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 5
Episode title: 29 Neibolt Street
Original release date: November 23, 2025 (HBO)
Plot: After learning the truth about General Shaw’s operation, Leroy decides to move his family to the base for safety. While the tribal Keepers strategize how to contain increased aggression in town, the military descends on Neibolt Street, and the kids head into the sewers with their own objective.
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It: Welcome to Derry – S01E05 – 29 Neibolt Street | Transcript
(DRONING WARBLE)
(INHALES DEEPLY, GASPS)
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(TANIEL RETCHES) Sh… Shit.
Wait. Get help!
Get help!
Get help!
Guards!
Guards!
Get him to the infirmary, now!
(CHOKES) Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got you.
I’m fine.
(GRUNTS) I’m… I’m fine.
(MUTTERS) Just breathe.
DICK HALLORANN: I’m fine.
I’m fine.
(PANTS)
Well?
(BREATHES HEAVILY) We got it.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC) ♪
(HESITATES) Excuse me, sir.
What the hell just happened?
All right.
All right, Major.
Looks like it’s time to give you some answers.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(MARGE TRUMAN SIGHS SHAKILY)
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
It’s okay.
Your parents will be back soon.
I’ll be right outside in case there are any more… problems.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(TELEPHONE RINGING IN DISTANCE)
I shouldn’t be here.
Everyone thinks I did this.
It’s okay.
I told them you didn’t.
(BREATHES SHARPLY)
What’d you say?
That my glasses broke and they cut my eye and you were only trying to help me when everyone showed up.
(BREAHTES DEEPLY)
They’d probably send me to Juniper Hill if I told them what I really saw.
(WHIMPERS SOFTLY)
I’m so sorry, Lil.
♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MARGE: I should have believed you.
You’re my best friend… and I let you down.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
Why is this happening?
We’re still trying to figure that out.
Is it gonna happen again?
I don’t know.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
But if it does… you won’t be alone.
(SNIFFLES)
(SNIFFLES)
I missed you.
I really missed you too.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
Is Marge okay?
It looked pretty bad.
Her eye’s a little messed up, but she’ll be okay.
Look, if she wants to help, then she can tell Bowers what really happened.
Ronnie, we’ve tried that already.
Why would they believe her?
Besides, the police probably think I attacked her, that she’s covering for me.
Everyone thinks that.
No, Lilly, that’s not what I meant.
Listen, I mean, not us, but like at school, the post office, my barber.
(YOUNG VOICE COUGHS) (GASPS)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(YOUNG VOICE COUGHS, GROANS SOFTLY)
(COUGHING CONTINUES)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
This is a private club, announce yourself.
LILLY BAINBRIDGE: Matty?
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Help… me.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(ECHOING RUMBLE)
♪ (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) ♪
(LIGHTER LID CLICKS)
(BLOWS)
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING IN DISTANCE)
The Indians call them “pillars.”
Thirteen objects carved from the same material that that thing apparently fell to Earth on.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
“Fell to Earth”?
They were buried hundreds of years ago deep underground by the Sqoteawapskot tribe in order to create a sort of… cage around the creature’s territory.
One that runs more or less along the borders of modern-day Derry.
You’re telling me that…
(INHALES) …Derry’s a prison and we’re looking for the bars?
Exactly right, Major.
That kid… is a member of a secret order dedicated to keeping that thing locked up and those pillars hidden.
A job that he and his pals have succeeded at for nearly 400 years.
Until now.
Hallorann flipped through that boy’s mind like it was the morning paper.
Now we know exactly where they are and how to get to them.
(SIGHS) To do what, sir?
To reduce the size of its cage.
To contain it.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
You mean to capture it.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
FRANCIS SHAW: 29 Neibolt Street.
It’s an abandoned home atop a tunnel system that leads directly to the 13 pillars.
Tomorrow morning, you and Colonel Fuller will lead a small team to secure them.
Once in hand, you’ll tighten the perimeter enough to control it.
Imagine if we had dropped something like this on the Pusan Perimeter in ’51.
