The Carpenter's Son (2025) Movie Script
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(tense music playing)
(The Mother groaning)
(breathing shakily)
(woman moaning)
(The Carpenter
whispers indistinctly)
(The Mother wails, sobs)
(The Mother groans)
(wails)
(indistinct mysterious voice)
(whispers indistinctly)
(indistinct mysterious voice)
(The Mother groans)
(baby wailing)
- (snips)
- (baby wailing)
- (breathes softly)
- (baby wailing)
The Carpenter:
They are coming for him.
The king.
To kill him.
(insects chirping)
(goat bleats)
(indistinct chatter)
woman: (screaming, crying)
My baby!
- (speaks indistinctly)
- (woman screaming)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (wailing)
(women wailing)
- My baby, please!
- (speaking indistinctly)
(indistinct shouting, crying)
- (man speaking indistinctly)
- (women wailing)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (indistinct shouting)
- (indistinct shouting)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (baby crying)
- (woman screams)
You. Stop.
- (sobs)
- Show me what's inside.
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (indistinct screaming, crying)
- woman: No!
- Move along.
(screams, cries)
- (grunts)
- (baby coos)
(music concludes)
- (The Carpenter sobs)
- (sea waves crashing)
(sobs)
(ethereal music playing)
(The Carpenter sobs)
(gasps)
(whispers indistinctly)
(sighs)
(man makes a devilish
screaming sound)
- (music intensifies)
- (hissing, snarling)
(wind whooshing)
(music concludes)
(wind whooshing)
(bell jingling)
(bleats)
(goats bleating)
The Carpenter: What awaits us
when we turn at last to death?
(dramatic music playing)
The Carpenter:
For years we live in hiding.
Driven from every home.
You have shown him here
to walk the Earth
and threaten their Gods
with such presence.
And he does so threaten them.
(birds squawking)
The Carpenter: He bears a power
he cannot understand.
A power I cannot contain.
Calamity follows us.
Guide me.
Let me keep them
under my protection.
Let my faith endure.
Please.
My only strength to bear...
against the devil itself.
(music concludes)
(indistinct chatter)
(goats bleating)
(donkey barks)
- (indistinct muffled chatter)
- (door opening)
It is well made.
I can provide you work.
(birds chirping)
We must prepare it
for the temple.
(tense music playing)
The Shopkeeper:
You will not make an idol.
Your God will forgive you.
That's the work available.
(indistinct chatter)
- (girl giggling)
- (coins clinking)
(mutters indistinctly)
- (muttering continues)
- (squeals)
- (music fades)
- (indistinct chatter)
The Carpenter: I found work
and a home for us.
(donkey braying)
The Boy: Look, Mother.
I've never seen
one like this before.
(goat bleating)
- (wind whooshing)
- (goat bleats)
Thank you.
What is your name?
Lilith's Mother: Lilith.
She is mute.
Go and help your father,
my child.
Beautiful boy.
You do not look alike.
(indistinct chatter)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- What's wrong, Father?
Lilith's Mother:
Where are you from?
The Mother: From the west.
Beyond the desert.
(The Carpenter grunts softly)
(dramatic music playing)
(hammer banging)
We will be in darkness now
during the day.
It's better
than some alternatives.
It has been years.
We are safe here.
(hammer banging)
The Carpenter: You forget
that we can be discovered.
The Mother: I do not forget.
But he does not have
to live in fear.
Lilith, come in!
(breathes sharply)
(insects chirping)
- (bell jingling)
- (goat bleats)
The Boy:
Why do you do that, Father?
If an evil spirit were to enter
the house at night...
the footprint of a rooster
will appear in the sand.
(grunts softly)
Why did you lie to the neighbor
about where we came from?
It was to protect you.
The Carpenter:
Stay away from them.
Did you wash your hands?
The dirty will go mad.
(breathes deeply)
The Carpenter: You should pray.
I did.
The Carpenter
If ever you are in error,
you must seek his forgiveness.
(breathes deeply)
The Boy: Father.
The Carpenter: I am fasting.
This time you do the same,
you're of age.
I do it to make myself empty.
In emptiness
you find the strength
to bear against Satan.
What does Satan look like?
Like people amongst us.
It can manifest as a very thing
that appeals to our weakness.
Have you ever seen it?
(dramatic music playing)
I made arrangements
with the rabbi here.
He expects you
after the Sabbath.
- You will help him at school.
- (breathes softly)
(Satanic whispering)
(insects chirping)
(The Boy groans)
- (hissing)
- (The Boy groans)
(women wailing)
- (The Boy groans)
- (cries)
(The Boy groans)
- (music intensifies)
- (The Boy groans)
- (crying continues)
- (The Boy groans)
(tense music playing)
- It is me, my love.
- (breathes shakily)
- The Mother: Shh.
- (breathes shakily)
I know. Come.
(shudders, breathes shakily)
The Mother: It's me.
(The Boy breathes shakily)
I know.
- (shushes)
- (breathes shakily)
(birds chirping)
Put away from you
crooked speech,
and put devious talk
far from you.
(all) Put away from you
crooked speech,
and put devious talk
far from you.
Let your eyes
look directly forwards,
and your gaze
be straight before you.
(all) Let your eyes
look directly forwards,
and your gaze
be straight before you.
Carpenter: Keep straight
the path of your feet,
and all your ways
will be sure.
(all) Keep straight the path
of your feet,
and all your ways
will be sure.
Carpenter: Do not swerve
to the right or to the left.
Turn your foot away from evil.
(children giggling)
Take care.
That is heaven above.
- Oh, that is the- -
- Earth.
Earth beneath.
Oh, that is the water
unto the Earth.
You shall not bow down to them,
nor serve them.
For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity
of the fathers
upon the children. On to
the third and fourth generation.
(indistinct chatter)
The Boy: Get down.
Get down.
You will hurt yourself.
