The Brotherhood (2001) Movie Script
(dramatic eerie music)
(moves to suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music continues)
- Shit.
- [Otherworldly Voice]
Now, where do you think
you're goin', pal?
(tense music)
- You don't scare me.
- [Otherworldly Voice] Nah,
you don't seem scared at all.
Why should you be scared?
It could all just be part
of your nasty old nightmare.
- I'm gonna tell them.
- [Otherworldly Voice] Who's them?
- The school, the cops. You name it.
Your secret's gonna be out. I mean it.
Everybody's gonna know what
you guys are doin' in there.
- [Otherworldly Voice] What'll you do
when no one believes you?
- Somebody's gonna believe
me. Don't you know that?
- [Otherworldly Voice] I only
know that you swore allegiance
to me, to all of us.
Remember, Nathan, you
were our blood brother.
And now you betrayed all
of us, even yourself.
- What are you gonna do to me?
- [Otherworldly Voice] Aw,
don't worry. We won't kill you.
You're just gonna wish we had.
(tense music swells)
(gentle music)
- Good afternoon, I'm Bettina
Sandoval, coming at you live
from the modest Drake University
campus down by the Commons,
where various fraternities here on campus
have begun their annual
recruiting and pledge week.
It is also where, early this morning,
police discovered the body
of 19-year-old Drake University
sophomore Nathan Darty
after an alleged assault.
What makes this noteworthy, however,
is the fact that local police
are currently investigating
the possibility that perpetrators
of this alleged assault
were in fact members of a
fraternity here on campus
and that the victim's death
was possibly the tragic result
of a hazing crime.
This is the Doma Tau Omega fraternity,
a charter whose reputation,
grade point average,
and ongoing community service efforts
have been, up until now, beyond reproach.
It also makes the
investigation by the police
all the more baffling.
We caught up with the fraternity
and its student president, Devon Isley,
at their annual Save the
Street cleanup campaign
downtown earlier today.
You knew the victim well.
- Yes, we all did.
We were devastated when we heard about it.
Nathan was a good friend.
He was supposed to
officially become a member
of our fraternity today.
- Has your fraternity ever engaged
in any of the alleged hazing activities
at the Drake University campus?
- [Devon] Absolutely not.
- Do you have any idea why the police
would be investigating you in
conjunction with this crime,
despite your fraternity's
sterling reputation?
- Well, (laughs) I wouldn't
really call it sterling.
The only thing is,
aside from the fact that
the victim was a pledge,
that I can see as a reason to question us
is because of our reputation.
I would say that people
are cynical these days,
and when they see what
our organization is doing
and what we've been able to accomplish,
they seem to think that
it's too good to be true.
- Uh, hi.
- Hi. What the hell can I do for you?
- Man, lucky for this
college it's so small,
'cause I can get lost in a hurry.
But this is bungalow seven, right?
- Yeah, so?
- Well, I think I'm your
new roommate, Dan Myers.
- What do you want, a medal?
Look, this is my stuff, okay?
I got it spread out
just the way I like it.
If you wanna stay here,
you might wanna buy
yourself a sleeping bag,
'cause I'm gonna be using both the beds.
Wanna set up a desk? I
think the closet's empty.
Set it up in there.
You got a car?
Good, 'cause when I got a girl in here,
that's where you're gonna be sleeping.
And if you touch my stuff for any reason,
I'll beat you to death, understood?
- I thought I was supposed to be at the-
- (laughs) Jesus, I wish I had a mirror.
You should've seen your face.
- I don't understand. (chuckles)
- Oh, it was a joke. I
was just messin' with ya.
- Oh, okay.
- Sorry about that. I'm Chris Chandler.
- Uh, nice to meet you.
- Well, the fan's broken.
Uh, the closet door sticks.
And the electrical
wiring is from the '50s.
I got here first, so I
call the bed by the window.
You want some help with those?
- Nope, thanks. I can manage.
This is kind of a small
room, don't you think?
- Actually, I think it's one
of the bigger rooms on campus.
Drake's kind of a small college, you know?
- Hey, TV set.
I forgot to bring my man. Do we get cable?
- Forget it, the only thing I can pick up
is the local news station,
and all they're showing
is that weird thing
that happened on campus this morning.
- Oh yeah? What happened this morning?
- I guess they found some kid's body
lyin' out on the campus.
- They even asked the guys one by one
if they'd ever been
abused by the fraternity.
I thought the question was uncalled for,
even bordered ridiculous.
- Wow.
- Yeah, he was pledging a
fraternity or something.
All the frats on camp are into
this weird pledging thing.
- Was it anybody that you knew?
- I just got here, and anyway,
I don't know anybody in a fraternity,
especially not, what, Doma Tau Omega.
- Oh, that's who that
guy's with, Doma Tau Omega?
I heard about those guys.
They're supposed to be one
of the most prestigious
fraternities in the country.
- Yeah, that's why I
don't know any of 'em.
- You're not gonna pledge a fraternity?
- I'm doin' okay by myself.
- Hmm, some people don't
have a problem with it.
- Like you?
- I think it's a moot point with me.
I mean, I'm not exactly
fraternity material, you know?
- Well, I don't need a
fraternity. I'm taken care of.
- [Dan] How'd you do that?
- All state swim team,
three years running.
- Ah, I should've known.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Well, I mean, you're a, you know,
you're, you're a jock, right?
You probably got in on
an athletic scholarship?
- Actually, no, Dan.
I paid full tuition just
like you or anybody.
You shouldn't stereotype people.
- Look, I'm sorry, man.
I didn't know. I didn't know, I was...
- (laughs) I'm just messin'
with you again, Dan.
Yeah, I got in on a swim team scholarship.
You seriously need to lighten up.
- It's my first time
away from home, you know?
- You gotta relax, Dan.
I think you've seen "Revenge of the Nerds"
one too many times.
- Actually, I, I think it
was "Fraternity Vacation."
- Oh, it was definitely "Animal House."
- [Both] Scoring.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, well, anyway, we're
both too young for bars,
we live in a building full of guys,
and my first class is
at seven in the morning.
I think it's safe to say
we're both total losers.
- I guess you have a good point there.
Well, I should probably get unpacked.
- What do you have in those
things anyway? Clothes?
- No, worse.
I guess some of those stereotypes
are real, huh? (laughs)
(gentle music)
(students chattering faintly)
(moves to intense music)
(intense music continues)
(intense music continues)
(intense music slows)
- He's the one.
- Are you sure?
- He's beautiful. He's perfect.
- Campus is full of guys like him.
- Yes, but I've been watching this one
since the semester started.
He's an innocent. He's strong.
Like I said, he's perfect.
- What about lookin' around for some more?
- No, we're runnin' out of
time. The last one cost us.
We've only got a few
days till the deadline.
I want this one.
- Then what do we do?
- You know the routine.
We turn on the charm.
(unsettling music)
(soft curious music)
- Hi.
- Hi.
(bike clanging and thudding)
(Chris groans)
- Terrific.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Car trouble?
- No, more like girl trouble.
- I'm Devon Isley.
- Hey, I'm Chris.
Yeah, I saw you on the news yesterday.
- Oh hell, we're off to a good start then.
You probably think I'm an ax murderer.
- Ah, no, I just thought it
was the usual college bullshit.
- Yeah, well, let's what
the cops think so, too.
This is Mikhail.
- What's up?
- Jordan, and Barry.
- Hey.
- You on your way to class?
- Yeah.
- Do you need any help with your bike?
- Oh, no, I think I'm good to go. Thanks.
Hey, wow, is that your fraternity pin?
It's a lot bigger than the
usual ones I see around here.
- Yeah, it's a tultra, Babylonian symbol.
It means the eternal hunter.
- Looks expensive.
- [Devon] Yeah, it is.
- Hey, no offense, man.
- Nah, you didn't offend me.
We'll see you around, Chris.
(students chattering faintly)
- Looks expensive. Jesus,
that sounds stupid.
(light guitar music)
(singer crooning indistinctly)
(students chattering faintly)
- What happened to you?
You look like shit.
- Well, thanks, pal.
- Hey, Chris, someone's
gotta point this stuff
out to you, right?
- Well, do me a favor.
Don't be that somebody.
- So what happened?
- I sort of took a spill
on my bike this morning.
- Is that the whole story?
- Actually, there was a chick involved.
- You, (laughs) you hit some
chick with your 10-speed?
- No, Einstein, I was scoping a chick,
and I accidentally whacked
my front end on a bush.
It happens.
- Not to me, it doesn't.
So, uh, where did you and
this alleged girl end up?
- Well, I said hi. She said hi.
I noticed I was gonna hit
a bush, and I crashed,
and then she split, the end.
(Dan laughs)
You got that all down?
Is there anything else I
can do to amuse you today?
- Hey, I'm livin' vicariously through you.
You wanna know the most
exciting thing I did today?
I programmed my first DOS
to Unix conversion protocol
in computer science class.
And do you wanna know how many
women were involved in that?
None, nada, zip.
- Well, it's still not funny.
- Do you wanna know what
the problem with you is?
You can dish it out, but
you just can't take it.
- I'm bigger than you.
I don't have to take it.
- Ha-ha-ha, asshole. Here's one for ya.
If I'm in college, why am
I still eatin' sack lunch?
Chris?
- It's her.
- Uh, hey, Chris. Uh, Chris.
- Well, hiya, sis.
Mom and Dad warned me I was
gonna have to keep an eye out
for you once you got into college.
Oh, you guys wouldn't
be givin' my kid sister
a hard time, would ya?
- Why don't you do
yourself favor, huh, buddy?
Mind your business own goddamn
business, huh, sport-o.
I'm just tryin' to see here
if this lovely lady'd like
to hang out with us tonight.
- And I said no.
- Well, it looks like you got your answer.
Any other questions you
guys would like to ask?
- Do you see this, asshole?
This is an Alpha Chi pin.
If you weren't a dickhead freshman,
you'd know that you
shouldn't be messing with us.
And guess what, pal?
You're messing with us.
- Well, I'm not impressed.
- Well, maybe if me and my brothers here
beat the living shit outta
your worthless freshman ass,
you might.
- Hey, uh, Chris.
- Well, that may be true.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty big for a freshman.
(scoffs) Heck, I outweigh
weigh you by, what, 20 pounds?
And I hit really hard.
In fact, by the time your
brothers here get to me,
I'm willing to bet cash
money I can break your nose,
bust your jaw, lose a
couple of your teeth,
and make sure that the
next girl you hit on
is the nurse down at the hospital.
I might even tack that
frickin' pin to your forehead
as a warning to others.
So what's it gonna be? You
gonna call my bet or what?
- You mess with one of us,
you're gonna have to mess with all of us.
- Maybe so, and you could
probably all kill me,
but I'm only gonna be
concentrating on you.
- You know what, freshman, I
think me and my brothers here
are gonna be paying you
a visit really soon.
See you around, dead boy.
- Yeah, thanks. I'm always
lookin' for company.
Jesus.
- Are you insane?
Those frat guys are serious.
- It's all bullshit.
If those guys had any guts,
they'd have put me in the hospital.
- Hey, never say never, you know.
- Well, well, my knight in shining armor.
- Uh, hi.
- Hi. I see you survived the crash.
- Yeah.
- You boys wanna sit down or what?
Hey, I appreciate what
you just went through,
but I didn't need the rescue.
I was handling it.
They were just some frat bozos
in need of a testosterone fix.
- You looked like you needed
some help, so I helped.
Chris Chandler.
- Megan.
(unsettling music)
(unsettling music swells)
And, um, you are?
- The third wheel.
(Megan laughs)
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- That's an unusual name.
- Well, actually, it's Dan.
Uh, I've heard a lot about you.
- Really? Were you told
about what nice tits I have?
I get that one a lot.
Or was it the same old boring,
"Hey, I'd like to bang her."
- Hey, I, I didn't-
- Actually, believe it or not,
Chris here is a decent,
worthwhile human being,
which would explain why
he has a schmuck like me tagging along.
- And why he goes around
saving damsels in distress, no doubt.
- Oh, and that, too.
- Hey, I'm right here.
Can I please talk about me, too?
- Go right ahead.
- I don't have anything to say.
- Then I'm back to pestering you.
Do you have a problem with
the frats or something?
- Why does everybody keep
asking me about that?
- Is the answer yes?
