IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

Shit.
Wait. Get help!
Get help!
- Get help!
- Guards!
Guards!
Get him to the infirmary, now!
- I'm fine.
- I got you.
- Just breathe.
I'm fine. I'm fine.
Well?
We got it.
Excuse me, sir.
What the hell just happened?
All right.
All right, Major.
Looks like it's time
to give you some answers.
It's okay.
Your parents will be back soon.
I'll be right outside in case
I shouldn't be here.
Everyone thinks I did this.
It's okay. I told them you didn't.
What'd you say?
That my glasses broke and they cut my eye
and you were only trying to help me
when everyone showed up.
They'd probably send me to Juniper Hill
if I told them what I really saw.
I'm so sorry, Lil.
I should have believed you.
and I let you down.
Why is this happening?
We're still trying to figure that out.
Is it gonna happen again?
I don't know.
you won't be alone.
I missed you.
I really missed you too.
Is Marge okay? It looked pretty bad.
Her eye's a little messed up,
but she'll be okay.
Look, if she wants to help,
then she can tell Bowers
what really happened.
Ronnie, we've tried that already.
Why would they believe her?
Besides, the police
probably think I attacked her,
that she's covering for me.
Everyone thinks that.
No, Lilly, that's not what I meant.
Listen, I mean, not us,
but like at school,
the post office, my barber.
This is a private club, announce yourself.
Matty?
The Indians call them "pillars."
Thirteen objects carved
from the same material
that that thing apparently
fell to Earth on.
"Fell to Earth"?
They were buried hundreds
of years ago deep underground
by the Sqoteawapskot tribe
cage around the creature's territory.
One that runs more or less
along the borders of modern-day Derry.
You're telling me that Derry's a prison
and we're looking for the bars?
Exactly right, Major.
is a member of a secret order
dedicated to keeping that thing locked up
and those pillars hidden.
A job that he and his pals
have succeeded at for nearly 400 years.
Until now.
Hallorann flipped through that boy's mind
like it was the morning paper.
Now we know exactly where they are
and how to get to them.
To do what, sir?
To reduce the size of its cage.
To contain it.
You mean to capture it.
29 Neibolt Street.
It's an abandoned home
atop a tunnel system
that leads directly to the 13 pillars.
Tomorrow morning, you and Colonel Fuller
will lead a small team to secure them.
Once in hand,
you'll tighten the perimeter
enough to control it.
Imagine if we had dropped
something like this
on the Pusan Perimeter in '51.
Let it do the job we lost so many GIs to.
How many mothers we could have
spared from heartbreak.
It's time to bring this Cold War
to an end, Major.
What's the problem, son?
You knew
that Derry was this thing's
hunting ground,
and you let me move my family here.
The plan was for you to stay on base.
You chose otherwise.
Maybe now you move them here
until this is all done with.
There's no maybe about it.
Excuse me, sir.
Matty, where have you been?
It's okay.
below Derry.
That's where it lives.
The clown.
Clown?
Fear.
Yeah.
How did you get away?
and sleeps in the day.
and I ran.
What about Teddy and Phil and Susie?
Did you see them?
Teddy was dead when it dragged him in.
Ate his brains right in front of me.
I think I'm gonna be sick.
And Susie, one of her arms was gone.
It just left her there.
and crying.
Until she stopped.
he's still down there.
He's alive?
he's alive, somehow.
We have to go to the police.
No. No police.
I have to get my dad out.
And you can tell them
that he didn't take you.
And Phil. Matty, we have to help him.
No cops.
- Matty, please.
- No.
They'd send me back, back to my dad.
I ran away once, I will do it again.
I'd sooner go back
to the sewers than there.
Obviously, the loss of even one life
is one life too many.
That said, the cycle has been
a lot milder than '35 and '08.
Twenty-five disappearances,
seven confirmed deaths,
and the youngest 5.
One encouraging sign
is obviously we know the creature sheds.
Its discharge, you might call it,
has tainted Derry's groundwater
since the town's founding.
