A Story of Derry (2026) Movie Script
1
(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(INTENSE RHYTHMIC DRUMMING)
- (PANTING)
- (RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)
(DRUMMING CONCLUDES)
(DISTANT BRANCH SNAPS)
(TENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MELLOW PERCUSSIVE
MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELDER SINGING IN PENOBSCOT)
(BABY YAWNS)
(DOGS BARKING)
- (FAINT CHATTER)
- (SINGING CONTINUES)
(WIND BLOWING)
APTO: (IN PENOBSCOT)
use it for coughs.
Always find the design
hidden in the random.
What do you see?
A turtle shell
separated into 13 parts.
APTO: Nature's design has power.
- (CHUCKLES)
- Oh, the great hunter returns
- with bunnies.
- For you, Moolsum.
(SIGHS) - Want to help me clean
some fish I caught this morning?
KINO: Don't worry about him.
Every hunt counts.
I still think that they should
let me go on a real one.
My mom thinks I need to be
patient and keep training.
- Sounds like Apto.
- At least he believes in you.
- Makes one of us.
- Stop.
You're gonna make
a great healer someday.
- He knows it, so do I.
- MANEESE: Guys!
Guys! Guys! Look!
- NEEKANI: What?
- This!
What is that?
- Hair!
- Ugh! On your face?
Like an Englishman.
Neekani, clan mothers
are calling council.
(CLAN MOTHERS WHISPERING)
The Scouts brought news
of the English settlement
to the south.
The rains washed out
their dwellings.
Disease hit their camp.
They won't make it
through another winter.
It seems they're looking
to the Western Woods to rebuild.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
We've warned them of the danger
that lies inside it.
Yes.
What lives in there will feed
on them and become strong enough
to leave the woods.
Our village would be in danger.
Seski, what do you propose?
We stop them
before they can reach it.
Times are hard enough without
starting a war with them.
Our own food supplies
will be low
because they've over hunted.
(OVERLAPPING MURMURS)
- Which is why we should hunt the Western Wood.
- (MUSIC FADES)
Neekani.
If we need food,
we should go where there's prey.
If it's too much
for the hunters, send me.
No one goes in there.
Not us, not the English.
I know the stories.
But have you ever even seen it?
- The Kollu?
- I don't need to.
For generations, our people have
lived in balance with what lies
in those woods by staying out.
We do not feed it.
That's how we keep it small.
Now close your mouth and open
your ears like the others.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (DOGS BARKING)
- SESKI: What was that? Hmm?
You think you know better
than your elders now?
The settlers bring war,
disease, a vengeful god.
Neekani, please.
We already lost your father
to their pox.
You need to think
of this community first,
because what would we...
What would I do without you?
(DARING PERCUSSION
MUSIC PLAYING)
- (QUIETLY) Neekani.
- What are you doing?
I heard what happened
at the council.
Awendela told me.
- Just go home, Kino.
- Hey, please don't tell me
you're going
where I think you're going.
Aren't you too old to believe
those children's stories?
- Okay, but...
- Kino, our village needs meat.
You're gonna quarter
and drag a bear back yourself?
You needed my help
cleaning fish.
Fine.
- The two of us, then.
- Three.
Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
- You need me. I'm real strong.
- Maneese, go home.
I come or I tell.
(PERCUSSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: Fine.
Come on, keep up.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(DISTANT BIRDS CAWING)
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
KINO: The Western Wood.
Doesn't look so bad.
Are we really doing this?
NEEKANI: Why?
Are you scared of the Kollu?
No. Just settlers.
NEEKANI: Right. Come on, then.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (LEAVES RUSTLING)
- (FROG CROAKING)
- (WOOD GROANING)
(EERIE SCREECH)
(DISTANT BIRDS CAWING)
(SILENCE)
Probably just birds.
- (SNARLING SCREECH)
- (SCREAMS, HYPERVENTILATES)
(NEEKANI YELPS)
- (GROWLS)
- (MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
Settler!