- The answer is that I'm
just out doin' my own thing.
A bunch of guys wanna
bother me or my friends
just because they get it into their head
that they're in some secret society
and that makes them better than me,
that's when I have a problem.
- Fair enough. And you?
- Well, I was kicked outta the chess club
in ninth grade for being too geeky,
so I'll probably get a date
before I'm ever sponsored into a frat.
- (laughs) Okay, well,
the reason why I ask
is because my roommate is dating one
of the guys from Doma Tau Omega,
and they're having this big
bash at their place tonight.
She invited me to go, and
she said I could bring
a friend or two, if I wanted.
- Doma Tau Omega, Christ.
- Chris, wow, this could
be a big deal, man.
- Boy, you guys sound like
you really have a problem
with Doma Tau Omega.
- Actually, I bumped into
that Devon guy this morning
just after I, uh, met you.
Seemed like an alright guy.
- Tres impressive, you're
a real social butterfly
on that 10-speed of yours.
- Yeah, well, I do get around.
- (laughs) See, I don't really
wanna go there all by myself.
I mean, it's a frat party,
and I'm just a young slip of a lass.
I don't really know anyone yet,
and you guys seem like you'd
make sure I got home okay.
I don't know a whole lot
about Doma Tau Omega,
but evidently, they throw some
pretty wild parties there,
and you can't even get
in without an invite.
I'm game. How about you two?
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Chris, this could be a big deal, man.
- It's not really my scene, that's all.
- Look, we can go to this
shindig, and if it looks bad,
or if there's a fight
brewing, we split, okay?
No further obligation.
- Do you know how many really
cool parties I get invited to?
Actually, do you know how many parties
I get invited to, period?
- Do not lay your guilt trip on me, okay?
I didn't go to high school with you.
You can't blame me for every jockhead
that stuffed you in a locker.
- I wasn't doin' that. Was I?
- You're into rescuing me.
You should think about rescuing me
from another boring Friday night.
- (chuckles) You two want a bigger bag
for all the you're bullshit
shoveling right now?
- Come on, it'll be the best
night of your life, Chris.
(Chris sighs)
- Okay, I'll go.
- Mm, yes!
- Great. I'll meet you guys
back here at, let's say, nine?
- Sure, nine.
- Hey, wow, that's a lot of
reading. Uh, what's your major?
- Psychology, what else?
See ya around, fellas. Stay outta trouble.
- Man, I think we just
got totally scammed.
- Who are you kiddin', man? You love it.
(unsettling music)
(thunder rumbling)
What?
- Nothing.
- There is nothing wrong with
the way I'm dressed, okay.
- Well, not if you're going to a funeral.
- Hmm?
- You're tying this wrong. Here.
There.
Better.
- Well, what about you,
Casanova? You call that a style?
- Hey, it's not like I
own any Armani, okay?
This'll do just fine.
- I think you're better off in sweats.
Hey, let's face it.
We're no party animals.
- (sighs) It's your call.
We don't have to go.
- And disappoint Megan?
- You sound more worried about
disappointing Megan than me.
- Well, hey, I don't say no,
because yes it doesn't
come around too often,
you know what I mean?
Besides, I bet you have tons
of hot, narcissistic little cheerleaders
you can pick up anytime.
But me, I'm stuck with what I got.
- This is different.
- How is it different?
- Look, I don't know
what you think about me,
but my life wasn't one big
beer bash in high school.
- Really?
- Really.
There's plenty of opportunity
to party, if I wanted to.
Just didn't want to.
- And why not?
- I don't know.
(soft affecting music)
Growing up, my dad was a
pretty miserable person,
who drank a lot.
He skipped out on me and my mom
when I was about 12 years
old and never came back.
I mean, I remember thinking, shit,
that's the last person
I ever wanna be like.
So I sort of promised
myself I'd never drank,
and I never really have.
I mean, I know it sounds stupid, (sighs)
but that's just the way
I was in high school.
Never really drank, never did any drugs.
Went on a couple dates, but
mostly just studied and...
Kind of dumb, huh?
- Nah, man, it's not dumb.
- Then why are you
lookin' at me like that?
- It's like, it's like
we led parallel lives,
but we couldn't be more
different, except for, uh, um...
- Except what?
- Well, except if I would've been you,
I would've been party central.
- Oh, come off it.
- No, seriously.
First of all, I would've kicked the shit
out of every other jock in school.
I would've been like Genghis Khan, man.
I would've gone into
the locker room one day
with a baseball bat, just
cracked all their skulls.
Then I would've taken their women,
wiped out their village,
and set fire to the school.
- Okay, now you're just gettin' crazy.
- Okay, maybe, but I
would've partied, though,
if someone would've let me.
It's just, it's just weird to see somebody
with a life I can only dream of having,
and them not doin' anything with it.
- You think it's some great achievement
being popular in school,
drinking yourself to death,
dating a cheerleader?
- I don't know. I mean, I
never had it, so I don't know.
- You're better off being yourself.
Just trust me on that one.
- I don't know, 'cause I could
let you borrow my calculator.
- Mm-hmm, you could probably
start workin' out, too.
- We gonna do this party or what?
- You're still gonna make me go
after I poured my guts out to you?
- Absolutely, hey, if
I'm gonna attempt fate
and plunge into the great
unknown, so are you.
Besides, you're the one who's
gonna end up with Megan.
- Girls like Megan don't
end up with anybody.
- Maybe, maybe not.
I mean, do you honestly think
she's gonna trust herself
to a couple of strange dudes
she met outside the college cafeteria
and invited to a frat party?
I don't.
- Maybe she likes you.
- Maybe she thinks we're a couple.
- Oh brother, that's all we need.
Do you like her?
- Well, let's just say I
wouldn't kick her outta bed
for eatin' crackers, okay.
Even if my dog's name
was Crackers. (laughs)
- So go by yourself. You'll
put the odds in your favor.
- I have my night all planned out, man.
I'm gonna drink a lot of booze,
hit on all the wrong women,
get punched and threatened a lot,
then I'm gonna spend all night pukin'
after you drag me home.
You'd be ruining the perfect plan.
- Well, that sounds like
it'd be for the better.
- Listen, Chris, if you don't go,
I will tell Megan we're a couple,
and I mean it, stud muffin.
- Okay, I'll go, you lame-oid.
- Yes! Let's do this.
(faint upbeat music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Far out. He's got an ax.
- [Chris] (sighs) You don't say.
- Play nice, Chris.
Well, we're probably not gonna
have any fun unless we go in.
Parties are kooky like that.
- Yeah.
- What?
- Come on, all star. It's time
to show a lady a good time.
(Faint upbeat music continues)
(guests chattering softly)
Um, hi. Can we go to the party?
- Infidels, do you dare pass this gate
without your invitations?
- Oh yeah, the invitations, sure. You bet.
Will these do, tough guy?
- (laughs) I had you goin' there, huh?
- Yeah. Michael, right?
- Mikhail, my new friend
Chris. But you were close.
Do you approve?
- (laughs) I think it's neat.
- It was Devon's idea.
He said it would make the
party more interesting.
I like the ax, keeps away the crashers.
- Oh.
So, yeah, (chuckles) so
cool accent, Mikhail.
Uh, where you from?
- New Jersey.
- Oh.
- You three go inside
and enjoy yourselves.
I've gotta take tickets all night.
Drink some for me.
I'm really glad you showed tonight, Chris.
We should have given you
the invitations directly.
- Uh, sure.
- Devon will also be very
pleased that you showed.
- Right, well, I'll be sure
to thank him if I see him.
- Oh, you'll see him.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
(soft upbeat music continues)
(guests chattering faintly)
- Kind of sedate for a frat party.
- Yeah, so much for the kegs
and the stair-diving, right?
- Well, I do see some women in here.
- That's the spirit.
- Well, you didn't let me finish.
I do see some women in here
that wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire.
- (laughs) Well, at
least you're not on fire.
- Thanks for the support.
- (sighs) Well, kids, what's the plan?
Do we stand here and look
like dorks, or do we mingle?
- Hey, I came to the party.
I fulfilled my end of the bargain.
Nobody said anything about mingling.
- He's gonna look like a dork
whether he's standin' here or not, so.
- We could dance, you know?
I think I at least owe you a dance.
Um, hello? Is there anybody there?
(low eerie music)
(thunder rumbling)
Isn't that the of the
fraternity, Kevin or Devon?
- It's Devon.
- Right, Devon Isley.
Ooh, scary. I think he wants you, Chris,
- Whatever. I'll be right back, okay?
Why don't you and Dan go
find somewhere to make out.
I'll be right back.
- I like your angry side,
Chris. I think it's cute.
- Yeah, his little face gets all red.
- I'll just be a minute.
- I lose more guys that way.
- Hi.
- Well, hello, Chris. I'm
glad you could join us.
- I, uh, almost didn't.
- Well, and I'm doubly surprised
because I don't remember
giving you an invitation.
This is a fraternity
function, brothers only.
- I came with some of my friends.
The girl had the
invitations. You can ask her.
- I'm screwing with you,
Chris. Mi casa es su casa.
- [Chris] Right.
- Chris is acting kind of weird, actually.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, well, I had to
wrestle him all night
just to get him here,
and now he's ditchin'
us for this Devon dude.
- Maybe he just wants to be popular.
- No, this is a whole
other league from popular.
This is like the fall
of Rome or somethin'.
(Megan laughs)
- What do you think?
- Uh, it's nice.
- This place is over 500 years old.
- Wow, 500.
- Well, most of it's a
Catholic church from Spain.
It was abandoned after the Crusades.
The original owners of
this land brought it over,
board by board, stone by stone.
They had it rebuilt by an
all-Spanish team of craftsmen.
It cost them a fortune.
- I'll bet.t
- Yeah, it's just money,
though, just things.
This could be a hacienda
to you, and to me,
it's just a old church with bad wiring.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
Did you know they used to send kids,
or small children actually,
into battle during the Crusades?
It's true.
It makes you think about the
nature of things, doesn't it?
Yeah, to me, it takes
away from the splendor
of a pad like this.
- We're gettin' kind of deep
for our first conversation.
- I'm gettin' deep? Shit.
I don't usually get deep
till my second bottle of rum.
- What do you think you're doing?
- I was, uh...
What, was I supposed
to not try and read it?
This thing might have some secrets
on how these guys pick
up women or something.
- Not a good idea, Dan.
These, these frat guys are really weird
about people looking
at their secret stuff.
Do you wanna get us thrown out of here?
Come on, let's go. Wait by
the door for Chris, okay?
- Okay, okay.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
- Jordan, my man, I'm gonna
need some more liquor.
- Aye, aye, capt'n.
- Don't they usually dole
that out with an eyedropper?
- Yeah, they're supposed to, yeah.
But who does what they're supposed to?
What about you? Name your poison.
- Oh, I don't have a poison.
- Really? Alright,
we'll find you one then.
Absinthe, on the rocks.
- The devil's brew,
think you can handle it?
- Yeah, the kid can handle anything.
Look, Chris, you can't deny
anything until you've tried it
and learned how to hate it firsthand.
Who said the path of excess
leads to the palace of wisdom?
Was it Nietzsche?
- Oh, I don't think it was Nietzsche.
- Alright, we're okay then. Try it.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
- How was it?
- It really didn't taste
much like anything.
- Right, another demon cut down to size.
Tell me, why'd you take a drink of that?
- Because-
- Because I asked you to.
- Well-
- You're among friends now,
Chris, you can tell us.
- Well, yeah. Okay,
because you told me to.
- Good for you. That's the first step.
- First step to what?
- Well, let's get movin',
keeps the blood flowin'.
- What? Are we going to your bedroom?
- Yeah. It's right down the hall.
- (sighs) And with that, he was gone.
- Are you gonna show me what that is?
- Tell you all that
when we get to my room.
(girl giggles)
- I don't get it.
The one guy who doesn't
wanna come tonight ends up
rubbin' elbows with the big man on campus.
I swear to God, I hate jocks.
- I think you're selling
yourself short, Dan.
- Really?
Well, you know, I try not
to talk about my good looks
or my wealthy family,
or how good I am in
the sack, but you know.
- At least you ended up
with the girl, right?
- Oh, I get it.
If you can't have steak,
you'll settle for hamburger.
- Well, you have to cut
up steak with a knife,
and I'm really lazy.
