IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) s01e06 Episode Script

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I don't want to go.
There's nothing
to be afraid of down there.
Come on.
Good girl.
What's your name, dear?
Mabel.
So, Mabel…
this is where the clown told you
to meet him?
You can tell me.
It's okay. Sweetheart, it's okay.
It's just a balloon.
Duck and cover, kiddos.
What you don't understand is,
I could have killed you down there.
But instead, I had to send
my best friend home in a box.
Because you disobeyed me.
Come on, Dad. That's not fair.
You know what killed Uncle Pauly.
What I know is I have a son
that has no goddamn sense.
- Okay, Leroy.
- Charlotte, I'm sorry.
You have to stay out of this.
You were not there.
This thing could change its shape.
Like, it could see inside my head.
- How is that possible, Lee?
- I don't know.
But I do know these weren't mind games.
This was real. This was solid.
- It killed trained soldiers.
- Dad, I know what it can do.
It's come after us a bunch of times,
and it's not gonna stop.
Well, it can't touch you out here.
Outside of Derry.
So, from now on, you don't leave your room
without my permission.
Do you understand?
No.
- No…
- Baby, mind your daddy now.
No! You always told me
that a man should never hide from trouble.
That what makes life count
are the friends you make
and the risks you take.
Well, I've got friends now, Dad.
I've got friends and they need me,
and I'm gonna be there for them,
just like you would.
You are not me.
Yeah, I know that. I know I'm not you
'cause I would never let my friends die.
Leroy!
- I'm sorry, son.
- It's gotten to you too.
- It's gotten to your head.
- No.
- Come here, son.
- Get away from me!
What is that?
It was under the water
when the clown was coming after me.
It started to glow, and…
and he looked at it almost like…
like he was afraid.
Afraid? Really?
Yeah.
Then he backed away and just…
disappeared.
Can I see?
I'll hold it.
Fine.
- They look like hieroglyphs.
- I thought those were Egyptian.
All ancient civilizations
have hieroglyphs. It's a Greek word.
Exactly.
Whatever it is,
if this thing is scared of it,
maybe we can use it.
We go back down there,
all of us together…
and we kill it.
You really expect us to listen to you?
You're the one who dragged us down there
in the first damn place.
We almost died.
And now you want us to go back?
You are crazy.
What did you call me?
Lilly?
- Just give it…
- Don't touch it!
You think I wanted this?
If I could go back, I'd never have gone
to your house in the first place.
You were up in the booth. You didn't see.
I was the only one who made it
out of that theater.
And for Matty to come back and tell us
there was a chance that
Phil was still alive?
What was I supposed to do?
If you hadn't come to my house that day,
they probably would still be alive.
And the cops wouldn't be
hunting my daddy like some kind of animal.
All I wanted was to help you.
A lot of good it did.
I wish I never tried.
- Guys…
- And I wish I'd never met you,
- Lilly Bainbridge!
- Can't you see?
This is what it wants!
To turn us against each other.
They should have never
let you out of Juniper Hill!
I'll go make sure she's okay.
- She didn't mean that.
- Don't.
Just… Just leave me alone.
Hallorann? Where you been?
Can't tell you.
Okay. Place looks good, huh?
Yeah, we're gonna get something going
later tomorrow night,
bring some ladies, some music,
break this place in.
Yeah, it's gonna be a real good time.
Shit.
You need this?
More than you know.
You good?
Yeah.
Fuckin' ice box leakin'.
Need to replace that.
Floorboard is rottin'.
I'm gonna polish off this bottle of Pap,
catch myself a couple Z's in the back.
You can't.
We got something we gotta talk about.
Tell me.
Can you believe her?
It's like she won't stop
until one of us is dead.
We barely made it
out of those tunnels alive,
and now she's trying
to serve us up to that thing again?
She must have snapped her cap!
You agree with me, right?
Yeah. Definitely.
You think I went too far?
I mean…
Maybe I did, but…
I'm just tired.
I'm tired of being scared.
I know.
Me too.
