It: Welcome to Derry – S01E03 – Now You See It | Transcript

It: Welcome to Derry
Based on: It by Stephen King
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider

Season 1 – Episode 3
Episode title: Now You See It
Original release date: November 9, 2025 (HBO)

Plot: In 1908, a young Shaw has a vivid experience of a horrible man who stalks and pursues him when he is saved by a young Rose; they leave the forest and she tells him that they are no longer in danger and explains what that thing is. After that, Shaw and Rose spent the entire summer together until Shaw left Derry. In the present, Lilly is discharged from Juniper Hill; in school, Lilly and Ronnie plan to obtain visual evidence to exonerate Hank. Shaw, after finding nothing useful in the car, sends Hallorann to use his psychic abilities on air. Hallorann has a vision of soldiers dying on battlefields in a war and of bodies floating before escaping; Leroy saves Hallorann from falling out of the helicopter. Shaw visits Rose at her pawn shop about her cease and desist letter and lies to her about the reason for the excavations. Lilly and Ronnie recruit Will and Rich into their plan, and Rich claims that the thing is an orisha, an evil spirit; the group sets out to summon it. They go to a cemetery for the ritual when they discover that Rich is not sure if it will work. As they leave, they have a vision of spirits chasing them. They manage to take pictures, of which one shows a clown.

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It: Welcome to Derry – S01E03 – Now You See It | Transcript

♪ (“SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON” BY HARRY MACDONOUGH PLAYING) ♪

♪ Night was mighty dark

So you could hardly see ♪

♪ For the moon refused

To shine ♪

(DART WHOOSHING)

(METAL CLANGS)

(SNAKE HISSES)

♪ (“SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON” CONTINUES) ♪

(BOTH LAUGH)

CARNIVAL BARKER: Step right up, folks!

Step right up and see our hall of freaks and curiosities!

The Lee Twins, joined at birth by a cruel trick of God!

(LIVELY CHATTER)

ATTENDEE: (GRUNTS) Careful.

CARNIVAL BARKER: And the dog-faced boy, more dog than boy.

The Skeleton Man, more dead than alive.

Slorak, the ManApe, more ape than man.

Come on. They’re all here.

♪ (MUSIC BECOMES DISTORTED) ♪

(FOOTSTEPS ECHO)

Step right up… into a grotesquerie of horrors beyond your darkest imaginings.

Step right up.

(WIND HOWLING FAINTLY)

CARNIVAL BARKER: Mm.

There you go.

(LAUGHS MENACINGLY)

Step right up.

♪ (EERIE JAUNTY

PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(LIGHT HUMMING)

Keep moving. (CHUCKLES)

♪ (EERIE PIANO MUSIC

CONTINUES) ♪

(GROWLS)

(GROWLS) (CROWD GASPS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(FLESH SQUELCHING)

(GASPS SOFTLY)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪

(INHALES)

♪ (EERIE PIANO MUSIC

CONTINUES) ♪

(INHALES, EXHALES)

(WIND HOWLING FAINTLY)

(BONES CRACKING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

SKELETON MAN: Hello, boy.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Come closer. (BREATHES HEAVILY) Don’t be afraid. Come closer.

(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)

SKELETON MAN: Come on. Come closer.

Yeah. That’s right.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SKELETON MAN BREATHES HEAVILY)

(LOUD CRACK)

(GASPS)

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

Now you see it! (LAUGHS)

(BLOWS)

(GROWLS, WHEEZES)

(LAUGHS) (LAUGHS) Whoa, whoa.

♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪

There you are.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MONTY: For the love of Christ.

Don’t be a damn sissy, Francis.

Your old man won you something.

♪ (CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(CHUCKLES)

MONTY: Come on.

(CHUCKLES)

Step right up.

ATTENDEE: Thank you.

(BELLS JINGLE)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

(ENGINE HISSING)

(COUGHS) Come on.

♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(METAL RUMBLING) God.

(SIGHS)

(COINS JINGLE)

(SCOFFS)

Damn fair cleaned me out.

Get us some water.

(TOOLS CLINKING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Uh, one please.

MONTY: Come on now, hurry up.

(CAR DOOR SHUTS)

INDIGENOUS CHILD: It’s five cents.

Uh, that’s all I got.

That a slingshot?

♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(ENGINE RUMBLING)

♪ (MONTY WHISTLING JINGLE) ♪

Where’s that damn slingshot?

