It: Welcome to Derry
Season 1 – Episode 2
Episode title: The Thing in the Dark
Based on: It by Stephen King
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider
Original release date: October 31, 2025 (HBO)
Plot: Lilly haves nightmares about what happened at the movie theater. The police investigates Hank Grogan, whom they blame for the children’s murder and disappearance. Hanlon suspects that his attack was orchestrated by Soviet spies while Sergeant Masters is incarcerated for that. Charlotte Hanlon wanders through Derry and tries to break up a fight, but receives disapproving looks from the adults. Ronnie has a vision of his deceased mother. The army searches the woods for something with help of Dick Hallorann, while being watched by Native Americans. Ronnie tells Lilly about her vision, and they discuss the version Lilly told the police. Will Hanlon has some difficulty adjusting, but he becomes friends with Rich and Ronnie. Chief Clint Bowers blackmails Lilly, and the police arrest Hank; Ronnie confronts Lilly at her house. Masters is cleared as one of the attackers and General Shaw tells Hanlon that he orchestrated the attack to test his fear and tells him that only he can recover a “weapon” that inspires fear in everyone. After another vision, Lilly returns to the psychiatric hospital. The army finds a car with corpses inside, a beacon to locate the weapon.
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It: Welcome to Derry – S01E02 – The Thing in the Dark | Transcript
(PROJECTOR STARTING UP, WHIRRING)
♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
See, I told you there was weird shit going on over at the airbase!
They made a giant fucking mutant baby!
(KIDS PANTING HEAVILY)
(MUTANT BABY SHRIEKS)
(KIDS SCREAMING)
PHIL: Come on, Susie!
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(MUTANT BABY SCREECHES, GROWLS)
(MUTANT BABY SNARLS)
PHIL: Guys, come on!
(LILLY BAINBRIDGE WHIMPERS)
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING FAST)
(MUTANT BABY SHRIEKS)
(TEDDY URIS SCREAMS)
(MUTANT BABY GROWLS)
(TEDDY SCREAMING)
(FLESH TEARING, SQUELCHING)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(RONNIE GROGAN SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
PHIL: Go! Go! Go!
(MUTANT BABY GROWLS)
(PHIL YELLS)
(MUTANT BABY ROARS)
LILLY: (SHOUTING) Susie!
Lilly!
LILLY: Give me your hand.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING RAPIDLY)
(SILENCE)
(GROWLS)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SHRIEKS)
(LILLY SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC DISTORTS) ♪
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
♪ (“A SMILE AND A RIBBON” BY PATIENCE AND PRUDENCE PLAYING) ♪
♪ A smile is something special ♪
♪ A ribbon is something rare ♪
♪ So I’ll be special
And I’ll be rare ♪
♪ With a smile
And a ribbon in my hair ♪
♪ To be a girl they notice ♪
♪ Takes more than
A fancy dress ♪
♪ So I’ll be noticed
Because I’ll dress ♪
♪ With a smile
And a ribbon in my tresses ♪
♪ The bigger my toothy grin is ♪
♪ The smaller my troubles grow ♪
♪ The louder I say I’m happy ♪
♪ The more I believe it so ♪
♪ So I’ll have
That extra something ♪
♪ ‘Cause I’ll know
What to wear ♪
♪ So I’ll be special
And I’ll be rare ♪
♪ I’ll be something
Beyond compare ♪
♪ I’ll be noticed ♪
♪ Because I’ll wear a smile ♪
♪ And a ribbon in my hair ♪
♪ The bigger my toothy grin is ♪
♪ The smaller my troubles grow ♪
♪ The louder I say I’m happy ♪
♪ The more I believe it so ♪
♪ So I’ll have
That extra something ♪
♪ ‘Cause I’ll know
What to wear ♪
♪ So I’ll be special
And I’ll be rare ♪
♪ I’ll be something
Beyond compare ♪
♪ I’ll be noticed
Because I’ll wear a smile ♪
♪ And a ribbon in my hair ♪
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOG BARKING) (BABY CRYING)
(BARKS)
(BABY CONTINUES CRYING)
(DOG CONTINUES BARKING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
So, Grogan, huh?
Chief’s pretty sure.
The projectionist in the movie theater… with the candlestick.
(SIGHS)
Little Philly Malkin went to school with my boy.
Show some respect.
Sorry.
(DOG BARKING)
(DISTANT CHATTER)
And what do you think he did to ’em?
A lot of blood, no bodies?
How the hell should I know?
Maybe he ate ’em.
(LAUGHS) (CHUCKLES)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Those poor parents, though.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
It’s a goddamn tragedy is what it is.
Sick bastard.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC STING PLAYING) ♪
(WATER RUNNING)
They’re still out there.
(WATER STOPS)
Well, they gon’ stay out there ’til they either find those kids or figure out how to pin this on me.
LOUELLA GROGAN: I told ’em you were nowhere near that theater when all that ugliness happened.
Told ’em you were here, in bed, after watching the Andy Griffith with me.
Told ’em they could ask you all about it.
HANK GROGAN: And you think they gon’ take my momma’s word for an alibi?
LOUELLA: They’re trying to intimidate us is what.
Make you confess to something you didn’t do.
(DISH CLATTERS)
Well, fuck ’em!
(SHUSHES) Calm down, Momma.
You know Ronnie’s still sleeping.
And she shouldn’t have let those kids in in the first damn place.
HANK: They were just trying to figure out what happened to that Clements boy.
That’s all.
None of this is her fault.
It’s your fault.
Filling her head full of Hollywood nonsense, thinking she Nora Charles or some such till she forget how the world really is.
She’s safe, Momma.
