1 00:02:30,776 --> 00:02:32,778 [AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING] 2 00:02:44,081 --> 00:02:45,378 SAPERSTEIN: Hello? 3 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:47,676 Hello, Admitting. 4 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:49,344 This is Saperstein. 5 00:02:49,544 --> 00:02:51,592 Where is he? 6 00:02:53,256 --> 00:02:55,384 He's cleared Admitting? 7 00:02:55,592 --> 00:02:56,889 Right. 8 00:02:57,094 --> 00:02:58,846 Bring him in. 9 00:03:08,689 --> 00:03:09,861 He's coming. 10 00:03:10,065 --> 00:03:11,658 MAN: Good, good. 11 00:03:13,610 --> 00:03:15,612 [MAN GROANING] 12 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:21,993 Trent? 13 00:03:22,536 --> 00:03:23,708 John J. 14 00:03:23,912 --> 00:03:25,914 Put him in number nine. 15 00:03:26,123 --> 00:03:28,125 [ALL GRUNTING AND GROANING] 16 00:03:30,711 --> 00:03:31,837 MAN 1: You son of a bitch. 17 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:33,718 MAN 2: You, argh... 18 00:03:33,922 --> 00:03:35,174 JOHN: Don't. SAPERSTEIN: Heh. 19 00:03:35,382 --> 00:03:37,726 - Hang on to him. JOHN: Don't! 20 00:03:41,471 --> 00:03:43,473 [JOHN GROANING] 21 00:03:45,267 --> 00:03:46,439 No. 22 00:03:46,601 --> 00:03:48,649 - No, no, no. MAN: Come on. Get him in there. 23 00:03:48,854 --> 00:03:50,856 No, not me! 24 00:03:51,773 --> 00:03:52,820 No, wait, wait. 25 00:03:53,024 --> 00:03:56,949 This is wrong. Look, I'm sorry about the balls. 26 00:03:57,154 --> 00:03:59,873 It was a lucky shot, that's all. 27 00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:01,916 Wait! 28 00:04:02,117 --> 00:04:04,336 - Thank you. JOHN: Wait! 29 00:04:15,172 --> 00:04:17,971 JOHN: I'm not insane. You hear me? 30 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:20,428 I'm not insane! 31 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:22,387 MAN 1: I'm not if he's not! 32 00:04:22,596 --> 00:04:23,939 MAN 2: Oh, me neither. Me neither. 33 00:04:24,139 --> 00:04:26,062 MAN 1: I'm not insane! 34 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:27,688 MAN 2: Me neither! 35 00:04:27,851 --> 00:04:30,946 MAN 1: I'm not insane! 36 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:33,072 [PATIENTS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 37 00:04:45,952 --> 00:04:47,750 [SLOW MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS] 38 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:08,563 MAN: Yes, doctor? It worked... 39 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:18,985 [PATIENTS SING ALONG TO MUSIC] 40 00:05:20,153 --> 00:05:21,245 Oh, no. 41 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:25,000 Not the Carpenters too. 42 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:35,168 [MUSIC SLOWS THEN STOPS] 43 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,463 This is a rotten way to end it. 44 00:06:16,668 --> 00:06:20,718 CANE : This is not the ending. You haven't read it yet. 45 00:06:24,843 --> 00:06:26,845 [LAUGHING] 46 00:06:29,598 --> 00:06:31,566 [JOHN SCREAMS] 47 00:06:32,642 --> 00:06:34,644 [PANTING] 48 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:37,697 [SIGHS] 49 00:06:40,442 --> 00:06:42,444 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 50 00:06:42,694 --> 00:06:45,447 SAPERSTEIN: Yes, just a minute. MAN 2: Here you are, doctor. 51 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:47,248 SAPERSTEIN: Thank you. 52 00:06:48,742 --> 00:06:50,039 All right. 53 00:06:50,243 --> 00:06:52,337 - Came in this afternoon? -Yes. 54 00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:54,039 How did you get here so fast? 55 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:57,547 We've been monitoring admissions through police and paramedic channels. 56 00:06:57,751 --> 00:07:02,097 - This one fit the symptoms. -You think he's one of them? 57 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:05,801 Mr. Saperstein, I promise you, that's what I'm here to find out. 58 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:08,182 Things must be getting pretty bad out there... 59 00:07:08,386 --> 00:07:10,730 ...to bring you fellas in, heh. 60 00:07:11,473 --> 00:07:13,692 - Is this it? -Yes. 61 00:07:14,476 --> 00:07:17,525 - Did he make any requests? -Just... 62 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:19,489 ...one. 63 00:07:19,689 --> 00:07:23,819 A, uh, single black crayon. 64 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,029 [DOOR OPENS] 65 00:07:38,667 --> 00:07:40,669 [DOOR CLOSES] 66 00:07:45,215 --> 00:07:48,515 - John? -Hang on. 67 00:07:54,265 --> 00:07:56,063 What's up? 68 00:07:56,226 --> 00:07:57,978 My name is Dr. Wrenn. 69 00:07:58,144 --> 00:08:00,192 And I'm going to try and get you out of here. 70 00:08:01,106 --> 00:08:02,153 [CHUCKLES] 71 00:08:02,357 --> 00:08:04,951 After all my redecorating? Heh. 72 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:07,491 No, I think I'll stay. 73 00:08:07,654 --> 00:08:10,123 There's a guard with a pair of swollen testicles... 74 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:12,496 ...who swears you wanted out of here. 75 00:08:13,827 --> 00:08:16,080 I, uh... Well... 76 00:08:16,287 --> 00:08:18,460 ...I've changed my mind. 77 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:20,292 I see. 78 00:08:21,751 --> 00:08:24,721 The crosses are a nice touch. 79 00:08:25,422 --> 00:08:30,019 They'd almost have to keep you here once they'd seen these wouldn't they, John? 80 00:08:31,052 --> 00:08:32,395 Got a smoke? 81 00:08:47,235 --> 00:08:49,488 You're waiting to hear about my them, aren't you? 82 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,782 Your what? 83 00:08:52,782 --> 00:08:54,455 My them. 84 00:08:55,201 --> 00:09:00,048 Oh, every paranoid schizophrenic has one, a them, a they, an it. 85 00:09:00,248 --> 00:09:04,128 And you wanna hear about my them, don't you? 86 00:09:04,335 --> 00:09:06,212 I want to know how you got here. 87 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:13,103 Things are turning to shit out there, aren't they? 88 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:17,390 Let's talk about you. 89 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:20,060 [SCOFFS] 90 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:21,895 Your dime. 91 00:09:23,563 --> 00:09:25,236 I'm a... 92 00:09:26,191 --> 00:09:30,867 I was an insurance investigator, freelance. 93 00:09:31,821 --> 00:09:35,746 Checked out funny claims, frauds, the usual kind of thing. 94 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:40,080 And lately, I'd been working for a firm here in the city. 95 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:47,012 And all of this started with the disappearance. 96 00:09:48,463 --> 00:09:52,343 The Sutter Cane disappearance. 97 00:09:58,181 --> 00:09:59,808 JOHN: It's a little hot in here, isn't it? 98 00:10:00,016 --> 00:10:01,063 [CHUCKLES] 99 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:02,610 It's boiling. 100 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,068 How long I gotta be here? 101 00:10:06,564 --> 00:10:10,159 I mean, I took care of all that paperwork. 102 00:10:10,318 --> 00:10:13,117 The check was supposed to be here three weeks ago, right? 103 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:14,826 Uh, isn't that right? 104 00:10:14,989 --> 00:10:18,334 Usually, that's the way it goes but I just have a few final questions... 105 00:10:18,493 --> 00:10:19,585 ...to ask about the fire. 106 00:10:19,786 --> 00:10:21,288 PAUL: Pfft, more questions. 107 00:10:21,496 --> 00:10:24,716 I've answered all your questions. I mean, enough's enough here. 108 00:10:24,874 --> 00:10:27,172 It was supposed to be cut and dried. They told me. 109 00:10:27,335 --> 00:10:29,758 JOHN: Look, I understand. We'll be out of here in a minute. 110 00:10:29,921 --> 00:10:31,719 See, Robby here, he owns the company. 111 00:10:31,881 --> 00:10:35,181 And he's hired me to see that things go smoothly, you understand? 112 00:10:35,385 --> 00:10:39,310 Oh, it's just a little thing, but, see, Robby takes the view that it was you... 113 00:10:39,514 --> 00:10:42,939 ...who burned down your own warehouse on Northern Boulevard. 114 00:10:43,143 --> 00:10:44,520 Me? Heh, that's horseshit. 115 00:10:44,727 --> 00:10:47,526 That was my stuff in that warehouse. That's my whole life. 116 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:50,238 Believe me, I sympathize. 