" Uncle Henry, tell me a story." "No, it's late." "Go to bed." "Santa will be here soon." "No, I want a story." "Please." "All right, all right." "You want a happy story or you want a scary story'?" " I want a happy scary story." "A happy scary story?" "Yeah." "' Fine." "Once upon a time there lived a man by the name, by the name of Jack Frost." "Jack Frost?" "That's right." "Like in the song, Jack Frost nipping at your nose." "Only this guy did it for real." " You know how regular folk get up in the morning, eat something and then hurry off to do whatever for the day." "Um, hm." "Well Jack would get up, eat something, then hurry off and kill someone." "'Cause that's what he did; he killed people." "He'd stick knives in their faces and cut out their tummies." "And stamp on their heads till their brains got all runny." " Uncle Henry I don't think this is such a" " You wanted a story, you got a story." "Uh, okay." "But why did he hurt people?" "How should I know'?" "Maybe his mum and dad never gave him enough hugs." "Maybe they gave him too many hugs." "Or maybe he just liked the color red and things that went squish when he stuck sharp points in them." "Oh." "It doesn't matter." "The only thing that's important is that no one could catch him." "Some say that Jack was a ghost, that he was already dead and could walk through walls or vanish into thin air." "Oh." " Truth is he never stayed in one place long enough to be caught." "See Jack was smart." "He'd drift into a town, blend in, puree a few of the locals then just drift off to some place else that needed a little social pruning." "Any towns that had too many little girls that looked just like you." " But they did catch him didn't they Uncle Henry?" "Well, for five years through 11 states and 38 deaths." "Jack was nimble," "Jack was quick, Jack gouged eyes with candlesticks." "Smashed in skulls with sticks and stones." "Used iron bars to crush their bones." "So he could hide his kills in tiny places and he wouldn't have to see their faces." "Uncle Henry." "That is until the pies." "Pies?" " Yeah, little bits of people started turning up in Mrs. Puddles pecan pies all over the Midwest." "Fingertips, eyelids, ear lobes." "Mm-hm, some say that Jack had got sloppy or that deep down he really wanted to be caught." "Others said that it made the pies taste better." "Eww." " Bottom line;" "Jack had made his first mistake." "Authorities knew where he worked." "Within a week they traced his car." "Then it was just a matter of time before he was caught, tried, and sentenced to die." "Oh." " In fact, right this very moment Jack is being taken to his place of execution." "His story should end at midnight but the fun's just about to begin." "So why don't you go to bed and have sweet, sweet dreams." " Tell you something; that murdering bastard Jack Frost in here is one lucky son of a bitch." "Lucky'?" "He's being executed in 30 minutes." " Yeah well, at least he doesn't have to drive back through this crap." "Deep fried Jack sewed at midnight." "Say pal'?" "How about a smoke?" " Say Frost, why don't you shut the hell up?" "Filtered." " Hey, Jack we just crossed the Snowmonton county line." "Ain't this where you screwed up'?" "Screwed up'?" "Yeah, for years the FBI was chasing this overgrown piece of shit." "Crossed like half a dozen states." "Then this backwater sheriff plays hero for five minutes and takes all the glory." "Ain't how it happened Jack?" "Almost got away with it didn't you?" "Haw'?" "Haw'?" "Everything okay back there Harv?" "Oh we're doing fine, real fine." "What" "The..." "Fuck" "Oh yeah." " Looks like deep fried Jack is off the menu for tonight, huh'?" "Jesus Christ." "Now, we can do this the easy way" "Of we can" "This is gonna hurt." "Honey, you're miles away." "I'm all right." "It's after midnight." "No more stays of execution." "It's over." "No more nightmares about Jack Frost." "Hi there." "Engine problems'?" "Bladder problem." " I'm gonna need to see your license please." "Stay away from the vehicle please." "Make up your god damn mind." "You want to see my license or do you want me to stay here?" "It's your move Sheriff." " I want you to stay away from the vehicle and lie down on the ground." "This one you are gonna regret." "That's right Sheriff you take a good long look at this face." "'Cause the next time you see it it's gonna tear your world apart." "I'll find a way." "I'll tear your town apart." "I'll kill your family." "I'll kill you." "You're dead." "You hear me'?" "Dead." "Honey, honey, honey'?" "Slow down." "What's going on'?" "Whoa." "Touch my finger, touch my knee." "Thank the Lord it was not me." "Wow, there's an ambulance." "Can we stop please'?" "Oh I don't think so." "Now you just settle down we'll be home in about 20 minutes." " There's two squad cars, an ambulance." "And a partridge in a pear tree." "That's very nice Ryan." "Sweetie put your seat belt on." "What happened here officer?" "I'm