The posse packs MacPhersons body into a casket and transports it back to Dry Gulch so Winchester can identify it. The weather on the way back is very strange. It first becomes incredibly hot, then incredibly cold. The trip still takes them about a week.
Their first stop is Winchester's, where they drop off the casket and go inside for a few words with Winchester. He listens to their story, serves everyone a drink and decides to look in the coffin later. Ken notices some Indian pictographs on his desk but never gets a good look at them.
The posse returns to town. Ken decides to have a custom gun made, while the professor sets to work on his wagon. Skeeter returns to his piano playing gig and Colin set about writing his reports. Ramon attended confession then decided he needed a new duster because of the odd weather.
As he left the store, he bumped into Ken. While the two talked about the pictographs from earlier, a storm blew in and it began raining very hard. They were still on the porch of the saloon when James came for a drink. The three of them heard gunshots from the general direction of Winchester's place. Ken called Skeeter and all four set out to investigate.
As they ran past the Iron Skillet, Ramon called for his faithful steed Sirocco. Sirocco leapt nimbly over the fence and quickly caught up with them. Moving with the nimble grace of a dancer, Ramon leapt astride his horse, with neither of them missing a single beat. They arrived at the house first and were soon joined by the others.
The scene at the house was strange. Men with guns were inside, shooting out the windows at Winchester's loyal troops. Asking a few questions, they learned that the men all slept in a bunkhouse and had been alerted to danger by gunshots. They had seen something inside, but even when they pumped it full of lead, they couldn't stop it.
Ken ran across the grass firing two rounds through the window before diving into the house through it's shattered remains. Skeeter and Colin entered the house through the same window, though they were more cautious in their approach. Ramon rode his horse around to the front of the building, through the front door and up the stairs. He was quickly joined by the others. Along the way, Ramon and Ken each silenced one of the snipers.
More snipers appeared on the balcony, but they were quickly disabled by the skilled posse. While Skeeter and Ramon covered them, Ken and Colin headed upstairs where the sounds of a scuffle could be heard. Ken kicked open the door in time to see Winchester doing battle with some monstrosity. On instinct he skinned his smokewagons and fired four shots at the thing.
Even though all four shots hit, the grisly spectre seemed but little affected. It crossed the room quickly and eviscerated Ken with a pair of hideous dirt-stained claws. It howled it's victory, bare muscles visible where the flesh of its skin had long since rotted. Ramon fired two shots, one through the abominations head and the other into it's arm. The head shot compounded an early head shot by Ken and left the thing stunned and unable to stand. Winchester quickly put two more rounds into the things skull.
Skeeter called out to the other men, telling them they might not be killed if they surrendered. They tossed in their guns and surrendered. Winchester began interrogating them about his missing daughter, asking who had taken her and where. One of the lawless scum mocked him, saying he knew where she was, and got a rifle butt to the head for his trouble.
The posse quickly left the house, stopping only to get their gear together, and set off on the trial of the kidnappers.
Cowpoke (pointing to coffin): What the hell is that?
Skeeter: We heard Emerson ain't been feeling well.
Cowpoke: Yer funny blind man.Emerson: Charles, go out back and air out the coffin.
Steve: Cool, he goes back there and fires like 8 or 10 shots in it. Now it's ventilated.
Joe: No, he opens the lid. (mimes hurling) HGYARK! Well, that ain't gonna make it any easier.Tim: I rolled a cognition check for you.
Mike: Huh??
Joe: You failed “Huh??”Joe: That's an extra rib anyhow.
Steve: Cool, now he plants it to see if it grows into a woman. I read that in the Bible.Joe: The Gulch isn't dry anymore.
Tim: It kind of runs in spurts.
Joe: Funny, that's what the doves all say about you.Tom: This map isn't really to scale.
Joe: Did you really need to tell us that?Skeeter: Throw down your guns! Good. Now come out where I can see you. Closer... closer... closer.
Joe: Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been 17 minutes since my last confession and I've killed two men.
Winchester has a daughter.
Winchester may be a huckster.
Winchester is definitely hiding some information from the posse in the form of an Indian scroll.
Winchester has a hidden safe in his study.
Winchester may know a lot more about the mountain than he's revealed so far.
Even though Tom implied we were responsible for the attack because they used the corpse for tracing, the last prelude said something about him being in Dry Gulch.