It: Welcome to Derry – S01E08 – Winter Fire | Transcript

As a dense fog engulfs the town, and General Shaw pushes ahead with his mission, the Hanlons, Rose, Dick, and the kids must work together to save Derry.
It: Welcome to Derry - S01E08 - Winter Fire

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 8
Episode title: Winter Fire
Original release date: December 14, 2025 (HBO)

Plot: A dense fog descends on Derry as Pennywise kills the school principal and lures most of the children to the auditorium, where he hypnotizes them and begins taking them away. Ronnie, Lilly, and Marge follow him, while Pennywise taunts Leroy about Will. Leroy seeks Hallorann’s help, and with Rose’s special tea, Hallorann silences the voices and tracks Lilly’s dagger. Pennywise separates Marge, sensing her future son Richie Tozier will cause his death.[d] Hallorann freezes Pennywise long enough to free Will and the other children as the others arrive, but Shaw and the military intervene, killing Taniel and detaining the adults. Pennywise kills Shaw and pursues the children as they try to restore the “cage”. The adults subdue the soldiers and shoot Pennywise, slowing him until Rich’s spirit appears and helps complete the ritual, imprisoning Pennywise. After Rich’s funeral, Hallorann and Hank leave Derry, Ronnie and Will share a kiss, Charlotte and a honorably discharged Leroy stay, and Ingrid is institutionalized. Twenty-six years later, Ingrid witnesses Elfrida Marsh’s suicide and meets her daughter, Beverly.

Katie Lunman in IT: Welcome to Derry - Winter Fire

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It: Welcome to Derry – S01E08 – Winter Fire | Transcript

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(CAR HORNS HONKING)

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC TURNS EERIE) ♪

(ALARM TRILLING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(MONITOR BEEPING)

♪ (EERIE FALLING MELODY

PLAYING) ♪

(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

(RESIDENT COUGHING)

(BABY CRYING)

(PANTS) My word! What is going on out there?

(RESIDENTS CLAMORING)

♪ (OMIMOUS MUSICAL STING) ♪

♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(WIND WHOOSHES)

♪ (EERIE DISCORDANT MELODY PLAYING) ♪

(MICROPHONE SCREECHING)

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

DUNLEAVY: (OVER PA) Good afternoon, students. Classes have been canceled for the rest of the day.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

DUNLEAVY: Upperclassmen are excused, but all other students, please report to the auditorium for an all-school assembly.

(DOORS CREAKING OPEN)

Who do you think would have the ugliest baby?

(SCOFFS) Burt the Turtle and Teddy Yurin.

What about Lilly Bainbridge and that Matty guy?

That’s so gross. (CHUCKLES)

My parents… (MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY)

(PATTY SHUSHES)

Where are all the teachers?

(LIGHTS SLAMMING OFF)

DUNLEAVY: Settle down, students. Settle down. We have a special treat today designed to entertain and delight.

(STUDENTS LAUGH)

DUNLEAVY: Please allow me to introduce the one and only Pennywise the Dancing Clown!

(MIC THUDS, SQUEALS)

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING) ♪

PENNYWISE: Hiya, kiddos!

(STUDENTS SCREAM)

(PENNYWISE LAUGHS MANIACALLY)

(FLESH SQUELCHING)

(STUDENTS SCREAMING) Tada!

♪ (JAUNTY CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(BURT THE TURTLE SCREAMS)

(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(STUDENTS SCREAMING)

♪ (MUSIC DISTORTING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

♪ (RISING PIANO MELODY PLAYS) ♪

♪ (EERIE UPBEAT TUNE PLAYING) ♪

♪ When I close my eyes ♪

♪ And I dream of you ♪

(STUDENTS SHOUTING)

♪ I see your pretty faces

And I taste them too ♪

♪ But my, oh my ♪

♪ How I wish to cry ♪

♪ Every time we say good… ♪

(ROARING) ♪ …bye! ♪

(DEADLIGHTS DRONING)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(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’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) ♪


(WIND BLOWING SOFTLY)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RONNIE: Guys.

♪ (MUSIC RISES) ♪

♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪

(PAPERS RUSTLING)

MARGE: Guys.

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪

MARGE: Shit. It’s all the kids from school. It’s messing with us, right? It can’t have taken all of them.

LILLY: Only one way to find out.

RONNIE: Let’s go.

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES, FADES) ♪

♪ (TUBA PLAYING RHYTHMIC MELODY) ♪

(CHAIN RATTLING)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSICAL STING) ♪

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(WIND WHISTLING)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

♪ (SCREECHING MUSIC STING) ♪

LILLY BAINBRIDGE: (BREATHES SHAKILY) Who is that?

MARGE: (WHIMPERS) I don’t wanna know.

(WHIMPERING) They’re gone! Everyone. Everyone-Everyone’s gone exc…

(GASPS, WHIMPERS)

MARGE: (SCREAMS) Oh my God!

LILLY: Oh my God!

It’s Dunleavy. No, no.

That’s Principal Dunleavy.

Uh-huh.

Wh… why?

Wait. How can it have taken all of them? How?

LILLY: (HOARSELY) Guys.

(SOBBING)

RONNIE GROGAN: (VOICE BREAKING) No. No, no.

LILLY: (STAMMERS) It took Will.

MARGE: Took him? Took him where?

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RONNIE: Probably wherever that leads.

LILLY: So what do we do?