117 00:10:50,441 --> 00:10:53,433 You're starting to sweat. Shall I turn on the air conditioning? 118 00:10:53,459 --> 00:10:54,346 What do you think? 119 00:10:54,529 --> 00:10:56,031 - Oh, no, I'm fine. -You sure? 120 00:10:56,239 --> 00:10:57,331 Yeah. Yeah. 121 00:10:57,907 --> 00:10:59,454 - Okay. -it's just... 122 00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:03,004 I'm running a little late, that's all. I'm supposed to pick up my wife. 123 00:11:03,163 --> 00:11:05,416 Oh, yeah, your wife. 124 00:11:05,748 --> 00:11:07,750 She's a great lady. 125 00:11:09,127 --> 00:11:11,801 - You know her? -No, not really. We just met briefly. 126 00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:15,509 You know, when I went around to check up on your story. 127 00:11:16,050 --> 00:11:18,599 See, we have these photographs... 128 00:11:18,761 --> 00:11:21,514 ...of your wife tooling around town... 129 00:11:21,723 --> 00:11:25,819 ...wearing various articles that you claim were destroyed in the fire. 130 00:11:26,019 --> 00:11:28,647 No, that's, heh, impossible. 131 00:11:32,066 --> 00:11:34,945 No, this is all stuff I bought for her myself. 132 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,994 See, the problem is, when I went around to talk to her... 133 00:11:39,199 --> 00:11:42,123 ...it turned out she knew a lot more than she thought she did. 134 00:11:42,327 --> 00:11:44,125 Especially... 135 00:11:44,495 --> 00:11:49,342 Especially after I showed her pictures of Miss Palminteri... 136 00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:52,842 ...who appears to be wearing even more of your destroyed articles. 137 00:11:55,173 --> 00:11:57,016 Miss Palminteri? 138 00:11:58,593 --> 00:12:01,767 Miss Rosa Palminteri. 139 00:12:02,096 --> 00:12:04,144 A word of advice. 140 00:12:04,349 --> 00:12:06,226 You wanna pull a scam... 141 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:08,645 ...don't make your wife a partner. 142 00:12:08,853 --> 00:12:10,821 And if you do... 143 00:12:11,231 --> 00:12:14,451 ...don't fuck around behind her back. 144 00:12:17,111 --> 00:12:18,863 ROBINSON: Trent, you look beautiful. 145 00:12:19,072 --> 00:12:22,918 Everybody says you got the best nose for a con in the business. 146 00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:27,206 But to see it firsthand-- I mean, to watch you work is incredible. 147 00:12:27,413 --> 00:12:31,213 Well, it wasn't hard, Robby. The guy's wife liked me. 148 00:12:31,417 --> 00:12:34,717 Besides, he was an amateur. It's just too easy with amateurs. 149 00:12:34,921 --> 00:12:37,390 Try to figure out who's professional and who isn't. 150 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:41,936 And that's when it gets fun, when you run into a pro. 151 00:12:42,136 --> 00:12:43,388 [CHUCKLES] 152 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:46,566 Most of my salesmen couldn't sniff out a phony claim... 153 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:51,192 ...if their noses were nailed to it, but you, man, you never miss. 154 00:12:51,396 --> 00:12:52,318 JOHN: What's to miss? 155 00:12:52,344 --> 00:12:54,846 You learn to expect the worst in people and you get it. 156 00:12:55,024 --> 00:12:57,573 Everyone's looking to play an angle. 157 00:12:57,777 --> 00:13:00,030 I'm always there to clean up the mess. 158 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:01,911 I'll tell you what. 159 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:04,664 You stop freelancing, join my staff. 160 00:13:04,867 --> 00:13:06,744 I'll make it worth your while, Trent. 161 00:13:07,370 --> 00:13:08,622 Forget it, Robby. 162 00:13:08,830 --> 00:13:11,333 I'm my own man. Nobody pulls my strings. 163 00:13:11,541 --> 00:13:12,838 I'm independent. I'm happy. 164 00:13:13,042 --> 00:13:14,589 ROBINSON: Well, be my man one more time. 165 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:18,094 I'm having quite a difficult mess with Arcane. 166 00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:21,427 - The publishing house? -Yeah, it's my biggest account. 167 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:25,059 They just filed a claim that cost me millions. 168 00:13:25,263 --> 00:13:27,311 I want you on this right away. 169 00:13:27,515 --> 00:13:30,359 - What's the claim? -Sutter Cane is missing. 170 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,188 - Who? -Sutter Cane. 171 00:13:35,064 --> 00:13:37,066 [CROWD SCREAMING] 172 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:56,340 - Do you read Sutter Cane? -What? 173 00:13:59,255 --> 00:14:00,723 [GRUNTING] 174 00:14:03,801 --> 00:14:05,803 MAN: Lay down! Lay down! Lay down! 175 00:14:05,970 --> 00:14:07,517 [POLICE SIREN WAILING] 176 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,682 [JOHN PANTING] 177 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:14,854 [TIRES SCREECH] 178 00:14:17,982 --> 00:14:19,984 Horror writer Sutter Cane... 179 00:14:20,151 --> 00:14:22,153 ...a harmless pop phenomenon... 180 00:14:22,362 --> 00:14:25,912 ...or a deadly mad prophet of the printed page? 181 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:29,164 This was the scene today outside several city bookstores. 182 00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:33,465 Police believe the riots began because the stores could not meet the demand... 183 00:14:33,664 --> 00:14:36,668 ...for advance orders of Sutter Cane's latest novel... 184 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,844 ...In the Mouth of Madness. 185 00:14:39,045 --> 00:14:41,013 When does fiction become religion? 186 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:43,262 And are his fans dangerous? 187 00:14:43,466 --> 00:14:44,763 Only if you count axes. 188 00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:46,310 WOMAN [ON TV]: In related news... 189 00:14:46,511 --> 00:14:49,014 ...there were 18 other stores across the city reporting... 190 00:14:58,523 --> 00:15:00,070 WOMAN: Mr. Trent? 191 00:15:00,608 --> 00:15:02,656 Mr. Trent? 192 00:15:03,653 --> 00:15:05,496 Mr. Harglow will see you now. 193 00:15:05,696 --> 00:15:07,323 JOHN: Thank you. 194 00:15:08,783 --> 00:15:10,831 You're not listening. I needed it yesterday. 195 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:15,211 If you wait any longer, it'll be all over the front page. Get it done. 196 00:15:15,498 --> 00:15:18,126 Jackson Harglow, Mr. Trent. I'm pleased to meet you. 197 00:15:18,334 --> 00:15:20,462 -It's a pleasure. JACKSON: Excuse the commotion. 198 00:15:20,670 --> 00:15:24,049 We have something of a crisis going on. 199 00:15:24,257 --> 00:15:27,602 Now, everybody out now, please. I need time with Mr. Trent. 200 00:15:27,802 --> 00:15:29,975 Have Sylvia hold the calls, and get Linda here. 201 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:31,109 WOMAN: Yes, Mr. Harglow. 202 00:15:31,135 --> 00:15:32,878 -Gee, that was great. I almost left myself. 203 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:34,104 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 204 00:15:34,308 --> 00:15:35,605 JACKSON: Sit down, please. 205 00:15:35,810 --> 00:15:38,313 I am a little short on patience these days, I'm afraid. 206 00:15:38,521 --> 00:15:43,027 So, Mr. Trent, are you, uh, familiar with Arcane? 207 00:15:43,234 --> 00:15:46,408 Aside from the fact that you're insured by the company I work for... 208 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:49,912 ...I never heard of Arcane. I'm sorry. -You read books? 209 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,964 Linda Styles, John Trent. 210 00:15:57,165 --> 00:16:00,465 Linda reads books for a living. She's one of our best editors. 211 00:16:00,668 --> 00:16:04,389 Since she joined the firm, she's been handling Sutter Cane exclusively. 212 00:16:04,589 --> 00:16:08,139 Sutter Cane. Isn't he the guy that writes that horror crap? 213 00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:10,060 Maybe he's too sophisticated for you. 214 00:16:10,261 --> 00:16:13,731 Sutter Cane happens to be this century's most widely-read author. 215 00:16:13,931 --> 00:16:15,604 You can forget about Stephen King. 216 00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:17,560 Cane outsells them all. 217 00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:20,696 So, what happened to this cash cow of yours? 