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* CanadaEh: The episode is set on the US/Canada border, as Miller brought a group of US citizens to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their medications for free as part of a publicity stunt.
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When screaming is suddenly heard, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Gravely realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai ''needed'' her medication; it wasn't meant to keep her healthy, but to keep her penanggalan instincts and her appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, where they discover the mutilated bodies of the citizens from Miller's bus. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, and after failing to coax her out, she screeches at them and flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the interrogation room, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau everything that's happening is ultimately his (and Miller's) fault, and will only let him inside if he has the keys to his cuffs and Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than giving it to Mai's mother, he and Beau take turns hacking it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop Mai from crossing the border, mortally wounding her in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the interrogation room, slowly dropping and dying in front of her agonized mother.
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When screaming is suddenly heard, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Gravely realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai ''needed'' her medication; it wasn't meant to keep her healthy, but to keep her penanggalan instincts and her appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, where they discover the mutilated bodies of the citizens from Miller's bus. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, and after failing to coax her out, she screeches at them and flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the interrogation room, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau everything that's happening is ultimately his (and Miller's) fault, and will only let him inside if he has the keys to his cuffs and Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than giving it to Mai's mother, he and Beau take turns hacking it with a fire axe ax in an attempt to stop Mai from crossing the border, mortally wounding her in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the interrogation room, slowly dropping and dying in front of her agonized mother.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks the girl's discarded body with a fire axe.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks the girl's discarded body with a fire axe.ax.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their headless discarded body. Miller and Beau manage to put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own body with a fire axe, but Mai cheats their attempts by taking control of her own mother's headless corpse.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a campaign ad where Miller advises how the government needs to do more to allow universal access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in this ad is a lie as he watches it, no doubt having seen countless other politicans' bullshit ads.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a campaign ad where Miller advises how the government needs to do more to allow universal access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in this ad is a lie as he watches it, no doubt having seen countless other politicans' bullshit ads.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their headless discarded body. Miller and Beau manage to put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own body with a fire axe, ax, but Mai cheats their attempts by taking control of her own mother's headless corpse.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a campaign ad where Miller advises how the government needs to do more to allow universal access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in this ad is a lie as he watches it, no doubt having seen countless otherpoliticans' politicians' bullshit ads.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a campaign ad where Miller advises how the government needs to do more to allow universal access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in this ad is a lie as he watches it, no doubt having seen countless other
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* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his racism and constant lying. In doing so, the devestated mother allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, which she uses to reach Miller's bus and escape to the USA.
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* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his racism and constant lying. In doing so, the devestated devastated mother allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, which she uses to reach Miller's bus and escape to the USA.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look like a man people want to vote for.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any curveballs curve balls thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look like a man people want to vote for.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a penanggalan, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from the neck that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a penanggalan can be only be wounded or killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the creature's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a penanggalan, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from the neck that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a penanggalan can be only be wounded or killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the creature's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
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* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend nearly all of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving Mai her pills and causing her to transform and go on her rampage. It's aleviated by the fact that neither of them were aware of the potential ramifications.
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* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend nearly all of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving Mai her pills and causing her to transform and go on her rampage. It's aleviated alleviated by the fact that neither of them were aware of the potential ramifications.
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* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a killing spree when she is denied her appetite-suppressing pills. Before she transforms, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
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* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a killing spree when she is denied her appetite-suppressing appetite-suppressant pills. Before she transforms, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Mai, who starts devouring people when she is denied her "special" medication and her instincts resurface, takes control of her mother's body and manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border, and if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's little incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the his cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Mai, who starts devouring people when she is denied her "special" medication and her instincts resurface, takes control of her mother's body and manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border, and if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's little incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the his cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
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!!Drug Traffic
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!! Drug Traffic
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of the of her medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read. This prompts the racist Miller, who apparently thought all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask her "What the hell kind of Asian ''are'' you?"
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of the boxes of her medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read. This prompts the racist Miller, who apparently thought all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask her "What the hell kind of Asian ''are'' you?"
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On the U.S./Canada Border, border security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement on a nearby television. The advertisement features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government's healthcare system is outrageously flawed, and is not doing enough to establish an easy method for citizens to receive their medications. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. Miller exits and begins directing his crew to set up shop as a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their medications as part of a publicity stunt. As Miller makes a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to the basic human right that is access to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at Jonah, a young boy in the crowd, as her stomach growls. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai some of the pills she's carrying to take her mind off it.
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On the U.S./Canada Border, border security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) of the Border Patrol sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement on a nearby television. The advertisement features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government's healthcare system is outrageously flawed, and is not doing enough to establish an easy method for citizens to receive their medications. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. Miller exits and begins directing his crew to set up shop as a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their medications as part of a publicity stunt. As Miller makes a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to the basic human right that is access to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at Jonah, a young boy in the crowd, as her stomach growls. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai some of the pills she's carrying to take her mind off it.
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When screaming is suddenly heard, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Gravely realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai ''needed'' her medication; it wasn't meant to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and her appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, where they discover the mutilated bodies of the citizens from Miller's bus. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, and after failing to coax her out, she screeches at them and flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the interrogation room, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau everything that's happening is ultimately his (and Miller's) fault, and will only let him inside if he has the keys to his cuffs and Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than giving it to Mai's mother, he and Beau take turns hacking it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop Mai from crossing the border, mortally wounding her in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the interrogation room, slowly dropping and dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophical about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, then hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from the broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. As her mother gives her daughter one last dying smile, Mai proceeds to levitate once again and attaches herself to her mother's headless body. Mai quickly takes control of her mother's body, biting off the restrained hand to free herself.
With her new body, Mai stumbles out of the building and heads towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard. An animated epilogue shows the two of them driving the bus into the States together.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophical about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, then hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from the broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. As her mother gives her daughter one last dying smile, Mai proceeds to levitate once again and attaches herself to her mother's headless body. Mai quickly takes control of her mother's body, biting off the restrained hand to free herself.
With her new body, Mai stumbles out of the building and heads towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard. An animated epilogue shows the two of them driving the bus into the States together.
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When screaming is suddenly heard, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Gravely realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai ''needed'' her medication; it wasn't meant to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue penanggalan instincts and her appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, where they discover the mutilated bodies of the citizens from Miller's bus. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, and after failing to coax her out, she screeches at them and flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the interrogation room, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau everything that's happening is ultimately his (and Miller's) fault, and will only let him inside if he has the keys to his cuffs and Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than giving it to Mai's mother, he and Beau take turns hacking it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop Mai from crossing the border, mortally wounding her in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the interrogation room, slowly dropping and dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophical about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, then hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from the broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. As her mother gives her daughter one last dying smile, Mai proceeds to levitate once again and attaches herself to her mother's headless body. Mai quickly takes control of her mother's body, biting off the restrained hand to freeherself.
herself. With her new body, Mai stumbles out of the building and heads towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard. aboard.
An animated epilogue shows thetwo of them Creep driving the bus back into the States together.
US, with Mai's penanggalan form clutched in his hand and being stuck out the window.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophical about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, then hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from the broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. As her mother gives her daughter one last dying smile, Mai proceeds to levitate once again and attaches herself to her mother's headless body. Mai quickly takes control of her mother's body, biting off the restrained hand to free
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* AntiHero: One of them is the protagonist of the story. Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected President. He works together with Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded headless body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her pills, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh or the large amount of pills she's been swallowing, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their discarded headless body. Miller and Beau manage to (briefly) put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own discarded body with a fire axe.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a political advertisement where Miller advises that the government needs to do better work in allowing access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in said ad is a lie as he watches it.
* AttentionWhore: Miller, who uses any new developments in the episode to make himself look like a hero.
** Beau spends a short time as one himself, detaining Mai's mother mainly to force his own political agenda down her throat.
* TheBadGuyWins: Mai, the main supernatural threat of the episode, who starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the former's cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, which she uses to reach Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
* CallBack: While transformed, Mai makes the same sounds as the reanimated Bloom from [[Recap/CreepshowS3E1Mums Mums.]]
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller's campaign bus for Mai. As seen in a brief animated epilogue, they cross the border together.
* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, since Miller brought the citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: Miller cracks a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming. Beau jokes that the camera person should sell it to the highest bidder.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work. He's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the main hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, has his cameraperson illegally film the behind-the-scenes actions at a border crossing, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller state, the entire massacre could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication.
* TheCynic: Miller is revealed to be one at the end of the story, merely doing what his political team tells him to, admitting that he doesn't want to fight battles neither party wants to win, and only wanting to be President to avoid doing a regular job.
* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first thing Miller does in response is make a break for it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mai and her mother are glimpsed in Miller's ad, which is played a couple of minutes before they are formally introduced.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, after constantly feuding with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story while sharing a drink.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman (later revealed to be his wife) from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails underneath it.
* ForeShadowing: Mai glares at Jonah, the young boy she ultimately devours, before she transforms early in the episode.
* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he's arguing with Miller and telling him that he knows full well he's a sham.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a life just like any other kid her age, despite the fact that she transforms into a flesh-eating monster when denied food or her pills.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted version. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies while smiling at her daughter's face.
* GrowlingGut: Before she transforms, Mai's stomach is heard fiercely growling. This hints at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded headless body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her pills, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh or the large amount of pills she's been swallowing, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their discarded headless body. Miller and Beau manage to (briefly) put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own discarded body with a fire axe.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a political advertisement where Miller advises that the government needs to do better work in allowing access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in said ad is a lie as he watches it.
* AttentionWhore: Miller, who uses any new developments in the episode to make himself look like a hero.
** Beau spends a short time as one himself, detaining Mai's mother mainly to force his own political agenda down her throat.
* TheBadGuyWins: Mai, the main supernatural threat of the episode, who starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the former's cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, which she uses to reach Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
* CallBack: While transformed, Mai makes the same sounds as the reanimated Bloom from [[Recap/CreepshowS3E1Mums Mums.]]
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller's campaign bus for Mai. As seen in a brief animated epilogue, they cross the border together.
* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, since Miller brought the citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: Miller cracks a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming. Beau jokes that the camera person should sell it to the highest bidder.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work. He's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the main hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, has his cameraperson illegally film the behind-the-scenes actions at a border crossing, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller state, the entire massacre could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication.
* TheCynic: Miller is revealed to be one at the end of the story, merely doing what his political team tells him to, admitting that he doesn't want to fight battles neither party wants to win, and only wanting to be President to avoid doing a regular job.
* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first thing Miller does in response is make a break for it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mai and her mother are glimpsed in Miller's ad, which is played a couple of minutes before they are formally introduced.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, after constantly feuding with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story while sharing a drink.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman (later revealed to be his wife) from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails underneath it.
* ForeShadowing: Mai glares at Jonah, the young boy she ultimately devours, before she transforms early in the episode.
* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he's arguing with Miller and telling him that he knows full well he's a sham.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a life just like any other kid her age, despite the fact that she transforms into a flesh-eating monster when denied food or her pills.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted version. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies while smiling at her daughter's face.
* GrowlingGut: Before she transforms, Mai's stomach is heard fiercely growling. This hints at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Despite being a member of the United States Border Patrol, Beau was "reassigned" to the distant North for his Communist beliefs and had his regular duties taken over by mechanical passport scanners, which has largely reduced him to maintenance and janitorial work. Despite this, he proves to have an intensive knowledge of Miller's true nature and correctly notes that Mai's mother is carrying several boxes of pills known to be illegal in the US. He also charges into the fray when Mai transforms, and is the one to learn that she can be killed via damaging her discarded body.
* AntiHero:One of them is Beau, a Border Patrol officer with Communist beliefs and a total disdain for the protagonist inherent corruption of the story. American government, works to stop Mai from crossing the border and eating US citizens.
* AntiVillain: Evan Miller, a racistpolitician congressman running for President who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected President. He voters, similarly works together with Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, Beau to stop Mai from crossing the border.
Mai.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacksup her the girl's discarded headless body.
body with a fire axe.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth:Mai has her Mai's appetite for human flesh is suppressed by her pills, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether Whether it's the lack of flesh or the large amount of pills she's been swallowing, but it makes her appear she appears deathly ill.
ill before she transforms.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their headless discardedheadless body. Miller and Beau manage to (briefly) put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own discarded body with a fire axe.
axe, but Mai cheats their attempts by taking control of her own mother's headless corpse.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with apolitical advertisement campaign ad where Miller advises that how the government needs to do better work in allowing more to allow universal access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in said this ad is a lie as he watches it.
it, no doubt having seen countless other politicans' bullshit ads.
* AttentionWhore:Miller, who Miller uses any every new developments in development the episode to situation throws at him make himself look like a hero.
** Beau spends ashort brief time as one himself, detaining Mai's mother mainly to force shove his own political agenda down her throat.
* TheBadGuyWins: Mai,the main supernatural threat of the episode, who starts devouring people when she is denied her "special" medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she resurface, takes control of her mother's body and manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If border, and if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's little incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the former's his cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for hisactions, but in racism and constant lying. In doing so, the former devestated mother allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, which she uses to reach Miller's bus and drives it escape to the USA.
* {{Bookends}}: Miller's bus arrives at the border in the beginning to be readmitted into theUSA.
States. Mai and the Creep take the bus back into America at the end of the episode.
* CallBack: While transformed, Mai makes the same soundsas that the reanimated Bloom made from [[Recap/CreepshowS3E1Mums Mums.]]
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller'scampaign bus for Mai. As seen in a brief animated epilogue, they cross the border together.
* CanadaEh: The episode is setat on the US/Canada border, since as Miller brought the a group of US citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their medications for free as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: Miller cracks a racist remark to Mai's mother during herinterrogation while interrogation, and his cameraperson is filming. films it illegally. Beau jokes that promptly tells the camera person should cameraperson to sell it the tape to the highest bidder.
bidder in an effort to tank the congressman's reputation.
* ChildEater: Mai's first victim is Jonah, a little boy who was on the same bus as her and her mother.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admitsto Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views crapping on the US government had him relocated reassigned to the far north by his superiors in the Border Patrol, who essentially Patrol. In being reassigned, he was replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him was largely demoted to janitorial work. He's Despite this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain legitimate grievances about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
daughter as women and minorities.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms,which and she uses it to lure Jonah to the main hall entrance so she can feast feed on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who usesthe a large number of ailing citizens that he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from eager voters, has his cameraperson illegally film the behind-the-scenes actions at a border crossing, and doesn't really actually want to change his racist, do-nothing racist mindset, or even make any real changes at all. The end has him basically admitting to Beau that he only wanting wants to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Millerstate, the entire discuss, Mai's massacre could've been avoided entirely if Mai she was allowed to take her medication. It's rather hypocritical considering they were the ones who kept Mai's mother from bringing her daughter said medication.
* TheCynic: Miller is revealed to be one at the end of thestory, episode, merely doing what his political team tells him to, admitting that he doesn't want to fight battles neither political party wants to win, and only wanting to be President to avoid doing a regular job.
* DirtyCoward: When Maienacts goes on her killing spree, the first thing Miller does in response is make a break for it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mai and her mother are glimpsed in Miller's campaign ad,which is played a couple of minutes before they are formally introduced.
* EnemyMine:Beau and Miller, after constantly After spending the episode feuding with one another over their political and ideological differences, Beau and Miller end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story story, while sharing a drink.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true natureis revealed. overrides her humanity. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman (later revealed to be his wife) from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails dangling underneath it.
*ForeShadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the episode, Mai glares at Jonah, the young boy she ultimately devours, before she transforms early in the episode.
during Miller's speech.
* GenreSavvy: Beaucould can apparently decipher Miller's entire deal true motives just by watching his political campaign ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he's arguing with Miller and telling him that about how he knows full well that he's a sham.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a normal lifejust like any other kid her age, despite the fact that she transforms into a flesh-eating monster when she's denied food or her pills.
* GoodParents: A partially twistedversion. version with Mai's mother mother, who sticks up for her daughter to the bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, monster and is willing to murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, whoslowly dies while smiling at giving a last smile to her daughter's face.
wounded daughter.
* GrowlingGut: Before she transforms, Mai's stomach is heard fiercelygrowling. This hints at the fact growling, hinting that she is being denied her primary food source: choice of food: human flesh.
* AntiHero:
* AntiVillain: Evan Miller, a racist
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks
* AppetiteEqualsHealth:
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their headless discarded
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a
* AttentionWhore:
** Beau spends a
* TheBadGuyWins: Mai,
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his
* {{Bookends}}: Miller's bus arrives at the border in the beginning to be readmitted into the
* CallBack: While transformed, Mai makes the same sounds
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller's
* CanadaEh: The episode is set
* CaughtOnTape: Miller cracks a racist remark to Mai's mother during her
* ChildEater: Mai's first victim is Jonah, a little boy who was on the same bus as her and her mother.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms,
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller
* TheCynic: Miller is revealed to be one at the end of the
* DirtyCoward: When Mai
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mai and her mother are glimpsed in Miller's campaign ad,
* EnemyMine:
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails dangling underneath it.
