Scene 1 · Texas Backroad ShoulderMidday. A dead-straight Texas two-lane shimmering with heat. The white van cruises slow. Up ahead, strung out along the shoulder in a neat little paceline, rides a weekend cycling…Scene 2 · Texas Backroad ShoulderThe hunt begins. From Dusk Till Dawn meets Texas Chainsaw — the van swings out and the band goes to work on the cycling club. The carnage is gleeful and oblivious-victim comedy: cy…Scene 3 · Texas Backroad ShoulderThe cyclists are nearly finished, but Jukes's everywhere-murder is now a live hazard to the band. Vivian and Jukes-in-despair combine to fire indiscriminate dark magic across the w…Scene 4 · Band Van Interior CabBack in the van after the cyclists, the band is rattled. They finally try to TALK to Jukes about it — with the clumsy, well-meaning, totally-out-of-their-depth concern of people wh…Scene 5 · Texas Backroad ShoulderTwo clean-cut young missionaries — white shirts, black ties, name badges, backpacks — stand on the shoulder hopefully thumbing for a ride beside a sun-bleached barbed-wire fence. T…Scene 6 · Band Van Interior CabThe drive. The missionaries, packed into the gore-streaked cargo hold without quite processing what they're sitting in, earnestly attempt to save the souls of six damned mass-murde…Scene 7 · Texas Backroad ShoulderThe van pulls off onto the empty shoulder. The missionaries are coaxed out 'to pray together under the open sky.' Then the slaughter — sincere wholesomeness shredded mid-sentence.…Scene 8 · Texas Backroad ShoulderThe aftermath. The shoulder is a graveyard of bicycles and bibles. The band, scorched and rattled but alive, surveys the damage with their usual delight — but the mood is tinged no…
