Nancy (Tremors)

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Nancy

Background

Nancy is a potter in Perection, Nevada. Her daughter is Mindy.

During the events of Tremors (1990) played by Charlotte Stewart

Nancy flags Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee down and Earl asks Mindy how many hops she has continuously hopped on her pogo stick. Nancy offers to give them a months work in order to build her a kiln, but they continue on their way to Bixby. Mindy sees Valentine and Earl drive back into town and they park their truck in front of Walter Chang's store. Mindy sees something latched onto Valentine and Earl's truck, and Burt Gummer uses a shovel to detach it and Walter haggles with Valentine and Earl for it. Burt tells the others he thinks there must be more somewhere. The residents of Perfection have a meeting and Burt suggests they arm themselves and Miguel comes up with the idea for two people to take Walter's horses and ride to Bixby. Earl and Valentine are picked to go . Rhonda LeBeck, Valentine and Earl drive back into town and tell the others about the Graboids. Valentine thinks they should leave, but most of the others think someone will come when they discover the phone lines are down. Nancy goes to find Mindy and sees her jumping on her pogo stick and Valentine grabs her shortly before Nancy runs to her. A Graboid grabs the pogo stick and Nancy and Mindy run into their house. Valentine tells everyone to get onto their roofs. The Graboid that originally attacked Valentine and Earl's truck starts to attack different buildings to test their structural integrity. It pushes over Nestor's trailer and pulls him underground. Valentine runs to a bulldozer and attaches a trailer to it and picks up the others. Burt and Heather Gummer make pipe bombs and get into the trailer with the others. They drive towards the mountains, but before they can reach them, the Graboids set a trap and dig a pit in the direction the bulldozer is heading, causing it to crash. Burt uses a pipe bomb to make the Graboids run away, but they come back again. They use another one to make them run away while they run towards a set of boulders. Burt tells Heather that if it comes to dying by the Graboids or starvation, he plans on letting them take him while he is holding a lit pipe bomb. Earl has the idea of attracting the Graboids and then feeding them a pipe bomb. They manage to kill one, but as they try it against the last one, it spits the pipe bomb back at them. Valentine, Earl and Rhonda are forced to run off the boulder and as they try to run back, the Graboid emerges in front of them. Valentine has the idea to use himself as bait and runs towards the edge of a mesa. Earl runs after him followed by Rhonda who hands Valentine a lighter to light the fuse on the last bomb. Valentine uses the bomb to make the Graboid run towards the edge of the mesa and it falls to its death.