Hey, Sheriff,
this is eastbound.
Got no sign of the girl or any
of the other kids out here.
I'll keep looking.
Starting to get impatient.
Dammit.
I see you
still got those hiccups.
10-4, Sheriff, I'm out.
I'm on the back end of Piney.
Do we have eyes in the sky?
He won't come here.
Says wait, too, too bad
there's a storm hitting.
Dammit, you tell David
I don't give a sh*t
if he wants to sit
at home in front of a cozy fire
and drink beer.
A girl's life is at stake.
Well, I
told him that already.
He's instead.
We already have three
search and rescue bodies
up at each end of the park.
Whoo, mercy, them g*dd*mn kids,
they shoulda known better
than to go hiking
this time of year when a
storm's blowing in.
Well, I
found the girl's boyfriend,
good friends down by old Madison.
They're on their way to the hospital now.
Poor bastards were nearly frozen to death.
Hey, what about that tractor guy?
- Ooh, Matt Logan?
He should be here any minute.
And if the state police
can't find her, he can.
Matt, where the hell have you been?
Mexico, just got back.
Mexico.
- Haven't even had time to
go home and take a shower.
Whoo.
- So what have we got here?
- A girl lost in the woods.
- Damn kids, shoulda
known better go hiking
this time of year.
- Well, with a storm blowing in.
But what can you say?
They're kids, right?
- Yeah.
Anybody been out there messing around?
- Not that I know of,
just us when we get there.
- Keep everybody off the track.
If I'm not back in 72
hours, send a search party.
- Okay.
All right then.
Damn, you loaded for bear, ain't ya?
- I'm gonna find 'em, Art.
- Well, I'm telling ya.
- Don't have time.
- All right.
Matt, you be careful if
you're going in there.
Now, be careful.
Hey, Matt, it's
Sarah, just checking in on you.
I saw on where you rescued those kids
on the news this morning.
I stopped by Cassie's plot earlier.
You promised me you would
replace her headstone.
I, I know she was our daughter, Matt.
But it's been three years,
and this has become an
unhealthy obsession for you.
You should get help.
Who is it?
Yeah, yeah,
yeah, let me in, old man.
It's me.
- I'll let ya in.
Dammit, Arthur, can I
not even finish my coffee
before you start in on me
for another assignment?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, old
man, this one ain't for me.
It's a better offer.
- Well, I'm working with the
United States government.
It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Matt Logan.
Heard a lot about you
on that special mission
where you saved those hostages.
Well, Mr. Logan, I've heard
a lot about you, and, uh-
- Let me go ahead and stop you.
Mr. Marks, is it?
Do me a favor.
Cut the sh*t.
Let's get down to business.
- You see, there was an
experiment, a creature
that escaped from one
of our m*llitary bases.
We're going to need you
to hunt it down, k*ll it.
- When do we leave?
As soon as I get the sub ready.
You guys will be heading
out to Montreal, Canada
in a desolate, wooded area.
That should be where the screature is at.
Also, there's something else.
Just to make sure we're
clear on one thing,
if one of you die, can't
release to the public
anything about you.
Your death is gonna be classified.
What's this thing called anyways?
- m*therf*cker, can this
route take any more?
- Chill the f*ck out.
- No, I won't chill the f*ck out.
Been on this sub for two f*cking hours.
- A soldier always has patience, Baxter.
Remember?
- Ah, piss off, both of you.
- So did they tell what we're
hunting, what we're after?
- Uh, I heard it was a
Sasquatch or something.
- Well, I heard it was a werewolf.
- I don't give a damn if it's either
or the f*cking Easter bunny.
I'm just here for the money.
- Well, Baxter, I didn't think
you were the one that was funny.
- Well, Mikulik, when you
have a wife and two kids
that leave you for some deadbeat freak
and drains your entire bank account,
you might understand one of these days.
- And, uh, Baxter here
is going on a crusade
for the other woman to take.
- You're so hilarious.
Who's this guy supposed to be?
Oh, you're, uh, Rambo?
- Yeah, Rambo wishes he was me.
- Really?
You're a real badass, huh?
You're just the size of a.
- Chill the f*ck out.
He didn't do sh*t to you.
- No, I wanna see if you, uh, read
the mission control orders.
Hmm, let's go over it.
I'd like you to explain it to us.
Okay, you can take that tough-guy attitude
and shove it straight up your ass
'cause I'm not impressed.
- You're gonna have to forgive him.
He's an SOA bastard.
- That's soldier of
action, you piece of sh*t.
- Name's Mikulik.
You can hang with me.
So don't mind me asking.
What exactly are we hunting?
What are we going after?
- It's called screature.
We set up camp here tonight.
- So I know what I'm doing here,
but what the f*ck are y'all doing here?
- I'm here the same as
you, for the damn money.
- So, what about you, tough guy?
- 'Cause I like to hunt things.
It's just what I do.
- Okay, everybody just shut up.
