It: Welcome to Derry
Based on: It by Stephen King
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe
Season 1 – Episode 7
Episode title: The Black Spot
Original release date: December 7, 2025 (HBO)
Plot: In 1908, Ingrid’s father Bob Gray performs at carnivals as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. One night, the entity appears in the form of a child, having deduced the character’s appeal to children, and lures Bob into the woods to his death. In the present, the masked men demand the Black Spot patrons hand over Hank. When they refuse, the men set the building aflame and begin shooting the patrons. Hallorann escorts Hank, Ronnie, and Will to safety, but Rich sacrifices himself to save Marge, who is later rescued by firefighters. Bowers and the mob leave as Ingrid arrives in her Periwinkle clown garb to see Pennywise kill her husband Stan, having already fed on the Black Spot patrons. He congratulates her for helping him but when she realizes he is not her father, he uses his deadlights to render her catatonic. Hallorann, who realizes Pennywise has entered hibernation, guides the military to one of the pillars. They transport it back to the base, where they incinerate it as Shaw reveals to Leroy that his ultimate goal is to free Pennywise and use its abilities to control the American population. Rose agrees to temporarily shelter Hank, who is believed dead. Pennywise reawakens, appears in Will’s house, and captures him.
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It: Welcome to Derry – S01E07 – The Black Spot | Transcript
1908
♪ (JAUNTY CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(EXCITED CHATTER)
(FIREWORKS POPPING)
(RATTLES)
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
(BOTH GIGGLE)
♪ (DRUMS ROLLING) ♪
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
♪ (DRUMS CONTINUE ROLLING) ♪
♪ (CYMBAL CRASHES) ♪
(CHEERING)
Gather round, little friends! Gather round and feast your eyes on the amazing Pennywise, the Dancing Clown!
(CROWD CHEER, APPLAUD)
(CHILDREN CHEERING)
(DOOR LOCK CLICKING)
♪ (JAUNTY PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(HORN HONKS)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(BELLS JINGLE)
(SLIDE WHISTLE BLOWS)
(HORN HONKS)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
(HAND CLACKERS RATTLING)
(SMOOCHES)
♪ (RISING MELODY ON GLOCKENSPIEL) ♪
(BIRD WHISTLES CHIRPING)
(SOFTLY) Oh! Oh-ho!
(CHILDREN EXCLAIM)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(HORN HONKS)
(CHILDREN CHUCKLING)
(SLIDE WHISTLE BLOWS)
(CHILDREN GIGGLING)
(SLIDE WHISTLE BLOWS)
(SPRINGS BOING)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
(BELLS JINGLING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(SPRING BOINGS)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
(WHISTLE BLOWS SHARPLY)
(BELL DINGING)
(CHILD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(HORN HONKS)
(CHILDREN CHUCKLING)
(GOPHER CHUCKLES)
(THUD)
(YELPS)
(CHILDREN CHUCKLING, CHEERING)
(CHUCKLES)
♪ (WHIMSICAL PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD CHUCKLING, CHEERING)
♪ (PIANO MUSIC TURNS SUSPENSEFUL) ♪
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
(CROWD MURMURING)
♪ (FALLING MELODY PLAYING ON GLOCKENSPIEL) ♪
♪ (MELANCHOLIC PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(INAUDIBLE)
(CHILDREN MURMUR)
(CHILDREN GASP)
(CHILDREN CHUCKLING)
♪ (MUSIC RISES, FADES) ♪
♪ (SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
CROWD: Aw!
(INAUDIBLE)
(GOPHER SQUEALS)
♪ (SORROWFUL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
♪ (UPBEAT JAUNTY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CHILDREN CHEER)
(CHILDREN CLAMORING)
(YELPS)
(GRUNTS)
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
(YELPS, SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
♪ (CHEERFUL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(SOUND DISTORTS)
♪ (OMNIOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (DISCORDANT EERIE MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪
(CHILDREN YELLING, ECHOING)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS, FADES) ♪
♪ (“SWEETHEART DAYS” BY HARRY MACDONOUGH PLAYING) ♪
♪ Light days are falling… ♪
♪ (SONG CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪
(DISTANT CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
(BOB GRAY SIGHS)
BOB: Lively crowd.
INGRID GRAY: I’ll wager it’s even bigger tonight.
BOB: Oh, you’ll wager now, would you? (CHUCKLES) No more hanging about with the card sharps.
INGRID: I wish you could hear the way they talk about you, Papa. Papa, you make them so happy.
BOB: Yes, that’s something. That’s good. That’s good.
