"[Lively jazz music plays]" "♪" "Stephen King's "Bag Of Bones" Part 1 of 2" "[sinister music]" "♪" "[lively jazz music]" "Whoo!" "[Sinister music]" "♪" "[somber piano music]" "♪" "Help!" "Help, I'm drown..." "[Warped screaming]" "[Gun fires]" "[Gasps]" "[Breathes deeply]" "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." " You all right?" " Yeah?" "Just a bad dream." "[Sighs]" "Well..." "What?" "Your book?" "Done." "[Sighs]" "Done, done?" "Done, done." "Totally done?" "Well, not totally done." "We'll still need the grand gesture." "That's all." "For a second, I thought I'd been replaced." "Replace you, my lady?" "[Whispers] No, impossible." "Come." "Come, your hand in mine." "Come on." "[Giggles]" "Come, come, come, come." "I don't know whose idea it was to put my office up here, but anyway, here we go." "Keep going." "Too many stairs in this house." "All right, your throne, madam." "Be seated." "Okay." "Right." "Ready?" " Mm-hmm." "[Taps key]" ""She smiled," ""satisfied..." "[Keys tapping]" ""And then..." ""Unwrapped the chains..." ""Around her neck." ""She smiled, satisfied." ""And then..." ""Unwrapped the chains..." "From around her neck."" "Now..." "Done." "[Taps key]" " Done." " [Sighs]" " Done." " Hmm." "Mm." "What's with the chains around her neck?" "You're just going to have to read the book and find out." "Oh." "[With German accent] We have ways of making you talk." "Yeah, I bet you do." "[Moaning]" "Why do you always have me write the last lines of your books?" "[Sighs]" "Well, because this book..." "All of these books..." "I couldn't write them without you." "Ah, are you just trying to get laid, Noonan?" "Mm, oh." "Is it working?" "[Moaning and laughing]" "Okay." "Cheers." "Thank you." "I'm your number one fan." "Great." "I'm going to go get some lunch." "I'll see you when you're done." "See you later." "Okay." "Have fun with Annie wilkes here." "Who do I make this out to?" "Your best friend, Jimmy." "Best friend." "Maybe just underline "best"?" "[Horn honks]" "Hi." " Hi." " What's your name?" "Ellen." "Good." "[Sirens wail]" "Thanks." "Excuse me." "Oh, my goodness." "[Sirens wailing]" "[Heart beating]" "[Police radio chatters]" "[No audio]" "[Distant sirens wail]" "[Sobbing]" "Get off!" "Get your hands off me!" "[Solemn music]" "♪" " So sorry, Mike." " Thank you." "Listen, they all fall down is number four on the times list." "Great." "Another push from marketing and the right mixture of in-stores and readings, scribner thinks we might be able to hit number one." "We haven't done that since when the bough breaks." "Now before you get all high and mighty on me about demanding why I'm talking to you about this during your wife's funeral, it's because Jo wouldn't have had it any other way." "She supported your career when you weren't making a dime." "She cared about your books as much as you do, and she would be thrilled to know that you have written possibly your most successful novel to date." "You're right." "When you're right, Marty, you're right." "She would have wanted this." "None of this would have happened without her." "To Johanna Beverly Noonan, the best of them all." "Hear, hear." "To my dead wife." "Easy, Mike." "Thateer's not going anywhere." "[Clears throat]" "[Sighs]" "This is." "Look, um..." "I..." "I can't imagine how hard this is for you, but you... you really got to take it easy, okay, Mikey?" "Jo was pregnant when she died." "What?" "Turns out she was eight, nine weeks pregnant." "I thought..." "I thought the doctor..." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "He told me years ago I couldn't get her pregnant." "Hmm." "Oh, come on, Mikey." "You don't really think that Jo was..." "What?" "She was cheating?" "Hmm?" "Maybe Jo didn't want you to know." "Exactly." "That's not what I meant, and you know it." "The noonans weren't exactly the fathering type, and dad, God rest his soul, wasn't exactly cuddly." "Well, dad was a prick." "He was an Irish Mick of a prick." "And Jo knew you felt that way, knew how you felt about being a father because of that!" "Just because he was a son of a bitch didn't mean I was going to be a son of a bitch." "I mean, a couple of years ago, we even decided to have kids." "Yeah, I remember." "Jo told me about it one time at dinner." "She never looked so excited." "We both were." "If it was going to be a little boy..." "[Sighs]" "We were going to call him Mike junior." "[Laughs]" "And if it was going to be a little girl, she'd be..." "Kya." "Kya." "Kya Jo Noonan." "That's really pretty." "We tried to get pregnant, but then I, you know," "I went to the doctor, and he told me it was this low sperm count, and that was the end of that." "That was the end." "Jo wasn't cheating on you, Mikey." "[Clears throat] When you sold me your share of granddad's lake house..." "Yeah." "I mean, Jo spent a lot of time there." "Yeah, of course she did." "I mean, the place was a dump." "It was a total fixer." "Yeah, I know, I mean, I was really wrapped up in the book and everything like that." "I went there a couple of times with her." "I haven't been there for two, three years." "[Sighs]" "You and Jo were the best couple I ever met, Mike." "So don't beat yourself up over the little things, okay?" "I just hope she wasn't too lonely out there on Dark Score Lake, you know?" "Hope she didn't need somebody who might have kept her company." "That's all." "[Chuckles]" "[Sighs]" "[Cell phone ringing]" "[Groans]" "[Groans]" "[Breathes deeply]" "[Scraping]" "[Sighs]" "[Scraping continues]" "Oh?" "[Grunts]" "[Scraping continues]" " Aah!" " [Screaming]" "[Swallows]" "[Melancholy music]" "♪" "[grunts]" "[Sobbing]" "[Phone rings]" "Hi, this is Jo Noonan." "Leave me a message, and I'll call you back..." "If you're very, very good." "[Voicemail beeps]" "[Phone rings]" "Hi, this is Jo Noonan." "Leave me a message, and I'll call you back..." "If you're very, very good." "[Voicemail beeps]" "[Keypad tone]" "[Phone rings]" "Hi, this is Jo Noonan." "Leave me a message, and I'll call you back..." "If you're very, very good." "[Voicemail beeps]" "[Ominous music]" "♪" "[phone ringing]" "[Rings]" "Jo!" "Jo!" "[Screams]" "[Distant sirens wail]" "[Groans]" ""Driving home..." "[Cell phone chimes]" "[Clears throat] Sorry." "Shut off the phone." "So..." "[Clears throat]" ""Driving home, I thought of an old saying about..." ""How one person can never really truly know another." ""It's easy to give that idea lip service," ""but it's a jolt as horrible and unexpected" ""as severe air turbulence..." ""On a previously calm airline flight to discover it's a literal fact in one's own life."" "And I can't do this." "It's..." "I'm sorry." "[Indistinct]" "[Dramatic music]" "♪" "Hmm." "Always said I couldn't write without you." "Jo..." "Are you there?" "Can you give me a sign?" "Once for "yes," twice for "no."" "[Cell phone rings once]" "Jo..." "Jo, is that you?" "Hey." "Once for "yes," twice for "no."" "[Telephone rings once]" "Hello?" "Mike, Mike!" "I'm sorry about that." "I'm going through the tunnel." "[Sighs]" "Marty." "Hey." "[Laughs] What's up?" "We just got our hands on the spring fiction list." "And?" "And it's..." "Looking a little bit crowded." "What do you mean?" "How... how crowded?" "Like, with some unexpected names." "Names like who?" "Patterson." "Grisham." "There's even talk of a newly discovered Bachman