with the local" " Keep it moving sir this is a federal matter." "Okay." "Then it just ran off." "But he couldn't run." "It was, it was like he was trying but he didn't have legs." "Like he was part of the snow." "What the" "I'll take it from here." "You the man who witnessed the incident?" "Let's you and me take a little midnight stroll." "The driveway is clear." "It's all over the news." " Yeah, I was listening to it on the car radio." "Dad, who's Jack Frost?" "Jack Frost was a very bad man honey but now he's gone." "Poof." "Like magic?" "Yeah that's right, just like magic." "And is he coming back'?" "No." "So you don't have to worry about him." " And you made him go away, didn't you dad?" "Well I kind of helped I guess." "My dad's a hero." "No son, I just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time." "I'm not a hero." "You are to me." "Me too." "Oh come on now." "You're gonna get all mushy and I got a job to go to." "But I made you special." "Oh yum Ryan, that looks great." "Uh look, I think I'm gonna save this for lunch." "Okay?" "I'll put it in a baggie" "Coward." "And I'll have it for lunch." "Okay?" "Take some more." "Thanks." "Fill it up." "Sam'?" "What?" "It's okay, it's going to be okay." "Come on, fill it up." " Dad, can I build a snowman for the competition today?" " Oh sure, how else you gonna win first prize." "But I want you all wrapped up." "Okay?" "And the tree trimming is at 5:00 sharp." "How could we forget'?" "Yeah." "No, no, no, no." "You're toast Mr. Snowman." "Hey, hey no looking 'till Saturday." "You know the rules." "Come on Dad." "No, not until Saturday." "You're gonna jinx us." "Look at this over here." "Hey Sam!" "Oh oh Alex come here for a second." "What do you want?" "Morning Jake." "I see you couldn't get to that porch railing while we were away." "No I didn't get to it." "I'll do it." "Sure, by New Year's?" "Yeah I said I'll do it." "Great." "_ Hey hey hey." "Hi Jill." "Hi Mr. Tyler." "I'm making angel wings." "Oh that's beautiful Sally." "Sally you want to help me with this?" "You know when I was a little girl" "I always wanted to be the angel on top of the Christmas tree." "Good." "You want to help me tie this now'?" "Sure honey." "How's it going there Billy?" "It's going." "I see your dad's got his snowman all covered up; big secret." "I guess." "Well he may win for the 5th year in a row, right'?" "That's a pretty big deal." "Whatever." "Well, nice talking to you Billy." "Working hard Tommy'?" "Hey there Mr. T how you doing'?" "Everybody, the law is back in town." "So Mr. T, what do you think?" "It's a snow babe." "I'm gonna call her Cindy Snowflake." "I think it's very cool Tommy." "All right." "Hey wait a second." "What's the difference between snowmen and snow-women'?" "Tommy." "Now really, what's the difference?" "I'll see ya Tommy." "It's snowballs." "Gel it Mr. T'?" "Snowballs." "Hey Bob." "Morning Paul." "I saw your Tommy." "Keeping out of trouble I hope." "As ever." "I heard about, uh, Jack Frost." "End of an era." "End of a nightmare." "I'll find a way!" "Sam you okay'?" "Oh yeah yeah." "No I'm great." "I'm great Paul." " So you, uh, dig out your driveway this morning?" "Huh'?" "Up at 6:00 AM." " Okay all right, you come in the store," "I'll give you 20% off because I think you're about the best law enforcement officer we ever had around these parts." "All right'?" "Maybe next season Paul." "Okay." "Hold on, you know what the difference is between a snowman and a snow" "I heard this one Paul." "Oh, okay." "Uh Tommy!" "Good morning Tommy." "Oh hi Jill." "Whatcha making Tommy?" "Oh this?" "Um, nothing." "Just uh, I mean it's not supposed to be you." "So uh you want to meet up later?" "Later?" "Um, actually you know kind of busy." "Busy stuff, doing a lot of things." "I don't know if I can make it over." "We can go snowballing." "Tommy we got salt, ice, you know." "Deliveries." "Come on." " But daddy I made those oats special for you." "Morning Marla." "Where is everybody?" "Well good morning to you too Sam." "And how are you on this fine morning'?" "How was your weekend skiing?" "Well Marla you know I don't like to ski myself but Ryan and Anne told me they had a really gnarly time." "What's the matter, somebody die'?" "Shit Sam, we ain't had a killing in the county all our lives." "I knew Old Man Harper ever since I learned how to steal apples from his orchard." "We all did Chris, we all did." "So what do you got'?" "Nothing." "What do you mean nothing'?" "You got to have something." "Look about Sam." "We got no vehicle tracks." "No footprints in the snow." " I got no sign of a struggle or attempt to break into the house." "No blood." " Nothing." "Nothing." " All right, I don't want this thing spreading anymore than it needs to." "The whole town will go crazy." "Why don't you get Doc Peters?" "Take your foot off the chair." "Get Doc Peters on the phone, tell him to come up here." "Yeah." " Why don't you go down to