Are you going to help me?
(wind whooshing)
The Boy: What is your name?
Why are you not in school?
Your father does not
make you go.
I have no father.
The Boy: A mother?
I play games all day.
Will you play with me?
(pants)
(music fades)
(breathes deeply)
The Boy: He is a leper.
Wait.
We must not touch the unclean.
The Stranger: See how close
you can draw your hand?
(whispers) It's a game.
(fly buzzing)
The Stranger: Shh!
It's all right.
(fly buzzing)
(breathes deeply)
(tense music playing)
(fly buzzing)
The Stranger: Go on. Try.
(exclaims)
He touched it!
He touched the unclean!
He touched the unclean!
- Stay away! Stay away!
- (indistinct shouting)
The Carpenter:
Each year, I walk beside him
and see only
the tarnished human man.
Pure...
and clean...
human.
Please, tell me,
from whence did he come?
Is he from your angels...
or from demons?
Is he your son?
(shudders)
(shuddering)
(The Boy wailing)
- The Carpenter: Wake up!
- (The Boy screams, groans)
(insects chirping)
You're screaming in your sleep.
(groans, pants)
Let me sleep in the house.
The Carpenter: You can sleep
in the house
when you stop screaming.
The Boy: Let me go inside.
It was a dream.
Even by your age,
you cannot see the difference?
- (The Boy mumbles)
- Pray. Now, go on.
- (The Boy sobs)
- The Carpenter: Do it properly.
- Do it as I taught you.
- (sobs)
You who live in the shelter
of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow
of the Almighty,
- will say to the Lord...
- The Boy: To the Lord...
(both) My refuge
and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust.
Again.
(breathes deeply)
You who live in the shelter
of the Most High w...
- The Carpenter: Abide...
- Will abide
- in the shadow...
- The Carpenter: Shadow...
- (hesitates)
- Shadow of the Almighty,
- will say to the Lord...
- Of my refuge,
my fortress, my God,
in whom I trust.
- (door closing)
- (breathes heavily)
(pants)
(breathes softly)
(breathes deeply)
(thumping)
(suspenseful music playing)
(door closing)
(sniffles)
(breathes softly)
(gasps)
(Leper pants)
Boy.
You healed me.
Please.
Touch me.
Touch me again!
(whispers) Please be quiet,
be quiet.
You are divine.
You are divine. You are divine.
(sobs) You are divine.
- The Boy: You must leave.
- (breathes deeply)
You are divine. You are divine.
(door opening)
- Leper: You are divine.
- Please go, please.
Please go.
Lepers: Touch me,
touch me, touch me.
(The Boy pants)
- (music concludes)
- (ethereal music playing)
(pants)
(insects chirping)
(breathes softly)
(birds squawking)
(music fades)
- (insects chirping)
- (birds chirping)
(dramatic music playing)
(heart thumping)
(music concludes)
(The Carpenter grunts softly)
I found an offering
outside our home this morning.
What did you do with it?
The Carpenter: I hid it
in the reeds.
It's not safe here.
We'll make his name
plain to all.
- (water splashing)
- The Mother: He's a boy.
He's unclean.
He defiles himself,
always covered in filth.
You want him
to take roots and learn?
Let him.
Why offer him only punishment?
I find no joy in punishing him.
It's how he must learn.
Duty, faith, sacrifice.
- Must teach him these things.
- (ethereal music playing)
The Carpenter: Why do you avert
your eyes from me?
For modesty.
(cricket chirping)
(music concludes)
(water sloshing)
- (wind whooshing)
- (dramatic music playing)
(indistinct whispering)
(indistinct chatter)
The boy is divine. The boy...
- is divine.
- (indistinct whispering)
Leper: The boy is divine.
The boy is divine.
The boy is divine.
(indistinct whispering)
(grunting and lip-smacking)
(birds chirping)
(music concludes)
(indistinct chatter)
(goat bleating)
(indistinct chatter)
(eerie music playing)
(fly buzzing)
(indistinct chatter)
(donkey braying)
- (music fades)
- They're not too short.
One apiece, as you said.
One and one half.
That is what I said.
You told me one apiece.
Price was ten per shelf.
Villager: The length
is incorrect.
The Carpenter:
Make it eight, then.
(clatters)
(gasps)
I don't want it.
Why not?
The Boy: You pushed me.
- (eerie music playing)
- You liked it.
Didn't you?
Games of the Gentiles
are forbidden.
Who forbids you?
My father.
He is your oppressor.
Keep it...
as a secret.
To do things in secret
is a greater pleasure.
(clatters)
The Stranger:
Do you want to know why?
I know one that can free you.
Find me among the Sith.
Come!
Come!
My faith has become
a broken crutch.
I beg you.
How much longer must I wait
to see your light again?
(floor creaking)
(snores softly)
- (music intensifies)
- (exclaims)
(Lilith tries to scream)
(music fades)
(guttural hissing)
(indistinct chatter)
- (eerie music playing)
- (indistinct chatter continues)
- (coughs)
- Lilith's Mother: Lilith!
- (grunts)
- (Lilith's Mother screams)
Lilith! (screams)
- (grunts)
- Lilith's Mother: Help us!
- Help us! Somebody help us!
- (grunts)
(whimpers, screams)
- (grunts)
- (Lilith's Mother screams)
(Lilith groans, grunts)
(cries)
(grunts)
(groans, screams)
You! You did this!
The boy! The boy!
(grunts)
The Mother: What happened?
Let him go.
Did you enter their home?
The Mother:
How dare you accuse- -
(yells) Did you or did you not?
- (music fades)
- No.
(pants)
I don't believe him.
I don't care
if you don't believe me.
(pants)
- Father. (grunts)
- (grunts)
- (both pant)
- (goats bleating)
Where did you get this?
- Pray!
- No.
The Carpenter: Begin.
W... why should I listen to you?
