IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) s01e08 Episode Script

My word! What is going on out there?
Good afternoon, students.
Classes have been canceled
for the rest of the day.
Upperclassmen are excused,
but all other students,
please report to the auditorium
for an all-school assembly.
Who do you think
would have the ugliest baby?
Burt the Turtle and Teddy Yurin.
What about Lilly Bainbridge
and that Matty guy?
That's so gross.
Where are all the teachers?
Settle down, students. Settle down.
We have a special treat today
designed to entertain and delight.
Please allow me to introduce
Pennywise the Dancing Clown!
Hiya, kiddos!
Ta-da!
When I close my eyes
And I dream of you
I see your pretty faces
And I taste them too
But my, oh my
How I wish to cry
Every time we say
Goodbye!
Guys.
Guys.
Shit.
It's all the kids from school.
It's messing with us, right?
It can't have taken all of them.
Only one way to find out.
Let's go.
Who is that?
I don't wanna know.
They're gone!
- Oh my God!
- Oh my God!
It's Dunleavy. No, no.
That's Principal Dunleavy.
- Uh-huh.
Wait.
How can it have taken all of them? How?
Guys.
No. No, no.
Took him? Took him where?
Probably wherever that leads.
So what do we do?
We have to follow the trail,
and we can use the dagger thing
to protect ourselves.
I mean, we have to try
and save our friend.
I wanna kill that fucking clown.
Let's go.
Go!
Stop squirming.
I'm falling.
You weren't falling on the way over!
Guys, we're never gonna
catch up to them at this rate.
Do you have a better idea?
Oh, shit!
Oh, the milkman.
What are you doing?
You don't know how to drive!
Neither do you. I mean, do you?
No. But you've only got one eye.
It's fine. My uncle Mike has a truck.
And he let you drive it?
No.
But I watched him.
Come on, son. Pick up, please.
Pick up the fucking phone.
Pick up, Will. Come on.
Shit.
Hello? Will?
Will?
Who is this?
What scares the man without fear?
- You.
- Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Us.
Where am I? Hello?
- Anybody?
- Will.
Will, I'm here, son. Will, I'm here.
Hello? Please, I'm scared.
Oh, yes. You are.
Will, don't be scared. Listen, I'm here.
You just need to tell me where you are.
Okay, son?
Hello?
Will!
- Will!
- Back in the wagon for Willie boy!
Gotta keep him nice and fresh.
- Listen, please.
- The dark meat tastes twice as sweet!
Don't put your hands on my son!
Don't touch my son, you hear me?
I'll rip your fucking heart out!
Hello?
Will!
Leave me alone.
Dick! Dick, open up!
Dick!
- Dick!
- Shut up.
Do it, Dick!
- Dick, open up. I can hear you.
- Do it!
This is your last chance!
Join us!
- Do it!
- Do it!
I am coming in!
No. No, don't.
Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't.
What the hell is going on?
- Dick, what are you doing?
- I can't take it no more.
Okay, but listen to me, brother.
shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up!
You shut up. Shut up.
Dick, we don't have time
for this, brother.
- Dick, I need you.
- Back up!
- Easy, brother.
- No!
- Easy.
- You did this.
You did it.
- I'm sorry.
- You got my mind all fucked up.
I need you to listen to me.
- there ain't no other way, brother.
- I need you to listen to me.
There ain't no other way.
Dick, please! Please, it's got Will!
It's got Will!
It's got my boy, and I don't know where.
I don't know where he is.
I'm begging you
to please help me find him,
and I swear on my life
I'll do everything in my power
to help you.
I promise you
I'll pull the trigger myself.
help me find my baby, please.
Help me find my baby, please.
General, I just received word
that Major Hanlon has gone AWOL.
Forced his way through the guard gate.
We don't need him anymore.
There's nothing he can do to stop us now.
Apparently, there was another airman
with him in the car.
Hallorann.
- Come on, Dick. Come on.
- Cold.
- I know. Come on.
- It's too cold here.
- Come on.
- It's too cold.
What? What?
You said we'd be safe here!
You said we'd be safe here.
- I'm sorry.
- You lied to me, Leroy. You're a liar!
- I know.
- But, Charlotte, listen to me.
- I can't take this.
- I'm gonna get him back.
- I'll call you back, John.
- Bullshit!
- I swear to God, I will get Will back.
- I will get Will back.
- My baby.
How is he gonna help us?
How are you gonna help us?
- How are you gonna help us?
- Listen, listen to me. Listen.
He said that the bond
between mother and son
is the strongest in this world.
The strongest.
It won't matter.
Excuse me?
Even if he locates your son,
you won't stand a chance
against this creature.
- You do realize that.
- What are we supposed to do?
Just give up on our boy?
