In the TV show, the twist reveals that most of the episode was part of a horror movie that Allison starred in. In the book, Alison and Ryan are both still acting like cats as they fight over a mouse. In the TV episode, he was destroyed by a wind-up mouse Allison had laced with a volatile chemical. In the book, Rip was killed by his own ghostly feline minions.In the television adaptation, Rip appears as ragged, hairless, and has wings. In the book, Rip looks like a normal cat.In the television episode, Allison did not decapitate the cat but instead ran it over with her bike.Alison's surname is changed from Moore to Rogers.In the episode, they are more bratty, Ryan more-so. In the book, Allison and Ryan were fairly nice kids.In the TV version, she's a teen actress starring in a low-budget horror movie of the same name.
In the book, Allison is an ordinary girl.
And how he'll be after Allison to compensate for his lost life. Allison knocks on the nearest house to apologize for the incident, but the mysterious girl who answers the girl warns that the supposedly dead pet was a nine-lived cat named Rip. But during her lunch break one day, as she rehearses her lines she runs over a cat with her bike. And she's taken the lead role in the low-budget film adaptation of the popular book Cry of the Cat, in hopes it'd be a much-needed boost to her acting career. Robert Young as Banacek (as Black Katt).