book." "All those authors, they don't publish in the spring." "I mean, they..." "Those are summer, fall guys." "What can I tell ya?" "Maybe they got some extra ideas this year." "Some might've stockpiled novels like squirrels." "Hey, what did you used to call those books you used to write when you were young and hungry, and were writing books faster than they could print them?" "Trunk novels." "That's right." "Trunk novels." "Maybe those guys dug up a few trunk novels and dusted them off." "Figured, "what the hell," right?" "What are you asking me, Marty?" "Scribner wants to publish a novel late winter." "What does that mean?" "Pages with your name on them by the end of the summer." "You're asking me to write a novel in three months, Marty?" "No, no, no." "You wouldn't have to turn in the manuscript until end of September or early October." "'Course that means they'd really have to crash their production, but they can do it." "The question is whether or not you can do it." "So what do you say?" "Can you write your next novel on this ridiculous schedule?" "I can do it, Marty." "Attaboy, Mike." "Well, you get clickety cranking on your next Noonan blockbuster, and I'm going to get to gouging these guys for every penny they have, for breaking your balls and making you rush your next novel like this." "Okay, Marty, that sounds good." "All right." "Oh, and do me a favor, will ya?" "Yeah?" "Take it easy on the drinking, will ya?" "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "[Phone beeps]" "[Sighs]" "[Breathes deeply]" "You're not disappointed in me?" "Hmm?" "Once for "yes," twice for "no."" "Hmm?" "Last night I dreamt I went to Dark Score Lake again." "[Heart beating]" "[Shrill screaming]" "[Distant child crying]" "[Distant screaming]" "[Phone ringing]" "Oh?" "[Sighs]" "Yeah?" "Mr. Noonan." "Yeah?" "My name is Bill Dean, from down on Dark Score Lake." "I was helping your wife renovate the property you inherited a couple years back?" "Okay." "The local kids are getting Wilder and Wilder every year." "A bunch of them snuck into your house the other night." "At least the only thing I can think of happening." "Why?" "Why is that?" "Well, it's the windows." "They're all broken from the inside out." "Now I just wanted to make sure you'll approve the expenses of getting them fixed." "This goes a little beyond the normal caretaking your wife hired me for." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure." "Well, do whatever it takes." "Of course." "Um, listen, Mr. Dean, how is the lake house?" "I mean, apart from the windows, of course." "She's fine." "How come?" "Oh, I was just thinking of maybe getting away for a while, that's all." "You... you want me to get it ready for an extended stay?" "Yes." "Yes, let's..." "let's..." "Let's do that, Bill." "That would be great." "I appreciate it." "Thank you." "She'll be ready for you, Mr. Noonan." "I think it's a good idea, don't you, Jo?" "Once for "yes," twice for "no."" "All right, let's go." "[Groans]" "Oh." "[Sighs]" "[Telephone rings once]" "[Kings of Leon's pyro]" "♪" "♪" "♪" "♪" "♪" "♪" "Now arriving at Dark Score Lake." "[Turns radio off]" "[Sighs]" "Wake up, Jo." "[Foreboding music]" "♪ [crickets chirping]" "Last night I dreamt I went to Dark Score Lake again." "[Door slams]" "Hello?" "Mr. Noonan." "Bill Dean." "Oh, good evening, Bill." "Yeah, please call me Mike." "I didn't mean to scare you." "I just thought you'd like someone here to greet you when you arrived." "Oh, thanks very much." "I appreciate it." "You look just like your granddad, Harold." "I do?" "Yup." "Can I help you with your luggage?" "Yeah, sure, sure." "I don't have much, but thank you." "[Eerie music]" "♪" "Yeah, just put that over there, Bill." "Thanks." "Oh, Jo really did a lot of work to the place, didn't she?" "Yeah, she sure did." "[Chuckles]" "Bunter." "Jo named him." "It's the first thing we bought when we inherited the place." "Got it in a little antique store outside of town." "[Laughs]" "When we got frisky here, she said we were ringing Bunter's bell." "[Laughing]" "Uh, look, I better be off." "Okay." "Oh, I left my number on the fridge, along with the number of the local cleaning lady your wife hired..." "Brenda Meserve." " Mm-hmm." "Told her she ought to come by tomorrow, if that's okay with you." "Great, great." "Good night, now." "You bet." "Mr. Noonan." "Hmm?" "I was awful sorry to hear of Jo's passing." "Right." "We all were." "People around here, they..." "Really liked her, didn't they?" "They did." "Well, good night, Mr. Noonan." "Good night Bill." "Good night, now." "[Keys clank]" "[Sighs]" "Hmm." "[Playing guitar]" "[Melancholy music]" "♪" "♪" "Come to me." "I have so much to show you, Mike." "[Keys jingle]" "[Sighs]" "[Jazz music]" "♪" "Let's fire it up." "[Cracks knuckles]" "Mm-hmm." "[Sighs]" "Come on now, something, something, anything." "Something!" "Come on!" "Just give it to me!" "Something!" "Okay, Jo." "Tell me how to write, hmm?" "Just tell me how to write." "[Bell rings]" "Bunter?" "[Foreboding music]" "♪" "[bell softly rings]" "[Continues ringing]" "[Clears throat]" "[Scoffs]" "Okay." "Okay, Bunter." "That's enough of that." "[Bell rings]" "[Soft rock music]" "♪" "♪ There are clouds on the horizon ♪" "♪ So take a breath" "♪ you're in the calm before the storm ♪" "♪" "♪ If only for a moment" "♪ close your eyes and feel the thunder ♪" "♪ We can't hide or run for cover anymore ♪" "♪" "♪ It's time to take a stand together ♪" "♪ Oh, oh" "♪ hold on" "♪ 'cause the tide is strong ♪" "♪ It can't erase the fire in her eyes ♪" "[sighs]" "Greetings, my dear lady." "Greetings, my green lady." "Huh." "[Sighs]" "[Scraping]" "Oh!" "[Grunts]" "Jo?" "Is that you?" "Once for "yes."" "Twice for "no."" "[Bell rings once]" "[Laughs]" "Oh!" "[Sighs]" "You're here, aren't you, Jo?" "[Bell rings once]" "[Laughs]" "[Woman singing shrill note]" "[Groans]" "[Woman screams]" "[Bell ringing]" "[Screams]" "[Panting]" "We're not alone, are we, Jo?" "Huh?" "[Door creaks open]" "Jo, are you there?" "Hi." "Who are you?" "I'm sorry, Mr. Noonan." "Name's Brenda Meserve." "Your housekeeper?" "I..." "I used the key to let myself in." "Yes." "[Chuckles]" "Oh, yes." "Of course." "Oh, good." "Nice to meet you, Brenda." "How are you?" "Uh, Bill said he told you I'd be coming by today to clean the place up for you." "I can come back at a better time if you'd like." "Oh, no, no, no, no, no." "It's all fine." "Uh, I was just going to head into town and get something to eat." "You're sure?" "Oh, absolutely." "Any, uh..." "Any suggestions?" "Buddy Jellison's cafe, right there on main street." "Can't go wrong ordering the villageburger." "Ah, good." "Thank you very much." "Thanks for coming." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get out of the road!" "[Horn honks]" "Hey, get out of here!" "Come on, come on!" "What are you doing?" "Ky!" "Ky?" "Is that your name?" "Like Kya?" " [Panting]" " That's my mommy." "Sweetheart, what were you thinking?" " I wanted to go swimming!" " [Sighs]" "Her name's Kya?" "Kyra, but sometimes I call her Ky." "Oh." " I'm..." "I'm Mattie Devore." " Hi, Mattie." " I'm not a bad mother." "I swear to God." " No, I didn't say you were." "Please don't mention this to anybody." "We're... we're going through a little bit of a hard time." "Yeah, well, I think it's a little late for that." "Yeah." "Well, thanks for saving my little girl." "I guess God sent you here at the right time." "God's got nothing to do with it." "I was just going to Buddy Jellison's for a hamburger." "[Both chuckle]" "This is a little bit weird for me, but, uh, you're one of my favorite writers." "And I can't believe you just showed up out of nowhere and saved my little girl!" "Oh, thank you." "And you know who I am?" "Of course." "You, uh, inherited that house on the lake, but you haven't been back since..." "Yeah, since my wife died." "[Quietly] Yeah." "Well, um, you take care of yourself now, okay?" "Stay out of the road." "Nice to meet you, Mattie." "Nice to meet you." " Bye." " Bye!" "Bye, Kyra!" "[Tires screech]" "Hey." "Hey, uh, you want a menu?" "Uh, I was told to order a villageburger." "One villageburger coming right up." "Uh, what do you want on it?" "Everything." "And a local brew." "Grab a seat." "We'll bring it to you." "Thank you." "Villageburger, aud!" "And drag it through the garden." "[Sighs]" "See you made a new friend this afternoon." "Yeah, yeah." "Two, actually." "I hear that Mattie Devore can be quite a dear in the right position." "Yeah." "You hear a lot, old-timer?" "More than you know, son." "Old don't mean dead." "Thank you." "[Sighs] You'd do well to keep your distance from Mattie Devore, Mr. Noonan." " Mm." "Uh-huh." "How do you know my name?" "We don't see a celebrity here every day." "Yes, well, I'm hardly what you'd call a celebrity." "Well, we take what we can get." "I'm really sorry to hear about what happened to your wife." "Hmm." "She was a doll." "So when she'd come in here and eat, uh..." "Would she be alone?" "Uh, I guess so." "Or sometimes with Bill Dean and his wife, sometimes with Brenda Meserve, and maybe another friend or two." ""Another friend or two," huh?" "Yeah." "Maybe." "Yeah." "Why are you so interested in who your wife was eating with, Mr. Noonan?" "Mike." "Mike." "Just... just call me Mike." "I don't know, I guess I'd just like to know what life was like for a year on Dark Score." "You know, all those years that I couldn't make it up here." "So..." "Hmm." "Anyway." "Mattie Devore..." "She's a..." "A nice enough girl, only she can be trouble." "That ain't fair, Buddy." "Mattie Devore's in trouble and with the wrong people." "Person." "And who's that person?" "Max Devore." "He's a mean old son of a buck." "I mean, he owns that big, uh, computer company." "Multi-millionaire." "Yeah, I think I, uh, may have seen him yesterday afternoon in the window of that old resort up there." " Mm, warrington's." " Mm, yeah." "Yeah, that's the fella." "Mean old cuss." "He wants custody of the little girl, Kyra." "And why would he want to take his daughter's little girl away?" " Daughter-in-law." "Mattie married Devore's only son." " Devore had the boy when he was 60-something with some Vegas showgirl who's no longer in the picture, of course." " Oh, okay." " And so about a year ago," "Lance, that's Devore's son, he goes a little Dark Score crazy." "What does that mean?" "He tried to drown the little girl." "His own flesh and blood." "And Mattie ended up killing Lance just to protect the little girl, and ever since then," "Devore's made it his mission to take Kyra away from her." "And what Max Devore wants, Max Devore gets." "[Both laugh]" "[Sighs]" "[Sighs]" "[Chuckles]" "[Clicks tongue]" "[Chuckles]" "[Phone ringing]" "Hello?" "Mr. Noonan?" "Yes?" " I understand you met my daughter-in-law today." "Ah, this must be Mr. Devore." "Yes, well, it's a pleasure to meet you, sir." "I'm concerned about my granddaughter." "I was told there was an incident in the road today." " Uh-huh." "How did you get my number?" "You were seen talking to them." "Yeah, I met a woman and a little girl on the road this morning, yes." "I stopped to ask directions to Buddy Jellison's cafe." "Don't lie to me, Mr. Noonan." "Why are you protecting my daughter-in-law?" "Did she promise you something, hmm?" "Listen to me, Mr. Devore!" "I don't like your tone of voice, and I don't know how you got my number, but you can shove it up your ass, you understand?" "[Chuckles]" "[Sighs]" "♪ Sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child [door creaks open]" "♪ A long way" "♪ from home" "♪ a long way" "♪ from home" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone whew." "♪ Sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone" "♪ a long way" "♪ from home what in God's name?" "♪ A long way" "♪ from home" "♪" "Sara tidwell." "♪ A long way" "♪ from home" "[Frankie and Johnny plays]" "[Hums]" "[Sighs]" "♪ Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts ♪" "♪ Oh what a couple in love ♪" "♪ Swore to be true to each other ♪" "♪ True as the stars above ♪" "♪ He was her man" "♪ but he done her wrong ♪" "♪ Frankie went down to the corner ♪" "♪ For a bucket of beer to buy ♪" "♪ The bartender told her" "♪ that Johnny was makin' love ♪" "♪ To Nellie bly" "♪ he was her man" "♪ he was doin' her wrong" "♪ Frankie went home in a hurry ♪" "♪ She didn't go there for fun ♪" "♪ Frankie went home just to ♪" "♪ Get a hold of her old .44 ♪" "♪ He was her man" "♪ but he done her wrong ♪" "♪ And Frankie peeked in on the party ♪" "♪ She got a surprise when she saw ♪" "♪ Nellie and Johnny were makin' love ♪" "♪ Sippin' something through a straw ♪" "♪ He was doin' her wrong" "♪ Johnny in a panic mounted the staircase ♪" "♪ Screaming oh Frankie please don't do it ♪" "♪ She pulled that trigger" "♪ and rooty toot toot" "♪ three times she did shoot ♪" "♪ He was her man" "♪ but he done her wrong ♪" "♪ Now this story has no moral ♪" "♪ And this story has got no end ♪" "♪ This story just goes to show you women ♪" "♪ That there ain't no good in men ♪" "♪ He was her man" "♪ but he done her wrong" "[applause]" "[Knocking at door]" " Mr. Michael Noonan?" " Uh-huh, that's me." "This is for you." "Just take it." "What is it?" "A subpoena?" "To appear in the offices of Elmer Durgin, attorney-at-law and guardian Ad Litem of Kyra Devore." "And it's my duty to remind you of the penalty should you fail to..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "I'll be there." "[Sighs]" "Let me give you a piece of advice." "Don't mess with Mr. Devore." "Or he'll squash me like a bug?" "[Scoffs] I believe the script says," ""let me give you a piece of advice." "Don't mess with Mr. Devore, or he'll squash you like a bug."" "That's right, you can say stuff like that because you're the hot shot book writer." "[Clicks tongue] That it?" "[Sighs] I'll see you at the deposition, Noonan." "Sounds good." "[Sighs]" ""Help 'r.'"" "help her?" "Is that what you're trying to say, Jo?" "Help Mattie Devore?" "[Bell rings once]" "[Laughs]" "[Bell rings once]" "[Bell ringing rapidly]" "[Woman screams]" "What?" "[Screaming continues]" "Sara tidwell?" "Is that you?" "Sara?" "Is that you?" "I think we might have company, Jo." "[Thunder booms]" "♪ Lullaby and good night ♪ [groans]" "♪ With roses bedight" "♪ creep into thy room [door creaks open]" "♪ There pillow thy head ♪" "♪ If God will thou shalt wake ♪" "♪ When the morning doth break ♪" "♪ If God will thou shalt wake ♪" "♪ When morning doth break ♪" "♪ If God will thou shalt wake ♪" "♪ Lullaby and good night ♪" "♪ For the sandman is coming ♪" "♪ Bright angels are near" "♪ so sleep without fear" "♪ lay thee down now" "♪ and rest" "♪ may thy slumber