(SCREECHES)
(INTENSE EERIE
MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(KIDS WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMS)
- (BONES SNAPPING)
- Guys! Guys!
(MANEESE SCREAMS)
- (GROWLS)
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
Run!
(ROARS)
(KIDS SCREAMING)
(MONSTER SETTLERS GROWLING)
- (GROWLS)
- (KIDS SCREAMING)
- (YELPS)
- (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DAGGER TRILLING)
(GROWLS)
(DAGGER HUMMING)
(MONSTER SETTLERS
SCREECH, GROWL)
(EXHALES)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(STRANGER SPEAKING ANISHINAABE)
(IN PENOBSCOT)
Kwai.
Oh, the turtle sure smiled
on you today, didn't it?
How did you do that?
Scare them off?
It doesn't like this.
(SIGHS)
Oh, you shouldn't be here.
- It's not safe.
- We were just hunting.
- Will they come back?
- Oh. Most definitely. Yes.
But we'll be safe.
Camp is near. Come.
I can feed you.
Those things are scared of him.
Just stay close.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
MANEESE: What turtle?
Come on.
(TWIGS SNAPPING)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (INSECTS CHIRPING)
Mitig, what were those things?
Not things.
Thing.
- (INHALES DEEPLY)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- So what does it want?
- (MITIG CHUCKLES)
To eat, to grow
to survive.
Mostly eat. (LAUGHS)
What does it eat?
It likes the meat
that has the biggest dreams,
that has the endless fear.
It's real.
MITIG: But we're lucky.
The turtle protects us.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
- You wanna talk to him?
- Talk to who?
Maturin, the great turtle,
had been locked
in a cosmic battle
against the monster,
long before the Earth
even existed.
(DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: After a terrible
struggle, Maturin won,
and he banished
that thing to Earth,
bound inside a falling star.
(BOOMING EXPLOSION)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
MITIG: Its bindings broke open.
(DEADLIGHTS WHOOSHING)
MITIG: The evil spirit was
released and roamed the woods
for a million years.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
MITIG: But the turtle showed me
the cavern where it crashed.
(MUSIC RISES, FALLS)
MITIG: That's where I found
the remains of its cage,
the only thing
that could stop it.
Where are the rest
of your people?
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: My hunting party
was hunted. One by one.
By one.
By one.
(MUSIC TURNS SINISTER)
MITIG: It wore the skin
of a bull moose.
Fur black as midnight.
Antlers of sharpened bone...
(GROANS)
pierced the men
through their heads.
Just like stringing beads.
(SCREAMING)
Oh, those yellow eyes.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(GROWLING)
MITIG: All I could do
was hide.
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (INHALES DEEPLY)
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Uh, I'm so sorry.
I've been holding it in
for a long time.
- Is there a good place to...
- MITIG: Out that way.
Stay near the cedars.
I can't protect you
beyond there.
(OWL HOOTING)
- (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
- (SIGHS)
(HUMMING)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(CONTINUES HUMMING)
- (INSECTS CHIRPING)
- (OWL HOOTING)
(DISTANT SCREECHING)
Nope.
(YELPS)
(GROANS)
- (SIGHS)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: Oh.
Here my boy. Sit down.
You don't want the meat
to get cold. (CHUCKLES)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(MITIG HUMS)
Eat.
Eat.
Eat up. Eat up.
We need more firewood.
(SPITS, COUGHS)
Hey, what's wrong?
He's killing them.
There's bodies
carved in the forest.
Was that the...
- Was that the meat?
- (RETCHES)
We have to leave. We have to go.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- What are you doing?
- KINO: The root he was smoking.
- I'm a medicine woman.
- No, you're not.
In training. I'm curious.
(MUSIC TURNS SUSPENSEFUL)
(WOOD CLATTERS)
MITIG: What are you doing?
That's mine, not yours.
