Following Friday the 13th Part 2's events, the next day on Saturday the 14th, 1984, Jason Voorhees having survived Ginny's machete attack escaped from his makeshift shack. Nearby, he found a lakeside store with owned by a man named Harold and his wife Edna, and entered looking for new clothing. While inside, he murdered the old couple by slamming a meat cleaver into Harold's chest, and stabbing a sewing needle into the back of Edna's neck. With the couple dead, Jason stole a dark-green worker shirt with a white under-shirt, silvery-grey cargo work pants, and black boots. A short time after Jason fled the scene, he found the uninhabited lakefront property Higgins Haven where he would take refuge inside the nearby barn to nurse his wounds. Some time later, the owner Chris Higgins had returned to the property with her boyfriend Rick, and her friends, Vera, Shelly, two stoners named Chuck and Chili, and Debbie who is pregnant with her boyfriend Andy, to spend the weekend. Following them was a frightening homeless, religious zealot named Abel who showed them a severed eyeball and warns them to turn back. The group arrives at the ranch not knowing that Jason had holed up in the barn.

12345678