(BELLS JINGLING SOFTLY)
BOB: Now, what are you doing back there, pumpkin, hmm?
INGRID: Tada! I’ve been working on my face. I wanted to surprise you.
BOB: My beautiful girl! Look at you! (CHUCKLES) Show me the bow.
(BELLS JINGLE)
BOB: Ladies and gentlemen!
♪ (BLOWS TRUMPET) ♪
BOB: For your amusement, the Santini Brothers’ Carnival proudly presents the first father and daughter act in its history, the Pennywise and Periwinkle Show. (CHUCKLES)
INGRID: Periwinkle? That was Mom’s stage name.
BOB: (SOFTLY) Yeah. Well, you can change it if you like.
INGRID: No. I love it.
BOB: Good.
INGRID: Papa, do you ever miss the circus?
BOB: Sometimes. I miss the big crowds. Sure.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BOB: The roars. Mmhmm. One day… the big tent will come acallin’ again. You’ll see. But, this time, my act will be different. Something new. Something no one’s ever seen before. You.
BOB: (CHUCKLES)
BOB: Now, wouldn’t that be something?
♪ (MUSIC TURNS TENDER) ♪
BOB: (CHUCKLES)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
TOP HAT: Gather round, friends. Gather round. Pennywise the Dancing Clown Show will be on again in about half an hour, you don’t want to miss it. Go grab your mothers and your brothers. Go grab your granny…
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (CHEERY MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) ♪
BOB: (GRUNTS) (SIGHS) Oh. Oh, damn it! It’s all coming off. All coming off. (SOFTLY) Shit. Shit. Shit.
(TREE BRANCH SNAPS)
(RUSTLING)
BOB: Hello? Who’s there?
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BOB: Oh. Hello there, little fella. What are you looking at? Show’s that-away. Scram.
The children seem drawn to you.
BOB: (CHUCKLES) That’s a strange thing for a young man to say.
I can’t find my parents.
BOB: Me neither. They’re dead.
Will you help me find them?
BOB: No. Can’t you see I’m busy?
(WOMAN SHRIEKS IN DISTANCE)
BOB: What was that?
That’s my mother.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(WOMAN SHRIEKING)
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(SCREAMS ECHOING)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
INGRID: Have you seen my father?
CARNEY 1: Oh, he’s just gone?
TOP HAT: Let’s just take it easy. We don’t know exactly what happened.
CARNEY 1: Are you sure it’s his?
TOP HAT: Jesus. Right there.
CARNEY 1: Who could have done this?
TOP HAT: I don’t know anything until we find some trace of him.
CARNEY 1: No body?
CARNEY 2: Oh my word.
TOP HAT: I got folks combing the woods, but it’s more than likely something dragged him off.
Oh God.
TOP HAT: I have no idea.
Boss, boss.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(INGRID GASPS)
TOP HAT: Found it in the woods. Wolves, maybe. They roam these parts.
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
INGRID: (SOBS) Papa! Papa! (SOBS)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
♪ (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’s 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’s 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) ♪
(GUN COCKING)
(ECHOING RUMBLE)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GUNS COCKING)
(CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT)
(GUN COCKS)
♪ (UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Hey, Reg. We got trouble.
CLINT BOWERS: Good evening.
(PATRONS GASP)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
CLINT: Excuse the interruption, folks.
(GUNS CLICKING)
(PATRON SCREAMS)
CLINT: Now… I’m gonna make this real simple. Give us what we want, and we go away.
STAN KERSH: Norma? Norma Price?
Norma Price?
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
STAN: You should be ashamed. Go home. Now! Go on.
REGGIE DAVIS: What do you want?
CLINT: Hank Grogan. We know he’s hiding here somewhere. You hand him over, and you can get back to your party.
DICK HALLORANN: Oh, no, no, no. Seem you fellas got some bad information. See, this here, it’s just a rec facility for military personnel only.
CLINT: Well, then you won’t mind if we have a quick look around?
Say we do.
STAN: We’re not asking.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HANK GROGAN: Look, I’m here.
RONNIE GROGAN: Daddy, no!
Baby girl. Baby.
No! (SCREAMING) No!
Look, I don’t want no bloodshed over me! I’ll go. Just leave these good people alone.
CLINT: You’re doing the right thing.
I don’t think so.
CLINT: Now, there’s no need for this to get messy, son.
(GUNS COCKING)
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
Now, would you look at that? We got guns too. Ours just happen to be government issue.
