Halloween II
The events of Halloween II revolve around the results of Halloween: Bracket will discover his dead daughter; Laurie must go to the hospital, where, since she has no friends left to lose, she will lose acquaintances, old and new; Michael has blown his cover on a night when he can simply change costumes and be anyone – which the series will not, for trademark reasons, let him do; and Loomis must convince everyone that Michael isn’t dead and that they’re in Halloween II whether they want it or not. Halloween II begins when Loomis steps outside after he sees the image of Michael's supine body on the flattened grass on the lawn. The next door neighbor comes outside and asks him what’s going on, and Loomis, ever the stickler for tact, tells him to call the police, along with "I shot him." All the neighbor has heard are two screaming kids and six gunshots, and one of the first things he hears from Loomis are direct statements that he wants the police and that he shot someone. I can only imagine how the neighbor would tie these facts together in an argument with the police he would want to add himself as supporting evidence to. The neighbor does not take Loomis seriously and thinks this is a joke, which is logical because he has been "trick-or-treated to death tonight". It is always a bad idea to bring up death around Loomis, especially when Loomis has blood on his hands. Loomis tells the neighbor that he doesn't know what death is. Of course, neither does Loomis, or anyone else who is alive for that matter – least of all Michael. This is followed by the credits, which are always fun to read through with slasher movies because you can learn ahead of time what characters from the previous movies will have dead-body cameos. Then there is a POV shot of Michael wandering around a run-down part of the neighborhood. He sees a dog that barks at him and continues to bark at the movie crew as they follow Michael. A police car pulls up to Loomis, who is further up the street, and the first thing out of his mouth again is that he shot Michael six times, which must be comforting to any police officer who thinks Loomis with a revolver is a greater threat than a serial killer who cannot be taken down by emptying it. Loomis get in the car and they drive away. They are presumably on their way to meet up with Sheriff Bracket although that might not be in Loomis's best interests while he has an empty gun and the Sheriff has yet to discover his dead daughter. Michael walks away and finds a house with an old woman inside making sandwiches. The old woman asks her husband, Harold, if he wants mayonnaise on his sandwich but he does not reply. Michael sneaks into the kitchen as Harold's wife watches a news report about the murders Michael committed earlier, thus allowing him to steal a kitchen knife and commit more murders they will have to report about later. Michael walks through the front yard, where it seems that every dog in the neighborhood is barking at him because word has spread about his eating habits as quickly as the news of his murders. A woman named Alice walks out of the house and shouts "Mrs. Elrod?" and when Mrs. Elrod does not respond, she goes back inside and resumes a conversation she was having on the phone. The woman Alice is on the phone with, Sally, tells her about the murders. It occurs to me that if Loomis had not told the police about Michael, the police might conclude that the murders resulted from a tangled love affair that became a double-murder-suicide pact, which somehow had Judith Myers as the source of the drama. Michael has meanwhile snuck inside and knocks something over in Alice’s living room. She stares at the open door and asks "Who is it?". She walks into the living room and Michael springs from the floor. He stabs her in the chest without any of the ceremony that he stabbed his sister and Bob with. Perhaps the wailing police sirens outside might have convinced him time is of the essence even if, as far as Halloween II is concerned, it isn't. Meanwhile Laurie is carried out on a stretcher at the Doyle’s house. A crowd gathers to watch as she is put in the ambulance. The driver of the ambulance asks the paramedic, Jimmy, if he knows Laurie, whom he does because she goes to school with his "little brother Ziggy". A woman arrives at the hospital with her son. The boy has a razor blade stuck in his mouth, but I’m not inclined to believe he ate some razor-blade-laced candy because it would have to be a large piece of candy to contain it and he must have chewed on the razor without realizing what it was. Such a mouthful of bullshit is implausible at best. It’s more likely he was trying to kill himself and had second thoughts about swallowing a razor blade. I always try to look on the bright side. The mother and her son go to the front counter, where they are told to wait. Laurie is rolled in and one of the paramedics asks about Dr. Mixter, who the nurse says is drunk at the country club. A doctor appears on screen, who examines Laurie and tells her she has lost a lot of blood, although all told I think she has lost less than the boy with the razor blade in his mouth, who, even if he survives and has a tongue to tell it with, will have an inferior story because it happened