Just get on with it, John.
I'm sorry.
Should we not be educating
our prospective keeper?
Leo.
Go on, John.
Well, lately our scouts have noted
that the residents have been
acting more aggressively.
The Augury!
Exactly.
And what is that, dear?
One last big, bloody event
that marks the end of a cycle,
after which,
we get another 27 years
or so of peace and quiet.
Miss Rose.
You're late. Where's Taniel?
I couldn't stop him.
Sir, please let me speak to him.
All aboard the Shawshank Express.
Well, your savior
better work fast, Grogan.
Last fish we sent in there
didn't survive the week.
Maybe if you're lucky, you'll survive two.
Burn in hell, you son of a bitch!
Get off of me!
You're a dead man.
You're a dead man, Grogan, you hear me?
You're gonna fry
for what you did to my kids,
you piece of shit!
Get off of me!
I didn't do it!
Sit down.
Yeah, no, I'm fine.
I'm just a little shaken up is all.
He's on his way there now.
I just wanted to make sure
we got the paperwork in
we could get him with his family
as quickly as possible
until we get a defense.
All right, so you'll let me know. Okay.
All right, thanks so much.
All right, bye-bye.
Is Will here? Where's Will?
In his room. What's wrong?
I gotta tell you something.
Okay? And as crazy as it's going to sound,
I really need you to just believe me.
The National Guard was standing by
in Leflore County, Mississippi yesterday
during a demonstration
General? There's somebody here to see you.
- Not now.
- With respect, sir,
Where is my nephew, Francis?
Rose.
He's safe.
Once our operation is complete,
he'll be released.
- You have my word.
- Your word?
"Water pipelines"?
I told you that my memories
of Derry came back
when I first got here.
That wasn't entirely true.
No shit.
Five years ago,
I was administered a drug
by the Department of Defense
as part of a security protocol,
and it all came rushing back.
for the first time in 45 years.
What was that thing?
Why can't it leave the woods?
Can you keep a secret?
I remember you saved my life
from something that shouldn't exist.
After I processed
everything that had happened
and everything you told me
about your ancestors
and their sacred responsibility,
I realized I was sitting
on the answer to a question
that has plagued me my entire life.
How to keep this country safe?
You think you can put a leash
on this thing?
It can't be controlled, Francis.
We'll see.
You wouldn't be doing any of this
if you really remembered everything.
What it's like
to look it right in the eye.
Feel its breath on your neck.
You would pack up
this entire operation and run.
We know how to find the pillars.
Taniel told us everything.
He would never do that.
Neibolt House, Rose.
The tunnels below Neibolt.
you'll need my help.
That's out of the question, Rose.
Francis.
At the very least, let me prepare Taniel.
Your lives depend on it.
Taniel.
- Aunt Rose!
- Are you okay?
I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to get caught.
I know you didn't.
They did something to me.
Went into my mind.
Into my head, into my memories.
Hey, hey, hey.
English!
that you'll have a better chance
of helping them find
with this.
They've inspected it.
They know it poses no threat.
And they understand
that you are the only one
who knows how to use it.
Yes, Auntie.
I understand.
I'll take that.
I'll take that.
You won't need it till the morning.
Time's up.
Let's go.
Do what they say.
Keep it close and you'll be safe, okay?
Identification.
The base is far enough outside of town.
You all should be safe with me
- till the assignment's done.
- But, Dad,
what about my friends? They need me.
You'll see your friends
when this is all over.
You're free to go.
Trust me now. I'm taking care of it.
Lilly?
Come on in.
Okay, so you're telling me
there's a chance
that boy's still alive?
Matty thinks so.
But he won't go to the cops
'cause he's afraid they'll send him home.
Oh God, what that poor boy's been through.
Hi, Mr. Kersh.
Dear, you remember Lilly.
Terri Bainbridge's kid.
Yes, sir.
Where's my steak?
It's almost done.
I'll bring it to you in a minute.