I suggest you fellas leave. Ain’t nobody getting strung up today.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING SLOWLY)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(GUN CLICKING)
♪ (MUSIC CUTS OFF) ♪
CLINT: Put ’em down, boys. Put ’em down. Put ’em down.
(GUNS RATTLING)
CLINT: He’s right. This isn’t the way. Everybody out. Come on.
(PATRONS MURMURING)
What are we supposed to do with you now? You know they’re coming back.
We got a truck out back. Get him there, sneak him out.
(CHAINS RATTLING)
(DOOR CLANGS)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DOOR RATTLES)
(PATRONS EXCLAIM)
(GROANING) Fuck. They chained it shut.
HALLORANN: Is there another way out?
REGGIE: Check the back. Check the back!
Women and kids in the middle of the room now!
JAX: Hey, call the guys on base. I’ll check the phones.
HALLORANN: No, phone’s not working. Somebody’s wrong with it.
Stay calm. Stay calm.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
JAX: Stay alert. Stay alert.
REGGIE: Take care of yourselves, fellas.
CLINT: Do it!
HALLORANN: Something’s going on.
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(GUNS COCKING)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REGGIE: Stay calm.
RICH SANTOS: Watch out!
(GUNSHOT)
(PATRONS SCREAMING)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(SCREAMS)
(PATRONS SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOTS) Get ’em out! Get ’em out!
(REGGIE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
HALLORANN: Go, go!
Check the back. Check the back.
Reggie, go, go, go, go!
REGGIE: Let’s go!
Hurry, come on!
Come on!
(GUNSHOTS)
(PATRONS SCREAMING)
(DOORS RATTLING)
JAX: Come on! Hey!
Door’s shut too!
Shit!
(BULLET WHIZZING)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR CONTINUES)
Hey, yo. I need ammo. Ammo!
(GUNSHOT)
(PATRONS SCREAMING)
HALLORANN: Get down!
(WOOD GROANING)
Get in here!
REGGIE: Down!
Go! Go, go, go! Move!
AIRMAN: Don’t go that way.
They’re on both sides.
(BULLETS WHIZZING)
REGGIE: Fuck!
HANK: Get down! Get down!
(GRUNTS) (RONNIE SCREAMS)
HANK: Ronnie!
RONNIE: (SOBBING) Daddy!
(HANK GROANS)
Will, get up. Are you okay? You okay?
RONNIE: I can’t see anything!
HANK: Ronnie! Will!
WILL HANLON: (GRUNTS) Ronnie!
(GRUNTS)
RONNIE: Daddy?
(WILL GROANS)
(AIRMAN SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)
(PATRON COUGHING)
RONNIE: Where’s my dad?
(WHIMPERS)
Please! Where’s my dad?
Daddy!
AIRMAN: I got you!
RONNIE: Let go of me!
(BULLET WHZZING)
(GRUNTS)
(SCREAMS)
(RICH YELLS, GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
MARGE TRUMAN: (SCREAMS) My arm!
(RICH SCREAMS)
MARGE: Rich! (YELPS) It’s hot!
RICH: Hold still!
MARGE: Oh my God!
Oh my God! Oh my God!
(HALLORANN COUGHING)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR CONTINUES)
(WOOD GROANING, CREAKING)
(BULLET WHIZZING)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(SOUND TURNS MUFFLED)
♪ (HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(EERIE VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
(SOUND UNMUFFLES)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Frankie! Frankie! Frankie! Snap out of it!
(GASPS)
HALLORANN: Come on.
(RONNIE SCREAMING) Come on.
You got it. Get back.
(BULLET WHIZZING)
(FRANKIE GROANS)
(MUTTERS) Shit.
(GRUNTS)
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
RONNIE: Dad! Where’s my dad?
(PATRONS COUGHING, SCREAMING)
(DRONING WARBLE)
♪ (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(EERIE VOICES WHISPERING)
HALLORANN: Hey! Over here! Hey!
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
NOREEN: (COUGHS, SOBS) Oh, no, no. (SOBS, COUGHS) (COUGHS)
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(NOREEN SOBS)
VOICE: Psst.
(FOOTSTOMPS ECHOING)
(NOREEN SOBBING, COUGHING)
(FOOTSTOMPS ECHOING)
PENNYWISE: Psst. Noreen.
(BELLS JINGLE)
PENNYWISE: Over here. Take my hand. I know a way out.
♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GUNSHOT)
(BULLET WHIZZING)
(WHIMPERING)
(AIRMAN SCREAMING) Daddy! Will! (WHIMPERS)
(CRUNCHING)
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (DISCORDANT EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PENNYWISE: What’s the matter? Do I have face on my face?
