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We return to the van, and our best look yet at the bloody mark The Hitchhiker made on its side. I love everything about this mark, but I especially love how it seems to take on a clearer shape as the movie goes on, beginning as a clumsy smear and slowly resolving in shot after shook into a hooked, scythe-like glyph.