Let it do the job we lost so many GIs to.
How many mothers we could have spared from heartbreak.
It’s time to bring this Cold War to an end, Major.
(SIGHS)
What’s the problem, son?
(INHALES DEEPLY)
You knew that Derry was this thing’s hunting ground, and you let me move my family here.
The plan was for you to stay on base.
You chose otherwise.
Maybe now you move them here until this is all done.
There’s no maybe about it.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Excuse me, sir.
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
(DOOR OPENS, SLAMS SHUT)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Matty, where have you been?
It’s okay.
(HESITATES) You don’t have to–
In the sewers… below Derry.
That’s where it lives.
The clown.
Clown?
It kept some of us alive… like… like it needed…
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Fear.
Yeah.
How did you get away?
It feeds at night…
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
…and sleeps in the day.
And I just waited… and I ran.
What about Teddy and Phil and Susie?
Did you see them?
Teddy was dead when it dragged him in.
His skull was ripped open and it…
It… It what?
Ate his brains right in front of me.
I think I’m gonna be sick.
And Susie, one of her arms was gone.
It just left her there.
(SUSIE MALKIN WAILING ECHOES)
All night, bleeding out… and crying.
(SUSIE WAILING, SCREAMING ECHOES)
Until she stopped.
But Phil… he’s still down there.
He’s alive?
He can’t talk or move, but… he’s alive, somehow.
We have to go to the police.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
No. No police.
I have to get my dad out.
And you can tell them that he didn’t take you.
And Phil.
Matty, we have to help him.
No cops.
Matty, please.
MATTY CLEMENTS: No.
They’d send me back, back to my dad.
I ran away once, I will do it again.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
I’d sooner go back to the sewers than there.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Obviously, the loss of even one life is one life too many.
That said, the cycle has been a lot milder than ’35 and ’08.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Twenty-five disappearances, seven confirmed deaths, mostly children, the oldest 16… and the youngest five.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
One encouraging sign is obviously we know the creature sheds.
Its discharge, you might call it, has tainted Derry’s groundwater since the town’s founding.
Oh, just get on with it, John.
I’m sorry.
Should we not be educating our prospective keeper?
Leo.
Go on, John.
Well, lately our scouts have noted that the residents have been acting more aggressively.
The Augury!
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Exactly.
And what is that, dear?
One last big, bloody event that marks the end of a cycle, after which, we get another 27 years or so of peace and quiet.
(DOOR OPENS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
Miss Rose. (PANTS) You’re late. Where’s Taniel?
I couldn’t stop him.
(JAIL DOOR CLANKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(CHAINS RATTLING)
(MUFFLED OUTSIDE CLAMOR)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DOOR BUZZING)
(CROWD SHOUTING ANGRILY)
(CROWD CONTINUES SHOUTING ANGRILY)
Sir, please let me speak to him.
All aboard the Shawshank Express.
(CROWD SHOUTING ANGRILY)
Well, your savior better work fast, Grogan.
Last fish we sent in there didn’t survive the week.
(CROWD CONTINUES SHOUTING ANGRILY)
Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll survive two.
(CROWD CONTINUES SHOUTING ANGRILY)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
Burn in hell, you son of a bitch!
(GRUNTS) (GUNSHOT)
(HANK GROGAN SCREAMS)
Get off of me!
(CROWD SCREAMING, CLAMORING)
You’re a dead man.
You’re a dead man, Grogan, you hear me?
You’re gonna fry for what you did to my kids, you piece of shit!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
AL MALKIN: Get off of me!
(SOUND FADES)
HANK: I didn’t do it!
♪ (SINISTER DISTORTED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BATON THUDS, ECHOES)
(ECHOING THUDS CONTINUE)
♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪
(HANK GROANS, PANTS)
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
DEPUTY: Sit down.
(BUS ENGINE STARTS, RUMBLES)
Yeah, no, I’m fine.
I’m just a little shaken up is all.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
He’s on his way there now.
I just wanted to make sure we got the paperwork in so we could… we could get him with his family as quickly as possible until we get a defense.
