Sheriff Roy Pulsipher (Jeffrey Donovan) isn’t too thrilled about finding himself dead after a shootout with a notorious outlaw gang in RIPD 2: Rise of the Damned, but he does get a second chance to return to Earth after being recruited by the Rest in Peace Department.
But avenging his own murder may have to take a back seat to save the world when a gateway to hell is opened in the old mining town of Red Creek, threatening not only locals… but all of humanity itself.
At the end of RIPD 2: Rise of the Damned, Roy knows he can’t return to Earth to be with his daughter. Even if he tries to make contact with his daughter, she will not understand him. She also shows him that they are now in the bodies of different people.
They are in the bodies of two black bounty hunters, which will make things harder for them. Roy finds out that his daughter’s fiancé has been kidnapped, so he decides to go save him.
The man that Jeanne and Roy were trying to find and prevent from opening the gates of hell has people hostage. The audience finds out that Otis is behind everything, including the Samuels’ attack. Roy and Jeanne attack the mine where Otis is keeping everyone captive, and an intense shootout begins.
Luckily, they both possess special weapons that instantly kill the demons. There is also a shocking reveal in the middle of the fight as Jeanne tells Roy that she is actually Joan of Arc. She then uses magic tears to destroy all the demons, but Otis ends up surviving and faces them on his own, revealing himself as Astaroth.
They fight him together, and then Roy uses the last of his tears to send Astaroth back to hell. Everyone is released, and Roy embraces his future with Joan as his partner.