It's my root. My turtle.
- We're gonna leave.
- Oh, where are you going?
Well, you can't go out there.
It'll take you.
In the worst way
that you could imagine.
I can deliver you quicker
than the last ones.
Be with your ancestors
while your screams
are still echoing...
Come on, we gotta go!
- MANEESE: I got it!
- (NEEKANI HUFFING)
(GASPS)
- Bring it back!
- (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: Keep going!
Just keep running!
MITIG: You bring me back
my dagger!
NEEKANI: Keep going!
- Just keep running!
- MITIG: You stupid children!
- NEEKANI: This way.
- MITIG: I will kill you for this!
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
MITIG: You don't understand!
(KIDS PANTING)
It's not a monster! That thing!
It's a god!
Gods demand sacrifice!
I had no choice!
It had to be fed!
I gave you the food of the gods!
Please come back! Please!
Don't leave me alone!
It was mine!
(DAGGER TRILLING)
MITIG: It was mine!
- (MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (LAUGHS DELIRIOUSLY)
(MUSIC STOPS)
Hm. Can't have any fear.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHIMPERS SHAKILY)
(MONSTROUS ROARING)
- (ECHOING RUMBLE)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, CAWING)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)
This is impossible.
It killed them
outside of the woods.
(FLIES BUZZING)
We're not safe here anymore.
- NEEKANI: Nigwis.
- Neekani?
- NEEKANI: We're here!
- SESKI: How is she in there?
Neekani?
- NEEKANI: Mother!
- SESKI: Stay close.
Neekani!
Neekani!
(UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
(IN PENOBSCOT)
- (DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
- (FLIES BUZZING)
(DISTANT CHILD LAUGHING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
- (EERIE LAUGHTER ECHOING)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: (VOICE ECHOING) Mom.
(EERIE LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
NEEKANI: (ECHOING)
I found a new god!
(DISTANT RUMBLE)
(MUSIC FADES)
- Do you know why we've come here?
- (GASPS)
(LOW MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
It's a wide, open land.
A new world with the freedom
to worship the one, true god.
And do you know what we do
when we come across
a smaller, pitiful faith?
(IN DISTORTED VOICE)
We devour it!
- (GROWLS)
- (MUSIC RISES)
(SINISTER CHORAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(INTENSE MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(MUSIC FALLS)
PRIEST: (QUIETLY) Seski...
(GROWLING) Seski...
(SCREECHING MUSICAL STING)
- Come now, Seski.
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Your beloved husband
waits by the Lord's side.
(COUGHS)
Not quite as handsome as before,
what with the pox and all.
(GROWLS, COUGHS)
(BONES SNAPPING)
(SINISTER
CHORAL MUSIC RESUMES)
- (PRIEST GROANS)
- (MUSIC STOPS)
(MYSTICAL INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(PRIEST LAUGHS, COUGHS)
For this to work,
you must have faith.
- (GASPS)
- And your faith is...
(EXHALES) ...insignificant.
(INTENSE
SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)
(SESKI GROANS)
(IN HOARSE VOICE)
Prepare to meet thy God!
"The Word became flesh,
and we witnessed
the glory of his Son."
- "He is mighty."
- (PRAYING IN PENOBSCOT)
"He is vengeful, and it is time
for you to meet him."
(BONES CRUNCHING)
- (YELLS)
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SHRIEKS)
(SCREAMS)
Mom? Mom!
(SHRIEKS)
(SCREAMS)
- (MUSIC BUILDS)
- (SNARLS)
NEEKANI: Mom!
Mom, no!
(MUSIC RISES, FALLS)
Mom!
Mom.
(GROANS)
- (CRYING)
- (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(CONTINUES CRYING)
(GROANING) Neekani.
Listen to me.
You have to stop it.
- Mm-hmm.
- (NEEKANI SOBS)
No, we're going to finish this
together. Me and you.
You... you have to protect
our home.