be blessed ♪" "♪ lay thee down now and rest ♪" "♪ May thy slumber be blessed ♪" "♪ lay thee down now" "♪ and rest" "♪ lullaby and good night ♪" "♪ For the sandman is coming ♪" "♪ Bright angels are near ♪" "♪ So sleep without fear" "♪ lay thee down now" "♪ and rest" "♪ may thy slumber be blessed ♪" "♪ lay thee down now and rest... ♪ [suspenseful music]" "You didn't think you and your wife were alone, did you, baby? You want me, just like all them boys." "What boys?" "You'll see, baby." "You'll see." "[Cackles]" "[German accent] We have ways of making you talk." "[Gasps]" "Help her." "Who?" "Mattie?" "And write." "You have to write." "I can't write." "I can't write without you, Jo." "I'll help you now." "I promise." "There's only death out there." "♪" "♪" "♪" "I still love my wife." "Then you should do what she says." "Didn't she tell you to help me?" "That's not what she meant." "[Whispers] You have no idea what Jo meant." "No idea." "♪" "Mm." "♪" "Aah!" "All will be revealed." "[Gasps]" "[Sighs]" "State your name for the record." "Michael Noonan." "As you know, I'm Kyra Devore's guardian Ad Litem." "You know what that means, Mr. Noonan?" "You've been appointed by the judge to decide what's best for Kyra, should a custody trial become necessary." "Very good." "And the judge would not, in such a case, be required to base his decision on my conclusions." "But that's usually what happens." "[Electric whirring]" "Sorry to be late, Elmer." "George had trouble getting here." "Let's turn to your first meeting with Mattie and Kyra Devore on the highway, shall we?" "Sure." "Kyra Devore was all alone." "Her mother wasn't with her, right?" " That's a poorly-phrased question, but I suppose the answer is yes." "I'm flattered to have my grammar corrected by a best-selling author." "Is this a better-phrased question?" "You could have run Kyra Devore over 'cause she was playing in the middle of the road, correct?" "The phrasing isn't better, no." "And my answer is absolutely not." "I was driving the speed limit." "I saw Kyra in plenty of time." "So it's your experience that most people obey the speed limit on that stretch of the road?" "I haven't spent that much time on Dark Score Lake." "I can't say." "Even in your limited experience, do you think that most people obey the speed limit on that road, Mr. Noonan?" "I haven't done a traffic survey." "Sorry." "Okay, Mr. Noonan." "Then answer me this." "If you hadn't carried Kyra Devore to safety, isn't it possible that she could've been hit by another car?" "[Whispers] Just wait." "You know what?" "I left my crystal ball at home." "[Chuckles] I really can't say." "I'd like to remind you you're under oath, Mr. Noonan." "I'd like to remind you that I answered your question, leading as it was." "Under oath..." "[Sighs]" "Let me ask you a question, Mr. Durgin." "If you're on Kyra Devore's side, why does it actually seem that you're working for Max Devore?" "[Taps gavel]" "This meeting is adjourned." "This isn't over yet, Noonan." "Oh, thank God, Max." "It's just starting to get fun." "I couldn't agree more." "Mike!" "Hi." "Thank you!" "It's..." "Yeah." "It's my pleasure." "Really." "I have to pick up Kyra from day care." "Would you like to walk me to my car?" "Sure." "Why not?" "So are you working on a new book?" " Yeah." "Mm-hmm." "Oh, my God, I'm so lame." "That must be the most annoying question, right up there with, "where do you get your ideas from?"" "That is an annoying question." "The one about working on a new book?" "Well, that's just..." "Writer's block?" "Mm." "Yeah." "My next book, the one that's coming out this winter..." "Yeah, I know about it." "Red shirt man, right?" "Yeah." "I wrote that book over a decade ago." "It's a trunk novel, a book I never thought should see the light of day." "I passed it off to my agent as a new novel just to keep my little..." "[Sighs]" "Dilemma a secret." "Nobody knows it's an old book?" "Nobody but you." "Well, your secret's safe with me, sir." "[Chuckles]" "My agent, my little agent Marty, after he read the first couple of pages, he called me up and, uh..." "[Laughs]" "You know what he...?" "[Laughs]" " You know what he said?" " What?" "This is the best thing I've written in years." "Well, call it classic Michael Noonan." "Yeah, you could do." "Marty would, you know." "But Marty lies." "All the time." "[Chuckles]" "He always wants to say the right thing, but says the wrong thing." "Thomas Hardy said that..." "Compared to the dullest human being walking on the earth, the most brilliantly drawn character in any novel is nothing more than a bag of bones." "The only problem is that sometimes I feel like nothing more than a bag of bones myself." "A bag of bones without the energy or the... the talent to do what I thought I was born to do." "I..." "I don't think I can write anymore." "You miss her a lot, don't you?" "Yeah." "I saw her once." "She was very beautiful." "Where did you see her?" "At warrington's." "I was, uh, a waitress there." "And I was working a shift with my friend Laurie Wilton, and... and I saw her, and I said, "there's Mrs. Noonan, the writer's wife." "Isn't she pretty?"" "I think Laurie was more interested in the guy your wife was sitting with." "What guy?" "He was just a guy, I guess." " Oh." " Did I say something wrong?" "Yeah, I mean, who was the guy having dinner with my wife?" "I'm..." "I'm sorry." "I, um..." "No, it's okay." "It's okay, it's okay." "It's just..." "I'm sorry." "It's just..." "[Clears throat]" "After Jo died," "I found out she was pregnant." "[Sighs] Oh, my God, I'm such an idiot." "No, no." "It's not your fault." "It's just..." "Messy." "Complicated." "Plus the fact..." "I keep thinking that Jo..." "That she brought me here." "Jo... brought me here." "After she died, she brought you here?" "For a reason." "Like what?" "I don't know..." "Yet." "Crazy, right?" "[Laughs]" "Not to me." "Yeah, well, maybe she did bring me here so she could finally tell me what..." "She was doing here." "Or maybe it's to get you to write again." "Yeah." "Maybe you're right." "Okay." "[Sighs]" "[Sighs]" "There you are." "Look at you." "Just look at you." "Hmm." "All right." "Let's just move that there." "There you go." "There you go." "[Sighs]" ""She lit a cigarette" ""and took a long drag." ""What I saw made me feel like screaming."" "It made me feel like screaming." "It made me feel like screaming." "[Laughs]" "Thank you, Jo." "I always said I couldn't write without you." "I just had to find you." "I just had to find you." "[Peaceful music]" "♪" "[muttering]" "Yeah." "Ah." "[Sighs]" "29 pages." "Holy shit." "God, I'm good." "Oh, yeah." "[Sighs] Thank you, Jo." "[Water splashes]" "[Suspenseful music]" "♪" "[splashing continues]" "What the...?" "Help!" "Help, I'm drown...!" "Help, I'm drown...!" "To be continued... [Record static]" "['20s-style jazz music]" "Stephen King's "Bag Of Bones" Part 2 of 2." "[Ominous music]" "[Jazz music]" "Help, help, I'm drown..." " Help, I'm drown..." " No!" "Help, I'm drown..." " No, no." " Help, I'm drown..." " Help, I'm drown..." " Don't drown." " I'm drown..." " You're OK now..." "Oh no!" "I'm here!" " You're not gonna drown!" "No!" " Help, I'm drown..." " Mr. Noonan?" " [Gasps]" " A-are you okay, Mr. Noonan?" "Uh..." "[Chuckles awkwardly]" "Yes." "[Laughs] Yes, I'm fine." "Yes, I'm fine, I'm just, uh..." "I just