I know
you will not listen to me,
but you will listen
to your mother,
and she listens to me.
I will leave with her.
You may leave,
but she will not go with you.
I will set you out alone
into the wild,
where you can roam as you wish!
(hesitates)
Which direction would you take?
How... how would you find drink?
You would be a beggar in hiding,
asking for alms
from sickly priests
who feed their sacred crocodiles
and mumble to their idols,
or you would be dead!
Without my protection
you would be dead! (sighs)
(grunts)
We must leave!
(grunts)
What more must you see?
I tell you, we must leave.
Good.
We will leave in a few days,
once the work is finished.
(breathes heavily)
The Mother: He's innocent.
The Carpenter: How do you know
he is innocent?
Because of our faith.
Because we know who he is.
The Carpenter: But is it good?
Is it righteous?
(wind whooshing)
The Mother: He is our savior.
(eerie music playing)
The Mother: You will deliver him
to his task.
You came.
I want to show you something.
(indistinct screaming)
- (indistinct chatter)
- (groans)
- The Boy: Lilith...
- (overlapping chatter)
...is she dead?
The Stranger: She is resting
in that long shadow
of sleep that is near to death.
She will be dead soon.
You could help her.
(villager groans)
The Stranger: Man's punishment.
- (groans)
- The Boy: What have they done?
The Stranger:
They are accused of sorcery.
- (groans)
- Conjurers of evil deeds.
- (villager screams)
- Isn't it strange?
How whilst we're all made
of the same flesh...
- (villager groans)
- ...bones...
- blood...
- (villagers groaning)
Then some of us become wicked.
And some of us become good.
Yet what is it
to say that a man is wicked?
It means only
that you have given up
on trying to understand it.
I will know this in Golgotha.
(villager screams)
The Stranger:
Does this frighten you?
No.
It saddens me.
(villager screams)
I can feel their pain.
And yours.
(villager screams)
I must return to my father.
He is not...
He is not what?
He is not your father.
Who are you?
The Stranger: You know who I am.
But who are you?
What do they call you
when you are out of sight?
- (The Boy gasps)
- I have been searching for you
for so long.
They have lied to you!
You will learn
that I speak the truth!
(music fades)
The Mother: Speak to me.
Let us leave together.
I could protect you.
- I know you can.
- (intriguing music playing)
You would find the same people
anywhere we go.
We will leave soon.
It is your father's wish.
Is he my father?
- Why would you ask that?
- Is he?
The Mother: Who put that
in your mind?
- Who?
- A child.
The Mother: What child?
A child who lives
among the sick.
Is he my father?
The Mother: Yes.
He is.
You are lying to me.
(music fades)
(ominous music playing)
(prisoner 1 speaking
in foreign language)
(prisoner 1 sobs)
(groans)
(prisoner 1 screams)
(prisoner 1 speaking
in foreign language)
(prisoner 1 screams, sobs)
The Boy: Speak.
(whimpers)
(groans, chuckles)
(inhales, groans)
- The Boy: What is your name?
- Mm... (inhales)
- Speak!
- (hissing in a foreign tongue)
What do you want from us?
Have you come to kill us?
(breathes heavily)
Who did this to you?
(inhales sharply)
(laughs maniacally)
(inhales sharply)
Can you kill me?
Please.
(groans)
If you'll not kill me,
then leave me.
Leave me!
(music fades)
(whimpers)
(suspenseful music playing)
(gasps)
(goat bleating in distance)
(The Boy breathes heavily)
(music fades)
The evil,
the outrage, the vulture,
the... the buzzard,
a kite of any kind.
- The Teacher: You.
- (indistinct chatter)
- Go.
- (birds chirping)
Begin.
- Every raven...
- No.
Do it from memory.
Every raven of any kind,
the ostrich,
the night hawk, the seagull,
the... the... the...
the hawk of any kind, the...
- Do you not know?
- I know, I know.
- Then speak it!
- (ominous music playing)
Speak!
(sighs)
You are a liar!
You do not know.
I know more than how
to speak these words.
(music fades)
- (tense music playing)
- (indistinct chatter)
(donkey brays)
The Teacher:
Is this not the carpenter's son?
What has he done?
The Teacher:
I will not teach him.
He spoke of things
that no one should know.
The Carpenter: Unhand my son.
Leave him.
What did he say?
I told him
how many years he will live.
I don't want him
near the children.
(wooden snake hisses)
(music fades)
You will not be idle.
If I am forced
to have you by my side
each day whilst I work,
I will see to it
that you are of value here.
Recite the Melakhot.
Speak them to me whilst I work.
Go on.
Take heed and carry no burdens
on the Sabbath.
You shall not light a fire
on the Sabbath day.
- You shall not...
- You may list them.
- Sowing, ploughing, reaping...
- (tense music playing)
...gathering, threshing,
winnowing,
sorting, grinding, sifting,
kneading, baking,
shearing, whitening,
disentangling, dying, spinning,
mounting the warp,
threading two threads,
making loops, tying a knot,
untying a knot, sewing, tearing,
trapping, slaughtering,
skinning.
(breathes heavily)
(breathes heavily)
Get out.
You follow no man, so be it.
Go be a man alone.
(indistinct whispering)
villager: What happened? (gasps)
What happened to him?
What have you done to him?
- What have you done?
- (shushes)
It's all right.
(villager screams, wails)
You squeal like a hog!
(groans, grunts)
(grunts, groans)
(hisses)
(music fades)
- (inhales deeply)
- (tense music playing)
- (exhales deeply)
- (breathes heavily)
(indistinct whispering)
(prisoner 2 sobs)
You're not safe here.
You must leave.
(breathes heavily)
I will tell the world
about you. (grunts)
(indistinct whispering)
You shall not judge!
Only I shall judge.
(music fades)
(screams, groans)
(breathes heavily)
It was nearly finished.
