The Ultra Depressing Life of Halloween's Jamie Lloyd Part 2

In case you missed part one check it out here!

The last time we saw Jamie Lloyd at the end of Halloween 4 she was covered in blood after stabbing her foster mom and Dr. Loomis was wanting to bust a cap in her with his trusty revolver (presumably six caps as that's his thing).  So, has Michael Myer's essence transferred into his niece making her the brand new prodigy of evil?  Nah, she's just spent the whole year that takes place between parts 4 and 5 a mute relegated to a children's hospital.  It's never really explained exactly why she attempted to kill her mom but I guess it is just supposed to be chalked up to the effects of the traumatic experience she had just went through.  Loomis is still lurking around too, not quite as gun happy as last year but he definitely has an eye on Jamie and suspects that she may have a connection with her uncle.

"Hey dude, I'm up."

He's right of course, and since Michael didn't die after the assault at the end of part 4 but instead took a lazy river ride to a hermit's shack for some year long complimentary room and board things are shaping up to be pretty crappy for Jamie on Halloween again.  We learn the extent of Jamie's link with Michael when he wakes up and kills the hermit (talk about being unappreciative of the dude who let you be in a coma on his couch for a year) and Jamie sees it in a vision.  Not good.

On the seemingly good side is the fact that Rachael, Jamie's foster sister from part 4, is still around though her foster parents are conveniently out of town.  Yep, good ol' strong willed Rachael who kept Jamie safe and helped put Michael down last time is there to make sure everything is okay.  Well, that is until she gets a pair of scissors in the neck about 15 minutes into the movie.  We are left with Tina, Rachael's friend who is the main teenage character of this movie for whatever reason (the reason probably being that the chick that played Rachael didn't want to commit to a starring role).  Tina is a pretty polarizing character among horror fans and while I fall on the side that can put up with her I can understand how some find her annoying.   Two other new characters also show up, one being Jamie's stuttering buddy from the hospital and the other a mysterious Man in Black whose face we don't see but who is lurking around all the events in the film.  One of these characters will prove to be important to the Halloween 4-6 mythology and the other one stutters.

"Something, something, heart made of neon"

But back to Tina for a second.  Because Jamie can now kinda see through Michael's eyes at times she knows that he has killed Tina's boyfriend and that Tina is now taking a ride with a killer.  Jamie is able to communicate that she knows where Michael is to Dr. Loomis (in the amazing Cookie Woman scene) and they are able to save Tina.  Jamie gets her voice back for some reason too, thus resolving a seemingly purposeless plot point.  Unable to graciously accept a life saving and spend the night with her savior though, Tina goes off to a party at a farm to be with her jerk boyfriend who an hour earlier abandoned her as far as she knows. Michael is headed there himself and because Jamie wants to try to save Tina she heads out on foot with  her stuttering buddy, thus putting herself in grave danger yet again.

Michael slashes a few teenagers and by the time Jamie and friend arrive at the farm Michael is chasing them and Tina in a car.  Michael's driving lessons from part 1 come into play but it seems unlikely that he would pass a driving test once he crashes into a tree.  He ain't dead though and he's after Jamie once again until Tina intervenes.  Tina gets a good stabbing, and while it definitely seems like she is probably dead they never really state that she is, and Jamie escapes with Loomis.  Loomis has a plan and it involves using poor little Jamie Lloyd as bait.  Loomis screams at the woods a bit, telling Michael to go home.

"Close enough."

How Michael knows to find his house is hard to say since what they are passing off as the Myers' house in this film is more along the lines of a castle than a small middle class home.  The director of part 5, Dominique Othenin-Girard, stated that he wanted to take the series back closer to the original but apparently his plan to do that involved changing tons of things not least of which was making Michael's childhood home a Gothic mansion. 

Jamie is successfully used as bait but her cop bodyguard is killed and she ends up trapped in a dang laundry shoot and has to use the stabbing of Michael's knife as a step to get out, only to go hide in the attic in a child's coffin.  Rough.  She has a sentimental moment with her uncle when she tries to communicate with him sensibly but it inevitably turns into a rage attack from Myers, yet another traumatic experience for our little hero.  She runs downstairs to find Loomis leading to a session between the good doc and his patient that includes some tranquilizer darts and a two-by-four.  Loomis seemingly does him in and they are all taken to the police station.

Michael is unstoked to be in chains in a prison cell as we seeing him rocking back and forth and it seems that the unstoppable madman has at least been captured finally.  All is well that ends well.  But remember that dude in a black trench coat?  He shows up with a freakin' machine gun and completely lays waste to the station, rescues Michael, and kidnaps Jamie.  Can this girl get a break? It's only been one year and she's had two awful nights in which she was tortured and saw tons of people die. 

Who was that dude?  What is his connection to Michael and what do they plan to do with Jamie?  Why does he have the same mark on his arm as Michael?  It wouldn't be revealed until six years later when Halloween 6 was finally released.  Click HERE for the third and final look at the sad state of poor Jamie's life soon and we'll find out.