slipped." "I'm sorry to make a habit of scaring you." "I-I just wanted to get the upstairs as clean as I got the downstairs the other day." "Yeah." "The tub needed a good scouring." "Oh, yeah." "I wanted to fill it up and let it soak before I scrubbed and drained it." "I hope you don't mind." "No, good idea." "Scrub away." "All's well." "Please." "Thank you." "[Breathing heavily]" "Mr. Noonan?" "Yes, Mrs. Meserve?" "Be careful... even though it's cloudy out, the summer heat gets muggy." "It's been known to drive more than a few people a little Dark Score crazy." "That's the second time I've heard that expression..." ""Dark Score crazy."" "What's it mean?" "Oh, it's..." "It's that whole..." ""Curse of Dark Score Lake" stuff..." "Just stories people tell around the campfire." "Stories?" "People going..." "You know..." "Mad?" "Is that what happens when people go Dark Score crazy?" "They go mad?" "No, seriously." "I mean, how does this happen?" "How does what happen, Mr. Noonan?" "The madness." "Hmm?" "What do people do when they go Dark Score crazy?" "Mattie Devore's husband, Lance..." "He tried to drown their little girl." "[Screaming] Dad!" "[Gunshot]" "Who else?" "There was normal Jellison back in '68." ""Buddy Jellison's cafe"..." "Normal Jellison?" "Buddy's father." "He held Buddy's little sister under the water..." "Drowned her..." "Right in front of little Buddy's eyes." "Who else?" " Who else, Mrs. Meserve?" " I don't know." "There was, uh..." "Bill Dean's father." "Bill Dean?" "Our Bill Dean?" "His father's name was Fred." "Same kind of thing..." "Killed Billy's little sister 40, maybe 50 years ago, I guess it'd be..." "Also when they were little." "Let me guess." "He tried to drown her." "Drowned her right out there..." "Dark Score Lake." "[Softly] "Help me, I'm drowning."" "Pardon me, Mr. Noonan?" "Nothing." "Nothing, I was just, um..." "Thinking out loud, that's all." "Of course, you didn't hear any of this from me." " No." " This is a small town." "People don't take too kindly to having their secrets spilled." "It's surprising the secrets that people keep." "No, it ain't, Mr. Noonan." "A person without secrets is like a scarecrow without stuffing." "The things nobody knows make us who we are." "Tell me something." "Did my wife ever..." "Yes, Mr. Noonan?" "Did Jo ever have... any company here?" ""Company," Mr. Noonan?" "Was my wife seeing someone?" "Not that I'm aware of, Mr. Noonan." "Okay." "Now, if there's nothing more..." "No." "Thank you." "Oh, Jo." "Jo, I'm sorry." "I just..." "[Item clatters]" "Overdue books?" "[Breathes deeply]" "[Sighs]" "[Keys clacking]" "Come on, Jo." "What are you hiding from me?" "Show me." "[Glasses clatter]" "[Banging]" "[Objects crashing]" "[Drawers rattling]" "[Frantic, suspenseful music]" "[Grunts]" "[Springs rattling]" "[Clatter]" "[Scurrying]" "[Footsteps]" "[Clatter continues]" "Oh!" "[Screeching]" "[Grunts]" "[Jazz music]" "♪ Suddenly in my prime" "♪ I mean I'm happy as a bird ♪" "♪ Flying up above" ""The Curse of Dark Score Lake."" "Oh, Max Devore." "You were as ugly then as you are now." "[Scoffs, clicks tongue]" ""Tanglewood nursing home."" ""And Sara Tidwell's disappearance" ""at the height of her fame at the close of the 1930s gave rise to much speculation."" "Hmm..." "[Livelier jazz music begins]" "♪ She was bored" "♪ but she was honest" "♪ the victim of a rich man's whim ♪" "♪ He betrayed her in the garden ♪ [knock at door]" " Hey, you." " Jackpot!" "[Laughs] What's that supposed to mean?" "John Storrow, my lawyer..." "He just called and said that he found a link between Elmer Durgin, you know, Kyra's Ad Litem from the custody proceedings." "Who's supposed to be completely unbiased." "Right, right, right... and none other than Max Devore." " Get out of here." " It's true!" "Since late may, Durgin has paid off his house." "He's paid off his car." "He's bought a boat." "He's caught up on ten years' worth of child support." "All on a government salary." "And he's received several deposits into his bank account, courtesy of Devore." "It's over, Mike." "It's over." "This custody case is over." "They're not going to grant him custody of Kyra, not with that type of judicial tampering." "Great." "The home team wins." "Hmm?" "[Chuckles]" "I can't thank you enough, Mike." "I mean, if you would've caved in to Devore, like everybody else in this town," "Kyra and I would be saying our good-byes probably soon." "Oh, well, thanks for saying so, but I don't think I really..." "But... but nothing." "I mean, you stood up for us as if you were our..." "Our knight in shining armor." " Thanks." " I'll never forget that." "[Sighs]" "What is it?" "It's... it's him." "Who?" "[Sighs] Him." "The... the guy, the one that I saw Jo having dinner with at Warrington's." "That's the guy I've been worried about..." "The one who I thought was sleeping with Jo?" "[Laughing]" "That's my brother, Sid." "[Coughs] What?" "My gay brother, Sid." "[Both laughing]" "I love you, Sid." "Yeah, well, it still doesn't explain why she didn't tell me she was pregnant in the first place, but..." "It's good enough for now." "Yeah, I guess it is." "Hey, listen, um..." "Thanks for coming over." "Are you kidding?" "I couldn't wait to tell you the good news." "Well, congratulations." "It went well." " I'll see you soon?" " Sure." "Yeah." "Good." "[Engine turning]" "[Chuckling]" "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "Jo?" "Did you do this?" "Are you..." "Are you upset?" "[Bell ringing]" "[Bell rings and clatters]" "[Jazz music]" "♪ Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts ♪" "♪ Oh, what a couple in love ♪ [static]" "I'm right there with you, baby." "I'm right there with you, baby." "I'm right there with you, baby." " I'm right there with you, baby." " Sara." "I'm right there with you, baby." "Sara Tidwell." "[Record skipping]" "[Needle scratches]" "Oh, come on." "This damn thing's driving me nuts." "Come on." ""Sid..." "Down..." "Lift."" "Jo, is this about your dinner with Sid?" "Hey, Sid, it's Mike." "Um, listen, when you get this message, will you give me a call?" "Uh, there's something I want to ask you." "Okay, talk soon." "[Camera shutter clicks]" "Okay." "[Cell phone rings]" "[Grunts]" "Hey, Sid." "Hey, Mikey." "I just noticed I missed your call... what's up?" "Uh..." "It's, um..." "It's about Jo." "You okay?" "I haven't heard from you in a while." "Starting to get worried." "No, no, no, I'm great." "I'm really, really, really good." "Uh, really enjoying myself out here." "Glad you pushed me out the door, you know." "It's a change of scenery..." "Good for the spirit, so to speak." "Well, that's great." "You sound out of breath, by the way, like, uh..." "Like you've been knockin' the boots or something." "[Laughs]" "No, no, no knocking boots for me." "Yeah, well, okay, whatever, Mikey." "So what's going on?" "Uh..." "When, uh..." "When you and Jo got together up here for dinner, um..." "Yeah, it's that, uh, big old place, um..." "Warrington's?" "Warrington's!" "Yeah, that's it." "Well, when you were there, or a-anywhere around Dark Score, I guess, uh, did something happen with a lift?" "A lift?" "A lift." "Uh, did you take a lift somewhere?" "Was there a place called "the lift"?" "I mean, I-I don't know..." "Anything to do with a lift." "Sorry, Mikey, it's..." "It's not ringing any bells." "Okay, okay." "All