on Halloween in Haddonfield. The doctor says that they are going to have to put Laurie to sleep and she immediately protests. The doctor injects her with something and the scene ends. Meanwhile Loomis gets bossy in a cop car with a deputy. He tells him where to shine his spotlight in a commanding manner, as if Loomis has any better idea than this deputy as to where Michael would be within the diameter of the spotlight. He also reloads his gun as the deputy says he is about to stop taking orders from him. He should’ve never started taking orders from him in the first place. A deputy named Ramsey calls Bracket on his radio to tells Bracket that he is at the bakery. Bracket redirects him back into town. Loomis spots a man dressed like Michael staggering down the street with a bag of candy. If it is Michael, he made a poor attempt to camouflage himself. Loomis darts out of the car with his gun in hand, shouting at the trick-or-treaters in front of Michael to "Get back!". And get back they do, but with such a nonchalant indifference it is as if they accomplished all they set out to do in life by trick-or-treating and might as well die happy if their time has come. Once Loomis gets close to the trick-or-treaters they begin screaming, perhaps because they notice Bracket is behind Loomis and concluded that he escaped from the cop car. The man dressed as Michael begins slowly walking away from this commotion, where another cop car comes flying down the road and runs him over. If the cop who ran this man over is Ramsey, then this man was doomed by Fate to die on Halloween night. Ramsey would never have been driving down the road so fast if Bracket had not been rude with his commands, and the odds that this poor boy is dressed the same as Michael, on the very night Michael is out murdering teenagers, are practically nonexistent; he might have had the same mask on, but the same outfit? and he’s out trick-or-treating – by himself? When the cop car hits him, his upper body is hurled on top of the hood while the cop car, still speeding under Bracket’s orders, runs directly into a van that explodes, and explodes gloriously, upon impact. Loomis stares at the poor man, who is still standing erect, pinned and burning alive between the van and the cop car. Before I find out if the deputy was Ramsey or not, another deputy speeds down the road, stops, and then tells Bracket they found three bodies at the Doyle house and one of them is Annie. This quickly dispels Bracket from the scene. I wonder how Bracket does not already know there are dead teenagers at the Doyle house, since a news crew is already there, and how many more people will die as this police force speeds on the streets attempting to tell each other information that the people they are running over already know. A crowd gather to watch the man burn: one of them a clown. Jimmy goes to Laurie’s room to check on her. Laurie has been put to sleep. He touches her hand and she wakes up, so apparently she wasn't put to sleep very well. They greet each other and a nurse comes in and tells Jimmy to leave her alone. Meanwhile the news crew is still reporting at the either the Doyle’s house (or perhaps the Wallace’s house). The reporter says that Michael fled the sanitarium the night before, and "was believed to have burned to death". I don’t know who is believing that because there has not been a fire in this movie or Halloween (although there has been an explosion; but word, I think, cannot possibility travel fast enough to spread that around just yet). Bracket arrives just as a stretcher is being rolled out of the house. The body in the stretcher is Annie, and I am thankful Halloween II did not try to waste my time by showing me how Bracket would have reacted to seeing the dead body of Linda or Bob. Bracket closes her eyes and puts the cover back over her face. After Bracket says that he has to go home to his wife, he starts cussing Loomis, who has stupidly closed in on Bracket and as a psychiatrist should damn well know better. He asks Loomis "What have you done?", and Loomis replies that he hasn't done anything, which is true. The other deputy wants to know if there is anything else they can do for Loomis, who wants to be sure if the masked man who was run over was Michael. He tells the deputy to get a dentist and to meet him at the Coroner's Office in half an hour. In the next scene an ambulance speeds down the road. A man walks by with a boom box tuned to the news, which reports that Michael was shot six times and is still afoot, proving that word has not spread of the Michael-Myers lookalike who was run down. A couple of women, Karen and Darcy, walk down the street. Karen talks about pinning the tail on the donkey and “bobbing for apples" at a party. She did not particularly like bobbing for apples. After she drives away, the man with the boom box walks by again with the radio still on and practically at the same point in the news where it left off, almost as if he is playing a tape rather than listening to anything live. He bumps into Michael, who stands there and lets him pass before walking on. Loomis has seen Michael and could have at least given the reporter a description of him, which would tip off the man with the boom box, who could then report