Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror)
"Dance of the Dead" is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on 11 November 2005. Richard Christian Matheson adapted the episode from a 1954 short story of the same name by his father, Richard Matheson. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan scored this episode. Plot In 2008, terrorists developed a biological weapon called "Blizz". They used this weapon in local weather patterns in the United States. As it falls from the sky, it will instantly burn any living thing it touches. At her seventh birthday party, young Peggy watched as her friends were killed by Blizz, while she, her sister, and her mother took refuge inside the house, refusing to allow anyone else shelter with them. Ten years later, America has been ravaged by the effects of World War III. The death count continues to rise in this dark and bleak future and some states simply no longer exist. Peggy is now almost 17, ignorant of the world outside her mother's diner. She has lost both her father and her sister, Anna, and now depends on her mother, Kate. Business is slow, but Kate tells Peggy they're fine financially, as