We have to follow the trail, and we can use the dagger thing to protect ourselves. I mean, we have to try and save our friend.

MARGE: I wanna kill that fucking clown.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Let’s go.

MARGE: Go!

(LILLY GROANING)

RONNIE: Stop squirming.

LILLY: I’m falling.

RONNIE: You weren’t falling on the way over!

MARGE: Guys, we’re never gonna catch up to them at this rate.

Do you have a better idea?

(BRAKES SQUEALING)

MARGE: (PANTS) Oh shit!

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING) ♪

MARGE: Oh, the milkman.

Ah.

(GASPS)

♪ (TENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (DARING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

What are you doing?

(GRUNTS)

You don’t know how to drive!

MARGE: Neither do you. I mean, do you?

(IGNITION STUTTERING)

No. But you’ve only got one eye.

(ENGINE STARTING)

MARGE: It’s fine. My uncle Mike has a truck.

And he let you drive it?

MARGE: No.

(LEVER CLUNKS)

MARGE: But I watched him.

(ENGINE REVVING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

♪ (TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪


(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)

(DIAL WHIRRING)

(LINE RINGING)

(SOFTLY)

LEROY: Come on, son. Pick up, please. Pick up the fucking phone. Pick up, Will. Come on.

(LINE CONTINUES RINGING)

LEROY: Shit.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

LEROY: Hello? Will?

(STATIC CRACKLING, BUZZING)

LEROY: Will?

(PENNYWISE CACKLING)

♪ (EERIE CALLIOPHE MUSIC PLAYING OVER PHONE) ♪

LEROY: Who is this?

PENNYWISE: What scares the man without fear?

♪ (SOFT UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: You.

PENNYWISE: Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

LEROY: Us.

WILL HANLON: Where am I? Hello? Anybody?

LEROY: Will. (STAMMERS) Will, I’m-I’m here, son. Will, I’m here.

WILL: Hello? Please, I’m scared.

PENNYWISE: Oh, yes. You are.

LEROY: Will, don’t be scared. Listen, I’m-I’m here. You just need to tell me where you are. Okay, son? Tell me.

(STATIC CRACKLING)

LEROY: Hello?

(STATIC STOPS)

LEROY: Will! Will!

PENNYWISE: Back in the wagon for Willie boy!

♪ (MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS) ♪

PENNYWISE: Gotta keep him nice and fresh.

LEROY: Listen, please.

PENNYWISE: The dark meat tastes twice as sweet!

LEROY: Don’t put your hands on my son!

(PENNYWISE LAUGHS MANIACALLY)

LEROY: Don’t touch my son, you hear me? I’ll rip your fucking heart out!

(PENNYWISE CACKLING)

LEROY: Don’t touch my…

(LINE CLICKS, BUZZES)

LEROY: (PANTING) Hello? Will!

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(PHONE BELL DINGING)

(TELEPHONE CLATTERS)

LEROY: (BREATHES HEAVILY)


♪ (TENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SPIRITS WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)

♪ (MUSIC DISTORTING) ♪

(ECHOING SCREAM)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC STING) ♪

(SPIRITS CONTINUE WHISPERING)

(SNARLS)

HALLORANN: Leave me alone.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(SPIRITS GROWLING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

LEROY: Dick! Dick, open up!

(SPIRITS WHISPERING)

(GUN CLICKING)

LEROY: Dick!

(DOORKNOB RATTLES)

♪ (SCREECHING MUSICAL STING) ♪

(GUN CLICKS)

LEROY: Dick!

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

SPIRIT 1: Do it, Dick!

(BANGING ON DOOR)

LEROY: Dick, open up. I can hear you.

♪ (SHRIEKING MUSIC STING) ♪

(SCREECHES)

(GROWLS) This is your last chance!

(WHISPERING INTENSIFIES)

SPIRIT 2: Join us!

SPIRIT 3: Do it!

SPIRIT 4: Do it!

LEROY: I am coming in!

(GRUNTS)

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

(WHISPERING STOPS)

HALLORANN: No. No, don’t. Don’t. Don’t. (SOBS) Don’t. Don’t. Don’t.

LEROY: What the hell is going on? Dick, what are you doing?

HALLORANN: I can’t take it no more.

LEROY: Okay, but listen to me, brother.

HALLORANN: They won’t…

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

HALLORANN: Shut up. (MUTTERS) Shut up. (YELLS) Shut up! You shut up. Shut up.

HALLORANN: Dick, we don’t have time for this, brother. Dick, I need you.

(GUN CLICKING)

HALLORANN: Back up!

LEROY: Easy, brother.

HALLORANN: No!

LEROY: Easy.

HALLORANN: You did this.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

HALLORANN: (WHIMPERS) You did it.

LEROY: I’m sorry.

HALLORANN: You got my mind all fucked up.

LEROY: I’m sorry. I just… I need you to listen to me.

HALLORANN: And now? There ain’t no other way, brother.

LEROY: I need you to listen to me.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

HALLORANN: There ain’t no other way.

LEROY: Dick, please! Please, it’s got Will! (GASPS) It’s got Will! (SOBS)

♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪

LEROY: (IN HOARSE VOICE) It’s got my boy, and I don’t know where. I don’t know where he is. So I’m… I’m ask-I’m begging you. I’m begging you to please help me find him. And I swear on my life that I will do everything in my power… I will do everything in my… Look at me! I’ll do everything in my power to help you. I promise you I’ll pull the trigger myself. (BREATHES HEAVILY) Please, just… (HESITATES, BREATHES SHAKILY) …help me find my baby, please. Help me find my baby, please. (SNIFFLES)

(GUN CLICKS)


♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(ICE RUMBLING)

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER SPEAKER)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(FAINT CHATTER)

General, I just received word that Major Hanlon has gone AWOL. Forced his way through the guard gate.

