Editing The Hitch-Hiker (section)

==Plot==
In the early 1950s, a hitchhiker robs and kills motorists who offer him rides. A suspect, Emmett Myers (Talman), is publicized in newspaper headlines.

In [[California]], two friends, Roy Collins (O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Lovejoy), are driving to a planned fishing trip in [[San Felipe, Baja California]], Mexico. In [[Calexico, California]], they pick up Myers, who pulls a gun and [[Hostage|takes them hostage]]. Myers forces the pair to drive him to [[Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur]], where he plans to escape a police [[Manhunt (law enforcement)|manhunt]] by taking a ferry across the [[Gulf of California]] to [[Guaymas]]. To avoid law enforcement, he orders them to stay off main roads and instead try to drive through the [[Baja California desert]].

Collins and Bowen comply, hoping they will be identified and stopped at the [[Mexico–United States border]] at [[Mexicali]], but to their dismay they are let through. In Mexico, Myers sadistically terrorizes the pair—at one point forcing Bowen to shoot a tin can out of Collins' hand from a long distance—and revels in the ineffective attempts by [[Law enforcement in Mexico|Mexican law enforcement]] to catch him using [[Security checkpoint|checkpoints]]. After a tense moment while stopping to get food, they stop for the night. Collins and Bowen discuss their plans to escape, and agree that they must act at the right time or they will be killed.

The next morning, the [[car radio]] fails, and Myers berates Collins for breaking it, so Bowen must drive. Meanwhile, police investigators learn the three are together and deduce where Myers is planning to go. At a [[gas station]], Myers kills a dog, while Bowen leaves his wedding ring for the police to find. Overnight, Collins and Bowen attempt to escape, but Collins injures his ankle, and the pair are recaptured. As the police investigation proceeds, investigators release false information to trick Myers, which seems to work. Later, when the car is damaged, Myers forces the group to continue on foot at gunpoint, and taunts them for missing opportunities to escape even if it would mean the other would be killed.<ref name=":0" />

Collins, Bowen, and Myers reach Santa Rosalía and head to a bar, where Myers tries to conceal his identity and find an English speaker. Learning the regular ferry to Guaymas has burned, Myers pays a fishing boat to take him there instead. However, as he prepares to leave with Collins and Bowen, a local resident recognizes Myers and alerts the authorities, who prepare to catch him at the pier. After a shootout and a scuffle, Myers is arrested and Collins and Bowen are freed unharmed.