- Okay, well, I guess I'll leave the rest
of the analogies at home for the night.
- Yeah, I think that's a good choice.
- Ow.
I think I hit my arm.
- I remember my first beer.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
You know, drunken spectacles
aren't really my scene.
Do you wanna go somewhere
boring and grab some coffee?
I'll buy.
- Uh, what about Chris?
- I think it's safe to say that
Chris is no longer a factor.
Let's make tracks.
- Okay.
(low eerie music)
- Hey, hey, hey. Can you
just slow down, cowpoke?
- You drank the whole thing, Christopher.
- So?
- Well, Jordan was right.
It's the devil's brew.
Looks like you're done
for the evening, my man.
Welcome to the wonderful
world of inebriation.
- Oh, not too shabby.
Where the hell are we anyway?
Is this one of those frat things
where you and the brothers
get some guy drunk
and take him out back and
kick the shit out of him?
- No, not quite, Chris.
- Well, then what is it? Why me?
- Why not you?
- Because you and me are nothing alike.
You hang out with your crowd,
and I watch from the sidelines.
- That's by your choice, not mine.
But if you really felt that
way, why'd you take that drink?
It's obvious you didn't want to.
Why'd you follow me out here
if you thought I was
settin' you up for beating?
- (scoffs) Well, you make one mistake,
you gotta follow it through, right?
The second I stepped into
your little hacienda up there,
I was screwed. (chuckles)
- Look, Chris, we're gods here.
We wear the best clothes,
get the best grades,
drive the best cars.
We have all the women and all the gratis
we could possibly want.
Why on earth would I spend my
time screwin' up your life?
- Because maybe you're bored.
- Good answer. Possibly true.
I am bored. I need a project.
I need to find the right
guy to bring outta the shit
and remake in my own image.
Out of all the guys at Drake University,
out of all the men on
this campus, I chose you.
You have the heart to be your own self.
I've seen you stand up
for what you believe in.
I need that spirit on my side.
- And then?
- You ever see the keys
to the kingdom, Chris?
Well, this comes close.
(eerie music swells)
- Hey, I found us a spot.
- [Dan] This place is kind
of creepy in the dark.
- Thanks. Where did you find
coffee at this time of night?
- Ah, Doofy Donuts across the street
from the old chem building.
Nothin' but the best for my dates.
- Well, I never turn up my
nose at a free cup of coffee.
- It's a good policy.
(Megan sighs)
- What's wrong? Is it the company?
- No.
- The coffee?
It wouldn't happen to be Chris, would it?
- I just, I don't understand
why he ditched us. That's all.
- Are you jealous of him?
- No.
- Jealous of Devon?
- No. (scoffs)
I don't know, maybe.
It's just, you know, guys like Chris
used to beat me up back in high school,
except Chris isn't really like that.
I never thought someone like
that would be my friend.
- Hmm.
- Now-
- And now you're afraid
that he's gonna be friends
with Devon and not with you, right?
- I don't know. Somethin' like that, yeah.
Stupid, huh?
- I still don't get it.
- When you sober up, you will.
Remember me tellin' you
about this, the tultra.
- Yeah, it means the hunter,
right, like Sagittarius.
- The eternal hunter,
it stands for everything we believe in.
We never rest until we
get what we seek in life.
And I'm offering you a way in.
Doma Tau Omega is a
century-old organization,
and all of its members live
a very special lifestyle.
I'm not talkin' about just college.
I'm talkin' about the rest of your life.
Don't you wanna tap into that, Chris?
- You want me to join your fraternity?
- You already belong. You wanna belong.
You took that drink from me.
You came out here for me.
Now I'm just offerin' you a chance
to follow me with a purpose.
- I don't want to, okay.
I mean, thanks, but no.
- Why not?
- Because all that
belonging jazz is horseshit.
I don't need to be a
part of your little group
to get by in life.
- You convinced yourself, you mean?
But if you deny me, you deny
yourself all that popularity,
all those trappings of power.
And you want those things. I know you do.
- If Chris is really the
great guy you think he is,
he'll still be friends with you, right?
- I don't know, I'm
not exactly experienced
in the whole friends department.
- He will be, Dan. Just
let him have his fun.
This is all new stuff to him.
If I have Chris figured
out, and I think that I do,
he'll get bored with it after a while.
- Bored with it, (scoffs) with those guys?
- Stranger things have happened.
- Like?
- I don't know.
- You're goin' through a lot of trouble
for just one new pledge, don't you think?
- I think you might be worth it.
Choose now or leave.
(Chris sighs)
- Well, what if I stay?
- You make a pact with
me, right here, in blood.
That way I know you won't break it.
- In blood?
- I did it. All the members did it.
They've been doin' it for
years in the fraternity.
If you're serious enough to stay,
then you won't mind sheddin'
little blood to prove it to me.
Besides, you're so drunk
you won't even feel it.
- (scoffs) Okay, I'll play
your little joke out, right?
You wanna stick me in your
fraternity? Go for it.
Cut me up.
- Hold up your right hand.
(eerie music swells)
- What the...
Ow, what the...
(Chris groans)
(tense music swells)
Oh, man, that was sick.
(eerie music)
- Now your turn.
You have to take the blood back
to keep the circle unbroken.
- Uh-uh, champ. I, uh, changed my-
(tense music)
- Drink, Chris.
(tense music swells)
(bell tolls)
(Chris coughs)
- (groans) What did I just do?
- You accepted my proposal.
You're a blood brother now, Chris.
- No, no.
I'm just drunk.
- Yeah, we'll be waiting
for you when you wake up,
at the beginning of your new life.
(unsettling music)
- (smooches) But, um,
right now, I have to run.
I have this huge Saturday
morning psych test,
and if I don't get some studying in,
I'm gonna fail like you wouldn't believe.
Hey, um, thanks for the coffee.
We should hang out again sometime soon.
- Yeah, you bet.
- Oh, and tell Chris I say hi, okay?
(thunder rumbling)
- (scoffs) Un-freaking-believable.
(unsettling music)
- [Devon] The tultra must be
used in the arm or the palm,
or it brings about certain death.
(unsettling music continues)
Welcome to your new life.
Taste blood two more times,
and you will join the
brotherhood, forever.
(unsettling music continues)
(Chris coughing)
- Chris. Hey man, what the hell?
Are you gonna wake up
sometime this week or what?
- What the hell's goin' on?
- Well, you popped in
around eight this morning
and died right here on the bed.
- Where's Megan?
- You ditched her for Diamond
Devon and the Omega boys.
So I played the sympathy card
and took her out for coffee.
I don't wanna excite you,
but she did gimme a peck on
the cheek before it was over.
(laughs) Boy, you sure
made up for lost time
with that drinkin'.
- What do you mean?
- You slept for like 12 hours straight?
Let's face it, your system
cannot hang with the big boys.
(Chris groans)
- What's wrong?
- (groans) My stomach.
- It's called a hangover,
you putz. (laughs)
- No, no, it's more like a cramp.
- You alright?
- Now it's gone.
- Hmm.
(unsettling music)
- What's with the suitcase?
- I don't know. You tell me.
Some guy dropped it off
for you this morning.
He said it was some clothes
you forgot from home.
- Some guy? Clothes?
- Was it somebody from Doma Tau Omega?
- (laughs) Why the heck would
someone from Doma Tau Omega
give you clothes?
- Nevermind.
- (whistles) Say, nice threads.
- Look, I said nevermind.
I gotta get cleaned up.
- How come? You got a hot
day tonight or somethin'?
- You my mother now or somethin'?
I'm just goin' out, okay?
- Then, uh, probably don't
wanna forget this, huh?
Looks expensive.
- Don't worry about it.
- What's with the fancy pin, man?
You, uh, you an Omega pledge now?
'Cause, uh, your tune
sure changed in a hurry.
- Let it go, Dan, okay.
- Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
You knocked back a couple
with Mr. Personality,
and that's it?
It's, it's okay for you
to do all those things
you were against doin' only last night?
- Let it drop, man. Last time.
- No, Chris.
You see, man, I thought I
got to know you last night.
The guy I got to know is
a worthwhile human being.
I mean, if you wanna drink, that's okay,
but know why you're doin' it,
'cause I don't think you do know.
(tense music swells)
- Stay outta my way, Dan.
You do that, and we'll
both get along. Jesus.
- Chris, man, what's wrong with you?
(tense music)
(bell tolls)
(unsettling music)
(moves to slow suspenseful music)
(thunder rumbling)
(tense music)
(moves to unsettling music)
(moves to ominous music)
Okay.
Where's the dirt on you guys?
(suspenseful music swells)
(moves to tense music)
What the hell?
(moves to suspenseful music)
David Illingham?
This has gotta be a fluke.
(suspenseful music continues)
(suspenseful music builds)
(bell tolls)
Oh, Chris.
What did you get yourself into, man?
(tense music)
- When Devon and the new
guy get here in a minute,
we can get here this party goin'.
- I'm not bartending.
- (chuckles) You gotta. I'm not gonna.
(tense music continues)
- Shit.
(tense music swells)
(door clicks shut)
(thunder rumbling)
- Told you we'd come back and
visit you again, huh, asshole?
Looks like you picked the wrong
clothes to wear for tonight.
- Just leave me alone.
- Aw, what's the matter,
dickhead, your tummy hurt?
Maybe next year when they unwire your jaw,
you'll learn to treat the
Alpha Chi with respect.
(baseball bat thuds)
(Chris groans)
Pick his up. I wanna break
his goddamn nose off.
(uneasy music)
Aw, no frickin' way. Put him down.
He's got an Omega pin on. He's
a pledge, for Christ's sake.
I don't wanna those guys off.
- Too late.
(tense music)
- Look, Isley, this
ain't got nothin' to do
with any of you guys.
One of your freshman brothers
disgraced one of our brothers.
We're just payin' him back as dues.
- Then you better not act
like you're gonna hit
me with that bat, huh?
I might get the wrong idea.
- You guys aren't so big.
We have every right,
just as much as your fraternity does even.
Someone shit's on us, we retaliate.
- Okay, fine, you cracked my pledge
in the head with a bat, guess what?
It's time to retaliate.
- You guys come any closer,
I swear to God I'm gonna hit somebody.
I mean it.
- I'm gettin' bored by all this.
Bring me the head of
whichever one of these guys
made him bleed.
Guessin' it's flounder here
with the Louisville Slugger.
- You got it, boss.
- Gimme the toy, friend.
(baseball bat cracks)
(Mikhail laughs)
- Aw, shit.
(baseball bat thudding)
(Alpha Chi leader grunting)
(blows cracking)
(Alpha Chi members groaning)
(tense music continues)
(blows continue cracking)
(Alpha Chi members groaning)
(tense music swells)
- Bye bye.
(unsettling music)
- You probably have a lot
on your mind at the moment.
- I just took a baseball bat to the mouth
and barely felt it.
What did you do to me?
(groans) Tell me what
you did to me, asshole!
- Now, now, that's enough
of the name-calling.
Anyway, I'm gonna fix you right up.
- How?
- Hair of the dog, as
Nazareth used to say.
I'm takin' you to a party.
(unsettling music continues)
(thunder rumbling)
(energetic music)
What do you think, Chris?
We have parties like this every night.
They're like moths to
a flame. They love us.
They wanna be just like us.
Since they can't be,
they come to our parties.
They pay attention to us in
class. They pay us respect.
- So what?
You party every night. You get
good grades during the day.
(scoffs) Some life.
- No, it's more than
that, and you know it is.
The eternal hunter, Chris,
that's me. That's you.
That's all the guys in the fraternity.
We're the beautiful ones who don't die.
You act like you've been
given a curse, Chris.
But really, you've been
given the best gift
anybody could be given.
All the money in the world couldn't buy
what I've given to you,
and I gave it to you willingly.
Ah, but you look like a man
in dire need of a drink.
And here comes one now.
- (giggles) Devon, baby.
- Hi, Sandy.
- Is it me tonight?
- No, not tonight.
Tonight, I'm giving you to the new guy.
- New guy?
- Sandy, meet Chris.
- (giggles) Hi, Chris.
- Hi, Sandy.
- (sighs) I'm wet like a honey pot.
What are we gonna do about it? (giggles)
- We're gonna show Chris
where the magic happens
around here, Sandy, that's
what we're gonna do.