Donna's motel, the gas station, liquor store;" "ask them if anybody passed through last night." "Tell them a feed store was robbed or something." "Feed store, right." "Sam, what are you gonna be doing'?" "I got to make sure of something." "Marla put me through to the FBI will ya'?" "Will you get me some apples?" " Show me two hours no injuries, natural obstacles." " I have a sheriff from Snowmonton County on the phone for you asking about Jack Frost." "Put him through." "This is Agent Manners;" "who am I speaking to?" " Uh, Sam Tyler, Snowmonton County Sheriff's Department." "I'd like to ask you a couple of questions about the Jack Frost accident." " Well I'm afraid that most information concerning the incident is confidential but I'll help you if I can." " Well we had a killing down here last night and I need to know that Jack Frost is really dead." " Oh yeah Sheriff, Jack Frost did indeed die in the accident;" "that I can assure you." "Anything else I can help you with?" "No, thank you very much." "Not a problem." "Good luck with your investigation." "Thank you." "It's over." "It started." "It wasn't meant to happen like this." "So you keep saying." " We hadn't even tested the acid on an amoeba." "Let alone a human cell." "This is a disaster." "Disaster?" "You got to learn to look on the bright side of things." "The bright side?" "Sure." "At least you know it works." "It's just a shame that your guinea pig had to be a homicidal maniac like Jack Frost." "Who I now have to put back in the test tube." " Well, there are no lesions in the muscles of the neck." "No tears." "Now, there is a fractured cervical vertebrae one and two." "So I'm guessing that his head was snapped back with alarming force but just the once." "Also notice that there's no bruising in the face." "So I would say something soft was held in place to disperse the pressure." "Like, a mitten or a large glove." "That's all we need around here;" "the catcher mitt killer." "Yeah." "You think he's gonna strike again?" " I don't know doc but I'll be bolting my door tonight." " I'll be tracking my dresser in front of mine Sam." "Look, I made special." " Honey I just cleaned up after your special oats." "But these are extra special." " They're very, not as special as that snowman that you made outside." "I didn't make a snowman." "Oh, well someone built it." "But it's not finished." "Needs a face so I thought that maybe you could go outside and finish that up for" "I'll just spray down the kitchen." "Sam what's going on'?" " What the hell are you going to do about this?" "All right, hold it hold it hold it." "I tried to calm them down, I tried." "There's no need to panic." " What the hell are you talking about Sam?" "Old Man Harper's dead." " That's right, Old Man Harper has been killed and we don't have a lead." "But you guys running around here like a a bunch of vigilantes isn't going to make my job any easier." "Right." " Now I suggest you men go home to your families." " Jesus, you think this psycho drifters gonna snub out some other poor son of a bitch." "Don't ya?" "Did I say that?" "Did I say that?" "Look, Old Man Harper lived way out here five miles outside of town." "What does that mean'?" "We all live on the outskirts of town." " Right, and so do we and we're not scared." "Now whoever did this is already a 100 miles away from here." " Yeah Sam, well that may be but I'll tell ya what;" "I'm going to keep my store open all hours, anybody wants to buy extra ammo, huh." "20% discount for an emergency." "Come on, come on." " It's gonna be a gal dang turkey shoot." " Of hell Sam it's quicker than a jury." "So you reckon you're about ready to step out to lunch with me then?" "Do I look ready?" "Sure do to me." "Ah, luckily for you Joe the power to cloud men's minds is a responsibility" "I take very seriously." "Hey move it." "I said move it." "Or are you deaf as well as butt ugly'?" "You're standing in the middle of a black ice sled run snot for brains." "But this is my dad's front lawn." " Look, are you gonna move or am I gonna have to kick your stomach out the top of your head again'?" "I hope he breaks his face." "What'd you say'?" "Nothing." " Look, nobody says nothing behind my back." "The killer snowman, is it yours?" "Yes." "No!" "Oh yes." "I think the black ice sled run is officially open." "And all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't give a rats ass about Tyler's little snowman." "Huh." "I didn't do it." "Holy moly Ryan killed Billy!" "It wasn't me." "Billy just had a birthday." "Shh, it's okay." " Will you please stop telling me to calm down'?" "Shut up!" "I'm not nuts!" "There's one god damn psycho in this town and it's your kid Sheriff." "Jay, Jay" "That kid is touched by the devil." "Honey don't." " Let's take this somewhere else, come on." "This is okay with me right here." " Look, I am truly sorry about what happened but I have to believe my son." " Your son says a snowman