Joe

Joe

Background

Joe Kirkley is a Private in the British Army.

During the events of Dog Soldiers (2002) played by Chris Robson

In the Highlands of Scotland, Wells leads his squad consisting of Cooper, Bruce, Spoon, Joe and Terry on a military exercise. Spoon tells Wells he left his watch at the barracks and Joe complains about missing the England versus Germany soccer match. Bruce tells the others the other team in the exercise is a Special Forces team. Wells then lets Spoon borrow his watch. While they are stopped for a meal, Cooper tells the others that he heard people disappear from the area all of the time and mentions the Campers who disappeared. At night, Cooper asks the others what scares them and Joe brings up soccer again. Wells tells the story of Eddie Oswald who had a tattoo of a laughing devil on his butt. While on patrol, Eddie stepped on an anti-tank mine and one of the pieces they found was a piece of skin with the laughing devil on it in perfect condition. As Spoon is telling a joke, a cow suddenly falls from above into the middle of camp. Cooper inspects the cow and notices it has teeth marks on it. In the morning, Wells and his squad follow the path that the cow came from. A flare flies up from a nearby area and they head in the direction it came from. They come across the remains of a military camp that is covered in human remains. Wells orders his men to salvage equipment and weapons from the camp. Bruce notices there are no bodies and Wells orders him to get on the radio. Ryan pops up from behind some equipment and after asking for help, collapses. Ryan keeps on repeating that there was only supposed to be one. Bruce tells Wells he can't reach anyone over the radio. Ryan tells them they have to get him to safety before they come back, but won't explain who they are. Ryan tells Wells that what they are fighting can't die and the squad hears a noise. They leave the camp and Bruce takes rearguard position. They are then attacked by Werewolves. They make it to a road and are picked up by Megan in her vehicle. Megan tells them she heard gunfire the night before and knew someone was in the woods. She takes them to a friend's farm and they break into it. They find food cooking in a pot which appears to be pork, but the place empty except for Sam The Dog. Megan tells Cooper the family doesn't have a phone and the nearest phone is fifty miles away and the nearest town is four hours away. Spoon tells Joe that it reminds him of Rorke's Drift when the British Army fought against the Zulu. Cooper then introduces the rest of the squad to Megan. Cooper starts questioning Ryan and notes that Ryan seems to be in better health than when they first found him. Cooper forcibly looks at Ryan's wound and notices it is healed. The Werewolves cut the power to the house. The Werewolves then attack the house. As Terry is standing next to a window, a Werewolf grabs him and drags him away. Cooper walks downstairs and Megan tells him the Werewolves got Terry. Cooper figures out Ryan and Megan know each other and she tells him she worked with Ryan's team during their first visit to the area. Megan mentions that the Ueth family have a Land Rover in the shed and Joe offers to go and hot wire it. Joe runs to the shed while Spoon acts as a distraction. Joe makes it into the vehicle and sees a Werewolf eating Terry who is barely alive. The Werewolf bites off Terry's head and then throws it against the windshield of the vehicle. Joe drives to the house and hears loud breathing coming from behind him and is then killed.