Don't overcook it again.
If someone has that kid,
we have to go to the police.
- No, I promised Matty.
- This is grownup business.
It's not like
you can go down there yourself.
I think we can save Phil.
Lilly, you're not thinking straight.
Promise me that you won't go down there.
Friends or not,
it's not worth you dying too.
Promise me.
Promise.
A little smaller than our house,
but it'll do for now, right?
Can I go for a walk?
Thought I'd explore the base
if I gotta be stuck here.
Yeah.
You'll see your friends again,
as soon as your daddy says it's safe.
I love you.
I love you.
Local resident William Drivens
was arrested for trying
to chop down one of its legs
with an axe.
In other news,
a prison bus en route
to Shawshank Penitentiary
crashed yesterday off Route 9.
Sources on the scene confirmed
there were multiple casualties.
And one of the passengers,
notorious murder suspect Hank Grogan,
is believed to have escaped.
- Oh my God.
- Oh dear.
to contact the DPD tipline.
If you're on the west side today,
you might notice that the streets
between Center and Neibolt
have been closed off
due to a reported gas main leak.
Authorities are urging residents
to steer clear of the area today.
I've been trying for days now
to get this thing on Main Street.
I've lost nine already.
It's always the wind, man.
What's she doing here?
I just want to help.
I'm supposed to trust a Pattycake?
Ex.
Hey. It came for her too.
Look, I thought about it.
And we can't make Matty go to the police.
- What?
- They won't believe him.
And he's right.
They'll send him right back to his dad.
But if Phil's really alive
then we have to go save him ourselves.
- Are you insane?
- No way.
I'm not going down there again.
You said yourself, you'd sooner go back
to the sewers than home.
Well, good, 'cause you're gonna
take us down there right now
and show us exactly where Phil is,
and we're gonna get him out of there.
Either that, or we drag you to the cops.
Right now, all of us.
We can't go down there. We'll get eaten.
Not if we have these.
- "Mommy's Little Helper"?
- Exactly.
What Will and Matty said
about it feeding on fear?
Well, if it's got nothing to feed on,
then we have nothing to worry about.
My mom got a refill.
We'll each take as many as we can.
Are you sure that's safe?
My mom eats these like M&Ms.
If they weren't safe,
she'd probably be dead by now.
I don't know.
Listen.
My dad used to say, "In life,
people are either anchors or lifeboats."
"They drag you under
or they keep you afloat."
I don't know where I'd be
right now without you guys.
But Phil? He doesn't have anyone.
And if we don't do something,
he won't stand a chance.
So my question is,
are you an anchor or a lifeboat?
Lifeboat.
Lifeboat.
Lifeboat?
What? What'd I miss?
You don't want to know.
According to our friends
from Indian Marsh,
the house on Neibolt Street
was built atop an old ground well
that dates back to colonial days.
- Clear!
- Clear!
The objects we're looking for,
13 Indian artifacts
that the natives refer to as pillars,
were buried centuries ago
and in different locations around Derry,
and are now only accessible
through the sewers
directly beneath that old well.
Major Hanlon and his team
will secure the house,
find the well, and descend
into the sewer system
where our guide, Taniel,
will lead us through the tunnels
to the location of the pillars.
If necessary,
with the assistance of Private Hallorann.
All right, boys. Down the hatch.
But remember, gentlemen,
you'll be in enemy territory.
Whatever form this enemy takes,
it will use your own
personal fears against you.
Don't freeze, don't trust it.
If you see something
that by any rational measure
should not be down there, shoot it.
Be vigilant, stay safe,
and secure the assets.
This way.
Can you feel it?
I feel something.
Dick.
Y'all hear that?
Hear what?
Taniel! Are you all right?
Yeah.
Big drop.
Dick!
Baby!
Come on, go. We're gonna fall behind.
Where is he?
Hallorann!
Hallorann!
Where the hell'd he go?
I don't know!
He went down and didn't come up.
Dickie.
He's coming for you again.
Grandma?