(DOOR OPENS)
All right, so you’ll let me know. Okay.
All right, thanks so much.
All right, bye-bye.
Um, is Will here?
(HESITATES) Where’s Will?
In his room. What’s wrong?
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Um…
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I gotta tell you something.
Okay? And… And as crazy as it’s going to sound, I really… I really need you to just believe me.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS, FADES) ♪
NEWS ANCHOR: (OVER TV) The National Guard was standing by in Leflore County, Mississippi yesterday during a demonstration for Negro voting rights…
(KNOCKING ON DOOR) …during which…
(DOOR OPENS) FULLER: General?
There’s somebody here to see you.
Not now.
With respect, sir, I think you’re gonna want–
ROSE: Where is my nephew, Francis?
Rose.
He’s safe.
Once our operation is complete, he’ll be released.
You have my word.
ROSE: Your word?
“Water pipelines”?
I told you that my memories of Derry came back when I first got here.
That wasn’t entirely true.
No shit.
Five years ago, I was administered a drug by the Department of Defense as part of a security protocol, and it all came rushing back.
Every detail of that summer we shared… for the first time in 45 years.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(PANTS) What was that thing?
Why can’t it leave the woods?
Can you keep a secret?
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
SHAW: I remember you saved my life from something that shouldn’t exist.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(PULL SWITCH CLICKS)
SHAW: After I processed everything that had happened and everything you told me about your ancestors and their sacred responsibility, I realized I was sitting on the answer to a question that has plagued me my entire life.
How to keep this country safe?
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
You think you can put a leash on this thing?
It can’t be controlled, Francis.
We’ll see.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ROSE: You wouldn’t be doing any of this if you really remembered everything.
What it’s like to look it right in the eye.
Feel its breath on your neck.
You would pack up this entire operation and run.
SHAW: We know how to find the pillars.
Taniel told us everything.
He would never do that.
Neibolt House, Rose.
The tunnels below Neibolt.
In that case… you’ll need my help.
SHAW: That’s out of the question, Rose.
ROSE: Francis.
(SAFE DOOR CLICKS, CREAKS)
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(LIGHTER LID CLICKS)
At the very least, let me prepare Taniel.
Your lives depend on it.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(DOOR OPENS)
Taniel.
Aunt Rose!
ROSE: Are you okay?
TANIEL: I’m so sorry.
I didn’t mean to get caught.
ROSE: I know you didn’t. (SIGHS) You’re hurt. What did you…
(SIGHS)
(INHALES SHARPLY)
They did something to me.
Went into my mind.
Into my head, into my memories.
I don’t know how, but–
Hey, hey, hey.
(IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) English!
I told them… that you’ll have a better chance of helping them find what they’re looking for… with this.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ROSE: They’ve inspected it.
They know it poses no threat.
And they understand that you are the only one who knows how to use it.
Yes, Auntie.
I understand.
I’ll take that.
I’ll take that.
You won’t need it till the morning.
Time’s up.
Let’s go.
Do what they say.
(WHISPERS) Keep it close and you’ll be safe, okay?
(KISSES)
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(CAR RATTLES)
(GEAR STICK CLUNKS)
GUARD: Identification.
(SNIFFS)
The base is far enough outside of town.
You all should be safe with me till the assignment’s done.
But, Dad, what about my friends?
They… They need me.
LEROY HANLON: You’ll see your friends when this is all over.
GUARD: You’re free to go.
LEROY: Trust me now.
I’m taking care of it.
(GEAR STICK CLUNKS)
(DOORBELL RINGING)
INGRID: Lilly?
You said if I ever needed to talk…
Come on in.
(TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)
Okay, so you’re telling me there’s a chance that boy’s still alive?
Matty thinks so.
But he won’t go to the cops ’cause he’s afraid they’ll send him home.
Oh God, what that poor boy’s been through.
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
Oh. (EXHALES) Hi, Mr. Kersh.
Dear, you… you remember Lilly.
Terri Bainbridge’s kid.
LILLY: Yes, sir.
Where’s my steak?
