Dick recognizes the spot as the location where he buried the stranger. The deputy explains that this was where the rest area had been 30 years before. In the back of the police car, he rides with the deputy to a crime scene, where police are excavating murder victims from a mass grave surrounded by abandoned vehicles. In a panic, he flees, almost colliding head-on with a deputy sheriff. Nearby, he stumbles onto a woman's grave and realizes that the other cars are rusted and covered with dust. Gunshots ring out across the desert and Dick races back to the rest stop to find Gina is missing. Arriving at the site where they hid the body, Dick finds the grave empty. Refusing to go back, Gina waits at the rest stop with the gun while Dick returns to find his watch. They tidy themselves up and argue until Dick discovers he lost his watch while they were burying the stranger. Soon after, they arrive at a rest area where several cars are parked. While she fills the hole, Dick finds a revolver in her handbag.

Dick convinces his wife they need to dispose of the body, and together they bury it in a shallow grave. Gina stops the car and the two men tumble out, continuing to fight until Dick beats the stranger to death with a rock. He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash. Unable to get a phone signal, they decide to drive him to a hospital themselves, only for the road to come to a sudden end a few miles ahead.ĭuring the drive, the couple argue and the injured man awakens with a scream. Investigating, they find a man severely injured from a car accident. Eventually Dick turns the lights back on, immediately swerving to avoid a figure in the middle of the road. Dick turns off the car headlights to drive by starlight and Gina masturbates herself to orgasm as they head across the desert. Shortly afterward, the couple realize they are heading the wrong way and turn off the highway onto another road.

Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the Interstate. Newly weds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. It also stars Lauren German and Ron Perlman. Dark Country is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by and starring Thomas Jane in his directorial debut.

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