Following
the previous film,
Reggie has wandered the desert in pursuit of the
Tall Man. There, he is given a ride by a passing motorist, who happened to have stolen Reggie's
Barracuda. Reggie throws the thief out and they are attacked by spheres which kill the thief. While fending off the spheres, Reggie suddenly awakens at a nursing home, much older, in a wheelchair. He is visited by a still living Mike Pearson, who claims that Reggie has been diagnosed with dementia. Reggie tries to recall his experiences, which Mike believes to be a dream. In the apparent dream world, Reggie meets a woman named Dawn on the road, and gives her a lift. They reach a farmhouse, where a Bulgarian man Demeter works. Reggie tells Dawn about his encounters with The Tall Man, and tries to woo her. The Tall Man soon appears and Reggie awakes in another hospital from the
1860's. Lying in bed next to him is Jebediah Morningside, the elderly scientist the Tall Man possessed; Morningside has a somber talk with Reggie, but his demeanor suddenly changes to the Tall Man. Reggie sees the Tall Man's Lady in Lavender avatar physically conjoined, warning Reggie that he cannot escape. The next morning Reggie looks for Dawn, and discovers she's been killed by spheres, which also kill Demeter, as Reggie fights them off. In the "waking" world, Reggie speaks with Mike, who talks about a theory of parallel universes. In his "dream", Reggie finds himself in the woods and encounters a gigantic sphere hovering in the sky. Reggie alternates between his "dream" and the present "waking world". When both see and enter a gate, they encounter The Tall Man, and the two discuss how their paths keep crossing. The Tall Man offers to return Reggie's family to him if he ceases meddling in his affairs. Reggie refuses and is sent to a mortuary, where Reggie fights the Tall Man's dwarves and kills the Lady in Lavender. Confronting the Tall Man, Reggie demands he give Mike and Mike's brother Jody back. The Tall Man belittles Reggie's loyalty, and casts him away. Reggie seemingly awakens in another nightmare world, strapped to a gurney before two masked people. One is Chunk, a man with dwarfism, and the other is the woman Reggie knew as "Dawn"; she introduces herself as "Jane" and doesn't recall their encounter. After fighting off the Tall Man's minions, Jane and Chunk take Reggie to their resistance team, which includes Mike who tells Reggie he's been "on ice" for a decade, and that their world belongs to The Tall Man now. In the present, Reggie continues alternating between his "waking" and "dream" worlds, and is approached by Mike yet again. Mike reveals he's been having these dreams as well, and recalls surviving their last encounter with the Tall Man, who unleashed an alien plague that collapsed society and conquered the world, leaving a surviving resistance to fight against him. In their "nightmare" world, Jane is captured by The Tall Man, luring Mike, Reggie and Chunk through a gate to his dimension. On the Red Planet, they confront The Tall Man and his minions, where Jane is killed. Chunk, posing as a dwarf next to The Tall Man, blows himself up to try to destroy him, while Mike and Reggie escape. In the "waking" world, Reggie sees into the "nightmare", and fights gravers alongside Mike. A living Jody picks them up in Reggie's Barracuda, fitted with onboard machine guns. In the "nightmare", the trio plan to head north, where the Tall Man is repelled by cold. In the "waking" world, the elderly Reggie passes away with Mike and Jody at his bedside. In a
mid-credits scene, in the "nightmare" world, a surviving but maimed Chunk emerges from a dimension gate on a desert road, where he meets up with a surviving Rocky. He flirts with her as she patches him back up, before they are picked up by Mike, Jody and Reggie. As they depart, several giant spheres are seen looming over ruined cities, as the war with The Tall Man still wages on. ==Cast==