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Mick Garris (creator)
David J. Schow (teleplay)
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Original Air Date:
20 January 2006 (Season 1, Episode 11)
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In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere--probably upstate New York--a recently divorced female traveler, who is a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers. full summary | add synopsis
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Gory but nonsensical - one of the weakest episodes from Season 1. more (30 total)
Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | Fairuza Balk | ... | Stacia |
 | Warren Kole | ... | Walker |
 | Michael Moriarty | ... | Jim Wheeler |
 | Laurene Landon | ... | Birdy |
| Malcolm Kennard | ... | Danny |
| Tom Pickett | ... | Bus Driver |
 | Peter Benson | ... | Deuce |
| Kristie Marsden | ... | Marie |
 | Michael Eklund | ... | Cashier |
 | Paul Anthony | ... | Stoney |
| Crystal Lowe | ... | Lily |
| Michael Petroni | ... | Ambulance Attendant |
| Mar Andersons | ... | Ambulance Driver |
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58 min
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The van in which Walker hitches a ride with Stoney and Lilly has Wyoming license plates. The first digit before the Wyoming Bucking Bronco denotes the county in which the vehicle is registered. In this case, county #1, which would be Natrona County. more
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Jim Wheeler: They're not human beings... They're just snakes in the snow... more
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References Bye Bye Birdie (1963) more
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Cult director Larry Cohen and mediocre genre scribe David Schow team up for "Pick Me Up," one of the weakest MOH episodes from Season One. The story follows a bunch of travelers whose bus breaks down in an isolated mountainous region. Some opt to go off to the nearest town with a trucker (played by Michael Moriarty, even more obnoxious than usual), some stay at the bus, and one tough-as-nails woman (Fairuza Balk) decides to walk off in the opposite direction on her own. She soon realizes that she's become a killer's prey, but she's unsure of who the killer is. This episode plays with the fear of hitchhiking--of both the hitchhiker and the driver. The story-line starts off decent and it's suspenseful enough, until you actually figure out what's going on. After that, it just descends into absurd nonsense, especially in its last 10 minutes or so. Cohen's trademark sense of black humor doesn't really pop up until the end, and by that point I was ready to throw the towel in. It does have it's high points -- it's fairly violent and the gore effects are well done. And Balk is excellent, as usual, though underused here. So it's gross enough to please horror fans, but it's not particularly original and the twists and turns are stupid, especially considering its otherwise serious tone.