Her fight with El Cuco was good vs evil, and she was his enemy #1. Holly really could be infected via the cut like Terry Maitland or via the back of her neck like Jack Hoskins. (I just realized that while I was typing this lol.) Detective Jack Hoskins/Neck Obviously, when dealing with a book the characters get more detail; in the case of King's The Outsider, certain point-of … Perhaps El Coco can return as a Holly Gibney clone. But after nine episodes worth of meditative investigation and … The show cuts to Jack sitting up in bed. He pleads out loud to someone to make it stop, and that he’ll do anything they say. Jack is drunk at the strip bar again, when he collapses to the ground in agony, screaming about the wound on the back of his neck. the real killer) into killing Detective Anderson. Jack Hoskins, Anderson's rival in local law enforcement, is coerced by the "Outsider" (i.e. The Outsider promises Hoskins that if he kills Anderson, he will be cured of his cancer. With the help of a number of characters, including police officers and a potential victim of the Outsider… The Outsider's third episodes introduced new characters and information about who---or what---might be responsible for its horrible crimes. This was the Jack Hoskins who shot a deer. The Outsider's first season was about as slow-burning as a monster hunt can get. If you think about it, her name Holly is literally almost Holy. He appears to be talking to himself, though the camera lingers on his neck. HBO. His puffy white sideburns are hard to miss. For some reason (possibly just a plot device), Jack was unable or unwilling to kill her.