To keep the ranch financially solvent, OJ has been slowly selling off his family's stable of horses to Jupe. The latest transaction involves Lucky, a horse that seems to be a favorite. Unfortunately, Lucky's skittishness around eye contact and mirrored objects lost the ranch a job. That money needs replacing, somehow.
After selling Lucky, OJ realizes the true reason Jupe has been so anxious to buy Haywood horses at fairly generous terms despite knowing the ranch's financial predicament is because the former child star isn't using them to add verisimilitude to his Western-themed amusement park — he's feeding them to the alien, with plans to use the spectacle as a sort of sideshow.
OJ heads to the park after Jean Jacket's latest visit, hoping to save his former horse. Lucky, of course, has survived the experience thanks to his previously-established distaste for eye contact. With Jean Jacket still circling, OJ rushes in to free the trapped equine. Unfortunately, he makes his move too soon, and only the amusement park's stadium tunnel saves him from being ingested by the extraterrestrial.
Besides an act of impressive heroism, OJ's actions affirm how important his horses are to him. Yes, he is running a business with them, but he's clearly attached enough to risk being snacked on by a being from beyond the stars.
