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...to give further details of the case.

It is believed that the indictment

is only one of a series

to be handed down as a result

of a special grand jury investigation.

Grave robbing in Texas is this hour's top news story.

An informant led officers

of the Muerto County Sheriff's Department

to a cemetery just outside the small rural Texas community

of Newt early this morning.

Officers there discovered what appeared to be

a grisly work of art,

the remains of a badly decomposed body

wired to a large monument.

A second body was found in a ditch

near the perimeter of the cemetery.

Subsequent investigation has revealed

at least a dozen empty crypts,

and it's feared more will turn up as the probe continues.

Deputies report that in some instances

only parts of a corpse had been removed;

the head or in some cases the extremities removed,

the remainder of the corpse left intact.

Evidence indicates the robberies have occurred

over a period of time.

Sheriff Jesus Maldonado

refused to give details of the ghoulish case

and said only that he did have strong evidence

linking the crime to elements outside the state.

Area residents have reportedly converged on the cemetery,

fearing the remains of relatives have been removed.

No suspects are in custody

as the investigation at the scene continues.

Oil storage units continue to burn out of control

at the huge Texaco refinery near the Texas-Louisiana border.

Three storage units exploded into flames during the night

killing at least three workers and injuring a dozen more.

Fire fighting units from three Texas cities

continue to battle the blaze

in an effort to confine 40 foot flames.

Smoke from the fire has reached Houston residents

some 60 miles to the south.

Health officials from San Francisco reluctantly admit

they may have a cholera epidemic on their hands.

Some 40 cases of the highly infectious disease

have been confirmed...

Houston police are puzzled over an outbreak of violence

apparently touched off by a suicide.

A young man reportedly angered by a local television blackout

of a sports event,

jumped from the 10th story window of his apartment.

A second man who allegedly threatened to leap to his death

from the same window but was restrained by police.

Witnesses to the incident reported...

...Was taken into custody.

She offered no explanation for the attack.

The Lieutenant was treated for minor wounds at

Ben Taub Hospital and released.

A 16 story building under construction in downtown Atlanta

collapsed today killing at least 29 persons.

The engineering firm responsible

for the structural design of the building

could offer no explanation of the collapse.

The local construction crew say

there was no logical reason for the collapse

and suspect sabotage.

Police in Gary, Indiana have been unable to identify

the bodies of a young man

and woman discovered by children...

...Stab wounds and their features carved away.

The man's genitals had been removed

and the police first identified the victims as two women.

Just stay right there.

You okay?

Franklin!

Ah!

Ah!

You okay?

I was...

Shit.

Okay...

This heat is just driving me crazy.

I don't know if I can take much more.

Listen, "The condition of retrogradation

is contrary or inharmonious to the regular direction

of actual movement in the zodiac

and is, in that respect, evil.

Hence, when malefic planets are in retrograde."

And Saturn's malefic, okay.

"Their maleficence is increased."

Have you been doing those Reader's Digest

word power columns again?

Jerry, it just means that Saturn's a bad influence.

It's just particularly a bad influence now

because it's in retrograde.

Hey, man, you believe all that stuff

your old lady's hawkin' me?

I don't know.

My granddaddy's buried here.

Could we find out if anything happened to him?

What's your granddaddy's name?

Honey, that big heavy feller

that's standing with that flashlight in his hand,

that's the Sheriff.

You go tell him your granddaddy's buried in there.

- Okay. - He'll let you in.

Thank you.

Say, fella, I'm going to run off with your girl a minute.

You don't mind do you?

Honey, I'll get you to the Sheriff. Come on.

Hey, folks, let us through here,

this girl's granddaddy's buried here.

Been in there the whole time, unbeknownst to Clyde.

Clyde didn't know either. They didn't know why...

Things happen hereabout

they don't tell about.

I see things.

You see,

they say it's just an old man talking.

You laugh at an old man.

There's them that laughs and knows better.

Yes, they're sure.

The man said they could tell if the grave had been dug up.

Franklin, don't worry,

I saw it myself.

It didn't look dug up to me.

Oh, what's that?

What smells?

What is that stench?

Roll up the window.

Hey...

that's the old slaughterhouse.