(INDIGENOUS CHILD GIGGLES)

(KIDS LAUGH)

Wait! Francis! No!

Come back! Wait!

Francis!

(ECHOES) Come back!

♪ (MUSIC TURNS UNSETTLING) ♪

(OWLS HOOTING)

(BREATHES SHAKILY) (TWIGS SNAPPING)

(BIRDS CAWING)

(FRANCIS BREATHES SHAKILY)

(WHIMPERS)

(TWIGS SNAPPING)

(LEAVES RUSTLING)

(CROW CAWING LOUDLY)

(GASPS)

(BONES CRACKING)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

What do you want?

♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC STING) ♪

♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪

(GRUNTS, GASPS)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Leave me alone!

(WHIMPERS)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

SKELETON MAN: Hello.

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC STING) ♪

(SCREAMS)

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(WHIMPERS, PANTS)

♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪

(SKELETON MAN GROWLING)

(GRUNTS)

(ROARS)

(SNARLS)

(FRANCIS WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS, WHIMPERS)

(GROWLS)

(ROARS)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(GROWLS)

(ROARS) Run, come on!

(ROARS)

(SNARLS, GROWLS)

INDIGENOUS CHILD: Hurry.

He’s getting closer!

Don’t look back!

(SKELETON MAN GROWLS)

(FRANCIS WHIMPERS)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(ROARS)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

♪ (“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) ♪

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)

(PATIENTS SCREAMING)

(BANGING ON DOOR)

CARTOON CHARACTER: (OVER TV) Look at the logjam.

(SOBS)

(BANGING ON DOORS)

(PATIENTS CONTINUE SCREAMING)

CARTOON CHARACTER: Yippee!

DR. PETRUNICH: Mrs. Bainbridge.

Pleasure to see you again.

I’ve upped Lilly’s dosage of chlorpromazine, but if she has another episode, we may want to discuss a more restrictive treatment plan.

Where is she now?

Lilly forged quite the bond last summer with the head of our housekeeping staff.

She wanted to say goodbye before she left.

INGRID: Fold and tuck.

(SIGHS)

It’s going to be okay, dear.

You’re a bright girl.

You’ll figure it out.

LILLY BAINBRIDGE: Yeah, it’s just…

It’s my fault that her dad’s in jail.

We don’t even know each other that well.

And if I tell the truth about what I really saw, then–

You’d probably wind up right back here.

What would you do if you were me?

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

My father used to say that life is about the journey.

♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

But I think it’s more about who you take that journey with.

And if this Ronnie means as much to you as it sounds, you’re going to find a way to make things right.

Somehow.

Listen.

If you tell me that you’ve seen the impossible, then I believe you.

Most people, well… they only believe what they can see.

With their own eyes.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(DOOR BUZZING, OPENING)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(URINE TRINKLING)

CLINT BOWERS: Easy, partner.

I come in peace.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(LIGHTER SNAPS)

(COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT)

What’s the matter, not your brand?

(SIGHS) I’m more of an Embassy Golds man.

(LIGHTER CLINKS) Is that right? Embassy Golds.

Not too popular this side of the pond.

To think, I had you pegged as a Pall Mall man, a regular James Coburn.

HANK GROGAN: Lee Marvin.

Hmm?

Pall Malls, the commercials are Lee Marvin.

Oh. (SIGHS) Well, you do know your movie stars, Hank.

Guess it comes with the territory, huh?

You know what I know, what my, uh… my territory is?

(INHALES) Liars.

(EXHALES)

I can sniff ’em out a mile away.

Where were you the night of the murder, Hank?

I told you, I was home.

CLINT: Then why do I have an eyewitness, puts you on Jackson Street at 11:30?

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Yeah, a witness called it in, said she saw your picture in the papers.

Put two and two together with the man she’d seen sneaking around in the shadows that night.

She wrote a sworn statement.

Yeah, it don’t make it true.

Well, she was pretty upset.

So, um, we went out there, had a look around, and… found this at the scene.

(EXHALES)

“Thou shalt not lie,” Hank.

Do you know what they do to kiddy-killers in Shawshank?

I didn’t do nothing to those kids, and I wasn’t nowhere near that theater.

Then where were you, Hank?

And don’t give me any more guff about you being at home in bed.

Don’t insult my intelligence.

