"Masters Of Horror" "Season 02 Episode 01" "THE DAMNED THING" "Smells good, mom." "Ribs?" "Three times this month, accordingto my chart." "He keeps a chart." "Watching my protein intakeas suggested by the fda." "I'll say grace." "For this delicious meal, ribs in particular, we thank the lord for hislove and grace." "Amen." " Amen." " Amen." "Damn.It's bad this year." "It's early." "I know." "Wind's a bear." "All the guys down at workgettin' restless." "Yes?" "It's a legal defensefor homicide in norway." "The wind." "Look it up." "Hey, you know, jackieisn't herself." "She went off on me todaydown at the mailbox." "It's so weird." "Everyonein the neighborhood is all stirred upand acting weird." "She's a nut." "She was born screwed up." "She still thinkkenny rogers is jesus, mom?" "Far as I can tell,yes, she does." "I'm gonna get another napkin." "Honey, you let me." " Thanks, hon." " You're welcome." "Kevin, honey?" "Give me a hand with somethinghere in the kitchen." "Yeah." "Hi, honey.Grab the plates." "Mom?" "Honey, I-I'm sor-- this was supposedto be a surprise." "Happy birthday, dad!" "John, what are you doin'?" "That isn't funny.Put that away." "The damn thing." "Dad... johnny, put that down." "You're scarin' kevin." "It found me." "Put that away, please." "No!" "Kevin!" "Stop!" "God dammit!" "Come on, son, don'tmake me chase ya." "Kevin!" "Kevin!" "Son!" "Slow down, boy!" "Come on." "Kevin!" "I ain't gonna hurt ya." "Kevin!" "Slow downfor your daddy.Oh!" "Kevin!" "God!" "Come on, son." "Kevin!" "God god god!" "Come on, son,I ain't gonna hurt ya." "Kevin!" "Kevin!" "Come out!" "Kevin!" "Come on out here." "Come on, son, I ain'tgonna hurt ya." "Don't you hide on me,you little bastard." "Come out!" "I know you're in there." "Just come on!" "Talk to your dad." "Kevin!" "You get out here!" "You're startin' to pissme off, you little bastard." "Kevin!" "XXXXXXXXXX" "XXXXXXXXXX" "You get out hereright now!" "Just come on out." "Come on, talk to me." "Just come on!" "Talk to your dad!" "Son?" "Kevin?" "Kevin." "I never knew what it was that got to him-- or that killed him." "There wasn't much left in me after that night." "TWENTY-FOUR YEARS LATER" "But everybody I ever met has a wound one way or the other." "Thing is, you gotta sew it up good and tight." "Otherwise, it'll just keep opening." "Then one day you'll bleed to death." "Hey, man, whatif he sings?" "I mean, mickey sang,right, so" "I think he just talks inthat high-pitched voice,you know?" "No, I think mickey sings, man." "I think he serenaded minnie." "And women love that, too.Even mouse women." "That's the powerof friggin' song." "I wouldn't have himsing if I was you." "I don't know, it justsounds superfluous." "Okay, okay, I see that.But if mickey doesn't sing, thennicky the rat could." "And that would makea difference, you know." "It would give himhis own persona." "I wouldn'T." "Just being honest." "Look at this.Look at this." "If I could give thisto steve jobs at that pixie company that does all those biganimation movies, nicky's gonna be huge, man." "Yeah, maybe." "People love nicky.Hell, mikey likes him." "Especially ifhe sings, right?" "I don't know aboutthe singing part." "Here's the whole thingabout nicky." "I don't know if lever told you this." "He is a pure spirit in a world gone mad." "Did I ever tell you that?" "Yeah, you probably didat one point or another." "Hey, what are you doin' for your birthdaythis weekend?" "I got you a portabledvd player." "It was meant to bea surprise, but... well, I appreciatethat, I do, but you knowl don't celebrate." "Come on." "You know, if it was me,I'd sell the place." "It's a bad idea, living in a house where your old man" "I know what happened, strauss." "I'm just sayin' maybeit's time to move, you know, get backtogether with dina, you gotta miss her and mikey, that's all I'm sayin'." "That's it, rollthe credits, the end." "That house is allI got left of the family." "There ain't enoughpaint in the world." " Morning, charity." " Hey, good morning, sheriff." "Nicky didn't-  