218 00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:23,696 Cane disappeared two months ago without a trace. 219 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:26,995 The police have turned up nothing. 220 00:16:28,029 --> 00:16:30,202 Who was the last person to hear from him? 221 00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:33,535 His agent. Cane mailed him several chapters of his new book... 222 00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:35,123 ...oh, not two weeks ago. 223 00:16:35,286 --> 00:16:38,881 Plain brown wrapper, no return address. 224 00:16:39,081 --> 00:16:41,083 [COUGHS] 225 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:42,926 Oh, gee, I'm sorry. 226 00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:44,970 You don't mind, do you? 227 00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:53,638 What'd the agent have to say? 228 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:56,357 Well, you heard what he had to say. 229 00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:59,269 Heh, what are you talking about? 230 00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:03,857 I understand you were there when the poor man went crazy in Midtown Manhattan. 231 00:17:04,065 --> 00:17:06,033 You witnessed the shooting, I believe. 232 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:08,612 That lunatic with the ax? That was Cane's agent? 233 00:17:10,071 --> 00:17:11,698 Hard to believe, isn't it? 234 00:17:11,906 --> 00:17:13,499 [CHUCKLES] 235 00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:15,872 You'd think a guy that outsells Stephen King... 236 00:17:16,077 --> 00:17:17,750 ...could find better representation. 237 00:17:20,456 --> 00:17:22,174 Excuse me. 238 00:17:31,676 --> 00:17:34,099 WOMAN: Miss Styles, this is what we have. 239 00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:35,850 It's just a little joke. 240 00:17:36,055 --> 00:17:38,149 Well, we're not in the mood. 241 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:40,647 - I'll see you out, Mr. Trent. -Thank you. 242 00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:44,401 Cane is a billion-dollar franchise. He's the tent pole to this company. 243 00:17:44,605 --> 00:17:46,573 We've sold film rights to his new book... 244 00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:49,994 ...as well as publication rights in 18 languages. it's-- 245 00:17:50,194 --> 00:17:51,571 JOHN: Book you can't find? 246 00:17:51,779 --> 00:17:55,454 - Well, his agent found it. At least part of it. JOHN: Think he just took one look... 247 00:17:55,658 --> 00:17:59,379 ...at this latest work of art and just went ax-happy in broad daylight? 248 00:17:59,579 --> 00:18:02,958 I think it's great. It's great promotion for Arcane, great publicity. 249 00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:06,009 This was not a publicity stunt. You were there. 250 00:18:06,210 --> 00:18:10,932 Cane's writing has been known to have an effect on his less-stable readers. 251 00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:14,261 - Effect? Like what? -Well, disorientation, memory loss... 252 00:18:14,468 --> 00:18:15,936 ...severe paranoid reaction. 253 00:18:16,137 --> 00:18:19,186 People pay to feel like that? It's cute. Put it in the press kit. 254 00:18:19,390 --> 00:18:22,394 Look, we need you. 255 00:18:23,311 --> 00:18:24,358 Okay- 256 00:18:24,562 --> 00:18:28,783 Well, why don't you and I get together after work? We'll go through his files. 257 00:18:29,609 --> 00:18:30,656 I don't think so. 258 00:18:30,860 --> 00:18:33,158 I need to see his contracts, papers, you know? 259 00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:34,659 Impossible. 260 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:38,710 His agent was a total buffer. We don't even know where Cane lives. 261 00:18:38,909 --> 00:18:40,661 What do you know? 262 00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:44,374 For about a year before he disappeared, his work became erratic... 263 00:18:44,582 --> 00:18:46,676 ...bent, more bizarre than usual. 264 00:18:46,876 --> 00:18:51,677 He became convinced his writing was real, not fiction, then the work stopped coming. 265 00:18:51,881 --> 00:18:55,135 I need to know if he's alive or dead, and I need that book. 266 00:18:55,343 --> 00:18:57,391 We've delayed publication as long as we can. 267 00:18:57,595 --> 00:19:00,348 His fans are getting really restless. 268 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:02,017 This shit really sells, doesn't it? 269 00:19:02,224 --> 00:19:03,601 More than you'd imagine. Surprised? 270 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:05,561 [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS] 271 00:19:05,770 --> 00:19:08,068 Lady, nothing surprises me. 272 00:19:08,272 --> 00:19:11,116 We fucked up the air, the water, we fucked up each other. 273 00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:15,413 Why don't we finish the job by just flushing our brains down the toilet? 274 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:17,286 Why don't you try reading his stuff... 275 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:18,582 [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS] 276 00:19:18,783 --> 00:19:20,000 ...see if you can get it? 277 00:19:20,201 --> 00:19:21,874 Got any on tape? 278 00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:43,641 [MEN GRUNTING AND GROANING] 279 00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:04,795 You want some too, buddy? 280 00:20:05,413 --> 00:20:09,293 JOHN: Now, relax, Robby. Look, it's a scam. Of course it's a scam. 281 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:13,221 You see, all this strange behavior from people that read the books... 282 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:16,220 ...and, uh, the agent going nuts and so on, it's a-- 283 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:19,018 I figure it's like mass hysteria, you know? 284 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:21,892 It's like, uh-- It's a pop phenomenon. 285 00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:25,350 It's a craze. It'll pass. This year's Hula-Hoop, something like that. 286 00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:27,435 WOMAN [ON TV]: --before being stopped by police gunfire-- 287 00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:28,986 Yeah, my God, it's freaky. 288 00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:30,863 WOMAN [ON TV]: Turning to the weather, here's Bill-- 289 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:34,696 No, it's a setup. It's a setup. I just have to work out how it's set up. 290 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,323 That's all. It's just a matter of time. 291 00:20:37,528 --> 00:20:38,700 You too? 292 00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:39,951 [CHUCKLING] 293 00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:42,500 God, I've had heartburn. Tell me about it. 294 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:46,045 WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Sporadic riots continue to hit eastern cities... 295 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:49,089 ...and reports of violence from Boston and Philadelphia... 296 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:50,792 ...are now coming in. 297 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,550 Police continue to describe barely coherent witnesses... 298 00:20:54,754 --> 00:20:58,759 ...all reporting having read horror novelist Sutter Cane's latest novel: 299 00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:00,684 Hobb's End Horror. 300 00:21:00,885 --> 00:21:02,853 Officers have been physically attacked... 301 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:06,432 ...and more than 380 people, male and female... 302 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,813 ...have been jailed in New York county. 303 00:21:09,018 --> 00:21:13,364 Two officers in Boston were hacked to death amid jeering crowds... 304 00:21:13,564 --> 00:21:15,862 ...in an attack last night. 305 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:20,322 What is this horrible, unexplainable madness... 