leading to the upper level was a wooden spiral staircase in the far corner that looked for all the world as though it had been hand carved from a single tree trunk . `` i think i should go back to the hotel . '' dennis grabbed his car keys from the hook by the garage door . he closed the car door , then came back around and got behind the wheel . he incorrectly assumes that since i 'm from texas , i must be obsessed with `` walker , texas ranger . '' 