It fell and broke,
but I will finish it.
I... I will finish it.
Take your things.
- Leave now!
- Why?
Your son is Belial!
He's a conjurer.
He has gone into the village.
They will kill your boy!
(suspenseful music playing)
The Mother:
What did you do, my son?
Speak to me.
The Carpenter:
What have you done?
- What have you done?
- Leave him!
He who is near him
is near the fire!
What did you do?
Practicing black magic!
- What have you done?
- The Mother: Leave him!
Demon!
You have always doubted him,
even before he was born.
- Just as you doubt me.
- Any man would.
Go on, weep.
Do you not believe
your own visions?
The Carpenter:
It is no more potent now
than a dream.
How long must I wait
for another?
And what then
if none of it were true?
Then I have been living
beside an unclean woman
for all this time.
What if that were the truth?
Then I am just as unclean
as you!
You are wrecked with doubt!
Yes, I am! I am wrecked!
My faith has been shattered
because of you!
And that boy!
How can his providence be good
if he sins?
Let me make my way.
From whence did he come?
The Mother:
I told you, let me pass.
Let me pass!
Is he the son of a Roman?
Is he a bastard?
From whence did he come?
- From whence did he come?
- You coward!
You were always afraid!
Greatly afraid!
If I had sinned
and you concealed it,
you would have
fought Herod's law.
But if you'd exposed me
to the sons of Israel as guilty,
whilst my child was from angels,
you would have given up
its holy blood
to the doom of death!
Prepare our things.
They're coming.
- (grunts)
- The Carpenter: Come back!
We must leave!
(grunts, groans)
The Carpenter:
Where have you gone?
(snarls, grunts)
(indistinct chatter)
Come, come, there is no time.
- (hisses)
- (screams, groans)
(grunts) Stay back!
(screams)
(groans)
(groans, pants)
Tell me who my father is.
(breathes shakily)
The Carpenter:
He is the cause of all things.
The Boy: Tell me his name.
It is a sin to say it.
Speak his name.
Yahweh.
(grunts)
Wait!
Come back!
Come back!
- (trumpet blaring)
- (indistinct chatter)
(gasps, breathes shakily)
(grunts)
(villager 1)
He's here! I found him!
I found him!
I found him... (inhales sharply)
(The Carpenter pants)
(tense percussive music playing)
- (grunting, groaning)
- (grunting, groaning)
(tense percussive
music continues)
You know the truth now.
Come.
I'll take you to your father.
(indistinct whispering)
(sobs)
No!
(breathes shakily)
(heavy winds blowing)
Where's my son?
I will find him.
Where's my child?
- Someone told him the truth.
- (gasps)
He ran away.
It was a child among the sick
who told him.
I will find him.
The Mother: Wait.
Bless you.
The Stranger: You are sad.
I miss my family.
The Stranger: They hate you now.
But there is freedom
in knowledge.
(tense music playing)
Do you know now
that man is cruel?
The things they do in his name
make me sick.
I killed a boy.
Coming here.
He was going to alert
the village.
The Stranger: No.
This place is a cage...
of every unclean
and hateful bird.
You...
you freed him.
I have freed many souls
from this awful place as well.
The Boy:
Tell me about my father.
I knew him.
I resided near him.
I...
was a very beautiful thing.
Such a thing
I cannot describe in words.
He... shunned me.
He would let
no one be his equal.
But he prepared a home for me.
There is purity in that place.
Order.
Now you are with me.
We will go there together.
(indistinct screaming)
(breathes heavily)
Who are you?
I am the accuser of light.
I am the adversary.
(breathes heavily) Look ahead.
Tell me, what do you see?
Nothing. It is a shadow.
The Stranger:
No. It is a passage.
Set your anchor.
Look upon it.
Now enter it.
Tell me, what am I?
Evil.
The Stranger: And why am I here?
(inhales sharply)
To torment me. (inhales sharply)
- (inhales sharply)
- Yes.
(indistinct screaming)
(horse neighs)
And now tell me my name.
(inhales sharply)
Satan.
(inhales sharply)
(indistinct screaming)
(The Stranger
chanting indistinctly)
(grunts, snarls)
I have seen you before.
(snarls, groans)
(snarls)
(gasps)
(exhales, breathes heavily)
(breathes shakily)
(music fades)
I will humiliate him.
Leave him.
- Why do you care for him?
- (grunts)
He lied to you!
- Keep away from this beast!
- Be silent!
You are cruel.
Cruelty is a virtue.
- Look.
- (gasps)
He reveres me for my cruelty!
- (groans)
- Because he fears me!
Inspire fear.
It will bring you legions.
Go on! Kill the liar!
Do it!
And I will tell you everything
you want to know.
Very well.
(grunts)
- (screams)
- No!
- (grunts)
- (grunts)
(sobs)
(breathes heavily)
(grunts)
(groans)
(gasps, groans)
- (hisses)
- (gasps, grunts)
(grunts)
- (grunts)
- (grunts)
(grunts)
Come! Come for your son!
He ignores me!
He does not love us!
- He does not love you!
- (screams)
(sobs)
- (screams)
- (grunts)
(groans)
(coughs, chokes)
(gurgling)
- (screams, grunts)
- (screams, grunts)
Yeshua...
Yeshua!
Spare this beast.
(breathes heavily)
(coughs, breathes heavily)
(somber music playing)
It means to tempt you.
You must teach it
that you will not
bring our strength
to bear for evil.
You must forgive it.
(grunts, groans)
Let me go.
What awaits us
when we turn to death.
Dust.
(breathes shakily)
(music fades)
(bright music playing)
(sobs, grunts)
- (sobs)
- (sobs)
You will die
for miserable people.
And you will not be thanked.
We are the same.
