In Dallas (after a little debate about how wise this is) Robert is sent to seek out the Rangers and tell them what really happened in Memphis and New Orleans. While he's out, the posse changes hotels just in case he gets arrested. While the junior Ranger he talks to thinks he's crazy at first, he manages to drop enough interesting tidbits to be bumped up to talk to the local Captain, a man by the name of Murdock. Captain Murdock listens to the real story (which you can read in the logs: Robert, being an Eagle Shaman, doesn't embroider at all).

It clearly makes him irritated. "If I had my druthers, I'd throw you in jail. But I have standing orders to let this loose cannon roll across the deck." Deciding to take advantage of the situation, he wonders if the posse might help out the Rangers a bit... see, this giant bird has been stomping towns flat up near the Coyote Confederation. The plaster cast of a huge footprint is produced as evidence. Robert agrees to help out, and arranges to meet the Ranger in charge of the investigation for dinner.

Once the posse moves back to the original hotel they meet up with Lieutenant Joe Buckley for dinner. He's a bit green for a Ranger, but enthusiastic about getting to solve this problem, whatever it is. He's got photographs of the devastation in the second town that was attacked. Tobey decides the footprint looks like nothing so much as a turkey track left by a drumstick bigger than a grown man. Doctor Vorpwhistle is less useful, obsessing over the photo of a mangled cow.

Two days ride brings them to the little town that used to be called Sherman but was renamed to Grayson recently. It's a one-street town, and it's a bit down at its luck - Texas has been having severe cattle disease this past year. The posse settles in to wait for an attack, since Grayson is the nearest sizable town to the two attack sites.

After about four days the attack comes. It is, in fact, the biggest turkey anyone has ever seen, easily forty feet tall. It stomps towards town, shrugging off the gunfire that the posse directs at it. Robert with his keen ears hears a strange call as the turkey comes near and climbs atop the general store (next to the bank) where he spots a crow. Jumping to conclusions, he shoots it, and it survives and flaps off - clearly not a normal bird. He puts another bullet into it at range with his eagle eye and it drops.

Meanwhile, the turkey has attacked the bank with vigor, scratching and pecking it. Motion in the streets gets its attention, and it attacks Dr. Vorpwhistle, who learns its horrible secret close up. It first gashes him, then when it is close up it opens its huge beak to reveal a slimy duck head (also huge, but less so) which shoots out and opens up its beak to reveal a chicken head, which pecks out Vorpwhistle's right eye (and part of his face). Dead though he is, the doctor can't stay up under this assault and drops.

Joe Buckley manages to cover up Vorpwhistle and the turkey gets distracted and leaves him for dead. He takes a moment to comfort the wounded man but seeing the wound can't do much comforting, and dashes off to get orphans out of the orphanage across from the bank. Meanwhile Tobey, giving up on even her giant ghost-rock-powered gun, decides to load the rattler tranquilizer bullets she has. She puts three of them into the turducken, and its behavior becomes quite erratic and frantic. As it stumbles off, the posse turns its attention to the riders than Robert has spotted coming slowly up to the town. One of them is dressed in some sort of armor...

Wondering if these people are good or bad, the posse lets them ride into town, and Tobey goes out to confront them. It's a bunch of thugs and a man in shining armor - helmet, breastplate, greaves, and some sort of tanks on his back, plus a nozzle coming from them... perhaps a flamethrower? The newcomers pretend confusion - "what is that thing?" - but when one of them says about the monster "it's holding up well" things fall apart.

Tobey, who is right in front of them, gets the nozzle's sharpened edge stuck into her midsection, and then caustic acid streams out and dissolves most of it. This drops her like a stone. Dr. Vorpwhistle, having come around from the loss of his eye, then shoots the EKG into the armored man, having been plotting this action ever since he saw him. It's a dead hit, and the tanks of acid explode, killing the other scientist instantly and also wounding many of his men. They're easy to clean up after that.

About this time the turducken has a final spasm and expires, having kicked over a few houses and twitched a lot. Later examination determines that its heart burst, possibly because of internal damage from soul blasts coupled with a stimulant effect from the rattler tranquilizer. They also find the corpse of a native out in the brush, shot dead, and presume him to be the same as the crow that Robert killed. Aside from normal shamanistic gear, he has a peculiar variety of turkey call.

Cady decides that Tobey might recover and become evil, and tries to get the machete away from her just in case. Somehow while trying to kick it away the thing chops off her little toe, which Dr. Vorpwhistle picks up.

"Don't you eat that!" - Cady to Thaddeus

Little toe returned (and reattached by Buffalo's blessing) they get to checking for loot. The notebook of the scientist is very interesting. He was an unassuming turkey farmer trying to breed a better turkey, but he went around the bend when he got no respect from other Texans. While he is trying to build a giant turkey monster, he meets up with a Crow shaman named Shaking in Moccasins, and once they team up the monster is created. The secret, as it turns out, is in the stuffing that goes between the layers. Monster created, the gang has been based in the Coyote Confederation with Shaking's tribe, with the plan being to have their turkey stomp towns flat and then rob them.

"This is the exact moment where evil spirits start whispering to him" - Vorpwhistle, reading the notebook

Joe Buckley takes the thugs back to Dallas, and the posse waits. Tobey eventually comes around, sort of, but has a hard time operating since she's held together only by her spinal column. She suggests that maybe a limited version of the infamous dress might hold her together while she mends. Tobey doesn't seem morally any different, despite Cady's misgivings.