That's where grandpa used to sell his cattle.

Hey, we got an uncle

that works at one of those places outside of Ft. Worth.

Hey, you see those buildings there?

That's where they kill them.

They bash them in the head with a big sledgehammer.

Oh, that's awful.

It usually wouldn't kill 'em on the first lick.

I mean, they'd start squealing and freaking out and everything,

and they'd have to come up and bash 'em two or three times.

And then sometimes it wouldn't kill them.

I mean, they would skin them sometimes

even before they were even dead.

Oh, that's horrible.

People shouldn't kill animals for food.

Well, they don't do it like that anymore.

Now they got this big air gun

that shoots a bolt into their skull and then retracts it.

It's just "boom! Shhhp!"

It goes "boom! Shhhp!"

Franklin, I like meat. Please change the subject.

That's terrible but it's still going on.

Oh, man, it's hot in here.

Hitchhiker.

Should we pick him up?

Oh, yeah, man, pick him up, he'll asphyxiate out there.

What does he look like?

The son of a bitch is going to smell

just like the slaughterhouse.

Oh, give the guy a break. He can sit by Franklin.

What do you want to do?

- Oh, he's weird looking. - Pick him up, man.

No!

Well, I think we just picked up Dracula.

Where you headed, man?

South.

You work at that place?

Oh, no.

How did you get stuck way out here?

I was at the slaughterhouse.

I got an uncle that works at a slaughterhouse.

Hey, my, my brother worked there.

My, my grandfather, too.

My family's always been in meat.

A whole family of Dracula's.

Hey, man, did you go in that slaughter room

or whatever they call it?

The place where they shoot the cattle in the head

with that big air gun thing?

Oh, that, that... that gun's no good.

I was in there once with my uncle.

The old way... with a sledge!

See, that was better.

They died better that way.

How come? I thought the gun was better?

Oh, no, no.

With the new way, people are put out of jobs.

You do that?

Look.

I was the killer!

Damn.

Let me see them.

They don't send the heads away.

You took these, huh?

Yeah.

Franklin!

See, they make... head cheese.

They...

they take the head and they boil it,

except for the tongue,

and they scrape all the flesh away from the bone.

They, they use everything, they don't throw nothing way.

They use the jowls and the muscles

and the eyes and the ligaments and everything.

- Oh. - Look at this.

The nose and the gums

and all the flesh and they boil it down

into a big jelly of fat.

Wow, I didn't know that's what was in that stuff.

It's really good.

You like it?

Oh, yeah, sure, I like it. It's good.

Oh, it sounds horrible.

Is it possible we could talk about something else?

Oh, you'd probably like it

if you didn't know what was in it.

No, I wouldn't and I wish you'd stop talking about it.

Oh.

Come on, Franklin, you're making everybody sick.

Oh, all right.

What are you doing?

Hey, man, put that knife up.

Oh, come on.

Oh, what are you doing to yourself?

Oh, my God! Why are you doing that?

Put the knife away.

I... I have this knife.

You can put that one away too.

It's a good knife.

I'm sure it is, man.

Put it up.

Hey, you took my picture.

Hey, you, you could take me to my house.

I live right off this road.

Well, I don't know, man,

we're in pretty much of a hurry.

How close is it?

It's real close.

Well, couldn't you just walk? I mean, if it's so close...

You could have dinner with us.

You like head cheese?

My brother makes it real good. You'll like it.

I think we better push on, man,

don't you, Jerry?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

It didn't turn out so good.

It's a nice picture.

- You can pay me now. - Huh?

Two dollars.

It's a good picture.

No, man.

Franklin, give him back the damn picture.

He wanted Franklin to pay him for that picture.

- You're kidding? - No, I'm serious.

What are you doing?

Hey, Jerry, pull us over!

Hey, man, what is that? What are you doing?

Hey man, what are you doing?

Ah, oh, my God!

Oh, I'm about half-ready to call a cop.

That's the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up.

Hey, listen to Franklin's horoscope.

Oh, Sally...

"Travel in the country,

long-range plans,

and upsetting persons around you

could make this a disturbing and unpredictable day.

The events in the world are not doing much either

to cheer one up."