That creature you keep referring to,
that was my best friend,
had a wife and two kids.
The G.I. Bill didn't cut it.
So he volunteered for an experiment,
and now look what happened to him.
- Hey, Logan.
Logan, where the hell have you been?
We've been searching all over for you.
- Hey, I woke up back there.
Where's Erickson?
- We woke up, and you both were gone.
He's not with you?
- We should split up and look for him.
- And this is supposed to
be our f*cking tracker?
I've had enough of this sh*t.
I'm radioing the boat back in.
I'm done.
What are you gonna do, k*ll me?
No, I'm not gonna k*ll ya.
Since we've been on this trip,
I've been badgered, insulted,
and I'm about sick of it.
You've nearly gotten everyone k*lled
because you've been a
cockheaded, arrogant ass.
From now on, I'm calling the sh*ts.
If you got a problem with
that, well, we can end it now.
And as for you, Mikulik,
if you wanna sh**t,
well, you better not miss.
- Everybody calm the f*ck down.
We're on the same damn team here.
We ain't got time for this sh*t.
Hey, guys, you might wanna see this.
Hey, guys, it's Erickson's Kn*fe.
- He must have dropped it.
Means he's close, real close.
Logan, are
you sure about all this?
- Don't worry.
It'll work.
He'll come.
- Logan, you better hope this works
'cause this f*cking plan is stupid.
- Holy sh*t.
- He's mine.
Baxter, Baxter, no, wait.
sh*t.
- Buddy, it's me.
Remember?
SAS m*llitary school.
Come out.
- Baxter, Baxter
Erickson.
Baxter.
Come on, get up.
Come on, gotta get outta here.
Get up.
- He was just a damn kid.
He didn't deserve this.
- Maybe we should go back, guys.
- Look at him. Look at him.
That's Erickson, Goddammit.
We are not going back, okay?
I don't give a sh*t if
he wasn't my friend.
We're gonna get this son of a bitch, okay?
Okay?
- Okay.
Hey, Matt, that your kid?
- Yeah.
- She's probably at home missing you,
waiting for her father
to return home, bub.
- Not exactly.
- So what do you mean?
Did she move away with her mom?
- There was a car.
I, I told her.
I, I told her to get away from the road,
but it was too late.
And that's why I do this.
- Matt, actually, do you
believe there's a god?
- Yeah, I do.
- All right, the traps are set.
Anything within 10 miles
will know we're here.
All right, I'm gonna go take a piss.
I'll be back in a minute.
Mik, come on, stop f*cking with me.
- What the hell was that?
- I have no damn clue.
- Wait here.
I'll be right back.
What the hell?
k*ll me, please.
- I'm sorry.
Mik.
Mikulik.
Damn.
- Dad, wake up.
You have to get up.
You have to finish the fight.
Wake up.
Dad, wake up.
Dad, wake up.
- Cassie?
Hey, honey.
You're so big.
- Dad, you have to get up.
You have to finish the fight.
- All right, you son of a bitch.
Game on.
We set up camp here tonight.
sh*t.
Dad, is it finished?
- Yeah.
- Holy hell, I, I thought I k*lled you.
- That so?
You can't get that lucky twice.
- I put a b*llet in you.
I saw you die.
- So tell me, Marks, is
this some kind of a setup?
- The government knew, once
this creature was dead,
we wouldn't have any witnesses.
- Then why'd you keep
him alive for two months?
- He was just more of an insurance policy.
My contact knew you wouldn't
be willing to track him down.
- Your contact?
- Hello, old friend.
- Hello, Arthur.
- Sorry, Matt, the
government payoff was good,
and the benefits were even better.
- And I thought that I could trust you.
Guess I was wrong.
- You wasn't supposed to
make it out of the woods.
Told me I wasn't gonna have to k*ll ya,
but I know you're never gonna stop.
- Get over here.
Get on your hands and knees.
The hell is that?
Just sh**t the son of a bitch.
- No, man, no.
Come on, get up.
Come on, we gotta get outta
here.
- Hey, Logan, are ya coming?
- You go on.
I'll catch up to ya.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
- It was good working with ya.
- You too, Mik.
It isn't my fault.
Get outta my head.
It was, it wasn't my fault.
Matt, is that you?
I thought you were dead.
- Just a bad dream, Mik.
You know, Mik, you were right.
I don't know a lot about heaven, or hell,
or anything like that, but
I do know that we go on
after this, after life,
after everything, we do go on.
- You think Erickson and Baxter,
how, how are they doing?
- Yeah, they're still around.
- Am I ever gonna see you again?
- We look, but we don't see.
We listen but we don't hear.
The world is just an illusion
that we want to believe,
a structure that we've put in place.
We think we exist, and perhaps we do,
but only for an instant,
and then the present is gone,
and the future rushes by
until what we once were
is but a distant memory
and then no memory at all,
just a one-time happening
lost in the winds of time.
Hey.
I'm home.
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