That’s all that matters.
You’re going to send that girl back to school next week.
She need that education if she ever going to get the hell out of this town.
Momma, kids missing, people watching us, whispering behind my back, your back, our backs.
If you think I’m lettin’ Ronnie out of my sight, you got another thing coming.
You can’t protect that girl forever.
Now come Monday, she gon’ march into that school with her head held high.
Ronnie, don’t play with me now.
I know you’re there.
(STERNLY) Veronica Grogan.
♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Are they really gonna try and pin this on you and take you away?
No. No, baby. No.
RONNIE: I heard, you said…
I know… I know what I said.
That’s just grown folks talking.
HANK: Come on.
Nothing’s gonna happen to me.
Everything will be okay.
You hear me?
♪ (“YOU SEND ME” BY SAM COOKE PLAYING)
♪ ♪ Darling, you send me ♪
♪ I know you send me ♪
♪ Darling, you send me ♪
♪ Honest you do, honest you do ♪
♪ Honest you do, whoaoh ♪
♪ You thrill me ♪
♪ I know you… ♪
(HORN HONKS)
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
LEROY HANLON: There he is.
Dad!
CHARLOTTE HANLON: Ooh!
(GROANS) Let me see the grip.
Yeah, that’s the best you got?
That you can handle.
Oh, it’s like that. Okay.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) There you go.
How you doing?
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Uh, I wanna see my room.
Upstairs.
(SOFTLY) Whew.
Uh, you know I’ve been waiting on this porch for you for two hours.
Two hours, yeah.
Well, we kept it well below the speed limit.
Hey, baby.
Hey.
(BOTH LAUGH)
LEROY: (GROANS) Ow.
Oh. What’s wrong?
I had a little mishap on base and it banged me up a little bit.
Oh no. Bad?
I’ll live.
What you think?
It’s more space.
CHARLOTTE: It’s very nice.
LEROY: Hey, yeah, quiet neighborhood. Yeah?
CHARLOTTE: Mmhmm.
All right.
CHARLOTTE: It’s beautiful.
Yeah.
CHARLOTTE: Mmhmm.
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Good afternoon.
You sure we’re… we’re good here?
If anybody’s got a problem with it, they can take it up with JFK.
(HAND SLAPPING SOFTLY)
(WILL HANLON GASPS, CHUCKLES)
Oh! Oh my… (CHUCKLES) This thing is amazing.
Oh, would you look at that.
Yeah, I found a nice little secondhand shop downtown.
Owner cut me a deal.
Mmhmm.
WILL: It’s the exact kind I wanted.
How did you know?
You think your old man doesn’t know his own kid?
Well, last present you got me was a tie.
Will, you said you loved that tie.
WILL: Yeah, well, you can’t see Jupiter with a tie.
(CLEARS THROAT) You know, when we need to, pilots, we use planets to help us navigate.
So we keep a device inside of the cockpit in case of a malfunction.
A sextant, right?
LEROY: That’s exactly right.
My little navigator.
Be better at night, but in the meantime, maybe we could use this to spy on the neighbors.
I don’t think we should do that.
Yeah, prob… probably not.
(HESITATES) It was just a joke.
WILL: Can I?
LEROY: Yeah, sure, please. Yeah.
It’s got a mirror inside.
Two mirrors, actually.
You know, you have one mirror to collect the light, and…
WILL: And one that magnifies it.
LEROY: That’s right, son.
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
CHARLOTTE: I’m not about to sweat out my silky press.
We were moving in such a haste.
You know Charlotte’s not going to bed without Charlotte’s headscarf.
I’m going to get organized tomorrow.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
That was a good call on the telescope, baby. Thank you.
Figured the last thing that boy needed was another baseball he was going to use as a paperweight.
His age, I’d have given a kidney for a proper mitt.
Well, he isn’t you.
Now is he?
He’s too smart for his own good.
That’s what he is.
He’s just trying to impress you.
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
CHARLOTTE: That hurt?
What’s the exact opposite of hurt?
I do not like being apart.
A part of what?
(LAUGHS)
♪ (“WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE” BY FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS PLAYING) ♪
♪ Ooh wah, ooh wah
Ooh wah, ooh wah ♪
♪ Ooh wah, ooh wah
Why do fools fall in love? ♪
♪ Why do birds sing so gay? ♪
♪ And lovers await
The break of day? ♪
♪ Why do they fall in love… ♪
PATTY: Is it Dean?
No.
Ooh, is it Cole from history?
Hi, guys.
Come on, Elaine. Just tell us.
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
What? Tell us what?
We promise we won’t tell anyone.
MARGE: About what?
You guys can just stop asking, ’cause I’m not gonna tell you.
What are you not telling?
We’re your best friends.
Whoever it is you have this crush on, you have an obligation to tell us so we can be happy for you.
Don’t you want us to be happy for you?
Yeah. Don’t you want us to be happy for you?
Promise not to laugh.
Cross my heart and hope to die.
ELAINE: Fine.
I think Scotty Mills is turning into kind of a dreamboat.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(LAUGHS)
See, I knew you guys would laugh.
Well, that was before you told us it was Scott the Snot.
He hasn’t had that problem since we were kids.
(PATTY AND RHONDA LAUGH)
(IN DEEP, NASALLY VOICE)
Are you talking about me?
Sorry, I can’t breathe very well.
(CHUCKLING) Oh my God, that’s what he sounds like.
Does something smell?
I can’t smell anything.
Marge, you’re not funny.
MARGE: Does anybody have a tissue?
(CHUCKLES) Enough, Marge.
Yeah, don’t be mean.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CHUCKLES)
Look who’s back.