*
* GenreSavvy: Beau
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a normal life
* GoodParents: A partially twisted
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who
* GrowlingGut: Before she transforms, Mai's stomach is heard fiercely
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* HeroicSacrifice: A villainous example. Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
* HonorBeforeReason: Beau and Miller, just when the former is about to release Mai's mother, get into a huge argument about their stances on the mother's plight, keeping her locked up long enough for Mai to transform and go on her rampage.
* HorrorHunger: As a krasue, Mai feasts primarily on human flesh.
* IgnoredExpert: Mai's mother knows full well what will happen if she doesn't get back to her daughter, but Beau and Miller keep her detained for the sake of their petty feud.
* ImAHumanitarian: A penanggalan's primary source of food is human flesh, and denying them of their food source renders them weak and sickly.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller a beer to help him lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read. This prompts the racist Miller, who apparently thought that all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask her "What the hell kind of Asian ''are'' you?"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any new curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look good.
* JerkAss: Miller, the crooked politician.
* JustFollowingOrders: In spite of his concern for Mai's mother and her "sick" daughter, Beau still detains and cuffs her because he still needs to do his job, especially since Miller is (illegally) filming him.
* KarmaHoudini: Mai gets off scott free, riding off into the sunset after murdering and eating multiple people, including a child. Miller, in spite of his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, also isn't punished for anything he does in the episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits that he wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her mother's cuffed hand off to free herself.
* TheMenInBlack: One of them serves as Miller's personal bodyguard. He unfortunately becomes Mai's second victim.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but actually to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
* HonorBeforeReason: Beau and Miller, just when the former is about to release Mai's mother, get into a huge argument about their stances on the mother's plight, keeping her locked up long enough for Mai to transform and go on her rampage.
* HorrorHunger: As a krasue, Mai feasts primarily on human flesh.
* IgnoredExpert: Mai's mother knows full well what will happen if she doesn't get back to her daughter, but Beau and Miller keep her detained for the sake of their petty feud.
* ImAHumanitarian: A penanggalan's primary source of food is human flesh, and denying them of their food source renders them weak and sickly.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller a beer to help him lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read. This prompts the racist Miller, who apparently thought that all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask her "What the hell kind of Asian ''are'' you?"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any new curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look good.
* JerkAss: Miller, the crooked politician.
* JustFollowingOrders: In spite of his concern for Mai's mother and her "sick" daughter, Beau still detains and cuffs her because he still needs to do his job, especially since Miller is (illegally) filming him.
* KarmaHoudini: Mai gets off scott free, riding off into the sunset after murdering and eating multiple people, including a child. Miller, in spite of his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, also isn't punished for anything he does in the episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits that he wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her mother's cuffed hand off to free herself.
* TheMenInBlack: One of them serves as Miller's personal bodyguard. He unfortunately becomes Mai's second victim.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but actually to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
to:
* HeroicSacrifice: A villainous example. example seen as justified from the victim's point of view. Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai her daughter can take over her headless body and use it to reach the United States.
* HonorBeforeReason: Beau and Miller, justwhen as the former is about to release Mai's mother, get into a huge argument about their stances on the mother's poor woman's plight, keeping her locked up long enough for Mai to transform and go on her rampage.
a feeding frenzy.
* HorrorHunger: As akrasue, penanggalan, Mai feasts primarily on human flesh.
* IgnoredExpert: Mai's mother knowsfull well ''exactly'' what will happen if she doesn't get back to her daughter, daughter immediately, but Beau and Miller keep her detained for the sake of their petty feud.
argument.
* ImAHumanitarian: A penanggalan's primary source of food is human flesh, and denying them oftheir food source such flesh renders them weak and sickly.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stoppingMai, Mai from reaching the States, Beau offers Miller a beer to help him lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of the of herboxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read. This prompts the racist Miller, who apparently thought that all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask her "What the hell kind of Asian ''are'' you?"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses anynew curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look good.
like a man people want to vote for.
* JerkAss: Miller, the crookedpolitician.
politician who uses Mai's rampage as a means to make himself look like a hero.
*JustFollowingOrders: JustDoingMyJob: In spite of his genuine concern for Mai's mother and her "sick" daughter, Beau still detains has to detain and cuffs cuff her because he still needs has a job to do his job, do, especially since Miller is (illegally) filming him.
* KarmaHoudini: Mai gets off scottfree, riding off into the sunset after free for murdering and eating multiple people, including a child. Miller, in spite of his actions inadvertently causing child, ending the episode by escaping into the US.
** As well as Maito transform and go on her rampage, escaping, Miller also isn't punished for anything he does in the episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
promises and his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform in the first place.
* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits to Beau that he wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites off hermother's cuffed hand off to free herself.
* MamaBear: Mai's mother turns violent when she learns her daughter has transformed, swiping Beau's gun and firing at him while rebuking him and Miller for denying Mai her medicine.
* TheMenInBlack: One of them serves as Miller's personal bodyguard. Heunfortunately becomes Mai's second victim.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from gettingsick, but actually sick. It's to keep her krasue penanggalan instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
* HonorBeforeReason: Beau and Miller, just
* HorrorHunger: As a
* IgnoredExpert: Mai's mother knows
* ImAHumanitarian: A penanggalan's primary source of food is human flesh, and denying them of
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of the of her
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any
* JerkAss: Miller, the crooked
*
* KarmaHoudini: Mai gets off scott
** As well as Mai
* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits to Beau that he wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites off her
* MamaBear: Mai's mother turns violent when she learns her daughter has transformed, swiping Beau's gun and firing at him while rebuking him and Miller for denying Mai her medicine.
* TheMenInBlack: One of them serves as Miller's personal bodyguard. He
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting
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** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead Ale".]] As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead Breweries.]]
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in the main hall, situated on Beau's desk.
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in the main hall, situated on Beau's desk.
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** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with full of cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead Ale".]] As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead Breweries.]]
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in themain hall, entrance, situated on Beau's desk.
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in the
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* NoNameGiven: Mai's mother.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they turned out to have more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach herself to the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a penanggalan/krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure her daughter is okay. She ends up making the ultimate sacrifice for her child in the end.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's pills. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the things are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai a krasue? Was she always one, or was she transformed into one through some kind of dark magic? The circumstances for why she is what she is are intentionally left vague.
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horror movies, including ''Film/{{Piranha}}'', ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps''.
* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend much of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter her pills and causing her to transform. Aleviated by the fact that neither of them are aware of the potential transformation.
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in the ending.
* StrawCharacter: Subverted. Miller claims to be a far-left politician who is relying on healthcare reform to get elected. It's actually revealed to be a façade he puts on for the cameras, and he's actually a LazyBum who doesn't give a shit about anyone and anything (including his wife, who Mai kills) besides getting himself elected just so he can avoid doing a regular job.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search for any food to snack on throughout the building, only to fail and transform into her true form.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite-suppressing medication. Before she transforms, she's a deathly ill teenage girl.
* TransformationDiscretionShot: Mai's transformation is censored thanks to her being behind Beau's counter.
* VillainProtagonist: Miller, the racist, crooked politician who only cares about making himself look good.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from some sort of withdrawal and that her mother is a trafficker.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boy from the waiting room.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they turned out to have more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach herself to the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a penanggalan/krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure her daughter is okay. She ends up making the ultimate sacrifice for her child in the end.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's pills. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the things are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai a krasue? Was she always one, or was she transformed into one through some kind of dark magic? The circumstances for why she is what she is are intentionally left vague.
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horror movies, including ''Film/{{Piranha}}'', ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps''.
* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend much of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter her pills and causing her to transform. Aleviated by the fact that neither of them are aware of the potential transformation.
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in the ending.
* StrawCharacter: Subverted. Miller claims to be a far-left politician who is relying on healthcare reform to get elected. It's actually revealed to be a façade he puts on for the cameras, and he's actually a LazyBum who doesn't give a shit about anyone and anything (including his wife, who Mai kills) besides getting himself elected just so he can avoid doing a regular job.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search for any food to snack on throughout the building, only to fail and transform into her true form.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite-suppressing medication. Before she transforms, she's a deathly ill teenage girl.
* TransformationDiscretionShot: Mai's transformation is censored thanks to her being behind Beau's counter.
* VillainProtagonist: Miller, the racist, crooked politician who only cares about making himself look good.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from some sort of withdrawal and that her mother is a trafficker.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boy from the waiting room.
to:
* NoNameGiven: Mai's mother.
mother doesn't have any given name.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussionabout on the fact that they turned out to have so much more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead:Since she's As a krasue, penanggalan, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also later decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, at life, allowing Mai to attach herself to the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As apenanggalan/krasue, penanggalan, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it the neck that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue penanggalan can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's creature's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure that her daughteris okay. gets access to the US so she can live her life. She ends up making the ultimate sacrifice for her child Mai in the end.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's pills. It's never revealed what the ingredientsof the things are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting swallowing them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
transforming.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and thenjust whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
jaws.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai akrasue? penanggalan? Was she always one, or was she transformed into one through some kind of dark magic? The circumstances for why she is what she is she's a monster are intentionally left vague.
