Le Passeur
The Giver becomes impatient and bolder, having never previously met resistance with any species. It attempts to trap the family during a blizzard by disabling their vehicles and phone lines. Jack leaves on foot to ask a neighbor to drive his wife and son away from the house, while Heather and Toby remain at the house armed with gasoline cans and guns. Although they barricaded the house, the Giver is able to break in. It appears in two separate forms, each riding a corpse from the ranch's family plot. Heather discovers that bullets do not damage the Giver riding Eduardo's corpse, so she sets the house on fire, hoping the flames will destroy the creature. She shoots at the second corpse, damaging it, and realizes the Givers cannot move easily without their mounts. The first Giver has walked its corpse through the fire, and although it continues to pursue them, Heather sees that the fire has consumed part of it, allowing her some hope. Toby traps the Giver in his mind by tricking it into thinking he accepts its offer, while actually immobilizing the Giver and allowing him, his mother, and Falstaff to escape the house.