No sooner have the Carters driven off, than Fred's pickup truck explodes - leaving him with no way to escape. ![]() Then he overhears Ruby pleading with Mercury and telling him that "Grandpa Fred" is running away. While Fred is pumping gas for the Carters, Doug enters the building and wanders into the room where Ruby was hiding - she is nowhere to be found, but Doug notices a broken window with fresh blood on the glass. Meanwhile, a sinister figure (Mercury) wearing a feathered headdress stealthily approaches the gas station. ![]() They ask Fred for directions, but he urges the family to stay on the main road, assuring them that the silver is long gone and that the Air Force uses the surrounding desert as a gunnery range. The Carters are traveling (in a station wagon and trailer) to Los Angeles, but are making a detour to visit a local silver mine - a gift for Bob and Ethel's 25th wedding anniversary the following day. The entourage also includes two German Shepherds named Beauty and The Beast. He is relieved to instead find a family wanting service: "Big Bob" Carter, a Cleveland police officer who retired early because of heart trouble his wife Ethel their three grown children, Lynne, Bobby and Brenda Lynne's husband, Doug and Lynne and Doug's infant daughter, Katy. The girl hides in a back room while Fred investigates. They are interrupted by a voice outside - possibly a state trooper, who would surely arrest Ruby. Ruby retorts that Jupiter would do the same to Fred. Realizing that Fred is planning to leave, Ruby pleads with him to take her along, but he laughs unkindly and sneers that she could never pass for "regular folk." Fred also tells Ruby that her father, Jupiter, would kill her if he knew of her plans. Fred warns her to be careful, as local authorities are investigating the robbery. ![]() She tells Fred that "we're hungry" and offers to trade items that were stolen from an Air Force PX. Fred is startled by the appearance of a ragged and somewhat feral young woman named Ruby. desert stands Fred's Oasis, a dilapidated gas station, where the curmudgeonly owner is packing his belongings into a pickup truck. Along an isolated stretch of road in the U.S.
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