Oh, it’s almost done.
I’ll bring it to you in a minute.
Don’t overcook it again.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
If someone has that kid, we have to go to the police.
No, I promised Matty.
This is grownup business.
It’s not like you can go down there yourself.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I think we can save Phil.
Lilly, you’re not thinking straight.
Promise me that you won’t go down there.
Friends or not, it’s not worth you dying too.
Promise me.
Promise.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
Well… it’s not so bad, right?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV)
CHARLOTTE HANLON: A little smaller than our house, but it’ll do for now, right?
(CLOCK TICKING)
WILL HANLON: Can I go for a walk?
Thought I’d explore the base if I gotta be stuck here.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING IN DISTANCE) Uh, yeah.
I’m sure there’s a rec center, darts… you know? Will…
You’ll see your friends again, as soon as your daddy says it’s safe.
I love you.
Oh. I love you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
NEWS ANCHOR: (OVER TV) Local resident William Drivens was arrested for trying to chop down one of its legs with an axe.
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY OVER TV)
(CUTLERY CLINKING)
NEWS ANCHOR: In other news, a prison bus en route to Shawshank Penitentiary crashed yesterday off Route 9.
Sources on the scene confirmed there were multiple casualties.
And one of the passengers…
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
…notorious murder suspect Hank Grogan, is believed to have escaped.
Roads may be blocked…
CHARLOTTE: Oh my God.
…as searches take effect, and police are asking…
Oh dear.
…anyone with information to contact the DPD tipline.
If you’re on the west side today, you might notice that the streets between Center and Neibolt have been closed off due to a reported gas main leak.
Authorities are urging residents to steer clear of the area today.
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
RICH SANTO: I’ve been trying for days now to get this thing on Main Street.
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
RICH: I’ve lost nine already.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
RICH: It’s always the wind, man.
Always…
What’s she doing here?
I just want to help.
I’m supposed to trust a Pattycake?
Ex.
Hey. It came for her too.
Look, I thought about it.
And we can’t make Matty go to the police.
What?
LILLY: They won’t believe him.
And he’s right.
They’ll send him right back to his dad.
But if Phil’s really alive and can prove your dad is innocent… then we have to go save him ourselves.
Are you insane?
No way.
I’m not going down there again.
You said yourself, you’d sooner go back to the sewers than home.
Well, good, ’cause you’re gonna take us down there right now and show us exactly where Phil is, and we’re gonna get him out of there.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Either that, or we drag you to the cops.
Right now, all of us.
We can’t go down there.
We’ll get eaten.
Not if we have these.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
“Mommy’s Little Helper”?
LILLY: Exactly.
What Will and Matty said about it feeding on fear?
Well, if it’s got nothing to feed on, then we have nothing to worry about.
My mom got a refill.
We’ll each take as many as we can.
Are you sure that’s safe?
My mom eats these like M&Ms.
If they weren’t safe, she’d probably be dead by now.
I don’t know.
Listen.
My dad used to say, “In life, people are either anchors or lifeboats.
They drag you under or they keep you afloat.”
♪ (SOFT HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I don’t know where I’d be right now without you guys.
But Phil?
He doesn’t have anyone.
And if we don’t do something, he won’t stand a chance.
So my question is, are you an anchor or a lifeboat?
Lifeboat.
Lifeboat.
Lifeboat?
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(WILL COUGHS)
(PANTS)
Oh.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
What? What’d I miss?
You don’t want to know.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
FULLER: According to our friends from Indian Marsh, the house on Neibolt Street was built atop an old ground well that dates back to colonial days.
♪ (INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SOLDIER 1: Clear!
SOLDIER 2: Clear!
FULLER: The objects we’re looking for, thirteen Indian artifacts that the natives refer to as pillars, buried centuries ago and in different locations around Derry, and are now only accessible through the sewers directly beneath that old well.
Major Hanlon and his team will secure the house, find the well, and descend into the sewer system where our guide, Taniel, will lead us through the tunnels to the location of the pillars.
If necessary, with the assistance of Private Hallorann.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪
FULLER: All right, boys.