Michael’s location to the police if he is not a scoundrel. But then Michal could have heard his description on the radio and killed the man with the boom box, and then used the boom box for camouflage. Inside the hospital, Jimmy and Bud, another paramedic, are watching the news, which is now reporting that the streets of Chestnut and Tenth are packed with cars. That perhaps means that the rubbernecking at the Doyle house has become a serious affair. One of the nurses, a woman named Janet, says that Julie saw Michael Myers. Bud wants to know where Julie saw him; Julie saw him "walking in that field behind the Lost River drive-in". Julie thought Michael was creepy, but Bud says that Julie is full of shit because Michael did not escape until last night. This is true, but there is the possibility that Julie saw the man dressed as Michael Myers, who himself might have seen Michael driving to Haddonfield and thought his costume was good enough to steal and stole it – to a bad end. Janet does not like Bud’s use of foul language. Even Jimmy is irritated with him. After Jimmy tells him it could have been Ziggy who died, Bud tells him not to get involved with a patient. This contrasts with his views on getting involved with nurses, although the nurses are "another story". That the nurses are another story does not necessarily mean Bud gets emotionally involved with them either. Karen arrives at the hospital. Meanwhile Jimmy is in Laurie's room complaining about how Michael was handled. He tells Laurie that Michael, whom Laurie thought was still locked up, escaped the mental institution, which he heard about on the TV and the radio. Laurie wants to know why she was attacked, which is a question Jimmy can't answer. Mrs. Alves comes in the room and tells Jimmy his time is up as if she’s a pimp with a day planner written in ink. Then she tells Laurie that she is trying to get ahold of her parents. She uses the phone in her room to call them again, and when the phone doesn’t work, she tells Janet to tell the security guard that they’re having problems with it. The security guard gives Janet his walkie-talkie while he goes out to the telephone pole to investigate. Janet tells him that she doesn't know how to use the walkie-talkie. The security guard goes outside anyway and shines his flashlight on the telephone pole to make sure it’s still standing. Then he walks over to a dumpster with some trash cans nearby, and when he opens the dumpster there is a smear of blood on a box that he is about to play with when a cat jumps out and knocks him backwards into some trash cans. He shines the flashlight around the parking lot. In yet another oddity, he finds a lock that has been busted on a door nearby. The phone lines are dead, there is blood in the dumpster, and someone has broken a lock and gotten in somewhere they were not supposed to be; and, what might be worst of all, Janet cannot use the walkie-talkie. His calls Janet and tells her that he thinks someone broke into the storeroom. Janet stares confusedly at the walkie-talkie as if she did not expect sound to come out of it. She pushes a button and tells Mr. Garret that she can't hear him. Garret hears a noise and goes farther back in the storage room where he finds another door with a busted lock. The investigation that was originally obsessed with fixing the phones, and then was briefly focused on blood in the dumpster, is now centered on finding out how many doors have been broken into: an investigation increasingly outside the security guard’s qualifications. He finds yet another door with a busted lock and goes inside the room with a confidence that is disproportionate to the disturbing bread crumbs he is following along this Chose Your Own Murder adventure. Then he shuts the door and, of course, Michael was behind it. He hits Garret on the top of his head with a hammer. That is great because the top of Garret’s head held the least-used part of Garret's brain, and that is the least likely part to be examined in any autopsy that would seek to explain his actions. Meanwhile, at the morgue, the dentist who was called in to investigate Ramsey’s vehicular homicide concludes that because the body has no fillings in the teeth, the boy is seventeen or eighteen. (I’m assuming Ramsey killed the boy: it’s too good not too.) Michael is twenty-one according to Loomis; therefore, they have to "assume that Michael Myers is still alive". The deputy at the morgue, a man named Hunt, orders a sweep "from Chestnut south to the bypass", making a point to mention that "every street, every house, every backyard" must be searched. A crowd has gathered at the Myers house and vandalizes it by throwing rocks through the windows. This is a good thing because less people can get in Michael's way, and it gives the police something to do other than look for Michael. The crowd is also mostly kids, who are the people Michael seems inclined to kill, so I hope one of them will get injured and sent to the hospital with a group of friends as a consolation prize. Deputy Hunt and Loomis arrive at the house. Hunt should simply let the teenagers vandalize the house as much as they want, since it keeps them from wandering the streets and getting run over during the sweep he ordered