306 00:21:20,529 --> 00:21:22,247 ...that is gripping our lives? 307 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:26,043 - What in the world is happening? MAN: I can see. 308 00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:27,749 WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Now we have an editorial. 309 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:29,205 Excuse me? 310 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:31,878 He sees you. 311 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:33,547 [CHUCKLES] 312 00:21:33,918 --> 00:21:35,340 Great, uh... 313 00:21:36,545 --> 00:21:37,842 Tell him I say hi. 314 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,762 [TELEPHONE RINGS] 315 00:21:47,348 --> 00:21:48,816 Hello. 316 00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:51,481 Oh, hi, Robby, yeah. 317 00:21:51,685 --> 00:21:54,780 Yeah, not a lot. it-- I picked up some of these Sutter Cane books. 318 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,527 You know, I've been reading them. 319 00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:59,694 Well, it-- Pulp horror novels. They're all pretty familiar. 320 00:21:59,902 --> 00:22:01,575 They all seem to have the same plot. 321 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:04,908 Slimy things in the dark, people go mad, they turn into monsters. 322 00:22:05,115 --> 00:22:09,370 The funny thing is that they're kind of better-written than you expect, you know? 323 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:13,048 They get to you in a way. I don't know if it's his style of writing... 324 00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:16,799 ...or his use of description or whatever, but... Hmm? 325 00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:18,094 [CHUCKLES] 326 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,343 No, don't be silly, ha, ha. 327 00:22:20,548 --> 00:22:22,721 No, no, no. 328 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:56,208 [MEN GRUNTING AND GROANING] 329 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:14,727 [SIGHS AND SNIFFS] 330 00:23:26,614 --> 00:23:28,616 [MEN GRUNTING AND GROANING] 331 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:43,514 Do you want some too, buddy? 332 00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:49,141 AXE MANIAC: He sees you. 333 00:23:49,345 --> 00:23:51,313 He sees you. 334 00:23:53,057 --> 00:23:55,276 He sees you. 335 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,186 What? 336 00:23:57,853 --> 00:23:59,855 [MAN GROANS] 337 00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:21,256 It's just too weird. 338 00:24:27,591 --> 00:24:29,593 [YELLING] 339 00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:41,230 [SIGHS] 340 00:24:50,364 --> 00:24:52,366 [SIGHS] 341 00:24:57,579 --> 00:24:59,331 Beautiful. 342 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,509 Where did you go? 343 00:25:09,883 --> 00:25:12,227 Assuming you went somewhere. 344 00:26:30,756 --> 00:26:32,429 Cute. 345 00:26:33,884 --> 00:26:36,433 Now I know why Cane had the artwork done himself. 346 00:26:36,637 --> 00:26:39,106 See this? It's a map. 347 00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,651 The red dot is Hobb's End. It's not on any real map, but look at this. 348 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:45,567 The two line up. 349 00:26:45,771 --> 00:26:48,991 Like it or not, Cane's book covers place Hobb's End... 350 00:26:49,191 --> 00:26:50,989 ...right in the middle of New England. 351 00:26:51,193 --> 00:26:53,912 So you're saying the man went someplace fictional? 352 00:26:54,113 --> 00:26:58,289 No, no, no. It's a real place in a real state. New Hampshire, to be precise. 353 00:26:58,492 --> 00:26:59,835 But it's not on the map. 354 00:27:00,702 --> 00:27:03,330 Well, not on any new ones, but maybe on some old ones. 355 00:27:03,539 --> 00:27:06,964 There's plenty of forgotten towns across America. 356 00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:09,386 Makes a great contest, doesn't it? 357 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:13,136 Put the pieces together, find the town, win a Sutter Cane lunchbox. 358 00:27:13,298 --> 00:27:14,470 [SCOFFS] 359 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,351 How can you be sure he's there? 360 00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:20,105 Well, I'd have to go to be sure. 361 00:27:20,305 --> 00:27:22,649 You sure you want me to go? 362 00:27:22,850 --> 00:27:26,775 See, I'm not suggesting you're lying, that you're about to file a fraudulent claim... 363 00:27:26,979 --> 00:27:31,359 ...but forgive me if this sounds a little bit like bullshit to me. 364 00:27:31,567 --> 00:27:34,571 And if you're telling the truth, if you want your author back... 365 00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:38,578 ...if you really want your book, then maybe it's in both our best interests... 366 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:40,784 ...if I go find him. 367 00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:43,704 We have nothing to hide, Mr. Trent. 368 00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,586 I desire only our fair share if Cane is dead... 369 00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:49,009 ...or our property if he's alive. 370 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:51,678 Since I assume you also have nothing to hide... 371 00:27:51,879 --> 00:27:54,632 ...I'm sure you won't mind if I send Miss Styles along... 372 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,592 ...on your expedition. 373 00:28:00,262 --> 00:28:02,515 Well, it's your party. 374 00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:09,648 [SINGING] America the 375 00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:18,155 Beautiful 376 00:28:20,616 --> 00:28:23,665 From sea to 377 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,248 Shining 378 00:28:34,254 --> 00:28:35,380 [SQUEAKS] 379 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:37,675 Oh! Who was it? What? 380 00:28:37,883 --> 00:28:38,930 [CHUCKLES] 381 00:28:39,134 --> 00:28:40,511 You're awake. 382 00:28:41,929 --> 00:28:43,647 Hey, hey, hey! 383 00:28:43,847 --> 00:28:46,369 Couldn't you just shake me, you asshole? 384 00:28:46,395 --> 00:28:48,423 What did I do? What did I do? 385 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,897 We're lost. 386 00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:57,202 We are lost because there is no such place as Hobb's End. 387 00:28:57,569 --> 00:28:59,321 Well, we'll see. 388 00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:03,952 Never, never, never throw chips at a driver. 389 00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:05,706 [SIGHS] 390 00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:10,044 - Goddamn it. Shit. -Asshole. 391 00:29:16,713 --> 00:29:18,761 JOHN: Styles, can I ask you something? 392 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,928 Do you really like working on Cane's stuff? 393 00:29:22,636 --> 00:29:24,889 You really like busting people? 394 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:28,977 Yeah. I bust frauds, I bust phonies, and, yeah, I love it. 395 00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:31,562 Have you ever busted anyone you know? 396 00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:34,694 Yeah. Sure, I did. Didn't make any difference. 397 00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:39,825 You see, in my business, you soon find out that anybody's capable of anything. 398 00:29:40,028 --> 00:29:42,451 If you can think of it, they've done it. 399 00:29:42,656 --> 00:29:44,454 Doesn't leave you much to believe in. 400 00:29:44,658 --> 00:29:45,818 JOHN: Think of the upside. 401 00:29:45,844 --> 00:29:48,563 It doesn't leave you too much to be disappointed in either. 402 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:51,798 Believe me, the sooner we're off the planet, the better. 403 00:29:51,957 --> 00:29:53,959 Now you sound like Cane. 404 00:29:54,751 --> 00:29:56,503 No, not me. 405 00:29:56,712 --> 00:29:58,760 You're the Cane lover. 406 00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,970 I just like being scared. 