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00:00The silence of the Texas Plains wasn't a peaceful one.
00:04For Matt Murdock, silence was usually a canvas,
00:08a blank space where his other senses painted a vivid 360-degree map of the world.
00:15But as he pulled himself from the wreckage of the rental sedan, the canvas was torn.
00:21The accident had been a sensory explosion, the scream of tearing metal,
00:26the concussive thud of the airbag, and then the sickening lack of a heartbeat in the passenger seat.
00:34Foggy? Matt rasped.
00:37He reached out, his fingers brushing the empty upholstery.
00:41The door was swung wide.
00:43The scent of foggy sweat, sour and sharp with adrenaline, lingered in the air,
00:49trailing off toward a nearby thicket before being swallowed by the smell of wild grass and drying mud.
00:57Matt stumbled out of the car.
00:59He tried to project his radar sense, to send out the ping that usually let him see the world in a veil of red light.
01:08But his head throbbed with a rhythmic, stabbing heat.
01:11Each time he tried to focus, the image shattered into static.
01:17The concussion had turned his world into a blurring, shifting mess of echoes.
01:22Help! he shouted, his voice cracking.
01:26Is anyone there?
01:27He began to walk, his dress shoes slipping on the uneven earth.
01:32He pushed through a wall of tall, dry cornstalks.
01:36He could hear something, a heavy, rhythmic dragging sound.
01:41He turned toward it, his heart hammering against his cracked ribs.
01:46Then, the world shifted.
01:49A massive displacement of air moved toward him.
01:53A shape loomed, vast, lumpy, and smelling of rancid fat and gasoline.
02:00In Matt's flickering mind's eye, the figure was a distorted mountain of flesh.
02:05Just as his knees gave out, his failing radar caught a glimpse of a face that felt wrong.
02:13Hick, dead, and stitched together with coarse twine.
02:17Matt hit the dirt, the blackness finally claiming him.
02:22When Matt woke, the Texas sun had long since dipped below the horizon.
02:28The air was cool, but the humidity remained, clinging to him like a damp shroud.
02:34His head felt like it had been split by a wedge, but the urgency in his gut overrode the pain.
02:40He was still by the car.
02:42They had left him there.
02:43Why?
02:45Maybe they thought he was dead.
02:46Maybe they were busy with Foggy.
02:48Matt crawled to the trunk.
02:50With trembling hands, he felt for the hidden latch in his duffel bag.
02:54He pulled out the suit, the red, high-density weave of the devil of hell's kitchen.
03:00As he pulled the cowl over his head, the world changed.
03:04The reinforced sensors in the suit helped stabilize some of the sensory noise caused by his concussion,
03:10but his radar was still glitchy, flickering like a dying candle in a windstorm.
03:16He couldn't see the horizon, but he could smell the destination,
03:21a thick, cloying odor of a slaughterhouse that shouldn't be here, miles from the nearest town.
03:27He began to run.
03:29He moved through the brush, his boots barely making a sound.
03:33He followed the trail, not a visual one, but a path of broken twigs,
03:38the lingering scent of Foggy's fear, and the distant, low-frequency hum of a generator.
03:46The structure was a massive, decaying barn.
03:50To Matt's ears, the building groaned like a dying animal.
03:54He scaled the outer wall, his fingers finding purchase on the rotting wood,
03:58and slipped through a high window.
04:01Inside, the air was a nightmare.
04:03The smell of old blood was so thick he could almost taste it.
04:07He crouched on a crossbeam, trying to filter the chaos.
04:12Below him, a heartbeat.
04:14Thump, thump.
04:15Thump, thump.
04:16It was fast.
04:17Terrified.
04:18Foggy, Matt whispered.
04:20He could hear his friend breathing through a gag, his pulse racing at a dangerous speed.
04:25Then, another sound.
04:27A heavy, wet footstep.
04:29A grunt, and the metallic clink of a chain.
04:32Matt didn't wait.
04:33He dropped from the rafters, his billy club snapping into his hands.
04:36He landed silently, but the displacement of air alerted the giant.
04:42Rawr!
04:42Rip, rip, roar!
04:44The chainsaw exploded into life.
04:47To a man with Matt's hearing, the sound was like a physical blow to the head.
04:51The roar of the engine shattered his radar sense completely.
04:55He was suddenly blind in a way he hadn't been since he was a child.
04:59The sound was a wall of white noise that drowned out everything else.
05:04Leatherface swung.
