Night Claws Page #2

- Cool.

I'm telling you Sheriff,

it's real bad timing for something

like this to happen in our town?

It's summer time, Joe.

We have the pumpkin festival

coming up and other things...

and the last thing we need

is this kind of publicity.

I know what that's

causing, Mr. Aldrich.

But I can't change the

timing of these things.

These things happen when they happen.

You know that.

I know, I know, Sheriff.

But you could possibly

avoid a disaster for us

by keeping it quiet and getting

it solved as quickly as possible.

I've got a bunch of body

parts down in the morgue

that used to be two teenagers.

This ain't gonna solve itself.

All I'm asking you to do,

is whatever you can...

to expedite things.

We normally get over a hundred

thousand visitors to this township...

during the festival, Sheriff.

We rely on that income.

The township needs it to survive.

I know that.

I've lived here over 25 years.

Look, why don't you just leave

me alone and let me do my job?

I'll do my very best to get

this over as soon as possible.

That's all I'm asking, Sheriff.

And please... try to keep

the press out of this.

I'll do my best.

Thank you, Sheriff.

And good day to you.

You too.

A**hole.

Excuse me... Sheriff Kelly?

Yes, that's me.

Hi, I'm Professor Sarah Evans from

the National Museum of Anthropology.

How do you do?

And how in the world did

you get wind of this so fast?

We have our ways, Sheriff.

I'm sure you do.

But I don't have

time for this right now.

I'm very busy.

Well my office has the full

backing of the President...

scientific board for the

discovery of new species.

And I'm afraid you gonna have

to make time for this Sheriff.

Okay.

What is it you want?

I want to see everything that

you have on last night's attack.

That makes two of us.

Come again...

I haven't seen

everything we've got yet.

You are welcome to tag

along if you'd like to.

But I'm warning you, if you get in

my way one time, you're out of here.

I don't care who's backing you up.

Do I make myself perfectly clear?

Yes, perfectly.

And may I say, I don't want to

hinder your investigation whatsoever

and I don't want you to

think of me that way, Sheriff.

Wonderful.

I'll do my best.

Come on.

Sheriff, man, the phone

has been hopping.

Everyone in these parts has been calling

to find out what happened last night.

And what have you been telling them?

I...

No comments... and don't

tell them anything else.

- Okay? You got it?

- Right.

Alright, just relax

and take care of it.

Sorry, Sheriff.

Hey, Sheriff, got darn here,

Ulrich's father on the phone...

He wants to know that we need

him to come in and identify the body.

Are you kidding?

No way.

Listen. Tell him that I'll come and

talk to him as soon as I can and...

just be kind with him.

Okay?

- You got it, sir.

- Right, take care of it.

Can I get you a cup of coffee,

or soda pop or something?

No, Sheriff, I'm fine, thanks.

Why don't you sit down and

tell me again why you're here.

I'm here to find out what

happened to those two kids last night.

Well, what you gonna do when

you find out that a person did it?

I mean, it's still in my jurisdiction.

Well, you see Sheriff,

that's where we differ.

I don't think a person did this.

Sheriff...

The um...

The coroner's ready

for you down the hall.

Who is this?

Hi, Professor Sarah Evans from

the National Museum of Anthropology.

Deputy Roberta Glickman,

Morningside Sheriff's Department.

A pleasure to meet you.

- Pleasure is mine. Sheriff?

- Yes.

The coroner is waiting for you.

Thank you, Deputy.

I suppose you want to go with me?

I hope you can handle this.

It's not going to be pretty.

Don't worry about me, Sheriff.

I'll be just fine.

I hope so.

- Hello Sheriff.

- Hi, hi.

I see you got someone coming with you. How

delightful. Absolutely delightful, yeah.

I'm Professor Sarah Evans,

how do you do?

Oh, Professor with the soft hands...

soft hands. I like that very much.

- I... I...

- Knock it off, doc!

Listen, I don't have time to waste.

Show me what you got.

Oh, yes. Okay.

Of course, of course.

Here we have...

... Sandy Sanders.

Oh, my God.

What could have done that doc?

Ooh... I really... have

no idea, sir. No idea.

You don't know what did it?

No, I...

I... I'm just a coroner not a butcher...

you know magician, magician.

Could a man have done it?

Yes, I mean... I suppose so. You

know if... or maybe he was on PCP.

You know... I bet if he had some sort

of a gardening tool as a weapon.

Is that the Ulrich boy over there?

Yes, that's him alright.

Come, come.

Come, come.

At least... well,

what's left of him, I mean.

Not much, I'm saying...

Not much.

No man did this.

Oh, very observant, Professor.

Brains and beauty.

That's a dangerous combination.

But... you are right, Professor.

No man did this because...

no man could do this.

Because no man is

strong enough... to do this.

Wait... here.

His feet were... literally

torn off his... legs

and... his head.

His head was torn off as well.

So no man could have done this?

Oh no... Oh no no no.

No chance. No chance.

What about an animal, doc?

Oh, yeah... I mean...

Perhaps well I think of it

I mean, there are animals that,

right are strong enough to do this.

Well, bears for instance.

You know, almost all documented

reports of bear attacks on humans...

include them eating their prey.

Or at least some portion of it.

And well, it would appear to me that

whatever did this was not

interested in eating at all.

It's interested only in

cornage... carnage.

Well, Deputy Roberta found some long

brown animal hair at the crime scene.

It must be some kind of animal.

Were they long, very thick, coarse

hair with a foul odor to them?

Yes exactly.

How would you know that?

Ooh, it seems our lovely Professor

knows more about this than we do.

If you have something to tell us,

it's no time like the present.

"Sasquatch"

Oh... oh...

"Sasquatch"

What?

"Sasquatch", "Yeti"

"Abominable Snowman"

"Big Foot" whatever you want to call it.

That's what did this.

That's not real!

Come on! That's something

that they used to...

scare kids around the campfire!

- Right, doc?

- I don't know.

It could be real...

I mean, we haven't proven

it yet, but we're very close.

I mean, there's been a lot of cases,

a lot like this very recently.

- With this kind of mutilation?

- Yes.

Oh uh... Excuse me...

You know what?

Come with me.

- I think I have something to show you.

- What is it, doc?

There's something else you

should see... Something else.

In... fact I only thought of it because

our lovely professor mentioned "Big Foot".

That was taken from the crime scene?

Yes... Yes... That's what I was told.

Yes. Yes.

How big is it, Doc?

It's just over

18 inches... just over.

That would make the creature

about 10 to 13 feet tall.

- What?

- Precisely right, Professor.

Precisely right.

Ooh yes.

You means we have a 10 foot tall killer

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