During the carnival's opening show, the pastor's son Taylor and his friend Jesse are unimpressed by the beast and start throwing peanuts at it.

The following night, Taylor and Jesse hide in an old barn in the forest when a dog feeding off of a severed foot barks at them, alerting the beast to their location.

Atlas visits psychic carnie Samara and learns of the beast's true origins: the Jersey Devil, the monstrous thirteenth child of Mrs. Leeds, whose aggression is fueled by the scent and taste of blood.

Cap and Quinn, the former of whom wants the creature alive to deliver it to a client, later try to recapture it by using more darts, eventually running into Atlas and his deputy.

Believing it to be dead, he and his followers load the creature's body onto their truck, go to the carnival, and begin to burn it down, killing most of the carnies.

Atlas regains consciousness, frees himself from his cell and goes to the now burning carnival, attempting to rescue Samara.