Down the hatch.
But remember, gentlemen, you’ll be in enemy territory.
Whatever form this enemy takes, it will use your own personal fears against you.
Don’t freeze, don’t trust it.
If you see something that by any rational measure should not be down there, shoot it.
Be vigilant, stay safe, and secure the assets.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(WATER SLOSHING) This way.
Can you feel it?
I feel something.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ELDERLY WOMAN:
(WHISPERING) Dick.
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
Y’all hear that?
Hear what?
(WATER SLOSHING)
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
(TANIEL GRUNTS) FULLER: Taniel!
Are you all right?
TANIEL: (GRUNTS) Yeah.
Big drop. (GRUNTS)
(COUGHS)
ELDERLY WOMAN: Dick!
Baby!
Come on, go.
We’re gonna fall behind.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(DRAIN GURGLING)
(GASPS, SPLUTTERS)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
HAYSEED: Where is he?
Hallorann!
Hallorann!
(WATER SPLASHING) HAYSEED: Where the hell’d he go?
I don’t know!
He went down and didn’t come up.
(WATER SLOSHING)
(THUD) (PANTS)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(PANTS)
ELDERLY WOMAN: (WHISPERS) Dickie.
He’s coming for you again.
Grandma?
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)
(HEAVY FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(HEAVY FOOTSTEPS DRAW NEARER)
(DOORKNOB SQUEAKING)
(DOOR CREAKS)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(HEAVY FOOTSTEP ECHOES)
(WHISPERS) Grandpa.
Hey, Dickie.
It’s time.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
HAYSEED: Hallorann!
(CLOWNLIKE CHUCKLE ECHOES)
Hey, wait, wait, wait.
Did you hear that?
Hallorann! That you?
(CLOWNLIKE CHUCKLE ECHOES)
(FLASHLIGHTS FIZZLE)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(FOOTSTEPS GROW HEAVIER, LOUDER)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
SINISTER VOICE: I… want… you!
Fire!
(ROARS)
(CRUNCHING)
(DISTANT SCREAMS ECHOING)
The hell?
LEROY: Hallorann!
Hallorann!
(RAILTRACKS SCREECHING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LILLY: We should all take three.
That should be enough.
It’s kinda bitter.
Better than getting kinda eaten.
Okay.
Lead the way.
♪ (DARK INTRIGUING
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(ECHOING SPLASH)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
We’re close now.
What do you say, Hallorann?
That right?
Major Hanlon?
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
FULLER: Shit! Taniel!
Stop! Taniel!
(GUNSHOTS RICOCHETING)
(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)
(TANIEL GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOTS RICOCHETING)
FULLER: Making a big mistake now!
(GUNSHOTS RICOCHETING)
FULLER: Son of a bitch!
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MATTY: This way.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
(SCOFFS) Y’all are cute.
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Talking to each other with your minds… keeping secrets from me.
I may not have had the gift, but I ain’t no dummy.
I know everything that that bitch told you.
HALLORANN’S GRANDMA:
(TELEPATHICALLY)
Don’t listen to him.
He’s trying to get in your head.
(IMITATING GRANDMA)
“Oh, Dickie. Ooh.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
Oh, lock ’em away in a… in a little box in your mind, and then… and then throw away the key.”
HALLORANN’S GRANDMA: He gonna hurt you, baby.
Don’t listen to him.
DICK’S GRANDPA: She don’t understand like we do.
Power like this is meant to be used.
No.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
How’d you find that?
How you…
(CHAIN RATTLES) How you find my box?
It was right there.
In the…
In the sphincter of your soul.
HALLORANN’S GRANDMA: You know what’s in there, boy.
Don’t let him open it!
Nowhere you can bury it that I can’t find! You hear me?
HALLORANN’S GRANDMA: They’re gonna get you, Dickie.
Keep that box closed.
Let it all go.
Come on, boy. Open it up.
I ain’t opening shit.
I ain’t telling you one more time.
Open up the damn box.
I ain’t opening shit.
Open the damn box!