SHAW: We don’t need him anymore. There’s nothing he can do to stop us now.

Apparently, there was another airman with him in the car. Hallorann.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪


(SHEEP BLEATING)

(BREAKS SQUEALING)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: Come on, Dick. Come on.

HALLORANN: Cold.

LEROY: I know. Come on.

It’s too cold, Lee.

LEROY HANLON: Come on.

HALLORANN: It’s too cold.

(HINGES CREAKING)

What? (SCREAMS) What?

♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SOBBING) You said we’d be safe here! You said we’d be safe here. You said… (SOBS)

LEROY: I’m sorry.

You lied to me, Leroy. You’re a liar!

LEROY: I know. I’mma get him– I know. I’m sorry. But, Charlotte, listen to me. I’m gonna get him back.

I can’t take this. I’ll call you back, John.

CHARLOTTE: Bullshit!

LEROY: I swear to God, I will get Will back. I will get Will back.

My baby.

LEROY: Dick-Dick is gonna help us.

(SOBS) How is he gonna help us? How are you gonna help us? Now how are you gonna help us?

LEROY: Listen, listen to me. Listen. He said that the bond between mother and son is the strongest in this world. The strongest. So if you can just-just connect, just-just connect for a second.

ROSE: It won’t matter.

LEROY: Excuse me?

ROSE: Even if he locates your son, you won’t stand a chance against this creature. You do realize that.

LEROY: What are we supposed to do? Just give up on our boy?

ROSE: Of course not. But if Mr. Hallorann could do for us what he did for your general, there may be a way to stop this thing and save your son.

How?

ROSE: By using his ability to find one last artifact.

The dagger.

LEROY: What dagger?

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: So if this dagger is made of the same rock, we can use it to replace a pillar and relock the cage.

ROSE: Exactly. And, hopefully, save your son. If Mr. Hallorann can find it before the creature reaches this point. On the southern bank of the river, there’s a great pine. A deadwood that has stood there since before even our ancestors. It’s the furthest point that the dagger’s energy can still connect with the other pillars and restore the cage.

Yeah, that’s the southern bank. That’s the shortest route across the river, probably where that thing would try to cross it.

LEROY: How do we connect the dagger’s energy to the other pillars?

ROSE: The earth is a conductor. The dagger needs to be buried just as the other pillars were. It’s our only hope.

HALLORANN: You’re a bunch of goddamn fools. I can barely hear myself think. And now y’all expecting me to find your little dagger?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

ROSE: I can help you quiet the voices in your head, Mr. Hallorann. But you’re going to have to trust me.

HALLORANN: How?

♪ (ETHEREAL DRUMMING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

ROSE: You need to be connected to the dagger’s energy. This is made from Maturin root. It will connect you to all things in the realm this evil came from. But not all things there are evil.

HALLORANN: This tea is gonna shut all these voices up?

ROSE: When one door in the mind opens, another must close.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

HALLORANN: (GULPS, GROANS) (SIGHS) How long is it gonna take?

ROSE: Not long. Remember this. Whatever you do, do not go… (SPEECH DISTORTING) (SOUND DISTORTING)

♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(HALLORANN SIGHS)

(ROSE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(DRONING WARBLE)

(HIGHPITCHED SCREECHING)

RONNIE: You have to drive faster, Marge.

MARGE: It’s a fucking milk truck. I’m going as fast as I can.

RONNIE: Well, step on it, okay?

MARGE: I’m trying!

RONNIE: We have to catch up to it or we may be…

LILLY: Pothole!

(SCREAMING)

(BREAKS SQUEALING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(ALL WHIMPERING, PANTING)

MARGE: Are you guys okay?

Marge, what the hell?

MARGE: That wasn’t a one-eye thing. It was a pothole thing.

(ALL PANTING)

RONNIE: What’s wrong?

MARGE: Oh, jeepers, Lilly, you have blood on your face. Are you okay?

The dagger, where is it? We have to find it. We have to.

MARGE: We will. It’s got to be here somewhere.

(ALL PANTING)

MARGE: (GASPS) There it is.

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LILLY: No! No, don’t touch it! I can get it myself.

RONNIE: Why are you snapping at her like…

LILLY: Just shut up, Ronnie. Just stop.

MARGE: Guys, we don’t have time. We have to keep going.


♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SCREAM REVERBERATING)

(DRONING WARBLE)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

ROSE: Stay with it, Mr. Hallorann.

LEROY: Hey.

Stay with it.

HALLORANN: Ah! The dagger! (GRUNTS) I see it.

Where? Where is it?

HALLORANN: (PANTS) Will’s friends. Will’s friends.

What? Ronnie?

HALLORANN: The girls. They… They have it.

Ronnie, my ba… My baby, Ronnie?

HALLORANN: They’re fighting over it. They’re going after… They’re going after Will.

ROSE: He’ll help us find him, but we’ve gotta go now!

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(GROANING)

HANK GROGAN: Okay.

(VAN DOOR CLOSES)

LEROY: Let’s go.

I can’t see too good.