(SCOFFS)

All right.

We’re gonna miss you around here, Hank.

At least we got the memories.

HANK: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. wait.

I… I didn’t do this!

I didn’t do this!

(DOOR BUZZING) Come back! Come back!

(DOOR CLOSES)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(STUDENTS MURMURING)

(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

(STUDENT LAUGHING)

Can you imagine if your dad turns out to be a psycho killer?

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

I mean, they must have evidence if they arrested him, right?

This is America.

You can’t just throw people in jail for nothing.

Are we talking about the same country?

She just doesn’t seem like the kind of person that would’ve been raised by a killer.

That’s all.

Hey.

Grabbed this from the nurse’s office.

It should help get that off.

You’re the last person I need help from.

You’re lucky I don’t whoop your ass for what you did to my dad.

Just walk on out of here.

Just go.

I’ll tell them, okay?

What I really saw.

You will?

LILLY: I’ll do anything to make it right.

It happened again at the grocery store.

I saw my dad.

(INHALES) They sent me back to Juniper Hill.

Now everyone thinks I’m still crazy or…

I don’t know, even more crazy.

So even if I tell them the truth, no one’s gonna believe it.

People only believe what they can see for themselves.

It won’t matter what we tell them unless we can show them proof.

How are we supposed to get proof?

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SCOFFS)

You actually think this thing is gonna stop and pose for pictures?

What have we got to lose?

It’s worth a shot.

To prove that I’m not crazy and that your dad’s not a killer.

Okay.

Say we try this and we actually get something.

What are we gonna do?

Send it to Keene’s to get developed?

We’d never get those pictures back.

And I don’t know how to develop a roll of film.

Do you?

No.

But there must be someone we know who can.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

FULLER: We stripped that Caddy down to the bolts.

If there was anything hidden inside, we’d have found it. It’s clean.

Nothing but blood stains and bullet holes.

We even checked the area around the dig site.

Must have dug up half an acre.

Still no luck.

Of course not.

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

What we’re looking for was buried in Derry 300 years before the automobile was even invented.

But that car had to give off something for Hallorann to be able to find it.

It’s part of the 1935 cycle.

The Bradley Gang massacre.

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

FULLER: Bunch of Dillinger wannabes.

Town went crazy and shot them to hell.

Eyewitness reports at the time suggest sightings of the entity in one of its forms.

(EXHALES)

Everything we’ve dug up so far and we’re no closer to locating the target.

And we’re running out of time.

Hallorann’s psychic abilities have been proven, but there’s only so much he can do stuck on base pointing at maps.

We need to get him closer to the target.

Right on top of it if possible.

On top of it, sir?

Put him in the air.

Hallorann is the key to this whole operation.

If something should happen to him–

We have Major Hanlon to look after him now.

Well, with all due respect, sir, how do we know Hallorann will do any better out in the field?

Maybe he just needs a little something extra to guide him.

(DRAWER OPENS)

♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪

Something that put its mark on that thing… a long time ago.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

♪ (“HEARTACHES” BY THE MARCELS PLAYING) ♪

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

JAX: Ain’t no way.

REGGIE DAVIS: Bullshit. Bullshit.

JAX: Ain’t no way.

There ain’t no way.

Ain’t no way.

You ain’t never made it with Aretha Franklin.

DICK HALLORANN: Hand to God!

We met in Detroit. At a club.

Spent the night together. Shit, she even wrote a song about me.

Yeah, “Won’t Be Long.”

(AIRMEN LAUGHING)

(TENT RIPS) REGGIE: Oh!

JAX: Goddamn, man.

Fuck!

I thought you were supposed to have special privileges.

So, what?

So, can’t you get us a little upgrade?

Hallorann. It’s time.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

REGGIE: We want that upgrade.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Masters, son of a bitch.

I’d love to get him and his buddies alone, let me tell you.

It’s too bad, because Masters and his pals shipped off yesterday, so it’s done.

Yeah, tell that to my right shoulder.

(CHUCKLES) Huh?

You gotta man up, Pauly.

“Man up”?

Yeah.

I was taking those two guys down while you were still under the bed looking for your jaw. “Man up.”

(CHUCKLES) I don’t remember you taking anyone down.

I remember you getting tossed around like a baby.

I’m a lover, not a fighter.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Then why are you in the military? Why’d you join?

I look so good in the uniform.

