Michael Myers Halloween: Encyclopedia II - Michael Myers Halloween - First sequel continuity

Michael Myers Halloween - First sequel continuity

In Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, we learn that both Loomis and Michael survived the explosion at the hospital. Loomis has been facially scarred and walks with a cane while Michael has spent 10 years in a coma. Once again, on Halloween eve, 1988, three EMTs are given the task of transferring Michael to another facility. While in the back of the ambulance, they discuss Michael's history and we learn not only that Laurie Strode was killed in a car wreck (which later turns out to be false), but she left behind a daughter, Jamie Lloyd. Upon hearing this news, Michael suddenly awakens, kills the EMTs and causes the car to crash in a river during the melee.

Later on, Dr. Loomis rushes to the crash scene, searches for Michael's body, and comes up empty. The police try to persuade him that even if Michael were alive, he'd be too weakened to cause any trouble. However, Loomis knows better and heads to Haddonfield. On the way, he stops at a gas station to find that everyone had been murdered by Michael. The two stand yards apart from one another and Loomis pleads with Michael to leave the Haddonfield residents alone. Suddenly, Loomis pulls a gun out and fires at Michael, missing him. Michael then hops in a truck and almost runs Loomis over, but he just misses him and takes out a few power and phone lines instead.

Loomis takes a fresh look into Michael's past to contemplate the latest motive for his actions. Upon hearing of Jamie's existence and that she's in care of the Carruthers family, Loomis rushes to save her from her mad uncle.

The ever methodical Michael attacks an electrician and propels his body onto the power lines, knocking out power for all of Haddonfield, after ransacking the police station, killing all inside. Michael continues to stalk Jamie and almost attacks her when Loomis shows up and they all drive away a house, where they board up all the windows and doors and a police officer and a young man armed with a shotgun guard the house from the inside. However, Michael outsmarts them because he sneaks into the house before they board it up. Thus, they've locked themselves up with Haddonfield's most maniacal killer.

Sure enough, Michael surprises and kills them off one-by-one and chases after Jamie and her older, adopted sister Rachel in a great sequence on the roof. Ultimately, Jamie escapes, but Rachel plunges from the roof and we presume she's dead. Jamie, luckily runs into Loomis, who's little help after Michael surprises them both and drives Loomis's head through a window. As Michael closes in on Jamie, Rachel appears and sprays Micheal with a fire extinguisher. (Clearly, she survived the fall.)

The sisters escape with a group of vigilante gunmen who also have a score to settle with Michael: he murdered the son of one of the gunmen from #'s I or II. Anyway, Michael stays one step ahead by hiding under the truck, only to climb up and stab the gunmen one-by-one. Finally, the girls are left by themselves to fight off Michael, who's now hanging and slashing off the roof of the truck. Rachel abruptly stops the truck, propelling Michael forward onto the ground and then runs him over. This time, Michael doesn't stir and Jamie gets out of the car and touches the hand of her uncle. Predictably, Michael nonchalantly sits up like Dracula, but this time, the state police has finally shown up and they gun down Myers as he falls into a mineshaft.

Jamie and Rachel return home to their parents who are relieved that they are okay. As the evening ends, the opening sequence of the first movie repeats itself, except that instead of Michael dressed in a clown outfit, stabbing his sister, it's Jamie in the same outfit, stabbing her adopted mother. It appears that when she touched Michael, his evil yearnings transferred to her. The movie ends with Loomis trying to shoot Jamie, but The girls' police escort tackles him before he could do so. Loomis bellows "no!" and the credits roll.

In Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, after falling down the mine shaft, the state troopers toss dynamite down the mine to make sure they finish the job, but Michael crawls out in time. He spots a hermit's house in the nearby woods and passes out as he tries to strangle him. The hermit then nurses him back to health, but on Halloween, 1989, Michael reawakens, kills the hermit, and continues his insatiable quest to kill his niece.

We learn that Jamie is now taciturn and has been put under doctor's care at the child's psychiatric home. She has been having nightmares since the events of part 4 and apparently, now shares some sort of telepathic link with her uncle; she knows exactly when and where he'll strike next. Michael sneaks into Rachel's house, eventually killing her. As expected, Michael kills off a bunch of teenagers (and two police officers) as he slowly builds up to his main target, Jamie.

Loomis, now bordering on lunacy, uses Jamie's connection with Michael to set a trap for him at his house. Myers disposes of the cops and even wounds Loomis as he stalks Jamie. Throughout the film, he has been portrayed as a troubled soul who simply can't control the "rage" within him. Jamie continues to run away from Michael. She runs into the attic, where she finds her dead sister Rachel. When he finally has the opportunity to kill Jamie, he suddenly stops when she says "uncle?" In a bizarre moment of weakness and humanity, the uncle listens to his niece as she talks and eventually takes off his mask. She sees his face; the audience sees an eyeball with a tear dripping from it. When Jamie tries to wipe away the tear, Michael recoils and attacks Jamie in a rage. He angrily stalks Jamie until he encounters Loomis, who catches Michael in a net and literally beats him into unconsciousness. For the first time in the series, they actually capture Michael and he sits in jail. However, a mysterious stranger, dressed in black, blasts him out of jail and kills all the cops.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers reveals that Myers was saved by a secret cult of Druids that exists to worship and protect him. This same cult also kidnapped Jamie, who is now 15 and gives birth to a child. Although Jamie escapes, she is stalked and killed by Myers, but he is unable to find where she hid the baby. We also learn the secret of Myers' everlasting life and desire to kill: the curse of the symbol "Thorn," which makes the victim believe that if he kills all of his family members, he will have peace and help humanity.

At the end of the theatrical version of the movie, the audience is led to believe that Dr. Loomis was murdered by Myers, as a loud scream is heard from inside the building in which Loomis and Myers are last seen in.

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