I'm not strong enough.
- I'm not brave enough.
- You are braver than you think.
(IN PENOBSCOT)
(CRYING)
No!
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CLAN MOTHERS SING
DEATH CHANT IN PENOBSCOT)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
The boundary has shifted,
and we need to stop it.
Neekani, we have no choice.
We have decided
to move the village.
This place has been our home
for generations.
My mother fought
and died to protect it.
In the absence
of knowing what path to take,
we have no choice
but to take
the one in front of us.
What if there was another way?
Wanna talk to him?
(RHYTHMIC MYSTICAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(ETHEREAL
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOFT TINKLING HUM)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (MUSIC SWELLING)
- (MATURIN GROWLING)
(MUSIC FADES)
- APTO: What's going on?
- MANEESE: She took the root.
From the man
in the Western Wood.
- What did you see?
- He showed me how to save us.
How to cage it.
It's what my mother
would have done.
And it's what we have to do now.
What do we need to do?
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: The turtle showed Kino
how to find the cave
in the Western Wood,
where it had crashed
millions of years ago.
(MUSIC SWELLS)
(MUSIC FALLS)
NEEKANI:
We gathered 13 stones
the shards of its old
bindings
to forge a new cage.
(ETHEREAL CHORAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(THUNDER BOOMING)
NEEKANI: We give it enough room
to live, to sleep, and hunt.
It will take the colonists,
and more will come
to replace them.
We cannot
keep the settlers out,
but we can keep it in.
And once it is caged,
it will leave us to ours.
This keeping of the posts,
this tending of the cage
we will ensure these shards,
these pillars,
remain in place forever.
(IN PENOBSCOT)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(RHYTHMIC JINGLING
AND DRUMMING)
(VOCALIST SINGING
IN PENOBSCOT)
(JINGLING AND DRUMMING
CONTINUE)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(JINGLING AND DRUMMING
CONTINUE)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(JINGLING AND DRUMMING
CONTINUE)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(JINGLING AND DRUMMING
CONTINUE)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(SINGING STOPS)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(INTENSE RHYTHMIC DRUMMING)
- (PANTING)
- (RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)
(DRUMMING CONCLUDES)
(DISTANT BRANCH SNAPS)
(TENSE EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MELLOW PERCUSSIVE
MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELDER SINGING IN PENOBSCOT)
(BABY YAWNS)
(DOGS BARKING)
- (FAINT CHATTER)
- (SINGING CONTINUES)
(WIND BLOWING)
APTO: (IN PENOBSCOT)
use it for coughs.
Always find the design
hidden in the random.
What do you see?
A turtle shell
separated into 13 parts.
APTO: Nature's design has power.
- (CHUCKLES)
- Oh, the great hunter returns
- with bunnies.
- For you, Moolsum.
(SIGHS) - Want to help me clean
some fish I caught this morning?
KINO: Don't worry about him.
Every hunt counts.
I still think that they should
let me go on a real one.
My mom thinks I need to be
patient and keep training.
- Sounds like Apto.
- At least he believes in you.
- Makes one of us.
- Stop.
You're gonna make
a great healer someday.
- He knows it, so do I.
- MANEESE: Guys!
Guys! Guys! Look!
- NEEKANI: What?
- This!
What is that?
- Hair!
- Ugh! On your face?
Like an Englishman.
Neekani, clan mothers
are calling council.
(CLAN MOTHERS WHISPERING)
The Scouts brought news
of the English settlement
to the south.
The rains washed out
their dwellings.
Disease hit their camp.
They won't make it
through another winter.
It seems they're looking
to the Western Woods to rebuild.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
We've warned them of the danger
that lies inside it.
Yes.
What lives in there will feed
on them and become strong enough
to leave the woods.
Our village would be in danger.
Seski, what do you propose?
We stop them
before they can reach it.
Times are hard enough without
starting a war with them.
Our own food supplies
will be low
because they've over hunted.
