The Windows-Thing was an incomplete Thing which partially assumed the form of Windows, an American radio-operator stationed at U.S. Outpost 31. The creature appeared in the 1982 film The Thing.
History[]
After the Palmer-Thing is revealed by R.J. MacReady's blood test, the creature attacks the group and jumps onto the ceiling. When MacReady's flamethrower fails to ignite, Windows (who was supervising the tests) attempts to burn the creature with his own flamethower on MacReady's orders. However, he hesitates as the Palmer-Thing drops down in front of him and is grabbed around the throat by its lasso-like tentacle, pulled into its maw and is violently mauled. As MacReady's weapon finally ignites, the Thing throws the partially-assimilated Windows into the corner and is torched and destroyed by a stick of dynamite from MacReady.
After he returns, MacReady is met with pleas from the other men (all bound to the rec room couch for the purposes of the test) to burn the mutilated and squirming Windows, who has begun to make strange and inhuman gurgling noises, making it clear that he has been infected. MacReady proceeds to repeatedly blast the Windows-Thing with his flamethrower, putting the new creature out of its misery.
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