407 00:30:01,174 --> 00:30:02,847 Cane's work scares me. 408 00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:06,059 What's to be scared about? It's not like it's real or anything. 409 00:30:06,263 --> 00:30:09,813 It's not real from your point of view, and reality shares your point of view. 410 00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:11,602 What scares me about Cane's work... 411 00:30:11,768 --> 00:30:14,521 ...is what might happen if reality shared his point of view. 412 00:30:14,688 --> 00:30:16,961 Whoa, we're not talking about reality here. 413 00:30:16,987 --> 00:30:19,310 We're talking about fiction. It's different. 414 00:30:19,484 --> 00:30:22,579 A reality is just what we tell each other it is. 415 00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:25,282 Sane and insane could easily switch places... 416 00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,618 ."Wtheinsane were to become the majority. 417 00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:30,750 You would find yourself locked in a padded cell... 418 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:34,458 ...wondering what happened to the world. 419 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:36,714 No, that wouldn't happen to me. 420 00:30:36,918 --> 00:30:41,549 Well, it would if you realized everything you ever knew was gone. 421 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:45,929 It would be pretty lonely being the last one left. 422 00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:52,855 MAN 1 [OVER RADIO]: --not only in Manhattan proper... 423 00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:54,903 ...but there was that incident in Long Island... 424 00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:56,320 ...that was also related to it. 425 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,733 MAN 2 [OVER RADIO]: Oh, come on, doctor, I don't buy this. 426 00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:00,066 I mean, what are you saying? 427 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:02,027 That there's disease spreading across the country? 428 00:31:02,194 --> 00:31:04,868 MAN 1: It is an addiction that people have at this time... 429 00:31:05,030 --> 00:31:08,204 ...of fantasy creating a pile of written material. 430 00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:10,035 MAN 2: How could it be addicting? 431 00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:13,167 - Look, I mean this is words. MAN 1: All things have been... 432 00:31:24,091 --> 00:31:26,844 MAN 1: Or just something that is created by the press? 433 00:31:27,052 --> 00:31:30,352 - That's not-- MAN 2: Acting stupid is what it is. 434 00:31:57,207 --> 00:31:58,254 [YELLING] 435 00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,552 - Jesus Christ. -Huh. 436 00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:02,754 I saw-- I saw a-- 437 00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:04,715 A cow, a sheep? 438 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,140 A pig? What did you see? 439 00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,887 LINDA: Never mind. It was nothing. JOHN: Good. 440 00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:23,191 [SCREAMING] 441 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,402 [TIRES SCREECH] 442 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,384 JOHN: Don't move him. 443 00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:43,883 - Is he alive? LINDA: I don't know. 444 00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:46,756 Don't move. He'll get a blanket. Lie still. 445 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:49,013 - I can't get out. LINDA: Don't move. 446 00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:51,140 He won't let me out. 447 00:32:56,349 --> 00:32:58,351 [METAL CLANKING] 448 00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:18,797 JOHN: He was okay? 449 00:33:24,461 --> 00:33:26,259 Come on, let's go. 450 00:33:26,463 --> 00:33:29,091 We'll tell the cops when we hit the next town. 451 00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:31,385 You okay? 452 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:41,102 [INDISTINCT VOICES ON RADIO] 453 00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,772 [JOHN SNORING] 454 00:34:20,350 --> 00:34:22,352 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 455 00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:34,281 [PANTING] 456 00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:01,224 [LINDA GROANING] 457 00:35:03,643 --> 00:35:05,645 [JOHN GRUNTING] 458 00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:12,073 Oh, I can't believe it. 459 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:14,780 I must have slept through the whole night. 460 00:35:15,196 --> 00:35:17,494 Hey, thanks for driving. 461 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:19,413 [SIGHS] 462 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:20,835 What is it? 463 00:35:21,036 --> 00:35:22,504 LINDA: Look. 464 00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:25,419 [JOHN CHUCKLES] 465 00:35:25,624 --> 00:35:28,753 Styles, you're fantastic. You found it. 466 00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,430 What's wrong? 467 00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:35,095 You drive. 468 00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:24,641 Cute, cute, cute. 469 00:36:26,226 --> 00:36:28,695 Main Street, U.S.A. 470 00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:33,908 Jesus. 471 00:36:37,654 --> 00:36:39,656 Pfft. 472 00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:46,083 Antiques. 473 00:36:51,668 --> 00:36:55,389 This old crap. I wonder where they manufacture this shit. 474 00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:12,363 LINDA: Look. 475 00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:15,116 Those kids. 476 00:37:15,442 --> 00:37:17,820 - You didn't see them? -No. 477 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:20,919 Where is everyone? 478 00:37:20,945 --> 00:37:24,101 It's like the place is picture perfect and there's nobody around. 479 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:26,286 LINDA: Come on. 480 00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:06,941 Styles, how did you know about this place? 481 00:38:06,967 --> 00:38:08,896 I thought you'd never been here before. 482 00:38:09,078 --> 00:38:11,080 I haven't. I've read about it. 483 00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,132 So have you. 484 00:38:14,751 --> 00:38:16,719 This is empty now. 485 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,595 It used to be filled with strange growing things, remember? 486 00:38:20,799 --> 00:38:23,473 One night, the townspeople saw something moving in here... 487 00:38:23,676 --> 00:38:27,271 ...something enormous, with arms like snakes. 488 00:38:27,472 --> 00:38:28,940 JOHN: Oh, yeah. 489 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:31,234 Hobb's End Horror. 490 00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:35,735 The hotel from Hobb's End Horror. 491 00:38:37,065 --> 00:38:38,373 You know what I'm thinking? 492 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:41,061 There's gotta be a great tie-in for a town like this. 493 00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:44,536 I mean, think of the tourist potential, for instance, or a-- 494 00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:47,538 There should be a painting behind us. 495 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:49,411 JOHN: Oh, yeah. 496 00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:51,458 It's nice. 497 00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:53,461 There's a loose board there. 498 00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:54,757 [CREAKING] 499 00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:57,635 [BELL DINGS] 500 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:03,801 - Good morning. -Hi. 501 00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:05,681 Can I help you folks? 502 00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:08,855 I certainly hope so. We'd like a room, please. 503 00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:10,727 We're on our way to Boston. 