William Dubois Hanlon?
Get your disobedient behind
in this car right now.
Dubois?
You too, little miss.
Me? Why?
Y'all think y'all grown?
- Shit.
- Are you…
- Is that who the fuck I think that is?
- Yeah, but…
They got posters of the man
all over town, Reggie.
They got rewards
for this man and everything.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Please, I… I… Please.
- No, no, no. No. No!
Mrs. Hanlon asked
if we could hide him here.
What was I supposed to say?
I think that you are inviting
a whole lot of hurt up in here.
She says she's got
a plan to get him out of town.
Just needs a couple days
to get it all straight.
Like, what do you expect me to do?
Turn him over to some lynch mob?
Look, I'll… I'll stay out of sight.
I'll stay out of sight.
I… I… I promise, sir.
I won't leave this room. Please.
Please.
I don't need this shit right now.
Where is he? Daddy?
- Ronnie?
- Daddy!
Ronnie! Ronnie!
- Daddy!
- Oh God! Oh God!
Baby.
I missed you! Let me look at you.
- You okay? Let me see you.
- I missed you.
- I missed you so much.
- I missed you too.
We've been looking for you everywhere.
It's all right, baby.
No one knows about this place.
Just a few colored airmen from the base.
I'm so sorry.
- I'm sorry I left you.
- Hey.
Thank you for doing this.
Leave me out of this.
I'm so sorry.
How'd they find you?
A friend of mine reached out
to Mrs. Hanlon for me.
- Who?
- It's a long story, baby.
What's important is that we're together
and we're gonna stay together.
Ain't no one gonna
keep us apart ever again.
Ever again, okay?
Yeah, let 'em try. Okay?
I missed you. I missed you.
You wanna talk about
what happened this morning?
I'm here for you. I got you.
My baby girl.
It's gonna be all right.
You're safe. You're safe, okay?
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay, baby.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- You scared me.
- Sorry.
I didn't think anybody would be here.
- What are you doing here?
- Still haven't landed one on Main Street.
- Want to try?
- I have to redress my eye.
- The tape is hard to take off.
- Want some help?
I was a Webelo for a couple years.
I know the trick to taking a bandage off
without it hurting.
It's really gross.
What are you doing?
What? If you wet it a little,
it'll slide right off.
- Not with your spit.
- It's fine.
Saliva actually has antiseptic properties.
- I don't think that's true.
- Who knows?
Science is constantly changing.
That's what Will says.
You should hear him talk about it.
See? Easy…
peasy.
It's awful, isn't it?
No, it's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I can handle it from here. Thanks.
That was crazy before, huh?
Lilly and Ronnie really
went at each other.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just…
I just get a bad feeling. Like…
this thing's not done with us.
And if we have to face it alone, then…
I know.
What if Lilly's right?
About that thing she found?
What if it really is
the only way we can stop this?
Don't we have a better chance
if we're together?
I'm not the one who needs convincing.
And Ronnie seems stubborn.
I got it.
Here goes nothing.
Shit!
Hallorann, are you in there?
Major.
Where you been?
You need a drink?
Drink. Drink, drink, drink.
New orders from Shaw.
Dead soldiers or not, he's still
on the hunt for those pillars.
Makes sense.
But if I was Shaw, I would stop
that shit before he f…
I'll fuckin' look at it later.
Dick, what happened down there?
I think we pissed it off.
I meant you.
You stayed in those tunnels for hours.
What happened?
This thing I got…
when I was little, let me see things.
Okay.
What kind of things?
Dead ones.
My grandma had some of what I got.
Not as strong, but she had some, so…
she realized I wasn't sleeping, and why,
and she taught me this trick. Told me…
Said, "Dick,
think of a great big ol' box."
"And imagine putting all the things
you don't want to see no more
inside the box. Closing it up."
So I did.
I took all them dead things,
threw them in that box in my mind,
and I shoved that goddamn lid on tight.
I was nine.
I ain't seen them since.