(breathes shakily)
(sobs)
(dramatic music playing)
(music continues playing)
(music fades)
(dramatic music playing)
(music concludes)
(tense music playing)
(The Mother groaning)
(breathing shakily)
(woman moaning)
(The Carpenter
whispers indistinctly)
(The Mother wails, sobs)
(The Mother groans)
(wails)
(indistinct mysterious voice)
(whispers indistinctly)
(indistinct mysterious voice)
(The Mother groans)
(baby wailing)
- (snips)
- (baby wailing)
- (breathes softly)
- (baby wailing)
The Carpenter:
They are coming for him.
The king.
To kill him.
(insects chirping)
(goat bleats)
(indistinct chatter)
woman: (screaming, crying)
My baby!
- (speaks indistinctly)
- (woman screaming)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (wailing)
(women wailing)
- My baby, please!
- (speaking indistinctly)
(indistinct shouting, crying)
- (man speaking indistinctly)
- (women wailing)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (indistinct shouting)
- (indistinct shouting)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (baby crying)
- (woman screams)
You. Stop.
- (sobs)
- Show me what's inside.
- (speaking indistinctly)
- (indistinct screaming, crying)
- woman: No!
- Move along.
(screams, cries)
- (grunts)
- (baby coos)
(music concludes)
- (The Carpenter sobs)
- (sea waves crashing)
(sobs)
(ethereal music playing)
(The Carpenter sobs)
(gasps)
(whispers indistinctly)
(sighs)
(man makes a devilish
screaming sound)
- (music intensifies)
- (hissing, snarling)
(wind whooshing)
(music concludes)
(wind whooshing)
(bell jingling)
(bleats)
(goats bleating)
The Carpenter: What awaits us
when we turn at last to death?
(dramatic music playing)
The Carpenter:
For years we live in hiding.
Driven from every home.
You have shown him here
to walk the Earth
and threaten their Gods
with such presence.
And he does so threaten them.
(birds squawking)
The Carpenter: He bears a power
he cannot understand.
A power I cannot contain.
Calamity follows us.
Guide me.
Let me keep them
under my protection.
Let my faith endure.
Please.
My only strength to bear...
against the devil itself.
(music concludes)
(indistinct chatter)
(goats bleating)
(donkey barks)
- (indistinct muffled chatter)
- (door opening)
It is well made.
I can provide you work.
(birds chirping)
We must prepare it
for the temple.
(tense music playing)
The Shopkeeper:
You will not make an idol.
Your God will forgive you.
That's the work available.
(indistinct chatter)
- (girl giggling)
- (coins clinking)
(mutters indistinctly)
- (muttering continues)
- (squeals)
- (music fades)
- (indistinct chatter)
The Carpenter: I found work
and a home for us.
(donkey braying)
The Boy: Look, Mother.
I've never seen
one like this before.
(goat bleating)
- (wind whooshing)
- (goat bleats)
Thank you.
What is your name?
Lilith's Mother: Lilith.
She is mute.
Go and help your father,
my child.
Beautiful boy.
You do not look alike.
(indistinct chatter)
- (speaking indistinctly)
- What's wrong, Father?
Lilith's Mother:
Where are you from?
The Mother: From the west.
Beyond the desert.
(The Carpenter grunts softly)
(dramatic music playing)
(hammer banging)
We will be in darkness now
during the day.
It's better
than some alternatives.
It has been years.
We are safe here.
(hammer banging)
The Carpenter: You forget
that we can be discovered.
The Mother: I do not forget.
But he does not have
to live in fear.
Lilith, come in!
(breathes sharply)
(insects chirping)
- (bell jingling)
- (goat bleats)
The Boy:
Why do you do that, Father?
If an evil spirit were to enter
the house at night...
the footprint of a rooster
will appear in the sand.
(grunts softly)
Why did you lie to the neighbor
about where we came from?
It was to protect you.
The Carpenter:
Stay away from them.
Did you wash your hands?
The dirty will go mad.
(breathes deeply)
The Carpenter: You should pray.
I did.
The Carpenter
If ever you are in error,
you must seek his forgiveness.
(breathes deeply)
The Boy: Father.
The Carpenter: I am fasting.
This time you do the same,
you're of age.
I do it to make myself empty.
In emptiness
you find the strength
to bear against Satan.
What does Satan look like?
Like people amongst us.
It can manifest as a very thing
that appeals to our weakness.
Have you ever seen it?
(dramatic music playing)
I made arrangements
with the rabbi here.
He expects you
after the Sabbath.
- You will help him at school.
- (breathes softly)
(Satanic whispering)
(insects chirping)
(The Boy groans)
- (hissing)
- (The Boy groans)
(women wailing)
- (The Boy groans)
- (cries)
(The Boy groans)
- (music intensifies)
- (The Boy groans)
- (crying continues)
- (The Boy groans)
(tense music playing)
- It is me, my love.
- (breathes shakily)
- The Mother: Shh.
- (breathes shakily)
I know. Come.
(shudders, breathes shakily)
The Mother: It's me.
(The Boy breathes shakily)
I know.
- (shushes)
- (breathes shakily)
(birds chirping)
Put away from you
crooked speech,
and put devious talk
far from you.
(all) Put away from you
crooked speech,
and put devious talk
far from you.
Let your eyes
look directly forwards,
and your gaze
be straight before you.
(all) Let your eyes
look directly forwards,
and your gaze
be straight before you.
Carpenter: Keep straight
the path of your feet,
and all your ways
will be sure.
(all) Keep straight the path
of your feet,
and all your ways
will be sure.
Carpenter: Do not swerve
to the right or to the left.
Turn your foot away from evil.
(children giggling)
Take care.
That is heaven above.
- Oh, that is the- -
- Earth.
Earth beneath.
Oh, that is the water
unto the Earth.
You shall not bow down to them,
nor serve them.
For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity
of the fathers
upon the children. On to
the third and fourth generation.
(indistinct chatter)
The Boy: Get down.
Get down.
You will hurt yourself.