That's just perfect.

Franklin, I think that'll be all right.

And now read Sally's.

- She's a Capricorn. - Okay.

Oh, no.

Capricorn's ruled by Saturn.

"There are moments when we cannot believe

that what is happening is really true.

Pinch yourself and you may find out that it is."

Okay, everybody out.

Hurry up so we can get goin'.

Here comes somebody.

How are you?

Would you fill her up, please?

I got no gas.

You're out of gas?

My tank's empty.

The transport won't be here until late this afternoon,

maybe not even until tomorrow morning.

I told you we should've stopped to get gas.

Hey, do you know where the old Franklin place is?

The old Franklin place?

Yeah, it's an old two-story rock house

and it's sitting up on a hill.

I think you have to turn on that road back there

but I'm not real sure.

Yeah,

maybe I seen something like that up that way.

Well, now look, you boys don't want to go

messin' around no old house.

Well, those things is dangerous. You're liable to get hurt.

We'll be careful.

You don't want to go fooling around other folks property.

Some folks don't like it and they don't mind showing you.

Oh, my father owns it.

That's your Daddy's place, huh?

Yeah.

Look, I got some good barbeque here.

Why don't you fellas stick around here awhile?

That transport will be by in a little while.

Well, you want to get some barbeque?

Them... them girls, now they,

they don't want to go messing around no old house.

It's best you stick around here.

You know, we should've asked him

if there's another gas station around.

Don't you think he would've told us if there was?

Man, it wouldn't hurt to ask, you know?

Okay, I'll go ask.

Damn it to hell, we should've stopped back there for gas.

- Press it. - I'm pulling it down.

Press it.

There.

Hey, you think this place has room service?

Franklin, you maniac, you're tearing up the van.

Oh, yeah, I just started doing that.

Hey, I bet that's some of that guy's blood.

Look at that. Look at that.

You think that's blood?

Yeah, I guess so.

Oh, that's blood all right.

And that guy cut the hell out of himself.

You think you could do that to yourself?

I'm not crazy.

Yeah, but you know...

It takes something, though.

I mean, just to do that to yourself like he did.

God!

Hey, you think I said something made him mad?

Well, what?

Franklin, you're crazier than he was.

Hey, I got us some barbeque.

Newt's the closest place to get gas.

Aw.

We're going out to Grandpa's place, aren't we?

Let's go.

Well, there's a creek, you could go swimming.

- Let's go. - Come on.

Come on, Sally, we're going out to Grandpa's place.

Let's go.

Hey, that guy smeared blood all over the van.

It looks like he was trying to write something.

What? What'd he do?

Did he write something on the van?

Let me see your knife.

Thank you.

Franklin, if we run out of gas

before we get back to that service station

you're towing us back in your chair.

Hey,

you think that guy's just trying to scare us by,

you know, blowing up my picture like that?

Aw, I wish they hadn't let the place fall apart.

It looks like the birthplace of Bela Lugosi.

- Hey, I'm scared. - I'll help you with that.

See that window over there...?

Hey, watch my arms, watch my arms.

Watch out, watch out. On this side.

- Come on down. - You got it?

- Hey. - I'll get you from here.

I wanna see that, that smear that guy made.

- Oh, man. - Now, that's weird.

I wonder if that means something.

It's the mark of Zorro. He's going to get you.

- Jerry, come on. - Kirk, why don't you wash it off, okay?

I want to show you the inside.

- Jerry! - Okay.

Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.

- Wait a minute. - Come on, Kirk.

Here, man, you wash it off.

Hey, you don't think that guy

would try and follow us, do you?

What for?

Where's my knife?

Kirk?

It looks like it must've been a nursery room or something.

- Oh, this is great. - Oh, this is my room.

I got to stay here once when I was eight years old.

Right after my grandmother died.

What happened?

What happened to my grandmother?

Yeah. She died.

What do you think of the wallpaper?

I think it's seen some better days, personally.

No, these animals used to talk me to sleep

when I was little kid.

- Look at the zebras, see? - Uh-huh.

I had these fascination for the zebras.

Sally!

Sally!

Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.

Hee, hee, hee, hee.

Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.