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horrormovies, movies throughout the 20th century, including ''Film/{{Piranha}}'', ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps''.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Mai's shadow is seen through the windows of the waiting room as she glides over to it.
* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spendmuch nearly all of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter Mai her pills and causing her to transform. Aleviated transform and go on her rampage. It's aleviated by the fact that neither of them are were aware of the potential transformation.
ramifications.
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in theending.
ending, since he only wants to be President so he doesn't have to do a regular job.
* StrawCharacter: Subverted. Congressman Miller claims to be a far-left politician who is relying on healthcare reform to get elected. It'sactually revealed in the end to be a façade he puts on for the cameras, and he's actually a LazyBum who doesn't give a shit about anyone and anything (including his own wife, who Mai kills) besides getting himself elected just so he can avoid doing working a regular job.
* TakeThat: To the United States government's faulty healthcare system, the nuances of Border Patrol detainment, and the inherent corruption of candidates for office.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search the building forany food to snack on throughout the building, on, only to fail and transform into her true form.
behind Beau's desk.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on arampage after killing spree when she is denied her appetite-suppressing medication. pills. Before she transforms, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
* TransformationDiscretionShot: Mai's transformation is censored thanks to her being behind Beau'scounter.
desk.
* VillainProtagonist: Miller, theracist, racist and crooked politician who only cares about making himself look good.
good to gain the presidency, which he only wants so he doesn't have to get a real job.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomitssome of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai the girl is suffering from some sort of withdrawal and that her mother is a trafficker.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mai's mother starves her daughter of her regular "food source" and shoves unknown, foreign medication down her throat, making her gravely sick. But at the same time, she does this so her daughter's true nature isn't revealed and so she can just live a normal life.
** When Mai transforms, she swipes Beau's pistol and fires at him, rightly blaming him and Miller for depriving her daughter of her medicine and only easing up on the offense if her daughter's body is brought to her.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boyfrom she meets early in the waiting room.episode.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion
* OffWithHisHead:
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure that her daughter
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's pills. It's never revealed what the ingredients
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and then
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai a
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horror
* SinisterSilhouettes: Mai's shadow is seen through the windows of the waiting room as she glides over to it.
* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in the
* StrawCharacter: Subverted. Congressman Miller claims to be a far-left politician who is relying on healthcare reform to get elected. It's
* TakeThat: To the United States government's faulty healthcare system, the nuances of Border Patrol detainment, and the inherent corruption of candidates for office.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search the building for
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a
* TransformationDiscretionShot: Mai's transformation is censored thanks to her being behind Beau's
* VillainProtagonist: Miller, the
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mai's mother starves her daughter of her regular "food source" and shoves unknown, foreign medication down her throat, making her gravely sick. But at the same time, she does this so her daughter's true nature isn't revealed and so she can just live a normal life.
** When Mai transforms, she swipes Beau's pistol and fires at him, rightly blaming him and Miller for depriving her daughter of her medicine and only easing up on the offense if her daughter's body is brought to her.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boy
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* AngstWhatAngst: Miller doesn't really feel any sympathy for all those who Mai killed, including ''his wife.''
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* TheWoobie: Mai's mother, who sticks by her daughter even though she is a flesh-eating monster, and was only trying to suppress her hunger for human flesh because she loves her.
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* AntiHero: Two of them are the protagonists of the story. Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected President, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
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* AntiHero: Two One of them are is the protagonists protagonist of the story. Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected President, work President. He works together with Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, to stop Mai from crossing the border.
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* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the main supernatural threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", since she's only doing what's in her nature, and only starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the former's cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
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* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is Mai, the main supernatural threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", since she's only doing what's in her nature, and only who starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau, especially since the former's cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
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* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to crack a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to tank his reputation.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work. In spite of this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work. In spite of this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
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* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to crack cracks a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them filming. Beau jokes that the camera person should sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to tank his reputation.
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* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work.In spite of this, he's He's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller state, the entire massacre could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they clarify that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication legally, they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller state, the entire massacre could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they clarify that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication legally, they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility. Even if he's a proud Communist who craps on the American government, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, and he shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, admitting that he's genuinely sorry about how the "corrupt government system" has failed her as a woman and a minority. While he ''is'' partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he was just doing his job, and clearly couldn't have expected Mai to have been a literal monster.
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* GoodParents: A partially twisted and partially heart-warming version. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
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* GoodParents: A partially twisted and partially heart-warming version. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Mai's mother's reasoning for everything she does during the episode is to let her daughter live her life in spite of her "sickness".
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Mai's mother's reasoning for everything she does during the episode is to let her daughter live her life in spite of her "sickness".
"sickness."
* HeroicSacrifice: A villainous example. Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
* HeroicSacrifice: A villainous example. Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
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* KarmaHoudini: In spite of his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, Miller isn't punished for anything he does in the episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
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* KarmaHoudini: In Mai gets off scott free, riding off into the sunset after murdering and eating multiple people, including a child. Miller, in spite of his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, Miller also isn't punished for anything he does in the episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
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* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed Communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
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* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend much of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter her pills and causing her to transform.
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* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend much of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter her pills and causing her to transform. Aleviated by the fact that neither of them are aware of the potential transformation.
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* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first thing he does is make a break for it.
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* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first thing he Miller does in response is make a break for it.
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* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he arguing with Miller and tells him that he knows full well he's a sham.
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* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he he's arguing with Miller and tells telling him that he knows full well he's a sham.
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* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first
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On the U.S./Canada Border, border security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement on a nearby television. The advertisement features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government's healthcare system is outrageously flawed, and is not doing enough to establish an easy method for citizens to receive their medications. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. Miller exits and begins directing his crew to set up shop as a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their medications as part of a publicity stunt. As Miller makes a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to the basic human right that is access to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd as her stomach growls. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai some of the pills she's carrying to take her mind off it.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the States. After instructing the citizens on how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation. Having watched his ad, Beau tells Miller that he's aware that he doesn't really practice what he preaches, and rebukes him for quoting Marx to his face. Miller fires back that Beau must be some kind of backwoods manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to. He reveals that it was because of his communist beliefs that the Border Patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits half-digested pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. Beau then pulls Mai's mother out of line for an inspection of potential contraband. While rooting through her purse, Beau discovers that the mother has been carrying several boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, a far higher number than the maximum medication allowed. Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the developing situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to a waiting room until any and all remaining matters are sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a huge bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time, offering to calm her by getting her some water. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food. When she is unable to find any, she collapses and undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation room, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her situation, but he says that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are (illegally) filming him, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother tells him that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller engage in a lengthy argument about their different ideologies regarding the situation. Beau brings up the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous boxes of illegal drugs and is a supposed trafficker, and when it becomes apparent that Miller isn't listening to what he's saying and continues flaunting his ideals, Beau calls him out for not caring about the ramifications of the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero that everyone wants to vote for. Mai's mother attempts to interject, shouting at the pair and slamming the window, which ultimately forces Beau to handcuff her to the desk. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, the boy discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself rises from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a levitating penanggalan (identified as a krasue on the episode's cover), proceeding to bare her teeth at Jonah and eat him. After doing so, Mai glides off to the waiting room, where she kills and devours Miller's bodyguard.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the States. After instructing the citizens on how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation. Having watched his ad, Beau tells Miller that he's aware that he doesn't really practice what he preaches, and rebukes him for quoting Marx to his face. Miller fires back that Beau must be some kind of backwoods manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to. He reveals that it was because of his communist beliefs that the Border Patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits half-digested pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. Beau then pulls Mai's mother out of line for an inspection of potential contraband. While rooting through her purse, Beau discovers that the mother has been carrying several boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, a far higher number than the maximum medication allowed. Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the developing situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to a waiting room until any and all remaining matters are sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a huge bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time, offering to calm her by getting her some water. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food. When she is unable to find any, she collapses and undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation room, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her situation, but he says that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are (illegally) filming him, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother tells him that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller engage in a lengthy argument about their different ideologies regarding the situation. Beau brings up the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous boxes of illegal drugs and is a supposed trafficker, and when it becomes apparent that Miller isn't listening to what he's saying and continues flaunting his ideals, Beau calls him out for not caring about the ramifications of the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero that everyone wants to vote for. Mai's mother attempts to interject, shouting at the pair and slamming the window, which ultimately forces Beau to handcuff her to the desk. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, the boy discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself rises from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a levitating penanggalan (identified as a krasue on the episode's cover), proceeding to bare her teeth at Jonah and eat him. After doing so, Mai glides off to the waiting room, where she kills and devours Miller's bodyguard.