(LAUGHS) Oh, yeah?

No, not the hair. Not the hair.

Fuck you.

Touch that, you die.

You know that.

(ALARM BLARING IN DISTANCE)

(PAULY RUSSO CLEARS THROAT)

Major.

LEROY HANLON: Colonel.

Airman Hallorann, this is Major Hanlon, Captain Russo.

They’ll be your crew for today’s surveillance flight.

How they hangin’, fellas?

Uh, sir, what exactly are we gonna be surveilling this afternoon?

Your consoles.

Think of Hallorann here as a human compass.

You go wherever he says to.

Sounds good.

Let’s get you in the air.

(HELICOPTER ENGINE WHIRRING)

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

LEROY: So, Hallorann.

HALLORANN: Yeah?

LEROY: What’s with the cigars?

No cigars in here.

Well, then what’s in it?

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

You wouldn’t understand.

(HELICOPTER RUMBLING)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

(GRUNTS SOFTLY)

You’re

You’re gonna need to turn east.

East. Now!

Roger that. East we go.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(RUNNING STOMPS)

(SKELETON MAN GROWLS)

(FRANCIS PANTS)

(SKELETON MAN ROARS)

♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪

FRANCIS: Why

Why are you stopping?

We have to get out of here.

We’re okay now. Look.

It doesn’t leave the woods.

(PANTS)

What was that thing?

(HESITATES) I don’t know.

Stop, please.

Why can’t it leave the woods?

Can you keep a secret?

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ELDER: I don’t know what they think they’re doing out there.

Our ceremonial grounds have always been off limits.

RESIDENT 1: If they want the land–

They always want the land.

Then at least give us a fair price so that we can fix things up around the Marsh.

RESIDENT 2: She’s right.

We’re, what, an hour outside of Derry?

We might as well be on different planets.

The tax money they got to pave their streets.

(SIGHS) The car they dug up?

CHIEF JOHN: This isn’t about airing longstanding grievances…

It was Al Bradley’s.

From ’35.

The massacre.

RESIDENT 3: If you’re going to represent our interests…

We have to do something now, Auntie.

Before they get any closer–

ROSE: No.

RESIDENT 3: And so do they.

You and your friends are not to get involved.

Not in this.

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

(TANIEL BREATHES DEEPLY) You’re needed.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Do you understand?

RESIDENT 3: This is about you doing what you were elected to do.

CHIEF JOHN: If anyone has any suggestions, they should speak up now.

John, something has to be done. Now.

CHIEF JOHN: I’ve requested to meet, asking for a special liaison to the community.

We’ve heard nothing, so what do you suggest?

Something stronger.

We start with a cease-and-desist letter.

That’s bullshit.

Give them some time to respond, and if we still hear nothing, we file a formal complaint through the federal government.

You know they’ll just ignore it.

You want to stop them?

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

I don’t.

Not until I find out what it is they’re actually doing out there.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(GRUNTS)

Hey, Hallorann, you all right back there?

(HALLORANN GROANS)

PAULY: Hallorann!

(GROANS) The hell’s he doing?

You think I know what’s going on with him?

♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(HALLORANN GROANS)

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

Hallorann!

(GRUNTS, GROANS)

♪ (MUSIC RESUMES) ♪

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

“Human compass”?

Look at this fucking guy.

Look like a human compass to you?

He’s having a goddamn fit.

(HALLORANN GRUNTS, MUTTERS)

Jesus Christ.

Ground, this is USAFKC135.

I got a buddy at Fort Bragg, he was saying that they’re doing, like, mind control on goats or some shit.

(HALLORANN MOANS)

PAULY: Is that what this is?

Is this some goat shit, Lee?

LEROY: There appears to be something wrong with Hallorann.

Unresponsive.

Requesting permission to head back.

OPERATOR: (ON RADIO) That’s a negative, Major Hanlon.

Maintain present course.

I’m advising again.

Unresponsive.

(SOUND FADES)

(HEART BEATING RAPIDLY)

LEROY: (MUFFLED, ECHOING) Requesting permission to head back.

(MUFFLED RADIO CHATTER)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: (MUFFLED) I’m advising that Airman Hallorann is unresponsive!

Requesting permission to head back!

(NORMALLY) Hallorann!

(MUFFLED) Hey! Hallorann!

