“Good evening, felons. Time to assume the position, if you know what I mean, and prepare for another assault and battery on your senses. Tonight’s seamy saga is about a nice young man with a very bad attitude. In fact, it’s positively criminal. I call this little game of chops and clobbers “Carrion Death.””

Directed and written by Steven E. de Souza (Street Fighter, Die Hard, Commando), this episode has crazed killer Earl Raymond Diggs (Kyle MacLachlan) escaping jail and running through the desert, tracked by a motorcycle cop (George DelHoyo) who has already crashed his bike into the criminal’s getaway car. As they end up in an empty bar, Diggs kills the man with his own gun, but then realizes that he’s been handcuffed to the body of the cop, who has swallowed the key before dying.

By the end of the story, he’s dragging a body through the blazing desert and trying to hack off the man’s hand, all while that vulture keeps coming. Well, that vulture is patient and don’t worry. It gets what it wants.

This is based on “Carrion Death” from Shock SuspenStories #9. It was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Reed Crandall.