Grandpa.
Hey, Dickie.
It's time.
Hallorann!
Hey, wait, wait, wait.
Did you hear that?
Hallorann! That you?
you!
Fire!
The hell?
Hallorann!
Hallorann!
We should all take three.
That should be enough.
It's kinda bitter.
Better than getting kinda eaten.
Okay.
Lead the way.
We're close now.
What do you say, Hallorann? That right?
Major Hanlon?
Shit! Taniel!
Stop! Taniel!
Making a big mistake now!
Son of a bitch!
This way.
Y'all are cute.
Talking to each other with your minds,
keeping secrets from me.
I may not have had the gift,
but I ain't no dummy.
I know everything
that that bitch told you.
Don't listen to him.
He's trying to get in your head.
"Dickie."
"Lock 'em away
in a little box in your mind,
and then throw away the key."
He gonna hurt you, baby.
Don't listen to him.
She don't understand like we do.
Power like this is meant to be used.
No.
How'd you find that?
How you find my box?
It was right there.
In the sphincter of your soul.
You know what's in there, boy.
Don't let him open it!
Nowhere you can bury it
that I can't find! You hear me?
They're gonna get you, Dickie.
Keep that box closed.
Let it all go. Come on, boy. Open it up.
- I ain't opening shit.
- I ain't telling you one more time.
- Open up the damn box.
- I ain't opening shit.
- Open the damn box!
- No!
You're gonna have to put that back
where you got that from,
'cause I'm not opening it.
- Or you're gonna what?
Or you'll what? Or you'll what?
Or you'll what?
Grandma!
What you gonna do, huh?
What you gonna do, boy?
You won't open it?
- We'll open it together.
- No.
- On the count of three. Ready?
- Stop.
Stop. Stop.
- Put it down.
- One.
Don't do that. Don't do that.
Don't do that. Don't do that.
Stop. Stop. Stop.
Don't do that!
- Stop.
- Two.
No. Don't do that!
Leave it alone! Leave it alone!
What is that? What are you?
What are you doing?
Get out of here.
Leave me alone. Get out.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Three.
I think I took too many pills.
Maybe we did take too many pills.
What'd you say?
What?
What?
Are you okay?
Sorry I'm so slow.
I can't see too well in the dark.
Here, take my hand.
Your hand is really soft.
Oh, well, I borrow
my mom's Noxzema sometimes.
No, I mean super-duper soft.
Like a kitty cat's belly.
That's a really weird thing to say.
Are you guys feeling this?
It's like that time I went to Dr. Wagner's
and his hygienist gave me this gas,
and I thought I was floating
Are you two holding hands?
- No.
- Yeah.
We're getting close.
Jesus Christ, it smells like shit in here.
It's the sewers, Pauly.
What did you think
it was gonna smell like?
- Where the hell are they?
- I don't know.
We must have got
turned around somewhere.
- What are you saying, we're lost?
- I don't know.
Shit!
- Hello?
- Hey, calm down.
I'm calm. I'm perfectly calm.
Don't I sound calm?
Not really.
Is it hot?
Jesus Christ. I'm burning up.
It's a goddamn furnace down here.
You're not hot?
Pauly, I'm hot. It's hot. Take it easy.
Why can't we find them, huh?
I feel like something's wrong, man.
I got a feeling.
Listen, we'll catch up to the others,
or we'll find our own way out.
Either way, we gotta
keep moving, all right?
- So, let's just move.
- All right.
- Yeah?
- All right, all right.
Leroy!
What, what? What is it?
Lee, what are you looking at?
Leroy, help!
I'm scared!
Charlotte?
I want to go home, Lee. I'm scared!
Charlotte, what the hell
are you doing down here?
Who the fuck you talking to?
Pauly, you can't see her?
See who? Are you fucking with me?
Put your gun down, baby. I'm scared.
What the fuck?
Can we go home, Lee?
Steady that light, Russo.
Steady that light.
- It's not me, it's the battery.
