"A Hellspawn has returned to earth soulless, his mind ravaged, his memory shattered." "They took everything from me!" "They made me a monster." "You're alone now, Spawn." "Ain't no one covering your back anymore." "I found you." "Get away from me." "This is truly what hell is, old man." "I would do my life over again in the world's worst shithole than to be here now like this!" "It's me, Wanda." "I'm your husband." "Don't cry, Mama." "That was the sad man." "You have brought this evil into her life... the stink of hell brought back from your master." "Master?" "Who do you think wrapped you in that shroud?" "It was Malebolgia." "Are you going to send him the dark soul of Jason Wynn?" "Wynn had me murdered." "He'll kill Wanda too if I don't stop him." "I can't go on like this anymore, hiding in the shadows." "I'm sick of it." "I can show you how to break the curse, but you have to stop the savage killing." "I'm coming for you, Jason Wynn." " Simmons?" " Don't you remember me?" "You had me burned alive." "Malebolgia has been guiding both of you." "How do you know these things?" "Because he was once my master too." "Who are you?" "No!" "Good or evil... we have to ultimately choose one or the other in life." "We all think that we're good." "So where does the evil come from?" "Where is it hiding?" "When the lights are on, it seems the darkness is held at bay, just sitting there at the edge of the light." "But evil... it exists because we create it." "But not out there... it comes from the inside." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Within the souls of every hellspawn, a battle is waged." "What scraps of humanity can they hold on to?" "What master will they serve?" "Every hellspawn, all the way back to the primordial past, has lost their struggle with the darkness." "Each one sank into the pit to sit at the right hand of Malebolgia, to wait for the final battle against the light." "Choose, Hellspawn." "What master do you serve?" "I serve no master!" "He came to you again, didn't he?" "The black knight will keep coming to you, tormenting you until you choose." "How do you know my dreams?" "Within you are the remnants of other hellspawns from the past." "You and I are connected across millennia." "You're nothing like me." "You can't know what I feel." "It's time you had the cold hard truth." "I'm nearly out of time, and you are the only hope I have to finish my journey." "Look, old man," "I don't know how you know about the dreams I have." "Maybe I yelled out." "But that's all it was... a bad dream." "Humans dream, not dead men who have sold their souls." "Get away from me." "Violence is all you know." "You thrive on it." "But it only sends more souls to your master." "It makes him stronger." "I have no master." "Yes, you do..." "Malebolgia." "And he chose the right man." "Look at me." "I'm not a man anymore." "You were a man once." "You can be a man again." "The one you call Malebolgia, he can't be real." "He is real and you know it." "What do you want from me?" "I want you to remove that scarlet shroud." "A Hellspawn can be free of the curse." "How can you know that?" "Because I am free." "Where are we going first?" "What about that club we used to go to on 42nd?" "Hey, college boy, you've been gone too long." "We don't go there anymore." "In fact, you don't ask where we go." "We go where I drive." "Yeah, we go where he drives." "There's nothing like a Saturday night." "Hey, Joey, you're gonna have a real woman tonight, huh?" "Not that college peach fuzz." "Jesus, Frankie, you know I'm going out with Gina." "You know I'm going out with Gina." "Hey, Petey, you were always the smartest guy in school." "You know how to work it." "How come you didn't go to college?" "I had some good business opportunities." "I know a sweet setup when I see it." "That's what separates me from the rest of the dumb fucks in this neighborhood." "What are we doing at Orvetti's?" "He's closing up." "Just for old times' sake, like when we was kids cruising the neighborhood." "Remember how Mr. O. Used to slip us candy on the sly so his old lady wouldn't see?" "Remember that, Petey?" "Yeah, he was cool..." "last of the guys from the old country." "When Mom got sick and after, when she was gone, he used to bring bags of groceries up to the apartment." "That's right." "Come on, let's go in, see what's up with him." "Mr. Orvetti, you closing up?" "Hey, I'm never closed for you boys." "You should come down to the neighborhood more." "Hey, Mr. Orvetti, you got any of that cannoli you used to give my pops?" "Forget about it." "I got cannoli." "I got pastasciutta." "I got everything here." "Mangia mangia." "Eat eat eat." "Look at you kids." "Me, I see men in my store tonight, not little boys anymore." "Hey, Mr. O., it's Joey." "Jesus!" "Why the fuck did you do that?" "Just doing a little favor for the guy, that's all." "Holy shit!" "That's the way it's done, Frankie... quick, easy." "Holy shit!" "It gets a little messy sometimes, but hey, forget about it." "What's done is done." "Jesus, Petey, what did you do to my cannoli?" "There's fucking brains in it!" "How am I supposed to eat this shit, huh?" "I've been around a little longer than you, Frankie." "So you gotta listen to me a little bit." "If you want to get noticed, you gotta do favors." "I don't want any part of this, man." "If the cops ask me, I'm going to tell them what you did." "Shut up, Joey." "I'm not going to prison for this, Petey, you dumb fuck!" "And stand still." "I got my eye on you." " You killed him for nothing!" " Easy, kid, come on." "What the fuck is going on?" "You gotta tell me what's happening here." "Frankie, don't worry." "It's nothing." "Get in the fucking car, all right?" "Let's just go." "Come on." "Okay, what's done is done." "He's dead." "We just gotta keep it together, we gotta keep it cool." " I'm gonna get sick." " Lighten up, man." "Have a toke." "You need to relax a little." "Get me out of here." "I can't breathe, man." "Shut up!" "Just shut up, all of youse." "I gotta work things out." "I'm gonna puke!" "Pull over." "Be a man." "There's an alley up ahead." "You made a big mistake, Frankie, bringing him." "I ain't gonna lie to you, Frankie." "I don't think Joey's gonna make it home tonight." "He's just