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(DOOR CREAKING)

(DOOR SLAMS SHUT, LOCKS)

♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪

(WATER RIPPLING)

♪ (INTRIGUING

OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(DOOR CREAKING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(RUMBLING ECHO)

♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪

(DISTORTED GROWL)

PENNYWISE: Who are you?

♪ (DISCORDANT

FUNFAIR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(DISTORTED LAUGHTER)

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

(HEAVY GUNFIRE) (GUNFIRE CONTINUES)

(OVERLAPPING SHOUTING)

♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪

(EXPLOSION)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪

Grandma.

CORPSE: He’s coming, Dickie.

Get out of here.

(IN HAUNTING VOICE) Now!

(GASPS, WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS) (HATCH DOOR CREAKING)

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(HALLORANN GRUNTS)

LEROY: Hallorann!

Step back, Hallorann!

LEROY: (GROANS) Hallorann!

Hallorann!

No! No!

LEROY: Hey! Hey!

PAULY: You both in?

(ALARM BUZZES)

(BOTH PANT)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC

PLAYING, BUILDING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

How you holding up, soldier?

I feel fine, sir.

So… you saw it.

More like it saw me.

What was it like?

Cold.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

You did good up there today.

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

If there’s anything we can do to make your time here a little easier, you let me know.

Now that you mention it…

That was quick.

Me and my pals on base, it’s kind of hard to find a place to blow off steam.

If you can see fit to find us someplace that… maybe it don’t rain in on our heads, I know the boys would be grateful.

Understood.

I’ll see what I can do.

Sir.

(QUIET CHATTER)

It wasn’t supposed to see us.

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

It wasn’t supposed to know.

I got a feeling we keep on like we’re doing, something bad is coming.

Maybe we oughta just let this thing be.

Rest up.

(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(BURGER SIZZLES)

(MACHINE WHIRS)

♪ (“FLIP OUT” BY BILLY BROWN PLAYING) ♪

♪ I wanna flip out, mm

I wanna fly high… ♪

Here you go, gentlemen.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER) The trip was supposed to be short, but the launch was delayed for over three hours after Shepard climbed into the rocket.

So Shepard asked if he could go outside and pee, and they said no, but they had to temporarily turn off the electrical parts in his suit so he could pee in his pants without frying himself.

So, you’re telling me the first human that went to space went there with pee in his pants?

Yeah.

(RICH LAUGHS) It could have been worse.

(MILKSHAKE BURBLING) Dude, stop! Ew!

(CHUCKLES)

You got it on your face.

RICH: Let me ask you this.

Who do you think has the best tatas in the grade?

What?

Do they not call them tatas where you’re from?

No, they do.

Well, for me, it’s Delores.

Even though Marge Truman has the better face.

♪ (GRANDIOSE RENDITION OF “YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE” PLAYING) ♪

♪ Dreams be tossed

And blown… ♪

(BANGING ON WINDOW)

♪ (SONG STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪

(CUSTOMERS GASPING, CHATTERING)

Ronnie Grogan?

What does she want with you?

♪ (“FLIP OUT”

BY BILLY BROWN CONTINUES) ♪

WILL HANLON: Can I what?

RONNIE GROGAN: Develop film.

I mean, the way you talked about that stink bomb, thought maybe you knew what type of chemicals you needed in a dark room.

Can’t you just send it out to a lab?

No. Can you help us or not?

Maybe, but why?

You wouldn’t believe us if we told you.

Try me.

RICH: So, what do you think?

WILL: Why did I agree to this?

I can’t help her.

RICH: Well, do you believe her?

I believe she believes it.

But when she asked me, it’s like my mind just went blank.

Love will do that to you.

(SIGHS) Yeah.

Wait, what?

Ronnie. You’re sweet on her.

I know the signs.

There are no signs.

Sure there are.

(SIGHS) Love can make you do some crazy things, pal.

Like climb a balcony or

or…

(SIGHS) Or write a poem on the inside of your shoe so no one finds out about it.

Who writes poems on the inside of their shoes?

Just someone.

Someone in love.

Okay, but I’m not in love with Ronnie.

Whatever you say, Romeo.

♪ (“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY HEART” BY ANDREA AND ERVIN LITKEI PLAYING) ♪

♪ Oh, what have you done… ♪

(BELL JINGLES)

ROSE: Let me know if you need any help.

You looking for anything special today?

SHAW: Well, I don’t know.

What do you have for a nickel?