Of course not.
could do for us
what he did for your general,
there may be a way to stop this thing
and save your son.
How?
By using his ability
to find one last artifact.
The dagger.
What dagger?
So if this dagger
is made of the same rock,
we can use it to replace a pillar
and re-lock the cage.
Exactly. And, hopefully, save your son.
If Mr. Hallorann can find it
before the creature reaches this point.
On the southern bank of the river,
there's a great pine.
A deadwood that has stood there
since before even our ancestors.
It's the furthest point
that the dagger's energy can still
- and restore the cage.
- Yeah, that's the southern bank.
That's the shortest route
across the river,
probably where that thing
will try to cross it.
How do we connect the dagger's energy
to the other pillars?
The earth is a conductor.
The dagger needs to be buried
just as the other pillars were.
It's our only hope.
You're a bunch of goddamn fools.
I can barely hear myself think.
And now y'all expecting me
to find your little dagger?
I can help you quiet the voices
in your head, Mr. Hallorann.
But you're going to have to trust me.
How?
You need to be connected
to the dagger's energy.
This is made from Maturin root.
It will connect you to all things
in the realm this evil came from.
But not all things there are evil.
This tea is gonna shut
all these voices up?
When one door in the mind opens,
another must close.
How long is it gonna take?
Not long.
Remember this.
You have to drive faster, Marge.
It's a fucking milk truck.
I'm going as fast as I can.
Well, step on it, okay?
- I'm trying!
Pothole!
Are you guys okay?
Marge, what the hell?
That wasn't a one-eye thing.
It was a pothole thing.
What's wrong?
Oh, jeepers, Lilly,
you have blood on your face.
- Are you okay?
- The dagger, where is it?
We have to find it. We have to.
We will. It's got to be here somewhere.
There it is!
No! No, don't touch it!
I can get it myself.
Just shut up, Ronnie.
Just stop.
Guys, we don't have time.
We have to keep going.
- Stay with it, Mr. Hallorann.
- Hey.
- Stay with it.
- Ah! The dagger!
I see it.
Where? Where is it?
Will's friends. Will's friends.
- What? Ronnie?
- The girls.
- They're fighting over it.
They're going after Will.
He'll help us find him,
but we've gotta go now!
Okay.
Let's go.
I can't see too good.
Are you sure we're going the right way?
We're getting closer.
I don't understand.
If the dagger's power is real,
why wouldn't my daughter
and her friends be safe?
The dagger is a lost fragment
of the comet that this thing arrived on,
taken from where it crashed down
beneath Neibolt House.
Like all lost things,
it just wants to go home.
The further you take it
from where it belongs,
the more damage it does to your mind.
It drives you insane.
The dagger will resist.
It will fight back with a force
that you cannot imagine.
Something's wrong with that thing.
Why are you looking at me like that?
- Yes, you are.
You're looking at me
like you think I'm crazy.
Lilly, why don't you
just give us the dagger?
Just for a little bit.
You never trusted me, did you?
You just used me!
You used me to save your stupid dad!
- Hey!
- And you used me 'cause you lost
all your other stupid friends!
I have to go back!
I'm gonna get us all killed,
don't you get it?
Ronnie was right about me!
No, I wasn't!
Lilly! Please, stop it!
This thing is making you think
these things!
I'm gonna drag you all under,
don't you see?
- I am!
- No, you're not! Lilly!
This is not you! Listen to me, okay?
You are a goddamn lifeboat!
I'm so sorry.
Don't be. It wasn't really you.
We trade off who holds
this thing as we go.
Okay?
Guys?
Look.
You think Will is in there?
Let's find out.
- Jesus!
- What's wrong?
Ice?
The kids?
Oh my God, it's already on the river.
We're not gonna make it.
We won't get to the kids in time.
Not before it passes the deadwood.
the clown.
We can slow it down.
Uh, how are we gonna do that?
Dick has gotten
into this thing's head before.
In the helicopter.
Dick. Dick.
Can you do it again? Can you try? Dick!
There he is! Will!
Oh, Will! Oh, Will!
Please, Will!
Will! Will!
Try to pull him down.
Look who decided to join the circus!
The fool!
The freak!
The failure!
But who is who?
It doesn't matter.
There's a spot for you all!
Where is he?
Where is he?
- Lilly, no! Stay close!
- Where did she go?
Oh, I've always wondered how you'd taste,
Margaret Tozier.
Tozier?
Oh, but not yet.
You're not Tozier yet.
First comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes Richie in the baby carriage!
Unless he dies with you!
I don't know what you're talking about!
Your son!
Don't you recognize your little boy?
The seed of your stinking loins
and his filthy friends bring me my death!
Or is it birth?
I get confused.
Tomorrow? Yesterday?
It's all the same for little Pennywise.
But it's not always easy. No.