sick, Petey." "I'll take care of him." "He's not from the streets." "He didn't get into the army like us." "You don't understand." "I'm saying he's not gonna make it home... at all." "So you do it, Frankie." "You take care of him, right now." "Come on, move." "Let's go." "Come on, move." " Let's go!" " What's going on, Frankie?" "What's going on?" "Talk to me." "Come on, man." "Don't joke around." "Frankie, what are you doing?" "I'm your best friend." "Put the gun away, man." "You think he'll do it?" "If Frankie's smart." "I don't want to stay out all night burying bodies." "I thought we were buddies, Frankie!" "What are you doing?" "Don't shoot me, man!" "I'm begging you." " I don't wanna die!" " Shut up, Joey." "It's your fault." "You brought this on yourself." "If you hadn't opened your mouth to Petey." "Frankie, it's me, Joey." "Why are you doing this, man?" "Come on, you know I wouldn't give you up." "Shut up!" "What's happening, old man?" "The portal is opening, preparing to receive a soul." "Strange." "It feels familiar?" "Yes." "You yourself came through." "You just don't remember." "I don't want to look at your face." "What's done is done, Joey." "Why don't you kill your good buddy somewhere else?" "Jesus Christ!" "I'm sick of seeing you punks in my alley." "What are you, some kind of freak?" "Get the fuck outta here!" "You're just taking up space, breathing my air." "This boy wants to be a killer, like you." "Looks like you're gonna show him how." "I want you gone." "Why are you doing this, kid?" "You don't owe them anything." "You think I want to shoot him?" "Joey fucked up." "I brought him into this, and now they think I'm a rat too." "They made me." "This isn't even my fucking gun." " Get out!" " You think you control" " what goes on here?" " You're damn right." "You have a lot to learn, Hellspawn." "It's taking too long." "Maybe Frankie didn't have the guts." " Then they're both dead." " Yeah, both dead." "Shit." "What... what the hell is going on?" "Am I dead?" "Am I dreaming?" "What?" "What?" "!" "No, there's gotta be a way." "Am I being punished?" "Is that it?" "I can't believe this!" "What's happened?" "What's happened?" "There's no way out for you, Frankie." "The bullet waits." "Which side are you on?" "I'm on my side!" "Mister, in my neighborhood you take care of business or business takes care of you." "I don't have to choose shit." "Now why don't you two faggots go fuck off?" "Who is the real executioner here?" "Anyone who would murder his best friend isn't worth keeping alive." "You think he is the only one who has sacrificed a friend?" "You had choices about killing too, Hellspawn." " You're no better than him." " I was a soldier," " stuck in a lot of dirty little wars." " I took orders." "This kid is just taking orders too." "His life depends on it." "You remember your buddy, don't you... the friend you sacrificed in the jungle?" "What did you say?" "You let him die at the hands of the enemy while you survived." "I don't want you in my head, old man." "Do you remember your friend Sykes?" "Sykes..." "You could have saved him." "Your position, man." "I want to know your unit's position." "Don't tell him anything, Al." "How about you, American?" "Would you like to live?" "Don't tell them anything." "Sykes." "They're coming, man." "It took hours before your friend's body stopped moving." "There was the smell of his blood, the sound of the machete hacking through bone, his moaning, the little whimpers before he died." "Do you remember those sounds?" "Do you remember the blood..." "how thick?" "Your feet were sliding on it." "When it was your turn, what was the only thing you could think of?" "Do you remember what that was?" "The one thing you would give anything for?" "You'd better kill me." "Do you remember?" "Secure the area." "Cut our men off that pole." "Now!" "Major Forsberg, sir." "We didn't tell them anything, sir." "Jesus!" "All the coordinates we gave you were bogus, in case you were captured." "Do you remember what you did, even after you were rescued?" "They're just women and children, Al." "Don't give in to the demons." "I can guide you out of here." "Listen to me, Al." "Look at me." "Don't let the demons take you." "You hear me, soldier?" "Don't let the demons take you." "And the way you felt... you remember that, don't you?" "Don't you?" "!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "It felt good!" "I'm glad I killed the little prick." "I scattered his brains all over the jungle." "When you pulled that trigger, you made the eyes of hell turn toward you that day." "You made hell take notice." "You're lying." "You don't know a damn thing about me." "You gave hell a new player." "That moment was the beginning." "You made them look at you, crave you." "Spawn was born on that day." "That's why they turned me into a monster?" "They put the right face on you, Hellspawn." "You're just like Frankie here." "When you were still human, you gave up your humanity." "Hey, gramps, this "night of the living dead" stuff is really freaking me out." "I didn't choose hell." "What the fuck am I doing talking to a bum about hell?" "There ain't no hell." "I gotta get out of here." "You get me out of this goddamn fog." "No." "It's done." "Time to choose." "The trigger has already been pulled, the target chosen." "Why are you doing this, Frankie?" "Don't." "Don't shoot, Petey." "What's it gonna be, Frankie?" "You did the right thing, Frankie." "Tonight you made your bones." "If you had killed him," "Malebolgia would just have had more soldiers." "Why does Malebolgia play these little games?" "He didn't make Frankie pull that trigger." "Frankie made the choice to be a killer just like you did." "Hell can't make you choose." "They don't have that power." "You justified it." "I'm not buying into your little drama, old man." "Why?" "Because you refuse to trust me." "Then find someone else." "There must have been someone you believed in, sometime in your life." "Don't give in to the demons." "Forsberg..." "I trusted him." "He was a rock." "Not anymore." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons take you." "Don't let the demons the demons take you." "Major Forsberg, how have you been?" "I hope my friends have been treating you well." "I've come for you."