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On the U.S./Canada Border, border security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement on a nearby television. The advertisement features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government's healthcare system is outrageously flawed, and is not doing enough to establish an easy method for citizens to receive their medications. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. Miller exits and begins directing his crew to set up shop as a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their medications as part of a publicity stunt. As Miller makes a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to the basic human right that is access to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at Jonah, a young boy in the crowd crowd, as her stomach growls. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai some of the pills she's carrying to take her mind off it.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the States. After instructing the citizens on how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation. Having watched his ad, Beau tells Miller that he's aware that he doesn't really practice what he preaches, and rebukes him for quoting Marx to his face. Miller fires back that Beau must be some kind of backwoods manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to. He reveals that it was because of his communist beliefs that the Border Patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits half-digested pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. Beau then pulls Mai's mother out of line for an inspection of potential contraband. While rooting through her purse, Beau discovers that the mother has been carrying several boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, a far higher number than the maximum medication allowed. Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the developing situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to a waiting room until any and all remaining matters are sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a huge bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues thewoman woman, who happens to be his wife, in the nick of time, offering to calm her by getting her some water. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food. When she is unable to find any, she collapses and undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation room, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her situation, but he says that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are (illegally) filming him, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother tells him that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller engage in a lengthy argument about their different ideologies regarding the situation. Beau brings up the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous boxes of illegal drugs and is a supposed trafficker, and when it becomes apparent that Miller isn't listening to what he's saying and continues flaunting his ideals, Beau calls him out for not caring about the ramifications of the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero that everyone wants to vote for. Mai's mother attempts to interject, shouting at the pair and slamming the window, which ultimately forces Beau to handcuff her to the desk. While this is happening,a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, the boy Mai stared at earlier, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, the boy Jonah discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself rises from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a levitating penanggalan (identified as a krasue on the episode's cover), proceeding to bare her teeth at Jonah and eat him. After doing so, Mai glides off to the waiting room, where she kills and devours Miller's bodyguard.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the States. After instructing the citizens on how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation. Having watched his ad, Beau tells Miller that he's aware that he doesn't really practice what he preaches, and rebukes him for quoting Marx to his face. Miller fires back that Beau must be some kind of backwoods manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to. He reveals that it was because of his communist beliefs that the Border Patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits half-digested pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. Beau then pulls Mai's mother out of line for an inspection of potential contraband. While rooting through her purse, Beau discovers that the mother has been carrying several boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, a far higher number than the maximum medication allowed. Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the developing situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to a waiting room until any and all remaining matters are sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a huge bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the
Inside an interrogation room, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her situation, but he says that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are (illegally) filming him, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother tells him that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller engage in a lengthy argument about their different ideologies regarding the situation. Beau brings up the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous boxes of illegal drugs and is a supposed trafficker, and when it becomes apparent that Miller isn't listening to what he's saying and continues flaunting his ideals, Beau calls him out for not caring about the ramifications of the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero that everyone wants to vote for. Mai's mother attempts to interject, shouting at the pair and slamming the window, which ultimately forces Beau to handcuff her to the desk. While this is happening,
* AngstWhatAngst: Miller doesn't really feel any sympathy for all those who Mai killed, including ''his wife.''
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A penanggalan's weak point is their discarded headless body. Miller and Beau manage to (briefly) put a stop to Mai's rampage by hacking her own discarded body with a fire axe.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a political advertisement where Miller advises that the government needs to do better work in allowing access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in said ad is a lie as he watches it.
* AttentionWhore: Miller, who uses any new developments in the episode to make himself look like a hero.
** Beau spends a short time as one himself, detaining Mai's mother mainly to force his own political agenda down her throat.
* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: The episode opens with a political advertisement where Miller advises that the government needs to do better work in allowing access to healthcare. Beau is able to tell that everything Miller says in said ad is a lie as he watches it.
* AttentionWhore: Miller, who uses any new developments in the episode to make himself look like a hero.
** Beau spends a short time as one himself, detaining Mai's mother mainly to force his own political agenda down her throat.
* CallBack: While transformed, Mai makes the same sounds as the reanimated Bloom from [[Recap/CreepshowS3E1Mums Mums.]]
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* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol. In spite of this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
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* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol.Patrol, who essentially replaced him with automated passport scanners and reduced him to janitorial work. In spite of this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* DirtyCoward: When Mai enacts her killing spree, the first
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility. Even if he's a proud Communist who craps on the American government in general, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, and he shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, admitting that he's genuinely sorry about how the "corrupt government system" has failed her as a woman and a minority. While he ''is'' partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he was just doing his job, and clearly couldn't have expected Mai to have been a literal monster.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility. Even if he's a proud Communist who craps on the American government in general, government, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, and he shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, admitting that he's genuinely sorry about how the "corrupt government system" has failed her as a woman and a minority. While he ''is'' partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he was just doing his job, and clearly couldn't have expected Mai to have been a literal monster.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman (later revealed to be his wife) from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman (later revealed to be his wife) from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* ForeShadowing: Mai glares at Jonah, the young boy she ultimately devours, before she transforms early in the episode.
* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he arguing with Miller and tells him that he knows full well he's a sham.
* GenreSavvy: Beau could apparently decipher Miller's entire deal just by watching his political ad. Whenever he's not doing his job, he arguing with Miller and tells him that he knows full well he's a sham.
* HonorBeforeReason: Beau and Miller, just when the former is about to release Mai's mother, get into a huge argument about their stances on the mother's plight, keeping her locked up long enough for Mai to transform and go on her rampage.
* ImAHumanitarian: A penanggalan's primary source of food is human flesh, and denying them of their food source renders them weak and sickly.
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* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits that he only wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
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* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits that he only wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamedcommunist, Communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed
* TheMenInBlack: One of them serves as Miller's personal bodyguard. He unfortunately becomes Mai's second victim.
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** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Breweries.
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** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". Wood'nhead Ale".]] As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Lunkhead Breweries.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's medication. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the stuff are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's medication. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the stuff are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
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* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head herself to the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As akrasue, penanggalan/krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. It is also revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure her daughter is okay. She ends up making the ultimate sacrifice for her child in the end.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai'smedication. pills. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the stuff things are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into herclutches.clutches.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai a krasue? Was she always one, or was she transformed into one through some kind of dark magic? The circumstances for why she is what she is are intentionally left vague.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a
* ParentsInDistress: Mai's poor mother gets put through Hell and back to make sure her daughter is okay. She ends up making the ultimate sacrifice for her child in the end.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only emitting groans and screams during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her
* RiddleForTheAges: Why is Mai a krasue? Was she always one, or was she transformed into one through some kind of dark magic? The circumstances for why she is what she is are intentionally left vague.
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* StrawCharacter: Subverted. Miller claims to be a far-left politician who is relying on healthcare reform to get elected. It's actually revealed to be a façade he puts on for the cameras, and he's actually a LazyBum who doesn't give a shit about anyone and anything (including his wife, who Mai kills) besides getting himself elected just so he can avoid doing a regular job.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search for any food to snack on throughout the building, only to fail and transform into her true form.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: When she is deprived of her pills, Mai futilely tries to search for any food to snack on throughout the building, only to fail and transform into her true form.
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* TransformationDiscretionShot: Mai's transformation is censored thanks to her being behind Beau's counter.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a penanggalan, a ghostly, vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media. She is dubbed as a krasue on the episode's cover, "krasue" being one of the many differing names for the creature throughout Asia.
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Over at the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement that features presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins directing his crew to set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens then step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the USA. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation, telling Miller that he's aware that he isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until any and all remaining matters can be sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time, offering to calm her by getting her some water. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of partaking in racial profiling and holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, during which Beau calls Miller out for not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a levitating krasue that proceeds to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai glides off to the waiting room and devours Miller's bodyguard.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the holding area, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. Mai proceeds to levitate once more, and attach herself to her mother's headless body, biting off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
Miller, his crew, and the citizens then step inside the border building, hoping to be readmitted into the USA. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau pulls Miller aside to engage in conversation, telling Miller that he's aware that he isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol reassigned him to the far north, only able to watch as technology steals his job. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation, analyzing ways that he can use the situation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until any and all remaining matters can be sorted out, with Beau escorting Mai's mother away from the room. Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time, offering to calm her by getting her some water. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making trips to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of partaking in racial profiling and holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, during which Beau calls Miller out for not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a levitating krasue that proceeds to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai glides off to the waiting room and devours Miller's bodyguard.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at him. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately informs the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to attack her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He also does this just as Mai enters the holding area, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the entire ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and slams the window to let it fall, severing her head from her body. Mai proceeds to levitate once more, and attach herself to her mother's headless body, biting off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
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As the shock wears off, Beau shares a drink with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax
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* AntiHero: Two of them are the protagonists of the story. Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", since she only starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, in which she reaches Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", since she only starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, in which she reaches Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
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* AntiHero: Two of them are the protagonists of the story. Beau, a communist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters in an effort get elected, elected President, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded headless body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Maicontinually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, pills, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh or the abundance large amount of pills she ingests, she's been swallowing, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the main supernatural threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", sinceshe she's only doing what's in her nature, and only starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
Beau, especially since the former's cameraperson's camera was still rolling during the massacre.