Are you going to help me?
(wind whooshing)
The Boy: What is your name?
Why are you not in school?
Your father does not
make you go.
I have no father.
The Boy: A mother?
I play games all day.
Will you play with me?
(pants)
(music fades)
(breathes deeply)
The Boy: He is a leper.
Wait.
We must not touch the unclean.
The Stranger: See how close
you can draw your hand?
(whispers) It's a game.
(fly buzzing)
The Stranger: Shh!
It's all right.
(fly buzzing)
(breathes deeply)
(tense music playing)
(fly buzzing)
The Stranger: Go on. Try.
(exclaims)
He touched it!
He touched the unclean!
He touched the unclean!
- Stay away! Stay away!
- (indistinct shouting)
The Carpenter:
Each year, I walk beside him
and see only
the tarnished human man.
Pure...
and clean...
human.
Please, tell me,
from whence did he come?
Is he from your angels...
or from demons?
Is he your son?
(shudders)
(shuddering)
(The Boy wailing)
- The Carpenter: Wake up!
- (The Boy screams, groans)
(insects chirping)
You're screaming in your sleep.
(groans, pants)
Let me sleep in the house.
The Carpenter: You can sleep
in the house
when you stop screaming.
The Boy: Let me go inside.
It was a dream.
Even by your age,
you cannot see the difference?
- (The Boy mumbles)
- Pray. Now, go on.
- (The Boy sobs)
- The Carpenter: Do it properly.
- Do it as I taught you.
- (sobs)
You who live in the shelter
of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow
of the Almighty,
- will say to the Lord...
- The Boy: To the Lord...
(both) My refuge
and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust.
Again.
(breathes deeply)
You who live in the shelter
of the Most High w...
- The Carpenter: Abide...
- Will abide
- in the shadow...
- The Carpenter: Shadow...
- (hesitates)
- Shadow of the Almighty,
- will say to the Lord...
- Of my refuge,
my fortress, my God,
in whom I trust.
- (door closing)
- (breathes heavily)
(pants)
(breathes softly)
(breathes deeply)
(thumping)
(suspenseful music playing)
(door closing)
(sniffles)
(breathes softly)
(gasps)
(Leper pants)
Boy.
You healed me.
Please.
Touch me.
Touch me again!
(whispers) Please be quiet,
be quiet.
You are divine.
You are divine. You are divine.
(sobs) You are divine.
- The Boy: You must leave.
- (breathes deeply)
You are divine. You are divine.
(door opening)
- Leper: You are divine.
- Please go, please.
Please go.
Lepers: Touch me,
touch me, touch me.
(The Boy pants)
- (music concludes)
- (ethereal music playing)
(pants)
(insects chirping)
(breathes softly)
(birds squawking)
(music fades)
- (insects chirping)
- (birds chirping)
(dramatic music playing)
(heart thumping)
(music concludes)
(The Carpenter grunts softly)
I found an offering
outside our home this morning.
What did you do with it?
The Carpenter: I hid it
in the reeds.
It's not safe here.
We'll make his name
plain to all.
- (water splashing)
- The Mother: He's a boy.
He's unclean.
He defiles himself,
always covered in filth.
You want him
to take roots and learn?
Let him.
Why offer him only punishment?
I find no joy in punishing him.
It's how he must learn.
Duty, faith, sacrifice.
- Must teach him these things.
- (ethereal music playing)
The Carpenter: Why do you avert
your eyes from me?
For modesty.
(cricket chirping)
(music concludes)
(water sloshing)
- (wind whooshing)
- (dramatic music playing)
(indistinct whispering)
(indistinct chatter)
The boy is divine. The boy...
- is divine.
- (indistinct whispering)
Leper: The boy is divine.
The boy is divine.
The boy is divine.
(indistinct whispering)
(grunting and lip-smacking)
(birds chirping)
(music concludes)
(indistinct chatter)
(goat bleating)
(indistinct chatter)
(eerie music playing)
(fly buzzing)
(indistinct chatter)
(donkey braying)
- (music fades)
- They're not too short.
One apiece, as you said.
One and one half.
That is what I said.
You told me one apiece.
Price was ten per shelf.
Villager: The length
is incorrect.
The Carpenter:
Make it eight, then.
(clatters)
(gasps)
I don't want it.
Why not?
The Boy: You pushed me.
- (eerie music playing)
- You liked it.
Didn't you?
Games of the Gentiles
are forbidden.
Who forbids you?
My father.
He is your oppressor.
Keep it...
as a secret.
To do things in secret
is a greater pleasure.
(clatters)
The Stranger:
Do you want to know why?
I know one that can free you.
Find me among the Sith.
Come!
Come!
My faith has become
a broken crutch.
I beg you.
How much longer must I wait
to see your light again?
(floor creaking)
(snores softly)
- (music intensifies)
- (exclaims)
(Lilith tries to scream)
(music fades)
(guttural hissing)
(indistinct chatter)
- (eerie music playing)
- (indistinct chatter continues)
- (coughs)
- Lilith's Mother: Lilith!
- (grunts)
- (Lilith's Mother screams)
Lilith! (screams)
- (grunts)
- Lilith's Mother: Help us!
- Help us! Somebody help us!
- (grunts)
(whimpers, screams)
- (grunts)
- (Lilith's Mother screams)
(Lilith groans, grunts)
(cries)
(grunts)
(groans, screams)
You! You did this!
The boy! The boy!
(grunts)
The Mother: What happened?
Let him go.
Did you enter their home?
The Mother:
How dare you accuse- -
(yells) Did you or did you not?
- (music fades)
- No.
(pants)
I don't believe him.
I don't care
if you don't believe me.
(pants)
- Father. (grunts)
- (grunts)
- (both pant)
- (goats bleating)
Where did you get this?
- Pray!
- No.
The Carpenter: Begin.
W... why should I listen to you?