pushed my son Billy." "Do you believe that'?" "Do you believe that'?" "There couldn't have been a fight." "Billy is two feet taller than Ryan." "Not anymore he ain't." "You haven't heard the last of this." "L, I believe that." "I believe that Jay." " And you watch the way you talk to me." "I'm not above punching an officer of the law if it calls for it." "Why don't you go home and calm down?" "We'll talk about this tomorrow." " 'Cause I can't talk about it tomorrow." "'Cause I got to look for a place to bury my son tomorrow." "Jill, Sally, we're going home, come on." "He's usually not so short tempered." "I know, I know." "I'm sorry." " All right, why don't we all just go on home, all right?" "Let's keep Billy in our prayers." "I didn't do it." "The snowman pushed him." "That's all he keeps saying." "He must be terrified." "I know Ryan." "I know." " You take a good long look at this face 'cause the next time you see it it's gonna tear your world apart." "I'll find a way." "I'll find a way." "I'll kill you and your whole" "I thought you destroyed those." "I wish it was that easy." " Sam, he's gone and he can't come back." "The only place he exists now is in here." "I'm gonna destroy these." "Oh, Jesus Sam." " Well, gosh sakes I could have shot you." "Well Sam hell, everybody knows you couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with a scatter gun." "Annie hi, evening." "Hi Paul." "Uh, where you want the salt?" "Garage is all locked up." "The salt?" "Why don't you just put it right there." " All right, didn't mean to scare you Sam." " That's all right were just a little jumpy tonight." "All right'?" "Oh, okay all right." "I'll see you in the morning." "All right." "Thanks for the salt." "20% off on the salt too." "I'll see you in the morning." " And I'll give you 20% off of that garbage can." "Paul, thank you." " Your snow shovel's not looking very good either." "Okay." " Don't ya think we ought to put the tree lights on'?" "Your son isn't cold five hours you want festivities." "I was only" "Yeah, well don't." "Hey!" "And where in God's name do you think you're prowling off to like some lady of the night?" "Our grief isn't good enough for you?" "You may not have cared for your little brother" "Jesus dad, I loved Billy." "Do not be forsaking the Lord's name in my house little girl!" " The Lord forsook this house long ago." "I'm going to see Tommy." "She's only talking back to you because she's upset." " Sally, when I want philosophy I'll turn on Oprah." "Finish my scarf." "I'm going to get more wood." "I'll make us a pot of tea." "Say pal, how about a smoke'?" "Who's that?" "What's that?" "Sam?" "Hey Sam." "Sam is that you?" "You come to make peace?" "Yeah, get it." "Put your back into it." "Come on, come on, you can do it." "That's my boy." "Get it, get it, oh very good." "All right, all right come on." "Come on you god damn psycho freak." "I'm ready for you." "Come out here where I can see you you Christ loathing dog." "I'm warning you." " Gosh, I only axed you for a smoke." " Oh Jake, if I've asked you once I've" "Oh." "Oh Jake, that's so sweet of you." "That's funny." "Oh." "Oh, sorry folks." "Shed was all blocked." "I didn't know where you wanted the salt." "Ho, ho, ho, and what's your name little boy'?" "Oh my god." " Always remember to dress up warm." "I just came over here to tell them all how sorry I was about Billy." "Jesus Sam." "All right, Joe." "We're gonna do this thing calmly." "I want you to get the photographer" " For Christ's sake, who the hell would do this?" "Well someone's got to go tell Jill her entire family's dead." "Jesus, she's only 18." "Keep it down Joe." "The whole town's gonna go crazy." "I need for you to keep it together." "We got a job to do." "We're gonna do it right." "First I want you to find Jill and I want you to get Doc Peters and bring him up here." "Take a look at Sally." " You don't reckon we should leave her up for the 12 days of Christmas then?" "Marla I want you to call around see if you can get a hold of Jill Metzner." "Oh, call the FBI in Denver too." "Some asshole named Manners." "Who are you'?" "I'm the asshole." "I'll get back to you later." "Well, this is an auspicious start we've gotten off to." "You must be Sheriff Tyler." "Yeah, Tyler." "I'm agent Manners." "FBI?" "Sure, why not." "And this is Stone." "Agent Stone." "Sheriff." "Why are you here?" " We've got a line on your Abraham Harper." " Old Man Harper, yeah, what about him?" "His death matches the MO of someone we've been tracking for some time now." " Yeah, well we've got two more deaths." "I was just about to try to get you on the phone." "Good." "Have the MV's been moved'?" "Motor vehicles?" " Have the murder victims been moved yet'?" " No, uh, Jake and Sally Metzner have not been moved yet." " Fine, first take me to the crime scene." "Excuse me, Jake and Sally's place." "If everything checks out as I think it will" "I'll have a task force in here