![]() At the very end of the story,a couple finds Renshaw's bloody t-shirt,and the other contents of the footlocker are revealed, including one made-to-scale thermonuclear weapon, which was what ultimately killed Renshaw.īattleground was converted to a teleplay by Richard Christian Matheson for the television series "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". Renshaw plots to attack the soldiers with a Molotov cocktail constructed from a bottle of lighter fluid, but before the cocktail detonates the entire apartment explodes, and kills him. At one point, the toy soldiers even offer him the chance to surrender on a small sheet of paper passed under a door, Renshaw does not and is then attacked with more force. To Renshaw's surprise the tiny soldiers begin to attack him. When he opens the package he finds that the toy soldiers are alive with working copies (albeit miniature) of weapons, jeeps, and helicopters. Joe Vietnam Footlocker, sent to him by the mother of the toy-maker he had recently killed. Renshaw is a professional hit-man who returns from his assassination of a toy-maker to find a package delivered to his penthouse apartment. ![]() The story takes place in Renshaw's penthouse apartment. Battleground is a short story by Stephen King, first published in September 1972 issue of " Cavalier" and later collected in King's 1978 anthology " Night Shift". ![]()
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