So long to those dreams
Romeo and Juliet
(thunder rumbling)
(eerie music)
- Are you nice, new guy? (laughs)
Can you play nice with Sandy, hmm?
(Sandy giggling)
- Sandy's great. She shows
up at all our parties.
And right about this
time, she's so far gone,
you could whack her in
the head with a shovel,
and she wouldn't even know it.
- A shovel? Is that what the
new guy's packing? (laughs)
Come 'ere, let Sandy play you.
- [Devon] There's nothin' to
be scared of. I'm with you now.
- Scared of what?
- They're like moths to a flame, Chris.
Isn't that what I said?
Why do you think we have these parties?
- [Chris] What are you?
- A fraternity, Chris, blood brothers.
They all have their rites of passage.
But maybe, just maybe, a long while ago,
some guy was toolin'
around with those rites,
and he found a better way to do it,
a way in which, if you did it right,
you could stay in college forever.
And you could live and
relive all the glory days,
all the great home games,
all the good times.
You gotta pay to play.
Even the big man on
campus pukes his ass off
at 3:30 in the morning
after the big party.
As for Doma Tau Omega, well,
price is a little different.
It's not like date rape.
Hell, if we just asked
'em for little blood,
they'd probably do it sober.
But you know there'd be that one person
who would blab about the frat
guys suckin' their blood.
So we do it in a more conservative way.
- You're a vampire?
- No, vampires wear capes and have fangs.
I drive a Maserati
and spend an hour a
day in a tanning booth.
Vampires are myths. They don't exist.
We're the reality.
Nobody gets hurt. Nobody dies.
We extract our price,
and everyone benefits.
You think those Alpha Chi
assholes could ever dream
of havin' parties like the ones we have?
I'm afraid you can't
knock the life, Chris.
You already belong.
You wanted to belong. Now you do.
- It's okay, new guy. I don't mind.
- I can't.
- You will.
(tense music)
(thunder rumbling)
(Sandy giggles)
(moves to dark suspenseful music)
(dark music swells)
(music grows ominous)
(Sandy sighing)
(Sandy moaning)
(dark music continues)
(Sandy moaning)
(moves to eerie music)
(eerie music slows)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(moves to haunting music)
(Sandy moaning and sighing)
(moves to dramatic music)
(dramatic music continues)
(Sandy moaning and sighing)
(dramatic music swells)
(tense music fades)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(low tense music)
How do you feel?
- I, I feel
alive.
(low tense music continues)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(bells chiming)
(birds chirping)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(electricity sizzling)
(thunder rumbling)
(jarring note shrieks)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(thunder rumbling)
(eerie tones resonating)
(wind whooshing)
(suspenseful music)
- Second thoughts?
- Jesus.
Where the hell did you come from?
- It's one of the perks
of bein' the head honcho.
I don't have to use the
door if I don't want to.
- Look, I've been thinkin'
about this.
- Thinkin' about callin'
into the cops, Chris?
I don't think so.
I've been waiting for this
for more than a hundred years,
more than a lifetime.
I'm not just gonna give you up.
- Why? What about the other guy?
What about the guy in the news? Nathan?
- I had high hopes for Nathan.
Nathan found out things
in the wrong order.
So he's now Dead Nathan.
- I don't understand what
the big deal is with me.
There's gotta be somebody else out there
who wants to be like you?
Why don't you just go find 'em?
The school's full of guys.
- Well, I could tell you
that you're a perfect athletic specimen,
or because you're basically an innocent.
- Hey, I'm Chris.
- Or because you're the reincarnation
of my 200-year-old lover.
Or because the stars were aligned
over your sacred birth sign.
But if I told you that,
I'd be full of shit.
Truth of the matter is,
Chris, old buddy, old pal,
I have a deadline.
Every hundred years, on this
day, by the stroke of midnight,
I have to transfer my soul
into a new body, or I'll die.
Look, I don't make the
rules. I just play the game.
It's the anniversary of that night.
So in order to keep my gift,
I have to find a new body to inhabit.
- (laughs) That's a real bitch.
- I had all set with Nathan,
but it didn't work out.
Shit happens.
There I was, down in the dumps.
And I walked by, and there you were,
perfect body, perfect situation.
- What if I don't want
you to take over my body?
- Uh-uh, you wanna be like me.
More importantly, you wanna be me.
I'm gonna give you that
chance. I need a new vessel.
I'm the president, after all.
If I die or get killed,
my brothers also die.
So you can see why it's
in their best interest
to keep me around.
Anyway, I followed the
rules, find some innocent,
corrupt their soul so that I
can claim it and discard it,
and voila, brand spanking new body.
I'm good to go for another century.
(tense music)
- Shit.
- Going somewhere, Chris?
- Try not to hurt him.
I don't wanna walk around with a limp
for the next hundred years.
Looks like you're in, Chris.
It's time for initiation.
(tense music continues)
- I got your call to meet
you here. What's going on?
Did somebody die?
- Look, you have to talk to Chris.
- Why?
- Because he won't knock you around,
and maybe you can talk
some sense into him.
- (sighs) Look, if Chris
wants to join Doma Tau Omega
and drink himself into a
coma, that's his choice.
He's getting a taste of the high life
and he digs it.
Let him go.
- But he doesn't know the whole story.
That guy Nathan that freaked
out last week, killed himself.
Do you want Chris to be next?
- You don't know that
that had anything to do
with Doma Tau Omega.
- Well, there's one other thing.
- What other thing?
- Well, I kind of snuck into
their frat house last night.
- You did what?
- Look, Megan, I had to.
I couldn't find any
information about them
on the internet or, or in the library.
So I thought that book
sittin' on the table
might have some answers.
- Do you have any idea
what would've happened
if they caught you?
- Listen to me, Megan. These
guys are bad friggin' news.
That book had all kinds of
weird ritual stuff in it,
like some kind of an occult.
And then there was a
group photo collection.
- What group photo collection?
- See, in each one of the
pictures from 1900 until now,
there was a guy in there that
looked just like Devon Isley.
- So, maybe it's his great grandfather,
a distant relative, something like that.
- It was the same guy, Megan.
And there was other pictures,
too, from like the '60s,
where the other members
of the fraternity
were the same, too.
See, every four years,
they go to a new college.
They go to college, they graduate,
and then they change their
names and start all over again.
Only they don't change.
They, they look the same.
It's like they don't age.
- Hell, Dan, this is totally crazy.
- Listen, Megan,
I know what I saw, okay?
- Alright, let's say for
the sake of argument,
and a really weak argument at that,
that this guy that you saw
in every Doma Tau Omega
picture was Devon.
What does it mean,
that he's one of those
guys off "Highlander"?
- Look, I don't know
what it means, okay,
but it doesn't add up.
Okay, some super popular
guy picks lunkhead Chris
out of the whole school
to join the best fraternity on campus,
one week after the last
pledge killed himself.
Then all of a sudden,
lunkhead Chris turns into
mega-asshole Chris, in a day.
- Are you jealous of him?
- No, but I am worried about him.
(sighs)
Look, just, just do me this favor.
Come by the dorm and say hi
to him. Maybe youll see.
- And if I don't see, will
you let this whole thing drop?
- You can lock me in
the loony bin yourself.
(Megan laughs)
(tense music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Hello, strip-o-gram for Chris Chandler.
- I told you, I don't
think he's here, too.
- Holy shit. What happened in here?
- (chuckles) See, you still
think I'm makin' this stuff up?
- Ugh, maybe we should call the cops.
- No. Screw the cops.
They obviously do not
do a whole hell of a lot
about the Omegas.
- Well, what?
- Well, we're gonna
have to look for Chris.
(eerie music)
- Hmm.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I
know where to start lookin'.
- Not the frat house. I'm sorry, Dan.
But if this is as bad as you say it is,
they'll hurt you, or worse.
- Yeah, well, you know, I've
been spendin' my whole life
gettin' knocked around and hurt anyway,
so why break tradition?
- Then I'm going with you.
- You don't have to.
- I'm stuck playing for the
underdog. Why break tradition?
- Let's go.
(eerie music swells)
(unsettling music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Blessed is the brotherhood
of the eternal hunter.
For we are legion. We
are parts of the whole.
Grant this unity a sacred eternal master,
one who may lead all others
down the path of wisdom.
Grant his brothers the strength
that shall fall all enemies.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Let the circle have a lamb,
sacrifices unto a slaughter,
and let this lamb be the master's vessel.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Kneel, lamb, and accept thy sacrifice.
- (spits) Screw you.
- And now, my lamb, stripped
of purity, stripped of self,
(tense music)
I take claim on the improprieties.
I lay claim on thy soul.
And let me empty you so that
I may fill you with thyself.
(tense music continues)
- Come no further.
You're not welcome here.
Then I wanna see Chris
Chandler. Where is he?
- Drop it, Dan. See the ax?
- Yeah, I see it.
- And I hope you'll be leaving.
I have cut off many heads in my old life
as the royal executioner,
and I will have no
problem cutting off yours.
- Mikhail, man, listen, don't hurt me.
I, I just wanna check on my
friend and see if he's okay.
I didn't mean to make anybody mad.
(tense music swells)
(Mikhail gagging)
(unsettling music builds)
- What the hell was that?
- I don't know,
but sometimes bein' the
wimpy guy pays off, huh?
- Yeah, good thing. (sighs)
- I got a distinct feeling the
shit's about to hit the fan.
We gotta end this by
killing that Devon guy.
- Sounds like a plan.
(eerie music)
(jarring tones shriek)
- Let me drink of this lamb
so that I may know eternity in his veins.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Chris! Devon, let him go.
- Christ, Meg, do something
about super geek here,
would you?
- Did you honestly think
that I'd be friends with you
for the sheer hell of it, Danny boy?
- You, you...
- I'm a shill, dumbass.
I go around campus, and I
see who's worth Devon's time.
I set up bumping into Chris.
I set up that whole shtick
with the Alpha Chis.
I'm pretty goddamn good at it.
But then, I should be.
I've been shilling for Devon
for 70 years, give or take.
Hell, I even set it up so I'd
follow you out here tonight.
I didn't see that old thing
with Mikhail coming, though.
You're gonna die slow for that one.
(chaotic music swells)
(Dan screaming)
(suspenseful music)
Well, hot stuff, you did
want a kiss for me, remember?
(tense music swells)
- Call off your pet frat boys, Devon,
or I'm gonna turn your Adam's apple
into a goddamn pin cushion.
- You don't get it, do
you? I'm their sugar daddy.
If I die, they lose their
immortality, and they die, too.
They're not gonna let you hurt me.
- I don't give a shit.
They're not the ones calling
the shots, and neither are you.
Tell 'em to back off,
or I'm gonna kill you.
- What about your friend, Chris?
- That's right, pal, you
either give me the needle,
or I'm gonna have Meg and my
brothers rip your little buddy
into snack-sized pieces.
Kneel, Chris.
(tense music)
- You do what you gotta do,
but I'm not gonna kneel
for you, or beg for you,
or any other goddamn
thing but die on my feet.
- I said kneel, damn you!
- Don't do it, Chris! Screw them, man.
What have they done for you? Ow!
Let me die. I'm not worth
losing your soul over.
(tense music)
(dark ominous music)
- Before I end your worthless life,
I want you to beg for it.
I want you to pray for
me to drain you dry.
(Chris groans)
What've you got to say for yourself?
(tense music)
(Chris breaths heavily)
- Please, Devon.
- Please, Devon? That's a good start.
Doing good so far, let's say the rest.
- I'm goin' to hell for this.
Have a heart, asshole!
(chaotic suspenseful music)
- Tell me one thing.
Didn't you want it, just a little?
This incredible life? (groans)
Didn't you love me, just a little?
- I loved you like a brother.
(dramatic music swells)
(dramatic music continues)
(unsettling music)
- Whoa! Whoa.
What, what just happened, man?
- Devon said that if he died,
the rest of 'em would die, too.
I guess he was right.
- Oh yeah?
So how come you're still alive?
- Because, like I told you,
I'd never join goddamn a fraternity.
- Oh. (laughs)
(unsettling music swells)
(intense music)
(intense music continues)
(intense music continues)
(moves to eerie music)
(moves to dramatic music)
(dramatic music swells)
(moves to intense music)
(intense music continues)
(moves to gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(moves to unsettling music)
(unsettling music continues)
(moves to suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music continues)
- Shit.