by midnight." " This mean the case is being taken out of my hands?" "It was never in them Sheriff." "You were right the first time Sam." "Asshole." " I don't know why you're so interested in this dam footprint." "Whoever did this obviously came through the backdoor." "It was locked." "They locked it behind them." " You're obviously not a man of science Sheriff." "The latest advanced in forensics means that a footprint can be as accurate as a fingerprint." "I'm reading something." "What?" "Oh sweet Jesus look at this." "This thing is able to latently alter it's elemental molecular structure." "English Stone, English." "It can freeze and unfreeze at will." "It melted, came through the doggy door and refroze on the inside." " You mean Jack came through the doggy door and refroze on the inside." "What the hell have you let loose in this town?" "Now there should be lacerations to indicate where the handle of the ax we twisted from side to side to help it down." "But no, all the cuts are near vertical." "It forced the handle straight down." "That's immensely powerful." "Did you say it Doc'?" "I beg your pardon." "You said it instead of he or she." " Well, that's just a figure of speech Sam." "Whoever did this is an animal." "Metaphorically." "And, I found this backdoor key inside Jake's pocket." " How many backdoor keys do you own Doc?" "Just the one." "Me too." "So, how did those footprints walk into a locked backdoor'?" "Am I missing something?" "Oh no, nothing at all Agent Manners." "I'm just having some small town gossip here about some tractor pulls and a barn raising." "Right." "Well our equipment does in fact support your theory Sheriff." "The killer locked the door himself after entering." "He" " Sheriff I'm gonna need you to arrange a curfew for the rest of the night." "It'll be safer for everyone involved." " Are you gonna tell me what this is about?" " I'm afraid it's on a need to know basis Sheriff." "I'll have a task force in here by midnight." "You just keep your townsfolk out of my line of fire and we'll get along real fine." "Sure." "Now don't pout Sheriff." "You should be grateful." "You've got a madman on the loose in your town and I'm gonna take him out for you." "Sam." "What's this?" " Federally approved curfew regulations and procedures." "Yeah." "Evening Sam." "I'm afraid I haven't got round to turning the furnace on." "It's a trifle chilly inside." "Let's get it fired up Father." "Is everybody here?" "Pretty much yeah." "Yeah." "You seen Jill'?" " Uh, no a few of the kids are still missing." "Well let's round 'em up all right'?" "Come on Father I want to keep a close flock tonight." "Okay, now Father Branagh tells me the heating will be turned on any minute now." "Folks, folks, we have a situation." "Way to go Sam!" " All right now, let's just setting down all right?" "That ought to cheer everyone up." " Under the advisement of the local federal officers" "I am going to put the town under a 24 hour curfew." "Listen, I'm not gonna arrest you." "If you're just walking down the street" "I'm not gonna waste my time but this is for your own safety so I urge you to follow it." "Now Father Branagh has told me that he'll keep the church open." "You can sleep down here community style if you want." "That might be a good thing." "I want you to stay off the phones except in case of an emergency." "All right'?" "What the heck is going on out there?" "It's uh" "Paul Davrow." "Fucker's a snowman." "Paul, what are you talking about?" "No you don't understand." "Paul." "No, she had wires coming out of her." "She had little lights" "Paul." "It was a seven foot tall" "Paul." "Oh god." "Okay." "Well bravo Sheriff." "You didn't have to do that." " I hope this isn't a taste of what I can expect from this town under your direction." "It's nothing, all right'?" "We'll take care of him." "Well you better." "The man's a danger to the public and a possible hindrance to my operation." "Your what?" " You better get your act under control Sheriff or I'll have you replaced." "I would appreciate it if all you people would get off the streets." "Go darn a quilt or something." "What the hell's eating him?" "I bet ya it ain't his girlfriend." "You should have punched him out sir." "Joe, come here." "Get ahold of Paul." "Take him somewhere will ya?" "Let him cool off for a while down at the jail." "Come on Mr. Davrow." "Okay." "Big nose." "Okay." "Sharp teeth." "Chris." "Yeah." "I want you to go up to Paul's place." "Maybe you can find out what set him off." "Uh, maybe I should help out Joe." "You know, with Paul 'cause he's a big guy and he might be a little nasty later." "Chris." "Right, I'm on it." "Nah, sure Sam I'll go check it out." "I'll see what freaked everybody out." "No problem." "It's a madman on the loose." "Hey Deputy Chris Pullman captures madman." "Get the madman be a hero, fa la la la la la." "Whoa." "Okay." "I've heard of stuff happening, thermal updrafts." "Hey