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life,in which she reaches uses to reach Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded headless body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the main supernatural threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", since
* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Miller is left unpunished for his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life,
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* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as Miller was attempting to bring the citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the entry hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they mean that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication, they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the entry hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they mean that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication, they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
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* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as since Miller was attempting to bring brought the citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller tomake crack a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring tank his reputation.
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Millerdown.
that he's a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol. In spite of this, he's actually a pretty decent guy, especially during his interrogation of Mai's mother, where he shares his pain about how America's flawed healthcare system has failed her and her daughter.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to theentry main hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, has his cameraperson illegally film the behind-the-scenes actions at a border crossing, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Millermention, state, the entire episode massacre could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they mean clarify that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication, medication legally, they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to
* ChummyCommies: Beau proudly admits to Miller
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, has his cameraperson illegally film the behind-the-scenes actions at a border crossing, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller
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* DirtyCommunist: Beau proudly admits to being a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story while sharing a drink together.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility in his heart. Even if he's a proud Communist, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, and even though he's partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he clearly couldn't have expected her to have been a literal monster.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted, partially heart-warming variation. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story while sharing a drink together.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility in his heart. Even if he's a proud Communist, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, and even though he's partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he clearly couldn't have expected her to have been a literal monster.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted, partially heart-warming variation. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
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* DirtyCommunist: Beau proudly admits to being a "born EarlyBirdCameo: Mai and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol.
her mother are glimpsed in Miller's ad, which is played a couple of minutes before they are formally introduced.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller,despite after constantly being at odds feuding with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story while sharing a drink together.
drink.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount ofhumility in his heart. humility. Even if he's a proud Communist, Communist who craps on the American government in general, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, and he shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, and even though admitting that he's genuinely sorry about how the "corrupt government system" has failed her as a woman and a minority. While he ''is'' partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he was just doing his job, and clearly couldn't have expected her Mai to have been a literal monster.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails underneath it.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a life just like any other kid her age, despite the fact that she transforms into a flesh-eating monster when denied food or her pills.
* GoodParents: A partiallytwisted, twisted and partially heart-warming variation. version. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very bitter end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder government workers and even commit suicide just to allow her to live.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller,
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Miller becomes just as shocked as Beau once Mai's true nature is revealed. Even before she turns, he saves a poor woman from having a bite taken out of her shoulder, genuinely asking if she's okay and offering to get her some water.
* FlyingFace: Mai is a penanggalan, which is primarily portrayed as a floating head with entrails underneath it.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Mai's mother only wants her daughter to have a life just like any other kid her age, despite the fact that she transforms into a flesh-eating monster when denied food or her pills.
* GoodParents: A partially
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* GrowlingGut: Mai's stomach is repeatedly heard growling fiercely before she transforms, hinting at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
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* GrowlingGut: Before she transforms, Mai's stomach is repeatedly heard growling fiercely before she transforms, hinting growling. This hints at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
* HealthcareMotivation: Mai's mother's reasoning for everything she does during the episode is to let her daughter live her life in spite of her "sickness".
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
* HealthcareMotivation: Mai's mother's reasoning for everything she does during the episode is to let her daughter live her life in spite of her "sickness".
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself so that Mai can take over her body and use it to reach the United States.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller a drink to help him lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
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* IgnoredExpert: Mai's mother knows full well what will happen if she doesn't get back to her daughter, but Beau and Miller keep her detained for the sake of their petty feud.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller adrink beer to help him lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can'tread, prompting read. This prompts the racist Miller Miller, who apparently thought that all Asians can speak the same languages, to ask what her "What the hell kind of Asian she is.''are'' you?"
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller a
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't
* JustFollowingOrders: In spite of his concern for Mai's mother and her "sick" daughter, Beau still detains and cuffs her because he still needs to do his job, especially since Miller is (illegally) filming him.
* LaboriousLaziness: At the end of the episode, Miller basically admits that he only wants to be President only to avoid doing a regular job.
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
* MythologyGag: Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Breweries.
* MythologyGag: Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Breweries.
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but actually to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
*MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]]Breweries.Breweries.
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in the main hall, situated on Beau's desk.
*
** Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]]
** The ashtray can be seen behind the counter in the main hall, situated on Beau's desk.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. As it is also revealed, a krasue can be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. However, if another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it to survive.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only speaking when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a ghostly, vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. As it is also revealed, a krasue can be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. However, if another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it to survive.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only speaking when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a ghostly, vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
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* NoNameGiven: Mai's mother.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they turned out to have more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head toher mother's the headless body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh.As it It is also revealed, revealed that a krasue can be only be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. However, if If another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it and take control of it to survive.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's medication. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the stuff are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, onlyspeaking emitting groans during her transformation, and then just whispering when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is akrasue, penanggalan, a ghostly, vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media. She is dubbed as a krasue on the episode's cover, "krasue" being one of the many differing names for the creature throughout Asia.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they turned out to have more in common with one another than they thought.
* OffWithHisHead: Since she's a krasue, Mai's head and entrails are capable of detaching themselves from her body and levitating on their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh.
* PhlebotinumPills: Mai's medication. It's never revealed what the ingredients of the stuff are, but as long as Mai keeps ingesting them, they somehow keep her from transforming into her true self.
* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a
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* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite suppressing medication. Before she transforms, she's a deathly ill teenage girl.
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* SkewedPriorities: Beau and Miller spend much of their shared time on camera bitching at one another for their different approaches to Mai's mother's detainment, preventing her from giving her daughter her pills and causing her to transform.
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in the ending.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied herappetite suppressing appetite-suppressing medication. Before she transforms, she's a deathly ill teenage girl.
* SlaveToPR: Miller outright admits to being one of these in the ending.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her
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* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Beau and Miller are left unpunished for their actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, in which she reaches Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
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* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Beau and Miller are is left unpunished for their his actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, in which she reaches Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
* TheCynic: Miller is revealed to be one at the end of the story, merely doing what his political team tells him to, admitting that he doesn't want to fight battles neither party wants to win, and only wanting to be President to avoid doing a regular job.
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* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story, while sharing a drink together.
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* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it at the end of the story, story while sharing a drink together.together.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility in his heart. Even if he's a proud Communist, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, and even though he's partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he clearly couldn't have expected her to have been a literal monster.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beau actually has a surprising amount of humility in his heart. Even if he's a proud Communist, he makes it clear that he's not a fan of Miller's racism and his false promises, shares his concern with Mai's mother and her situation, and even though he's partially responsible for Mai's rampage, he clearly couldn't have expected her to have been a literal monster.
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, medication, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't read, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
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* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or communist security officer Beau are punished for their interference, or their lifelong actions in general, primarily because they're the protagonists.
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* JerkAss: Miller, the crooked politician.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite oftheir his actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or communist security officer Beau are isn't punished for their interference, or their lifelong actions anything he does in general, primarily because they're the protagonists.episode, especially for his lifetime of false promises.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Beau is the less evil between him and Miller. While he may be an unashamed communist, he understands Mai's mother's dedication to her daughter and how America has "failed her."
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage.
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage.rampage, devouring the flesh of everyone she can find.
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* OffWithHisHead: As a krasue, Mai's head is capable of detaching itself from her body and levitating on its own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
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* OffWithHisHead: As Since she's a krasue, Mai's head is and entrails are capable of detaching itself themselves from her body and levitating on its their own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of monsters, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a ghostly, vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
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* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite suppressing medication. Before she does, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
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* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite suppressing medication. Before she does, transforms, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from withdrawal.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from withdrawal.some sort of withdrawal and that her mother is a trafficker.
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* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother while her cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
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* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother during her interrogation while her his cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
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* BittersweetEnding: Mai's mother commits suicide and Beau and Miller are left unpunished for their actions, but in doing so, the former allows her daughter to have a second chance at life, in which she reaches Miller's bus and drives it into the USA.