504 00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:13,894 We thought we'd take a break in your famous little town. 505 00:39:14,102 --> 00:39:15,445 Famous? 506 00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:18,398 JOHN: Yeah, what with the whole Sutter Cane thing and all. 507 00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:20,404 MRS. PICKMAN: Sutter who? 508 00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:22,444 Cane. 509 00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:26,744 We heard he came from around here and comes back to stay once in a while. 510 00:39:27,991 --> 00:39:29,834 I don't know anybody named Cane. 511 00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:35,544 Heh, nobody passes through here much anymore. 512 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,334 Let me get you your keys. 513 00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:40,921 JOHN: You want me to leave a deposit or my credit card or something? 514 00:39:41,129 --> 00:39:42,221 [MRS. PICKMAN CHUCKLES] 515 00:39:42,422 --> 00:39:43,719 MRS. PICKMAN: Oh, city folk. 516 00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:46,176 - Mm. -Heh. Oh. 517 00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:52,815 Miss Styles, if that's what you saw, then-- 518 00:39:53,016 --> 00:39:55,751 Yeah, heh, I guess it would be a little unsettling. 519 00:39:55,777 --> 00:39:57,512 I'd be a little unnerved myself. 520 00:39:57,687 --> 00:40:01,817 But regardless of what you saw, regardless of what you think... 521 00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:05,154 ...we are not living inside a Sutter Cane story. 522 00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,372 They're all in here. 523 00:40:10,575 --> 00:40:15,627 The Mrs. Pickman in the book is a lunatic who chops her husband into coleslaw. 524 00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:18,842 That sweet old thing that we met downstairs... 525 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:21,795 ...isn't capable of anything worse... 526 00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:25,424 ...than dipping her dentures into her husband's beer. 527 00:40:25,632 --> 00:40:27,976 Trent, I know you think this is a joke. 528 00:40:28,176 --> 00:40:30,599 Just listen to me for a second, please. 529 00:40:30,803 --> 00:40:33,022 What if Cane's work isn't fiction? 530 00:40:33,598 --> 00:40:36,147 Oh, for chrissake. 531 00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:38,858 This is reality. 532 00:40:40,021 --> 00:40:41,273 You hear that? 533 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,074 Reality. 534 00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:47,950 Now, if what you're saying is true, there should be out that window... 535 00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:51,875 ...a black Byzantine church with 250-foot spires... 536 00:40:52,075 --> 00:40:53,702 ...with gold onions on the top. 537 00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:55,537 Now, look. 538 00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:57,755 You see? 539 00:40:57,956 --> 00:40:59,583 Reality. 540 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:02,465 You didn't read closely enough. 541 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:05,839 The view is from the east. 542 00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:15,856 JOHN: "This place had once been the seat... 543 00:41:16,182 --> 00:41:19,561 ...of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe. 544 00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:23,819 It was a place of pain and suffering beyond human understanding." 545 00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:26,822 You got me reading this thing like it's a guidebook. 546 00:41:27,235 --> 00:41:31,786 "Originally, there was an old stone church built on this site in 1788... 547 00:41:31,990 --> 00:41:34,994 ...but the black church swallowed up the old sanctuary... 548 00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:37,454 ...the way it has swallowed our minds. 549 00:41:37,662 --> 00:41:40,836 Now there is nothing left of what was once here... 550 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:46,171 ...except the mosaic of our Lord and savior above the front door. 551 00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:53,511 Some believe the old sanctuary still exists somewhere... 552 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,064 ...trapped inside this evil edifice. 553 00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:59,564 It's primeval inhabitants were a murderous race of creatures... 554 00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,862 ...whose vile existence contaminated time itself... 555 00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:06,566 ...affecting history with their sadistic wickedness." 556 00:42:06,774 --> 00:42:08,776 [CHATTERING] 557 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:29,221 LINDA: It's the battle for heaven. Archangel Michael's fighting off-- 558 00:42:29,422 --> 00:42:32,050 "Fighting off one of the creatures from the other side." 559 00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:34,977 A representation. The things Cane writes are indescribable. 560 00:42:35,178 --> 00:42:36,395 Beyond description. 561 00:42:36,596 --> 00:42:37,939 Right. 562 00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:40,767 Look, we're wasting our time. We ought to be asking about Cane. 563 00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:42,022 [TIRES SCREECH] 564 00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:44,649 We'll have somebody to ask in about two seconds. 565 00:42:48,191 --> 00:42:50,239 Come on, we have to get out of here. 566 00:42:51,152 --> 00:42:53,353 We can't be in front of the church, Trent. 567 00:42:53,379 --> 00:42:54,556 They have guns, Trent. 568 00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:06,376 Cane! 569 00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:08,427 [GUNSHOT] 570 00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:13,849 No, I wanna go back. 571 00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:17,182 Give him back! 572 00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:25,520 Johnny. 573 00:43:25,728 --> 00:43:27,321 Johnny boy. 574 00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:49,218 Is that Cane? 575 00:44:12,942 --> 00:44:14,114 [DOGS GROWLING] 576 00:44:14,861 --> 00:44:16,863 [ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 577 00:44:21,951 --> 00:44:23,874 MAN: Get in the truck. 578 00:44:25,037 --> 00:44:27,460 MAN 1: No! MAN 2: Where are they coming from? 579 00:44:28,332 --> 00:44:30,881 MAN 1: No, no, no! Stop it! 580 00:44:32,879 --> 00:44:34,881 [MEN GROANING] 581 00:44:47,852 --> 00:44:49,650 I see. 582 00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:55,318 Tell me how you knew about that mob. Tell me that. Huh? 583 00:44:56,444 --> 00:44:58,788 You see, you can't bullshit a bullshitter, can you? 584 00:44:58,988 --> 00:45:02,162 I'll tell you how. This whole thing has been staged, that's how. 585 00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:04,414 You, Harglow, and Cane put me through this... 586 00:45:04,577 --> 00:45:07,672 ...so I can blab to the media about "Cane's haunted little town"... 587 00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:09,881 ...help you sell a few more million copies. 588 00:45:09,907 --> 00:45:10,699 Well, fuck that. 589 00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:12,631 - You're wrong. -No, I'm not. 590 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:15,805 Before I leave, I'm gonna find someone who's gonna come clean. 591 00:45:16,005 --> 00:45:18,133 We're gonna dismiss your bullshit claim. 592 00:45:18,341 --> 00:45:20,639 You're wrong, Trent. I know you are wrong. 593 00:45:20,843 --> 00:45:21,890 How am I wrong? 594 00:45:22,094 --> 00:45:24,267 LINDA: Because you're right. You're half right. 595 00:45:24,430 --> 00:45:25,852 This was a hoax. 596 00:45:26,057 --> 00:45:29,436 We did send Cane away on a publicity stunt, only he never showed up. 597 00:45:29,644 --> 00:45:32,318 Harglow sent me with you to make it look good... 598 00:45:32,521 --> 00:45:35,240 ...only we weren't supposed to find anything, but we did. 599 00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:38,035 That's how I know what we're seeing is real. 600 00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:40,455 We didn't stage any of this. 601 00:45:40,655 --> 00:45:42,532 It's all happening for real, Trent. 