Dewey says, "Were you using the flashlight or did you turn on the basement lights?"
The basement lights pulsed brighter, and then dimmed dark again.
Walked upstairs, turned off the basement light, locked the door out to the hallway.
Nothing then until a weak disc of yellow light through the open trap above as the basement lights came on.
He got most of them before the basement lights went out.
Jones tells him that the basement lights have to be on before the dishwasher will work.
The basement light went on automatically as the door was lifted and latched in place.
The trapdoor came up and the basement light came on.
He stepped to the wall, switched off the basement light, and still no illumination from upstairs.
"Look around you, Theresa," Jim had said after he'd snapped on the basement light.