"The Hitchhiker"
Dead Heat (1987)

Director:

Kees Van Oostrum

Writers:

Maurice Noel (teleplay)
William Rontog (story)

TV Series:

"The Hitchhiker" (1983)

Original Air Date:

3 March 1987 (Season 4, Episode 3)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide. |

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Violence | Obsession | Nudity | Supernatural

Cast

Page Fletcher	...	The Hitchhiker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Denise Galik	...	Arielle (as Denise Galik-Furey)
Scott McGinnis	...	Cal the drifter
Fred Ward	...	Luthor Redmond

Obsessions and sadistic art work backfires and goes up in flames!

This "Hitchhiker" episode is pretty underrated and really one of the better ones it's titled "Dead Heat" the story is a little crazy and sadistic, yet it twists just nice and neat at the end. Fred Ward stars as Luthor a rural country farmer type who's a sculptor, but he likes to sculpt the dead and their body parts! This man even has an obsession with death, like even recreating deaths thru sculptor. One day he picks up a woman Arielle(Denise Galik) who wants a new life, only Luthor takes her to his home to try and begin a new one for her. It gets even more compelling when a drifter appears named Cal(Scott McGinnis) a romance soon begins between Cal and Arielle. So Luthor has his own plans for the art of love with sculptors or should I say the art of death for the two. Only when you mess with a scorned love between two drifters your whole plan and game backfires and explodes in your face a crash for all! Really a good episode of the series well done and acted even if the plot was again strange and a little sadistic.