"Come on, Franklin. It's gonna be a fun trip."

If I have any more fun today,

I don't think I'm going to be able to take it.

Ah! Ow, that hurt!

Oh.

Hey, Franklin.

Hey, Franklin, how's your arm?

Didn't you say there was a swimming hole around here?

Yeah.

Well, Pam and I would like to go swimming, man.

There used to be a trail down between those two old sheds.

Come on, we'll find it.

Are Jerry and Sally going?

No. We'll see you in an hour or so.

Yeah...

We'll see you in about an hour or so.

Sally?

Sal--

Sally!

...Zero in the world.

Just shoot him and put us out of our misery.

There's snakes!

- There's spiders! - Stop it!

There's scorpions!

Man-eating lizards!

Kirk, help.

- Kirk! - Ow.

- Ow. - Oh.

Crap.

This must be it.

Oh, are you okay?

How the hell did Franklin ever get down here anyway?

Somebody must've carried him when he was little.

Franklin never was little.

Gasoline!

I can leave them my guitar,

you know, give 'em a couple bucks.

We got to come back by here anyway,

I can pick up my guitar and give him a couple more dollars

and bring him back some gas.

They don't want your guitar.

They're not going to want to sell us some gas.

Let's just go back now.

Hey, come here.

Come here and look at this.

A generator.

What?

A generator.

For electricity.

Hey, hello in there! Is anybody here?

Hello, is anybody home?

I got something for you.

Ah!

Oh.

Let's go!

Hello?

Hello?!

Hello?

Hey, Pam, come look at this.

Let's go!

Hello?

Is anybody home?

Hello?

Hey, Pam...

Hello?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Kirk?

Oh, God!

Kirk!

He's gonna get you, Franklin. He's coming to get you.

You don't think it means anything?

We'll protect you if he tries to get you.

I'll bet it's about me.

He's going to kill you, Franklin.

It probably doesn't mean anything, huh?

You worry too much.

Well, he couldn't find us anyway.

I mean, he doesn't even know our names.

I gave him your name, Franklin. I told him where you live.

I even gave him your zip code.

He's going to kill you.

Jerry.

What are you doing?

I can't find my knife.

That knife won't do you any good.

He likes that knife, remember?

When did you have it last?

Well, I didn't have it last.

You had it last.

I gave it to you, remember?

What did you do with it?

Well, I don't know. Didn't I give it back to you?

No, I didn't have it when I got out of the van.

You just never gave it back to me.

All right, I'll look for it.

Listen, I think I'll walk down to the creek

before it gets too dark.

How do I get there, Franklin?

Well, there's a trail down there between them two old sheds.

Can I go, too?

I think you better stay here.

All right.

I can't find it!

Are you mad at me?

No, I'm not mad at you.

You really are mad, huh?

Oh, I don't blame you.

I'm...

Kirk!

You really didn't want me to come, did you?

Oh, Franklin, I'm just tired.

It's been a long day.

Sally, did you believe in all that stuff

that Pam was telling about Saturn and retrograde

and all that?

I don't know.

Everything means something, I guess.

Yeah.

You don't think that guy would try and follow us, do you?

Well, I mean, there's no way that he could follow us.

He's probably afraid Kirk will kill him.

Sally?

What now?

Oh, nothing.

Never mind.

Kirk!

Hello?

Is anybody home?

Excuse me, I'm looking for some friends.

Hello?

Is anybody here?

Damn...

Kirk?

Are you guys in there?

Hey, guys, quit playing games.

Quit goofing on me.

Pam, is that you?

Okay, you guys.

Come on out.

Come on!

Kirk?

They must be lost.

They don't have a flashlight or anything.

If they're not back in a minute we've got to go look for them.

Well, well, what if we get lost, too?

Sally, we ought to go to that gas station and get help.

I'm not leaving here without Jerry.

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

- Jerry! - Jerry!

Hey!

They'll probably be back in a minute or so.

Sally, we ought to go to that gas station.

Sally?

I think we ought to go.

Are the keys in the van?

Could I see the flashlight for a minute?

What for?

Franklin, let me see the flashlight.

I'm gonna to go look for them. You don't have to go.

Now, Sally, don't go.