- [Otherworldly Voice]
Now, where do you think
you're goin', pal?
(tense music)
- You don't scare me.
- [Otherworldly Voice] Nah,
you don't seem scared at all.
Why should you be scared?
It could all just be part
of your nasty old nightmare.
- I'm gonna tell them.
- [Otherworldly Voice] Who's them?
- The school, the cops. You name it.
Your secret's gonna be out. I mean it.
Everybody's gonna know what
you guys are doin' in there.
- [Otherworldly Voice] What'll you do
when no one believes you?
- Somebody's gonna believe
me. Don't you know that?
- [Otherworldly Voice] I only
know that you swore allegiance
to me, to all of us.
Remember, Nathan, you
were our blood brother.
And now you betrayed all
of us, even yourself.
- What are you gonna do to me?
- [Otherworldly Voice] Aw,
don't worry. We won't kill you.
You're just gonna wish we had.
(tense music swells)
(gentle music)
- Good afternoon, I'm Bettina
Sandoval, coming at you live
from the modest Drake University
campus down by the Commons,
where various fraternities here on campus
have begun their annual
recruiting and pledge week.
It is also where, early this morning,
police discovered the body
of 19-year-old Drake University
sophomore Nathan Darty
after an alleged assault.
What makes this noteworthy, however,
is the fact that local police
are currently investigating
the possibility that perpetrators
of this alleged assault
were in fact members of a
fraternity here on campus
and that the victim's death
was possibly the tragic result
of a hazing crime.
This is the Doma Tau Omega fraternity,
a charter whose reputation,
grade point average,
and ongoing community service efforts
have been, up until now, beyond reproach.
It also makes the
investigation by the police
all the more baffling.
We caught up with the fraternity
and its student president, Devon Isley,
at their annual Save the
Street cleanup campaign
downtown earlier today.
You knew the victim well.
- Yes, we all did.
We were devastated when we heard about it.
Nathan was a good friend.
He was supposed to
officially become a member
of our fraternity today.
- Has your fraternity ever engaged
in any of the alleged hazing activities
at the Drake University campus?
- [Devon] Absolutely not.
- Do you have any idea why the police
would be investigating you in
conjunction with this crime,
despite your fraternity's
sterling reputation?
- Well, (laughs) I wouldn't
really call it sterling.
The only thing is,
aside from the fact that
the victim was a pledge,
that I can see as a reason to question us
is because of our reputation.
I would say that people
are cynical these days,
and when they see what
our organization is doing
and what we've been able to accomplish,
they seem to think that
it's too good to be true.
- Uh, hi.
- Hi. What the hell can I do for you?
- Man, lucky for this
college it's so small,
'cause I can get lost in a hurry.
But this is bungalow seven, right?
- Yeah, so?
- Well, I think I'm your
new roommate, Dan Myers.
- What do you want, a medal?
Look, this is my stuff, okay?
I got it spread out
just the way I like it.
If you wanna stay here,
you might wanna buy
yourself a sleeping bag,
'cause I'm gonna be using both the beds.
Wanna set up a desk? I
think the closet's empty.
Set it up in there.
You got a car?
Good, 'cause when I got a girl in here,
that's where you're gonna be sleeping.
And if you touch my stuff for any reason,
I'll beat you to death, understood?
- I thought I was supposed to be at the-
- (laughs) Jesus, I wish I had a mirror.
You should've seen your face.
- I don't understand. (chuckles)
- Oh, it was a joke. I
was just messin' with ya.
- Oh, okay.
- Sorry about that. I'm Chris Chandler.
- Uh, nice to meet you.
- Well, the fan's broken.
Uh, the closet door sticks.
And the electrical
wiring is from the '50s.
I got here first, so I
call the bed by the window.
You want some help with those?
- Nope, thanks. I can manage.
This is kind of a small
room, don't you think?
- Actually, I think it's one
of the bigger rooms on campus.
Drake's kind of a small college, you know?
- Hey, TV set.
I forgot to bring my man. Do we get cable?
- Forget it, the only thing I can pick up
is the local news station,
and all they're showing
is that weird thing
that happened on campus this morning.
- Oh yeah? What happened this morning?
- I guess they found some kid's body
lyin' out on the campus.
- They even asked the guys one by one
if they'd ever been
abused by the fraternity.
I thought the question was uncalled for,
even bordered ridiculous.
- Wow.
- Yeah, he was pledging a
fraternity or something.
All the frats on camp are into
this weird pledging thing.
- Was it anybody that you knew?
- I just got here, and anyway,
I don't know anybody in a fraternity,
especially not, what, Doma Tau Omega.
- Oh, that's who that
guy's with, Doma Tau Omega?
I heard about those guys.
They're supposed to be one
of the most prestigious
fraternities in the country.
- Yeah, that's why I
don't know any of 'em.
- You're not gonna pledge a fraternity?
- I'm doin' okay by myself.
- Hmm, some people don't
have a problem with it.
- Like you?
- I think it's a moot point with me.
I mean, I'm not exactly
fraternity material, you know?
- Well, I don't need a
fraternity. I'm taken care of.
- [Dan] How'd you do that?
- All state swim team,
three years running.
- Ah, I should've known.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Well, I mean, you're a, you know,
you're, you're a jock, right?
You probably got in on
an athletic scholarship?
- Actually, no, Dan.
I paid full tuition just
like you or anybody.
You shouldn't stereotype people.
- Look, I'm sorry, man.
I didn't know. I didn't know, I was...
- (laughs) I'm just messin'
with you again, Dan.
Yeah, I got in on a swim team scholarship.
You seriously need to lighten up.
- It's my first time
away from home, you know?
- You gotta relax, Dan.
I think you've seen "Revenge of the Nerds"
one too many times.
- Actually, I, I think it
was "Fraternity Vacation."
- Oh, it was definitely "Animal House."
- [Both] Scoring.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, well, anyway, we're
both too young for bars,
we live in a building full of guys,
and my first class is
at seven in the morning.
I think it's safe to say
we're both total losers.
- I guess you have a good point there.
Well, I should probably get unpacked.
- What do you have in those
things anyway? Clothes?
- No, worse.
I guess some of those stereotypes
are real, huh? (laughs)
(gentle music)
(students chattering faintly)
(moves to intense music)
(intense music continues)
(intense music continues)
(intense music slows)
- He's the one.
- Are you sure?
- He's beautiful. He's perfect.
- Campus is full of guys like him.
- Yes, but I've been watching this one
since the semester started.
He's an innocent. He's strong.
Like I said, he's perfect.
- What about lookin' around for some more?
- No, we're runnin' out of
time. The last one cost us.
We've only got a few
days till the deadline.
I want this one.
- Then what do we do?
- You know the routine.
We turn on the charm.
(unsettling music)
(soft curious music)
- Hi.
- Hi.
(bike clanging and thudding)
(Chris groans)
- Terrific.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Car trouble?
- No, more like girl trouble.
- I'm Devon Isley.
- Hey, I'm Chris.
Yeah, I saw you on the news yesterday.
- Oh hell, we're off to a good start then.
You probably think I'm an ax murderer.
- Ah, no, I just thought it
was the usual college bullshit.
- Yeah, well, let's what
the cops think so, too.
This is Mikhail.
- What's up?
- Jordan, and Barry.
- Hey.
- You on your way to class?
- Yeah.
- Do you need any help with your bike?
- Oh, no, I think I'm good to go. Thanks.
Hey, wow, is that your fraternity pin?
It's a lot bigger than the
usual ones I see around here.
- Yeah, it's a tultra, Babylonian symbol.
It means the eternal hunter.
- Looks expensive.
- [Devon] Yeah, it is.
- Hey, no offense, man.
- Nah, you didn't offend me.
We'll see you around, Chris.
(students chattering faintly)
- Looks expensive. Jesus,
that sounds stupid.
(light guitar music)
(singer crooning indistinctly)
(students chattering faintly)
- What happened to you?
You look like shit.
- Well, thanks, pal.
- Hey, Chris, someone's
gotta point this stuff
out to you, right?
- Well, do me a favor.
Don't be that somebody.
- So what happened?
- I sort of took a spill
on my bike this morning.
- Is that the whole story?
- Actually, there was a chick involved.
- You, (laughs) you hit some
chick with your 10-speed?
- No, Einstein, I was scoping a chick,
and I accidentally whacked
my front end on a bush.
It happens.
- Not to me, it doesn't.
So, uh, where did you and
this alleged girl end up?
- Well, I said hi. She said hi.
I noticed I was gonna hit
a bush, and I crashed,
and then she split, the end.
(Dan laughs)
You got that all down?
Is there anything else I
can do to amuse you today?
- Hey, I'm livin' vicariously through you.
You wanna know the most
exciting thing I did today?
I programmed my first DOS
to Unix conversion protocol
in computer science class.
And do you wanna know how many
women were involved in that?
None, nada, zip.
- Well, it's still not funny.
- Do you wanna know what
the problem with you is?
You can dish it out, but
you just can't take it.
- I'm bigger than you.
I don't have to take it.
- Ha-ha-ha, asshole. Here's one for ya.
If I'm in college, why am
I still eatin' sack lunch?
Chris?
- It's her.
- Uh, hey, Chris. Uh, Chris.
- Well, hiya, sis.
Mom and Dad warned me I was
gonna have to keep an eye out
for you once you got into college.
Oh, you guys wouldn't
be givin' my kid sister
a hard time, would ya?
- Why don't you do
yourself favor, huh, buddy?
Mind your business own goddamn
business, huh, sport-o.
I'm just tryin' to see here
if this lovely lady'd like
to hang out with us tonight.
- And I said no.
- Well, it looks like you got your answer.
Any other questions you
guys would like to ask?
- Do you see this, asshole?
This is an Alpha Chi pin.
If you weren't a dickhead freshman,
you'd know that you
shouldn't be messing with us.
And guess what, pal?
You're messing with us.
- Well, I'm not impressed.
- Well, maybe if me and my brothers here
beat the living shit outta
your worthless freshman ass,
you might.
- Hey, uh, Chris.
- Well, that may be true.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty big for a freshman.
(scoffs) Heck, I outweigh
weigh you by, what, 20 pounds?
And I hit really hard.
In fact, by the time your
brothers here get to me,
I'm willing to bet cash
money I can break your nose,
bust your jaw, lose a
couple of your teeth,
and make sure that the
next girl you hit on
is the nurse down at the hospital.
I might even tack that
frickin' pin to your forehead
as a warning to others.
So what's it gonna be? You
gonna call my bet or what?
- You mess with one of us,
you're gonna have to mess with all of us.
- Maybe so, and you could
probably all kill me,
but I'm only gonna be
concentrating on you.
- You know what, freshman, I
think me and my brothers here
are gonna be paying you
a visit really soon.
See you around, dead boy.
- Yeah, thanks. I'm always
lookin' for company.
Jesus.
- Are you insane?
Those frat guys are serious.
- It's all bullshit.
If those guys had any guts,
they'd have put me in the hospital.
- Hey, never say never, you know.
- Well, well, my knight in shining armor.
- Uh, hi.
- Hi. I see you survived the crash.
- Yeah.
- You boys wanna sit down or what?
Hey, I appreciate what
you just went through,
but I didn't need the rescue.
I was handling it.
They were just some frat bozos
in need of a testosterone fix.
- You looked like you needed
some help, so I helped.
Chris Chandler.
- Megan.
(unsettling music)
(unsettling music swells)
And, um, you are?
- The third wheel.
(Megan laughs)
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- That's an unusual name.
- Well, actually, it's Dan.
Uh, I've heard a lot about you.
- Really? Were you told
about what nice tits I have?
I get that one a lot.
Or was it the same old boring,
"Hey, I'd like to bang her."
- Hey, I, I didn't-
- Actually, believe it or not,
Chris here is a decent,
worthwhile human being,
which would explain why
he has a schmuck like me tagging along.
- And why he goes around
saving damsels in distress, no doubt.
- Oh, and that, too.
- Hey, I'm right here.
Can I please talk about me, too?
- Go right ahead.
- I don't have anything to say.
- Then I'm back to pestering you.
Do you have a problem with
the frats or something?
- Why does everybody keep
asking me about that?
- Is the answer yes?
- The answer is that I'm
just out doin' my own thing.
A bunch of guys wanna
bother me or my friends
just because they get it into their head
that they're in some secret society
and that makes them better than me,
that's when I have a problem.