Where does she get the nerve?
I can’t sleep knowing that her dad could just crawl through my bedroom window at night.
Do you think she knows where the bodies are?
I was worried about you.
I can’t stop thinking about them.
And about that thing.
♪ (THREETONE MELODY RISES) ♪
Good morning, students.
This is Principal Dunleavy speaking.
It’s 9:00 a.m.
on another sunny spring day.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
(GROANS)
DUNLEAVY: Now I would like to thank everyone who attended last week’s candlelight vigil for Theodore Uris and Philip and Susie Malkin.
♪ (“MASHED POTATO TIME” BY DEE DEE SHARP PLAYING) ♪
DUNLEAVY: It was an uplifting evening of prayer and remembrance.
And a strong reminder that as a community, we can weather any storm.
Oh, and the cafeteria will not be serving its usual sloppy Joes.
(GROANS) DUNLEAVY: In its place will be meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and something green.
♪ (THREETONE MELODY FALLING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(WHISPERING) Hey.
Hi, Marge.
I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
We haven’t really talked since, you know, the thing that happened at the theater.
Yeah, I’m fine.
Thanks.
Good.
(BREATHES AGITATEDLY)
I… It just… It feels like you’ve been ignoring me.
No, it’s just been hard.
I’m sure. I know. I bet.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
Take your seats quickly, please.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(WHISPERING) Look, I saw you, before, talking to Ronnie Grogan.
So?
(SIGHS)
So, Patty and the girls really care about you, but they don’t know you like I do.
They see you getting cozy with you-know-who’s daughter, they won’t understand.
I just…
I know you want things back to the way they were, with us, with the Pattycakes, and I can help.
I want to, but you have to let me.
How about eating lunch with us today?
Phil and Teddy are dead.
Phil’s sister is dead.
Who cares about your stupid Pattycakes?
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Today, we will be discussing the four basic food groups and how to best employ them to ensure your growing bodies attain maximum vigor.
(DOOR OPENS)
(PANTING)
Is this Miss Douglas’s class?
Sorry, I couldn’t find the room. I…
I’m Will Hanlon. I’m new.
Are you new to the concept of time, Mr. Hanlon?
You mean, like, relativity?
There’s no excuse for tardiness.
Next time your grade will reflect it. Take a seat.
(STUDENTS MURMURING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(STUDENTS LAUGHING)
Quiet! Quiet, everyone.
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Cedar Point.
Good pencil.
Thanks.
Eyes forward!
(TYPEWRITER DINGS)
SECRETARY: Can I help you, sir?
Yes, Major Hanlon, Sergeant Vice, ma’am.
Uh, Colonel Fuller wanted to see me.
(DOOR OPENS)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
FULLER: Major, come on in.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
We searched his quarters, found the weapon used in your barracks.
He finally admitted to it under questioning.
Masters?
He’s no Soviet spy, of course.
Just an asshole wanting to put a scare into a colored airman.
But this isn’t the South, and we don’t brook that kind of shit here.
We’re still trying to figure out the identities of the other two, but Masters is a coward.
He’ll break, and when he does, I can promise you, justice will be served.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Sir, that weapon that you recovered, it was dark in there, but it looked like a Makarov PM.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Is that right?
You have a good eye.
It was a Makarov, old Soviet piece of shit.
Why?
Nothing, just, uh… (CHUCKLES) …one day, when I’m telling my grandkids that I stared into the face of death, I want to have all the details.
(CHUCKLES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(LIVELY CHATTER)
♪ (THEME FROM
“A SUMMER PLACE” PLAYING) ♪
Good morning.
Morning.
(CAR HORN HONKS)
(SNIFFS)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
TRUCK PASSENGER: Suck an egg, Paul Bunyan!
(HORN HONKS)
(PROTESTORS CHANTING)
STAN KERSH: Personally, I don’t mind it.
(DOOR BELL RINGING)
STAN: I mean, it’s Paul Bunyan for Pete’s sake.
He’s an American hero.
(DOOR BELL RINGING) I’ll be right with you, miss.
He’s an eyesore.
And I won’t stand for it, and neither will any of the other Grand Dames of Derry.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
That statue has got to go.
Well, you know what I say?
Hmm?
Let the pigeons sort it out.
(CHUCKLES)
There you are, Mrs. Cavanaugh.
On your tab.
You have a good day now.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
How can I help you, miss?
Yes, I’d like to make a roast tonight.
STAN: Sounds heavenly.
Are we talking chuck or round?
(DOOR CLOSES)
(DOOR BELL RINGING)
Uh, rump, please, for three.
Okay.
STAN: So you passing through?
Oh, I actually just moved in.
I suppose I do really stick out around here.
Oh gosh, I didn’t mean it that way.
It’s just… been here a lot of years.
You see the same faces, day in, day out.
It’s nice to have a little bit of variety.
Stan Kersh.
Kids call me Stanley Cleaver.
(CHUCKLES)
Cute.
Well, I’m Charlotte. Hanlon.
Well…
Welcome to Derry, Mrs. Hanlon.
Thank you.
KID 1: He’s getting away. Get him!
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(KID 2 GROANING)
Why is no one stopping this?
Boys will be boys.
What are you gonna do?
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(DOOR BELL RINGING)
CHARLOTTE: Hey! Hey!
(CAR HORN HONKING) Hey! Uh-uh!
(KID 2 GROANING)
(CHARLOTTE GRUNTS)
You leave that boy alone, you hear me?
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING RHYTHMICALLY)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(GROANS)
(THUMPING INTENSIFIES)
He’s getting away, get him.
Leave him alone!
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
CHARLOTTE: Don’t tell me boys will be boys. How about boys will be kind?