♪ You smile

And my heart’s no longer mine ♪

Francis Shaw.

Has it really been 50 years?

Doesn’t seem possible.

No, it doesn’t.

It’s the oddest thing.

Before I got here, I…

I didn’t remember you at all.

(CHUCKLES) You really know how to flatter a gal.

I mean, I didn’t remember any of it.

You. This town.

You’re not the first.

Derry’s funny that way.

No matter how long you spend here, the further away you get, the more it all just seems to fade.

Some would say it’s for the best.

I don’t know.

It has its charms.

What do you remember?

Not much.

My father, life on the base, but mostly I remember you.

It was one summer, Francis.

We were 12.

I doubt you even remembered my name.

I didn’t.

(PAPER RUSTLING)

Not until this week.

You’re in charge of the digs?

♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

What are you doing out there, Francis?

Soil surveys.

We’re trying to figure out where to lay pipe to bring in water from the Kenduskeag.

And our community is concerned that your dig will disturb sacred remains.

We can’t allow unmarked burial grounds to be destroyed.

Then let’s work together.

You can show us exactly what areas to stay away from.

(SIGHS)

SHAW: I know it might not mean much coming from a man in my position, but you can trust me.

I’d like to believe that.

I will talk to the town council.

No promises.

I’ll be in touch.

It’s nice to see you, Rose.

You too.

(DOOR BELL JINGLES)

♪ (SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(KIDS LAUGHING)

(WATER SPLASHING)

What’s the matter?

Why do you look so sad?

My dad got his redeployment orders.

We leave in the morning.

I was gonna wait to give this back to you, but…

I think you should have it.

Something to remember me by.

(CHUCKLES)

You have to promise me something, okay?

Promise me you’ll never forget me, this summer, us being… friends.

Francis, you don’t know this yet, but… this place has a way of making people forget… even if they don’t want to.

(DOOR BELL JINGLES)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Holy smokes! This place is the living end, man!

How do you even know about it?

It’s my friends’ place.

Their hangout.

Or… it was.

No way! I love these!

So, how do we get this picture?

Well, I guess we could either wait for it to come after us again or…

I don’t know, somehow draw it out?

What are all the ways this thing has come after you so far?

Matty, my dad.

Ronnie’s mom.

Yeah, but it’s not them.

It’s something pretending to be them, to scare us.

The right question would be, what in the hell is it?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

RICH: It’s an orixá.

RONNIE: What?

You know, an evil spirit.

Well, they’re not all evil, but this one sounds pretty bad.

How do you know?

Well, I don’t know for sure, but my tío was a babalao.

Back in Cuba, a Santeria priest.

He told me whenever someone welched on him, you know, didn’t pay back money and stuff, he’d conjure this orixá and send it after them.

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RICH: And the really mean ones always took the form of their dead ancestors.

You know, to really freak them out.

And he was able to just… conjure them?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Yeah, but he had to go to a cemetery, light candles.

It was a whole big thing.

Crazy, right?

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(GRUNTS) Go! Go! Go!

(WIND HOWLING)

No! Stupid wind!

Rich…

Did he ever tell you how?

(DOORBELL RINGING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Evening, ma’am.

Thank you. Come on in.

Yes, ma’am.

Major.

♪ (“I’VE BEEN AROUND” BY FATS DOMINO PLAYING) ♪

(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)

(HALLORANN LAUGHS)

(CHARLOTTE HANLON LAUGHS)

HALLORANN: Don’t sell yourself short.

You put some Spanish saffron in this?

I– (CHUCKLES) Ain’t much in the way of Cajun cuisine in these parts, I’m afraid.

Things are certainly different here, I’ll give you that.

Mmhmm.

We’re getting into the swing of it, though.

CHARLOTTE: Uh…

Starting to feel like home.

You don’t like it much down here, do you, Mrs. Hanlon?

Oh, I like it fine.

♪ You had me spinning

Just like the spinning wheel ♪

You know, it’s hard not to miss the things you leave behind.

We don’t need to get into all that.

I was a history teacher.

Colored school?

There another kind down there that’d let me teach?

(LAUGHS) Fair enough.

We tried to find something at a school up here, but all they had was clerical work.

She’s overqualified.

There were other things.

Meetings, marches.

LEROY: Please.

The movement.

Mmhmm.