- Fair enough. And you?
- Well, I was kicked outta the chess club
in ninth grade for being too geeky,
so I'll probably get a date
before I'm ever sponsored into a frat.
- (laughs) Okay, well,
the reason why I ask
is because my roommate is dating one
of the guys from Doma Tau Omega,
and they're having this big
bash at their place tonight.
She invited me to go, and
she said I could bring
a friend or two, if I wanted.
- Doma Tau Omega, Christ.
- Chris, wow, this could
be a big deal, man.
- Boy, you guys sound like
you really have a problem
with Doma Tau Omega.
- Actually, I bumped into
that Devon guy this morning
just after I, uh, met you.
Seemed like an alright guy.
- Tres impressive, you're
a real social butterfly
on that 10-speed of yours.
- Yeah, well, I do get around.
- (laughs) See, I don't really
wanna go there all by myself.
I mean, it's a frat party,
and I'm just a young slip of a lass.
I don't really know anyone yet,
and you guys seem like you'd
make sure I got home okay.
I don't know a whole lot
about Doma Tau Omega,
but evidently, they throw some
pretty wild parties there,
and you can't even get
in without an invite.
I'm game. How about you two?
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Chris, this could be a big deal, man.
- It's not really my scene, that's all.
- Look, we can go to this
shindig, and if it looks bad,
or if there's a fight
brewing, we split, okay?
No further obligation.
- Do you know how many really
cool parties I get invited to?
Actually, do you know how many parties
I get invited to, period?
- Do not lay your guilt trip on me, okay?
I didn't go to high school with you.
You can't blame me for every jockhead
that stuffed you in a locker.
- I wasn't doin' that. Was I?
- You're into rescuing me.
You should think about rescuing me
from another boring Friday night.
- (chuckles) You two want a bigger bag
for all the you're bullshit
shoveling right now?
- Come on, it'll be the best
night of your life, Chris.
(Chris sighs)
- Okay, I'll go.
- Mm, yes!
- Great. I'll meet you guys
back here at, let's say, nine?
- Sure, nine.
- Hey, wow, that's a lot of
reading. Uh, what's your major?
- Psychology, what else?
See ya around, fellas. Stay outta trouble.
- Man, I think we just
got totally scammed.
- Who are you kiddin', man? You love it.
(unsettling music)
(thunder rumbling)
What?
- Nothing.
- There is nothing wrong with
the way I'm dressed, okay.
- Well, not if you're going to a funeral.
- Hmm?
- You're tying this wrong. Here.
There.
Better.
- Well, what about you,
Casanova? You call that a style?
- Hey, it's not like I
own any Armani, okay?
This'll do just fine.
- I think you're better off in sweats.
Hey, let's face it.
We're no party animals.
- (sighs) It's your call.
We don't have to go.
- And disappoint Megan?
- You sound more worried about
disappointing Megan than me.
- Well, hey, I don't say no,
because yes it doesn't
come around too often,
you know what I mean?
Besides, I bet you have tons
of hot, narcissistic little cheerleaders
you can pick up anytime.
But me, I'm stuck with what I got.
- This is different.
- How is it different?
- Look, I don't know
what you think about me,
but my life wasn't one big
beer bash in high school.
- Really?
- Really.
There's plenty of opportunity
to party, if I wanted to.
Just didn't want to.
- And why not?
- I don't know.
(soft affecting music)
Growing up, my dad was a
pretty miserable person,
who drank a lot.
He skipped out on me and my mom
when I was about 12 years
old and never came back.
I mean, I remember thinking, shit,
that's the last person
I ever wanna be like.
So I sort of promised
myself I'd never drank,
and I never really have.
I mean, I know it sounds stupid, (sighs)
but that's just the way
I was in high school.
Never really drank, never did any drugs.
Went on a couple dates, but
mostly just studied and...
Kind of dumb, huh?
- Nah, man, it's not dumb.
- Then why are you
lookin' at me like that?
- It's like, it's like
we led parallel lives,
but we couldn't be more
different, except for, uh, um...
- Except what?
- Well, except if I would've been you,
I would've been party central.
- Oh, come off it.
- No, seriously.
First of all, I would've kicked the shit
out of every other jock in school.
I would've been like Genghis Khan, man.
I would've gone into
the locker room one day
with a baseball bat, just
cracked all their skulls.
Then I would've taken their women,
wiped out their village,
and set fire to the school.
- Okay, now you're just gettin' crazy.
- Okay, maybe, but I
would've partied, though,
if someone would've let me.
It's just, it's just weird to see somebody
with a life I can only dream of having,
and them not doin' anything with it.
- You think it's some great achievement
being popular in school,
drinking yourself to death,
dating a cheerleader?
- I don't know. I mean, I
never had it, so I don't know.
- You're better off being yourself.
Just trust me on that one.
- I don't know, 'cause I could
let you borrow my calculator.
- Mm-hmm, you could probably
start workin' out, too.
- We gonna do this party or what?
- You're still gonna make me go
after I poured my guts out to you?
- Absolutely, hey, if
I'm gonna attempt fate
and plunge into the great
unknown, so are you.
Besides, you're the one who's
gonna end up with Megan.
- Girls like Megan don't
end up with anybody.
- Maybe, maybe not.
I mean, do you honestly think
she's gonna trust herself
to a couple of strange dudes
she met outside the college cafeteria
and invited to a frat party?
I don't.
- Maybe she likes you.
- Maybe she thinks we're a couple.
- Oh brother, that's all we need.
Do you like her?
- Well, let's just say I
wouldn't kick her outta bed
for eatin' crackers, okay.
Even if my dog's name
was Crackers. (laughs)
- So go by yourself. You'll
put the odds in your favor.
- I have my night all planned out, man.
I'm gonna drink a lot of booze,
hit on all the wrong women,
get punched and threatened a lot,
then I'm gonna spend all night pukin'
after you drag me home.
You'd be ruining the perfect plan.
- Well, that sounds like
it'd be for the better.
- Listen, Chris, if you don't go,
I will tell Megan we're a couple,
and I mean it, stud muffin.
- Okay, I'll go, you lame-oid.
- Yes! Let's do this.
(faint upbeat music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Far out. He's got an ax.
- [Chris] (sighs) You don't say.
- Play nice, Chris.
Well, we're probably not gonna
have any fun unless we go in.
Parties are kooky like that.
- Yeah.
- What?
- Come on, all star. It's time
to show a lady a good time.
(Faint upbeat music continues)
(guests chattering softly)
Um, hi. Can we go to the party?
- Infidels, do you dare pass this gate
without your invitations?
- Oh yeah, the invitations, sure. You bet.
Will these do, tough guy?
- (laughs) I had you goin' there, huh?
- Yeah. Michael, right?
- Mikhail, my new friend
Chris. But you were close.
Do you approve?
- (laughs) I think it's neat.
- It was Devon's idea.
He said it would make the
party more interesting.
I like the ax, keeps away the crashers.
- Oh.
So, yeah, (chuckles) so
cool accent, Mikhail.
Uh, where you from?
- New Jersey.
- Oh.
- You three go inside
and enjoy yourselves.
I've gotta take tickets all night.
Drink some for me.
I'm really glad you showed tonight, Chris.
We should have given you
the invitations directly.
- Uh, sure.
- Devon will also be very
pleased that you showed.
- Right, well, I'll be sure
to thank him if I see him.
- Oh, you'll see him.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
(soft upbeat music continues)
(guests chattering faintly)
- Kind of sedate for a frat party.
- Yeah, so much for the kegs
and the stair-diving, right?
- Well, I do see some women in here.
- That's the spirit.
- Well, you didn't let me finish.
I do see some women in here
that wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire.
- (laughs) Well, at
least you're not on fire.
- Thanks for the support.
- (sighs) Well, kids, what's the plan?
Do we stand here and look
like dorks, or do we mingle?
- Hey, I came to the party.
I fulfilled my end of the bargain.
Nobody said anything about mingling.
- He's gonna look like a dork
whether he's standin' here or not, so.
- We could dance, you know?
I think I at least owe you a dance.
Um, hello? Is there anybody there?
(low eerie music)
(thunder rumbling)
Isn't that the of the
fraternity, Kevin or Devon?
- It's Devon.
- Right, Devon Isley.
Ooh, scary. I think he wants you, Chris,
- Whatever. I'll be right back, okay?
Why don't you and Dan go
find somewhere to make out.
I'll be right back.
- I like your angry side,
Chris. I think it's cute.
- Yeah, his little face gets all red.
- I'll just be a minute.
- I lose more guys that way.
- Hi.
- Well, hello, Chris. I'm
glad you could join us.
- I, uh, almost didn't.
- Well, and I'm doubly surprised
because I don't remember
giving you an invitation.
This is a fraternity
function, brothers only.
- I came with some of my friends.
The girl had the
invitations. You can ask her.
- I'm screwing with you,
Chris. Mi casa es su casa.
- [Chris] Right.
- Chris is acting kind of weird, actually.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, well, I had to
wrestle him all night
just to get him here,
and now he's ditchin'
us for this Devon dude.
- Maybe he just wants to be popular.
- No, this is a whole
other league from popular.
This is like the fall
of Rome or somethin'.
(Megan laughs)
- What do you think?
- Uh, it's nice.
- This place is over 500 years old.
- Wow, 500.
- Well, most of it's a
Catholic church from Spain.
It was abandoned after the Crusades.
The original owners of
this land brought it over,
board by board, stone by stone.
They had it rebuilt by an
all-Spanish team of craftsmen.
It cost them a fortune.
- I'll bet.t
- Yeah, it's just money,
though, just things.
This could be a hacienda
to you, and to me,
it's just a old church with bad wiring.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
Did you know they used to send kids,
or small children actually,
into battle during the Crusades?
It's true.
It makes you think about the
nature of things, doesn't it?
Yeah, to me, it takes
away from the splendor
of a pad like this.
- We're gettin' kind of deep
for our first conversation.
- I'm gettin' deep? Shit.
I don't usually get deep
till my second bottle of rum.
- What do you think you're doing?
- I was, uh...
What, was I supposed
to not try and read it?
This thing might have some secrets
on how these guys pick
up women or something.
- Not a good idea, Dan.
These, these frat guys are really weird
about people looking
at their secret stuff.
Do you wanna get us thrown out of here?
Come on, let's go. Wait by
the door for Chris, okay?
- Okay, okay.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
- Jordan, my man, I'm gonna
need some more liquor.
- Aye, aye, capt'n.
- Don't they usually dole
that out with an eyedropper?
- Yeah, they're supposed to, yeah.
But who does what they're supposed to?
What about you? Name your poison.
- Oh, I don't have a poison.
- Really? Alright,
we'll find you one then.
Absinthe, on the rocks.
- The devil's brew,
think you can handle it?
- Yeah, the kid can handle anything.
Look, Chris, you can't deny
anything until you've tried it
and learned how to hate it firsthand.
Who said the path of excess
leads to the palace of wisdom?
Was it Nietzsche?
- Oh, I don't think it was Nietzsche.
- Alright, we're okay then. Try it.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
- How was it?
- It really didn't taste
much like anything.
- Right, another demon cut down to size.
Tell me, why'd you take a drink of that?
- Because-
- Because I asked you to.
- Well-
- You're among friends now,
Chris, you can tell us.
- Well, yeah. Okay,
because you told me to.
- Good for you. That's the first step.
- First step to what?
- Well, let's get movin',
keeps the blood flowin'.
- What? Are we going to your bedroom?
- Yeah. It's right down the hall.
- (sighs) And with that, he was gone.
- Are you gonna show me what that is?
- Tell you all that
when we get to my room.
(girl giggles)
- I don't get it.
The one guy who doesn't
wanna come tonight ends up
rubbin' elbows with the big man on campus.
I swear to God, I hate jocks.
- I think you're selling
yourself short, Dan.
- Really?
Well, you know, I try not
to talk about my good looks
or my wealthy family,
or how good I am in
the sack, but you know.
- At least you ended up
with the girl, right?
- Oh, I get it.
If you can't have steak,
you'll settle for hamburger.
- Well, you have to cut
up steak with a knife,
and I'm really lazy.
- Okay, well, I guess I'll leave the rest
of the analogies at home for the night.
- Yeah, I think that's a good choice.
- Ow.
I think I hit my arm.