LEROY: Mm.
Boys will stand up.
Boys will be tall in their integrity and their hearts.
LEROY: Mm.
Boys will be measured by their mommas in their new house.
Come on.
It was pathetic, Leroy.
Nobody seemed bothered by it in the slightest.
And then when I shouted, they looked at me like I was the crazy one.
Dogs. That’s what they looked like, a bunch of starving dogs getting ready to tear at a piece of fresh meat.
What were they doing outside of school in the first place?
I got about a half a mind to track those kids’ parents down and give them the what for.
Please don’t.
Did anything like that happen for you today at school?
Any bullies?
No. Mom…
This isn’t about embarrassing you.
This is about what’s right and wrong.
And isn’t it wrong to embarrass your only son the first week of school?
Don’t get cute with me.
You didn’t see those kids.
LEROY: Yeah, the boy’s right, Char.
You should just… you should leave it alone.
Is that an order, Major?
Well, after Shreveport, I think the last thing that you need to get is involved…
Can you guys stop fighting?
(IN UNISON) We’re not fighting.
We’re talking.
That’s just how we talk.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Can I be excused?
We didn’t get to hear how your first day went.
It was fine, Mom. Okay?
Can I go now?
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
It’s all right. Go on, son.
Go.
Excuse me?
We’re all off living separate lives most of the day.
And all I ask is for a little family time at night.
And please don’t bring up Shreveport like we didn’t move here for you.
So that brick through our car window, was that for me too, Char?
So it’s my fault now?
I’m not the one that’s causing trouble.
I’m not the one that’s making signs.
I’m not the one that’s sitting in places where I’m not wanted.
What is with you tonight?
Why are you coming at me like this?
Um, I’m sorry, baby.
I… I had a day is all.
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Okay, you want to talk about it?
You know I can’t.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah, I know.
LOUELLA: (MUFFLED) All this bullshit, police sneaking around outside our house, harassing us, day in and day out.
HANK: (MUFFLED) Momma, Ronnie’s sleeping.
LOUELLA: Don’t you shush me!
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
LOUELLA: You ain’t the only one with the keys to that theater.
HANK: Cal? You… you serious?
LOUELLA: Or that stingy man who owns the place.
HANK: Come on, Momma.
LOUELLA: You think they got police outside their houses?
HANK: I don’t know. But we…
LOUELLA: That’s bullshit, and you know it!
HANK: Momma, please keep it down.
LOUELLA: You know what the difference between them and you is?
You look in the mirror lately?
HANK: Ronnie is trying to sleep.
(HANK AND LOUELLA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING FAINTLY)
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING LOUDER)
(GASPS)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(FLESH SQUELCHING) (SCREAMS)
(GASPS, SCREAMS)
(GRUNTS, GASPS) (FLESH TEARING)
(FLUID GUSHING)
(WHIMPERS, SOBS)
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GRUNTS, YELLS)
(GASPS)
(FLUID GURGLING)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(SCREAMS)
(MUFFLED SCREAMS)
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MUFFLED SCREAM)
(GRUNTS, YELLS)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(FLESH TEARING)
(RONNIE YELLS)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
(COUGHS, SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
(PANTING RAPIDLY)
(PAINED GROAN)
(COUGHS, WHIMPERS)
(FLUID GUSHING)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GROANING)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSICAL STING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(EERIE DISTORTED WARBLE)
(PANTS)
(IN PAINED VOICE)
You tore me apart, Ronnie.
Mommy?
You came out of me and ripped me right open. (SOBS) Why’d you do it?
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(BONES CRUNCHING)
All I wanted was to hold my baby.
(EERIE DISTORTED WARBLE)
(SILENCE)
And you killed me.
Like you killed those kids.
Like you’re gonna kill your father.
(BONES CRUNCHING)
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(IN SINISTER VOICE)
They’ll come for him.
They’ll take him away.
And he’ll fry!
(LAUGHS MANIACALLY)
(SCREAMS) I’m sorry, Mommy!
Come to momma!
(LAUGHING) (SCREAMS)
♪ (TENSE DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MOTHERTHING LAUGHS)
(GROWLS)
(SCREAMS)
(STOMACH GROWLS)
(SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(MOTHERTHING LAUGHING)
(SCREAMS)
(STRAINED GRUNTS)
(FLESH TEARING)
(MOTHERTHING LAUGHS)
(LAUGHTER STOPS)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(SCREAMS, BREATHES HEAVILY)
Look at the mess you made.
(STOMACH GURGLING)
(WET THUD)
♪ (INTENSE EERIE
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BONES CRACKING)
(SINISTER CACKLING)
(SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
(SHRIEKS)
(SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪
(PANTING HEAVILY, SOBBING)
You okay? You’re safe.
(RONNIE WHIMPERS)
HANK: Everything okay?
It’s okay. It’s okay, baby.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HANK: It’s okay. Breathe. Breathe.
It’s okay. Daddy’s here.
Daddy’s here.
♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JAX: Man, that’s bullshit.
Like I’m gonna help someone beat up another colored airman.
I mean… (HICCUPS) Have you seen me?
Have you seen me?
I ain’t got nothing to be jealous of.
(AIRMEN LAUGHING)
Listen, I don’t know what it was, but I guarantee y’all, it was some cracker shit.
I agree with you.
(CHUCKLES) Coming to me, asking me like I did something.
(SCOFFS)
I’m as clean as a whistle.
(SCOFFS) Reggie, ain’t nothing clean about you.
REGGIE DAVIS: Please.
(JAX LAUGHS) But, man, they questioned my ass damn near an hour.
They hitting up everybody.