- Let's go home, Lee!
Mine's off too. Change yours. Hurry up!
- Get yours on!
- What the fuck am I supposed to do?
The fuck was that? What are you doing?
Lee?
Hey, what the hell is going on?
Hey!
- Lee, what the hell is going on?
- Hey!
Listen, listen.
Whatever you see down here
that's not supposed to be here,
you fucking kill it.
It doesn't fucking matter
if it's your first girlfriend,
your high school gym teacher,
you fucking kill 'em.
- You got it?
- All right.
- Pauly!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it, I got it.
- Kill my gym teacher. I got it.
- Okay, let's go.
All right.
Freakin' me out.
Looks like a dead end.
I could've sworn it was right.
Hallorann!
- You hear that?
- Hallorann!
Voices.
There's someone else down here.
We should go back.
Oh my God!
It's Susie. Oh my God.
Teddy!
Oh my God!
Is that Phil?
He's dead!
All of the tunnels
Are underground
Where none of the children
Will ever be found
They wandered away
To join the show
And lost their way
In the world below
They swallowed the pills
And they lost their fear
But nothing they hoped to find was here
That's Matty!
They joined the circus
And left their town
Now they live here
Down with the clown
- Down with the clown
- With the clown
Down here with the clown
Now they live down here
With the clown!
Duck and cover, kiddos.
Guys, wait up!
Help!
Help!
Can anyone hear me?
I see him too.
It's me! Dad!
He's real.
Leroy, he's real!
Shit!
Shit. Fuck.
Shit.
- Fuck.
- All right.
What the hell are you all doing here?
Get behind me! Behind me! Move it!
I got you. I got you. I got you.
- Is it bad?
- Just look at me.
- Is it bad?
- No, it's not. It's not bad, brother.
Not bad? Yeah, it's fucking bad.
- It's not bad.
- It's bad.
- Yeah.
So, I can get you out of here
and we're gonna patch you up.
- And so, let's go.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
- What?
- I wanna rest.
- Let me rest.
- No. Fuck that. You can't rest.
- We gotta get out of here.
- Let me rest. No.
No, listen. We gotta get
the fuck out of here.
- Hey, hey. Lee. Lee.
- I got you. What? What?
It's okay. It's okay.
What?
It's my turn.
It's my turn.
I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, brother.
- Hey, listen.
Make it count.
Make it count.
All right.
Kids, everybody get out of here.
Run! Now!
Guys!
Ronnie, Marge! Can anyone hear me?
Too bad. So sad.
You couldn't save ol' Matty-boy.
Tasty, tasty Matty-boy.
You convinced everyone to come and see me.
'Cause you're such a good friend.
But such a bad daughter!
Don't turn around.
Don't say anything.
Turn on the car and let's drive.
I saw the news. I was so worried.
Something attacked the bus.
- Attacked?
- Yeah.
It just happened so fast.
I don't know what it was.
They've put checkpoints on the state road
going in and out of town.
All right.
We have to find someplace for you to go.
Okay. Okay.
- Come home with me.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
You can't stay outdoors.
They're combing the woods.
Shit. Shit.
Fuck. Fuck. Shit.
Yeah. Okay.
There might be someone who can help.
Hi.
I'm Mrs. Hanlon.
You called about a visitor?
Mrs. Hanlon?
My name is Ingrid Kersh.
You don't know me,
but we have a mutual friend.
And he got hit.
Next thing I know,
he's down, and he's bleeding out.
And so, I get him up.
I take him with me.
It was too late.
Thank you, Major.
If we need any more, we'll let you know.
I am so sorry, Major.
Russo was a good man.
Yes, he was, sir. Thank you.
for what they led us into.
That being said,
I do still have a few questions of my own.
Sir, I'm sorry.
I would just really like
to go be with my family.
Of course.
General. General.
Hallorann.
Did he make it out?
Hasn't reported back to base.
How he'd have made it
out of there, I don't know.
But if anyone could find a way,
it's Dick Hallorann.