I don't think that's a good idea, Sally.

I don't think you ought to go.

Look, I'm going to honk the horn one more time.

Just give me the flashlight!

No, now, I'm...

I'm going to honk the horn

and we're going to wait a minute,

and then if they don't come, well, we'll go.

All right?

Sally, they took the keys.

- We don't have any keys. - Oh.

They took the keys with them.

Stop it!

Stop it!

Stop it! Franklin!

- Jerry took the keys with him. - Give me that flashlight!

No, Sally, we can't go!

Look, what if they came back and we weren't here?

Franklin, give me that flashlight!

No, I've got to take the flashlight.

- All right, all right. - I'm going to go look for them.

Give me that flashlight!

I'll go with you. I'll go with you, all right?

No, Sally, come on, I'll go with you.

Sally, I'll go with you

but I'm going to keep the flashlight.

Give me the flashlight!

Look, look, I'll go with you, I'll go with you.

I can't push you down that hill!

Sally, look, I know.

Oh!

Look, I'll go with you but I'm going to hold--

Never mind, I'll just go without it.

All right, all right. Sally, wait!

Sally, wait a minute! I'm coming with you.

Sally?

Hold up a minute now.

All right, let's go.

Let's go. I'll go with you.

Sally, I can't keep up with you.

Sally?

Sally, wait a minute.

Hold up.

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

- Jerry! - Jerry!

Wait.

I thought I heard something.

There's a light.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Oh.

It looks like a house.

Well, come on, push.

Come on, push.

Push down. There.

It's a house.

Yeah? I can't see it very well.

Oh, Franklin, this is impossible.

Come on, Sally.

Get back and push down.

This is impossible...

I hear something out there.

Look!

Hey, Jerry!

- Jerry! - Jerry!

Sally, I hear something. Stop.

Stop!

Somebody please!

Help!

Help me please!

Help me! Help me!

Help!

Help!

Please! Please! Please help me!

Please.

Help!

Help me!

Help!

Help!

Help! Help!

Help me!

Oh God help, help!

Close the door.

Whoa there, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, come over here. Whoa, whoa.

...Trying to kill me.

Help me

Whoa, now. You're all right, you're okay.

- Oh now, take it easy. - Call the police.

He might come...

Now what happened?

He, he killed...

Now, now, take it easy.

He killed Franklin.

I don't know. Call the police!

Take it easy.

And Jerry...

I, I don't, I don't know what happened to the others.

There's nobody out there now.

Come on.

Come on now, take it easy.

Come on, take it easy.

Oh, please...

What happened?

Please, call the police.

There's no phone here.

We... we have to, we have to drive over to Childress

Yeah, yeah.

Now, you take it easy.

Take it easy.

I'll get the truck.

Now, now, take it easy.

- Take it easy. - Don't go.

- Take it easy. - Don't go...

Area weather is expected

to continue warm and clear to party cloudy

for tomorrow with no chance of precipitation

in the immediate forecast

The high today is going to be in the upper 90s.

Expect a low tonight of 81 degrees.

Our current temperature is 96

with winds out of the southeast at three miles a hour.

Humidity 98, barometer at 29.9 and rising.

Acting on a tip from Clyde Haywood of Newt,

the Muerto County Sheriff's office

began an investigation early this morning

in the Muerto County Cemetery,

opening crypts and mausoleums

where there was evidence of tampering.

The Sheriff's deputies have found a reported dozen coffins

robbed of all or part of their contents.

According to Sheriff Jesus Maldonado there was instances

in which only the heads and extremities were removed

and others in which only a hand or foot had been removed,

with the remainder of the cadaver left intact.

Maldonado had hinted that he had information

linking the robberies to a large and well organized

west coast jewel theft ring.

He declined to suggest any reason

for them to mutilate the cadavers...

What are you doing?

Now, you ain't got no need to worry.

No!

Now, now, you just cooperate, young lady,

and we'll have no trouble.

Now, listen, this is...

What do you want?

Now, there's, no need to do that.

Nobody's going to hurt you.

No!

Had to lock up and get the lights.

Cost of electricity

is enough to drive a man out of business.

I hope you're not too uncomfortable down there.

