a picture of whatever is killing the animals of Lost Forest (even though he didn't know that anything was killing the animals of Lost Forest at the time). Now, some people may say, "Hey Mark, why don't you take a gun instead? That way, if you run into anything dangerous out there, you'll be able to defend yourself." But you see, if he took the gun, he'd have to leave the camera behind, and I'm betting that somewhere deep inside, he's hoping that the culprit is a Sasquatch or some other kind of mythical forest beast, and that if he can get a non-out-of-focus picture, he can retire and live off of the fame that such a photograph would bring him. (Why, he could even open up a museum and give guided tours of the forest.)Getting back to the story, yes, mythical beast or not, I think that it would indeed be a good idea to know what's killing the animals. The thing that leaves me puzzled is that if Doc is so concerned about the animals dying, then why does he make that remark about finding out if it's serious or not? Wouldn't finding a lot of deceased animals all seeming to suffer from the same malady be serious? I think it would, but I'm not a naturalist or a scientist, so I shall leave the determination of danger to the experts. (Still, if I didn't know that it was a bunch of shadowy figures and a truck, I'd think that Mark Trail was about to go to battle with microscopic organisms, which would have led to many action packed montages of microscopes, slides, and sample collection. Oh, the excitement that could have been!)
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