I t is in this position that we find our reluctant, handless, chainsaw swinging, shotgun wielding hero at the start of the third installment of the Evil Dead saga. A sh is once again subject to the evil power of the almighty Deadites. Their mischievous pranks and evil voices taunting him as he tries to make it back to his own time and that nice comfortable S-Mart job.
H e is taken into custody by the inhabitants of the area.
When one of the wise men recognizes him as the one prophesized in the necromicon he is released. The natives make a deal with Ash that if he retrieves the book of the dead for them then they will send him back to his own time. B efore Ash arrived in the past he fought the deadites twice in his own time. The second time he faced them he lost his right hand to the evil that possesses the deadites. After this loss he had to outfit himself to face the terror of the deadites, or else he would be DEAD BY DAWN .