right, uh..." "Don't worry." "All's well." "Thanks." "Why do you ask?" "Oh, it's... it's just, um, something I'm working on, something that's, uh..." "Rattling around inside my head." "Hey, fantastic!" "Oh, that's great, Mikey." "Glad to hear it." "Sorry I couldn't help you, though." "Yeah." "[Chuckles]" "Hey, listen, Sidney, don't worry." "You take care of yourself now." "Love you." "Talk to you soon, Mikey." "Bye." "Okay, take care." "All right." "[Sighs]" "Hey, green lady." "How are you this day, huh?" "Oh?" "You want to tell me something?" "Hmm?" "[Chuckles]" "[Groans]" "[Grunting]" "[Retching]" "[Groaning]" "[Panting]" "Oh, Jesus." "[Sighs, inhales deeply]" "[Groans]" "Yeah." "[Electric whirring]" "Whore run off and left you, has she, Noonan?" "I always liked a whore." "Didn't I, Rogette?" "Yes, sir..." "In their place." "She good, that little whore?" "Must be good to have kept my son a prisoner in that nasty little trailer before killing him." "What do you want, Devore?" "Do you care about your soul, Mr. Noonan?" "God's butterfly caught in a cocoon of flesh that will one day stink and rot just like mine." "What the hell are you talking about?" "I'm going to give you one chance to save your soul." "Go away..." "Right now, this very day, in the clothes you stand in, and leave the whore and the "whorelet" to me." "That "whorelet" you're talking about is your granddaughter!" "I'm not afraid to do the things that need to be done." "You're even crazier than I thought, the two of you." "Are you sure you want to be the little girl's hero, Noonan?" "Just get out of my space, the two of you." "[Gasps]" "Are you crazy?" "[Groans]" "Rogette was always quite an athlete." " [Grunts] - [Laughs]" "Don't forget, Mr. Noonan..." "Custody has its responsibilities." "[Groans]" "[Telephone ringing]" "[Telephone ringing]" "Hi, you've reached the lake house, please leave me a message." "Hey, Mike, I tried to call your cell, but the voice mail didn't pick up." "I Fed Ex'd you a bunch of galleys for red shirt man earlier today." "And I got to tell you again, Mike," "I think this is the best Michael Noonan book yet." "Scribner feels the same way, too, which is why they did such great work on the cover, I think." "Mm, I should have sent them the one I wrote 15 years ago." "That one would have really knocked their socks off." "But as you know, with this crunch publication schedule, time is of the essence, so the sooner you can get back to us with your final revisions, the better." "Oh, sure, Marty." "Nothing pressing going on here, mate." "Thanks, Mike... hope you're doing well otherwise." "Give my love to..." "I'll see you soon, Mike." "Congratulations again." "[Sighs]" "[Groans]" "Why not?" "[Sighs]" ""Sid down lift."" ""Side down left."" ""Side..." "Down..." "Left."" "[Snaps fingers]" "Down left side." "Down left side." "Hmm." "There you go." "There you go." "Gotcha." "[Chuckles]" "Oh, Jo." "Jo, Jo, Jo." "You and I were such nuts for times crosswords." "Weren't we just?" "Although I think I was the bigger nut." "Here we go." "All right." ""Booya-moon." "Booya-moon."" ""Booya-moon"?" "What does that mean?" "[Knock at door]" "Yes?" "Ah." "Deputy foot..." "Man." "I've got a message for you." "Do you, now?" "What is it?" "Another threat from Methuselah?" "No threats." "You might call this good news." "You know your boss almost killed me today?" "Yeah." "If you promise to cease all legal maneuvers, if you promise to let Mr. Devore rest in peace, so to speak, then he promises to cease his efforts to gain custody of his granddaughter." "What are you saying?" "If this suits you, call Mr. Devore at Warrington's and tell him you agree to the terms." " Uh-huh." "And what's the catch?" "There's no catch." "Mr. Devore is nothing if not a man of his word." "Hmm." "Peachy." "[Line trilling]" "Rogette Whitmore speaking." " Uh-huh." "This is Mike Noonan." "So wonderful to hear from you, Mr. Noonan." "[Chuckles] Did you enjoy your swim?" "You and Mr. Devore seem to be sore losers, Ms. Whitmore." "Mr. Devore does not lose." "But he does not lose." "You were the one who looked like a loser today, Mr. Noonan..." "Pawing around and yelping out there like a bitch in heat." "Listen, you ugly bitch, if either of you ever try anything like that again," "I'm going to come over there and wring your scrawny Turkey necks." "Do you understand me?" "And who's the sore loser now, Mr. Noonan?" "Enough pleasantries." "What is your answer to Devore's propositions?" "We have a deal." "Wonderful, Mr. Noonan." "And before I let you go," "Mr. Devore would like me to remind you" ""custody has its responsibilities."" "[Phone clicks]" "[Both laughing]" "[Groans]" "[Moans]" "[Breathi shakily]" "[Whimpering]" "♪ Sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like a motherless child ♪ a long way" "♪ from home ♪ a long ways from home ♪ [band joins in]" "♪ Sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone" "♪ sometimes I feel" "♪ like I'm almost gone ♪ a long way" "♪ from home ♪ a long way ♪ from home ♪" "[train rumbling on tracks]" "What happened to you, Sara?" "[Crying]" "[Panting]" "Mike, Mr. Mike, help me!" "Sweetheart, what's wrong, child?" "Huh?" "Where is she?" "Okay, come." "Come with me." "There, there!" " ♪ Sometimes I feel - [Crying]" "Come, come, quick, quick." "♪ Like a motherless child okay." "Uh, let's go down this way, come on." "Come this way." "[Weeping]" "[Sobs]" "Over here!" "This way, this way." "Let's go in here, in here." "Very quiet." " [Sobs]" " There's a good girl." "Stay there, okay?" "I'm scared, Mr. Mike." "We're going to be fine, Kyra." "But you have to be very, very quiet." "Okay?" "All right." "[Whispering] Really quiet." "Just keep squeezing my hand if you feel scared, okay?" "But..." "I'm not holding your hand, Mr. Mike." "Are you scared, too, little one?" "Oh, child." "Do you want us to help you?" "Max Devore is dead." "But custody still has its responsibilities!" " [Screams]" " No!" " They're hurting me!" " Kyra!" "[Screaming] Please help me!" "Kyra!" "Kyra!" "[Yelps]" "Lie still, bag of bones." "[Telephone ringing] [Gasps] Shit." "Oh, jeez." "Hey." "Hello?" "Mike, it's Mattie." "Hey, Mattie, how are you?" "You'll never guess what I'm calling to tell you." " Max Devore's dead?" " Yes." "He killed himself last night." "Is it already making the rounds?" "Yeah, yeah, something like that." "You know what this means, Mike?" " Uh-uh, no, what is it?" "It's over." "That's good." "That's really good, Mattie." "I'm very happy for you." "Congratulations." "Do you want to come over tomorrow night after the funeral?" " A-are you going to the funeral?" "No, but you are." "And you're going to come over and tell me every little last detail." "Uh..." "Well, let..." "let me just think about this one, now." "I'm not sure." "Um, just let me think about it." "Absolutely." "I mean, you take all the time you need, but..." "Go on." "But what?" "Jo would want you to be happy, you know?" "[Sighs] I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I-I shouldn't have said that." "I-I-I shouldn't have said any of this." "It's okay." "It's okay." "You've done no wrong." "All's good." "I'll come over for dinner tomorrow night." "I look forward to it." "Yeah, yeah, me too." "Okay." "Good-bye." "Okay, bye." "[Mutters]" "[Sighs deeply]" "Lie still bag of bones." "Lie still bag of bones." "Lie still bag of bones." "Lie still bag of bones." "Oh, God." "Hello, sir." "What are you doing here?" "I'm sorry." "I don't mean to disturb you." "Harold, is it really you?" "Harold?" "You look so young, so young." "But you're dead, Harold." "What are you doing here?" "How can this be?" "Sir, I'm not..." "Max is dead." "I went to his funeral today." "Old mad Max Devore is finally dead." "Sir..." "I'm not Harold." "I'm Mike." "Harold was my grandfather." "And I take it that you and my grandfather were old friends." "We grew up together." "Yeah." "My name is Edgar white." "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. white." "Oh, "Edgar" is fine." ""Mr. white" is my old man." "And he's been gone for a long time." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I was at, uh, Max Devore's funeral today, and I saw you." "And, um, well, you looked pretty upset." "Max was an old friend." "It's never easy to bury an old friend." " Mm." " [Chuckles]" "Max Devore and me..." "We grew up together." "Harold and Normal and Fred..." "And old Max, of course." "They're all gone now." "I'm the last one left." "But, you know," "I told your missus all of this already." "My missus?" "Well, yeah, yeah, um..." "Jo Noonan, right?" " Mm-hmm." "I didn't realize you and she had talked." "Pretty gal." "How is she?" "She, uh..." "She passed away." "Sorry to hear that." "What did you two talk about?" "Oh, nothing much." "She had a bunch of questions about the history of Dark Score Lake." "Said she wanted to write an article or a book or something." "Did she want to know about Dark Score fair in 1939..." "And Sara Tidwell?" "Among other things, yeah." "But I told her..." "I don't know anything." "But you were lying to her, weren't you?" "Hmm?" "You do know something." "I bet there's lots of things you know you wish you could just forget, hmm?" "Max Devore is dead now, Edgar." "He can't hurt you anymore." "That's not always true." "Tell me the secret of Max Devore that you keep in your heart after all these years." "Tell me, Edgar." "Tell me what happened..." "To you, Max Devore... and Sara Tidwell." "It's not about what happened between me and Devore and Sara Tidwell." "[Softly] What is it, then?" "It's about what we did." "Tell me." "Just tell me." "It was the summer of '39..." "[Brassy jazz music]" "At the Dark Score fair." "♪" "♪ She was poor..." "Sara Tidwell was performing on the main stage." "And she was like nothing we had ever seen before around these parts." "♪" "It was me, Fred Dean, normal Jellison, your grandfather Harold Noonan, and mad Max Devore." "Even then, Max was the man with the plan." "And everyone knew that he would eventually run Dark Score Lake and become a very rich and important man in the world." "It was Max's idea to go to the show." "♪ He took her in..." "We were all het up from the show." "♪ A small port wine and it was Max who suggested we pay Sara a visit afterwards." "Of course, none of us knew what Max had planned." "At least that's what I've been telling myself all these years." "I liked your show." "[Chuckles]" "Well, thank you, sugar." "Maybe I'll see you at the next one." "I'm talking to you, girl." "Don't you turn away from me." "[Grunts]" "Liking my singing doesn't buy you a right to me." "Stop her!" "You think you can sing the way you do and get away with it, huh?" "You think you and your kind can boil our blood and not give us what we want when you're done, huh?" "Come here." "Get over here and help me hold her down, damn it." "[Whimpering]" "Gonna teach this uppity bitch a lesson." "[Fabric ripping]" "You going to tell me you're sorry, bitch?" "You going to beg me for forgiveness?" "[Laughing] I don't beg for nothing..." "[Grunting]" "Especially not for no little boy." "[Yelps, laughs]" "Go home, honey!" "Now!" "Run!" "Mommy!" "Run, Kisha baby, run!" "Run!" "Where's all your tough talk now?" "[Crying] Not my daughter." "Please don't hurt my little girl." "I'll do anything..." "Anything you say!" "Please!" "You already are doing anything I say." "Get her." "[Sobbing]" "You think we can leave any witnesses?" "Even I can't get us out of this one." "Now catch that little girl and take her out to the lake." "No!" "Oh, God, !" "Please, please..." "Please, I'll do anything." "Please just don't hurt my little girl." "Please." "Please!" "Help, I'm drown..." "Please, don't hurt my baby!" "Please, God!" "No, no, no!" "Shut that bitch up." "Somebody's going to hear her." "Oh, no!" "No, stop!" "[Coughing]" "[Screaming]" "[Spits]" "You..." "And your kin are cursed!" "You and your sons are going to do to your daughters what you've done to mine." "With your own hands, you will murder your daughters." "And with their own hands, your sons are going to murder their daughters." "A curse on you and yours until you're all gone!" "[Sobbing]" "Max told us that we could never mention a word of it to anyone for as long as we lived, that it would ruin us all." "He had us bury their bodies out in the woods." "And that was the end of Sara Tidwell and her daughter, Kisha." "[Knock on door]" " Hi." " Hey." " Come in." " I made it." "[Clears throat]" " Y-you don't..." "[Both chuckle awkwardly]" "[Clears throat]" ""Kiss the cook"." "Well?" "Well." "[Giggles]" "I think we have a visitor." " Hi, Mr. Mike." " Hi, miss Ky." "How's it going?" " Good." " Good." "What you up to?" "Will you read me my bedtime story, please?" "Sweetheart, I told you, no begging Mr. Mike." "I would be more than happy to read you a bedtime story." "Come on." "Hooray!" "How can I refuse?" " Mm-hmm." " Mm-hmm." ""For her birthday, Kim's mom invited her to the fair" ""that just came to town for the week." ""'Get dressed, my love, and we'll go.'" ""'okay, mom.'" ""at the fair, many people were waiting to buy tickets." ""From far away, she saw the big wheel." "Kim was so happy."" "I dreamed about you the other night." "You did?" "[Yawns] Mm-hmm." "And what was your dream about?" "A circus..." "Or..." "A fair or something." "And..." "What happened in this dream of yours the other night?" "You were trying to save me from the bad men, and the mad lady was singing." "And we hid in a real scary place." "But the mad lady's little girl was hiding, too." "[Thunder rumbles]" "And that girl..." "Was she the mad lady's daughter?" " Mm-hmm." "♪" "How do you know that?" "Because she told me, silly." "[Chuckles with relief] She did?" " Mm-hmm." "She's my friend." "Oh, she's your friend." "Since when?" "Ever since..." "Her mommy, the mad lady, made my daddy try to..." "Hurt me." "It was the mad lady who made your daddy do that?" " Mm-hmm." "Her daughter's name is Kisha." "And it's called a curse." "A curse." "Can we finish reading my book now, Mr. Mike?" "Sure." "On one condition." "You call me "Mike."" "Okay, Mike." "It's a deal." "It's a deal." "How is she?" "She's good." "She's, uh..." "Out like a light." "[Sighs] What's the matter?" "She, uh..." "I don't know..." "She mentioned something" " about a little girl named Kisha." " Oh, yeah." "That's her imaginary friend, Kisha, but it's okay, 'cause the doctor said that she's perfectly normal and I don't have a crazy kid, so that's..." "That's good." "So the funeral?" "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have made you go." "No, no, no, no, no, actually that's been the best part of the last couple of days