(OVERLAPPING MURMURS)
- Which is why we should hunt the Western Wood.
- (MUSIC FADES)
Neekani.
If we need food,
we should go where there's prey.
If it's too much
for the hunters, send me.
No one goes in there.
Not us, not the English.
I know the stories.
But have you ever even seen it?
- The Kollu?
- I don't need to.
For generations, our people have
lived in balance with what lies
in those woods by staying out.
We do not feed it.
That's how we keep it small.
Now close your mouth and open
your ears like the others.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (DOGS BARKING)
- SESKI: What was that? Hmm?
You think you know better
than your elders now?
The settlers bring war,
disease, a vengeful god.
Neekani, please.
We already lost your father
to their pox.
You need to think
of this community first,
because what would we...
What would I do without you?
(DARING PERCUSSION
MUSIC PLAYING)
- (QUIETLY) Neekani.
- What are you doing?
I heard what happened
at the council.
Awendela told me.
- Just go home, Kino.
- Hey, please don't tell me
you're going
where I think you're going.
Aren't you too old to believe
those children's stories?
- Okay, but...
- Kino, our village needs meat.
You're gonna quarter
and drag a bear back yourself?
You needed my help
cleaning fish.
Fine.
- The two of us, then.
- Three.
Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
- You need me. I'm real strong.
- Maneese, go home.
I come or I tell.
(PERCUSSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: Fine.
Come on, keep up.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(DISTANT BIRDS CAWING)
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
KINO: The Western Wood.
Doesn't look so bad.
Are we really doing this?
NEEKANI: Why?
Are you scared of the Kollu?
No. Just settlers.
NEEKANI: Right. Come on, then.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (LEAVES RUSTLING)
- (FROG CROAKING)
- (WOOD GROANING)
(EERIE SCREECH)
(DISTANT BIRDS CAWING)
(SILENCE)
Probably just birds.
- (SNARLING SCREECH)
- (SCREAMS, HYPERVENTILATES)
(NEEKANI YELPS)
- (GROWLS)
- (MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
Settler!
(SCREECHES)
(INTENSE EERIE
MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(KIDS WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMS)
- (BONES SNAPPING)
- Guys! Guys!
(MANEESE SCREAMS)
- (GROWLS)
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
Run!
(ROARS)
(KIDS SCREAMING)
(MONSTER SETTLERS GROWLING)
- (GROWLS)
- (KIDS SCREAMING)
- (YELPS)
- (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DAGGER TRILLING)
(GROWLS)
(DAGGER HUMMING)
(MONSTER SETTLERS
SCREECH, GROWL)
(EXHALES)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(STRANGER SPEAKING ANISHINAABE)
(IN PENOBSCOT)
Kwai.
Oh, the turtle sure smiled
on you today, didn't it?
How did you do that?
Scare them off?
It doesn't like this.
(SIGHS)
Oh, you shouldn't be here.
- It's not safe.
- We were just hunting.
- Will they come back?
- Oh. Most definitely. Yes.
But we'll be safe.
Camp is near. Come.
I can feed you.
Those things are scared of him.
Just stay close.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
MANEESE: What turtle?
Come on.
(TWIGS SNAPPING)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (INSECTS CHIRPING)
Mitig, what were those things?
Not things.
Thing.
- (INHALES DEEPLY)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- So what does it want?
- (MITIG CHUCKLES)
To eat, to grow
to survive.
Mostly eat. (LAUGHS)
What does it eat?
It likes the meat
that has the biggest dreams,
that has the endless fear.
It's real.
MITIG: But we're lucky.
The turtle protects us.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
- You wanna talk to him?
- Talk to who?
Maturin, the great turtle,
had been locked
in a cosmic battle
against the monster,
long before the Earth
even existed.
(DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: After a terrible
struggle, Maturin won,
and he banished
that thing to Earth,
bound inside a falling star.