I know
you will not listen to me,
but you will listen
to your mother,
and she listens to me.
I will leave with her.
You may leave,
but she will not go with you.
I will set you out alone
into the wild,
where you can roam as you wish!
(hesitates)
Which direction would you take?
How... how would you find drink?
You would be a beggar in hiding,
asking for alms
from sickly priests
who feed their sacred crocodiles
and mumble to their idols,
or you would be dead!
Without my protection
you would be dead! (sighs)
(grunts)
We must leave!
(grunts)
What more must you see?
I tell you, we must leave.
Good.
We will leave in a few days,
once the work is finished.
(breathes heavily)
The Mother: He's innocent.
The Carpenter: How do you know
he is innocent?
Because of our faith.
Because we know who he is.
The Carpenter: But is it good?
Is it righteous?
(wind whooshing)
The Mother: He is our savior.
(eerie music playing)
The Mother: You will deliver him
to his task.
You came.
I want to show you something.
(indistinct screaming)
- (indistinct chatter)
- (groans)
- The Boy: Lilith...
- (overlapping chatter)
...is she dead?
The Stranger: She is resting
in that long shadow
of sleep that is near to death.
She will be dead soon.
You could help her.
(villager groans)
The Stranger: Man's punishment.
- (groans)
- The Boy: What have they done?
The Stranger:
They are accused of sorcery.
- (groans)
- Conjurers of evil deeds.
- (villager screams)
- Isn't it strange?
How whilst we're all made
of the same flesh...
- (villager groans)
- ...bones...
- blood...
- (villagers groaning)
Then some of us become wicked.
And some of us become good.
Yet what is it
to say that a man is wicked?
It means only
that you have given up
on trying to understand it.
I will know this in Golgotha.
(villager screams)
The Stranger:
Does this frighten you?
No.
It saddens me.
(villager screams)
I can feel their pain.
And yours.
(villager screams)
I must return to my father.
He is not...
He is not what?
He is not your father.
Who are you?
The Stranger: You know who I am.
But who are you?
What do they call you
when you are out of sight?
- (The Boy gasps)
- I have been searching for you
for so long.
They have lied to you!
You will learn
that I speak the truth!
(music fades)
The Mother: Speak to me.
Let us leave together.
I could protect you.
- I know you can.
- (intriguing music playing)
You would find the same people
anywhere we go.
We will leave soon.
It is your father's wish.
Is he my father?
- Why would you ask that?
- Is he?
The Mother: Who put that
in your mind?
- Who?
- A child.
The Mother: What child?
A child who lives
among the sick.
Is he my father?
The Mother: Yes.
He is.
You are lying to me.
(music fades)
(ominous music playing)
(prisoner 1 speaking
in foreign language)
(prisoner 1 sobs)
(groans)
(prisoner 1 screams)
(prisoner 1 speaking
in foreign language)
(prisoner 1 screams, sobs)
The Boy: Speak.
(whimpers)
(groans, chuckles)
(inhales, groans)
- The Boy: What is your name?
- Mm... (inhales)
- Speak!
- (hissing in a foreign tongue)
What do you want from us?
Have you come to kill us?
(breathes heavily)
Who did this to you?
(inhales sharply)
(laughs maniacally)
(inhales sharply)
Can you kill me?
Please.
(groans)
If you'll not kill me,
then leave me.
Leave me!
(music fades)
(whimpers)
(suspenseful music playing)
(gasps)
(goat bleating in distance)
(The Boy breathes heavily)
(music fades)
The evil,
the outrage, the vulture,
the... the buzzard,
a kite of any kind.
- The Teacher: You.
- (indistinct chatter)
- Go.
- (birds chirping)
Begin.
- Every raven...
- No.
Do it from memory.
Every raven of any kind,
the ostrich,
the night hawk, the seagull,
the... the... the...
the hawk of any kind, the...
- Do you not know?
- I know, I know.
- Then speak it!
- (ominous music playing)
Speak!
(sighs)
You are a liar!
You do not know.
I know more than how
to speak these words.
(music fades)
- (tense music playing)
- (indistinct chatter)
(donkey brays)
The Teacher:
Is this not the carpenter's son?
What has he done?
The Teacher:
I will not teach him.
He spoke of things
that no one should know.
The Carpenter: Unhand my son.
Leave him.
What did he say?
I told him
how many years he will live.
I don't want him
near the children.
(wooden snake hisses)
(music fades)
You will not be idle.
If I am forced
to have you by my side
each day whilst I work,
I will see to it
that you are of value here.
Recite the Melakhot.
Speak them to me whilst I work.
Go on.
Take heed and carry no burdens
on the Sabbath.
You shall not light a fire
on the Sabbath day.
- You shall not...
- You may list them.
- Sowing, ploughing, reaping...
- (tense music playing)
...gathering, threshing,
winnowing,
sorting, grinding, sifting,
kneading, baking,
shearing, whitening,
disentangling, dying, spinning,
mounting the warp,
threading two threads,
making loops, tying a knot,
untying a knot, sewing, tearing,
trapping, slaughtering,
skinning.
(breathes heavily)
(breathes heavily)
Get out.
You follow no man, so be it.
Go be a man alone.
(indistinct whispering)
villager: What happened? (gasps)
What happened to him?
What have you done to him?
- What have you done?
- (shushes)
It's all right.
(villager screams, wails)
You squeal like a hog!
(groans, grunts)
(grunts, groans)
(hisses)
(music fades)
- (inhales deeply)
- (tense music playing)
- (exhales deeply)
- (breathes heavily)
(indistinct whispering)
(prisoner 2 sobs)
You're not safe here.
You must leave.
(breathes heavily)
I will tell the world
about you. (grunts)
(indistinct whispering)
You shall not judge!
Only I shall judge.
(music fades)
(screams, groans)
(breathes heavily)
It was nearly finished.
