01x08 - Past Perfect

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WOMAN: Gordon teaches history.

- MOLLY: Where do you teach?

- GORDON: Des Moines.

Were looking for a change of pace.

MOLLY: There is a lot of history in this town not all of it good.

- [KNOCKING ON DOOR]

- MARTHA: We knew your father.

Youre Henry Deaver, arent you?

Whats in the basement?

Dont make me call the state police.

MATTHEW ON VIDEO: Youre lagging.

Lets go.

Which way do you think it is, son?

WILLIE: Your father called it The Voice of God.

WILLIE: Inside this chamber is total silence perhaps the only total silence on Earth.

HENRY: Hey!

MOLLY: Something terrible is going to happen.

ALAN: You havent aged one day, not for 27 years.

LACY: The reason, the stain The curse on our town.

TV ANNOUNCER: Suspected arson at Juniper Hills Hospital.

Police have released a photo, but not a name.

LACY: Dragging evil behind you everywhere you went.

[CRYING OUT]

LACY: And after all these years [p*stol f*ring]

[RUTH GASPING]

LACY: I still dont know what you really are.

[CHURCH BELLS RINGING]

The fundamental problem is that repression has become a dirty word, when it is, in fact, a crucial Darwinian tool.

The human mind is expressly designed to forget much of its past suffering, as the body is designed to heal its wounds.

Yes, but dont the evolutionary psychologists want to have their heuristic cake and eat it, too?

Surely youre not suggesting that we ignore the lessons of history?

Huxley and Rogers have empirically demonstrated that fetishizing cultural memories is both dangerous and foolhardy.

[SCOFFS]

Well then perhaps Im a fool - [CHUCKLING]

- but a fool with tenure.

But you know what I just cant forget?

That you f*cked my wife.

[ROARING]

Wow.

Its certainly beautiful country.

MOLLY: Theres no Masshole summer tourists in Castle Rock.

The average cost of a three-bedroom is 39% lower than the next zip code over, and as soon as Main Street is redeveloped, property values are gonna sh**t through the roof!

Which, by the way, was just re-shingled last year.

Would they consider including the art?

- MOVER: Youre good.

- WIFE: More.

MOVER: All right.

WIFE: More, more, more, more, more.

- Down here?

- There.

All right, got it.

WIFE: Widow said he made hundreds of paintings.

Wonder where the rest of them are.

WIFE: Oh, hey, I found the key to the basement!

Gordon?

[SIGHS]

You comin up?

Yeah, five minutes.

I thought we could, um give it a sh*t?

Can t we just say it never happened?

[GRUNTS]

I m trying.

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

Castle Rock Historic B&B.

Can I help you?

Absolutely.

OK, great.

Bye-bye.

Gordon.

We got a booking.

[CHUCKLES]

GORDON: The m*rder capital of 1991.

Can you believe that?

Gordon has always been interested in the macabre.

He did his Ph. D.

Work on the BTK k*ller.

Well, uh sociological analysis.

Nothing too juicy, I m afraid.

We believe this to be the first fully immersive lodging experience of historical integrity for the true crime aficionado.

A chance to stay in a house where actual murders have been recreated in exquisite detail.

WIFE: And as we acquire more properties around town, we think Castle Rock could be a unique destination.

Yup.

For young people who, um, will like this.

[HUMORLESS CHUCKLE]

How long have you been married?

- Uh, 13 years.

- It s, uh, two for me.

So, uh, the tour tomorrow, we could Oh, that s OK, we ll probably be getting out of here early.

Uh, we just needed a sleepy little town, so I see.

Yeah.

[SIGHS]

Thank you.

WOMAN: Mmm.

- [PASSIONATE MOANING]

- [RHYTHMIC THUDDING]

[WIFE SNORING QUIETLY]

[MOANING, THUDDING CONTINUES]

[MOANING INTENSIFIES]

[THUDDING SPEEDS UP]

[WOMAN SHRIEKING]

Gordon?

Gordon?

[GASPS]

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[EERIE CACOPHONY, WHOOSHING]

[GASPS]

[WHOOSHING]

[CACOPHONY]

- [CRACKING]

- [HENRY GASPING]

Aah!

- [DOOR SLAMS]

- [GASPING]

[HINGES CREAK]

- MOLLY: Henry!

- [SCREAMING]

- [HENRY SCREAMING]

- MOLLY: It s Molly.

Henry.

It s me, OK?

Come on.

HENRY: Where are those men?

MOLLY: I don t know.

[SIGHS]

MOLLY: They really just locked you in there and left?

Were you in there with me?

Is that how you found me?

Kind of.

It I don t know.

It was confusing.

I know it was only a few hours, but it felt like years.

I thought I knew how the world worked.

What was real and what s not.

[LIGHTLY CHUCKLES]

I sound crazy.

People have been calling me crazy my whole life.

You get used to it.

HENRY: I m sorry.

You re not crazy.

[CAR DOOR SHUTS]

[STARTS CAR]

[ALARM BEEPS]

Front door open.

Wendell?

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Mom?