earlier. Hunt gets out with a shotgun and Loomis with his revolver, which "heightens my sense of security" although he well knows it shouldn't. Hunt gets out a cigarette while talking about how quiet Haddonfield was before tonight, then gives his lighter to Loomis so he can light a cigarette he doesn't have, but this doesn't stop Loomis from taking the lighter for himself. Hunt then pulls another lighter from his pocket, lights his cigarette, and then offers the flame to Loomis, who is still without a cigarette and rambling about Judith Myers. Loomis takes this lighter too. Two boys approach Hunt and tell him they are worried about Ben Tramer. They are worried because he isn't home yet, as well as that Tramer was drunk, had a stupid mask on, and was seventeen years old. It’s almost as if they know that the police are trying to profile a corpse in the morgue and are reporting the relevant bulletin points. Loomis says they should check his dental records and then throws one of Hunt's lighters on the ground. Another deputy approaches Hunt and tells him there was a break-in at an elementary school. Loomis and Hunt scurry away. Back at the hospital Karen is putting medicine in paper cups in a drowsy way that suggests she went bobbing for barbiturates before deciding to do this. A buzzer goes off and she goes into a room and is startled by Budd, who was hiding under the covers on a bed. Budd wants to go down to the "therapy room". Karen says she needs to take care of the kids tonight, and Budd gets angry at all the "Michael Myers crap" that has upset everyone. They kiss, and then Budd tells her that the therapy room is three doors down, quite earnestly, as if the distance is something he is taking great pains to be honest about. She suggests that if she left a door open they could hear someone coming or the kids starting to cry, without perhaps realizing that if they leave the door open people are more likely to hear them coming and that alone will make the children cry. They go to the therapy room. Karen gets undressed in a control room while Budd reclines in a hot tub watching her. I hope they are not going to have sex in the hot tub and thus leave fluids in it that are hardly “therapy” under any definition. Karen comes out of the control room wearing a towel while Budd turns around to pretend he wasn't watching her undress behind the frosted glass, which obscured anything he’d want to see anyway. She gets in the hot tub and complains about how hot it is while Michael turns the heat up with a nozzle on the control panel. Budd gets out, goes to the control room, and checks the temperature while Karen gets out of the hot tub and puts her towel back on. As she sits down and waits for Budd to return, Michael strangles him from behind. As Michael throttles Budd, Karen readjusts her towel, so there is a choice between watching Budd die, or getting one last glimpse of Karen’s breasts that Budd will never see again. After he kills Bud, Michael comes in the room and sneaks up behind Karen, who is putting her hair up. That is a clear signal that she has changed her mind about having sex in the hot tub: thus Budd died under the delusion that he was about to enjoy sex with Karen one last time. Michael puts his hand on her shoulder and she tells him to "Forget it, Budd." – who certainly has. Then she turns around and screams when she sees Michael. This is the second time in the series that Michael has killed a woman as he pretends to be her boyfriend, or whatever Budd was since he isn’t emotionally involved with anyone. Michael dunks her head into the water, which is boiling now, then pulls her head up to dunk her again. I hope the last thoughts that pass through Karen's mind are how much she disliked bobbing for apples. Loomis, Hunt, and another deputy are at the elementary-school crime scene where the unnamed deputy reconstructs the crime by pointing his flashlight at a broken window and saying that’s where he came in. Then he shines his light on some blood on a desk, which would be visible with the lights on and is fact obscured with the beam from the flashlight. He also shines his light on a picture drawn by crayons on a desk. It is going to be a long November 1st in Haddonfield if this asshole has to explain every crime scene Michael has created. The drawing is a family that Michael disliked so much he stuck a knife into one of the daughters. The implication is obvious but I have a feeling Loomis doesn't know that Laurie is Michael's sister and a big portion of this movie will consist of him figuring that out, as in the first movie I had to wait for him to figure out that Michael wasn't precisely coming home as the movie poster said he would. After a pause, Hunt asks everyone present "Is that it?" Meanwhile a woman named Marion Chambers arrives. She comes inside and says she has to talk to Dr. Loomis. They go down the hall to talk privately, where Loomis lights a cigarette for her with the lighter he stole from Hunt that the flashlight tour hasn't made him miss yet. Loomis has been ordered back to Smith's Grove by the Governor. Loomis, however, doesn’t want to go back. Marion says "this thing" is all over the state. Then she summarizes what has happened in Halloween by saying that Michael escaped, killed