(WHIMPERS)
(LAUGHS)
(SCREAMS)
(LAUGHS MANIACALLY)
(RONNIE SHRIEKS)
(WHIMPERING)
(EERIE SCREAM ECHOING)
HALLORANN: Hey. It’s okay. It’s okay. You’re okay. You’re okay. I got you. We’re gonna get you out.
(RONNIE PANTING)
(RONNIE SCREAMS)
♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PENNYWISE: Hello, Dicky. What’s the matter? Seeing things? Oh, I think they see you too.
(CACKLES MENACINGLY)
(GASPS)
(PENNYWISE CHUCKLES)
♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪
(SPIRITS GROWLING)
(WHIMPERS)
HALLORANN: Where are the kids? Show me.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(PATRONS SCREAMING DISTANTLY)
(FLAMES ROARING, CRACKLING)
(CAR DOORS CLOSING)
CLINT: It’s time to go.
Not until I know Grogan’s dead.
CLINT: No one’s getting out of there alive.
He’s right. They’re cooked.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HALLORANN: Come on. Get in, get in. Down here now. Go, go, go!
HANK: Baby.
Hey. What about Rich and Marge?
HALLORANN: The roof’s caving in, boy!
I got ’em.
I’m gonna get them.
Go on ahead.
RONNIE: No! No!
Stop! Stop!
HALLORANN: Goddammit, I’ll find them. Get!
(JOISTS GROANING, CREAKING)
HALLORANN: Get in!
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MARGE: Whoa!
HALLORANN: Kids! Kids! In here! Come this way! Come…
(WOOD GROANING LOUDLY)
(WOOD SNAPPING)
(RICH AND MARGE SCREAM)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HANK: Okay, get in.
(RONNIE WHIMPERS)
(WOOD GROANING)
(RICH COUGHING)
(PATRON SHOUTS)
(PANTS)
RICH: Marge, come help me. Come on, help me. Help me!
(PANTS)
RICH: Let’s get in here. It’s the only way we’re gonna make it out.
(MARGE EXHALES HEAVILY) It’s too small.
RICH: There’s plenty of room. The roof is gonna fall! Come on, Marge!
MARGE: Okay, okay. There’s not enough room for both…
♪ (FAINT SOMBER NOTE PLAYS) ♪
MARGE: (SOBBING) No!
RICH: Marge Marge, stop!
MARGE: No, Rich! Please, no!
(DOOR CLANGS, ECHOES)
(SOUND TURNS MUFFLED)
(SOUND UNMUFFLES)
MARGE: Let me out! Please!
RICH: Marge, listen to me!
MARGE: Let me out!
RICH: Marge! (SOBS)
MARGE: Let me out!
(PANTING)
RICH: Remember what you said?
♪ (SOMBER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
RICH: About knights?
(RICH COUGHING)
MARGE: What?
RICH: Knights. Who sleep with something by the bed?
MARGE: Ye-Yeah.
RICH: Well, we don’t just pee in pots. (COUGHS) We also protect fair maidens.
MARGE: (SOBS SHAKILY)
RICH: (COUGHS) Remember the day, that day all the guinea pigs got loose in the hallway ’cause Robbie Mueller, he broke into the science lab? That was my first week of school, and everyone went out to see it. You came out of class with a yellow sweater and a gray skirt with a string tied to your finger. (COUGHS)
(VOICE BREAKING)
MARGE: You remember that?
RICH: You were so pretty.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
RICH: I remember wondering, “¿Quién es esa?” And you saw me staring and you said, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer.” You didn’t say it mean or anything. I didn’t even know what it meant. (COUGHS) Later when I figured it out, I remember thinking what I should have said back.
♪ (SOMBER CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
RICH: “I wish I could.” (COUGHS)
MARGE: (IN HOARSE VOICE) I love you, Rich.
(RICH COUGHING)
(SOBS)
RICH: I love you too, Marge.
♪ (SOMBER CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
(KEYS JINGLE)
(IGNITION CLICKING)
(ENGINE STALLING)
STAN: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, come on. No, come on! Guys, guys, wait! Fuck. No, no, no. No, not now. Not now! Fuck!
♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪
STAN: Come on. Come on.
♪ (FAINT EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪
(BRANCHES SNAPPING)
STAN: Ingrid?
(BELLS JINGLING)
INGRID: Hello, Stanley.
STAN: Is that you? What are you doing? What the hell are you wearing?