602 00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:45,084 And it is all in that book and that's how I know. 603 00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:47,833 You're lying. I read the books too, you remember? 604 00:45:48,037 --> 00:45:50,335 There's nothing about any mob, any little girl. 605 00:45:50,498 --> 00:45:53,502 Not in the old books, Trent. In the new one. 606 00:45:53,668 --> 00:45:58,424 No one knew what was in it except me and Cane's agent. 607 00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:03,719 [SIGHS] 608 00:46:03,928 --> 00:46:05,521 All right. 609 00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:07,981 What's it about, the new one? 610 00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:13,780 It's about the end to everything and it starts here in this place... 611 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:18,451 ...with an evil that returns and takes over Hobb's End piece by piece... 612 00:46:18,651 --> 00:46:20,244 ...starting with the children. 613 00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:25,245 It's about people turning into things, creatures that aren't human anymore. 614 00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:28,794 It's fiction, Styles. Fiction. 615 00:46:29,203 --> 00:46:32,002 We need to read the new book to find the way out. 616 00:46:32,206 --> 00:46:33,674 How is that gonna help? 617 00:46:33,874 --> 00:46:36,127 We could skip to the ending. 618 00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,846 Styles, I really hope you're making this up... 619 00:46:39,046 --> 00:46:41,890 ...because if you're not, you're actually crazy. 620 00:46:42,091 --> 00:46:44,185 Please, Trent. 621 00:46:46,012 --> 00:46:48,515 Don't make me do this alone. 622 00:46:48,723 --> 00:46:50,851 Hey. Hey- 623 00:46:53,394 --> 00:46:55,362 Are you coming with me? 624 00:46:58,024 --> 00:46:59,822 Fine. 625 00:47:00,318 --> 00:47:02,571 Have a nice bus ride home. 626 00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:36,858 MRS. PICKMAN: No smoking, please. 627 00:47:38,189 --> 00:47:40,112 It bothers my husband. 628 00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:44,241 I'm sorry. I just can't seem to help myself around here. 629 00:47:44,653 --> 00:47:48,328 I was just on my way out. I thought I'd stop and admire the artwork. 630 00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:50,125 It's beautiful, isn't it? 631 00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:52,203 Sure is. 632 00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:55,251 Styles told me you painted it yourself. 633 00:47:55,456 --> 00:47:57,254 Styles? 634 00:47:58,209 --> 00:47:59,677 Oh, the-- 635 00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:03,848 You mean the pretty young thing you came in here with. 636 00:48:05,091 --> 00:48:06,889 I don't know her at all. 637 00:48:07,676 --> 00:48:09,269 Does she know me? 638 00:48:09,470 --> 00:48:11,723 Well, she claims she does. 639 00:48:12,223 --> 00:48:14,021 So you're not responsible for this? 640 00:48:14,183 --> 00:48:16,151 Hell, no. 641 00:48:17,353 --> 00:48:19,606 Well, it's a nice place you got here. 642 00:48:19,814 --> 00:48:22,738 Oh, it must be a hell of a thing to keep clean. 643 00:48:23,692 --> 00:48:25,911 You look as if you've been up all night. 644 00:48:27,363 --> 00:48:29,286 Been reading. 645 00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:33,874 [MAN WHIMPERING] 646 00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:36,122 [MRS. PICKMAN STOMPS THEN MAN GRUNTS] 647 00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:46,924 JOHN: Styles? 648 00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:49,309 Styles! 649 00:48:50,302 --> 00:48:51,645 Styles! 650 00:48:57,143 --> 00:48:58,895 [MAN GROANING] 651 00:48:59,103 --> 00:49:00,730 Hush. 652 00:49:28,466 --> 00:49:30,468 SIMON: You're a writer? 653 00:49:32,303 --> 00:49:34,647 No. You an actor? 654 00:49:34,847 --> 00:49:36,975 Take a hint. Leave. 655 00:49:37,183 --> 00:49:38,810 This ain't no tourist town. 656 00:49:40,102 --> 00:49:41,945 Oh, I've been trying to. 657 00:49:43,647 --> 00:49:45,524 You guys are good, you know? 658 00:49:45,733 --> 00:49:47,952 You, the old lady at the hotel... 659 00:49:48,152 --> 00:49:49,745 ...really, really good. 660 00:49:49,945 --> 00:49:52,494 Cane's been messing with the church. 661 00:49:52,698 --> 00:49:55,577 Now, something came leaking out, took the little ones first... 662 00:49:55,784 --> 00:49:57,127 ...then passed it on to us. 663 00:49:58,746 --> 00:50:00,544 Can I buy you a beer? 664 00:50:01,081 --> 00:50:03,834 Don't let it get to you. Just get out. 665 00:50:18,474 --> 00:50:19,521 Give it. 666 00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:23,070 LINDA: What are you? Where do you come from? 667 00:50:23,729 --> 00:50:26,448 - Where do you live? -With you. 668 00:50:26,649 --> 00:50:29,118 LINDA: Who takes care of you? -You do. 669 00:50:29,818 --> 00:50:31,195 You're my mommy. 670 00:50:31,403 --> 00:50:33,451 Know what today is? 671 00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:36,409 Today is Mommy's Day. 672 00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:44,549 JOHN: Styles? 673 00:50:53,384 --> 00:50:55,011 Linda. 674 00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:33,359 [TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACKING] 675 00:52:44,912 --> 00:52:46,914 [DOG GROWLING] 676 00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:07,442 Linda. 677 00:53:07,976 --> 00:53:10,229 Nice to see you again. 678 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:16,861 You can edit this one from the inside... 679 00:53:17,069 --> 00:53:18,742 ...looking out. 680 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,417 It's funny, isn't it? 681 00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:28,419 For years, I thought I was making all this up. 682 00:53:32,501 --> 00:53:34,629 But they were telling me what to write... 683 00:53:35,921 --> 00:53:37,923 [WOOD CREAKING] 684 00:53:45,514 --> 00:53:49,439 ...giving me the power to make it all real. 685 00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:52,108 And now it is. 686 00:54:02,406 --> 00:54:05,376 All those horrible, slimy things... 687 00:54:05,993 --> 00:54:08,416 ...trying to get back in? 688 00:54:08,620 --> 00:54:10,372 They're all true. 689 00:54:25,804 --> 00:54:27,306 Come. 690 00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:31,314 See the instrument of their homecoming. 691 00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:34,446 What you have come looking for. 692 00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:37,483 The new Bible... 693 00:54:40,444 --> 00:54:43,573 ...that starts the change... 694 00:54:44,531 --> 00:54:47,284 ...helps you see. 695 00:55:04,718 --> 00:55:07,016 Do you like my ending? 696 00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:13,318 An)' Suggestions? 697 00:55:24,905 --> 00:55:26,907 [GROWLING] 698 00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:51,689 [LINDA GROANING] 699 00:55:51,890 --> 00:55:53,767 You found something. Where did you go? 700 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:55,978 I'm losing me. I'm losing me, John. 701 00:55:56,186 --> 00:55:57,813 Help me. I'm losing me. 702 00:55:58,021 --> 00:56:00,023 [PANTING] 703 00:56:00,899 --> 00:56:02,651 - What's happening? -I saw the book. 704 00:56:02,860 --> 00:56:05,659 Don't look at it. Don't read it, John. 705 00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:08,616 I'm losing me. 706 00:56:21,837 --> 00:56:22,884 [BELL DINGS] 707 00:56:23,964 --> 00:56:25,762 Mrs. Pickman? 708 00:56:53,952 --> 00:56:56,000 Come on, you old bitch. 709 00:56:56,830 --> 00:56:58,832 [MAN SCREAMING] 710 00:57:09,676 --> 00:57:11,678 [MAN GROANING] 711 00:57:26,109 --> 00:57:27,952 Mrs. Pickman? 712 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:46,922 [MRS. PICKMAN GROWLS] 713 00:58:03,563 --> 00:58:05,315 Styles. 