Sheriff Roy

Sheriff Roy is the main protagonist of "The Hunters", the fourth episode of the third season of the 1985-1989 iteration of The Twilight Zone, the episode airing in 1988. He is a sheriff who encountered a group of paranormal prehistoric hunters poaching animals around their cave.
Sheriff Roy was portrayed by Michael Hogan.
== Biography ==
By the 1980s, Sheriff Roy served as the sheriff of a rural county somewhere in the United States, being friends with some of the locals, including a farmer named Jacob, and knowing a real estate mogul named Jim Hilsen. One day, a boy scout encountered a cave when the ground he was walking on caved in, ground that happened to be owned by Hilsen for a housing project. Called by the boy scout, Roy discovered the presence of cave paintings within, depicting a group of hunters, and informed the local university of the discovery. One week later, the university was performing archeological work on the site, preventing any construction work from being done.
Roy later visited the archeologists, called in by head archeologist Dr. Klein, learning that the cave was sealed for about 12,000 years, and that the paintings also appeared to depict a strange 'spiritual doorway' with one stick figure by it, although Roy nearly stepped on an artifact while looking around. Exiting the cave with Dr. Klein, Roy asked why she called him in, and she asked him if the cave would be protected, for it is one of the most important discoveries of the century. Roy was confused at first, but Klein revealed that some artifacts were disturbed at night, although Roy believed an animal could've gotten into the caves while no one was around. However, Klein then showed him the carcass of a sheep that was dragged near the cave. Despite that, Roy still didn't believe that someone could be menacing them, only for Hilsen to arrive, with Klein implying that Hilsen was the one behind the animal killing and attempted vandalism as a scare tactic.
Hilsen then confronted Klein over his schedule being ruined, but Roy attempted to separate them despite Hilsen begging him to let him build, ultimately forcing Roy to hold Hilsen back when Klein called out Hilsen on his poor finances that relied on the project being finished. To diffuse the situation as fast as possible, Roy simply said he would investigate, making Hilsen leave.
Over the next two days, Roy was called by farmers from the surrounding areas, reporting missing animals, including cattle, a mare, and a lamb, the last of which belonged to farmer Jacob. Roy and Jacob found what appeared to be a butchered remain of Jacob's lamb, but despite Jacob demanding that Roy find an answer, Roy could only answer that he had his hands full with the various missing animal cases. Jacob suspected that wolves were the culprits, but Roy reminded him that it had been 30 years since the county had a wolf. Jacob then left, but demanded again for Roy to find an answer. Roy continued searching, finding more bloody animal parts strewn around the forest surrounding the cave's land, and soon realized that all the remains pointed right back to the cave.
At nightfall, after the archeologists left for the weekend, Roy descended into the cave, finding the remains of a simple small fire, still warm, with a lamb bone by it, as if someone was trying to cook it. He also found that Dr. Klein had remained in the cave, who revealed that the cave paintings had been changing despite being authentic, although Roy still suspected vandals despite comparing pictures of the paintings to the current ones, seeing that figures had changed position. Klein had no answer to how that could have happened, and also revealed that she planned to stake out the cave until the vandals revealed themselves. Roy tried to protest, ordering her to leave, but Klein remained regardless. Roy then left the cave, returning to his truck, but decided to stay as well in case anything happened, going to sleep in the vehicle.
During the night, Roy suddenly heard Klein scream, waking him up. When he entered the cave again, he found Dr. Klein dead with a spear stabbed into her back, making him draw his pistol. He began searching through the caves with a flashlight for any signs of the attackers, hearing the grunts and footsteps of unseen figures running up and down the passageways. Unable to find them, he returned to the cave entrance, only to discover that Klein's body was gone. Then, much to his shock, he saw a cave painting become animated, a stick figure of a hunter dragging away a prone figure with a spear in it, representing Dr. Klein. Still struck by disbelief, he saw a group of other stick figures brandishing spears approaching the drawing of the spiritual doorway, also hearing more grunts and animalistic calls behind him. Roy then fired several shots in the direction of the approaching figures, scaring them off, and realized that the hunter figures were somehow manifesting in the real world. With that in mind, he quickly grabbed a brush and water, and began furiously trying to scrub away one of the hunter figures on the wall. Said hunter manifested in physical form behind him, unseen by Roy, watching Roy erase his painting. Realizing what Roy was doing, the hunter threw his spear at Roy, but at that very moment, Roy fully erased the figure, making the hunter vanish with his spear before it could connect with Roy, presumably destroying the hunter for good. Roy then presumably erased the rest of the hunter figures before leaving the cave.
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