No! (BREATHES HEAVILY) You’re gonna have to put that back where you got that from, ’cause I’m not opening it.
Oh, or you’re gonna what?
I’m gonna f…
Or you’ll what?
Or you’ll what? Hmm?
Or you’ll what?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(GUNSHOT)
(HALLORANN’S GRANDMA SCREAMS)
(HALLORANN SCREAMS)
(GROANS)
(LAUGHS) Grandma!
DICK’S GRANDPA: What you gonna do, huh?
(SCREAMS) Oh! What you gonna do, boy?
(HALLORANN’S GRANDMA SOBS)
You won’t open it?
We’ll open it together.
No.
On the count of three. Ready?
HALLORANN: Stop.
(HALLORANN’S GRANDMA CRYING)
HALLORANN: Stop. Stop.
Put it down.
One.
Don’t do that. Don’t do that.
Don’t do that. Don’t do that.
(VOCALIZES PLAYFULLY)
HALLORANN: Stop. Stop. Stop.
Don’t do that!
Stop.
Two.
No. Don’t do that!
(CLOWNLIKE LAUGH)
Leave it alone! Leave it alone!
What is that? What are you?
What are you doing?
(CLOWNLIKE CHUCKLE) Get out of here.
Leave me alone. Get out.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
No, no, no, no, no.
Three.
(METAL CREAKING, BURSTING)
(LOCK THUDS)
(CHAIN CLATTERS)
(SCREAMS)
♪ (INTENSE DISTORTED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DISTORTED MANIACAL CACKLING)
(GROANS)
(BOX CREAKING)
(ECHOING RUMBLE)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
I… I think I took too many pills.
♪ (EERIE WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SLURRING) Maybe we did take too many pills.
What’d you say?
(ECHOING) What?
What?
RICH: Are you okay?
(SLURRING) Sorry I’m so slow.
I can’t see too well in the dark.
RICH: Here, take my hand.
Your hand is really soft.
Oh, well, I borrow my mom’s Noxzema sometimes.
No, I mean super-duper soft.
Like a kitty cat’s belly.
That’s a really weird thing to say.
WILL: Are you guys feeling this?
It’s like that time I went to Dr. Wagner’s and his hygienist gave me this gas, and I thought I was floating right out of my…
♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪
Are you two holding hands?
No.
Yeah.
(SHUSHES)
We’re getting close.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PAULY RUSSO: Jesus Christ, it smells like shit in here.
LEROY: It’s the sewers, Pauly.
What did you think it was gonna smell like?
Where the hell are they?
LEROY: I don’t know.
We must have got turned around somewhere.
What are you saying, we’re lost?
I don’t know.
PAULY: Shit!
Hello?
Hey, calm down.
I’m calm. I’m perfectly calm.
Don’t I sound calm?
Not really.
Is it hot?
Jesus Christ. I’m burning up.
It’s a goddamn furnace down here. You’re not hot?
Pauly, I’m hot. It’s hot.
Take it easy.
Why can’t we find them, huh?
I feel like something’s wrong, man. I got a feeling.
Listen, we’ll catch up to the others, or we’ll find our own way out.
Either way, we gotta keep moving, all right?
So, let’s just move.
(WHISPERS) All right.
LEROY: Yeah?
All right, all right.
CHARLOTTE: Leroy!
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
PAULY: What, what? What is it?
(RIFLE COCKING)
Lee, what are you looking at?
CHARLOTTE: (SOBBING) Leroy, help!
I’m scared!
(SOBBING) Charlotte?
I want to go home, Lee.
I’m scared!
Charlotte, what the hell are you doing down here?
Who the fuck you talking to?
Pauly, you can’t see her?
(HESITATES) See who?
Are you fucking with me?
CHARLOTTE: Put your gun down, baby.
I’m scared.
(FLASHLIGHTS FIZZLE)
What the fuck?
CHARLOTTE: Can we go home, Lee?
Steady that light, Russo.
Steady that light.
It’s not me, it’s the battery.
(DISTORTED) Let’s go home, Lee!
