The next morning the posse finds out that there has been another murder overnight at the Green House. They don't bother to investigate the scene; instead they split up. Cady, Tobey, and Robert will check the slaughterhouses for a hiding creature, and James, Bart, and Elder Tanner will stay in town and go by the undertaker.

First the slaughterhouse crew checks the ones in town. They find Bill's, which takes care of the local trade, to be obviously empty of evil, it's a small place. Vermilion (run by the railroad) has a big vat of brine and another vat of something else (which by letting a little out they find is salty and minty and slightly green) but neither seems to contain a hiding humanoid, and it's not in the smokehouse either. They head out of town to check the two remaining slaughterhouses.

Meanwhile James finds another pretty young woman with her throat torn out at the undertaker's. It's the same as the day before with the exception of the victim. Bart doesn't think it's the same lady he saw go upstairs with Dillinger the night before either. The three of them decide to check the tanneries for the creature. This proves stinky and unenlightening.

Team slaughterhouse decides to go to the one called "The Dugout" first, mostly by name, and by posing as buyers find that it has a basement room for the aging of beef. This is suspicious, and they go check out the large dark room full of swinging meat. Cady uses her see through things spell to sneak about in the dark, and finds some of the meat off its hooks and piled in the far corner. She's scared of it. Robert comes in, and is on the point of pulling the pile apart when Cady ramps up her spell and sees through the beef to a crouching form inside the pile. It's extremely toothy, but otherwise human (she sees its skeleton, such is her success with the spell).

They meet for a late lunch and to confer. They haven't entirely decided what to do when Marshal Stoudenmire shows up with a deputy. He knows that James was out late last night, and wants to talk to him at the jail. The rest start telling him that they know who the killer is and can bring him to justice, he's hiding in the slaughterhouse under a pile of meat. The Marshal is having none of this crazy amateur sleuthing, and decides to bring them all in. Aside from a tense moment when he asks for James's guns, they come quietly. He throws them in two cells and doesn't actually interrogate them despite their entreaties, they only make him annoyed.

They consider a jail-break for a while before Molly Irving bribes a deputy to come talk to them. She wants to know if they did it, and what's going on. They tell her it's a crazy man hiding in the slaughterhouse, but then when she seems likely to grab a group to go get him, Robert's truthful compulsion kicks in and he tells her it's a mummy thing. She finds this exciting and writes it all down as they all give her most of the story. She is going to get some people to deal with it, but they tell her it's too dangerous, then suggest she tell LeChamp, then decide that's a bad idea too. They finally ask her to tell LeChamp that they're in jail and have information for him, on the theory that at least he'll round it up and stop the killing.

When he comes in, Elder Tanner makes him promise to do everything in his power to prevent the thing from killing anyone tonight or tomorrow night. He agrees, not expecting to be held to his oath and also expecting to have the thing under control. They tell him where it is, and he leaves. LeChamp has the guy who looks like Chris Rock with him, who lingers a little after he leaves. James tells him to make his peace with god, and at that he grabs the bars, leans in to James, and says: "If you're gonna shoot me, blow my head off!" Then he runs off scared.

An hour after nightfall, Stoudenmire comes in again. He tells the that he sent a deputy to the slaughterhouse, who hasn't returned. He wants them to bring in the killer, and gives them their guns back. They ride with speed.

Straight into an ambush. Strangely, the Cajun sharpshooter misses his easy shot, only killing James's horse. They all manage to get under cover before he can shoot again, and quickly kill two guards (one of whom gets his expressed wish and is shot in the head by James). The sniper has run off, so they head for the basement, Elder Tanner in the lead. Unfortunately, they forget that LeChamp had four minions, the forth of whom shoots the Elder dead in the chest as he enters the basement.

He's quickly winged by James and then kneecapped by Bart's gatling pistol. Meanwhile, LeChamp has painted himself up in voodoo skeleton style, and is holding the thing (later identified as a vampire, a nosferatu) in some sort of magical grip. Shot in the head, LeChamp moves but is not hurt - he has some sort of armor - and releases the vampire, who makes for the exit.

There follows a confusing melee, in which the vampire goes for the exit and finds it full of people and so starts trying to kill them (James first). LeChamp pulls a voodoo doll but Tobey shoots it from his hand, so he pulls a pistol and shoots with it ineffectually (winging Bart several times). Bart shoots LeChamp, but the bullets bounce off. Finally the vampire slams James into a side of beef, knocking him unconscious.

Meanwhile, Tobey has poured the saved holy water onto Joseph's chest wound. Joseph feels himself jerked back from the white light, remembering the time when he was praying in the cave where they found the water. He awakens. LeChamp suddenly finds himself compelled to hold the vampire and prevent it from killing anyone, much to his annoyance (though it does maul Tobey's arm when Bart jars LeChamp's concentration).

They shoot at the vampire as it is held immobile to little effect, even when Robert shoots it in the eye. LeChamp, annoyed at not being able to release it, tells them they have to cut it's head off. They do so. LeChamp, freed from his compulsion, shoots Elder Tanner a couple of times but continues to be a bad shot and hits him in the foot. Cady puts LeChamp on the ground with a spell, and Robert shoots him in the head at point blank range, which is enough to kill him despite his armor (by crushing his head rather than bursting it).

After the shooting has stopped, the Marshal comes in. They tell him it was the voodoo guy, and he agrees. Then Robert has to tell him no, it was the horrible thing. The Marshal looks at the toothy skull that is left (the body having rotted away) and says that even though LeChamp came in the day after the killings started, he's sure it was LeChamp. Everyone catches his meaning. Despite earlier claiming he would run them out of town, he tells them they should rest up to catch their train "in a few days". Joseph lays hands on James and puts his bones back together.

GM: Tobey and Bart both have nasty wounds that aren't well patched and might get infected.

MM: We were hoping James' horse was just winged.

MM: Bart sure did use that gatling pistol. Too bad about the armor and the vampire's near invulnerability. At least the gun made a neat sound when it bounced off LeChamp.

MM: Tobey cut the vampire's head half off and Cady finished the job.