kids." "Hi." "Ryan, where's your mom?" " She went home to get some more blankets." "Did somebody go with her?" "I don't know." "Is she all right?" "Hey Joe!" "Sam'?" "Sam?" "Is that you?" "Deputy?" "I got it." "I got it." "Ice burst." "Lucky Sam sent me, huh?" " Don't you ever creep up on me like that again." " You ought to get these pipes fixed Mrs. Tyler." "We ought to fix you Joe." " I think we're gonna need a mop on this one." " And the roadblocks at 4th and Lacy completely seal off main avenue." "You're forgetting the church." " No Sheriff, the blockade is complete." "No, Father Branagh removed the fence here from the cemetery last week so this is all open field now." " All right, thank you very much Sheriff." "Anything else you care to share with me?" "No, not at the moment." "But if I think of something you'll be the first to know." "After you get that done though you want to get the fittings wrapped." "You can do that yourself." "Take some Teflon tape, no you can, you wrap the male fittings only." "You don't wrap the female fittings." "You've got to make sure you wrap them as you're looking down clockwise." "You wrap them counterclockwise, here you go Mrs. Tyler." "Then all the tape shreds off." "Also I noticed that your linoleum's starting to peel up there from all the water being on down there" "Get some caulk and get that back down there real easy." "Silicon caulk is probably better than" "I don't think they saw us." "Jill, I don't know about this." "I don't think it's such a good idea." " Come on, you want me to have fun don't you'?" "Or do you want me to sit around and get morbid'?" "Jill, this is Sheriff Tyler's house." "Exactly." "Are you gonna come or not?" "Jill." "No, no, no, no." "Don't turn on the lights." "I'll get all scared of the dark." "And then I'll need a really big boy to look after me." "." "Big boy?" "You're getting there." " If you want me I want a roaring log fire" "and a bottle of wine." "Come and get me when you're ready." "Yes." "If I wasn't anymore ready I'd explode." "Shit." "Need some ice." "Sheriff Tyler'?" "Sheriff, it's Tommy Davrow." "Look, uh, I'm not a burglar." "Sheriff?" "Who's out there?" "I said, who's out there?" "Who's out there?" "I said, who's out there?" "Well it ain't fucking Frosty." "You stay back man, all right?" "I'm gonna use this thing, all right?" "Listen, just stay back." "Just" "Ah." "What the hell are you?" "World's most pissed off snow cone." "No, no!" "Well what do you know, armed and dangerous." "Bottom of the ninth, four dead, here's the windup and the pitch." "Woo hoo, it's a long drive." "Thank you Tommy." "Tommy no." "Don't put cold water in." "Oh it's freezing." " Looks like Christmas came a little early this year." "Well, hope it was good for you honey." "Oh I must remember to send flowers." "Hey, bad Manners, this is for you." "Coffee?" "Yeah, please." "Just to the brim." "You heard from Chris yet?" "He was up at Paul Davrow's place." "Not that I know of." "Why don't you see if you can get him on the radio, okay?" "I'm worried about him." "Okay." " There's a storm moving in over Denver." "They can't get the choppers off the ground." "They'll be taking everyone in by road." "No way, never happen." " Might be a little late but they'll be here." "Oh no, tell him Marla." "No way." "We're dead center of the Snowmonton Bowl." "It's 20 miles uphill in any direction." "If it's anything like last week you won't even be able to get a snowplow across the highway in an hour from now." " You telling me that there's no way to get my men in here?" "Duh." "You can't let him escape." "Well don't you fret Agent Stone." "Nothing comes in, nothing gets out." "Ain't that right Manners'?" "Yeah right." "Tell me Sheriff, what sort of armory do you have here?" "Armory?" " What kind of weapons are available to us'?" " We're just a small town sheriff's office." "I told you conventional weapons will be useless against him." "We need the company." "Watch your mouth." "What are you two talking about?" "Nothing Sheriff." " I told you the company should have been called in to handle this whole thing." "Not some bureau mercenary." "You want to let me in on this?" " Sorry Sheriff, it's on a need to know basis and you don't." " Oh yeah, well I think I might need to know." "Oh boys, Chris is back." "I just heard his car pull up." "We're not finished." "His car's here." "Where's Chris?" "Chris?" "Wherever he is he's soaking wet." " Hey Sam, isn't this Jake Metznefls old scarf?" "Marla, Marla don't touch that." "What's the problem Sam?" "It's just a scarf." "Mother of god." "Nah, bitch couldn't make it." " I thought you said conventional weapons couldn't touch that thing." "Now look what you've gone and done!" "Mm-mm." "Inside." "Made in America." " Get out of the way, what are ya nuts?" "Get out of the way Stone." "What was that?" "What's this place made out of'?" "Got quarter inch steel in the walls and the ceilings, half inch plate