(BOOMING EXPLOSION)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
MITIG: Its bindings broke open.
(DEADLIGHTS WHOOSHING)
MITIG: The evil spirit was
released and roamed the woods
for a million years.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
MITIG: But the turtle showed me
the cavern where it crashed.
(MUSIC RISES, FALLS)
MITIG: That's where I found
the remains of its cage,
the only thing
that could stop it.
Where are the rest
of your people?
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: My hunting party
was hunted. One by one.
By one.
By one.
(MUSIC TURNS SINISTER)
MITIG: It wore the skin
of a bull moose.
Fur black as midnight.
Antlers of sharpened bone...
(GROANS)
pierced the men
through their heads.
Just like stringing beads.
(SCREAMING)
Oh, those yellow eyes.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(GROWLING)
MITIG: All I could do
was hide.
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (INHALES DEEPLY)
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Uh, I'm so sorry.
I've been holding it in
for a long time.
- Is there a good place to...
- MITIG: Out that way.
Stay near the cedars.
I can't protect you
beyond there.
(OWL HOOTING)
- (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
- (SIGHS)
(HUMMING)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(CONTINUES HUMMING)
- (INSECTS CHIRPING)
- (OWL HOOTING)
(DISTANT SCREECHING)
Nope.
(YELPS)
(GROANS)
- (SIGHS)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
MITIG: Oh.
Here my boy. Sit down.
You don't want the meat
to get cold. (CHUCKLES)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(MITIG HUMS)
Eat.
Eat.
Eat up. Eat up.
We need more firewood.
(SPITS, COUGHS)
Hey, what's wrong?
He's killing them.
There's bodies
carved in the forest.
Was that the...
- Was that the meat?
- (RETCHES)
We have to leave. We have to go.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- What are you doing?
- KINO: The root he was smoking.
- I'm a medicine woman.
- No, you're not.
In training. I'm curious.
(MUSIC TURNS SUSPENSEFUL)
(WOOD CLATTERS)
MITIG: What are you doing?
That's mine, not yours.
It's my root. My turtle.
- We're gonna leave.
- Oh, where are you going?
Well, you can't go out there.
It'll take you.
In the worst way
that you could imagine.
I can deliver you quicker
than the last ones.
Be with your ancestors
while your screams
are still echoing...
Come on, we gotta go!
- MANEESE: I got it!
- (NEEKANI HUFFING)
(GASPS)
- Bring it back!
- (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: Keep going!
Just keep running!
MITIG: You bring me back
my dagger!
NEEKANI: Keep going!
- Just keep running!
- MITIG: You stupid children!
- NEEKANI: This way.
- MITIG: I will kill you for this!
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
MITIG: You don't understand!
(KIDS PANTING)
It's not a monster! That thing!
It's a god!
Gods demand sacrifice!
I had no choice!
It had to be fed!
I gave you the food of the gods!
Please come back! Please!
Don't leave me alone!
It was mine!
(DAGGER TRILLING)
MITIG: It was mine!
- (MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (LAUGHS DELIRIOUSLY)
(MUSIC STOPS)
Hm. Can't have any fear.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHIMPERS SHAKILY)
(MONSTROUS ROARING)
- (ECHOING RUMBLE)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, CAWING)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)
This is impossible.
It killed them
outside of the woods.
(FLIES BUZZING)
We're not safe here anymore.
- NEEKANI: Nigwis.
- Neekani?
- NEEKANI: We're here!
- SESKI: How is she in there?
Neekani?
- NEEKANI: Mother!
- SESKI: Stay close.
Neekani!
Neekani!
(UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
(IN PENOBSCOT)
- (DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING)
- (FLIES BUZZING)
(DISTANT CHILD LAUGHING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
- (EERIE LAUGHTER ECHOING)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: (VOICE ECHOING) Mom.
(EERIE LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
NEEKANI: (ECHOING)
I found a new god!