What the hell you think this is all about?
♪ (BAGPIPES PLAYING) ♪
REGGIE: Don’t see, don’t say.
Go along to get along, you dig?
(LAUGHS)
All the way to China, baby.
(LOUD THUD)
♪ (BAGPIPES STOP PLAYING) ♪
CUSTOMER 1: Whoa.
CUSTOMER 2: You all right there, Bernie?
So how long they question you for?
They didn’t.
REGGIE: Then what’d you do all day?
I can’t talk about that.
Supersecret spy mission.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Man, you full of shit.
(DOOR OPENS) Okay. We’ll see.
I’m telling you.
(JAX LAUGHING)
DICK HALLORANN: Ooh. I forgot…
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
Elmer.
Chief.
Dan.
Councilman. (CLEARS THROAT) You arrest him yet?
Who’s that?
The Negro. From the movie house.
(SIGHS) Investigation’s ongoing.
Everybody knows he hurt those kids.
Think about the parents, Chief.
Grieving, no body to bury, and you sitting here having a nip off the clock.
You think I’m not doing everything I can to place him there that night?
I’ve got no evidence, and he’s got an alibi.
This is America.
This ain’t America.
This is Derry.
Do your job, or come next election, we’ll find somebody else who will.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(AIRMEN LAUGHING)
Elmer.
(JAX AND REGGIE LAUGHING, CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
Time to go.
Go? I’m just getting start…
Where we supposed to go to relax around here?
Oh, don’t worry. I know somebody that can help us out.
Long as you fellas can handle a little moonshine.
I don’t know about that, man.
That shit’s kind of strong.
Oh, yeah? Well, so am I.
♪ Got that old… ♪
♪ (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
HALLORANN: Okay.
♪ (VOCALIZES) ♪
Hey, hush up, man.
You gonna get us written up.
For what? Feeling good?
REGGIE: You ain’t gonna feel so good when they throw your ass in the stockade.
Get rid of that shit.
(GLASS SHATTERS)
REGGIE: Come on, now.
Straighten up.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
DEAVERS: IDs.
What are you fellas doing out?
Base is on lockdown.
Nobody’s allowed on or off without special permission.
Yeah, well, we’ve all been questioned and cleared.
Don’t move. Any of you.
We’ll let the OD sort this out.
Okay, but you be sure to let him know Dick Hallorann’s out here.
(DIAL TONE RINGING)
Got myself some special privileges.
My ass.
Stay right over there.
(OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON PHONE)
DEAVERS: Yes, sir.
Master Sergeant Deavers down here at the south gate.
I got three drunk airmen here, snuck off base.
Need you to send someone.
Guy named Hallorann.
(OFFICER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
That’s right.
OFFICER: Dick Hallorann?
DEAVERS: Dick, yeah.
OFFICER: Do you like your job, Master Sergeant?
DEAVERS: Yes, sir.
(OFFICER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
I will, sir.
(LINE CUTS OFF)
You’re clear.
Oh.
DEAVERS: Straight to quarters.
REGGIE: Thank you, sir.
Supersecret spy mission.
You weren’t kidding, were you?
What the hell they got you doing, Hallorann?
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(DISTANT CLAMOR)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
♪ (MUSIC TURNS TENSE) ♪
(METAL DETECTOR BEEPING)
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC RESUMES) ♪
(SIGHS SHARPLY)
Looking a little green around the gills there, Hallorann.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
No complaints, sir.
Well, I’ve got one.
This is the fourth dig site in as many months.
I’m getting tired of dragging my ass out into the middle of the woods for scraps.
You might be fooling some of the people around here with these so-called gifts of yours, but the only gifts I see are the ones that the U.S. government feels fit to bestow upon you with nothing to show for it in return.
Maybe you’re dragging things out a bit, huh?
Enjoying those special privileges a little too much?
We can fix that real quick.
We’re close.
We’re close. I can feel it.
You better hope so.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING OVERHEAD)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(RETCHES)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(PATTYCAKES LAUGHING)
(INAUDIBLE)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
These beans taste disgusting.
Tastes like rats’ balls.
No way, it’s worse than that.
Tastes like Principal Dunleavy’s butt.
(PATTYCAKES LAUGHING)
(CHUCKLES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES)
We need to talk.
Hey, what’s wrong?
That thing. It came back.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
When?
(LAUGHS) Hey, get a load of Square Central.
PATTY: What’s she doing with Hatchet Hanks’ kid?
I thought you said she wasn’t crazy anymore.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
I don’t know. She seemed better.
Wonder what they’re talking about.
Probably planning another murder.
Maybe we’re next.
(ELAINE AND RHONDA LAUGH)
(MIMICS CHOKING)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
ELAINE: Marge! Oh my God!
(MARGE BLOWING RASPBERRY)
Hey, Margie.
Weren’t you wearing that sweater yesterday?
Are you hurt?
No, but… it said things.
Like what?
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
That they’re going to come for my dad, take him away, and that… that he’ll fry.
Look, everyone knows your dad had nothing to do with this.
When the cops asked me, I told them he wasn’t even there.
You told them what you told me, right?
They asked what happened, and I…
You know, I said I wasn’t really sure, but…
But you told me a monster came out of that screen.
You told me!
Hey, let’s do the Pattycakes.
(CLAPPING IN UNISON)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(CLAPPING RHYTHMICALLY) I don’t know exactly what I saw, okay?
But it wasn’t your dad, and that’s what matters.
And I told them so.
“I don’t know what I saw” sounds like you’re too scared to tell.
♪ (ECHOING SCREECHING NOTES) ♪
Come on, Marge. Join in.