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At the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement that features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins organizing his crew to help set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medication. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
Miller, his camera crew, and the citizens then step inside the border, hoping to be readmitted into the U.S.A. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau and Miller step aside to engage in conversation, during which Beau admits that he knows Miller isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol banished him to the far north. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until matters can be sorted out. As Beau walks off with Mai's mother, Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making a trip to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, and not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself, now just a levitating head and entrails, rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a krasue before proceeding to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai then devours Miller's bodyguard as well.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at them. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately reminds the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to detain her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He does this just as Mai enters the holding area as well, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a can of beer with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and lets it fall, severing her head from her body. Afterwards, Mai proceeds to attach herself to her mother's headless body, then bites off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
Miller, his camera crew, and the citizens then step inside the border, hoping to be readmitted into the U.S.A. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau and Miller step aside to engage in conversation, during which Beau admits that he knows Miller isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol banished him to the far north. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until matters can be sorted out. As Beau walks off with Mai's mother, Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making a trip to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, and not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself, now just a levitating head and entrails, rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a krasue before proceeding to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai then devours Miller's bodyguard as well.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at them. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately reminds the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to detain her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He does this just as Mai enters the holding area as well, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a can of beer with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and lets it fall, severing her head from her body. Afterwards, Mai proceeds to attach herself to her mother's headless body, then bites off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
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Miller, his
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a
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* AntiHero: Beau, a Marxist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a politician who makes empty promises and milks sympathy from voters to get elected, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh, or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", though she does manage to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. And if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh, or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", though she does manage to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. And if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
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* AntiHero: Two of them are the protagonists of the story. Beau, a Marxist communist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a racist politician who makes empty promises and milks uses sick citizens to milk sympathy from voters to in an effort get elected, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack offlesh, flesh or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad",though since she does manage only starts devouring people when she is denied her medication and her instincts resurface. In the end, she manages to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. And if If she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* ApologeticAttacker: Beau repeatedly apologizes to Mai as he hacks up her discarded body.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad",
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* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as Miller was attempting to bring the citizens to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication, ignoring the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication, ignoring the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
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* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as Miller was attempting to bring the citizens on his bus to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother while her cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the entry hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothingmindset.mindset, only wanting to be President of the United States so he could avoid "working like a peasant".
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they mean that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication,ignoring they also ignore the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* CaughtOnTape: In an apparent BatmanGambit, Beau manages to get Miller to make a racist remark to Mai's mother while her cameraperson is filming, hoping to have them sell it to the highest bidder in a short-lived plot to bring Miller down.
* CompellingVoice: Mai gains one when she transforms, which she uses to lure Jonah to the entry hall so she can feast on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication. While they mean that it would be simpler if the United States distributed said medication,
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* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it when sharing drinks at the end.
* GoodParents: Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies smiling at her daughter's face.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself to allow Mai to take over her body, and reach the United States.
* GoodParents: Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies smiling at her daughter's face.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself to allow Mai to take over her body, and reach the United States.
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* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another, another over their political and ideological differences, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it when at the end of the story, while sharing drinks at the end.
a drink together.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted, partially heart-warming variation. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies while smiling at her daughter's face.
* GrowlingGut: Mai's stomach is repeatedly heard growling fiercely before she transforms, hinting at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herselfto allow so Mai to can take over her body, body and use it to reach the United States.
* GoodParents: A partially twisted, partially heart-warming variation. Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies while smiling at her daughter's face.
* GrowlingGut: Mai's stomach is repeatedly heard growling fiercely before she transforms, hinting at the fact that she is being denied her primary food source: human flesh.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Beau offers Miller a drink to help him get over the shock of the experience with Mai.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that she can't read Chinese, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or Marxist security officer Beau are punished for their actions.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her cuffed hand off to free herself.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that she can't read Chinese, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or Marxist security officer Beau are punished for their actions.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her cuffed hand off to free herself.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: After supposedly stopping Mai, Beau offers Miller a drink to help him get over the shock of the experience with Mai.
lower his adrenaline.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can'tread Chinese, read, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any new curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look good.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller orMarxist communist security officer Beau are punished for their actions.
interference, or their lifelong actions in general, primarily because they're the protagonists.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her mother's cuffed hand off to free herself.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that the box is written in Chinese, which she can't
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miller is an absolute attention whore who uses any new curveballs thrown at him by the developing situation to make himself look good.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her mother's cuffed hand off to free herself.
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* NeverMyFault: Beau and Miller agree that if Mai was simply allowed to take her medication, the entire tragedy could've been avoided, completely ignoring the fact that it was they themselves who prevented her from receiving said medication.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Beau and Miller discuss the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought after working together to stop Mai.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Beau and Miller discuss the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought after working together to stop Mai.
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* NeverMyFault: Beau and Miller agree that if Mai was simply allowed to take her medication, the entire tragedy could've been avoided, completely ignoring the fact that it was they themselves ''they themselves'' who prevented her from receiving said medication.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Millerdiscuss have a lengthy discussion about the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought after working together to stop Mai.thought.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After working together to stop Mai, Beau and Miller
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of horror creatures, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
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* TheQuietOne: Mai has very little dialogue in the episode, only speaking when she transforms to lure Jonah into her clutches.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms ofhorror creatures, monsters, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of
* VillainProtagonist: Miller, the racist, crooked politician who only cares about making himself look good.
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* TheWoobie: Mai's mother, who sticks by her daughter even though she is a flesh-eating monster, and was only trying to suppress her hunger because she loves her.
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* TheWoobie: Mai's mother, who sticks by her daughter even though she is a flesh-eating monster, and was only trying to suppress her hunger for human flesh because she loves her.
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At the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement featuring Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins organizing his crew to help set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medication. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
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At the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement featuring that features Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins organizing his crew to help set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medication. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
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!!Drug Traffic
-> Directed By: Greg Nicotero\\
Story By: Mattie Do & Christopher Larsen\\
Written By: Christopher Larsen
At the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement featuring Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins organizing his crew to help set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medication. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
Miller, his camera crew, and the citizens then step inside the border, hoping to be readmitted into the U.S.A. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau and Miller step aside to engage in conversation, during which Beau admits that he knows Miller isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol banished him to the far north. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until matters can be sorted out. As Beau walks off with Mai's mother, Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making a trip to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, and not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself, now just a levitating head and entrails, rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a krasue before proceeding to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai then devours Miller's bodyguard as well.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at them. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately reminds the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to detain her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He does this just as Mai enters the holding area as well, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a can of beer with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and lets it fall, severing her head from her body. Afterwards, Mai proceeds to attach herself to her mother's headless body, then bites off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
!!This episode contain examples of:
* AntiHero: Beau, a Marxist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a politician who makes empty promises and milks sympathy from voters to get elected, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh, or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", though she does manage to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. And if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller's campaign bus for Mai. As seen in a brief animated epilogue, they cross the border together.
* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as Miller was attempting to bring the citizens to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication, ignoring the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* DirtyCommunist: Beau proudly admits to being a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it when sharing drinks at the end.
* GoodParents: Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies smiling at her daughter's face.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself to allow Mai to take over her body, and reach the United States.
* HorrorHunger: As a krasue, Mai feasts primarily on human flesh.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Beau offers Miller a drink to help him get over the shock of the experience with Mai.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that she can't read Chinese, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or Marxist security officer Beau are punished for their actions.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her cuffed hand off to free herself.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage.
* MythologyGag: Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Breweries.
* NeverMyFault: Beau and Miller agree that if Mai was simply allowed to take her medication, the entire tragedy could've been avoided, completely ignoring the fact that it was they themselves who prevented her from receiving said medication.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Beau and Miller discuss the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought after working together to stop Mai.
* OffWithHisHead: As a krasue, Mai's head is capable of detaching itself from her body and levitating on its own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. As it is also revealed, a krasue can be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. However, if another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it to survive.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of horror creatures, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horror movies, including ''Film/{{Piranha}}'', ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps''.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite suppressing medication. Before she does, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from withdrawal.
* TheWoobie: Mai's mother, who sticks by her daughter even though she is a flesh-eating monster, and was only trying to suppress her hunger because she loves her.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boy from the waiting room.
