Mom?
Mom, what are you looking at?
Did something happen?
Mom!
Guys, c... can you help, please?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yo, can we get some help, please?
Where is he?
- Got him. - What happened?
I got him, I got him, I got him.
Mr. Merrill? Can you breathe?
All right.
Watch your step. Watch your step.
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Pop, take it easy.
What happened?
You've had a stroke... a mini one.
What?
What happened?
I got this, Jamal.
You tell me what happened.
- Do you remember... - What? What?
What... why...
Abdi brought you here.
I've been looking for him.
- He won't call me back. - He should have left me there.
I would have left me there.
Left you where?
Pop?
Did I hurt him?
Is he okay?
What?
Did you hurt Abdi?
I... I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you mean, you don't know?
Abdi, please call me.
Hey.
Wanna go look for a dead guy?
What?
Is your mom here?
She went to work.
Love what you guys haven't done with the place.
Yeah.
So, uh, dead guy.
Sounds weird; hear me out.
Ace Merrill... you know, the shitty landlord, rapey-eyes dude?
They say he's dead.
Oh, my gosh.
It's fine. He sucked.
Anyway, we're gonna go find the corpse.
Usually dump them in the lake.
Everything bad in this town starts at Castle Lake.
So are you in?
It's gonna be a hike, but I got snacks.
Brownies.
Um, my mom...
um, I think I...
You're fucking 16, right?
We're gonna be leaving town like any second now.
Oh.
Getting out of this shithole already, huh?
Keep the phone.
Find a McDonald's somewhere and hit me up.
Wait.
I'll come with.
Sweet.
Bring a bathing suit.
Or not.
? Button up the bowtie and dance all around ?
? Once again with the fat Hawaiian girl ?
Anchors aweigh.
Well, if anyone sees an old man's head bobbing,
- that shit's mine. I call dibs. - What?
Warden of Shawshank 86'd himself in this lake.
They found the body but not the head.
? Which way's the freighter gonna run tonight? ?
? Or just leave me be wherever it seems right ?
- Abdi? - My pills!
The recipe... what did you give me?
- Who's this? - Anne Ingalls!
It's your employee.
Anne, it's really not a good time.
My pills, they're all wrong.
Something is messed up. Did you change the recipe?
I replaced one with generics, but they're exactly the same.
Something's wrong!
I'm having visual hallucinations!
If your symptoms are getting worse,
then come in and I'll refer you.
Anne, I can't do this right now.
I have a family emergency. I'll be in contact.
Who knows how many bodies are at the bottom of this lake?
Vera knows all about bodies.
- Her dad was in Shawshank. - He was set up, okay?
And then they shut down the prison
and he was sent to Ohio.
Stop dishing all my family trauma.
At least my dad doesn't beat me.
He isn't available to beat you...
- Okay, whatever. - He's in a fucking supermax.
Guys, less family therapy, more trawling for dead bodies.
Well, Chance doesn't have to worry about parents
because Chance is emancipated.
"Emancipated"? Like, free?
- As a fucking bird. - Language.
Joy's mom hates those F-bombs, Chance.
- Vera. - What would happen, do you think,
if you just dropped one?
A big old "fuck" right in her lap.
It wouldn't be good, I think.
I... I know 'cause...
She has all these rules to protect me,
and even if they're dumb or stupid, you know,
I know why she's that way.
And... and, I mean, who cares
if I can't say some stupid word?
Who cares if I can't say some dumb...
fucking word?
Who cares if I can't say "fuck"?
- Whoa... whoa, there. - Fuck, fuckity-fuck.
Fuckle-fuck! Fuck!
W-what?
How are those brownies, Crash?
Are... are they...
Oh.
- Was there something in those? - Oh, I don't know.
Breathe. I hardly put any in there.
- Is the talking normal? - Hilarious.
So funny.
Hey, uh, Timothy, can you row a little bit?
My arms are getting really tired.
Yep, gotcha.
- Oops! - Are you kidding?