LEROY: Are you sure we’re going the right way?

HALLORANN: We’re getting close.

I don’t understand. If the dagger’s power is real, why wouldn’t my daughter and her friends be safe?

ROSE: The dagger is a lost fragment of the comet that this thing arrived on, taken from where it crashed down beneath Neibolt House. Like all lost things, it just wants to go home. The further you take it from where it belongs, the more damage it does to your mind.

(SIGHS) It drives you insane.

ROSE: The dagger will resist. It will fight back with a force that you cannot imagine.


(CROWS CAWING)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RONNIE: Something’s wrong with that thing.

LILLY: Why are you looking at me like that?

RONNIE: I’m not looking at you any…

LILLY: Yes, you are. You’re looking at me like you think I’m crazy.

MARGE: Lilly, why don’t you just give us the dagger? Just for a little bit.

LILLY: You never trusted me, did you? (SOBBING) You just used me! You used me to save your stupid dad!

RONNIE: Hey!

LILLY: And you used me ’cause you lost all your other stupid friends!

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(WHIMPERS)

LILLY: (SCREAMS) I have to go back! I’m gonna get us all killed, don’t you get it? Ronnie was right about me!

RONNIE: No, I wasn’t!

(LILLY GROANS)

MARGE: Lilly! Please, stop it!

(LILLY SCREAMS)

MARGE: This thing is making you think these things!

LILLY: I’m gonna drag you all under, don’t you see? (SCREAMING) I am!

RONNIE: No, you’re not! Lilly! This is not you! Listen to me, okay? You are a goddamn lifeboat!

LILLY: (SOBS, PANTS) (PANTS)

♪ (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LILLY: (VOICE BREAKING) Ron, Marge… I’m so sorry.

RONNIE: Don’t be. It wasn’t really you.

(LILLY SOBS)

MARGE: We trade off who holds this thing as we go. Okay?

(DAGGER HUMMING)

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

MARGE: (MUTTERS) Oh, what the fu…

RONNIE: Guys?

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

RONNIE: Look.

MARGE: You think Will is in there?

RONNIE: Let’s find out.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪


(ENGINE ROARING)

HALLORANN: (SCREAMS) Jesus!

CHARLOTTE: What’s wrong?

HALLORANN: (GRUNTS) All of those kids… (PANTING) …floating on ice.

ROSE: Ice?

The kids?

ROSE: Oh my God. It’s already on the river. We’re not gonna make it. We won’t get to the kids in time. Not before it passes the deadwood.

HALLORANN: I see it. I can see it. The clown.

LEROY: We can slow it down.

Uh, how are we gonna do that?

LEROY: Dick has gotten into this thing’s head before. In the helicopter. Dick. Dick. Can you do it again? Can you try? Dick!

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RONNIE: There he is! Will!

LILLY: Oh, Will! Oh, Will!

(ALL PANTING)

RONNIE: Please, Will!

(WHEELS CREAKING)

RONNIE: Will! (PANTS)

MARGE: (GRUNTS) Try to pull him down.

(ALL GRUNTING)

(GEARS GRINDING, WHIRRING)

(BELL DINGS)

(DOOR CREAKS)

(GASPS)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

PENNYWISE: (CACKLING) Look who decided to join the circus! (CHUCKLES MENACINGLY) Ooh! The fool! (HORN HONKS ONCE)  The freak! (HORN HONKS TWICE) The failure!

(HORN HONKS)

(HORN HONKS WEAKLY)

PENNYWISE: But who is who?

(SIGHS)

PENNYWISE: It doesn’t matter. There’s a spot for you all! (GROWLS)

(YELLS)

PENNYWISE: (GROANS)

(ALL WHIMPERING)

(DAGGER PULSATING)

(PENNYWISE GROWLS)

(WHIMPER)

(PENNYWISE LAUGHS MENACINGLY)

(ALL BREATHING SHAKILY)

(PENNYWISE CACKLING)

♪ (SCREECHING MUSICAL STING) ♪

PENNYWISE: (CACKLING) Whoo!

(ALL SCREAM)

(ALL WHIMPERING)

(PENNYWISE CACKLES DISTANTLY)

MARGE: Where is he?

(PENNYWISE CACKLES)

(ALL SCREAMING, SOBBING)

MARGE: (SHOUTS) Where is he?

(PENNYWISE GROWLS)

(PENNYWISE SCREAMS)

(ALL BREATHING SHAKILY)

(SLIDEWHISTLE BLOWS)

(MARGE SCREAMS)

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC STING) ♪

RONNIE: Lilly, no! Stay close!

(SCREAMS)

LILLY: Where did she go?

(MARGE SOBS)

PENNYWISE: (GIGGLES EERILY) Hmm. Oh, I’ve always wondered how you’d taste, Margaret Tozier.

(SCREAMS, SOBS) Tozier?

PENNYWISE: Oh, but not yet. You’re not Tozier yet.

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

PENNYWISE: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Richie in the baby carriage!

(BELLS JINGLING)

PENNYWISE: (LAUGHS) Unless… Unless he dies with you! (LAUGHS)

(SOBBING) I don’t know what you’re talking about!

PENNYWISE: Your son! Don’t you recognize your little boy? (CACKLES) The seed of your stinking loins and his filthy friends bring me my death!