If you don’t tell them the truth soon, they’re gonna decide what happened that night and take my dad away.
And if I do tell them, they’ll think I’m crazy and take me away.
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
You don’t know, Ronnie, what it was like in that place.
(PATTYCAKES LAUGHING)
I can’t go through that again.
This is my dad’s life we’re talking about.
I told them he wasn’t there.
That’s all I can do.
I’m sure it’ll be fine.
And I’m sure we both know that’s some bullshit!
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(SILENCE) Excuse me, young lady.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
MONITOR: You’re coming with me.
♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You can’t sit there. It’s saved.
This spot of… of the floor?
(CHUCKLES)
It’s not saved. It’s the floor.
You can’t save the floor.
Who would it be saved for?
I don’t know. Your friends?
My friends. Sure.
Whatcha reading?
101 Scientific Facts by Thomas Inwood.
♪ (GRANDIOSE RENDITION OF “YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE” PLAYING) ♪
♪ Walk on through the wind ♪
♪ Walk on through the rain ♪
♪ Though your dreams ♪
♪ Be tossed and blown ♪
♪ Walk on, walk on ♪
♪ With hope in your heart ♪
♪ And you’ll never walk alone ♪
♪ You’ll never ♪
WILL: (ECHOING) Hello?
♪ Walk… ♪
(IMAGINARY BIRDS TWEETING)
♪ Alone… ♪
Hello?
♪ (SONG CUTS OFF) ♪
Oh, hi.
Science. Cool.
Why’s the sky blue?
Well, my dad says it’s ’cause God’s a boy, otherwise it would be pink.
That’s an interesting theory.
I’m Rich, by the way.
Will.
Do you always eat lunch out here?
(DOOR OPENS)
You might want to run now.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(FUSE FIZZING)
(GRUNTS)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
You again!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOOR BELL RINGING)
SHOPPER: See you tomorrow, Rose!
Baseball cards, bowling ball, biwa.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR BELL RINGING)
♪ (MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) ♪
CLERK: Carafe, cups, cards, clock.
May I help you?
What a lovely shop.
Thank you.
So are you looking for anything in particular?
You know, you actually sold a telescope to my husband, I think, last week.
I remember.
Very polite.
Got the feeling he might be in the military.
Yeah. (CHUCKLES) Don’t hold it against him.
Uh, my family and I just moved to town, and we’re looking for things to fill the place, so…
You have a son, right?
Yeah.
Will, he’s 12.
He’ll be 13 in August.
ROSE: Hmm.
Well, I normally close up right now for lunch, but, uh, for a return customer.
Oh.
ROSE: Feel free to look around.
Thank you so much.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
I’m sorry.
(RONNIE SNIFFLING)
Sorry, I stink, I know.
I mean, you threw a stink bomb on your second day at school.
What? No.
No, uh, I didn’t do it, okay?
I just got blamed.
Why are you here?
Cussing.
Were you wrongfully accused too?
No, I’m guilty as hell.
I’m Will.
Ronnie.
You know you don’t have to do that in here.
They don’t care, long as we stay put.
Oh, right. Thanks.
That’s not on our syllabus.
Really?
Guess I must have gotten an old syllabus.
Are you reading that for fun?
No.
No, I just…
You’re lying.
This has gotta be the first time a kid in this school has lied about doing schoolwork to cover up doing more boring reading.
It’s not boring.
All right, then what is it?
Well, science is interesting.
Take that stink bomb.
You know it’s made up of many different chemicals, right?
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Mostly ammonium disulfide and some other stuff.
But the point is, those chemicals, it’s the same exact stuff that makes up the clouds around Jupiter and Venus.
So, yeah, maybe I smell bad.
Or maybe I’m just covered in stardust.
You’re weird.
Takes one to know one.
STUDENT 1: What happened?
STUDENT 2: What’s going on?
STUDENT 3: Why are the police here?
STUDENT 4: Does anyone know where Lilly is?
STUDENT 5: They’re taking her away.
(INDISTINCT OUTSIDE CLAMOR)
What’s going on?
♪ (INTRIGUING MELODY PLAYING) ♪
Do you know her?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (MUSIC GROWS SINISTER) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
LILLY: I didn’t see Mr. Grogan that night.
I already told you.
Yes, you did. You told me.
Lilly, those families, they deserve justice, don’t you think?
Mmhmm. A lot of people out there in the community, they’re frustrated.
People get frustrated, they start getting funny ideas.
Thing is, Lilly, you got a little bit of a reputation in town.
Now, don’t misunderstand me.
All right. Folks… folks get what you’ve been through.
Your daddy like that… in pieces, it’s just…
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
CLINT BOWERS: Well, things no little girl should ever have to deal with.
The people know that.
They know that.
But they also know…
They also know about after.
About your time at Juniper Hill.
And if what you say is true and Mr. Grogan wasn’t there in the auditorium, well, it doesn’t take long before the only witness starts to sound a little more like… the only suspect.
You… you think I had something to do with this.
No. No, no, no. God, no.
But people hear stories about a girl with emotional problems found covered in her friend’s blood, and, well, you can see how this doesn’t look good.
I didn’t. I swear.
Here’s what we’re gonna do.
We’re gonna send you back to Juniper Hill.
What?
CLINT: Check you in for an evaluation.
Just a couple of days, then everybody else can see they’re barking up the wrong tree.
No, no, please.
I… I… I… I can’t.
I… I… I don’t…
Please don’t send me back.
I don’t want to, Lilly.
I don’t, but I…
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
Tell you what.
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
How about I ask you one more time?
I’ll even rephrase the question if that’ll make it easier for you, all right?