'Til yesterday…
when that goddamn thing…
It forced itself into my head,
ripped that lid off,
and laughed as it all came spillin' out.
Are they here now?
Can you see them?
My grandma, she used to tell me that
the dead, they always wander back
to where they died.
Look like one or two of 'em
met their maker right here.
Do they talk to you?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Long as I don't regard them,
they don't even notice I'm here.
But, man, if I open my mouth…
the voices, they don't ever stop.
And they know things, things we don't.
Things the living aren't meant to know.
Like what?
Like how to find what we're looking for?
Did you hear a word I just said?
Look… I just buried my wingman.
Okay, my best friend.
And I almost killed my own son.
So, no disrespect,
but we both got skin in the game.
And I know it's asking a lot,
but at the end of the day,
you're an airman first class
of the United States military.
When shit gets real, it's the job.
If this helps complete the mission,
just do it this one time,
and then you can… you can
put it all back away,
just like it was before.
Okay, so what… what happens
if I can't shove it all away like before?
You don't know. You don't know, do you?
Or you don't give a fuck. Either way,
all this shit is about what you want.
- It's about doing what's right.
- Get the fuck out of here with that.
You know what? Shaw's calling,
needs his boot shined,
you fuckin' bootlicker.
Man, you don't talk to me like that.
I'm your superior officer.
I don't give a fuck! Get out!
Get out!
Now you think about
whether you want to do your sworn duty,
or get dragged out of here in handcuffs.
Get some rest.
Charlotte.
Char?
What's going on? Where's Will?
Probably with his friends,
who are about the only people
he can trust right now.
And you know what? I don't blame him.
- Okay, hold on a minute.
- No, you hold on a minute.
You put hands on our boy.
I know.
And I'm sorry, Char, but you know that…
that wasn't me.
It wasn't. My head was just…
It was all messed up
because of what happened
down in that sewer.
And what happened to Pauly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Char.
I'm just… trying to protect
this goddamn country.
- This country?
- What?
You put us in a cage
with a goddamn monster!
I didn't know.
I didn't know that.
- Yeah, well, there's a lot you don't know.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Hank Grogan's at the Black Spot.
- How'd he wind up there, Charlotte?
- I put him there.
You…
Yell, scream, stomp,
do whatever it is you need to do,
won't make a lick of difference.
Tomorrow morning,
I'm getting him out of town. Safe.
And then Will and I are
headed back to Shreveport
with or without you.
I have a mission to finish, Charlotte.
I can't just walk away from that.
Well, then I guess you'll join us
when you can find the time
to make things right.
Can't you see that's what I'm trying
- to do here?
- Not with me.
With your son.
You convinced everyone to come and see me.
Because you're such a good friend.
But such a bad daughter!
If you'd all take out your textbooks
and turn to page 61.
Okay, so Sally has
2X the number of apples.
Who's gonna help you now, crazy?
You'll die if you try!
Stay away!
Lilly Bainbridge!
Sit back down this very instant!
Where do you think
you're going, young lady?
Her dad? Are you serious?
That's why she's not here.
Will said his mom
took 'em there yesterday,
and Ronnie hasn't left his side since.
He said he'll take us there later,
but we can't tell anyone.
- You think we can change her mind?
- I don't know. We gotta try.
I could barely sleep last night.
When I brushed my teeth,
I thought I heard voices
- in the pipes.
- Voices in the pipes?
You too?
I wouldn't even go in there to pee.
So what, you just held it in?
Are you kidding?
I couldn't even do that if I tried.
I just put it…
Never mind. Doesn't matter.
Come on. Please. You're the only person
I've shown my oozing eye scab to.
Fine.
I put a jar next to my bed,
and I emptied it this morning.
In medieval times,
they called it a chamber pot.
Everyone peed in them, even knights.
Knights? Cool.
They also fought in duels
and rescued fair maidens.
Hey, I got you something.
Here it is.
Dug it out of my attic.
Supposedly, it belonged to a corsair
my ancestors knew back in Cuba.
I figured, I don't know,
you might like it.
I love it.
