Pick Me Up

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“Pick Me Up”
Masters of Horror episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 11
Guest stars	Fairuza Balk Michael Moriarty Warren Kole Paul Anthony Peter Benson Malcolm Kennard Laurene Landon
Written by	David J. Schow
Directed by	Larry Cohen
Production no.	111
Original airdate	January 20, 2006
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"Pick Me Up" is the eleventh episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on January 20, 2006. It was based on the short story by David J. Schow.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Two serial killers clash; one called Wheeler (Michael Moriarty) who kills hitchhikers he picks up in his truck, another named Walker (Warren Kole) who is a hitchhiker that slays whoever gives him a ride. A recently divorced woman (Fairuza Balk) falls in between the horrid turf war that transpires.

After a transport bus breaks down, the passengers, save for Stacia who left previously, find themselves murdered by the two twisted killers and in one case, a woman is left to die tied by her wrists around a tree branch and covered with barbed wire. Fascinated, Wheeler and Walker examine each others' kills. Wheeler murders a lovely woman (Laurene Landon) and hangs her body in the truck and pistol whips and decapitates a man with the sliding door of the luggage compartment. Walker slaughters a stoner punk and sexually assaults and skins his stoner girlfriend (in addition to "giving her a mouth" by using a tube of lipstick to draw a pair of lips on her duct-taped mouth).

The two demented urban legends clash over who will be Stacia's triumphant killer leading to a survival clash on the highway. Wheeler handcuffs and carries Stacia in tow where he then picks up Walker on the highway who stands in front of his truck. Ready to kill her and each other, Stacia slams on the brakes and sends the two murderous men through the windshield onto the road as well as causing the truck's cab to fall on its side. Stacia unsuccessfully struggles to get Walker's gun in her seatbelted imprisonment while the wounded Wheeler and Walker fight to prove who will kill her.

However, the most twisted ending is yet to come when Wheeler and Walker are killed by two even more demented ambulance drivers that plan to save Stacia for later.