♪ A man without love

He might as well be dead ♪

The Major is worried my activism will reflect poorly on him with his colleagues.

Hamper his ascent up the military food chain.

I can see how that could be a concern, ma’am.

It’s hard enough being colored in the service.

And you got any real ambition, you gonna want your personal life to be cleaner than your uniform.

Well, I’m not surprised y’all two flyboys stick together.

(LAUGHS)

CHARLOTTE: Excuse me, I’m gonna get dessert started.

(CUTLERY CLINKING)

So, where’s your son at tonight?

Will?

You’ll meet him sometime.

But he’s at a friend’s house now.

Mm.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RICH: This camera’s boss.

Oh, man. I’ve never seen one of these before.

Will.

(GROANS) (INSECTS CHIRPING) What’s with the face?

Nothing.

RICH: Hmm.

Hey, Ronnie.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(SIGHS) Don’t waste film.

We need every picture we can get.

All right, sorry.

Look okay?

We did everything like you said.

Yeah, great. Aplus.

Okay.

Should we start?

Uh… Yeah, sure.

Why not? Come on.

(DOOR OPENS)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Hell of a meal, Major.

Your wife know her way around the kitchen.

LEROY: Mmhmm.

I never told you we had a son.

(EXHALES) Must have heard it from someone on base.

(GROANS, EXHALES)

What happened up there?

I mean, closing your eyes… to look for something.

What is that?

My grandmama said it’s like… it’s like seeing things without seeing things.

Yeah, I know.

It sound crazy, right?

Place I grew up, everybody knew someone who knew someone that was like that.

I’ve just never seen it for myself.

It’s funny, just before, you asked me about my son, I felt something.

Yeah, somewhere in the back of my brain.

Can’t describe it really, other than it’s the strangest goddamn thing I’ve ever felt in my whole life.

And I’ve only felt it one other time.

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: The night I was attacked… you were there.

It wasn’t you holding the pipe, but I know what I felt.

Stay out of my head. We clear?

Mmhmm. I will. I will.

You don’t have to worry about that.

What is that supposed to mean?

I’ve seen what men think about when they’re facing death.

They think about their families.

They think about their regrets.

But you?

Gun to your head, finger on the trigger.

You were analyzing.

You were just… collecting information.

It’s like the part of your brain that’s supposed to be afraid, it’s not even there.

(CHUCKLES) So, you are not the kind of fella I’m likely to fuck with, Major.

But you saved my life up in that bird.

So I sure wouldn’t mind having you with me in them trenches.

(DOOR OPENS)

CHARLOTTE: All right.

Who’s ready for some dessert?

Mud cake’s just about done.

I would love some mud cake.

CHARLOTTE: All right.

Come on, Lee.

(HALLORANN CHUCKLES)

(WIND WHISTLING)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(RICH RECITING PRAYER IN SPANISH)

(REPEATS IN SPANISH)

(REPEATS LOUDER)

Rich, you’re just repeating yourself.

What is that?

What are you saying?

The Santa Maria?

The prayer for the dead?

(INSECTS CHIRPING)

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

Now we wait.

(FLY BUZZING)

Feels like we should be facing away from each other to see out, right?

Yeah, that’s what my uncle said to do.

Yeah, yeah, good idea.

Oh, uh… sorry.

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(SIGHS) Gotta take a whiz.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

No. Wait, wait, I thought you said we couldn’t leave the circle until it was done.

No, you can.

You just have to come back quickly.

My cousin told me.

You said your uncle did it.

Well, yeah, but I mostly heard about it from my cousin, so–

You didn’t hear it from him?

Well, not the whole thing.

This is so messed up.

LILLY: Okay, we’re leaving.

Hold on, guys, he was just trying to help.

Making up all this mumbo jumbo?

Come on. Monsters, ghosts, it’s all mumbo jumbo.

♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

So, you still don’t believe me?

You think it’s just my imagination?

I… I believe you believe it.

I’m sorry, okay?

I… I didn’t…

(HESITATES) Ron!

LILLY: Wait, Ronnie!

It’s just hard making friends.

You know?

I know, man. I know.

(RICH BLOWS)

(WIND WHOOSHES)

You okay?

I don’t want to talk about it.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WILL: Come on, Rich!

We gotta catch up!

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(STONE CRUNCHING)

♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪

(BIRDS CAWING)

Are you seeing this?

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

Something’s wrong, I think.