I've always wanted to be a pirate.
Look at us. A pirate and a knight.
Guess we got next Halloween
all figured out, huh?
It's a date.
No, I know.
- I didn't mean to say…
- I didn't… I didn't think you meant…
Sorry.
Hey, Margie. If I didn't know any better,
I'd think you were avoiding us.
Hi, Patty.
Everyone's still talking
about how you escaped
the jaws of death.
At least Loony Lilly didn't
stab both your eyes out.
That's not what happened.
Well, why don't you tell us
about it over lunch?
At our table.
Unless you'd rather stay here
with Ricky Ricardo and the other freaks.
Patty?
Margaret?
I am a freak.
Stop!
Rhon? Oh my God, Rhonda.
Just breathe! Oh my God!
How much further?
Almost there, I think.
Will! Wait up!
This is it.
Now we gotta convince Ronnie
we have to stick together
to fight this thing.
Quick question. What if she says no?
- Say a prayer she doesn't.
- I don't know, man.
Last time I said a prayer,
my dead tío almost killed us.
Okay, well… no prayers then.
Oh, Lord.
What is this place?
It's like a clubhouse for some
of the airmen from the base.
So kind of like the Standpipe,
but for grownups.
Who is it?
It's Will.
Rich. Come on.
Hello?
Mrs. Kersh?
Lilly?
What are you doing up here?
The door was open.
It's fine.
I just wasn't expecting anybody.
Are you okay?
I'm all right. It's just…
Well, we went down to the tunnels and…
Lilly…
- I begged you not to go.
- We didn't have a choice.
And Matty…
Matty, he…
Darling.
It's all right.
It's okay. Whatever it is,
it's all going to be okay.
I just… I didn't know who else to go to.
You're in the right place. All right?
It's okay.
It's okay.
There, there.
Lilly, you're safe here with me.
Lilly, what's the matter?
Have you seen him?
You saw him.
Oh, my word. You did it.
Sweetheart, you did it. You did it.
Lilly, of course, it was you.
This is… I know you don't understand,
but you brought him back.
It's my old costume.
You followed us?
Yes. Yes.
I thought he might appear
that night in the cemetery.
You kids were on your bikes,
and I was worried I might miss him
if he showed himself to you.
So that was you.
But why?
My father was a carnival performer.
He called himself
"Pennywise the Dancing Clown."
I adored him.
And he was taken from me.
The carnival moved on,
but I stayed in Derry.
I suppose you could say I felt… drawn.
Your parents are very concerned.
They don't believe me… about Pennywise.
He says he wants to show me his carnival.
He's here in the pipes.
He tells me to come down
to the basement at night.
There are no such things
as clowns in pipes.
Clowns live at the circus.
Good girl.
It's okay, sweetheart.
It's okay. It's just a balloon.
Hello, Mabel.
You finally came.
And you brought a friend.
Papa?
Don't look back!
There, Mabel!
- Help!
- I'm trying! It's stuck!
Please, open the door!
Open the door!
Oh God! No!
Leave her alone! No, please! Please!
Mabel…
No!
Pumpkin, it's me, Papa.
How I've missed you all these years.
No, no, don't be scared.
I can explain everything.
Just open the door and let me in.
That's right.
Open it.
Let me in.
Everything's gonna be all right.
It was him.
Different, perhaps changed
by whatever he'd been through,
or wherever he'd been.
But it was him all the same.
A daughter knows.
And…
suddenly I…
I felt whole again
for the first time since that awful day.
But every time that he would return,
this shadow would steal my father away.
I… I had to find a way to free him.
So I did what I had to to see him again.
If he could just see me
once more as his Periwinkle,
remind him of the love that we shared,
I know that he'll be able to break free.
Please don't hurt me.
Hurt you?
I would never let anything hurt you.
And my friends?
Lilly…
you above all people should understand.
If you could see
your father again, hold him,
be his little girl…
wouldn't you do everything
you could to make that happen?
My father is dead.
You know what they say
about Derry, dear.
No one who dies here ever really dies.
