Childs

Second mechanic to Mac, Childs is pigheaded and rash. His dislike to the other members ofthen team make him some times even more deadler than thing. When Mac is suspected of being infected Childs leads the group into breaking into the supply room to kill Mac. When Mac sneers a Childs for leading the Lynch mob he retorts saying Mac would do the same.

Mac makes The remaining men take the blood test and when Plamer and Windows are killed Mac tells Garry and Nauls that their going to give Blair the test. He leaves Childs behind gaurding the main complex and tells him if Blair comes back with out them to fry him.

When the men relise that Blair is indeed the thing and has switched off the power the look back out to the complex and relise Childs isnt there anymore. After Garry and Nauls are killed and Mac kills the Blair Monster Childs reappears. Mac asks him what happened and Childs informs him thathe saw Blair and gave chase. Both men accept their fate of freezeing to death and share a bottle of whisky knowing that either one could be the thing.

The Dark Horse comic outcome

In the Dark Horse comic The Thing from another world Childs and Mac survive and cross the entire frozen content to kill the thing. The result leave both to end up in south America and it transpires that Childs was indeed the thing who turns in an attempt to kill Mac only to be killed buy U.S soldiers.

The Game outcome

Childs body is found buy Blake in one of the burnt out shacks in outpost 31. He seems to have froze to death.