Hey, Ron, slow down.

Ron, wait up.

Whoa!

What’s happening?

(GROUND CRACKING)

(SCREAMS) Go, go, go!

RICH: (SCREAMS) We’re almost there!

(GROUND CRACKING)

Tío?

(GHOUL MOANING)

(ROARS)

(SCREAMS) No!

(CHILD GHOUL GROWLING)

(ROARS)

(SCREAMS)

(GHOUL MATTY GROWLS)

(ROARS)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(LILLY GASPS)

(GROUND CRACKING)

(SMALL GHOUL GIGGLING)

(LAUGHS)

What’s happening?

(GASPS)

This can’t be real.

This can’t be real.

(GROWLS)

(SHRIEKS)

(WILL SCREAMS)

RONNIE: I got it! I got it!

GHOUL SUSIE:

♪ Oranges and lemons ♪

♪ Say the bells

Of St. Clement’s ♪

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(ROARS)

(SCREAMS) Rich! Get the camera!

I see it! (GRUNTS) I got it! I got it!

(GHOULS GIGGLE, GROWL)

WILL: (GASPS) Flashlight.

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL

MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(PANTS)

(ROCK CLATTERS)

♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(GHOUL HISSING)

RICH: Oh, shit!

Oh, shit! Whoa!

Rich?

Will, get the camera!

(RICH SCREAMS)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

RICH: Oh my God, what the hell was that?

Where’s Will?

Guys, guys! hey, guys, stop!

♪ (MUSIC CALMS) ♪

Where’s Will?

He was just right behind me.

(PANTS, GRUNTS)

♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪

(DISTORTED GROWL)

(WILL SCREAMS)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(INSECTS CHIRPING)

(RONNIE BREATHING HEAVILY)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(RICH PANTING)

(BICYCLE RATTLING)

(CHUCKLES) (SIGHS HEAVILY)

(KIDS WHIMPER)

RONNIE: Come on!

LILLY: Hurry!

(KIDS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

RONNIE: Come on! Oh my God!

LILLY: Hurry, get out of there!

RONNIE: Come on!

(ALL PANTING)

I should have believed you.

You’re damn right!

(RICH GRUNTS)

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

CONTINUES) ♪

(RICH GRUNTS)

WILL: Do you need help?

(OBJECTS CLATTER)

(RICH GROANS)

(DOOR CREAKING)

RICH: Shit, I think I just broke both my femurs.

(DOOR OPENS)

(WILL SIGHS) Okay, so first we’re going to set up three trays and a water bath.

Fill one tray with developer.

RICH: Smells like Fizz-A-Lot.

Can you drink these?

WILL: No.

One with mixer and the other with stop bath.

Rich, don’t touch that.

(CHAIN RATTLES)

WILL: Red light.

Timer.

(DIAL CLICKS)

WILL: And now we wait.

(TIMER TICKING)

(TIMER DINGS)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

RICH: Holy shit.

I took that.

(SIGHS) Guys, come on.

(TIMER CLICKS)

(TIMER DINGS)

LILLY: Here.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LILLY: Teddy!

(GASPS)

(ALL GASP, CHUCKLE)

We did it.

We actually did it.

Oh my God.

Come on, next one.

Let’s go. Wait, this way, right?

No, other way.

Okay.

(TIMER DINGS)

LILLY: Here.

LILLY: Susie!

(GASPS) Yes! Oh my gosh. Oh!

♪ (MUSIC TURNS UPLIFTING) ♪

Yes.

RICH: Ronnie.

I’m coming.

(GRUNTS)

WILL: It’s the picture I took in the crypt.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪

LILLY: What is that?

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

WILL: It’s a clown.

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC STING) ♪

♪ (“THE DEVIL CAUGHT

ME NAPPIN” BY ANDREA

AND ERVIN LITKEI PLAYING) ♪

♪ I don’t know how

It done happened ♪

♪ The devil caught me nappin’ ♪

♪ He must have come

Without arappin’ ♪

♪ Without arappin’ on my door ♪

♪ And he done took me flirtin’ ♪

♪ My honey, you can be certain ♪

♪ I didn’t mean to go hurtin’ ♪

♪ And I ain’t gonna anymore ♪

♪ If he returns

He won’t deceive me ♪

♪ ‘Cause I’ll just tell him ♪

♪ He’ll have to come back

Some other day ♪

♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