On October 31, 1988, Michael Myers is shot and falls down a Shaft mining. Escaping into a nearby creek, he stumbles upon a local hermit and falls into a coma, placing him in the hermit's care, and being nursed back to health by him. One year later, on October 30, 1989, Michael awakens, kills the hermit, and returns to Haddonfield to find his niece Jamie Lloyd again, who narrowly avoided being killed by Michael the year before.