It fell and broke,
but I will finish it.
I... I will finish it.
Take your things.
- Leave now!
- Why?
Your son is Belial!
He's a conjurer.
He has gone into the village.
They will kill your boy!
(suspenseful music playing)
The Mother:
What did you do, my son?
Speak to me.
The Carpenter:
What have you done?
- What have you done?
- Leave him!
He who is near him
is near the fire!
What did you do?
Practicing black magic!
- What have you done?
- The Mother: Leave him!
Demon!
You have always doubted him,
even before he was born.
- Just as you doubt me.
- Any man would.
Go on, weep.
Do you not believe
your own visions?
The Carpenter:
It is no more potent now
than a dream.
How long must I wait
for another?
And what then
if none of it were true?
Then I have been living
beside an unclean woman
for all this time.
What if that were the truth?
Then I am just as unclean
as you!
You are wrecked with doubt!
Yes, I am! I am wrecked!
My faith has been shattered
because of you!
And that boy!
How can his providence be good
if he sins?
Let me make my way.
From whence did he come?
The Mother:
I told you, let me pass.
Let me pass!
Is he the son of a Roman?
Is he a bastard?
From whence did he come?
- From whence did he come?
- You coward!
You were always afraid!
Greatly afraid!
If I had sinned
and you concealed it,
you would have
fought Herod's law.
But if you'd exposed me
to the sons of Israel as guilty,
whilst my child was from angels,
you would have given up
its holy blood
to the doom of death!
Prepare our things.
They're coming.
- (grunts)
- The Carpenter: Come back!
We must leave!
(grunts, groans)
The Carpenter:
Where have you gone?
(snarls, grunts)
(indistinct chatter)
Come, come, there is no time.
- (hisses)
- (screams, groans)
(grunts) Stay back!
(screams)
(groans)
(groans, pants)
Tell me who my father is.
(breathes shakily)
The Carpenter:
He is the cause of all things.
The Boy: Tell me his name.
It is a sin to say it.
Speak his name.
Yahweh.
(grunts)
Wait!
Come back!
Come back!
- (trumpet blaring)
- (indistinct chatter)
(gasps, breathes shakily)
(grunts)
(villager 1)
He's here! I found him!
I found him!
I found him... (inhales sharply)
(The Carpenter pants)
(tense percussive music playing)
- (grunting, groaning)
- (grunting, groaning)
(tense percussive
music continues)
You know the truth now.
Come.
I'll take you to your father.
(indistinct whispering)
(sobs)
No!
(breathes shakily)
(heavy winds blowing)
Where's my son?
I will find him.
Where's my child?
- Someone told him the truth.
- (gasps)
He ran away.
It was a child among the sick
who told him.
I will find him.
The Mother: Wait.
Bless you.
The Stranger: You are sad.
I miss my family.
The Stranger: They hate you now.
But there is freedom
in knowledge.
(tense music playing)
Do you know now
that man is cruel?
The things they do in his name
make me sick.
I killed a boy.
Coming here.
He was going to alert
the village.
The Stranger: No.
This place is a cage...
of every unclean
and hateful bird.
You...
you freed him.
I have freed many souls
from this awful place as well.
The Boy:
Tell me about my father.
I knew him.
I resided near him.
I...
was a very beautiful thing.
Such a thing
I cannot describe in words.
He... shunned me.
He would let
no one be his equal.
But he prepared a home for me.
There is purity in that place.
Order.
Now you are with me.
We will go there together.
(indistinct screaming)
(breathes heavily)
Who are you?
I am the accuser of light.
I am the adversary.
(breathes heavily) Look ahead.
Tell me, what do you see?
Nothing. It is a shadow.
The Stranger:
No. It is a passage.
Set your anchor.
Look upon it.
Now enter it.
Tell me, what am I?
Evil.
The Stranger: And why am I here?
(inhales sharply)
To torment me. (inhales sharply)
- (inhales sharply)
- Yes.
(indistinct screaming)
(horse neighs)
And now tell me my name.
(inhales sharply)
Satan.
(inhales sharply)
(indistinct screaming)
(The Stranger
chanting indistinctly)
(grunts, snarls)
I have seen you before.
(snarls, groans)
(snarls)
(gasps)
(exhales, breathes heavily)
(breathes shakily)
(music fades)
I will humiliate him.
Leave him.
- Why do you care for him?
- (grunts)
He lied to you!
- Keep away from this beast!
- Be silent!
You are cruel.
Cruelty is a virtue.
- Look.
- (gasps)
He reveres me for my cruelty!
- (groans)
- Because he fears me!
Inspire fear.
It will bring you legions.
Go on! Kill the liar!
Do it!
And I will tell you everything
you want to know.
Very well.
(grunts)
- (screams)
- No!
- (grunts)
- (grunts)
(sobs)
(breathes heavily)
(grunts)
(groans)
(gasps, groans)
- (hisses)
- (gasps, grunts)
(grunts)
- (grunts)
- (grunts)
(grunts)
Come! Come for your son!
He ignores me!
He does not love us!
- He does not love you!
- (screams)
(sobs)
- (screams)
- (grunts)
(groans)
(coughs, chokes)
(gurgling)
- (screams, grunts)
- (screams, grunts)
Yeshua...
Yeshua!
Spare this beast.
(breathes heavily)
(coughs, breathes heavily)
(somber music playing)
It means to tempt you.
You must teach it
that you will not
bring our strength
to bear for evil.
You must forgive it.
(grunts, groans)
Let me go.
What awaits us
when we turn to death.
Dust.
(breathes shakily)
(music fades)
(bright music playing)
(sobs, grunts)
- (sobs)
- (sobs)
You will die
for miserable people.
And you will not be thanked.
We are the same.
(breathes shakily)
(sobs)
(dramatic music playing)
(music continues playing)
(music fades)
(dramatic music playing)
(music concludes)