[SIGHS]

[WATER RUNNING]

Wendell?

[WATER RUNNING]

[WATER SHUTS OFF]

What are you doing here?

Where s my son?

He s not here.

Where is he?

[FOOTSTEPS]

[ALARM BEEPS]

Front door open.

Wendell.

- You aight?

- Yeah.

He s still here?

Go upstairs.

Lock the door.

Don t come out till I say so.

What do you mean, "go upstairs"?

- What s wrong?

- Go upstairs.

- Dad - Lock the door.

Now.

- Is Grandma OK?

- Go.

[ALARM BEEPS]

Back door open.

HENRY: Where you going?

You shouldn t be here.

[INHALES]

What did you do?

She was afraid.

Confused.

She k*lled him.

- [SIGHS]

- I cleaned up.

If we take the body into the woods What are you talking about?

We have to protect her.

[MUTTERS]

- [EERIE SOUND]

- Do you hear it?

You do?

Finally.

We have to go.

We have to go to the woods.

Who are you?

Why did you ask for me?

I waited for you.

- I waited for 27 years.

- [SIREN WAILS BRIEFLY]

MAN OVER LOUDSPEAKER: Maine State Police.

Come out if you re in there.

I rescued you from that basement, and I didn t ask for any of this.

Come out now!

This is your last warning.

RADIO: Copy that, dispatch.

Hands up.

[SAWING]

[GRUNTING]

[SAWING CONTINUES]

MAN ON NEWS BROADCAST: According to authorities, several other suspects in addition to the John Doe just released from Shawshank Prison may have been involved in the disaster at Juniper Hill.

CCTV footage revealed multiple patients lighting their mattresses on fire around the same time.

These residents had no known history of arson [SIGHS]

Lilith.

I don t know what came over me.

I m not a m*rder*r.

I jus I I don t It never happened.

[CAR HORN HONKING]

Oh, sh*t.

- Oh, Jesus Christ.

- OK, calm down.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Hello?

- Hello.

- JACKIE: Hi there.

Wow.

Look at this place.

Uh, can we help you?

Oh, sorry.

I m Jackie.

Uh Sweet Chariot Taxi.

Saw your website, was thinkin maybe we could help each other.

Excuse me just a second.

I need to You know, like I d talk you guys up with my fares, and I d be "supes" appreciative if you thought of me with your guests, so boy Howdy.

What have we here?

Um Gotta be honest kind of makes me kick myself, because no sh*t I had this idea five years ago.

Like, turn this town into a m*rder theme park.

And now with the warden, plus his friend in the cage, never mind Juniper Hill, this place is a gold mine.

But hey, you guys got here first, so respect.

Johnny Carrick, 1929.

Uh, yeah.

Rather obscure.

Not to me.

His cousin lost it all in the stock market crash, and Johnny here refused to help him.

Tsk.

That is a felling axe.

It s not a fire axe.

Carrick was a fireman.

You know your axes.

- Um, Ms?

- Torrance.

Jackie.

It s on the card.

Right, yeah.

Well, it turns out we got a big group coming in tonight, - so we kinda need to - Absolutely!

Um Hey, if you need a volunteer, like a docent or anything, I do a lot of OK.

Uh, well, nice to meet ya.

You, too.

[SOFT CLANK]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

[DISTANT CHATTER]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

WENDELL: You and him were close?

He took care of your grandmother.

For a long time.

[SIGHS]

Tried to be a good man.

Sometimes he was.

WENDELL: Grandma told me to leave.

I didn t know where to go.

HENRY: I m sorry I wasn t here.

I shouldn t have left you two alone.

Where were you last night?

I I had to do something.

WENDELL: I slept in one of the pews at Grandpa s church.

This is f*cked up, Dad.

RUTH: Henry?

I wanted to talk to you.

Explain what I did before they take me away.

He was comin at me.

I tried to hide, but he found me out in the shed.

I had no choice.

I was scared, Henry.

He scared me.

You know what he can be like.

Wait, Mom, what are you what are you talkin about?

It s hard for you, of course, but you do know.

The way he treated you.

I was scared for you, scared he was gonna hurt you.

- Mom, who?

- And I didn t protect you.

I should have, I know, but I didn t, because he was not in his right mind.

Dad?

I don t know how he came back, but he did.

Only I stood up to him this time, like I should have before.

I protected you.

And your boy.

You ll help me, won t you?

Explain everything?

You ll help me get them to see that I had no choice.

Find Alan.

He knows these men.

They trust him.

He can talk to them.

Find Alan.

POLICE RADIO: Suspect is Caucasian, approximately six-foot-four, mid-twenties, wearing a plaid overcoat.

He is considered armed and dangerous.

WOMAN: But he was your client, right?

- You know he was.

- Yet somehow you never even got a first name.

No.

And he never said a word about Juniper Hill?

Fourteen dead, another five missing.

Maybe next time you ll think twice before you spring a lunatic from prison.

Maybe prison is what turned him into a lunatic.

Your mother s still confused about what happened.

I ll circle back tomorrow and talk with her again.

Only with me present.

- What?