Come with me tonight.
Let me show you.
Lilly!
If we're gonna go after this thing,
it needs to be all of us.
I'm not going anywhere
until I know my dad is safe.
Hey, your dad, he's gonna be fine.
Nobody knows that he's here.
I'm not getting separated again.
You guys do what you want. I'm staying.
- Well, she's stubborn.
- I told you.
Yeah, well…
so am I.
Will…
All right, now. Here we go.
One, two. One, two, three, four.
Maybe we should wait outside.
Nah, I think… I think here's good.
If this thing Lilly found in the sewers
really scares it like she said,
it's a chance it can stop it.
Like, for good.
But we think we'd have a better chance
if we could all be together until…
Enough.
You really expect my dad
to let me go back down there?
No, you're not going anywhere,
but I get it.
He's worried about you.
Right?
Well, yes, sir. But that's… that's not…
You really care
about my daughter, don't you?
Yes, sir.
We have that in common.
That's why I can't let her go.
So, what, the two of you
been spending a lot of time together then?
- Daddy.
- Hush up, now.
You have a new gentleman friend.
I'm your father.
I should know him a little better.
Let me ask you something, William.
What's your favorite movie?
That kiddie killer's still out there.
- Where the hell else can we look?
- We've already covered the Barrens.
There's a whole sewer system
he could be hiding in.
I say we go in, split up,
and search it all again.
How about that area
outside the rail yards
where the hobos used to come through?
Tomorrow, we get the others,
the Boone brothers, maybe,
- some dogs…
- He's not there.
Grogan.
I know where he's hiding,
and it ain't the rail yards.
- You serious?
- Yeah.
A lady called in a tip.
Didn't leave her name, but…
well, considering the nature of the place
she was pointing at,
I'd say it's a pretty safe bet.
- Are you gonna arrest him?
- Well, there's a problem.
See, when the tip came in,
I was cleaning out my desk
'cause the deputy mayor
just relieved me of my duties.
Seems they've lost confidence
in my ability to…
serve and protect.
So, no. No, I couldn't even…
couldn't even give him a parking ticket.
What are you telling us for?
It's the wrong song…
- Look who made it.
- What's happening, man?
Your smile is lovely
It's the wrong smile
It's not his smile
But such a lovely smile
That it's all right with me
You can't know
How happy I am
That we met
I'm strangely attracted to you…
Here you go. Careful now,
she's got some sting.
Thanks.
Young Master Will's friends.
- Whatcha drinkin'?
- Two Cokes.
Two Cokes coming up.
What are they doing?
I think they're dancing.
What kind of dancing is that?
Two Cokes?
Thank you.
I think there's something wrong
with this Coke.
Well, nah, you got a…
Air Force Coke.
Tastes kind of funny.
That's the taste of freedom, son.
And it's all right
And it's all right with me
Freedom tastes weird.
They did play War of the Worlds
at the rec center on base last year.
- I… I… I like that.
- Great answer.
You seem like a bright young man, William.
Truth is…
if anything were to happen to me…
it's good to know
someone of your character
is looking out for my baby girl.
Nothing's gonna happen
to you or Ronnie, sir.
Not on my watch.
Shit.
Not even the old Hanlon charm, huh?
I tried. She won't budge.
Man, that sucks.
- What are we gonna do now?
- Hey, Sticks, you play?
I don't know. A little.
Look, we're about to swing out,
but our drummer's a little bit…
indisposed.
What do you say? Wanna sit in?
Come on!
I've never seen you play before.
What's a couple more minutes?
What are we playing?
You know how to use these?
Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
I love Air Force Coke.
Go, Rich!
It's kinda nice out here, huh?
Just the two of us.
Can finally hear each other talk.
And, girl, let me tell you something.
I can listen to the sound
of your voice till sunup.
You sure you don't mean
the sound of your own?
Come on. Light me up.
You guys expecting more people tonight?
No.
Goddamn.
Say, you wanna kill
those headlights, jack?
What's wrong with these people?
Get behind me. Now!