Being caged up in one place, one time.
They can't fence me in.
Not them!
And not you.
Beep-beep, Margie.
Marge!
- What happened?
- I don't know.
Will! Will!
You're alive!
What happened?
Ice?
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Will!
- Dad? Dad!
- Son!
- Ronnie!
- Son!
- Dad!
- You're okay.
- Daddy! Daddy!
- Are you okay?
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
It's okay. Go over there
with your mother, okay?
- Go. Let's go. Go, go.
- Mom's here?
The clown, it's here,
and it almost ate Marge!
Okay, calm down. Let's get to the van.
Let's get to the van. Come on.
Where's the dagger? Where's the dagger?
- It's here!
- Go, go, go!
To the north shore! Let's go!
Wake up! Wake up! To the north shore!
Oh, baby!
Deadwood's that way, yeah?
On the south bank.
Rose said the dagger's gonna
try to resist.
We're going together.
- No!
- Dad!
- Dad!
- Will!
Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie!
Rose!
Okay. Be still.
Breathe. Breathe.
Taniel.
Taniel? Taniel?
Dad! Dad!
I'm okay. I'm okay.
- Listen. Listen.
- You take this dagger.
- What?
You take it. You take it.
And you hide in the fog,
and you use it for cover.
Take the dagger. Take it to that tree.
And you bury it deep in the base.
Secure Major Hanlon.
And don't let Hallorann get away.
And that thing, it goes to sleep,
and all of this stops. You understand me?
- I can't.
- Yes, you can.
- No.
- Why not?
I'm scared.
I'm not you.
Listen. You don't have to be.
You understand?
You don't have to be me,
and I don't want you to be.
You just be you.
You hear me?
I love you, son.
I love you.
Go, son. Go. Go. Go!
Come on. Let's go.
Go get Hallorann.
Bob! Bob!
Bob!
Bob!
Bob!
Are you okay, friend?
Papa, Papa, you're all right.
Where am I?
What is this?
You need to lay off the spirits, Robert.
I found you out yonder in a ditch.
You look like you took a nasty fall.
I'm not Bob Gray.
Well, who else might you be,
then? Peter Rabbit?
- Don't you dare speak to me that way!
- Daddy!
I am a god! An eater of worlds!
Must have hit your head a little harder
than you thought there, didn't you, Bob?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Did they see us?
I don't know, but where the hell are we?
I can't see a goddamn thing.
I thought they're supposed
to be the good guys.
Why would they kill that man?
Guys, it's okay.
All right, just stay calm.
We just gotta come
from the far side of the tree
so those guys don't spot us first.
I wanna know what the hell
you think you're doing out here.
The kids, where are they headed?
Answer me, Major!
If you don't talk to me,
you're in a world of hurt, son.
There it is. That's the tree.
Let's go.
- I can't do this.
- What?
What are you talking about?
It won't let me.
It's the dagger.
No! No, Will!
- Stop!
- It wants to go home!
- I have to bring it home!
- Don't listen to it!
You have to let it go!
Please, just give it to us!
Just give it to us!
- We can end this.
- We can end it together!
Help me turn around.
All these years,
wondering if you were real,
or just a little boy's nightmare.
Look at you.
You're both.
I don't know if you can hear me in there.
But whatever Hallorann's done to you,
we're gonna fix it.
Show me your hands!
No! Wait!
Dicky!
Who's Dicky, Bob?
Bob!
Tricky Dicky, Dicky.
Hey! Hey!
- Move!
No!
On your knees!
I tried, man. I tried.
It's okay. You're free.
You're free to go.
I know you.
I never forget a smell.
Stop. What are you doing?
- Now you see it!
- Stay back!
You stay back!
See to the General.
Colonel, you have to stop that thing!
If it gets past that tree,
we're all fucked!
Listen to me! Please!
This man is a traitor. Ignore him, airmen.
Drop it!
Don't be scared! Keep going!
Hey! You!
Having a little bit of trouble, are we?
Keep tugging that thing
and it just might pop!
So long, losers!
Fuck!
Oh, fuck!
Lee!
Uh-oh!
Leroy!
Come on, Ronnie! Ronnie, you can do this!
What do you see?
A motherfucking miracle.
Will!
Keep going! It's working!
Oh! Oh, shit!
No!
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
Lively crowd.
- He's okay.
- He's okay. Oh, shit.
Shit. He's okay.
It's gone.
was that just me,
Like another pair of hands.
Rich.
I felt him too.
I felt him too.
We did it.
Ronnie! Baby!
- Ronnie!
- Daddy!
- Will!
- Mom!
Will!
Come here, baby.
Hi, everybody.
I only knew Rich for about a month.
I know what you're thinking.
How well can you know
anyone in a month?
If you weren't good friends,
why are you even speaking at his funeral?
