Man-Thing Page #3

Stupid, Jake.

- That's the main channels.

- I want to find Laroque first.

Getting dark, sir.

Just take me to the

deep swamp.

Okay.

Sh*t!

I hate this swamp.

If I don't fix this engine...

the battery'll die

and we'll lose the lights.

Well, I hope you can

fix it, Fraser.

Man, why isn't there

a manual for these things?

Too many things alive out here.

I'd like to remain one of them.

Where you running?

You made the coffee too strong.

My sh*t's boiling.

Get down wind, squeeze it off.

Don't want Sheriff

Cranky-Pants...

picking up your stink.

Believe me, it'll be quick.

F***ing swamp!

Sh*t!

You shat yourself?

Your whole self?

I fell in the mud, you scrotum.

Sure it wasn't your own mud?

I'm goddamn sick of your sh*t.

Oh, come on.

We're brothers, Rodney.

That's my job.

Well, get on with this job.

Let's go get us an Injun skull.

Mike Ploog.

Yeah, I met him.

- A weird guy.

- That's Ploog all right.

Moved here about 6 months ago

to a place in the swamp.

Says he saw the Loch Ness

monster when he was a boy.

- So, what's at Ploog's?

- He's got a couple of canoes.

We'll need them

if we want to get home.

or go deeper,

if that plan still stands.

What are you afraid of, Fraser?

The Dark Water.

Sacred land, man.

If I was Rene,

I'd be there.

And I can show you to the edge...

but badge or no badge,

that's as far as I'll go.

You really believe in all this?

When a man's chest

becomes an insect's palace...

when his eyes are gone,

his limbs ain't there no more...

when I'm so scared

I'd handcuff myself...

to keep from coming to work...

Yeah, I believe in that.

I believe I don't want to die,

Sheriff.

Rodney!

Rodney!

Rodney!

I can't see you!

Wait up!

Rodney!

Damn! Mud bank!

Get your sorry ass back here.

What's that?

Rodney!

Rodney!

What the...

Rodney!

There it is. That's Ploog's.

Hey Ploog!

Mike!

Mike, are you there?

It's Fraser.

It's locked.

Something's wrong.

Don't feel right.

You stay here, wait for Ploog.

I'll find Rene.

- Hey, what? Wait...

- Fraser...

I need you to wait here

in case I flush him out.

You can grab him.

If the Thibodeauxs come by

you can handle them.

Yeah Okay, Chief.

Keep your eyes open,

Fraser.

It's all good, Chief.

I'll be right here.

Okay. Smart, Kyle.

Take the By water job.

Get a tan.

Beer belly.

Lots of sun.

Get f***ing eaten alive.

Rene!

Wayne!

Goddamn it!

Make me turn my ass around,

come back just to look for you.

Son of a b*tch! Wayne!

Where are you at?

Wayne? Is that you?

Oh Jesus, Lord!

No Wayne, no!

What the hell happened to you?

Mike Ploog, is that you?

It's Deputy Fraser.

Now, no goddamn sneaking up,

do you hear?

Hey Ploog!

What the hell?

Mike!

Wait up!

Rene!

It's Sheriff Williams.

I just want to talk

A couple of rednecks out here

want to do a lot more than that.

Rene, I want to talk about

Ted Sallis.

Rene, What are you doing?

Joining the hunt, Sheriff?

Oh man.

Mike?

Is somebody there?

Hello?

I told you to go home.

If you're not who they say,

cut me down.

Who do they say I am?

That you're responsible

for people disappearing.

- No.

- Then who is?

Only the swamp knows.

- Not everyone's against you.

- Oh yeah?

Some say you're innocent.

- No one is innocent, Sheriff.

Especially not me.

I told Schist to buy

all the Indian swamp land...

So you sold out.

We had nothing.

I thought the money would help.

- What went wrong?

- Ted Sallis wouldn't sell.

I thought he did sell.

That man wouldn't have sold.

And he wouldn't have run.

Sallis was murdered?

After he disappeared.

Schist stuck a rig right in the

center of our sacred...

Dark Water.

Guardian won't stop

'til the oil does.

Horn said something's

out here.

We never once saw eye to eye but

Pete says prayers can stop it.

But I've got my own plans.

Run, or I'll kill you.

Rene!

Rene, wait!

Rene!

Hey Kyle, is that you?

- Kyle, over here.

- Fraser!

Man, it's good to see you.

Listen... Jesus!

Fraser!

- What the f*** are you doing?

- I'm taking pictures.

- I'm a photographer!

- Of Fraser's arm!

I tracked it through the swamp

like I've done for months.

This time I got so close.

What did you do to my Deputy?

Where's the rest of him?

Don't know.

His arm was there.

Shut up!

I've tried to get Big Foot.

A year in Nevada in Area 51.

I got zip, man, nothing.

But what I got tonight, man...

will streak your shorts.

We'll go to my shack, man.

I'll show you the pictures.

- F*** me.

- You know what?

That thing's probably

sniffing us out as we speak.

You show me.

Check this out, man.

What? By water by night.

Look closer, Sheriff.

Who killed Fraser?

F*** pictures!

Sheriff, take a closer look.

Come on, you'll see it.

It's like the nature of fear.

No, it's a trick.

- It's not possible.

- What?

I don't believe it.

What is that?

- That's a man.

- Yeah!

It's the man-thing, man!

All right... it's not perfect.

- But look at that thing!

- Pack your things.

It's evidence. Come with me

- No, I can't leave here.

- Yeah, you and all your crap...

or I'll cuff you and drag you

out on your ass!

Now!

Don't run, kids.

Carefully down the stairs.

Something is out there waiting.

Teri!

Hi. Is everything all right?

Fraser was killed in the swamp.

I need to see Pete Horn.

It was something he said.

I think he can help me.

Okay, to Pete.

Just give me a second, okay?

Kera, I need to talk with you.

Park here at the dump.

We have to walk in.

- Mary, we're here to see Pete.

- Hey Tery.

This is it.

I'm okay.

Pete? Pete, it's Teri.

Hi.

Please sit. I made tea.

- Thank you.

- You knew we'd be here?

It's good tea.

Pete... I need to ask you

about Rene Laroque.

He doesn't believe

Ted Sallis sold that land.

Not many who knew Ted do.

What about you?

Ted Sallis was my elder.

He knew this land was sacred.

When Schist took it...

drove his pumps into it...

ran his pipes through it...

it was the end.

Our stories will die with me.

Hey, come on.

Pete, listen to me.

You're not dying anytime soon.

Remember when I took you...

to the Dark Water as a child?

I remember I was scared.

Yes.

It is full of magic both light...

and dark.

Our most powerful

guardian spirit...

lives in the Dark Water.

It protects what our

ancestors called...

the nexus of all realities.

The guardian has become

very angry.

For the blood spilled...

it seeks blood.

Pete...

Look, I'm a cop.

I can't believe

in Indian spirits and magic.

What you believe doesn't matter.

You're not from this place.

You're not from any place.

Where's Ted Sallis, Pete?

- Is he killing people?

- Kyle!

With or without Rene?

I didn't bring you to do this.

Maybe he's in the swamp.

Maybe the swamp is in him.

Whoever or whatever is out

there I saw it.

What did you see?

I don't know.

You know what you saw.

- It has chosen who will die.

- Who will die, Pete?

Everyone.

Hey, Pete.

Come on, I'm sorry.

Sit down, okay?

- Is he okay?

- I don't know.

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