You got nothing to worry about.

You, you just take it easy and we'll, we'll be there soon.

Now, now, now, now.

There's no, no need to do that, no.

We'll, we'll be over this in a bit.

Hang on...

Half-wits.

Little coon shits...

Come here, you nap-haired idiot!

Where have you been?

I've been out on the road.

You damn fool,

you almost got caught over at Newt.

No, no, they didn't see me.

They don't know nothing.

I told you to stay away from that graveyard!

Hey.

I told you and I told you,

I told you never to leave your brother alone, you...

Get, get at her and get that girl out of the car.

Get her, get her out of the car.

Get her out of there.

Hopefully your brother

didn't let any of those kids get away.

Get her in there.

We'll have the whole county out here.

Don't you got any self-respect?

Look what your brother did to the door!

Don't he got no, no pride in his home?

Get her in there.

You damn, fool, you!

You better get those damn other kids.

Where, where are they, huh?

You goddamn fool, you!

Oh!

I thought you was in a hurry!

Now, where are the kids?

Where are they? Show me!

None of 'em get away?

Uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh.

Are you sure?

Uh-huh! Uh-huh!

You...

You damn fool!

You ruined the door!

Hey, you did good.

She's a nice girl.

You nit-wit.

Get upstairs and get your Grandpa.

Now, young lady, you just,

you just take it easy there, now.

Look, we'll, we'll fix you some supper in a few minutes.

Get back in there!

Get in there!

Now, you just take it easy.

Take it easy.

We'll have you something to eat right away.

Hey!

Hey, Leatherface!

Give me a hand with Grandpa.

Careful.

Don't drop him.

Help me.

Look, Grandpa, look! Look!

Here, here!

Shut up!

Quiet!

You act like a pack of hounds.

We were just having fun.

You think this is a party?

Please...

You can make them stop.

No, he can't.

Shut your mouths.

Can't be helped, young lady.

- Oh, please... - Shut up!

You can't let them kill me.

Don't pay him no mind.

You like this face?

You're crazy!

You got to make them stop!

Please!

He's nothing. He's just a cook.

Shut up, you bitch hog.

Me and Leatherface do all the work.

He don't like it. Ain't that right?

You're just a cook!

Shut your mouth!

You don't understand nothing.

I understand you ain't nothing.

Me and him do all the work.

I, I just can't take no pleasure in killin'.

Well, there's just some things you got to do,

don't mean you have to like it.

Oh, please, please...

What do you want?

I'll do anything... anything...

I'll do... I'll do anything you want.

Make it stop!

No need to torture the poor girl.

You just shut up!

Remember you're just the cook

and me and him will handle this.

Then get on with it.

I won't have this.

We ain't in no hurry

because you ain't going no place.

No...

You hear me?

It heard you but it don't mean much.

No sense in waiting.

I got to open up in the morning.

I been... I been thinking about

letting Grandpa have some fun.

You always said he's the best.

Oh, he's the best, all right.

Let's let him have a whack.

Hey, Grandpa,

we going to let you have this one!

Let's let him have a whack.

Now you, you just hush.

It won't hurt none.

Why, old Grandpa is the best killer there ever was.

Why, it never took more than one lick, they say.

Why, he did sixty in five minutes once.

They say he could've done more if the hook and pull gang

could've gotten the beeves out of the way faster.

Now, now, now don't you cry none.

Old Grandpa's the best. It won't hurt a bit.

No! No!

No! No!

No! No! No! No!

Oh, please don't!

Please! Please!

Please don't!

No, no!

No!

Hit her, Grandpa.

Hit her, Grandpa.

Hit her.

Come on, Grandpa.

Hit her.

Hit that bitch.

Hit her, Grandpa. Come on.

No.

Come on there, Grandpa.

Come on, Grandpa, hit that bitch.

Careful there.

Come on, Grandpa.

You're the best, Grandpa, get her.

Get the hammer.

Go ahead, go ahead, get her.

Come on.

Give me the hammer I'll... I'll get her.

Get her, get her, Grandpa.

Give me that hammer.

I'll get her. Let me get her!

Help!

Help! Help!

Ah!

Go!

Go!