-> Directed By: Greg Nicotero\\
Story By: Mattie Do & Christopher Larsen\\
Written By: Christopher Larsen
At the U.S./Canada Border, security officer Beau (Creator/MichaelRooker) sweeps up his workspace while watching a political advertisement featuring Congressman and presidential candidate Evan Miller (Creator/ReidScott), who is touting about the fact that the US Government is not doing enough to establish easy access to healthcare. As Beau watches the ad, Miller's campaign bus pulls up outside the border. As Miller exits and begins organizing his crew to help set up shop, a group of US citizens exit the bus, having been taken into Canada to obtain their proper medication. As Miller begins making a speech about how the government is "broken" when it comes to healthcare, one of the travelers, a sickly-looking teenager named Mai (Sarah Jon) stares ominously at a young boy in the crowd. Her mother (Mai Delape) notices this, and gives Mai her medication to take her mind off it.
Miller, his camera crew, and the citizens then step inside the border, hoping to be readmitted into the U.S.A. After instructing the citizens about how to perform the procedure for re-entry, Beau and Miller step aside to engage in conversation, during which Beau admits that he knows Miller isn't really a leftist. In response, Miller fires back that Beau is some kind of manifesto-writing communist, which Beau happily admits to, revealing that it is the reason why the border patrol banished him to the far north. Upon noticing Mai's mother giving her daughter another dose of her medication, Beau asks her to step out of line and empty her purse. Mai suddenly vomits more pills, further clarifying Beau's claims that she may be suffering from withdrawal. While rooting through the purse, Beau discovers several bottles and boxes of foreign medications that are illegal in the United States, while Miller has his cameraperson film the interrogation to make himself look good. The citizens are then escorted to the waiting room until matters can be sorted out. As Beau walks off with Mai's mother, Mai herself stares at a woman in front of her and nearly takes a bite out of her shoulder. Miller notices this and rescues the woman in the nick of time. Mai weakly exits the waiting room and desperately searches the building for food, and when she is unable to find any, undergoes a horrific transformation.
Inside an interrogation area, Mai's mother is detained while her medications are sorted. Beau expresses sympathy for her plight, but mentions that making a trip to Canada for what he believes to be illegal narcotics is not the solution. He also points out that Miller and his cameraperson are filming, and he needs to avoid being caught not doing his job. As Mai's mother mentions that she needs to leave immediately, Miller enters and accuses Beau of holding the woman against her will. Beau and Miller argue about the fact that Mai's mother is carrying numerous illegal pills, and not caring about the situation one bit, only wanting to film it to make himself look like a hero. Mai's mother attempts to interject, but is eventually handcuffed to the desk by Beau. While this is happening, a young boy in the waiting room, Jonah, hears a voice call out to him. When he approaches the lobby, he discovers Mai's headless body on the floor. Mai herself, now just a levitating head and entrails, rises up from behind Beau's desk, revealing herself to be a krasue before proceeding to devour Jonah. After doing so, Mai then devours Miller's bodyguard as well.
After being alerted by screaming outside, Mai's mother proceeds to grab Beau's gun and shoots at them. Realizing what has happened, the mother desperately reminds the duo that Mai needed her medication, not to keep her healthy, but to keep her krasue instincts and appetite for human flesh suppressed. Beau and Miller again ignore her and make their way to the waiting room, discovering the mutilated bodies of the citizens Miller had brought over. They discover Mai hiding behind a chair, who flees when they try to detain her. Beau returns to the holding area, where Mai's mother continues to shoot at him. She angrily reminds Beau that Mai is loose because of him, and will only let him inside if he has Mai's discarded body. Miller finds the body, but rather than give it to Mai's mother, he decides to hack it with a fire axe in an attempt to stop the krasue from crossing the border, mortally wounding Mai in the process. He does this just as Mai enters the holding area as well, slowly dying in front of her agonized mother.
As the shock wears off, Beau shares a can of beer with Miller, who mentions that his campaign staff can possibly squeeze a few ounces of sympathy out of the incident. The two also wax philosophically about the fact that they ended up having to put their political and ideological differences aside to fight a common enemy, hypocritically mentioning that if Mai simply had access to her medication, the ordeal would've never happened. While the duo celebrate their supposed victory, Mai's heartbroken mother notices a large shard of glass hanging from a broken window. She positions herself under the shard and lets it fall, severing her head from her body. Afterwards, Mai proceeds to attach herself to her mother's headless body, then bites off the restrained hand to free herself. With her mother's body, Mai exits the building and head's towards Miller's campaign bus, hoping to drive it into the United States. The Creep eagerly opens the door for her, inviting her aboard.
!!This episode contain examples of:
* AntiHero: Beau, a Marxist Border Patrol officer, and Miller, a politician who makes empty promises and milks sympathy from voters to get elected, work together to stop Mai from crossing the border.
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: Mai continually has her appetite for human flesh suppressed by her medication, which she is given frequently. It's unclear whether it's the lack of flesh, or the abundance of pills she ingests, but it makes her appear deathly ill.
* TheBadGuyWins: While Mai is the threat of the episode, she isn't necessarily "bad", though she does manage to reach Miller's bus, where the Creep invites her aboard. As seen in an animated epilogue, they succeed in crossing the border together. And if she continues feeding in the USA, Miller's incident at the border may very well pop up, spelling uncertain fates for him and Beau.
* TheCameo: The Creep appears at the end, opening the door to Miller's campaign bus for Mai. As seen in a brief animated epilogue, they cross the border together.
* CanadaEh: The episode is set at the US/Canada border, as Miller was attempting to bring the citizens to a Canadian pharmacy to gain their proper medications as part of a publicity stunt.
* CorruptPolitician: Evan Miller, who uses the ailing citizens he brings to Canada as props to milk sympathy from voters, and doesn't really want to change his racist, do-nothing mindset.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Beau and Miller mention, the entire episode could've been avoided if Mai was allowed to take her medication, ignoring the fact that it was ''they themselves'' who prevented Mai's mother from bringing the medication to her daughter in the first place.
* DirtyCommunist: Beau proudly admits to being a "born and bred Red", mentioning that his Marxist views had him relocated to the far north by the Border Patrol.
* EnemyMine: Beau and Miller, despite constantly being at odds with one another, end up working together to stop Mai from crossing the border. They even lampshade it when sharing drinks at the end.
* GoodParents: Mai's mother sticks up for her daughter to the very end, not caring one bit that she's a flesh-eating monster, and is willing to commit murder and even suicide just to allow her to live.
* GoOutWithASmile: Mai's mother, who slowly dies smiling at her daughter's face.
* HeroicSacrifice: Mai's mother decapitates herself to allow Mai to take over her body, and reach the United States.
* HorrorHunger: As a krasue, Mai feasts primarily on human flesh.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Beau offers Miller a drink to help him get over the shock of the experience with Mai.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Miller asks Mai's mother to read one of her boxes of medications, only for the mother to mention that she can't read Chinese, prompting the racist Miller to ask what kind of Asian she is.
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of their actions inadvertently causing Mai to transform and go on her rampage, neither crooked politician Miller or Marxist security officer Beau are punished for their actions.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When she gains control of her mother's body, Mai bites her cuffed hand off to free herself.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Mai's medication isn't meant to stop her from getting sick, but to keep her krasue instincts suppressed. Without it, she transforms and goes on a bloody rampage.
* MythologyGag: Beau's work station contains a mini-fridge stocked with cans of "[[Film/Creepshow2 Chief Wood'nhead]] Ale". As a bonus, they are revealed to be manufactured by [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Lunkhead]] Breweries.
* NeverMyFault: Beau and Miller agree that if Mai was simply allowed to take her medication, the entire tragedy could've been avoided, completely ignoring the fact that it was they themselves who prevented her from receiving said medication.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Beau and Miller discuss the fact that they have more in common with one another than they thought after working together to stop Mai.
* OffWithHisHead: As a krasue, Mai's head is capable of detaching itself from her body and levitating on its own accord. Mai's mother also decapitates herself to give her daughter a second chance to live, allowing Mai to attach her head to her mother's body.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a krasue, Mai is depicted as a levitating head with entrails dangling from it that feeds on human flesh. As it is also revealed, a krasue can be wounded or otherwise killed if their discarded body is attacked. However, if another headless body is in the krasue's vicinity, they can attach themselves to it to survive.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In terms of horror creatures, anyway. Mai is a krasue, a vampiric, flesh-eating creature from Southeast Asian folklore that is hardly ever showcased in US media.
* ShoutOut: Evan Miller likely shares the same last name as Creator/DickMiller, who made appearances in several horror movies, including ''Film/{{Piranha}}'', ''Film/TheHowling'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps''.
* TragicMonster: Mai only transforms and goes on a rampage after she is denied her appetite suppressing medication. Before she does, she's depicted as a deathly ill teenage girl.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai vomits some of her medication in full view of Beau, giving him the suspicion that Mai is suffering from withdrawal.
* TheWoobie: Mai's mother, who sticks by her daughter even though she is a flesh-eating monster, and was only trying to suppress her hunger because she loves her.
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim Mai devours is Jonah, a young boy from the waiting room.