- God! - What the fuck?
Well, I am not getting in.
- My asthma. - I can't reach it!
Well...
- I threw it right to you. - Aww, man.
What are you... what is she doing?
- I'll get it. - Do you know how cold that is?
There's a weird sound down there.
How many brownies did you eat?
Hey, Chance, stop!
- Stop! - It's too fast for you.
Stop it!
Oh, my God, you're so annoying!
- I almost fell! - Good.
- Ooh! - Stop!
Hey, you know what? You're a fucking mermaid.
Thanks.
Well, mermaids are monsters, actually.
Disney lies, so...
And I'm giving you swim lessons for your birthday.
- No, you're not. - Yeah, I am.
- No... - Well, too bad, 'cause I'm giving you...
Stop!
- See you later. - See ya.
Peace.
Bye, Joy.
Bye.
That was, um...
pretty badass...
especially while high for the first time.
Yeah.
Do you feel normal again?
Think so.
Ah, that's too bad.
Keep your phone on.
Mom, I'm sorry...
I was, uh...
I was just at the gas station getting some food.
What is all this?
I'll get your pills.
No.
No, I think she poisoned me.
What?
The doctor...
at the clinic.
The one you like so much.
Her pills made me worse, not better.
They made me do a bad thing.
What bad thing?
When I say this...
You have to hear me out.
I killed a man.
What?
The dirty bird
with the dirty look on his face.
Ace Merrill?
He came here...
and he threatened you.
Threatened us both...
in the vilest language, Joy.
So...
I ended him...
Right there.
But then I cleaned it up so good
I can't find a trace of it.
Not a single speck of him,
but I swear...
I did it.
And then I took him to the pit and I threw him in the hole.
Mom, uh...
That's not even the worst of it,
because he came back.
That Ace...
After.
"After"?
After I...
I saw him.
I... I don't understand.
Me neither, but I killed him, Joy.
I killed him.
All I know...
is I try so hard to be there for you.
To be my best self and not the other one.
Mom...
y-you must have...
What?
Imagined it?
I killed that man,
and then he came back.
And he'll come again...
to finish it.
Mom...
You believe me...
don't you?
I love you, Mom.
No...
No, no, Joy, we said...
For emergencies.
- No... - I love you, Mom.
Joy, no, no.
They're for emergencies...
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- Eh? - Mm-hmm.
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Wheelchair to admitting.
You piece of shit.
Hello, Pop.
Where the fuck you been?
Derry.
You're a murderer now?
Your own fucking family?
Trying to burn Nadia's house down.
The hell is wrong with you?
That was a mistake.
"Mistake"?
Your whole goddamn life's a mistake.
All right, stay down, Pop.
My whole life, yes.
The fuck you talking like that for?
Thought you were dead, you fucking moron!
- Take it easy... - The fuck out of here!
Take it easy, take it easy.
Pull over, asshole.
Hey, fuck nuts, get out of the car.
Right now, asshole!
Hey!
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Joy.
Come... come untie me.
Little love, please.
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Please, Joy.
Little love.
Are you ready?
For what?
Your pills.
When we made this... this plan, you and I...
If for ever I had... I had a spell...
The thing is, little love, we never talked enough
about what a genuine emergency might look like.
You said you killed a man.
Yes.
You said the man you killed came back to life to kill us.
It's an emergency when you see things that aren't there, Mom.
Well, see, I...
Take your pills.
They aren't the right pills.
They are. I checked.
It's the right recipe. 40, 20, 10.
Don't you see, Joy?
The plan is... is that I don't let you out until you take your pills.
The medicine is wrong so the plan is off, Joy!
That's what you said you'd say when we made...
Joy, jiminy Christmas!
If you need water.
Wait!
I'll take them.
Just give them to me. I'll take them.
Get it over with.
Okay.
Open.
Okay, little love.
Untie me now.
Not yet, Mama.
You're not ready.
You didn't kill anyone.
Ace Merrill is still alive.