(DISTANT RUMBLE)
(MUSIC FADES)
- Do you know why we've come here?
- (GASPS)
(LOW MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
It's a wide, open land.
A new world with the freedom
to worship the one, true god.
And do you know what we do
when we come across
a smaller, pitiful faith?
(IN DISTORTED VOICE)
We devour it!
- (GROWLS)
- (MUSIC RISES)
(SINISTER CHORAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(INTENSE MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(MUSIC FALLS)
PRIEST: (QUIETLY) Seski...
(GROWLING) Seski...
(SCREECHING MUSICAL STING)
- Come now, Seski.
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Your beloved husband
waits by the Lord's side.
(COUGHS)
Not quite as handsome as before,
what with the pox and all.
(GROWLS, COUGHS)
(BONES SNAPPING)
(SINISTER
CHORAL MUSIC RESUMES)
- (PRIEST GROANS)
- (MUSIC STOPS)
(MYSTICAL INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(PRIEST LAUGHS, COUGHS)
For this to work,
you must have faith.
- (GASPS)
- And your faith is...
(EXHALES) ...insignificant.
(INTENSE
SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)
(SESKI GROANS)
(IN HOARSE VOICE)
Prepare to meet thy God!
"The Word became flesh,
and we witnessed
the glory of his Son."
- "He is mighty."
- (PRAYING IN PENOBSCOT)
"He is vengeful, and it is time
for you to meet him."
(BONES CRUNCHING)
- (YELLS)
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SHRIEKS)
(SCREAMS)
Mom? Mom!
(SHRIEKS)
(SCREAMS)
- (MUSIC BUILDS)
- (SNARLS)
NEEKANI: Mom!
Mom, no!
(MUSIC RISES, FALLS)
Mom!
Mom.
(GROANS)
- (CRYING)
- (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(CONTINUES CRYING)
(GROANING) Neekani.
Listen to me.
You have to stop it.
- Mm-hmm.
- (NEEKANI SOBS)
No, we're going to finish this
together. Me and you.
You... you have to protect
our home.
I'm not strong enough.
- I'm not brave enough.
- You are braver than you think.
(IN PENOBSCOT)
(CRYING)
No!
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CLAN MOTHERS SING
DEATH CHANT IN PENOBSCOT)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
The boundary has shifted,
and we need to stop it.
Neekani, we have no choice.
We have decided
to move the village.
This place has been our home
for generations.
My mother fought
and died to protect it.
In the absence
of knowing what path to take,
we have no choice
but to take
the one in front of us.
What if there was another way?
Wanna talk to him?
(RHYTHMIC MYSTICAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(ETHEREAL
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOFT TINKLING HUM)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (MUSIC SWELLING)
- (MATURIN GROWLING)
(MUSIC FADES)
- APTO: What's going on?
- MANEESE: She took the root.
From the man
in the Western Wood.
- What did you see?
- He showed me how to save us.
How to cage it.
It's what my mother
would have done.
And it's what we have to do now.
What do we need to do?
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
NEEKANI: The turtle showed Kino
how to find the cave
in the Western Wood,
where it had crashed
millions of years ago.
(MUSIC SWELLS)
(MUSIC FALLS)
NEEKANI:
We gathered 13 stones
the shards of its old
bindings
to forge a new cage.
(ETHEREAL CHORAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
(THUNDER BOOMING)
NEEKANI: We give it enough room
to live, to sleep, and hunt.
It will take the colonists,
and more will come
to replace them.
We cannot
keep the settlers out,
but we can keep it in.
And once it is caged,
it will leave us to ours.
This keeping of the posts,
this tending of the cage
we will ensure these shards,
these pillars,
remain in place forever.
(IN PENOBSCOT)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(RHYTHMIC JINGLING
AND DRUMMING)
(VOCALIST SINGING
IN PENOBSCOT)
(JINGLING AND DRUMMING
CONTINUE)
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(SINGING STOPS)