(MARGE GROANS, SOBS)

PENNYWISE: Or is it birth? I get confused. Tomorrow? Yesterday? It’s all the same for Little Pennywise. (LAUGHS) But it’s not always easy. No. Being caged up in one place, one time. (GROWLS)

(BELLS JINGLE)

PENNYWISE: They can’t fence me in. Not them! And not you. (SNEERS) Beep-beep, Margie. (ROARS)

(MARGE SCREAMS)

(STOPS ROARING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(MARGE WHIMPERS)

LILLY: Marge!

(ALL PANTING, CRYING)

LILLY: What happened?

MARGE: I don’t know.

(DRONING WARBLE)

(ICE CRACKING)

RONNIE: Will! Will!

(LILLY AND MARGE GASP)

RONNIE: You’re alive!

WILL: What happened?

(STUDENTS GROANING, MURMURING INDISTINCTLY)

MARGE: Are you okay?

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES, TURNS EERIE) ♪

(TIRES SCREECHING)

LEROY: Will!

♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WILL: Dad? Dad!

LEROY: Son!

HANK: Ronnie!

LEROY: Son! You’re okay.

WILL: Dad!

RONNIE: Daddy! Daddy! (SOBS)

LEROY: Are you okay? Are you okay?

WILL: Yeah.

LEROY: It’s okay. Go over there with your mother, okay? Go. Let’s go. Go, go.

RONNIE: Mom’s here? The clown, it’s here, and it almost ate Marge!

HANK: Okay, calm down. Let’s get to the van. Let’s get to the van. Come on.

LEROY: Where’s the dagger? Where’s the dagger?

RONNIE: It’s here!

TANIEL: Go, go, go! To the north shore! Let’s go! Wake up! Wake up! To the north shore!

CHARLOTTE: Oh, baby!

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(DAGGER PULSATING LOUDLY)

LEROY: Deadwood’s that way, yeah?

(WIND HOWLING)

LEROY: On the south bank. Rose said the dagger’s gonna try to resist. We’re going together.

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(WIND HOWLING)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING) No!

WILL: (YELLING) Dad!

WILL: (YELLS) Dad!

Will!

Come

Come back!

Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie!

(GUNSHOTS)

Oh, shit! (WHIMPERS) Oh, shit.

Rose! Rose! Let’s go.

(BULLETS WHIZZING)

(GUNSHOTS RICOCHETING)

♪ (DARK OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(TANIEL GROANING, GASPING)

(CHOKES)

(LEROY GRUNTS)

♪ (MUSIC TURNS SOMBER) ♪

(GRUNTS)

(WHEEZES)

LEROY: Okay. Be still.

(WHIMPERING)

LEROY: Tan-Taniel. Look at me. Still. Still. Breathe. Breathe.

(GRUNTS)

LEROY: Taniel. Taniel? Taniel? (SOFTLY) Sh… Fuck.

WILL: Dad! Dad!

(WILL WHIMPERING)

(LEROY GROANS)

LEROY: I’m okay. I’m okay.

WILL: But why…

LEROY: Listen. Listen. You take this dagger.

WILL: What?

LEROY: You take it. You take it. And you hide in the fog, and you use it for cover. Take the dagger. Take it to that tree. And you bury it deep in the base.

SHAW: Secure Major Hanlon! And don’t let Hallorann get away.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: And that thing, it goes to sleep, and all of this stops. You understand me?

WILL: I can’t.

LEROY: Yes, you can.

WILL: No.

LEROY: Wh-Why not?

WILL: I’m scared.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

WILL: I’m not you.

♪ (MUSIC TURNS TENDER) ♪

LEROY: Listen. You don’t have to be. You understand? You don’t have to be me, and I don’t want you to be. You just be you. You hear me? I love you, son. I love you.

(FOOTSTOMPS APPROACHING)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: Go, son. (KISSES) Go. Go. Go!

WILL: Come on. Let’s go.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

FULLER: Go get Hallorann.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (EERIE CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC TURNS SINISTER) ♪

TOP HAT: (VOICE ECHOING) Bob! Bob! Bob!

♪ (MUSIC DISTORTING) ♪

TOP HAT: Bob! Bob!

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

TOP HAT: Are you okay, friend?

INGRID:Papa, Papa, you’re all right.

♪ (MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) ♪

PENNYWISE: (GROANS, BREATHING HEAVILY) Where am I? What is this?

TOP HAT: You need to lay off the spirits, Robert. I found you out yonder in a ditch. You look like you took a nasty fall.

PENNYWISE: I’m not Bob Gray.

TOP HAT: Well, who else might you be, then? Peter Rabbit?

PENNYWISE: Ah, don’t you dare speak to me that way!

INGRID: Daddy!

PENNYWISE: I am a god! An eater of worlds!

(GRUNTS)

TOP HAT: Must have hit your head a little harder than you thought there, didn’t you, Bob?

PENNYWISE: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

(WIND HOWLING)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

MARGE: Did they see us?

RONNIE: I don’t know, but where the hell are we?

LILLY: I can’t see a goddamn thing.

MARGE: I thought they’re supposed to be the good guys. Why would they kill that man?

WILL: Guys, it’s okay. All right, just stay calm. We just gotta come from the far side of the tree so those guys don’t spot us first.

(WIND HOWLING)

♪ (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

FULLER: I wanna know what the hell you think you’re doing out here. The kids, where are they headed? Answer me, Major! If you don’t talk to me, you’re in a world of hurt, son.

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(DAGGER TRILLING)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WILL: There it is. That’s the tree.