- You don t remember me, do you?

Daria Reese.

My daughter, she went to Castle Rock High with you.

Dana.

- I was on the PTA.

- I m sorry.

It s OK, but who could forget you, right?

What was the name that the kids used to call you?

- The Black Death?

- Are we done?

And here you are, back in town not two weeks and there s another dead guy in your house.

Shawshank, too.

Heard that CO popped all the guards was gonna be your star witness, you were there when it happened.

You re like a fuckin lightning rod.

What is your badge number?

I ll be in touch.

[VAN S ENGINE STARTS]

Hey, hey.

Come here.

Let s go.

What was she asking you about?

What was she asking you about?

Dad, tell me.

This place is messed up.

It always has been.

That s why I never brought you here.

I shouldn t have brought you here now.

Look, I heard what Grandma said, all right?

I was listening.

All that All that stuff about your dad?

It kind of explained some things, you know?

Yeah, what s it explain?

Grandma s got dementia.

And she s told me more about you in one day than you have in my whole life.

Wendell hey.

- We can talk about this.

- No, we can t, Dad.

All right?

You can t.

[HENRY GRUNTS]

I m gonna come up to Boston as soon as I get done here.

And I ll stay for a few weeks or longer.

Then let s go home now.

Together.

Please.

I wish I could.

I just Can t get away?

Right?

I just need a few days.

Yeah.

[PHONE BUZZING]

MOLLY: Henry, it s Molly.

I heard about Sheriff Pangborn.

I m so sorry.

Call me when you can.

Please.

- DRIVER: Jeez!

- [PASSENGERS GASP]

DRIVER: Come on.

Another one.

[SIGHS]

- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]

- [GROANING]

- [RINGING CONTINUES]

- [GROANING]

Everywhere this guy goes, people die.

Juniper Hill, Shawshank Warden Lacy, now Alan.

He doesn t do those things himself, it s like it s like other people do it for him.

He pushes them somehow.

I don t know.

I ve never felt anything like it when I was near him.

He said he waited for me.

That he rescued me from a basement and waited for me for 27 years.

[EERIE SOUNDS]

Can I ask you a crazy question?

Of course.

You saw Lacy s house, right?

Did you ever go down to his basement?

The widow said she couldn t find the key.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

[BANGING]

THE KID: I waited for you.

I waited for 27 years.

[RUMBLING, CLATTERING]

[CRACKLING, WHOOSHING]

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

This is Henry Deaver, I m away from my phone.

Please leave a message after the tone.

- [BEEP]

- Hi.

Henry.

Um, it s me, I m coming over.

I just can t be alone right now, OK?

[SHARPLY EXHALES]

- [CAMERA CLICKING]

- Can I help you?

Uh I m sorry.

I knocked.

Uh but [CLEARS THROAT]

I m a lawyer, and a man I represent is Well, your paintings You know, I should just leave.

Yeah.

I think you d better.

- [Kn*fe PUNCTURES]

- Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

Aw, f*ck!

[BOTH GRUNTING]

GORDON: Stop it!

Get off!

- [GRUNTING]

- Unh!

- Aah!

- Oh, God!

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[BOTH GRUNTING, PANTING]

[GASPS]

[HITS FLOOR]

[PANTING]

Aah.

[GURGLING]

[PANTING, GROANING]

[GORDON SCREAMING]

[GORDON YELLING]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[SHOUTS]

[BLOW STRIKES]

[HENRY GRUNTING, GASPING]

[SCREAM ECHOING]

[SCREAM LOOPING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[SCREAM CONTINUES LOOPING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

JACKIE: I mean, they were just so creepy.

Something seemed off, so I drove by again cause I was like Well, yeah, I mean, I guess I was snooping.

[JACKIE S VOICE DISTORTS AND FADES]

I wasn t myself anymore, you know?

What the f*ck?

[HINGES CREAKING]

What What are you doing here?

Where s Henry?

I don t think he s ready yet.

Ready.

Ready for what?

But you can help me.

Because you know me.

I don t know anything about you.

You do.

And I know you.

Your parents.

They had a television in there.

Sometimes they d let you stay up late and watch movies with them.

And you d sit a lot by the window in there in a big chair listening to your music.

- [PHONE BUZZING]

- [POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

- Hello?

- Henry, it s Reverend Appleton.

Your mother just came to the church and seemed confused.

- She asked me if - Wait, when?

Sheriff Pangborn was alive or dead this time.

- Where is she now?

- I tried to take her home, but she left in a hurry.

She seemed very disoriented.

I m a little worried about where she went [VOICE DISTORTS, FADES]

Henry?

Henry?

COP 1: Suspect has left the area.

COP 2: I thought you were watching him!

[EERIE SOUNDS]

[EERIE SOUND LOOPING]

You painted your nails with Wite-Out.

And your bed was over here.

And your desk was over here.

And you had a flashlight.

And you shined it up at the hill.

H-How do you know all of this?

I was there.

[LOOPING STOPS]

Out there in the woods.

That s where you d*ed.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

ROBOTIC VOICE: Bad Robot!