hey, buddy." " Hi, dad." " How are ya?" " Hi, dad." "No." "No no no, alone." "No, I'm at the wizard." "I already had my hot dogand a burger, too." "You want my onion rings?" "I already put ketchup on them." "I have to go play." " I" " I'll take 'emright here." "You hand out food,he's gonna grab it." " I got you something." " What is it?" "Well, that is a compass." "You see that red arrow?" "That always points north." "That's where santa claus lives." "Awesome." "So you keep an eyeon him, all right?" " All right." " Where's your momma?" "Okay." "You're late." "Y'all take the scenic route?" "Let's see.Swiss for derrik." "Jack and extra tomatoesfor my darling husband." "Thank you, ma'am." "The slaw machine'shaving a cow, so you each geta stick of celery." "Try to containyour excitement." "You gotta be kidding me." "He said what?" "Okay." "Next time,just don't tell him." "That is good." "It's early.Ain't march yet." "Yeah, there's weirdweather all around." "People aren't feelin'too good in town." "Not sleeping' well." "Yeah, it's the flu.It's like clockwork." "So oliver thought he hada heart attack last night?" "He didn't havea heart attack." "Think what he had wasone too many double wallys." "Oh, dina, I gotta askyou a question." "Mickey mouse sang, right?" " Um, no." " No?" "Are you sure?" "A ballad?" "An opera?" "Something like that?" "Look, mikey watches cartoonsaround the clock, strauss, which makes me an expert on what every majorcartoon character does or has ever donefor the last 75 years." "Unfortunately for me." "Well, nicky the ratdoes sing." "oh, hi, father,how you doin'?" "Hey." "How y'all doin'?" "I know it's the anniversaryin a few days." "And, uh, well, pain likes peoplethat's vulnerable, kinda comes by uninvited,you know?" "And, uh, you're gettin' to be the age your daddy and grandpawas when they...passed,so... well, youever feel lonely, god's a good listener." "'Cause the devil can sneak upon a man, you hear me?" "Father tulli, I'msorry to interrupt." "Could I steal my husbandfor a second?" " You betcha." " Thanks." "See you in church." "How you doin', father?" "Thanks for that." "He's just bored." "Not enough sinin this town." "Well, that'sthe way I like it." "Mikey sure looksa lot better." "I know." "Sniffles.No biggie." "I told ya." "You did?" "The phone, last night,you and me." "Yeah, I was just-- this time of year,I just" "you know, I've never met anyone who could livewith either one of us." "You know that, right?" "That your way of sayin'we should be back together?" "Oh, christ, D.,It's been three months." "You know, it just-- just seems unnatural.I don't know." "How can you livein that trailer?" "No cameras.No monitors." "Oh, it's the house." "You hate the house." "And I'm difficultto live with." "What did you say, distant?" "I'm distant, I know." "Feel free to disagreewith any of these, by the way." "It's not the house." "I just wish you'd getback to see dr." "Delchamps." "We've been over ita thousand times, dina." "Do you miss me?" "You know, they're not full of fear like adultsat this age." "No kid should ever haveto live being afraid." "So the guy saysto this blind chick..." ""the reason my snake keepsspitting up when you stroke it is that it thinksit's my cock."" "Dammit!" "The way I see it, people you care about never die." "They just go somewhere else and wait for ya." "That's about as religious as I get." "Better'n god deserves from me, considering." "It was the only thing of my father's that I kept." "He told me he hid his dreams inside." "I've never opened it." "There's no key." "I like imagining' what's in there." "The best of him." "Sheriff reddle." "Sheriff reddle." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Leave me alone!" "Come on." "Dammit." "Come on." "Come on." "Dammit." "All right..." "it's sheriff reddle here." "Charity, I can'tget a signal,so I'm gonna have to take youto the hospital myself." "All right?" "Road was alive." "The road was alive." "I'm gonna try notto hurt ya, all right?" "Here we go." "I couldn't geta signal." "You did what you could." "How are you doing,sheriff?" "Any idea what causedthe accident?" "She said the roadwas alive." "Alive." "Well, we'll testfor alcohol, the usual." "Yeah." "Deputy, I needto talk to you about the guyyou brought in." "I, uh, phoned youan hour ago." "You picked up,the phone kept dying." "Gabe green was workingaround his house." "His son found him." "Yeah." "I--I'll justwait over here and let you two talk." "Went after himselfwith a hammer." "Horrid wayto commit suicide." "I left you a messagea couple hours ago about him." "What?" "A message." "I left you one." "Yeah, yeah." "My, uh, phonehas been, uh... and I-- I didn't getthe message." "There's something elseI think you should see." "Was my associate,dr." "Morris." "We were talking." "He grabbed a pair of scissorsand slashed his throat." "I don't want thisgetting out." "People arescared enough." "They need to know thatthis is a safe place that they can come to." "Yeah." "Yeah." "The girl..." "someone needsto contact her family." "I'll do that." "You look exhausted,sheriff." "I'll handle it." "All right." "Sheriff reddle?" "What's happening?" "I'm sorry?" "Look around you." "Something is happening." "Should I be scared?" "Nah." "That's when the realtrouble comes." "Looks to me as ifit's already here." "The shrink I used to see, bill champ, told me it's anxiety... grief that never went away." "I thought I had it under control." "I was gettin' worse." "So was cloverdale." "Oh, this is perfect." "Oh, and that's two points for johnson on a nice inside throw;" "beautiful play by johnson." "Ah, thanks." "Who's winnin'?" "Uh, I wasn'treally watchin'." "Really?" "How's life, sheriff?" "Get up,still in the mirror, no complaints." "I'd ask the mirrorhow it felt about that." "No food or beverages,mr." "Litton." "You know, actually..." "I meant who was winningin cloverdale." "You or whatever it is that's drivin' people insaneand killing 'em." "My paper just likesto stay current." "Well, we getwild animals around here." "Well, I spokewith dr." "Cohen." "She said it wasn'ta wild animal." "Said you concurred." "Eh, write it the wayyou like it, mr." "Litton." "You do anyway." "Didn't know youread my stuff, sir." "I'm flattered." "Did you know there was oneother time when crime went crazy in cloverdale?" "Did you know that?" "Murder, violence,rates just shot up." "People couldn't sleep, got sick for no reason,went crazy." "Bodies were foundskinned, crushed... just like up the roading sturgess." "You ever been there?" "No." "No.Can't say that I have." "Well, I heard you hadfamily from there." "Anyway, I heardthat all that mayhem was from the electricproject in the '30s, messed up somethingin the earth." "So, this force, sheriff, that's assaulting cloverdale, you know, the oneyou don't wanna talk about?" "Mr. Litton,things like that only exist in the minds of frightened,unstable people." "Like your father." "You never knewmy father." "Well, I guessyou didn't either." "What did you say your daddy called itwhen they found you?" "The damn thing." "Now why do you thinkit keeps coming back?" "Must be hard to livewith all your memories." "Seein' everyone you love murdered when you'rejust a kid." "can I get a quotefrom you about that?" "You're a damn prick,mr." "Litton." " How 'bout that?" " Thank you, sir." "Why do you thinka guy would buy all of these surveillancecameras and monitors, which I hear he's gota bunch of already, if he didn't think there was somethingout to get him?" "Maybe you're expectinga monster." "Or maybe he won't be happyuntil the same thing happens here that happenedup the road in sturgess while you just pretendyou're in control." "You need to stayaway from me." "The final stage of denialis self-destruction, sheriff." "I realized at that moment... he had no dreams." "He knew there wouldn't be time." "Sturgess had been 40 miles south of cloverdale before it became a ghost town." "I remember hearin' the stories when I was a kid." "It began with bad weather." "Wind like a banshee got under people's skin." "Neighbors and