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Every 23rd year, for 23 days, it gets to eat.

And the things it leaves behind, like the thing it left in Poho County that

night, the nightmare on four wheels, was a horror all its own.

Oh, don't get the thought.

Sergeant? Sergeant?

We got the truck open.

Goddamn slaughterhouse on wheels.

Police scanner.

It's been listening to us.

Whatever it is.

Some of this stuff, I don't want to know what it's made of.

Where the hell's that tow truck?

On route.

Corner's still down in the jail.

Should I get him up here?

Those are for sewing.

I don't want to know for what.

Get the goddamn thing in the impound.

God.

I don't believe it.

Jesus Christ, where the hell have you been?

How many of you lose tonight?

You hold it together and you answer me.

Three officers, an inmate down in the jail.

And then the kid.

The one he flew off with.

Name of Jerry.

His name was Jerry Jenner.

His sister's a train wreck. She's inside waiting for her folks. They're driving

in from Stillwater.

Where's the last place you saw him?

Don't touch that and stay back!

Show me.

We threw everything we had at it, Danny.

All the fire and manpower this building had to offer.

And it just made a whole lot of noise and flew off with exactly what it

Sheriff!

Don't you want to tell him that truck?

They just towed it out of here.

Oh, no, no, no, no!

Can't raise him.

They're not answering any frequency.

Where'd they take it? To impound. Where else? Jesus Christ, we couldn't leave it

sitting there. You saw what it did. We got to get Armando around that thing.

make it happen now.

Anybody, everybody, get on out there. Move fast.

Just a goddamn minute, Danny.

You tell me how the hell you know about any of this.

Because what happened here happened before.

You think that thing torched that church tonight because it wanted a campfire?

It was destroying information, trying to get rid of what it doesn't want us to

know. And that truck?

That truck is that thing's role in history. Which is why we get it in the

impound and tear it apart.

It ain't gonna make it to the impound.

Like a Rio.

An old Chevy cab over.

Cab over engine?

I'd say 1940s.

Cow catcher's got to be cussed.

You want to tell me what the hell a truck like that needs a cow catcher for?

You know what was inside that thing?

That wouldn't be your only question.

Dana, listen up. Listen good.

I'm sending units to you right now. Code 3.

Come again, Sergeant?

Just kill that rabbit!

Jesus Christ!

As a scent.

And I've seen that thing and hated it.

Like it could sample fear right out of the air.

Dispatch, this is Lang with the impound vehicle. Please respond.

That's how it picks what parts of us to eat. Captain, are you in range?

And it eats. This is Dana.

We have a situation with the impound vehicle.

To rebuild itself.

You hear that?

It's coming back.

Let's go!

in the same place for more than a day.

It's done with Boyle County.

All we can do now is head north and follow the birds.

It's not much, but it's all we know.

Ravens and crows, they travel.

I've looked that ugly thing eye to eye.

23 years ago.

I know it.

Why do you do this?

It hurts too much, seeing you like this. Mom, just listen, okay?

Time's up.

It's coming back, just like I said.

Why? Stop asking. It doesn't matter. You tell me why it's coming here.

Pieces of it left behind.

They're full of secrets about it.

That's what's buried up here?

There's no more time.

It's coming here, and you can't be here when it does.

How do you know it's coming? I'm a part of it now. How many times do I have to

tell you that?

It knows what's buried here, and it will come and take it back. Oh, killing you

wasn't enough.

Why didn't it take it 23 years ago? It ran out of time.

It always runs out of time. I can't keep telling you this.

If you won't leave to save yourself, then do it to save Addison.

Leave it where?

It knows it's here, Mom, because I'm a part of it, and it's a part of me.

tomorrow, or sometime soon, it is going to walk up this hill, and it is going to

dig this thing up right where I'm standing.

And when it comes, it'll kill anyone that's still here.

Go away, Mom.

Now.

Good morning, handsome.

Hey, hungry, buddy?

Gotta go talk to grandma.

I don't want to do it alone.

Grandma?

Are you okay?

I'm taking the truck into town.

We need hay.

Who's going to pay for it?

I was thinking maybe we still had some credit at Hook's.

She called again.

We owe them more than we can pay.

Cal did say that he... Grandma, no.

Addie. I already told you I'm not selling Rocket, Grandma.

Selling him would be like giving away my own child.

What a good mother might have to do so that child wouldn't go hungry.

I want you to go away for a few days.

Maybe stay with Gracie.

Why?

Can you?

Is there something that you don't want me here for?

Yes.

I'm expecting company.

You've got your team.

You got experienced men who know this thing. The team is more than law

enforcement.

The team are shopkeeps, farmers, anyone who's looked this thing eye to eye and

lived to tell about it and wants to do something about it.

Davis. Davis.