Mine’s off too. Change yours.
Hurry up!
Get yours on!
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
(OVERLAPPING ARGUING)
(BONES CRUNCHING)
(CREATURE SCREAMS)
(GUNSHOT)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(WATER SPLASHES) Oh!
The fuck was that?
What are you doing?
Lee?
(YELPS)
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
(WATER BURBLING)
(CREATURE CHITTERING)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PAULY: Hey, what the hell is going on?
Hey!
Lee, what the hell is going on?
Hey!
Listen, listen.
Whatever you see down here that’s not supposed to be here, you fucking kill it.
It doesn’t fucking matter if it’s your first girlfriend, your high school gym teacher, you fucking kill ’em.
You got it?
All right.
LEROY: Pauly!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got it, I got it.
Kill my gym teacher. I got it.
Okay, let’s go.
PAULY: All right.
Freakin’ me out.
(WATER DROPS TINKLING)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
Looks like a dead end.
I… I… I could’ve sworn it was right.
FULLER: (IN DISTANCE) Hallorann!
RONNIE GROGAN: You hear that?
SOLDIERS: Hallorann!
Voices.
RONNIE: There’s someone else down here.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
We should go back.
(WATER BURBLES)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
(KIDS SCREAMING)
RICH: Oh my God!
LILLY: It’s Susie. Oh my God.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
(KIDS SCREAMING)
LILLY: Teddy!
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
RICH: Oh my God!
Is that Phil?
He’s dead!
♪ All of the tunnels
Go underground ♪
♪ Where none of the children
Will ever be found ♪
(WATER BURBLES)
(LILLY YELLS)
♪ They wandered away
To join the show ♪
♪ And lost their way
In the world below ♪
(GASPS, SCREAMS)
MATTY: ♪ They swallowed the pills
And they lost their fear ♪
♪ But nothing they hoped
To find was here ♪
RONNIE: That’s Matty!
♪ They joined the circus
And left their town ♪
♪ Now they live here
Down with the clown ♪
♪ Down with the clown ♪
PENNYWISE: ♪ With the clown ♪
♪ Down here with the clown ♪
♪ Now they live down here ♪
♪ With the clown! ♪
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SCREAMS)
Duck and cover, kiddos.
(KIDS SCREAM)
(ROARS)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(KIDS SCREAMING)
(LILLY GASPS)
(CHILDEREN SCREAMING)
(YELLS) Guys, wait up!
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
WILL: (IN DISTANCE) Help!
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
WILL: Help!
(MUFFLED) Can anyone hear me?
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
I see him too.
WILL: (MUFFLED) It’s me! Dad!
He’s real.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
Leroy, he’s real!
(GUNSHOT ECHOES)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(KIDS SCREAM)
(GROANS) Oh, shit!
PAULY: Oh, shit. Ah, fuck.
(SPLUTTERS)
LEROY: Oh, shit.
Ah, fuck.
(PANTS)
LEROY: All right.
(SHOUTS) What the hell are you all doing here?
Get behind me!
Behind me! Move it!
(PAULY GROANS)
(MUTTERS) I got you.
I got you. I got you.
(PANTS)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Is it bad?
LEROY: Just look at me.
Is it bad?
No, it’s not.
It’s not bad, brother.
Not bad?
Yeah, it’s fucking bad.
It’s not bad.
It’s bad.
I just–
We’re gonna patch you up.
Yeah.
So, I can get you out of here and we’re gonna patch you up.
And so, let’s go.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
LEROY: What?
I wanna rest.
Let me rest.
No. Fuck that. You can’t rest.
We gotta get out of here.
Let me rest. (GROANS) No.
No, listen. We gotta get the fuck out of here.
Hey, hey. Lee. Lee.
I got you. What? What?
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(SOFTLY) It’s okay. It’s okay.
What?
(BREATHES SHAKILY) It’s my turn.
It’s my turn.
I’m sorry.
(PAULY BREATHING SHAKILY)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
I’m sorry, brother.
PAULY: Hey, listen.
Make it count.
