Odd Thomas Page #6

you are not allowed to go playing

around in any more hell gates.

Next!

Oh, God. Cockroaches.

Always cockroaches.

- Odd Thomas, did you hear me?

- Which part?

I can't believe

you went back there.

Every time you don't listen to me,

you get yourself into trouble.

- I wish I'd listened to you.

- You get out of there right now.

Right, right. Leaving. Leaving.

Never heard you make that

sound before. Is everything okay?

- Yeah.

- What are you looking at?

Fingers.

Please say they're attached

to someone's hand.

Sorry.

Get out of there, Oddie.

Someone has been buying

a lot of Burke and Bailey's.

Yeah? Well, you tell whoever's

buying it that our ice cream...

may be the best,

but it'll still melt in hell.

- I'm calling the police.

- No.

No. Wait.

I'll leave here first.

Then I'll call 'em.

Be careful.

Don't worry.

Hey, Bob.

I guess when I began to out you,

word somehow spread...

and you became a liability to

your partner and he had to kill you.

Sorry about that.

I find it funny how I know more

about dead people than dead people.

This is our realm, Bob.

You can't physically harm

a living person.

But there is that.

Your call cannot be

completed as dialed.

Gas.

I'm exhausted, I'm lost,

and somewhere along the way...

I missed an important clue

that could take me home.

The bullet through the heart.

It wasn't about the chief.

God.

Enough already, Bob. Please.

My three least favorite words.

Some..

assembly...

required.

Simon, I've been dying to know

what that tattoo means.

Let's just say this tattoo

is a crude obscenity.

It's Varner.

I once had a run-in with

some devil worshipers.

I should've known.

P- O-D. Prince Of Darkness.

No wonder Varner was suspicious

when I told him...

Fungus Bob had gotten aggressive

with me an hour earlier.

This guy Bob Robertson

got aggressive with you?

He had already killed Bob

5 or 6 hours before that.

And that police van

protecting Stormy?

That must've been Varner

waiting to follow me home...

to bust me

for Fungus Bob's murder.

Or shoot me while resisting arrest.

There were no bodachs around Varner.

But I can still feel myself

being drawn to him...

and to the place where

he's about to commit mass murder.

GREEN MOON MALL:

Coconut cherry chocolate chunk.

Oh, God, no.

POLICE:

Hey, Nell,

I see what the problem is.

Stormy.

You are eating and

reading at the same time.

How about I eat and you read?

No? Not so good? Okay, fine.

All right, Varner, where are you?

SECURITY:

Fungus Bob didn't just

have one kill buddy.

He had two.

One more, and they could buy group

health insurance or form a rock band.

Officer Eckles is checking

that right now.

I don't know what this

Odd Thomas character knows...

but I know that Robertson

is stupid and careless...

and he's gonna get us nailed

if we don't do something.

Relax.

Did Robertson ever find those

photos at the mall he misplaced?

I said, relax.

I'll take care of him.

Stalking someone at the mall, Bern?

Robertson, that idiot.

We got to make it

look like an accident.

Oh, it'll look like

an accident all right.

When I find Robertson,

I'm gonna kill him.

Already been there, done that.

Looks like their plan was to jump

out at the end of the mall disaster

like heroes responding to the call.

But I never saw any bodachs

around Eckles, either.

The presence of the bodachs

tipped me off to Fungus Bob...

but not to his two co-conspirators,

which now seems...

intentional.

As if the bodachs knew of my gift,

as if they know I can see them.

The bodachs have been

manipulating me.

I'm gonna finish you off,

old man.

Four.

Well, that's just jiffy.

This just so happens

to be my very favorite book.

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

Officer Varner Prince of Darkness,

Officer Varner, Prince of Darkness.

Viola.

- Viola! What are you doing here?

- Odd! Geez!

- You scared the-

- What are you doing here?

We had to pick out

a birthday present for Levanna.

And Nicolina wanted to get

a card for her big sister.

Look, your dream, it's happening

right here, right now.

I thought in a big stadium or

at the water park or a bowling alley.

Ladies, I need you to take Viola

and get her out of here, okay?

Come on.

Come on, come on. Go on.

This made Dorothy so very angry...

that she picked up the bucket

of water that stood near...

and dashed it all over

the wicked witch.

And then the wicked witch said...

"I'm melting! I'm melting!"

There's suddenly lots

of flashing lights.

With old-fashioned kiddie music.

And then I hear a big crowd.

And then there's the sound of water,

gushing water.

Bye, Nell.

Bye, Stormy.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry!

Move, move. Excuse me!

A gun! He's got a gun!

Stormy and I are destined

to be together forever.

Gypsy Mummy gave us a card that

said so, for a single quarter...

what other couples couldn't

buy at any price.

No!

Get out of the way! Get off!

Hi.

Odd!

Odd!

It's not over.

It's not over.

It's not over. It's not over.

Hey Chief. What's with

the guy who shot the dogs?

His names Kevin Goss.

One of these days, bang!

You hear me?

He's got a gun!

- Is this your truck?

- I need a drill!

Do you have a drill?

I need to get this open!

- Who the hell are you?

- I'm a cop. Now look!

You see that woman?

Some maniacs just shot up the mall!

So either get with me,

get behind me, or get out!

I got a grinder!

Oh, my God.

Everyone get the hell out of here!

Get the hell out!

Now!

Hey!

Sh*t!

You really set yourself up, a**hole!

It's cold in the desert.

I could tell my stuffing

wasn't entirely intact.

He's awake. He's awake!

But it was nothing

they couldn't stitch back together.

Karla told me that the chief

had come through just fine...

and somehow managed

to spin Fungus Bob's corpse...

into a bizarre cover story

that kept my secret a secret.

An FBI expert

on television said that

if you hadn't gotten

those explosives out of there,

at least 500 or 600 people

would've died, for sure.

They told me events at the Green Moon

Mall had made headlines everywhere.

But I didn't want to read

or see anything about it.

According to Eckles...

he and Varner started a satanic

cult when they were teenagers.

One night, they killed a man

and realized they enjoyed it.

So they kept at it,

eventually joining

the police force for better cover.

They met Robertson and Goss

and came up with a plan...

to infiltrate a small town

and then slowly kill it.

Odd! Odd! Odd!

Detail, present arms.

ODD SAVES:

MARRY ME ODD!

ODD WORLD:

IN ODD WE TRUS When I'm with you,

I don't have to worry about

pancakes or poltergeists.

When I'm with you,

I'm with my destiny.

Where you live, I flourish.

We ate food that wasn't healthy.

We drank too much...

and slept too much...

but could never kiss enough.

Everything was just as I wished.

- Yeah?

- Odd, it's us. Open up.

- Hey, guys.

- We have been calling you, Oddie.

I know. You know,

I disconnected the phone...

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