in the windows." "That should hold us enough." "Enough for what?" "Tell me." " Sam, Sam all the outside lines are down." " We need something to fig ht back with." "What are we fighting?" "Look, I just saw something that doesn't belong in this world and it's out there killing my friends." "Now tell me what it is." "Jack Frost." "No, Jack Frost died." "Jack Frost changed." "He changed'?" "Who are you people?" "And don't give me this FBI bull crap." "Shut up, shut up, listen." "What is that?" "Sounds like water." "Oh my god." "What is it'?" "Oh Lord, the footprint at Jake and Sally's place." "I'll find a way!" "He came back." "All right, stand clear." "Dammit it's not working." " He's only vulnerable in his elemental state." "English Stone." " He can only be hurt when he's frozen." "Well then he can stick himself right back together again right?" "' 0h my god!" "Come on, come on." "Don't hurt him." "Oh, hey." "Come on, come on, come on." "Sam!" "Sheriff come on move it." "Don't hurt him!" "Shut up!" "Ah it's hot." "" Oops." "Uh oh." "Sam, come on hurry up." "Heat, we got to heat this place up." "You got to blow this place." "You got any cleaning supplies, aerosol's, something?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "We got a lot of them." "What are you doing'?" " I can't authorize this kind of action." "Nobody asked you to authorize it." "Stop this now." "Agent Manners your orders are to observe, restrain, and entrap." "Not question directives." "You see what's out there?" "What's out there is my proof." "Yeah, well fuck that." "Get him out of here now." "Come on." "Come on, come on hurry up." "Hurry UP" "Move it." "Damn, it's locked." "Stand back." " No, don't do that you'll blow the place." "Where's the fucking key?" "Oh heck." "Don't leave without me." "Come on, come on." "Come on, come on." "Sam!" "Sam where are you'?" "Oh shoot." "Come on." "Pick 'em up, pick 'em up." "No." "Sam we can't breathe here." "Don't leave me!" "Help me, help me." "Help me please." "I got the key Paul." "That one, that one, try that one." "I don't think that's" "Try it." "Easy Paul that's not it." "That one." "Paul, you're chocking me." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on." "Let's go, let's go, let's get out of here." "Killer snowmen." "Hurry, hurry, hurry he's coming." "I got it." "Hurry up, hurry UP" "All right, come on." "Come on, women and cowards first." "Come on go." "Give me his legs, give me his legs." "I'm sorry Jack." "Shut up." "Paul, Paul, need a forklift?" "Come on." "' Push!" "Come on." "Come on, come on." "Run." "Come on, shoot it." "Those are not your orders." " I hope somebody remembered to put out the cat." "Oh shit!" "We got him, we got him." "It's over now." "I don't know Paul." " I told you I'd take it out for you and I did." "He's come back before." "Oh maybe Manley's right." "What could have survived that?" "Look ma, I'm a Picasso." "You got to be shitting me." "Come on!" "Run!" " I'll be back when I pull myself together." "Hey, anyone got an aspirin?" "Oh my head." "Your place or mine?" "Yours." "Come on." "What the hell was that Sam'?" "It was a god damn snowman." "Look, we're all gonna have to fight this thing together." "Tell us what's out there'?" "Look, I need everybody here to work with me on this, all right." "I need you to stay calm." "I need you to trust these people." " Why in the hell should we trust these guys?" " Because we mightjust be your only hope." "That's right." "Sam, Sam wait, wait." " They're gonna send in some kind of snowmobile two hours at most." "Too late, now cut the crap." "I want to know who the hell you are." " Let's just say we're in damage control." "You I don't care about." "I want to know where you fit in." "Listen to me!" "We're in this together." "That thing has got to be destroyed." "What exactly are we up against?" " Not even the Secretary of Defense knows what I'm going." "Thank you." "No problem." "Do something." "Like what?" "Teach him how to shoot better?" "Welcome to the team doc." "Now talk to me." "Jack Frost was an accident." "It was meant to be next level genetic research." "To ensure the survival of our race through a global holocaust." "I created an acid that would bond a human chromosome helix with an inert material so that we could be resurrected in the future." "But something happened in the accident." "The snow didn't just store Jack Frost's DNA." "It's taken on his personality." "Exactly." "You know what that means?" "It means he's killing my friends." "No Sheriff." "It means that the soul exists." "And it's not just some esoteric spiritual entity or even a vague electrical force." "The soul is a chemical." "You're insane." "This isn't what we could be talking about right now." "Frost's manifestation is my proof." "It's invaluable, we cannot destroy it." "Don't you get it?" "Jack Frost came back here to get at me." "And he's gonna kill anybody who gets in his path." "If we don't