friends became enemies." "Fear became violence." "Official story was the town couldn't take it when the oil fields dried up, turned on itself." "208 people died like animals." "Witnesses describe an overwhelming force." "Then, it was gone." "The ones who lived, moved." "Some to cloverdale, like my folks." "The damn thing destroyed the whole town." " Hello?" " Hey, it's me." "Hi." "Hey, um..." "I was thinkin',maybe you, me, and mikey can get togetherfor your birthday tomorrow." "I know he'd love it." "He's got, uh, somethin'special for his daddy." "Listen, dina, I need you and mikey to get outta townright away." "What's goin' on?" "My father knew there was somethin'comin' to kill him." "What was coming?" "I--I don't understand." "He knew there wassomethin' bad in cloverdale." "Somethin' came from sturgess, caused the slaughter in '59." "There was something he set free, somethin' that followed him." "Here we go again." " Kevin" " No." "He and my mother moved,and it found him." "That's what he saidthat night." "He said, "it found me."" "You wonder whywe can't be together, you just listento yourself, okay?" " It's totally-- - get mikey in the car and meet me at the gas station in an hour." "H-hold on.Mikey, turn it down." "I like it loud." "Turn it down right nowor no more tv, okay?" "I'm not kidding." "Kevin?" "Kevin, hello?" "Dammit." "Hello?" "What?" "!" "Yeah, I thinkthis weather's part of it." "Who gives a fuckwhat you think?" "This is your fault:" "Letting the whole townbe scared, letting your own sonbe scared to death." " Mom, what's wrong?" " You shut up!" "Dina, let me talkto mikey right now." "You leave us alone." "You don't haveany feelings for anybody." "And our son is gonnaturn out just the same." "Mom!" "I told youto shut your mouth!" "Dina, put mikey on the phone right now." "Dina!" "Dina!" "Dina!" "Put mikey on the pone." "Shit!" "Dina?" "Mikey!" "Mikey!" "Where is your mom?" "I told youto leave us alone!" "Dina!" "Dina!" "Dina!" "Let's get out to the car." "Out to the car.Michael, with your mom." "Honey, I almost--if you hadn't-- it wasn't you, baby." "It wasn't you." " Where are you?" " I'm in town." "It's bad down here, kev." "People are coming unglued." "All right, stay put.I'll get there asap." "I'm gonna drop dina andmikey off at the house." "I'll be there." "I've never seenpeople like this, okay?" "They are not listening to me." "I'm getting real scared." "I don't know what to do." "I'm in way over my head here." "Way over me head here, kev." "Strauss, listen to me." "Kev, you gottacome down here right now." " Kev?" " Strauss?" "Kev?" "Damn." "Kev?" "Forgive me father,for I have sinned." "It's been a monthsince my last confession." "Go on, my son." "Well, it's kinda goingnuts out there, so I don't havea lot of time, but I just reallyneeded to talk to you." "Ignore them." "Go on." "Well, um, cloverdale's alwaysbeen real quiet and safe, but lately, it's beenkind of crazy." "I mean, just,bodies showing up and people are yellingand screaming at each other" "and, I mean, listento them out there." "It's like anarchy." "I don't know what to do." "You know, how cani call myself a law man... will god forgive me?" "Excuse me." "Yeah?" "Kev, slow down." "You gonna stayat your place?" "You want me to tryto get people out of town?" "I can't--I can't do that, kev." "People won't listen to me." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Damn it!" "I'm sorry, father." "Look, I know this issupposed to be anonymous, and everything,but I'm pretty sure that you know that it's me." "There's just not muchelse I can say except I'm scared and" "I mean, just because people-- they won't listento me out there." "I mean, it's likepeople already think that I'm a big joke." "You know, my ex-girlfriendeven said that I was immature because I tried to winher back with nicky the rat." " Who?" " Nicky the rat." "He's my cartoon creation." "Kinda like mickey mouseexcept he sings." "You tried to winyour girlfriend back with a cartoon rat?" "No wonder she left you." "You're an idiot." "Put