- I remember my first beer.
(soft upbeat music)
(guests chattering faintly)
(thunder rumbling)
You know, drunken spectacles
aren't really my scene.
Do you wanna go somewhere
boring and grab some coffee?
I'll buy.
- Uh, what about Chris?
- I think it's safe to say that
Chris is no longer a factor.
Let's make tracks.
- Okay.
(low eerie music)
- Hey, hey, hey. Can you
just slow down, cowpoke?
- You drank the whole thing, Christopher.
- So?
- Well, Jordan was right.
It's the devil's brew.
Looks like you're done
for the evening, my man.
Welcome to the wonderful
world of inebriation.
- Oh, not too shabby.
Where the hell are we anyway?
Is this one of those frat things
where you and the brothers
get some guy drunk
and take him out back and
kick the shit out of him?
- No, not quite, Chris.
- Well, then what is it? Why me?
- Why not you?
- Because you and me are nothing alike.
You hang out with your crowd,
and I watch from the sidelines.
- That's by your choice, not mine.
But if you really felt that
way, why'd you take that drink?
It's obvious you didn't want to.
Why'd you follow me out here
if you thought I was
settin' you up for beating?
- (scoffs) Well, you make one mistake,
you gotta follow it through, right?
The second I stepped into
your little hacienda up there,
I was screwed. (chuckles)
- Look, Chris, we're gods here.
We wear the best clothes,
get the best grades,
drive the best cars.
We have all the women and all the gratis
we could possibly want.
Why on earth would I spend my
time screwin' up your life?
- Because maybe you're bored.
- Good answer. Possibly true.
I am bored. I need a project.
I need to find the right
guy to bring outta the shit
and remake in my own image.
Out of all the guys at Drake University,
out of all the men on
this campus, I chose you.
You have the heart to be your own self.
I've seen you stand up
for what you believe in.
I need that spirit on my side.
- And then?
- You ever see the keys
to the kingdom, Chris?
Well, this comes close.
(eerie music swells)
- Hey, I found us a spot.
- [Dan] This place is kind
of creepy in the dark.
- Thanks. Where did you find
coffee at this time of night?
- Ah, Doofy Donuts across the street
from the old chem building.
Nothin' but the best for my dates.
- Well, I never turn up my
nose at a free cup of coffee.
- It's a good policy.
(Megan sighs)
- What's wrong? Is it the company?
- No.
- The coffee?
It wouldn't happen to be Chris, would it?
- I just, I don't understand
why he ditched us. That's all.
- Are you jealous of him?
- No.
- Jealous of Devon?
- No. (scoffs)
I don't know, maybe.
It's just, you know, guys like Chris
used to beat me up back in high school,
except Chris isn't really like that.
I never thought someone like
that would be my friend.
- Hmm.
- Now-
- And now you're afraid
that he's gonna be friends
with Devon and not with you, right?
- I don't know. Somethin' like that, yeah.
Stupid, huh?
- I still don't get it.
- When you sober up, you will.
Remember me tellin' you
about this, the tultra.
- Yeah, it means the hunter,
right, like Sagittarius.
- The eternal hunter,
it stands for everything we believe in.
We never rest until we
get what we seek in life.
And I'm offering you a way in.
Doma Tau Omega is a
century-old organization,
and all of its members live
a very special lifestyle.
I'm not talkin' about just college.
I'm talkin' about the rest of your life.
Don't you wanna tap into that, Chris?
- You want me to join your fraternity?
- You already belong. You wanna belong.
You took that drink from me.
You came out here for me.
Now I'm just offerin' you a chance
to follow me with a purpose.
- I don't want to, okay.
I mean, thanks, but no.
- Why not?
- Because all that
belonging jazz is horseshit.
I don't need to be a
part of your little group
to get by in life.
- You convinced yourself, you mean?
But if you deny me, you deny
yourself all that popularity,
all those trappings of power.
And you want those things. I know you do.
- If Chris is really the
great guy you think he is,
he'll still be friends with you, right?
- I don't know, I'm
not exactly experienced
in the whole friends department.
- He will be, Dan. Just
let him have his fun.
This is all new stuff to him.
If I have Chris figured
out, and I think that I do,
he'll get bored with it after a while.
- Bored with it, (scoffs) with those guys?
- Stranger things have happened.
- Like?
- I don't know.
- You're goin' through a lot of trouble
for just one new pledge, don't you think?
- I think you might be worth it.
Choose now or leave.
(Chris sighs)
- Well, what if I stay?
- You make a pact with
me, right here, in blood.
That way I know you won't break it.
- In blood?
- I did it. All the members did it.
They've been doin' it for
years in the fraternity.
If you're serious enough to stay,
then you won't mind sheddin'
little blood to prove it to me.
Besides, you're so drunk
you won't even feel it.
- (scoffs) Okay, I'll play
your little joke out, right?
You wanna stick me in your
fraternity? Go for it.
Cut me up.
- Hold up your right hand.
(eerie music swells)
- What the...
Ow, what the...
(Chris groans)
(tense music swells)
Oh, man, that was sick.
(eerie music)
- Now your turn.
You have to take the blood back
to keep the circle unbroken.
- Uh-uh, champ. I, uh, changed my-
(tense music)
- Drink, Chris.
(tense music swells)
(bell tolls)
(Chris coughs)
- (groans) What did I just do?
- You accepted my proposal.
You're a blood brother now, Chris.
- No, no.
I'm just drunk.
- Yeah, we'll be waiting
for you when you wake up,
at the beginning of your new life.
(unsettling music)
- (smooches) But, um,
right now, I have to run.
I have this huge Saturday
morning psych test,
and if I don't get some studying in,
I'm gonna fail like you wouldn't believe.
Hey, um, thanks for the coffee.
We should hang out again sometime soon.
- Yeah, you bet.
- Oh, and tell Chris I say hi, okay?
(thunder rumbling)
- (scoffs) Un-freaking-believable.
(unsettling music)
- [Devon] The tultra must be
used in the arm or the palm,
or it brings about certain death.
(unsettling music continues)
Welcome to your new life.
Taste blood two more times,
and you will join the
brotherhood, forever.
(unsettling music continues)
(Chris coughing)
- Chris. Hey man, what the hell?
Are you gonna wake up
sometime this week or what?
- What the hell's goin' on?
- Well, you popped in
around eight this morning
and died right here on the bed.
- Where's Megan?
- You ditched her for Diamond
Devon and the Omega boys.
So I played the sympathy card
and took her out for coffee.
I don't wanna excite you,
but she did gimme a peck on
the cheek before it was over.
(laughs) Boy, you sure
made up for lost time
with that drinkin'.
- What do you mean?
- You slept for like 12 hours straight?
Let's face it, your system
cannot hang with the big boys.
(Chris groans)
- What's wrong?
- (groans) My stomach.
- It's called a hangover,
you putz. (laughs)
- No, no, it's more like a cramp.
- You alright?
- Now it's gone.
- Hmm.
(unsettling music)
- What's with the suitcase?
- I don't know. You tell me.
Some guy dropped it off
for you this morning.
He said it was some clothes
you forgot from home.
- Some guy? Clothes?
- Was it somebody from Doma Tau Omega?
- (laughs) Why the heck would
someone from Doma Tau Omega
give you clothes?
- Nevermind.
- (whistles) Say, nice threads.
- Look, I said nevermind.
I gotta get cleaned up.
- How come? You got a hot
day tonight or somethin'?
- You my mother now or somethin'?
I'm just goin' out, okay?
- Then, uh, probably don't
wanna forget this, huh?
Looks expensive.
- Don't worry about it.
- What's with the fancy pin, man?
You, uh, you an Omega pledge now?
'Cause, uh, your tune
sure changed in a hurry.
- Let it go, Dan, okay.
- Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
You knocked back a couple
with Mr. Personality,
and that's it?
It's, it's okay for you
to do all those things
you were against doin' only last night?
- Let it drop, man. Last time.
- No, Chris.
You see, man, I thought I
got to know you last night.
The guy I got to know is
a worthwhile human being.
I mean, if you wanna drink, that's okay,
but know why you're doin' it,
'cause I don't think you do know.
(tense music swells)
- Stay outta my way, Dan.
You do that, and we'll
both get along. Jesus.
- Chris, man, what's wrong with you?
(tense music)
(bell tolls)
(unsettling music)
(moves to slow suspenseful music)
(thunder rumbling)
(tense music)
(moves to unsettling music)
(moves to ominous music)
Okay.
Where's the dirt on you guys?
(suspenseful music swells)
(moves to tense music)
What the hell?
(moves to suspenseful music)
David Illingham?
This has gotta be a fluke.
(suspenseful music continues)
(suspenseful music builds)
(bell tolls)
Oh, Chris.
What did you get yourself into, man?
(tense music)
- When Devon and the new
guy get here in a minute,
we can get here this party goin'.
- I'm not bartending.
- (chuckles) You gotta. I'm not gonna.
(tense music continues)
- Shit.
(tense music swells)
(door clicks shut)
(thunder rumbling)
- Told you we'd come back and
visit you again, huh, asshole?
Looks like you picked the wrong
clothes to wear for tonight.
- Just leave me alone.
- Aw, what's the matter,
dickhead, your tummy hurt?
Maybe next year when they unwire your jaw,
you'll learn to treat the
Alpha Chi with respect.
(baseball bat thuds)
(Chris groans)
Pick his up. I wanna break
his goddamn nose off.
(uneasy music)
Aw, no frickin' way. Put him down.
He's got an Omega pin on. He's
a pledge, for Christ's sake.
I don't wanna those guys off.
- Too late.
(tense music)
- Look, Isley, this
ain't got nothin' to do
with any of you guys.
One of your freshman brothers
disgraced one of our brothers.
We're just payin' him back as dues.
- Then you better not act
like you're gonna hit
me with that bat, huh?
I might get the wrong idea.
- You guys aren't so big.
We have every right,
just as much as your fraternity does even.
Someone shit's on us, we retaliate.
- Okay, fine, you cracked my pledge
in the head with a bat, guess what?
It's time to retaliate.
- You guys come any closer,
I swear to God I'm gonna hit somebody.
I mean it.
- I'm gettin' bored by all this.
Bring me the head of
whichever one of these guys
made him bleed.
Guessin' it's flounder here
with the Louisville Slugger.
- You got it, boss.
- Gimme the toy, friend.
(baseball bat cracks)
(Mikhail laughs)
- Aw, shit.
(baseball bat thudding)
(Alpha Chi leader grunting)
(blows cracking)
(Alpha Chi members groaning)
(tense music continues)
(blows continue cracking)
(Alpha Chi members groaning)
(tense music swells)
- Bye bye.
(unsettling music)
- You probably have a lot
on your mind at the moment.
- I just took a baseball bat to the mouth
and barely felt it.
What did you do to me?
(groans) Tell me what
you did to me, asshole!
- Now, now, that's enough
of the name-calling.
Anyway, I'm gonna fix you right up.
- How?
- Hair of the dog, as
Nazareth used to say.
I'm takin' you to a party.
(unsettling music continues)
(thunder rumbling)
(energetic music)
What do you think, Chris?
We have parties like this every night.
They're like moths to
a flame. They love us.
They wanna be just like us.
Since they can't be,
they come to our parties.
They pay attention to us in
class. They pay us respect.
- So what?
You party every night. You get
good grades during the day.
(scoffs) Some life.
- No, it's more than
that, and you know it is.
The eternal hunter, Chris,
that's me. That's you.
That's all the guys in the fraternity.
We're the beautiful ones who don't die.
You act like you've been
given a curse, Chris.
But really, you've been
given the best gift
anybody could be given.
All the money in the world couldn't buy
what I've given to you,
and I gave it to you willingly.
Ah, but you look like a man
in dire need of a drink.
And here comes one now.
- (giggles) Devon, baby.
- Hi, Sandy.
- Is it me tonight?
- No, not tonight.
Tonight, I'm giving you to the new guy.
- New guy?
- Sandy, meet Chris.
- (giggles) Hi, Chris.
- Hi, Sandy.
- (sighs) I'm wet like a honey pot.
What are we gonna do about it? (giggles)
- We're gonna show Chris
where the magic happens
around here, Sandy, that's
what we're gonna do.
So long to those dreams
Romeo and Juliet
(thunder rumbling)
(eerie music)
- Are you nice, new guy? (laughs)
Can you play nice with Sandy, hmm?