three teenagers, and then Loomis shot him and he escaped again, which is a bit inaccurate because Loomis did not have custody of Michael after he shot him. That is such a succinct summary compared to Loomis's rambling monologues that I hope she appears throughout the series to brutally remind everyone how many people are dead and how many of them are Loomis’s fault because Michael keeps escaping from him. During this conversation there is a janitor buffing the floors, who as far as I know has not been questioned by the police about the break-in; or, for that matter, why he is even there. Loomis tells Marion that he can't leave Haddonfield now. He has thus far shown no superior understanding of Michael that would warrant him being an asset to the police. The woman tells Loomis he doesn't have a choice: there is a Marshall waiting for him outside. Back at the hospital, Michael is walking around the hallways. Jimmy is in Laurie's room and he promises that, although she doesn't know him very well, he isn't going to let anything bad happen to her. It appears, however, that Jimmy is too late to stop bad things because Laurie is comatose: the sleeping drugs she was given have finally kicked in. Meanwhile, Janet runs down the hallway and looks for Dr. Mixter. She goes into his office where she finds him watching his aquarium. She says that Laurie has had a reaction to her medication, and that he better come quick. When Dr. Mixter proves indifferent, she turns him around in his chair. He has a syringe stuck in his eye. That is the second death I have seen in that fashion in an 1980s horror movie and I have to wonder why it’s becoming popular. (A high-school teacher, by the way, gets stabbed in the ass with a syringe in Gremlins). She backs into Michael, who gives her a shot in her eyeball as well. Jimmy runs around looking for Mrs. Alves. Another buzzer goes off while an unnamed nurse is standing around Laurie's room, which might mean Budd has come back to life, found the dead and scalded Karen, and needs help that his unemotional sex life might not grant him. The nurse walks down the hall. Michael goes into Laurie's room armed with a scalpel. He stabs the blankets, which are clearly stuffed with pillows, three redundant times in the same spot, as if he is saying three monosyllabic words to himself that are better left unsaid. He pulls off the blanket and sure enough there are pillows underneath it, whereas Laurie is limping down the hall. Michael walks out of the room slowly. He doesn’t seem embarrassed although he was fooled into stabbing pillows and should be embarrassed no matter how anatomically precise those stabs might have been. Then there are shots of Laurie limping down the hallway and Michael walking around the hospital looking for her while Jimmy, Mrs. Alves, and the unnamed nurse all look for each other so they can coalesce and look for Laurie. She goes into a room where she tries to use the phone, then hears a noise and hangs up to crawl over to the doorway and look down the hall. She shuts the door, curls up, and goes back to sleep right by it, making herself as vulnerable as she could possibly be. Back at the elementary school, Loomis reluctantly gets in the car with Marion and the Marshall, which leaves Hunt behind to look for Michael wherever he may be. Hunt shrugs when the Marshall drives away, but I have a feeling he is glad to see Loomis go no matter what lies he wants to present to the movie. Back at the hospital the unnamed nurse is looking for Mr. Garret. She opens a door and is startled by Jimmy, who has apparently not found any dead bodies because he hasn’t found anyone and almost everyone is dead. He tells her to look for Laurie in the East Wing. Jimmy goes through a door that says "Exit Only" and gives away his rule-breaking desperation to find Laurie. He movies down the hall and comes to two doors, one for major and one for minor surgery, so the person about to have major surgery can hear how minor surgery is going and compare. He finds Mrs. Alves in the minor surgery room, where he checks her pulse and then notices an IV sticking out of her forearm. She has apparently bled to death; I want to know how Michael knows how to administer an IV. Jimmy tries to run out of the room but slips on a large puddle of blood he might not have slipped on had he discovered Mrs. Alves earlier. Blood splatters on his face that makes him look dead, so anyone doing a search can merely look in, conclude that Jimmy bled out Mrs. Alves and then tripped to death on his own evidence, and then pass them by. Meanwhile the nurse has not even attempted to check the East Wing, Laurie be damned, and gets in her car. Her car it won't start, however, and when she gets out she notices that all the gasoline was siphoned out of it. Her tire is also flat. Whoever taught Michael how to drive was one hell of a Jack of all Trades and should not have been working at an asylum. Laurie wakes up and starts to go down the hall when the unnamed nurse appears and shouts at her. Laurie turns around and looks at her as the nurse comes towards her. Then Michael comes from around a corner, stabs the nurse in the back, and then lifts her up off the ground. He holds her there until she gasps her last breath and her shoes