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 Schow.
On a two-lane highway that resembles Route 28 in upstate New York (appropriate, since Cohen was born in Kingston, New York, the road’s southern terminus), two serial killers clash in a turf war: one is named Wheeler (Cohen regular Michael Moriarty) who kills hitchhik...
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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 Schow.
On a two-lane highway that resembles Route 28 in upstate New York (appropriate, since Cohen was born in Kingston, New York, the road’s southern terminus), two serial killers clash in a turf war: one is named Wheeler (Cohen regular Michael Moriarty) who kills hitchhikers he picks up in his truck, and the other is named Walker (Warren Kole) who is a hitchhiker who murders whomever gives him a ride. Stacia (Fairuza Balk), a recently divorced woman, falls in between the clash of the killers.
After a transport bus breaks down, the driver and passengers, save for Stacia who left previously, are murdered by either of the two twisted killers. Fascinated, Wheeler and Walker examine each others' kills. Wheeler murders a woman (Laurene Landon) and hangs her body in the truck, and pistol whips and decapitates a man...
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