Sweetie...
Let me know if you need the bedpan.
No, Kevin, no, no.
Just because I made more money than you last year...
no, that doesn't mean that child support flip-flops.
Uh-huh, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh!
Oh, excuse me.
Uh...
Valerie Blount, Blount Real Estate.
John Merrill.
"John" as in, uh, Ace Merrill?
Mm-hmm.
Uh, shall we?
Uh, you know, the house was originally built
by, uh, a millionaire, Hubie Marsten,
back in the '20s.
A gangster who practiced black magic.
Lost his mind, shot his wife, hanged himself.
Mm, can't fool the locals.
Do you have children?
Uh...
Um, yes.
One, middle school.
Pretty much takes care of himself these days.
But you're still able to have children...
right?
Uh-huh.
That's a...
That is a funny question.
Uh...
Oh, this shouldn't be here.
Hello?
Um...
Hello?
Uh, can you just wait one sec?
Is somebody here?
Oh...
The car...
Ugh... oh!
Oh, my God!
Joy!
"Ian held her stiffening body as Orpheo tumbled on, heedless,
through the lashing bracken of Shadow Wood
as the adder's venom worked its way deeper,
black tendrils reaching for her heart."
It's late.
You know, I used to read to my father.
Tried to, anyway.
I'd always jumble up the words.
Mom?
Yes?
What's in that? The lockbox.
Just papers.
Show me.
Nothing but nonsense in there, Joy, honestly.
Then why does it need a big lock,
and why can't I just look inside?
I feel so much better, little love.
Thank you...
for everything.
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If you're really better, Mom...
tell the truth.
About what?
Everything.
Now, Mom.
What are we running from?
You're not getting out of that bed
until you tell me the truth.
He didn't want you.
Your father, he didn't want you.
And I did...
so I took you and I ran.
I didn't expect the police to understand what he was,
and lo and behold, they did not.
I told a lot of lies to a lot of people...
but I told you only one...
because I didn't want you to be afraid.
Why would I be afraid?
Because he's coming for us now.
He's a very bad man, Joy,
and he's not gonna stop.
He'll never stop.
That's why you have to untie me...
so I can protect you!
You said Dad was a hero.
That he died in a war.
Yes.
It was just better.
It was better, Joy, i-if you were running
towards the Laughing Place and not away from...
You said lying is the worst thing
that people who love each other can do.
I know, I did, and... and it is.
How could you?
Everything I do
is because I believe in a better world, Joy.
And that takes work, Joy.
Hard work.
Sometimes when we're on the road,
we're rounding a cloverleaf, I look out the window
and I look at all that dirt and that grit...
the ugliness going by and I think,
"Well, Annie, you're wasting your time."
I look at you...
And the sun just...
rises.
You are my better world, Joy.
And, yes, I've done bad for you...
And I'll do it again.
I will do the doggone worst
to protect you from the monsters,
and I'll feel just fine about it.
I won't give them the satisfaction
of a single regret...
Because the only thing that matters is you.
My... my world.
My little world.
Joy...
- You didn't take your pills! - You listen to me.
- You listen very carefully... - You lied again!
No.
Don't... don't answer.
Please, don't answer. That could be him.
"Him" who? Dad?
Ace Merrill? You don't even know, do you?
They... they're all just monsters out to get us!
You're fudging right they are!
Is your mom here?
She's... sick.
She can't come to the door right now.
But everything's okay?
Sure.
It's just that she called me very upset
and... didn't show up for work.
It... it was the stomach bug,
but... she's all better now.
Are you sure you're okay, Joy?
Your mom sounded like she was having some pretty serious symptoms.
You should have sent her to... to a head doctor.
You don't know anything about her.
Mom!
Mom.
Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy!
Oh, dear God. Joy, I didn't mean...
No, no, Joy!
Joy, Joy, Joy!
I... I didn't mean...
Joy!
Joy, where are you?
You know how this story ends.
You're going to kill her.
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