RONNIE: Let’s go.

(DAGGER TRILLING)

(DAGGER PULSATES)

WILL: I can’t do this.

LILLY: What?

RONNIE: What are you talking about?

WILL: It won’t let me.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

MARGE: It’s the dagger.

RONNIE: (SCREAMS) No! No, Will!

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

MARGE: Stop!

WILL: It wants to go home! I have to bring it home!

MARGE: Don’t listen to it!

RONNIE: You have to let it go!

LILLY: Please, just give it to us!

(DAGGER PULSATING)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MYSTERIOUS CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

RONNIE: Just give it to us!

Just… just let us help you, Will.

We can end this.

We can end it together!

Help me turn around.

(ALL GRUNTING)

(DAGGER PULSATING)

SHAW: All these years, wondering if you were real, or just a little boy’s nightmare. Look at you. You’re both. I don’t know if you can hear me in there. But whatever Hallorann’s done to you, we’re gonna fix it.

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

AIRMAN: Show me your hands!

(GUNS CLICKING)

(AIRMEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY)

CHARLOTTE: (SCREAMING) No! Wait!

♪ (MUSIC QUIETENS) ♪

(DRONING WARBLE)

(ORNAMENTS CLINKING)

(GRUNTS)

♪ (EERIE DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

PENNYWISE: Oh, ho, ho. (LAUGHS MENACINGLY) Tricky, tricky… Dicky!

♪ (OMINOUS MUSICAL STING) ♪

Who’s Dicky, Bob?

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

PENNYWISE: I’m not… Bob!

(HALLORANN GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(DRONING WARBLE)

PENNYWISE: (ROARS) Oh, ho, ho.

(BELLS JINGLE)

PENNYWISE: Tricky Dicky, Dicky.

SHAW: Hey!

(PENNYWISE GRUNTS)

SHAW: Hey!

(CHUCKLES) AIRMAN 1: Move!

ROSE: (WHIMPERS, SCREAMS) No!

(SOBS)

AIRMAN 2: On your knees!

(GROANS) (SOBS)

♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SOFTLY)

I tried, man. I tried.

SHAW: It’s okay. You’re free. You’re free to go.

♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(BELLS JINGLING)

PENNYWISE: (SNIFFS) I know you.

♪ (MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS) ♪

PENNYWISE: I never forget a smell.

SHAW: Stop. What are you doing?

PENNYWISE: (GROWLS)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SNARLS)

(SCREAMS)

PENNYWISE: Now you see it!

SHAW: Stay back! (GASPS) You stay back! Or, goddammit, I will teach you a…

PENNYWISE: (ROARS)

(SHAW SCREAMS)

FULLER: See to the General.

(GUNS CLICKING)

(WIND HOWLING)

♪ (INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(MARGE GRUNTS)

(KIDS GRUNTING, GROANING)

(DAGGER TRILLING LOUDLY)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS, FADES) ♪

(WIND WHISTLING)

(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

(THUNDER CRACKING)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

(DISTORTED WAILING)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS, FADES) ♪

(DAGGER PULSATING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(KIDS YELLING)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

LEROY: Colonel, you have to stop that thing! If it gets past that tree, we’re all fucked! Listen to me! Please!

FULLER: This man is a traitor! Ignore him, airmen!

♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(KIDS YELLING, GROANING)

(DAGGER PULSATING)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

(HALLORANN GRUNTS)

♪ (DARING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(GUNSHOTS)

(AIRMEN GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

ROSE: Drop it!

(KIDS GRUNTING)

(PENNYWISE LAUGHING MANIACALLY)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GUN CLICKS)

(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

(KIDS GRUNTING)

(YELLING)

Don’t be scared! Keep going!

PENNYWISE: Hey! You! Having a little bit of trouble, are we? Keep tugging that thing and it just might pop! So long, losers!

(BELLS JINGLE)

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

(DAGGER PULSATING)

(ALL YELLING)

(GUNSHOT)

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

(GRUNTS, PANTS)

♪ (INTENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(PENNYWISE TOY CACKLES)

LEROY: Fuck!

(GUNSHOTS)

♪ (SINISTER CHORAL MUSIC RESUMES) ♪

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: (PANTS) Oh, fuck!

Lee!

(GROANS)

(BONES CRACKLING)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(DAGGER PULSATING)

(FLESH SQUELCHING)

(BLOOD GURGLING)

(GROWLS)

♪ (DISCORDANT EERIE MELODY OVERLAPPING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CUTS OFF) ♪

(GUN CLICKS)

PENNYWISE: Uh-oh!

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(GUN CLICKS)

(ROARS)

(DEADLIGHTS DRONING)

CHARLOTTE: Leroy!

(PENNYWISE ROARING) (GROWLING)

♪ (ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(DAGGER PULSATING, TRILLING)

HANK: Come on, Ronnie! Ronnie, you can do this!

(DAGGER PULSATING)

(PENNYWISE GRUNTING) (GROWLS)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(DAGGER TRILLING)

(DAGGER REVERBERATING)

♪ (FLUTE PLAYING EERIE MELODY) ♪

(DRONING WARBLE)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (ETHEREAL CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (STIRRING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪

ROSE: What do you see?

HALLORANN: A motherfucking miracle.

(GRUNTS)

(DAGGER RINGING)

(KIDS SCREAMING) Oh.

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

(MUFFLED SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

(GUNSHOTS)

(GROANS)

(GUNSHOTS)

(GUN CLICKS)

CHARLOTTE: Will!