But maybe
good friends or bad friends.
Maybe there are just friends.
People who stand by us when we're hurt,
and who help us not feel so lonely.
Maybe friends like those
and hoping for, and living for.
if that's what has to be.
Rich taught me that too.
No good friends,
no bad friends.
Only people
need to be with.
People who build their houses
in your heart.
Thank you for those kind words.
And thank you, everyone, for coming
to honor the memory of Ricardo Santos.
God bless you. Go in peace.
Your boy's there.
He always will be.
Who are you, sir?
I'm still working on that.
Hey, Dad.
Sorry, I haven't been around much.
I just didn't know what to say.
I'm better now.
So much has happened.
I made some new friends.
It looks so peaceful from up here.
Yeah.
the clown,
when we were alone in the fog.
What do you mean?
He said I'm gonna have a son.
that they kill him in the future.
What?
That's why he wanted to kill me.
He said, to him,
the past, present,
and future are all the same.
And that his death was actually his birth.
He was probably just saying
all that to scare you.
But what if he wasn't?
What if he does see time differently?
What if he can go backwards?
You mean to the past?
I know it sounds crazy,
but what if he tries to go back
and kill someone from the time
before we were born,
like our parents?
it'll be someone else's fight.
I guess.
Will! I'm looking at the time.
You said five minutes!
I'm coming, Mom.
Thank you, baby.
Major.
Just stopping by to say au revoir.
How you holdin' up?
Everything hurts.
It quieted those voices down real good.
Hopefully forever.
- You leaving tonight?
- Yeah.
Bus to Boston, plane to London in the a.m.
Got an old buddy back there
who owns a hotel,
wants to give me a shot
cooking in a restaurant.
Okay, fancy stuff.
Well, listen, if you run
into any trouble out there,
you know who you can call.
I owe you.
I think I'll manage.
I mean, how much trouble can a hotel be?
You keep in touch, all right?
I need updates on Will and Char.
I thought you didn't care.
Well, don't tell nobody.
You might wanna put Miss Natalie Wood
in the back seat with Miss Grogan.
It's a long drive now.
I mean, that's right.
- Is that the last one? All right.
- All right.
Now, you know when you get
to crossing St. Stephen who to look for.
Rosa's friends will make it easy.
Thank you.
For everything.
Of course. Of course.
Here you go.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
So honorable discharge, huh?
I keep my mouth shut,
and they let me walk away.
Yeah.
You know, the military
has always been my life,
but what happened to me and my family,
I don't have faith in it.
Kind of makes you the perfect person
to keep an eye on 'em.
- What do you mean?
- You and Charlotte.
I would like for both of you to join us.
Make sure that your old friends,
or anybody else for that matter,
never tries to reopen that cage.
Others will come.
This isn't the end of the story.
And I've decided
to sell the farm, the house.
just too much without Taniel, you know?
I know it's a lot to ask,
but you two could really
do some good around here.
Besides, it'll be 27 years
before that thing wakes up again.
I think me and my family,
we've had enough of Derry.
Right?
Right.
I understand. Really.
I could have sworn
that you threw that stink bomb
'cause it smelled so bad.
I told you, it was the stardust.
You know what they say about Derry.
Once you leave, you forget.
That's good, right?
Is that what you want?
To forget?
No.
There's some parts of this year
I wouldn't mind forgetting.
Not the you part, of course.
You know, I guess if that's how it works,
that's how it works.
I'm gonna remember that.
Kids.
All right.
Let's go.
Char. What's wrong?
I'm thinking about Rose's offer.
You serious?
I mean, this is how we got
into this mess in the first place.
I mean, you going off on your crusades
and me on mine.
I thought we were done with that.
No more damn fool missions.
Yeah.
But maybe the next damn fool mission
needs to be together.
Will.
How would you feel if we stuck around?
I need a pen.
you gonna help me with those sheep?
Oh, I don't fool with no sheep.
I don't need to touch no sheep.
You grew up on a farm.
You know what to do.
- We might be settling.
- Leave me alone, Mr. Hanlon.
we leave, we forget, right?
Well, turns out I'm staying.
So maybe I don't have to.
And maybe if I write to you enough,
you won't have to either.
Help me! Help me, please!
Help me! Where am I?
Where am I? The wolves.
They're looking at me.
They're staring at me.
Don't let them look at me, please!
- Mrs. Kersh, please.
- Please!
Do not ignore me!
Listen to me!
They killed my father.
I know they killed my father.
I saw the handkerchief. Please!
Please.
liked to sing.
Thank you, sir.
Help her! Someone help her!
No!
Yeah. Name?
Elfrida Marsh.
This time she's really dead.
Oh, dear.
Don't be sad.
You know what they say about Derry.
No one who dies here ever really dies.