destroy him he's gonna kill every last one of us." "I have no idea how to stop it." "We have to contain it." "How?" "We have to put him in an absolutely water tight container otherwise he's gonna leak out." "We can't risk that." "But to destroy it" "What do you want us to do Stone?" "Wait till spring and see if he melts?" " Wait, what about the furnace down in the basement?" "Surely that's hot enough to destroy him." "Well we tried blowing him up." "It just pissed him off." " I suppose it's possible that the sustained heat could agitate the molecules sufficiently to destroy the helix." " Fine, fine, but how the hell do we lure him down there?" "We don't lure him." "We force him." "What if he doesn't show?" "Jack was never one to miss a party." "You know I remember a night like this back in '79." "There were three of us holed up" "Shh, shh, shh." "What?" "You feel that?" "Feel what?" "I don't feel anyihing." "You don't feel that?" " A stampede of buffalo coming over the hill?" "What the hell is that?" " I think Jack's about to make an entrance." "Hey Jack!" "What?" "You left a 7110 split." "Why you, oh shit." "Can't we talk this over'?" "It's hot, it's hot, oh great another one." "My hair is dry fellas." "My face is melting." "MY EYES, my nose." "Oh that was" "No, no, no." "We iced him." "Oh baby." "Is it finished?" "Oh yeah, it's all gone honey." "Poof like magic." "I told you the snowman did it." "I need for you to get to a phone." "We're gonna need some medical help." "I love you too." "What about me'?" " No, you're gonna stick with dad, okay." "Fastest blow dryer in the west." "You know, at least you've still got your records, right." "You know it's at a time like this when I think all we can do is turn our eyes to the heaven's and say, oh shit." "Blow me." "Frost bite." "Next time we'll use mistletoe." "I need floss." "P" " Please we know it's you Jack." "Bah humbug." "Wait, wait." "I can help you." "Maybe turn you back." "But I'm having so much fun just the way I am." "Wait, wait, wait." "Then tell me what it's like to have breached death, a dream of every man on earth." "You're immoral." "How does that feel?" "Oh it feels cold!" "Put it on your head." "It's cold out here." "Listen I want you to wait in here forjust a minute." "I've got to talk to this guy." "Here." "Fuck it." "' Ryan!" "Dad." "Ryan open the door." "Quick, quick." "I'm scared dad." "Don't eat yellow snow." "Where's the key'?" "Where's he going'?" "It's coming in." " Don't touch it, don't let the water touch you." "Come here." "Get over here." "Now don't let it touch you." "Don't touch the water." "Here." "Dad." "Come on, come on." "Come on, come on." "I think your engine's flooded." "Locked." "Oh what a." "Go, hurry Ryan." "That a boy." "It's just you and me baby." "It's burning." "He's burning." "The oatmeal is making him burn." "Buddy what did you put in those oats?" "." "Sci"!" "" "No it's a good thing that you did." "I didn't want you to get cold." "Honey what did you put in the oats?" "Anti-Freeze." "I'm sorry." "You are so fucking dead." "Just what I was thinking Jack." "I can see your house from up here." " Anti-freeze, anti-freeze, you got any anti-freeze'?" "Oh yeah, yeah, I just got a load" " Oh, somebody get me the number of that truck." "I want you to get the anti-freeze." " Okay." "Put it in the truck." " Right." "I want you to be back here in five minutes." "Five minutes Paul." "Exactly five minutes." "Okay." " All right'?" "What about Ryan'?" "Ryan, go with Paul." "Get in the truck babe." "Five minutes Paul." "All right." " Looks like it's just you and me Jack." "And then there was one." "Hey Jack!" "What?" " What's the difference between snowmen and snow-women?" "I don't know." "No balls." "I'll finish this." "Ryan stay there." "" Go away!" "" We're busy!" "It's my husband." "Ryan, Ryan don't move." "It'll all be over soon." "Okay." "Under the bed, the closet." "Just hide." "Those stairs were a killer." "Is it cold in here or is it just me?" "Shall we dance?" "Oh, I feel a hug coming on." "Oh yeah, you have been the best so far." "Listen, I've got a point I'd like to make." "Quit wriggling will ya'?" "Oh, just a minute, let me see." "Oh I think it is, I think I got some flesh." "Oh yeah." "Oh, looks like I got right to the heart of the matter." "It's a gusher." "You're not gonna get my family." "Oh, going, going, gone." "I'm really looking forward to your wife dead man." "It's the cavalry asshole." "Come on honey!" "Come on honey!" "Come on baby!" "Poof" "All gone." "Yes." "Oh bravo, praise be to God." "Praise be to God." "Dad, you forgot this arm." "No Ryan!" "_ Help." "Drop him." " May no one break the seal of holy earth by which we now inter this evil" "on consecrated ground." "J1 Round yon virgin mother and" " J1" " Looks like the calvary has finally arrived." "So what do we tell the FBI Sam?" "Tell them it's too late." "J1 Sleep in heavenly peace" "J1 Sleep in heavenly peace J1"