WILL: Keep going! It’s working!

HANK: Ronnie! Ron… Oh! Oh, shit!

(KIDS SCREAMING)

(PENNYWISE GROWLING)

HALLORANN: (SCREAMS) No!

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

(MACROVERSAL ENERGY RINGING, BOOMING)

(MACROVERSAL ENERGY RUMBLING)

♪ (ETHEREAL CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(MACROVERSAL ENERGY PULSING)

(SOUND DISTORTING)

(BOOMING EXPLOSION)

(RONNIE SCREAMS)

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(KIDS PANTING, WHIMPERING)

(GROANS)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC STING) ♪

(PENNYWISE GROWLING, GROANING)

♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SCREECHING)

(PENNYWISE AGONIZED SCREAMING)

HANK: (SOFTLY) Oh shit. Oh shit.

(GROWLING)

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(SHRIEKING, WAILING)

(SCREECHES, EXHALES)

♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪

(KIDS WHIMPER SOFTLY)

PENNYWISE: Lively crowd.

(BOOMING RUMBLE)

♪ (DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(PENNYWISE GROWLING WEAKLY)

♪ (MUSIC RISES) ♪

(DEADLIGHTS TRILLING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

LEROY: Will! (GASPS, PANTS)

♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: I thought I was… Will! Where’s Will?

CHARLOTTE: He’s okay.

LEROY: He’s okay. Oh, shit. Shit. He’s okay.

It’s gone.

MARGE: At the end there. Was that just me, or did you feel something?

Like another pair of hands.

WILL: Rich.

LILLY: (SOBS) I felt him too. I felt him too.

(CHUCKLES)

(KIDS LAUGHING, CRYING)

WILL: We did it.

HANK: Ronnie! Baby! Ronnie!

RONNIE: Daddy!

CHARLOTTE: Will!

WILL: Mom!

CHARLOTTE: Will! Come here, baby.

♪ (SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(ROSE SOBBING)

♪ (ROSE SINGING SOFTLY IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE) ♪

(ROSE SNIFFLES)

♪ (ROSE CONTINUES SINGING) ♪

(ROSE SNIFFLES)

♪ (CONTINUES SINGING) ♪

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

♪ (MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

MARGE: Hi, everybody. I only knew Rich for about a month. I know what you’re thinking. How well can you know anyone in a month? If you weren’t good friends, why are you even speaking at his funeral?

(LILLY SOBS)

MARGE: But maybe there aren’t such things as good friends or bad friends. Maybe there are just friends. People who stand by us when we’re hurt, and who help us not feel so lonely. Maybe friends like those are always worth being scared for… and hoping for, and living for.

♪ (UPLIFTING MELODY PLAYS) ♪

MARGE: Maybe worth dying for too… if that’s what has to be. Rich taught me that too.

(LILLY SNIFFS)

MARGE: No good friends. No bad friends.

(LILLY SOBS)

MARGE: Only people we want to be with… need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

PRIEST: Thank you for those kind words. And thank you, everyone, for coming to honor the memory of Ricardo Santos. God bless you. Go in peace.

(QUIET CHATTER)

(KIDS SOBBING)

(SIGHS)

HALLORANN: The hand you feel on your shoulders… Your boy’s there.

(CHUCKLES)

HALLORANN: He always will be.

(SOBS)

Who are you, sir?

HALLORANN: I’m still working on that.

♪ (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(WIND WHISTLING FAINTLY)

LILLY: Hey, Dad. Sorry I haven’t been around much. I just didn’t know what to say. I’m better now. So much has happened. But the good news is… I made some new friends.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪


(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(BELL RINGING DISTANTLY)

LILLY: It looks so peaceful from up here. Almost like… nothing ever happened.

MARGE: Yeah. Lil… It talked to me. The clown.

♪ (BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

MARGE: When we were alone in the fog.

LILLY: What do you mean?

MARGE: He said I’m gonna have a son. And that he and his friends… that they kill him in the future.

LILLY: What?

MARGE: That’s why he wanted to kill me. He said, to him, the past, present, and future are all the same. And that his death was actually his birth.

LILLY: He was probably just saying all that to scare you.

MARGE: But what if he wasn’t? What if he does see time differently? What if he can go backwards?

LILLY: You mean to the past?

MARGE: I know it sounds crazy, but what if he tries to go back and kill someone from the time before we were born, like our parents?

LILLY: I guess… it’ll be someone else’s fight.

MARGE: I guess.

♪ (MUSIC TURNS TENDER) ♪

(MARGE SIGHS)

CHRLOTTE: Will! I’m looking at the time. You said five minutes!

WILL: I’m coming, Mom.

LEROY: Thank you, baby.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

HALLORANN: Major. Just stopping by to say au revoir.

LEROY: How you holding up?

HALLORANN: Everything hurts.

LEROY: Mm.

HALLORANN: But whatever that root was… Whew, boy! Sh… It quieted those voices down real good. Hopefully forever.

LEROY: You leaving tonight?

HALLORANN: Yeah. Bus to Boston, plane to London in the a.m. Got an old buddy back there who owns a hotel, wants to give me a shot cooking in a restaurant.

LEROY: Okay, fancy stuff.

HALLORANN: Mmhmm.

LEROY: Well, listen, if you run into any trouble out there, you know who you can call. I owe you.