Hey, you're the best goddamn sharpshooter in all Poho County or any

county. You got questions about that, too, now?

When I raised my gun to that thing, I couldn't pull the goddamn trigger

I couldn't believe what the hell I was looking at.

This thing rewrites all the rules, Danny.

And going after it, it scares the hell out of me.

A brave man is either scared or he's a goddamn liar.

Michael. This is old man's truck.

It's an old Vulcan cannon.

She's amped up to shoot 20 million rounds.

6 ,000 rounds a minute.

You test this thing?

Mikey, is this thing tested?

This thing throws up a wall of fire.

A wall of fire that nothing from this world or the next can get through.

Not without being torn into a million pieces.

She may not fly, but this is our killing machine.

Davis!

He watched that thing fly down and punch a hole in his old man.

He stood there and watched it pull the heart right out of his daddy's chest and

swallowed it right before his eyes.

Miller was only 10 years old.

You're not losing your mind, Davis.

You just got bloodied last night.

Now you want to guess how much blood I got on my hands?

You've seen that thing now.

So you got blood on your hands too.

And no matter what you do, It's going to stay there whether you walk away

or not.

Rendezvous at Station 1.

Enough!

Gonna beg some hay off you?

Sure, stranger.

Our horses are up in Bolander.

You're not out there with Rocket winning trophies?

Can't even afford the gas to drive up there right now.

What's the matter?

Your grandma?

Yeah, she was up on the hill again this morning.

Screaming out the wind, calling it Kenny.

Didn't he die like 20 years ago?

You know you got a rabbit in the trap?

That's what it's there for. So it's suffering. You're just going to leave it

there?

Mom!

Mom, he's got a rabbit in the trap.

Hey, Addie. Long time no see.

Mom said they were eating up her garden.

I didn't say you should trap them.

You didn't say I shouldn't.

How's your grandma doing?

He doesn't care about the garden. He traps them because he likes killing

He's sick.

Do you even know he is? All right, stop.

And you take care of this before you leave, by which I mean let it go.

It's not in any pain.

Don't leave it in the trap. It's cruel, honey.

Stop!

It's a rabbit, Mom.

Do you know how small their brains are? Ten times bigger than yours?

Well, then you let it out. And I hope it bites you. It's a wild animal, idiot.

It's kill or be killed.

Just let it go and stop trapping them, okay?

You're all a bunch of women.

Kirk, get back here.

Tell him about the laws of jungle, will you, Addie?

Kirk, get out of the car and let it go.

What's on the hay barn?

Dad took what we had.

That's okay.

I'm on my way to Hook's anyway.

Oh, are you?

Yes, and shut up.

Buddy, Hooks has a huge crush on Addie, Mom.

But neither one of them are brave enough to do anything about it.

You wouldn't want to come with me to Hooks, would you?

And get in the way.

Do you like him or not?

He does have a really cute butt.

Idiot.

What the hell is that?

Somebody just ditched it out here?

Hell, I would.

What do you think's in it?

Rusting cow shit. What do you think, Simmons?

No way. Oh, hell no.

No way what? Look at that license plate.

Beating you?

Beating you in no fucking way.

Right.

No way. That story's bullshit.

No, no, I heard it really happened.

Yeah, I did too.

Real people disappeared.

20 years ago.

23, and it's just a story. What story?

The guy who drove around and ate people. In a scary -ass old truck with that

license plate.

Jeepers creepers.

What?

Wasn't that the song the guy sang or something?

Look, it's homemade.

At least one idiot every Halloween makes a license plate that says that.

You think it just drove in?

The tracks look fresh.

You think somebody could be in there?

Yeah.

It's warm.

Of course it's warm, you dipshit. It's been sitting out in the sun.

Who'd dump it out here?

Who wouldn't?

Hello? Can't see shit. Would say we beat it in case they come back.

Anybody in there?

Hey! Hello in there!

What the fuck is wrong with you, man?

What? I was just knocking. Well, don't.

Idiot.

What's this thing on the front?

What thing?

The thing I'm peeing on.

It's a cow catcher.

They put it on front of trains back in the old days.

Who'd put it on a truck?

This thing is made up of so many different parts.

It's like a freaking Frankenstein truck.

Man, I say we get the hell out of here.

Wait.

Break the windows first?

Hell yes, we do. We gotta kill Frankenstein's truck, right?

Ibs on the windshield.

Kiss my ass, you ugly old bitch!

You see that?

The thing tried to kill me, nicked my fucking ear.

Maybe tries to kill things more stupid than it.

What the hell?

Those can't be real.

Those flies are real.

That smell is real.

Hey, you.

You gonna be driving up to see us?

Go Wheaton Valley.

Right?

So, ten bales of alfalfa?

Right.