(Sandy giggling)
- Sandy's great. She shows
up at all our parties.
And right about this
time, she's so far gone,
you could whack her in
the head with a shovel,
and she wouldn't even know it.
- A shovel? Is that what the
new guy's packing? (laughs)
Come 'ere, let Sandy play you.
- [Devon] There's nothin' to
be scared of. I'm with you now.
- Scared of what?
- They're like moths to a flame, Chris.
Isn't that what I said?
Why do you think we have these parties?
- [Chris] What are you?
- A fraternity, Chris, blood brothers.
They all have their rites of passage.
But maybe, just maybe, a long while ago,
some guy was toolin'
around with those rites,
and he found a better way to do it,
a way in which, if you did it right,
you could stay in college forever.
And you could live and
relive all the glory days,
all the great home games,
all the good times.
You gotta pay to play.
Even the big man on
campus pukes his ass off
at 3:30 in the morning
after the big party.
As for Doma Tau Omega, well,
price is a little different.
It's not like date rape.
Hell, if we just asked
'em for little blood,
they'd probably do it sober.
But you know there'd be that one person
who would blab about the frat
guys suckin' their blood.
So we do it in a more conservative way.
- You're a vampire?
- No, vampires wear capes and have fangs.
I drive a Maserati
and spend an hour a
day in a tanning booth.
Vampires are myths. They don't exist.
We're the reality.
Nobody gets hurt. Nobody dies.
We extract our price,
and everyone benefits.
You think those Alpha Chi
assholes could ever dream
of havin' parties like the ones we have?
I'm afraid you can't
knock the life, Chris.
You already belong.
You wanted to belong. Now you do.
- It's okay, new guy. I don't mind.
- I can't.
- You will.
(tense music)
(thunder rumbling)
(Sandy giggles)
(moves to dark suspenseful music)
(dark music swells)
(music grows ominous)
(Sandy sighing)
(Sandy moaning)
(dark music continues)
(Sandy moaning)
(moves to eerie music)
(eerie music slows)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(moves to haunting music)
(Sandy moaning and sighing)
(moves to dramatic music)
(dramatic music continues)
(Sandy moaning and sighing)
(dramatic music swells)
(tense music fades)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(low tense music)
How do you feel?
- I, I feel
alive.
(low tense music continues)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(bells chiming)
(birds chirping)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(electricity sizzling)
(thunder rumbling)
(jarring note shrieks)
(heartbeat throbbing)
(thunder rumbling)
(eerie tones resonating)
(wind whooshing)
(suspenseful music)
- Second thoughts?
- Jesus.
Where the hell did you come from?
- It's one of the perks
of bein' the head honcho.
I don't have to use the
door if I don't want to.
- Look, I've been thinkin'
about this.
- Thinkin' about callin'
into the cops, Chris?
I don't think so.
I've been waiting for this
for more than a hundred years,
more than a lifetime.
I'm not just gonna give you up.
- Why? What about the other guy?
What about the guy in the news? Nathan?
- I had high hopes for Nathan.
Nathan found out things
in the wrong order.
So he's now Dead Nathan.
- I don't understand what
the big deal is with me.
There's gotta be somebody else out there
who wants to be like you?
Why don't you just go find 'em?
The school's full of guys.
- Well, I could tell you
that you're a perfect athletic specimen,
or because you're basically an innocent.
- Hey, I'm Chris.
- Or because you're the reincarnation
of my 200-year-old lover.
Or because the stars were aligned
over your sacred birth sign.
But if I told you that,
I'd be full of shit.
Truth of the matter is,
Chris, old buddy, old pal,
I have a deadline.
Every hundred years, on this
day, by the stroke of midnight,
I have to transfer my soul
into a new body, or I'll die.
Look, I don't make the
rules. I just play the game.
It's the anniversary of that night.
So in order to keep my gift,
I have to find a new body to inhabit.
- (laughs) That's a real bitch.
- I had all set with Nathan,
but it didn't work out.
Shit happens.
There I was, down in the dumps.
And I walked by, and there you were,
perfect body, perfect situation.
- What if I don't want
you to take over my body?
- Uh-uh, you wanna be like me.
More importantly, you wanna be me.
I'm gonna give you that
chance. I need a new vessel.
I'm the president, after all.
If I die or get killed,
my brothers also die.
So you can see why it's
in their best interest
to keep me around.
Anyway, I followed the
rules, find some innocent,
corrupt their soul so that I
can claim it and discard it,
and voila, brand spanking new body.
I'm good to go for another century.
(tense music)
- Shit.
- Going somewhere, Chris?
- Try not to hurt him.
I don't wanna walk around with a limp
for the next hundred years.
Looks like you're in, Chris.
It's time for initiation.
(tense music continues)
- I got your call to meet
you here. What's going on?
Did somebody die?
- Look, you have to talk to Chris.
- Why?
- Because he won't knock you around,
and maybe you can talk
some sense into him.
- (sighs) Look, if Chris
wants to join Doma Tau Omega
and drink himself into a
coma, that's his choice.
He's getting a taste of the high life
and he digs it.
Let him go.
- But he doesn't know the whole story.
That guy Nathan that freaked
out last week, killed himself.
Do you want Chris to be next?
- You don't know that
that had anything to do
with Doma Tau Omega.
- Well, there's one other thing.
- What other thing?
- Well, I kind of snuck into
their frat house last night.
- You did what?
- Look, Megan, I had to.
I couldn't find any
information about them
on the internet or, or in the library.
So I thought that book
sittin' on the table
might have some answers.
- Do you have any idea
what would've happened
if they caught you?
- Listen to me, Megan. These
guys are bad friggin' news.
That book had all kinds of
weird ritual stuff in it,
like some kind of an occult.
And then there was a
group photo collection.
- What group photo collection?
- See, in each one of the
pictures from 1900 until now,
there was a guy in there that
looked just like Devon Isley.
- So, maybe it's his great grandfather,
a distant relative, something like that.
- It was the same guy, Megan.
And there was other pictures,
too, from like the '60s,
where the other members
of the fraternity
were the same, too.
See, every four years,
they go to a new college.
They go to college, they graduate,
and then they change their
names and start all over again.
Only they don't change.
They, they look the same.
It's like they don't age.
- Hell, Dan, this is totally crazy.
- Listen, Megan,
I know what I saw, okay?
- Alright, let's say for
the sake of argument,
and a really weak argument at that,
that this guy that you saw
in every Doma Tau Omega
picture was Devon.
What does it mean,
that he's one of those
guys off "Highlander"?
- Look, I don't know
what it means, okay,
but it doesn't add up.
Okay, some super popular
guy picks lunkhead Chris
out of the whole school
to join the best fraternity on campus,
one week after the last
pledge killed himself.
Then all of a sudden,
lunkhead Chris turns into
mega-asshole Chris, in a day.
- Are you jealous of him?
- No, but I am worried about him.
(sighs)
Look, just, just do me this favor.
Come by the dorm and say hi
to him. Maybe youll see.
- And if I don't see, will
you let this whole thing drop?
- You can lock me in
the loony bin yourself.
(Megan laughs)
(tense music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Hello, strip-o-gram for Chris Chandler.
- I told you, I don't
think he's here, too.
- Holy shit. What happened in here?
- (chuckles) See, you still
think I'm makin' this stuff up?
- Ugh, maybe we should call the cops.
- No. Screw the cops.
They obviously do not
do a whole hell of a lot
about the Omegas.
- Well, what?
- Well, we're gonna
have to look for Chris.
(eerie music)
- Hmm.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I
know where to start lookin'.
- Not the frat house. I'm sorry, Dan.
But if this is as bad as you say it is,
they'll hurt you, or worse.
- Yeah, well, you know, I've
been spendin' my whole life
gettin' knocked around and hurt anyway,
so why break tradition?
- Then I'm going with you.
- You don't have to.
- I'm stuck playing for the
underdog. Why break tradition?
- Let's go.
(eerie music swells)
(unsettling music)
(thunder rumbling)
- Blessed is the brotherhood
of the eternal hunter.
For we are legion. We
are parts of the whole.
Grant this unity a sacred eternal master,
one who may lead all others
down the path of wisdom.
Grant his brothers the strength
that shall fall all enemies.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Let the circle have a lamb,
sacrifices unto a slaughter,
and let this lamb be the master's vessel.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Kneel, lamb, and accept thy sacrifice.
- (spits) Screw you.
- And now, my lamb, stripped
of purity, stripped of self,
(tense music)
I take claim on the improprieties.
I lay claim on thy soul.
And let me empty you so that
I may fill you with thyself.
(tense music continues)
- Come no further.
You're not welcome here.
Then I wanna see Chris
Chandler. Where is he?
- Drop it, Dan. See the ax?
- Yeah, I see it.
- And I hope you'll be leaving.
I have cut off many heads in my old life
as the royal executioner,
and I will have no
problem cutting off yours.
- Mikhail, man, listen, don't hurt me.
I, I just wanna check on my
friend and see if he's okay.
I didn't mean to make anybody mad.
(tense music swells)
(Mikhail gagging)
(unsettling music builds)
- What the hell was that?
- I don't know,
but sometimes bein' the
wimpy guy pays off, huh?
- Yeah, good thing. (sighs)
- I got a distinct feeling the
shit's about to hit the fan.
We gotta end this by
killing that Devon guy.
- Sounds like a plan.
(eerie music)
(jarring tones shriek)
- Let me drink of this lamb
so that I may know eternity in his veins.
- [Brothers] We are the circle.
We pledge brotherhood unto thee.
- Chris! Devon, let him go.
- Christ, Meg, do something
about super geek here,
would you?
- Did you honestly think
that I'd be friends with you
for the sheer hell of it, Danny boy?
- You, you...
- I'm a shill, dumbass.
I go around campus, and I
see who's worth Devon's time.
I set up bumping into Chris.
I set up that whole shtick
with the Alpha Chis.
I'm pretty goddamn good at it.
But then, I should be.
I've been shilling for Devon
for 70 years, give or take.
Hell, I even set it up so I'd
follow you out here tonight.
I didn't see that old thing
with Mikhail coming, though.
You're gonna die slow for that one.
(chaotic music swells)
(Dan screaming)
(suspenseful music)
Well, hot stuff, you did
want a kiss for me, remember?
(tense music swells)
- Call off your pet frat boys, Devon,
or I'm gonna turn your Adam's apple
into a goddamn pin cushion.
- You don't get it, do
you? I'm their sugar daddy.
If I die, they lose their
immortality, and they die, too.
They're not gonna let you hurt me.
- I don't give a shit.
They're not the ones calling
the shots, and neither are you.
Tell 'em to back off,
or I'm gonna kill you.
- What about your friend, Chris?
- That's right, pal, you
either give me the needle,
or I'm gonna have Meg and my
brothers rip your little buddy
into snack-sized pieces.
Kneel, Chris.
(tense music)
- You do what you gotta do,
but I'm not gonna kneel
for you, or beg for you,
or any other goddamn
thing but die on my feet.
- I said kneel, damn you!
- Don't do it, Chris! Screw them, man.
What have they done for you? Ow!
Let me die. I'm not worth
losing your soul over.
(tense music)
(dark ominous music)
- Before I end your worthless life,
I want you to beg for it.
I want you to pray for
me to drain you dry.
(Chris groans)
What've you got to say for yourself?
(tense music)
(Chris breaths heavily)
- Please, Devon.
- Please, Devon? That's a good start.
Doing good so far, let's say the rest.
- I'm goin' to hell for this.
Have a heart, asshole!
(chaotic suspenseful music)
- Tell me one thing.
Didn't you want it, just a little?
This incredible life? (groans)
Didn't you love me, just a little?
- I loved you like a brother.
(dramatic music swells)
(dramatic music continues)
(unsettling music)
- Whoa! Whoa.
What, what just happened, man?
- Devon said that if he died,
the rest of 'em would die, too.
I guess he was right.
- Oh yeah?
So how come you're still alive?
- Because, like I told you,
I'd never join goddamn a fraternity.
- Oh. (laughs)
(unsettling music swells)
(intense music)
(intense music continues)
(intense music continues)
(moves to eerie music)
(moves to dramatic music)
(dramatic music swells)
(moves to intense music)
(intense music continues)
(moves to gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(moves to unsettling music)
(unsettling music continues)