HALLORANN: I think I’ll manage. I mean, how much trouble can a hotel be?

♪ (MELLOW GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

HALLORANN: You keep in touch, all right? I need updates on Will and Char.

LEROY: I thought you didn’t care.

HALLORANN: (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Well, don’t tell nobody.

(LEROY CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

(HANK GRUNTS)

CHARLOTTE: You might wanna put Miss Natalie Wood in the back seat with Miss Grogan. It’s a long drive now.

(HANK CHUCKLING)

HANK: I mean, that’s right.

(CHARLOTTE CHUCKLING)

HANK: Is that the last one?  All right.

CHARLOTTE: All right.

HANK: Mmhmm.

CHARLOTTE: Now, you know when you get to crossing St. Stephen who to look for. Rosa’s friends will make it easy.

HANK: Thank you. (VOICE BREAKING) For everything.

CHARLOTTE: Of course. Of course.

ROSE: Here you go.

LEROY: Mmhmm. Thank you.

ROSE: You’re welcome.

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(SLURPS) ROSE:

ROSE: So honorable discharge, huh?

LEROY: I keep my mouth shut, and they let me walk away.

ROSE: Hmm.

LEROY: Yeah. You know, the military has always been my life, but what happened to me and my family, I don’t have faith in it.

ROSE: Kind of makes you the perfect person to keep an eye on ’em.

LEROY: What do you mean?

ROSE: You and Charlotte. I would like for both of you to join us. Make sure that your old friends, or anybody else for that matter, never tries to reopen that cage.

♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

ROSE: Others will come. This isn’t the end of the story. And I’ve decided to sell the farm, the house. It’s just… just too much without Taniel, you know? I know it’s a lot to ask, but you two could really do some good around here. Besides, it’ll be 27 years before that thing wakes up again.

LEROY: Listen, Rose, we’re honored, but… I think me and my family, we’ve had enough of Derry. Right?

CHARLOTTE: Right.

ROSE: I understand. Really.

(RONNIE AND WILL  LAUGHING)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

RONNIE: I could have sworn that you threw that stink bomb ’cause it smelled so bad.

WILL: I told you, it was the stardust. You know what they say about Derry. Once you leave, you forget. That’s good, right?

RONNIE: Is that what you want? To forget?

WILL: No. There’s some parts of this year I wouldn’t mind forgetting. Not the you part, of course. You know, I guess if that’s how it works, that’s how it works. So maybe in some way, it’s something…

(RONNIE KISSES HIM)

♪ (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WILL: I’m gonna remember that.

(BOTH GIGGLE)

HANK: Kids.

LEROY: (GROANS) All right. Let’s go. (CLEARS THROAT)

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪

(SHEEP BLEATING)

LEROY: Charlotte. What’s wrong?

CHARLOTTE: Uh, I’m just… I’m thinking about Rose’s offer.

LEROY: You serious? I mean, this is how we got into this mess in the first place. I mean, you going off on your crusades and me on mine.

CHARLOTTE: Hmm.

LEROY: I thought we were done with that. No more damn fool missions.

CHARLOTTE: Yeah. But maybe the next damn fool mission needs to be together.

LEROY: Hmm.

♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

LEROY: Will. How would you feel if we stuck around?

WILL: I need a pen.

LEROY: More importantly… you gonna help me with those sheep?

CHARLOTTE: Oh, I don’t fool with no sheep.

(LEROY LAUGHS)

CHARLOTTE: I don’t need to touch no sheep. You grew up on a farm. You know what to do.

(LEROY MIMICS SHEEP BLEATING)

LEROY: We might be settling.

CHARLOTTE: Leave me alone, Mr. Hanlon.

(LEROY LAUGHS)

♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WILL: Dear Ronnie. We leave, we forget, right? Well, turns out I’m staying. So maybe I don’t have to. And maybe if I write to you enough, you won’t have to either.

♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪


INGRID: Help me! Help me, please! Help me! Where am I? The… The wolves! Where am I? The wolves. They’re looking at me. They’re staring at me. Don’t let them… Don’t let them look at me. Please! Please!

Mrs. Kersh, please.

INGRID: Do not ignore me! Listen to me! They killed my father. I know they killed my father. I saw the handkerchief. Please! (SOFTLY) Please.

♪ (MELLOW SONG PLAYING OVER RECORD PLAYER) ♪

♪ (MALE VOCALIST SINGING IN DANISH) ♪

INGRID: My father… liked to sing. Thank you, sir.

♪ (MALE VOCALIST CONTINUES SINGING IN DANISH) ♪

♪ (SONG CONTINUES) ♪

OCTOBER 1988

(DISTANT THUD ECHOING)

(SCREAMING, CRYING)

(CRYING CONTINUES)

(DOOR SHUTS)

(CRYING, SOBBING)

SPEAKER: (YELLING) Help her! Someone help her!

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(SOBBING CONTINUES)

SPEAKER: (CRYING) No!

(SOBBING CONTINUES)

(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)

OFFICER: Yeah. Name?

Elfrida Marsh. This time she’s really dead.

(NURSE SOBBING)

(FAMILY MEMBERS CRYING)

(FAMILY MEMBERS CONTINUE CRYING)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(MAN SNIFFLING)

Oh, dear. Don’t be sad. You know what they say about Derry. No one who dies here ever really dies.

♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪

(EERIE DISTORTED VOICES SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

(ECHOING RUMBLE)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

♪ (MELODIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

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