Directed by Tom Holland (Fright Night, Child’s Play) and written by Randall Jahnson (Dudes), this was originally part of the Two-Fisted Tales pilot, just like the episodes “Yellow” and “Showdown.”

“Oh! Hello, plague-goers. I was just re-hearse-ing with my little theater group. I just love the slime-light. For tonight’s dreary drama, I thought we’d try an ex-scare-imental piece about a retired drag racer who’s afraid of getting to the finished line a little sooner than he wants. I call this nasty nugget: King of the Road.””

Billy Drake (Brad Pitt) is in town to do some drag racing and to challenge Sheriff Joe Garrett (Raymond J. Barry, Dewey Cox’s dad), who he believes was once a drag racer named Iceman. He starts dating Joe’s teenage daughter Carey (Michelle Bronson). Beyond sleeping with the lawman’s daughter under his roof, he also leaves a tarantula in his mailbox and blackmails him with evidence of his past where a race killed someone. He’s kept that secret for 27 years and it takes Billy threatening to shoot Carey in the head to get him behind the wheel one more time.

At the end, it’s a race to the grave between Billy’s 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle 2-Door Hardtop and Joe’s 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-Door Sedan.

This wasn’t based on any EC Comics. With so many great stories to adapt, that upsets me, no matter how good this episode is.