INGRID: This is me, Stanley. This is who I really am.
STAN: Black and blue is what you’re gonna be if you don’t get back to the house and wipe this ridiculous crap off your face! You hear me?
INGRID: Hello, Papa.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
STAN: What?
♪ (INTENSE SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
STAN: What the hell? Who the hell are you…
♪ (MUSIC CUTS OFF) ♪
(BLOOD GURGLING)
(BODY THUDS)
(BLOOD DRIPPING)
(CLEAVER CLANGING)
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CHOMPS, GRUNTS SOFTLY)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(CHOMPS, CHEWS)
INGRID: I knew they would come if they thought that he was here. And there would be blood, and… and pain, and fear.
(FLESH SQUELCHING)
INGRID: And I knew that you wouldn’t be able to resist it. And you would come back. And you would tell me that I was good.
(BURPS, GRUNTS)
(BLOOD SPLASHING)
(HEAD THUDDING)
PENNYWISE: Show me the bow.
♪ (SOFT UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BELLS JINGLING)
(BLOWS TRUMPET WEAKLY)
(CHUCKLES)
PENNYWISE: Come to Papa.
INGRID: (GASPS) (CHUCKLES) Oh, Papa. Papa. I love you. (SOBBING SOFTLY)
PENNYWISE: You did good. You did very, very good. Now, I’m going to sleep.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS UNSETTLING) ♪
INGRID: What?
PENNYWISE: Don’t you worry. I’ll come back.
INGRID: No, no, no.
PENNYWISE: I always do.
INGRID: No. No, don’t leave me. Please. No. Don’t abandon me.
♪ (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PENNYWISE: (GASPS) (GRUNTS SOFTLY) (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
INGRID: You’re not him. Who are you?
PENNYWISE: Why, I’m Pennywise, your dancing daddy.
(BELLS JINGLE)
INGRID: You are not my father.
PENNYWISE: Yes, I am.
INGRID: What have you done with him?
PENNYWISE: Oh, I… I ate him.
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
PENNYWISE: (LAUGHS)
(INGRID SOBS)
PENNYWISE: Oh, but he still lives inside of me!
INGRID: No!
PENNYWISE: Yes, he does! Why, I… I can feel him right now, yes.
INGRID: Stop.
PENNYWISE: He’s reaching out…
INGRID: Shut up!
PENNYWISE: …for his baby girl.
INGRID: Stop it! Shut up! Shut up!
PENNYWISE: (LAUGHS)
INGRID: Stop it!
PENNYWISE: (LAUGHS)
INGRID: Shut up!
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
PENNYWISE: Come to Papa.
♪ (INTENSE SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DRONING WARBLE)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS, MUSIC FADES) ♪
(MUFFLED SOUND)
♪ (MELANCHOLIC CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MARGE: (MUFFLED) Help! Help!
FIREFIGHTER: (MUFFLED) Hey, hey. Are you okay? Come on, dear. Are you alright? Come on, careful. Watch your step.
♪ (MELANCHOLIC CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
MARGE: (SOBS)
♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪
(MARGE SOBBING)
♪ (MELANCHOLIC CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(KIDS SOBBING, SNIFFLING)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
(PATRON LAUGHING)
(CONTINUES LAUGHING)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(PATRON CONTINUES LAUGHING)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(AMBULANCE DOOR CLOSES)
MARGE: Wait, wait.
MEDIC: All right, I’m good. Go.
MARGE: (BREATHES SHAKILY) (SOBS)
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(CAR ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
LEROY HANLON: Will! Son.
Oh my God.
LEROY: Son. Son, you could have gotten yourself killed.
WILL: I know. I-I’m sorry.
Are you hurt?
WILL: I’m okay. Mr. Hallorann, he got us out.
LEROY: Hallorann?
FULLER: Hanlon!
(CHARLOTTE HANLON SNIFFLES)
LEROY: You all just hold tight. I’ll be right back, okay?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(WHISPERING) My dad. The woods.
(SOFTLY) Okay.
(DRONING WARBLE)
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(EERIE VOICES WHISPERING)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, CUTS OFF) ♪
LEROY: (GASPS) It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s just me. It’s okay. It’s all right.
HALLORANN: (PANTS) Leroy?
LEROY: It’s all right. Yeah. Yes.
HALLORANN: Leroy?
LEROY: You all right?
HALLORANN: No. No. Uh, I had to talk to one of ’em. I had to. The noise.
(SPIRITIS WHISPERING)
HALLORANN: The noise.