I’m not gonna ask you if you saw Hank Grogan there at the theater that night.
What I’m gonna ask you is…
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
…can you be absolutely, positively certain that he wasn’t there?
(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)
LOUELLA: This ain’t right.
He didn’t do nothing to those kids!
Mrs. Grogan, we have good reason to bring him in.
We need to ask him some questions.
Come on.
OFFICER: Don’t interfere.
Daddy! Daddy! No! No!
It’s going to be okay, baby.
No! Daddy!
It’s going to be okay. It’s going to be okay.
(SOBBING) No! No!
It’s going to be okay. I’ll be back.
I’ll be back, okay?
I’ll be back.
Don’t worry about it.
Daddy!
It’s going to be okay.
KIRN: Come on.
HANK: Momma, watch my baby!
RONNIE: (SOBBING) No!
HANK: I’ll be ba…
No! (SOBBING) Daddy!
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
(SOBS) No!
LOUELLA: Go home!
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LOUELLA: Ought to be ashamed.
Feeding on other people’s pain.
Go home!
Ronnie, baby, come back.
(POUNDING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What do you think you’re doing?
Do you know what time it is?
Where is she?
What did you tell them?
(SHOUTING) What did you say?
I didn’t. He tricked me.
(VOICE TREMBLING)
And I didn’t know what to do.
What is this about?
This is about my daddy!
They took my daddy away!
Enough! Go home before I call your grandmother!
(DOOR LOCKING) No!
(POUNDING ON DOOR)
(GRUNTS)
What’d you say?
You know he didn’t do it!
You know it!
What did you do, Lilly Bainbridge?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(ALARM BUZZES)
(LOCK CLICKS)
MILITARY POLICE OFFICER: You have a visitor.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(KEYS JANGLING)
(LOCK CLICKS)
LEROY: Staff Sergeant.
How did you get in here? Hmm?
What, all you fellas sticking together now, is that it?
You come to get your pound of flesh?
(CELL DOOR CLOSES)
(LOCK CLICKS)
Well, come on in, Poitier.
Water’s fine.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What? You come all this way to chicken out?
Hey, what the hell?
Relax.
The magazine’s empty.
This one’s not.
Guard!
I’m not gonna shoot you.
Now, that is a Makarov PM.
It’s the same model that you put in my face the other night.
This one’s mine.
A souvenir from my time in a North Korean POW camp.
I’m crying.
Now, the PM, she’s standard issue east of the Berlin Wall, but not too common around here.
It’s a difficult piece to handle.
It’s even harder to load.
Takes two hands and a couple tries on a good day.
So?
So… you cocked that gun… in less than a second.
And I’ve seen trained Korean officers take longer than that.
Masters, I don’t know what you’re doing here, but you sure as hell weren’t in my room the other night.
So you think that I don’t want your Black ass out of here?
Oh, I believe that.
But I pulled your file, and near as I can tell, you can barely strip down an M16, much less handle a Soviet pistol like you’re married to it.
There’s a lot of interesting things in that file.
Article 15s up the wazoo for everything from drunk on duty to punching out NCOs.
Your momma must be real proud.
You leave my momma outta this.
Sure.
Just as long as I don’t have to leave this…
(PANTS RUSTLING)
…out your momma.
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GRUNTING, GRUMBLING)
(GUN CLICKING)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
(GUN RATTLING)
That’s what I thought.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
General, do you have a moment for Major Hanlon?
Send him in.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
General.
Major, have a seat.
That won’t be necessary, sir.
I just thought you should know you have an innocent man locked in the stockade.
He’s a racist asshole, but he’s innocent.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Bastard signed a confession.
Yeah, well, he lied, sir.
He told you that?
In so many words.
I’m going to file a report with OSI to request a further investigation.
I see.
Will that be all, Major?
Yes, sir. Thank you.
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Major Hanlon.
Why don’t you have that seat now?
I needed to know.
If word of your brain injury in South Korea were true.
And Major, you did not disappoint.
A damaged amygdala.
Fifty years in the field and I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I’ve spent enough time in combat to know a brave man when I see one.
But you, Major, are the rarest of creatures.
A man without fear.
And I’ve been looking for someone like you for a long, long time.
It was a test, son.
And you passed.
I think I heard enough.
Now hold on.
Who was in the masks?
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Does it matter?
Do I want to know who beat me with a metal pipe?
Yes, sir, I do.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like that, and I am sorry.
But I promised anonymity, and I don’t burn my people.
And Masters?
He wasn’t there.
I understand.
You’re obligated to report me.
But before you do, I would ask you take ten minutes to hear me out.
(MUFFLED RUMBLE)
♪ (PENSIVE MELODY PLAYING) ♪
(RUMBLE STOPS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) You’ll find Gingham dog food, bigger flavor, smaller price.
And remember, cats love it too.
Hi, Lilly.
Hi, Mr. Janko.
Your mother sent you shopping again?
She’s working a double shift.
If you need anything up high, ask.
LILLY: Thanks.
ANNOUNCER: On aisle seven, FizzALot soda pop.
Buy two for the price of one.
And don’t forget to pick up your SpaghettiOs in the canned food section.
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ANNOUNCER: Mr. Bubble bubble bath at half price until the end of the week.
♪ (FAINT EERIE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
ANNOUNCER: Say hello to The Green Giant.
Green beans on sale in aisle six.
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(EERIE ECHOING RUMBLE)
VOICE 1: (WHISPERS) Crazy.
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ANNOUNCER: You’ll find Gingham dog food, bigger flavor, smaller price. And remember, cats love it too.
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
ANNOUNCER: Gingham dog food, bigger flavor, smaller…
VOICE 2: (WHISPERS) Your daddy misses you.