fall down on the floor as if they were inseparable with her soul. Laurie runs out of the hospital and into the parking lot, and then hides in one of the cars with a flat tire. Meanwhile the Marshall is driving Loomis and Marion back to Smith's Grove. Marion decides to tell Loomis about a dossier on Michael that was sealed after his parents died. She tells Loomis that Laurie is Michael’s sister: she was born two years before Michael was committed, and two years after that Michael's parents died and Laurie was adopted by the Strode family. Loomis puts this together fairly quickly: Michael killed one sister and now he's back to kill the other one. He tells the Marshal to turn the car around and go to the hospital. He has to fire a “warning shot” to get the Marshal to do this, although what he was threatening to do if the Marshal refused is something Loomis didn’t consider. If he shot the Marshal, he would have to dump him on the road, drive back himself, and then deal with Michael with two bullets less and then the police without any. At the hospital, Jimmy gets in the car where Laurie is still hiding from Michael. Annie would tell her is a bad place to hide. Jimmy tells her they’re going to get out of there, then passes out or dies with his head on the horn. Jimmy didn’t know Laurie was in that car before he got in and attempted to flee; he does know, however, that there is a killer afoot, that Laurie is doped up and the killer has tried to kill her at least once, and, most importantly, that the killer has already managed to kill Mrs. Alves and – unless he didn’t stumble over her on the way out – the unnamed nurse, which leaves only Laurie and himself left to die. Laurie sits in Jimmy's lap and tires to start the car for the third time, then she falls out of the car just as Loomis and the others arrive. Loomis lets Laurie inside the hospital after she limps to the door. Then Michael walks through the glass and gets shot five more times by Loomis and falls to the ground. It could have been six shots if the Marshal wasn’t stubborn; but six shots, as we know, are no more a magic number than five. And, considering how slowly Michael walks, it might be better to simply run away from him and pop him in the knee five times when he gets close. Hell, you could just get in the elevator and go up and down the floors while Michael walks up and down the stairs; and all you have to do is shoot him in the dick when, occasionally, he’s by the elevator door when it opens. The Marshall approaches Michael but Loomis tells him to stop because Michael is still breathing. He tells Marion to get on the radio in the Marshall's car and notify Hunt. The Marshall kneels down by Michael and Loomis shouts at him to get away one last time before Michael wakes up and slits his throat. The Marshall and Marion’s only purpose, it seems, were to take Loomis on an exposition excursion where he learned that Laurie is Michael’s sister. Loomis and Laurie run away to the major surgery room, where they have a final confrontation with Michael. He breaks through the door and stabs Loomis with his scalpel. Loomis thinks about this for a second or two before staggering backwards and collapsing. Michael comes towards Laurie, who shoots him in the face twice: a bullet in each eye that makes Michael cry with blood. He starts swinging aimlessly at the air and then Loomis wakes up and has an idea. He opens a canister of ether that makes a loud hissing sound as Michael continues to swing in Laurie’s general area. Michael hears the ether hissing and walks over to the canister. Loomis tells Laurie to get out of there, and then says "It's time, Michael." and lights the lighter, and the room explodes. Had Hunt never assumed that Loomis smoked, and hadn’t Loomis absentmindedly stolen the lighter, this explosion would never have happened. There have been several moments when Hunt should have missed that lighter, or when Loomis, exasperated yet again, could have thrown it down in anger. If Loomis didn’t have the lighter, Michael would have kept swinging blindly while the ether was emptied from all the canisters, which would, eventually, make Michael, Loomis, and Laurie stumble around in a drunken, mind-body dissociation as if they were in Fear and Loathing in Haddonfield. Marion hears the explosion and runs inside the hospital. Michael walks out of the room, although he is completely on fire, and then stomps down the hall a bit and falls down to the floor. Loomis, I assume, is destroyed. In the next scene, fire trucks and police cars have arrived at the hospital, which is still standing, so whenever they got there they must have put out the fire and then hung around because there was nothing better to do. Hunt asks another deputy what the body count is, and he says "Ten ... so far". That is only the bodies in the hospital, which includes Jimmy. Laurie is led out on a wheelchair as a news crew tries to interview her. Some paramedics put Laurie in an ambulance and drive away, presumably to another hospital. A throng of rubberneckers gathers outside, having exhausted the excitement from all the other crime scenes. The movie ends with a shot of Michael's body, which was apparently left to burn while the rest of the hospital was put out to spite him. |