05:05Matt felt the heat of the blade and the vibration of the air as the saw missed his chest by an inch.
05:11He dived to the left, rolling across a floor slick with what felt like grease and gore.
05:16He couldn't see the giant anymore.
05:18He could only feel the vibration of the heavy boots on the floorboards.
05:22Foggy, stay down!
05:24Matt yelled, though he couldn't hear his own voice over the mechanical scream of the saw.
05:29The saw came down again, a vertical strike.
05:32Matt stepped inside the arc, his senses screaming.
05:36He drove a billy club into the giant's ribs, a strike that would have dropped a normal man.
05:41Leatherface didn't even grunt.
05:43He dropped his shoulder and rammed into Matt, sending the ninja flying across the room.
05:48Matt smashed into a rack of hanging metal tools.
05:51Saws, hooks, and knives rained down on him.
05:54The giant loomed over him, the chainsaw idling with a hungry, guttural growl.
06:00Matt realized he couldn't fight the saw.
06:02He had to kill the noise.
06:05As Leatherface raised the saw for a final finishing blow, Matt reached out.
06:09He didn't aim for the man.
06:11He aimed for the machine.
06:12He jammed his billy club, the end reinforced with heavy steel, directly into the spinning chain.
06:19The result was a catastrophic mechanical failure.
06:22The chain snapped, whipping back and gashing Leatherface's arm.
06:26The engine seized with a violent, metallic shriek and died.
06:31Silence fell.
06:32It was a vacuum, a sudden emptiness, that allowed Matt's radar to snap back into place for a precious few seconds.
06:39He saw the giant.
06:41Leatherface was staring at his broken tool, a whimpering, childish sound coming behind his mask of skin.
06:48Then the whimper turned into a howl of pure, primitive rage.
06:53He threw the useless saw aside and lunged.
06:56This was Matt's territory now.
06:58Leatherface swung a massive fist.
07:01Matt ducked, the movement a blur of red.
07:03He delivered a stinging jab to the giant's throat, followed by a double strike to the solar plexus.
07:08Leatherface staggered back, but his sheer mass was his greatest armor.
07:13He grabbed a heavy sledgehammer from a nearby table and swung it in a blind, horizontal arc.
07:19Matt sensed the weight of the hammer displacing the air.
07:22He backflipped over the strike, his boots catching the edge of a meat processing table.
07:27He used the momentum to launch himself at the giant's head.
07:30He wrapped his legs around Leatherface's thick neck and unleashed a flurry of strikes to the temples.
07:37Leatherface roared, spinning in circles, trying to grab the devil on his back.
07:42He slammed himself backwards against a support beam, trying to crush Matt.
07:46Matt took the impact, his ribs screaming, but he didn't let go.
07:51He reached around and jammed his thumbs into the pressure points behind the giant's ears.
07:55The giant's nervous system momentarily overloaded, the giant's knees buckled,
08:01and he crashed to the floor with a sound that shook the barn.
08:06Matt didn't waste a heartbeat.
08:08He scrambled to Foggy, his fingers flying over the knots of the ropes.
08:12I've got you, Foggy! I've got you!
08:15He sliced the gag off.
08:17Foggy coughed, gasping for air.
08:19Matt, is that the suit?
08:22How did you find me?
08:22I followed the smell of your cheap cologne, Matt joked, though his voice was thick with pain.
08:29He hauled Foggy to his feet.
08:31Across the room, the giant was starting to moan,
08:34his massive limbs twitching as he regained consciousness.
08:37We have to go, Matt said.
08:39He could hear more heartbeats now, distant, coming from the farmhouse on the hill.
08:45Three of them.
08:46One was old and erratic, another was fast and light,
08:50and one was heavy and steady.
08:53Can you run? Matt asked.
08:55For you, a sprint, Foggy panted.
08:58They burst out of the barn into the Texas night.
09:01Matt could feel the vibrations of the oncoming family in the earth,
09:04the distant glimmer of flashlights he couldn't see,
09:07and the vast, terrifying emptiness of the fields.
09:11He didn't have his radar at full strength,
09:14and his body was broken,
09:15but he had Foggy.
09:17As they disappeared into the tall corn,
09:19the last thing Matt heard was the sound of a different chainsaw
09:23starting up back at the house,
09:25a long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:29A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:32A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:33A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:34A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:35A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:36A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:37A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:39A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:40A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:41A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
09:42A long, mournful howl of a beast that had lost its prey.
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