ANNOUNCER: And remember, cats love it too.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ANNOUNCER: On aisle seven, FizzALot soda pop.
Buy two for the price of one.
♪ (MUSIC GROWS SINISTER) ♪
VOICE 3: (WHISPERS) You should be locked up.
ANNOUNCER: Campbell’s tomato soup.
Look for the red can in aisle six.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ANNOUNCER: Don’t forget to pick up your SpaghettiOs in the canned food section.
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ANNOUNCER: Mr. Bubble bubble bath at half price until the end of the week.
(EERIE DISTORTED RUMBLING)
♪ (EERIE JAUNTY FUNFAIR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
VOICE 4: (WHISPERS) You’re insane.
VOICE 5: You should go back to Juniper Hill.
ANNOUNCER: Lilly Bainbridge…
Have you lost your marbles?
There’s a special on marbles on aisle eight!
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
VOICE 6: You can’t leave here.
VOICE 7: You’re a danger!
VOICE 8: You’re stuck here!
VOICE 9: She’s insane.
(VOICES CONTINUE WHISPERING)
(VOICES CACKLING)
VOICE 10: She’s crazy.
VOICE 11: Did you know that?
VOICE 12: I know you do.
(OVERLAPPING WHISPERS)
VOICES: (OVERLAPPING) You wanna see your daddy?
(MENACING LAUGHTER)
VOICES: (OVERLAPPING) Crazy.
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(ECHOING KIDS’ VOICES WHISPERING)
KIDS’ VOICES: (ECHOING) Na, na, na, na, na.
(VOICES CONTINUE ECHOING)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(VOICES BECOME DISTORTED)
(VOICES GROW LOUDER)
♪ (INTENSE OMINOUS
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪
(LIGHTS FLICKERING)
(FAINT CLINKING)
(MUFFLED MOANING)
(MONSTROUS GROWL)
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(GROANS)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
Daddy?
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
There’s my little girl.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS) ♪
(GROWLS)
(IN SINISTER VOICE)
Got a kiss for daddy?
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
(PICKLE JUICE BURBLING)
(JARS RATTLING, CLINKING)
♪ (INTENSE EERIE
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BURBLING INTENSIFIES)
(SCREAMS)
(MONSTROUS GROWL)
(FLESH SQUELCHING)
No!
(GROWLING)
(SCREAMS, SOBS)
No!
No! No! No!
(IN SNARLING VOICE)
Hello, crazy!
(SCREAMS)
Just one kiss for Papa!
Leave me alone! Leave me alone!
(SCREAMS)
(SNARLS)
MR. JANKO: Lilly Bainbridge!
(LILLY GASPS)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
♪ (PLEASANT MUSIC RESUMES) ♪
What the hell’s wrong with you?
(LILLY WHIMPERS)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SHAW: Open the gate.
Yes, sir.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS INTRIGUING) ♪
What is all this?
Bear with me, Major.
Earlier this year, the Cubans and the Soviets held an agricultural summit in Havana.
I remember hearing about it in the news.
Well, what you didn’t hear about was the true purpose of that meeting.
It was to devise a plan to place nuclear warheads within striking distance of the United States.
With launch capabilities in Cuba, the Soviets could hit every major city in the United States within minutes.
What you’re about to see may be our best and only hope to prevent that.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(ELECTRONICS BEEPING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
Gentlemen. Dismissed.
Welcome to Operation Precept.
A classified DOD crash program with a single purpose.
To win the Cold War before the first missile is ever fired.
LEROY: You’re building a weapon?
Close. We’re looking for one.
Something that was buried in Derry a long time ago.
Something that you, Major, are uniquely qualified to help us retrieve.
How’s that?
This weapon, it generates debilitating fear.
In anyone who comes near it.
In theory, it could scare a man badly enough to kill him where he stands.
LEROY: Hmm.
But what is it?
Some kind of machine?
We don’t know everything about it.
Where it came from, how it works.
What we do know is that it’s surrounded on all sides by a group of objects.
Think of them as beacons.
If we can find them, they’ll help us pinpoint the exact location of the weapon itself.
And at that moment… we need you there, Major, to help us secure it.
(DOOR OPENS)
Yes, Colonel, what is it?
Apologies for the interruption.
We just received word from the dig site.
Reports are still coming in, but it appears they found something.
Join us, Major?
Yes, sir.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
Mom, please.
Don’t make me go.
(PATIENT SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪
♪ (TENSE DRAMATIC
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR CONTINUES)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
I told you.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS SINISTER) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
♪ (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
♪ (TENSE MUSIC STING) ♪
SHAW: We’re close.
♪ (“HUSH HUSH HUSH HERE COMES THE BOGEY MAN” BY HENRY HALL AND HIS ORCHESTRA PLAYING) ♪
♪ Don’t let him come too close
To you ♪
♪ He’ll catch you if he can ♪
♪ Just pretend
That you’re a crocodile ♪
♪ And you will find
That bogeyman ♪
♪ Will run away a mile ♪
♪ Say “shoo, shoo”
And stick him with a pin ♪
♪ Bogeyman will very nearly
Jump out of his skin ♪
♪ Say “buzz, buzz”
Just like the wasp that stings ♪
♪ Bogeyman will think you are
An elephant with wings ♪
♪ Hush, hush, hush
Here comes the bogeyman ♪
♪ Tell him you’ve got soldiers
In your bed ♪
♪ For he will never guess ♪
♪ That they are
Only made of lead ♪
♪ Here’s one way
To catch him without fail ♪
♪ Just keep
A little salt with you ♪
♪ And put it on his tail ♪
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