No grandma today, huh?

How's she doing?

You're not on the load list.

Uh -oh.

Do you want to talk to my dad?

Do you want me to?

I should put her on my load list.

You know why she lives with her grandma, right?

Addy couldn't get along with her stepdad, so instead of kicking him

mom ships her ass out here to live with her crazy grandma.

You really blame me, though? I mean, look at her.

Art wants what it wants, am I right?

Yeah.

And mine wants you to shut the fuck up.

So, um... I'm just gonna go to Carlin's and see if we have some credit out

there.

Hey, just wait a minute.

Bernardi, load it up and get it out there now. He's waiting for it.

What are you doing?

She loves that horse more than anything in the world.

And right now, it's got nothing to eat. Because they're broke.

You think we're ever going to see the money that they owe us? The state's not

even sending them checks anymore. And how do you know that?

Big down at the post office. How do you think?

Make your point, Dad.

You can do better.

That's my point.

some breakfast!

What's the problem?

I thought you said you had a hungry horse!

Get it out!

We gotta call someone!

Just get it the hell out! What do you want us to do? Alright, look, it's long

enough I can pull it out.

So shut up about the guy.

Pull like a son of a bitch. You guys ready?

One.

Two.

No! No!

So this is the famous rocket, huh?

He's a beauty.

You understand what I'm saying, don't you?

I don't know what you're saying.

Yeah?

Well, in that case, you think Daddy here would ever be interested in seeing a

guy like me?

In the city, my mother and I had a cat.

Addie.

I liked the cat.

Crapped in her boyfriend's shoes.

Every chance it got.

What happened to the boyfriend?

She married him.

And they got rid of the cat.

I'm not great at this.

And when I get nervous, I start talking too much.

Is that your grandmother?

Thank you for the hay, but please just go.

Okay.

You wouldn't want to come.

I mean, I gotta get the rest of this stuff up to Bernardi's. You ever been up

there?

It's really something.

I mean, only if you want to. I'd love to.

What are you doing?

I need to know what you found. Mom, what are you doing? And why I killed you for

it. No, you don't. You don't want to see what I'm going to show you.

Come on Galen, you out there?

I got a lot of units headed out to Station One.

What is that, a roll bar?

You reinforce this thing?

First time I met Galen was 23 years ago, on the worst night of her

life.

Her son Kenny and his date, Darla Cleway, disappeared on their way to the

All they found was a wrecked pickup and no bodies.

When Galen finally believed what happened to Kenny, she asked if she

the team.

That was the beginning for me.

Like last night was the beginning for you.

That looks like wildfire.

That's a $200 ,000 horse.

Yeah, and that looks like Nightmare with her.

What are they doing out? I don't know.

Where is everybody?

Get out of here.

And keep your eyes on the sky.

Do it.

Clock is going.

What's going on? I don't know.

There's men under that trailer.

Roll your window up.

What's happening?

Stop making noise.

Who's that with you?

Haddon and Brandon.

What's going on?

I got guns in the barn.

Guns? For what?

Do you think he can make a run for it?

I'd do it myself with my leg in this goddamn cane.

What about those guys under the truck?

They won't move.

They think they know this thing.

They got a name for it. Mr. Bernardi, what? Who are you hiding from? I don't.

we talking about? I dropped them out there somewhere.

Hello.

Galen!

Galen Brandon!

Ah, Galen!

Mrs. Brandon?

Galen?

I've been calling you.

What the hell's the matter?

It's here.

Is that what you came here to say?

If it's not, it will be.

What happened?

Just tell me one thing.

Did you bring something that can kill it?

He found it 23 years ago.

Then he... The

night before he died.

It fell from the sky.

He didn't tell me he took it home or that he hid it in the haystack.

The horses wouldn't stay in the barn with it.

Mom, get the horses.

He wouldn't say what was happening.

Mom, just get the horses.

He must have touched that thing.

And that was why he was so angry and frightened.

Maybe he thought he did.

I trapped him.

It's under there.

You see.

You see how it came to be.

Buddy.

What?

Do you see anything?

What?

There's knives and stuff on both sides.

Can you reach one that can cut your rope?

I tried.

But it's hard for me to move.

You think her dead kid came over the hill just wanting to tell her to vacate

premises? What if she's right?

What if we can learn that thing's secrets just by touching that piece of

flesh?

You're going to go over there and hold hands with it, aren't you? Just like she

did.

What do you think this is if it isn't a war?

One that absolutely won't stop until that damn thing doesn't exist anymore.

This thing gets away again.

I'm either going to be dead or too damn old next time.

What is the secret to what this thing is?

It's the secret of how to kill it.

Sometimes it comes back fast.

It's usually with another body, and you don't want to be here for that.

Kirk? No fucking way, Addy.