Make it count.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BREATHES SOFTLY)
(LEROY BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(PENNYWISE CHUCKLING IN DISTANCE)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
All right. Kids, everybody get out of here.
Run! Now!
(LEROY MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)
(GRUNTS)
(PANTS)
(PENNYWISE’S VOICE ECHOES)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
Guys!
Ronnie, Marge!
Can anyone hear me?
(SOBS)
(FAINT TINKLING HUM)
(PENNYWISE CHUCKLING ECHOES)
♪ (DRAMATIC SINISTER MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PENNYWISE: Too bad. So sad.
You couldn’t save ol’ Mattyboy.
Tasty, tasty Mattyboy.
(CHUCKLES MENACINGLY)
You convinced everyone to come and see me.
(CHUCKLES)
‘Cause you’re such a good friend.
(AS LILLY’S FATHER)
But such a bad daughter!
(CACKLES)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(WHIMPERS) (GROWLS)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(ROARS, STOPS ABRUPTLY)
♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪
(FAINT TINKLING HUM)
♪ (QUIRKY MUSIC STING) ♪
(JAW POPS)
(WHIMPERS)
(FAINT TINKLING HUM)
♪ (EERIE CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GRUNTS, GROWLS)
(BELLS JINGLE)
(GROANS)
(BONES CRUNCHING)
(WHIMPERS)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (DARK INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(FAINT TINKLING HUM)
(HUMMING INTENSIFIES)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
(GASPS) HANK: Don’t turn around.
Don’t say anything.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Turn on the car and let’s drive.
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(INGRID GASPS)
♪ (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
INGRID: I saw the news.
I was so worried.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Something… Something…
Something attacked the bus.
INGRID: Attacked?
Yeah.
It… It… It just happened so fast.
(HESITATES) I don’t know what it was.
They’ve put checkpoints on the state road going in and out of town.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
All right. We have to find someplace for you to go.
(PANTS) Okay. Okay.
Come home with me.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It’s too risky.
It’s… It ain’t safe.
You can’t stay outdoors.
They’re combing the woods.
HANK: Shit. Shit.
Fuck. Fuck. Shit.
(PANTS) Yeah. Okay.
There might be someone who can help.
(ENGINE RUMBLES)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(TIRES SCREECH)
Hi.
I’m Mrs. Hanlon.
You called about a visitor?
INGRID: Mrs. Hanlon?
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
My name is Ingrid Kersh.
You don’t know me, but we have a mutual friend.
LEROY: And, um, he got hit.
Next thing I know, um… he’s down, and he’s… he’s bleeding out.
And so, I get him up.
I take him with me.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
It was too late. (SIGHS)
(DOOR OPENING)
INTERROGATOR: Thank you, Major.
(DOOR CLOSES)
INTERROGATOR: If we need any more, we’ll let you know.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
I am so sorry, Major.
Russo was a good man.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Yes, he was, sir. Thank you.
I want you to know… these people, they will answer… for what they led us into.
That being said…
I do still have a few questions of my own.
Sir, I’m sorry.
Uh… (BREATHES DEEPLY) I would just really like to go be with my family.
Of course.
Uh, General. General.
Hallorann.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Did he make it out?
Hasn’t reported back to base.
How he’d have made it out of there, I don’t know.
But if anyone could find a way… it’s Dick Hallorann.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS INTRIGUING) ♪
(WATER TRICKLING, DRIPPING)
(INSECT BUZZES)
(TWIG SNAPPING) (LEAVES RUSTLING)
♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS,
TURNS SINISTER) ♪
(ECHOING RUMBLE)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ (“SATAN NEVER SLEEPS”
BY TIMI YURO PLAYING) ♪
♪ Satan never sleeps ♪
♪ He walks behind you
Through the night ♪
♪ And through the day ♪
♪ Silently he creeps ♪
♪ He’s always there ♪
♪ To put temptation
In your way ♪
♪ So, if you’re burning
With desire ♪
♪ He’ll find a way
To fan the fire ♪
♪ Then in the embers
Of the flame… ♪
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