(DRONING WARBLE)
(SPIRITS WHISPERING, GROWLING)
(WARBLE STOPS)
HALLORANN: (MUTTERS) The noise.
♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPIRIT 1: What’s happening?
(WHIMPERS)
(OVERLAPPING WHISPERING)
SPIRIT 1: It hurts like hell.
SPIRIT 2: Talking to you.
Look at our kind, brother. What’d they do to us?
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)
Gotta make it right. Make it right
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(BIRDS CAWING)
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
RONNIE: Dad.
HANK: Baby. (GROANS)
RONNIE: We thought we should hide him here just till you got here.
CHARLOTTE: Are you hurt, Mr. Grogan?
HANK: Uh-uh. No, I made it. I’m just more worried about the ones that didn’t.
CHARLOTTE: We gotta get him out of here.
WILL: What if Dad sees?
CHARLOTTE: He knows.
WILL: Really?
CHARLOTTE: Give me your clothes, Mr. Grogan. If you don’t mind.
HANK: Excuse me?
LEROY: We need to help him.
FULLER: We can help him by getting his ass and ours back to base. That… thing is still out here, and I’m not inclined to wait around to find…
HALLORANN: It ain’t here no more.
FULLER: What’d you say, Airman?
HALLORANN: Ain’t here no more. (SIGHS) I could always feel it before, but now it’s like… It’s like a light went out. It’s like, uh… (BREATHING HEAVILY) Like this son of a bitch just went to sleep.
FULLER: Asleep or not, the general’s gonna wanna see us. Seventeen dead airmen, more civilians, not a goddamn clue where the pillars are. We are fucked, Major!
LEROY: Okay, Colonel. Okay.
HALLORANN: No, no, maybe not. I can help us find one of them pillars.
LEROY: What?
HALLORANN: Yeah.
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LEROY: How?
HALLORANN: Um… In that Indian kid’s head, I saw it. They put one of them pillars where their war chief died. I didn’t know exactly where, but now… Now we just gotta follow her.
LEROY: Follow who?
HALLORANN: Her…
(PANTS HEAVILY)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (DISTORTED DRUMMING OVERLAPPING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
CHARLOTTE: What do we do about Hank?
LEROY: (SIGHS) I don’t know, babe. I’ll think of something. But for now, maybe you should take him back to the house.
CHARLOTTE: Our house?
LEROY: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Derry?
LEROY: Yes. No one’s going to look for him there.
CHARLOTTE: That thing…
LEROY: Dick seems to think that this thing is asleep, or hibernating, or something.
CHARLOTTE: Hibernating?
LEROY: Whatever the reason.
CHARLOTTE: Leroy, whoever did this needs to pay.
LEROY: That’s not our job though, Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE: How are you so calm?
LEROY: It’s not our job.
CHARLOTTE: People died.
LEROY: Other than protect… All we can do…
CHARLOTTE: Our son saw dead bodies, Leroy.
LEROY: After this mission, this place, all of this, it’s done. And we take our family and get out of this town to safety. The worst of all this shit is behind us. I promise you.
♪ (“HAPPYGOLUCKYME” BY PAUL EVANS PLAYING) ♪
RADIO HOST: Good morning, Derry. It’s 7:15 a.m. and this is the news you can use. Reports have begun filing in about an electrical fire that broke out overnight at what fire department spokesman Bob McCormick described as “an illegal colored speakeasy” on the outskirts of town. The blaze claimed scores of lives. Among them, the Negro patrons responsible…
TERRI: Lilly, you’ve barely touched your breakfast.
RADIO HOST: …along with several citizens who showed up to help treat the wounded. Including beloved local butcher Stanley Kersh. Derry police also reported including amongst the remains the charred body of notorious fugitive child killer Hank Grogan. Way to go, boys in blue. And rest in peace, Stanley. No one could filet a tenderloin quite like you. Now here’s Frank with the weather.
♪ (SINGER LAUGHING) ♪
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ROSE: The Augury has passed. Its feeding cycle is complete. It sleeps.
How many died at the Black Spot?
ROSE: Reports are still coming in, but according to the coroner, 23.
And how many children for the for the full cycle?
Seventeen. Seventeen young souls.
DYANI: All those people. And not a damn thing we can do about it but watch. It feels wrong.
ROSE: We do as much as we can for as many as we can. Focus on the lives saved. The ones protected because we keep this thing in its cage.
♪ (BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LEO: Well… (CLEARS THROAT) (SIGHS) See you shit-asses in 27 years.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ROSE: (SOFTLY) Don’t worry about him.
