The Howling Page #5

What you ladies need is a good retriever.

Doc said on the phone that you folks

had a coyote problem out here.

- You're famous, ain't you?

- Sort of.

Sam, this is Karen White.

Karen, Sam Newfield.

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

- I used to watch you all the time.

You're prettier than Walter Cronkite.

Karen thought she saw something moving

in the bushes last night.

Coyotes is liable to come into a setup

like this to look for garbage.

- Did you hear anything?

- Me?

I sleep like the dead.

Tattoo? I don't remember one on him

when he came in.

The coroner...

The coroner said

that he had one on his shoulder.

Some kind of animal head, right there.

I don't get many of you TV people in here.

Mostly it's the newspaper guys

who like to come in, look at the meat.

I don't know how you can stand it.

Doesn't bother me.

Want to unwrap him, Ross?

Let's see, Quist is still with the John Does.

We haven't had time to re-file him.

Only thing that freaked me out

since working here...

is the night old Stu Walker came in.

The guy who worked here.

I say goodnight to him at the shift change...

a couple hours go by, then we get a delivery

from the Oceanside unit.

I unzip the bag.

There's old Stu, smiling up at me,

leaking sea water out his ears.

Visitors, Eddie!

Where is he?

He was here this morning.

God! Look at the door.

You don't suppose somebody

could have stolen him, do you?

He didn't get up and walk out on his own.

There're cows around here?

Charlie Barton's got a couple of acres

of pasture just down the hill.

They don't sound right.

I'm not really sure

how cows are supposed to sound.

Not like that.

Jerry's got a rifle, doesn't he?

Haven't you done assertiveness training?

Before I hooked into Doc, I did it all.

I did EST, TM, Scientology...

iridology, primal screamers.

I don't know. I figure

another five years of real hard work...

and maybe I'll be a human being.

I don't see nothing.

I didn't hear anything so funny anyway.

- Oh, Jesus!

- Christ!

- Now what?

- What's wrong?

- Great!

- What's wrong?

- What's wrong?

- Let me look at it. Let me see.

Here. I can tell about batteries.

God, Donna. Now we're stuck out here

in the middle of Timbuktu someplace!

- Watch that gun.

- God!

Sorry to scare you, ma'am.

I thought you was a cowjacker.

There's another one back up yonder,

tore up the same way.

- You know what did it?

- It ain't a coyote, that's a cinch.

You girls all right?

Nothing like a quiet week in the country.

A little straighter.

All right, now the quick shot again.

Think fast.

You have potential, Bill.

I think you're ready for your bullets.

Don't you guys usually use a dog

in this kind of hunt?

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