for me..." "Seeing that old bastard lowered into the ground once and for all." " Yeah." " I, um..." "I learned about the disappearance of Sara Tidwell today from an old man in a rest home, who, it turns out, Jo had also visited before she died." "Do you know who Sara Tidwell is?" "Lance, my husband, used to listen to her music before..." "I, uh..." "I didn't know she disappeared." "In 1939." "Only she didn't really disappear... she was killed." "After she played at the Dark Score fair one day, she was raped." "And then she and her little daughter, Kisha, were killed by a group of teenagers, led by the young Max Devore." "Oh, my God." "Which would explain why..." "Lance got interested in her music before he tried to kill Kyra." "Tell me." "A curse..." "On all the young men who killed Sara Tidwell and her little girl." "With her dying breath, she cursed them all." "If they or any of their descendants had daughters..." "They would do the same horrible things to their little girls that they had done to Sara Tidwell and her little girl." "Their descendants included Buddy Jellison and Bill Dean's fathers." "[Thunder booms]" "That explains why they drowned their daughters all those years later." "One of that group was my grandfather, Harold Noonan..." "No!" "Please." "Who willed the lake house to Jo and myself." "Did your father murder your sister?" " No, no, no, I-I didn't have any sisters." "There was just Sid and me." "Oh, my God, Mike, don't you see?" "This is the final piece of the puzzle." "This is why Jo didn't want to tell you she was pregnant." "Jo had learned of the curse." "That's why she had all those library books." "That's why she had Sara Tidwell's albums and... and photographs." "It's why she went to see that man in the rest home." "That's why she used to visit Dark Score lake all those weekends before she died." "She wasn't having an affair." "She was researching Sara Tidwell." "Mike... when she thought she might be pregnant," " she was worried about you." " Worried about me?" "Worried that you might be bound to this curse by blood." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I just don't want to doubt Jo anymore." "I just don't want to doubt her." "[Gunshot, glass shattering]" "No, Mattie." "[Wheezing]" "Oh, Mattie." "No, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, God." "Mattie, hey, I'm here." "I'm here." "Don't... come on." " T-take care of my baby." "I will." "I will, Mattie." "I'll take care of Kyra." "I promise you, no one's going to hurt her." "No one's going to hurt her, okay?" "Mattie..." "No!" "I see you!" "I see you!" "Why?" "You killed her!" "You killed her!" "Why?" "Why did you kill her?" "You should have left well enough alone!" "This thing was always bigger than you" " Bigger than Devore even." " Yeah?" "And now we need to take care of Kyra." "break curse?" " "We" do?" " Yeah." "[Thunder booms]" "[Sobbing] What's happening, Mike?" "We got to go, Ky..." " Now." " Mommy's dead, isn't she?" "Yes." "[Sobbing]" "Come, come, now." "Now, let's go." "[Engine revving]" "[Tires squeal]" "How could you do this?" "It's the sins of the father, Mike." "I told you to keep away from Devore." "Devore is dead." "You can stop this now." "No, this will only stop when the last little girl is dead." "Kyra Devore is the last descendant with the blood of the curse." "[Tires squealing]" "Custody has its responsibilities!" "You're telling me he wanted custody so he could kill her?" "Is that what you're saying?" "Go to hell, both of you." "I'm scared, Mike." "[Sobbing]" "[Tires screeching]" "[Crying softly]" "All right, sweetheart." "Come on in." "Sit down here." "Okay, let me just put this towel around you." "Let's get you dry." "There we go." "Ooh." "How about this bath?" "[Water running]" "Ah!" "Come on, let's get you out of these wet clothes." "There's a good girl." "Come on." "[Sighs]" "Here we go, my little angel." "Just lie down there." "Here, let me take this towel." "There's a good girl." "Okay, all right." "Let me see if I've got something that's good for a six-year-old girl." "Okay." "Here's a t-shirt." "It's a little bit big, but..." "Here you go." "All right, and, uh..." "I'll just..." "I'll just put this there." "[Jazz music playing]" "♪" "♪ And the blame all lies on him ♪" "♪" "♪ And she lost her name again ♪" "♪" "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "Finish it, daddy." "[Groans]" "Oh, God!" "Custody has its responsibility!" "Now, you go and bring that whorelet over here and stick her in the water where she belongs." "No!" "You can't make me do this!" "Finish it, daddy." "Lie still, bag of bones." "Where are you, Jo?" "Come on." "Lie still, bag of bones." "[Thunder booms]" "Is that what you are, Jo?" "Is that where you've been hiding all along..." "Inside my writing?" ""Down left side."" ""Down left side."" "Well, if you've been hiding inside my writing, then..." ""Down left side"?" ""Owls..." "Above..." "Studio."" ""Owls above studio."" "So that's why you wanted me to write, Jo." "So you could send me messages without Sara knowing..." "Messages behind the gatekeeper's back." ""Lie still, bag of bones."" ""Lye..."" "Lye." "Lye will still her bag of bones." "Owls in the studio." "Lye..." "Will still her bag of bones." "You hadn't figured out where those bones were before you died..." "Or you would have done this yourself, wouldn't you?" "Huh?" "[Thunder booms]" "Come on." "[Groaning]" "The green lady." "Finish it." "[Thud]" "[Thunder booms]" "Aah!" "I am so sorry what they did to you and your daughter, Sara." "I am so sorry what they did to you and your daughter, Sara." "Leave him alone!" "His blood is cursed." "And Devore was the worst of them." "And his blood is in that little girl." "And I won't rest until she is dead at his hands." "Mike and Kyra had nothing to do with this." "Their kin killed my baby!" "[Sizzling]" "We did it, Jo." "You did it." "[Mouths words] I love you." "I love you." "[Mouths words] I love you." "Kyra?" "What are you doing, Kyra?" "What the lady tells me to do." "No, no, no, no, honey." "They're at rest now." "Sara and Kisha are at rest, sweetheart." "Not Sara." "Her." "Who?" "We do not lose, Mr. Noonan." "Max Devore does not lose." "[Wailing]" "Kyra, turn away!" "[Sobbing]" "Oh, shh." "Shh." "Shh, child." "Shh." "It's over, baby girl." "Oh, sweet child." "No, no." "Come, now, baby girl, don't cry." "[Smooches]" "[Whispering indistinctly]" "Bye, mommy." "Oh, my sweet child." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Oh." "[Sobbing]" "Oh, no." "Oh, darling." "We're transporting now could you prepare the report, please?" "Hey..." "What did mommy tell you when she whispered in your ear?" "She told me to be a good girl and not to be sad." "But I am sad." "I know." "And that's okay." "I'm sad, too." "But we'll be okay, I promise you." "I promise you." "I know." "You do?" " Mm-hmm." "Mommy told me." "She said I was your little girl now and that you're gonna take care of me." "Did she, now?" "She told me you're ready to be a daddy now." "Oh, come here." "Yeah." "Yes." "[Chuckles]" "Yeah." "Should we go for a paddle in the canoe?" " Mm-hmm." "Should we do that?" " Go up the river." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Have an adventure." "I think it's a good idea." "Let's go." "Come on." "You need a piggyback." "Piggyback." "Okay." "[Giggles]"