DYANI: I know. (SOBS)
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, TURNS DRAMATIC) ♪
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
GENERAL FRANCIS SHAW: Where are we?
FULLER: Been at it since 0700 hours, sir. If it’s down there, we’ll know soon.
SHAW: Where’s Hallorann?
FULLER: In the tent.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD)
SHAW: How are you holding up, Airman?
HALLORANN: The fuck it look like?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
HALLORANN: Sorry, sir. It’s just… the noise, sir. I’m sorry.
SHAW: Why don’t you head back to base, Airman? Get some rest. You did good.
♪ (DISCORDANT EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (DISTORTED DRUMMING OVERLAPS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
(LINE RINGING)
HANK: So this friend of yours, you really think she’ll help us?
CHARLOTTE: If anyone can get you and your family outside Derry, it’s her. Trust me. This is going to work. Assuming someone will pick up the phone. Come on, girl. Come on.
(LINE CONTINUES RINGING)
CHARLOTTE: (GROANS) We’ll just head there. You’re not coming.
WILL: No, I was gonna go to Lilly’s with Ronnie and Marge. We thought it’d be better if she heard it from us about Rich.
CHARLOTTE: I don’t think so, baby.
WILL: But Dad said the thing was asleep.
CHARLOTTE: It wasn’t that thing that lit the fire last night. This town is the monster! You’re not going anywhere!
HANK: And neither is Ronnie. You sure this is necessary?
CHARLOTTE: Unless you want my neighbors wondering what a dead man’s doing walking down my driveway.
HANK: I mean, you think they’ll notice? I don’t exactly look like Mr. Hanlon.
CHARLOTTE: In this town?
HANK: Yeah, point taken.
CHARLOTTE: Let’s go. You stay. I’ll be back in an hour.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(BIKE BELL DINGS)
(DOG BARKING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(DOG WHINES)
(WHINES)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
TERRI BAINBRIDGE: Lilly, sweetheart. You have guests.
(DOG WHINES, BARKS)
RONNIE: Hey. We needed to talk.
(DOOR CLOSES)
MARGE: Last night, something happened. We ended up heading to the Black Spot without you.
LILLY BAINBRIDGE: The fire. I heard about it on the news. Are you.. Is your dad…
RONNIE: He’s fine. We’re fine. Will is okay. It’s ju…
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LILLY: Where’s Rich?
MARGE: (SOBS)
LILLY: What? (VOICE BREAKING) No.
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MELANCHOLIC CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MARGE: (SOBS SOFTLY)
RONNIE: You okay?
MARGE: (BREATHES SHAKILY) He never did get one all the way to Main Street, did he?
♪ (MELANCHOLIC CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(METAL DETECTOR CHIRPING)
AIRMAN: Found something!
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
♪ (DRAMATIC CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
FULLER: Goddamn. Hallorann was right.
(DEVICE CHIRPING)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
FULLER: You can stand down, Major.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
LEROY: (SCOFFS) Stand down?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
LEROY: Colonel, we have orders to take the pillar three clicks north.
FULLER: Change of plan. Pillar’s going back to base for further testing.
LEROY: Uh, wait. The plan has always been to move inward. Toward the center of Derry. No, we pen this thing one pillar at a time. Uh, what you’re suggesting, it’s like leaving the cage door open.
FULLER: You heard Hallorann. The entity is asleep. Now we can analyze the pillar’s physical properties. See if Dick or the eggheads can’t use that data to find the other 12 pillars even faster. Relax, Major. We’re in the homestretch. You done good.
♪ (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(TRUCK ENGINE STARTING)
(GEAR STICK CLUNKING)
♪ (MUSIC TURNS INTENSE) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(DOOR CREAKING)
ROSE: Charlotte?
CHARLOTTE: You said if I ever needed a friend…
ROSE: Why don’t you two come inside?
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
ROSE: Hank.
HANK: Rose.
CHARLOTTE: The good news is the heat’ll be off. They already think Hank’s dead. I got friends in McGill up in Montreal. They can get the Grogans set up with fresh papers, all of that.
ROSE: What’s the bad news?
CHARLOTTE: Gotta get him across the border. Last I checked, customs ain’t all accommodating to… dead people. Just a line on a map. Right?
(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)
TANIEL: Auntie! We might have a problem.
♪ (TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(ALARM BLARING)
♪ (TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(ALARM BLARING)
(MOLTEN METAL CRACKLING, BUBBLING)
OPERATOR: Begin incinerator process.