that down." "What the hellare you doing in my house?" "It's not safe anywhere." "Our neighbor shot at us." "They blocked the road." "What the hellis going on, sheriff?" "My wife tried to kill me an hour ago." "She slit her throat." "They losttheir minds, sheriff." "Harlan down at the wizardis chasing people with an axe!" "We had to fightto get up here." "You're the sheriff." "You took a solemn vowto protect us, and we are scared." "Shut the fuck up, mary!" "You shut the fuck up." "You shut the fuck up, lenny." "You fucking bitch." "Stop it." "I said stop it." "I said stop it." "I want everybody downstairs." "Now." "Lock the doorand keep quiet." "You'll be safe down there." "Let's go.Now!" "You lock the doorand you stay quiet." "Don't leave usdown there, sheriff." "You all have weapons." "If anybody tries to break in, you're gonna have to use them." "Don't make mego down there with them." "It's the safest placeyou can be." "All right, let's go." "You should take mikeyup to the bedroom." " Let's go.Right now." " But I want to stayhere with you, daddy." "All right, buddy, I want youto listen to me, all right?" "I want you to go upto your bedroom." "I want you tobe really quiet." "I want you to takecare of your mommy, 'cause she's scared." "Do that for me?" "All right, let's go.Right now." "Come on." "You all right?" "I felt it go inside of meat that trailer like A... poison." "What if it's still in me?" "If it didn't leave?" "If I..." " hurt him?" " No, no." "I think it just stayswhen it recognizes something it can make worse." "Something bad." "I've never known youto have anything like that." "Then I guess you don'tknow me that well." "Don't be scared." "Come here." "I don't like this!" "Turn on the lights!" "Back off!" "Back off!" "Shut the fuck up, mary!" "Get out of my way,you fucking bitch." "I warned you!" "You better getout of his way." "Let me out of here,please, sheriff!" "Please, they're all dead!" "Sheriff, please let me out!" "You've gotta help me!" "Kevin?" "Dina, come here, baby." "Dina." "You know I'd neverhurt you, right?" "You know that, don't you?" " Mikey, lock the door." " What are you doing?" "What the hell'swrong with you?" "I said I'd never hurt you." "What the hell, are younot listening to me?" "My brother tried tokill my wife, came after me." "You knew thiswould happen, didn't you?" "Your granddaddy brought inthe first drill." "He started it!" "He opened up the earth!" "It doesn't want us,it wants you!" "So let me in, goddamn you, you son of a bitch!" "You let me in!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Dina!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Open the goddamn door, dina." "Dina, baby, open the door." "Please, baby." "I'm sorry about thatdownstairs, I just" "Sweetie, open the door." "Dina." "Come on, mom." "Dina, please, open the door." "Goddamnit, open the door." "you stinking bitch!" "Sheriff!" "Come out, come out, come out." "I want to talk to you." "Don't be afraid." "God loves you." "Don't you fucking ignore me!" "xxxxxxxxx" "Where your husband at, bitch?" "Huh?" "I told him to get down here." "You know, your husbandand his whole family cursed this town." "He brought the evil here." "It's coming for you, too." "He put the evil onyou, too, boy." "You and your daddyand your daddy's daddy." "Yeah, Now go on back to your mama." "You gonna die,too, little boy." "Y'alls likemommy's dirty legs." "Fornicating dogon the devil's bed." "Now you're gonnapay for the sins." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "No!" "It only wants me." "The drilling let it out." "It's all chaos down there." " Daddy!" "Daddy!" " Hang on!" "Dina, get the hell out!" " We're not gonna leave you." " Get the hell out of here!" "Take care of mama, boy." "Get the hell out of here now!" "Right before I died, I felt something inside me settle." "It was just past midnight." "My birthday." "Mommy!" "No." "No." "Shit, come on!" "Come on!" "This can't be happening." "Come on!" "No!" "Come on." "Mommy, look." "Masters Of Horror" "Season 02 Episode 01"