Don't.

My leg.

I can't walk on it.

Well, I could drag myself. Just get me out of this.

I checked.

They're dead.

He thinks I'm dead, too. And probably you.

Why aren't we?

I was passed out when he wrapped me and threw me in here.

But from what I could tell, I think he's in too big of a hurry to care if we are

or not.

Hey, well, let's get out of here. No!

Only he opens those. You try, it'll split you in two.

This whole fucking truck's a death trap.

Maybe this is fine.

Try the driver's door.

What do you think?

It just looks like a door handle.

There's a chain.

Should I try that?

Try what?

I don't know. Maybe it does something.

I think maybe the horn.

Try the door handle.

Sing a little prayer at that winding door, don't we?

Get behind him.

Get behind him.

Put

your

hands on him.

I know where you're going You

will come back

Danny?

I'm next.

Boss?

Are you out of your goddamn mind?

I'll do respect, Sergeant.

You stand down. You don't tell me to stand down. You don't know!

Not like us!

No takeaway in this.

And I mean upside down, still smoking. It's headed to the nine.

Who is this? That sheriff?

This is Team Leader Miller. We copy and are putting rubber to the road.

Maybe 15 minutes away.

No lights, no sirens.

This thing hits the nine. We're going to take it by surprise.

You and Brady, you come in from the east.

Miller, you and Jenkins, see if you can find a road that gets you in front of

it.

The point is to stay alive.

It's what your old man would have wanted.

You find Addie and the two of you get the hell out of here and don't come back

until I tell you different.

So you're just okay now?

I just saw you rolling around on the ground like you were having a brain

scramble. I can drive, Danny.

Danny!

Danny, God damn it! Move over and let me in there.

I got no idea.

Sheriff's up in Kissel says they can't even get a man down here.

Bud is really scaring me.

He's in some kind of shock or something, and he's not snapping out of it.

I'm getting ready to run him out the county now.

I couldn't hold on, Dad.

I let her go and now she's out there with that thing somewhere.

Sit.

I left her out there. Sit down.

I left her, Dad. Sit down and stop. Stop talking.

All I know is that the truck looks like it's been rolled. It's missing a

goddamn...

It's not about what I saw.

If I even know what that was.

It's just how much bigger it is.

How much older.

It's ancient.

Talk to me, Jackie, please!

Nothing! Damn nothing!

Holy Mary, Mother of God.

You son of a bitch.

Straight with me. Can we kill this thing?

You still a sharpshooter?

Bet your sweet ass I am.

Hang on!

Give me a call for that son of a bitch!

Take a turn around!

Mikey? Oh, come here, you big, ugly bastard!

Oh, my sweet heart!

Everything Richard says off that trunk!

Mikey, come in! Mikey, listen to me! That trunk has got to be fired off!

Straight at it, junkie! Go!

Mikey, come in.

Michael, don't shoot at the goddamn wall.

You ugly motherfucker!

Danny!

Cover me!

Davis!

Get down!

Don't give him what he wants.

Swallow your meal.

Don't give it to him.

You cover me as best you can.

Then you haul your ass out of here.

They can't get both of us if we split up.

Split up?

We both got to take him, Danny.

We need the firepower.

Bye.

Whatever you think you can do, you can't.

You're not gonna stop me.

So go away.

It took her, Mom.

It's got Addison now.

Where's Hattie?

Hattie?

Every 23rd spring, for 23 days, it gets to eat.

That's what we know.

And the terrible things it leaves in its wake?

Missing fathers and mothers.

Brothers.

Sisters.

Daughters and sons.

We know that too.

The creature reshapes our minds and changes the course of our lives.

What are you doing here?

They're picking me up here. I didn't miss them, did I?

They're picking you up here?

So I could say goodbye.

They don't care it's on the way.

Really, are you doing okay?

I'm out of the house.

Out in the sunshine.

Back with your old boyfriend, huh?

You say it's gone, you know?

You really believe it?

Gone for another 23 years?

I think we'll still be around here to find out.

Beep, beep.

Beep, beep.

Beep, beep.

I'm gonna worry about you.

I can't believe they're letting you go.

Last time we made it to the state, I don't think Armageddon will keep us from

going. Is that your dad talking?

I got family up in Bolander.

I might stay an extra day.

I'm gonna miss you.

Well, I'll miss you more, I'll bet.

You can hide my truck for me.

At the end of those 23 days, in an open field by a broken -down school bus, it

once again ran out of time at the rusty tip of a homemade harpoon.

But most of you know this already.

I record these words as a testament.

This 23rd spring is a call to arms.

We will not fail, and we will not fear.

My name is Trisha Jenner.

And this time when it comes, I will destroy the thing that killed my

So?

Come and get me, you son of a bitch.