LEROY: Hold it right there! Shut it down!
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
LEROY: Shut it down! Now!
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(WHIRRING STOPS)
LEROY: Take it out. Take it out of there!
(BUTTON CLICKS)
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
FULLER: What the hell do you think you’re doing?
(WHIRRING STOPS)
LEROY: You said we were just studying the physical properties.
FULLER: Orders are orders, Major.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS SUSPENSEFUL) ♪
(MICROPHONE SCREECHES)
FRANCIS SHAW: (OVER SPEAKER) Leroy.
♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪
SHAW: Put the damn gun down. Weapons down. All of you. Now! A word, please, Major?
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
SHAW: I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner, Major, but OPSEC comes first. You were on a need-to-know basis.
LEROY: This isn’t even about Russia, is it?
SHAW: The greatest threat to this nation is not from without, Major. It’s from within.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SHAW: You see what’s happening out there, Leroy? Americans are at each other’s throats, and it’s only getting worse. Antinuke crazies, the women’s movement, race riots. This country is slowly fracturing into a thousand jagged, ill-fitting pieces. I am only trying to prevent another civil war. Americans have stopped hearing one another. They only want to fight over who gets which piece of the damn pie while the rest of the world eats us alive. And the one thing that makes people really listen is fear.
LEROY: Listen? Or you mean obey?
SHAW: I mean a nation of laws requires a system where people actually follow them. Anything else is anarchy. You know that, Major.
LEROY: You never planned to cage it. You were always planning to free it, to release it in your own fucking backyard!
SHAW: Look at this town. What happened last night? Horrific. But guess what? The streets are calm today. No rioting, no looting, no unrest. The fear. It settles on every living person it touches like a fog, like a goddamned anesthetic.
LEROY: So you want to make America Derry? At what cost? How many dead fucking kids along the way?
SHAW: Fewer than die in car accidents every single year! We’re soldiers, Major! We accept collateral damage.
LEROY: You are fucking insane. And that’s exactly what the IG officers at DOD will say when I tell them about this shit.
SHAW: You’d be shutting the barn door after the horse is already out. Finish it.
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
LEROY: Rescind the order. Do it!
(GUN CLICKS)
FULLER: Put it down, Hanlon!
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(MOLTEN METAL BUBBLING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SHAW: You may not realize it yet, Major, but the actions you’ve taken today may very well save this country. You wanted to be a hero. You did it, son. Now go back to your quarters.
SHAW: Make sure that man does not leave this base.
FULLER: Yes, sir, General.
(RAPID BUBBLING)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BUBBLING FADES)
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(EERIE VOICES WHISPERING)
♪ (DISCORDANT SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(EERIE VOICES SHOUTING)
(ECHOING RUMBLE)
♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
WILL: Hello?
RONNIE: Hey, it’s Ron.
WILL: (SIGHS) Ron, I’m sorry. My mom wouldn’t let me out.
RONNIE: It’s okay. We all went over to the Standpipe, just to get Rich’s stuff and… (SOBS)
WILL: Hey, Ro Ron, it’s okay. It’s…
RONNIE: No, it’s not. Nothing is okay.
WILL: I know. I’m sorry.
RONNIE: I just can’t get over the fact that he’s gone. That he died like that. The way he looked. The way he must have suffocated. Lungs bursting like popcorn. Making my mouth water.
WILL: What?
RONNIE AND PENNYWISE: (OVERLAPPING) I can smell his stinky, little, broken boy body. Can’t you?
WILL: Shut up. (BREATHES HEAVILY) Shut up!
PENNYWISE: I can’t hear you.
WILL: I know who this is! You’re not gonna scare me!
PENNYWISE: Speak up, Willy boy!
WILL: (SHOUTS) You hear that?
PENNYWISE: I can’t hear you!
WILL: I’m done being scared!
PENNYWISE: I can’t hear you! (YELLS)
♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DRONING WARBLE)
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (“TROUBLE’S BACK IN TOWN” BY WILBURN BROTHERS PLAYING) ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
Trouble’s back in town ♪
♪ Look who’s coming ♪
♪ Down the street ♪
♪ Big brown eyes ♪
♪ And smiles so sweet ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Trouble’s back in town ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Uh-oh, uh-oh ♪
♪ I feel a sad old memory ♪
♪ Coming back to torture me ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Trouble’s back in town ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Uh-oh, uh-oh ♪
♪ Better hide until she goes ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Uh-oh ♪
♪ Trouble’s back in town ♪
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