714 00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:11,455 We're going. Now. 715 00:58:11,655 --> 00:58:13,657 [STYLES GROWLS] 716 00:58:40,475 --> 00:58:42,477 [GROWLING] 717 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,082 [CHILDREN SINGING IN UNISON] 718 00:59:14,718 --> 00:59:15,844 Styles? 719 00:59:18,138 --> 00:59:19,936 Styles? 720 00:59:21,475 --> 00:59:22,897 Fuck you! 721 00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:33,704 SIMON: You're still here. 722 00:59:35,030 --> 00:59:36,657 Busy night. 723 00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:39,747 Special effects, hidden speakers. 724 00:59:39,951 --> 00:59:42,500 You people are professionals, I'll give you that. 725 00:59:42,704 --> 00:59:46,083 The thing I can't remember is what came first. 726 00:59:46,291 --> 00:59:48,635 Us or the book. 727 00:59:49,544 --> 00:59:51,888 JOHN: We are not living in a Sutter Cane story! 728 00:59:52,089 --> 00:59:53,682 This is not reality! 729 00:59:53,882 --> 00:59:55,179 [CHUCKLES] 730 00:59:55,383 --> 00:59:57,727 Reality is not what it used to be. 731 00:59:58,303 --> 01:00:02,274 Oh, Jesus, this place makes my head hurt. 732 01:00:02,474 --> 01:00:06,570 Oh, really? Come on, look at this. 733 01:00:07,771 --> 01:00:11,446 This was done by a 5-year-old, my 5-year-old. 734 01:00:11,650 --> 01:00:12,993 Johnny's sister. 735 01:00:13,193 --> 01:00:16,447 She did me after she did her mom. 736 01:00:17,823 --> 01:00:19,575 You're alone. 737 01:00:25,122 --> 01:00:27,591 Oh, shit. Oh, no, don't. 738 01:00:27,791 --> 01:00:30,010 I have to. He wrote me this way. 739 01:00:30,210 --> 01:00:31,382 [GUNSHOT] 740 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,842 [HEAVES] 741 01:00:37,926 --> 01:00:39,928 [CHILDREN CHATTERING] 742 01:00:55,777 --> 01:00:57,779 [PANTING] 743 01:01:02,367 --> 01:01:04,040 Oh, shit. 744 01:01:04,202 --> 01:01:05,294 The key. 745 01:01:10,959 --> 01:01:12,632 Jesus! 746 01:01:14,838 --> 01:01:16,840 [GROANING] 747 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,227 Christ. 748 01:01:27,893 --> 01:01:29,486 Shit. 749 01:01:37,152 --> 01:01:39,154 [TIRES SCREECH] 750 01:01:50,123 --> 01:01:52,125 [PANTING] 751 01:01:55,337 --> 01:01:59,058 Never leave the city. Why don't I learn? 752 01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:01,802 LINDA: Are we leaving? 753 01:02:02,677 --> 01:02:04,099 We're already home. 754 01:02:04,304 --> 01:02:07,103 You should have believed me. 755 01:02:07,766 --> 01:02:09,359 Where's the fucking highway? 756 01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,982 Cane's writing me. He wants me to kiss you. 757 01:02:12,187 --> 01:02:13,689 Why? 758 01:02:13,897 --> 01:02:16,025 - Because it's good for the book. -Jesus. 759 01:02:16,233 --> 01:02:19,032 -It's what the readers wanna read. -Oh, God! 760 01:02:19,778 --> 01:02:21,780 [TIRES SCREECH] 761 01:02:24,616 --> 01:02:25,833 JOHN: Go-- Get-- 762 01:02:26,368 --> 01:02:28,541 Get away from me! 763 01:02:48,348 --> 01:02:50,350 [LINDA GRUNTING] 764 01:02:53,728 --> 01:02:56,231 Cane has a job for you. 765 01:03:05,282 --> 01:03:07,284 [LINDA CHUCKLING] 766 01:03:49,534 --> 01:03:51,536 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 767 01:04:02,047 --> 01:04:04,220 A few bad calls. 768 01:04:04,424 --> 01:04:06,142 A few wrong turns. 769 01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:45,382 [YELLING] 770 01:06:03,001 --> 01:06:05,003 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 771 01:06:47,378 --> 01:06:51,008 CANE: Do you wanna know the problem with places like this? 772 01:06:51,299 --> 01:06:53,222 With religion in general? 773 01:06:53,968 --> 01:06:58,269 It's never known how to convey the anatomy of horror. 774 01:06:58,473 --> 01:07:01,147 Religion seeks discipline through fear... 775 01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:05,231 ...yet doesn't understand the true nature of creation. 776 01:07:06,272 --> 01:07:09,742 No one's ever believed it enough to make it real. 777 01:07:11,152 --> 01:07:13,530 The same cannot be said of my work. 778 01:07:13,738 --> 01:07:14,864 [SCOFFS] 779 01:07:15,073 --> 01:07:17,496 Your books aren't real. 780 01:07:17,825 --> 01:07:20,578 CANE: But they've sold over a billion copies. 781 01:07:21,371 --> 01:07:24,215 I've been translated into 18 languages. 782 01:07:24,415 --> 01:07:28,010 More people believe in my work than believe in the Bible. 783 01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:33,466 You got a point? 784 01:07:33,675 --> 01:07:35,677 [CHUCKLES] 785 01:07:40,390 --> 01:07:41,983 I think you know it. 786 01:07:43,351 --> 01:07:47,527 There has to be some kind of an explanation for what I've seen tonight. 787 01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:49,152 I'll sort this shit out later. 788 01:07:49,357 --> 01:07:53,578 But right now, there has to be some kind of a simple fucking explanation. 789 01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:57,165 Always looking for the con. 790 01:07:57,574 --> 01:08:00,794 Even now, you're trying to rationalize. 791 01:08:03,621 --> 01:08:05,419 Anyway... 792 01:08:06,207 --> 01:08:08,301 ...your books suck. 793 01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:16,551 You must try reading my new one. 794 01:08:17,010 --> 01:08:19,729 The others have had quite an effect... 795 01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:23,103 ...but this one will drive you absolutely mad. 796 01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:28,317 So I'm told. 797 01:08:28,521 --> 01:08:32,401 CANE: It'll make the world ready for the change. 798 01:08:32,609 --> 01:08:36,364 It takes its power from new readers and new believers. 799 01:08:36,571 --> 01:08:39,370 That's the point. Belief. 800 01:08:40,867 --> 01:08:43,086 When people begin to lose their ability... 801 01:08:43,286 --> 01:08:47,382 ...to know the difference between fantasy and reality... 802 01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:52,095 ...the old ones can begin theirjourney back. 803 01:08:53,338 --> 01:08:57,388 The more people who believe, the faster the journey. 804 01:08:58,217 --> 01:09:01,061 And with the way the other books have sold... 805 01:09:01,262 --> 01:09:05,893 ...this one is bound to be very, very popular. 806 01:09:08,895 --> 01:09:10,147 Want to see? 807 01:09:10,355 --> 01:09:11,447 [GRUNTS] 808 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:17,157 [TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACKING] 809 01:09:17,362 --> 01:09:18,409 Cane. 810 01:09:23,701 --> 01:09:25,419 CANE: All done. 811 01:09:31,918 --> 01:09:34,922 In the Mouth of Madness. 812 01:09:41,427 --> 01:09:43,600 Yours to deliver, Trent. 813 01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:45,519 What? 814 01:09:45,682 --> 01:09:48,856 I'll be joining my new publishers now. 815 01:09:54,065 --> 01:09:57,615 You take the manuscript back to the world for me, that's what you do. 816 01:09:58,778 --> 01:10:00,030 What I do? 817 01:10:03,908 --> 01:10:06,377 You are what I write. 818 01:10:07,578 --> 01:10:09,501 Like this town. 819 01:10:10,081 --> 01:10:11,708 It wasn't here before I wrote it. 820 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,252 And neither were you. 821 01:10:16,337 --> 01:10:17,884 No. 822 01:10:18,297 --> 01:10:20,095 I know what's real. 823 01:10:20,299 --> 01:10:22,222 I know what I am... 824 01:10:22,427 --> 01:10:24,179 ...and nobody pulls my strings. 825 01:10:26,973 --> 01:10:30,227 Did you think my agent attacked you by accident? 826 01:10:31,102 --> 01:10:33,525 He read about you in there. 827 01:10:35,064 --> 01:10:37,487 He knew you'd bring it back and start the change. 828 01:10:37,692 --> 01:10:39,786 Make what's happened here happen everywhere. 829 01:10:40,445 --> 01:10:41,822 He tried to stop you. 830 01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:45,624 I'm not a piece of fiction. 831 01:10:46,868 --> 01:10:49,462 I think therefore you are. 832 01:10:51,622 --> 01:10:54,250 Read it if you don't believe me. 833 01:10:55,334 --> 01:10:58,713 See what I have in store for you. 834 01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:01,886 I know what I am. 835 01:11:11,642 --> 01:11:13,565 Go back. 836 01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,483 Your world lies beyond that passage. 837 01:11:29,035 --> 01:11:30,457 Go now. 838 01:11:30,661 --> 01:11:33,790 I can't hold them back any longer. 839 01:11:33,998 --> 01:11:36,000 [CREAKING] 840 01:12:26,759 --> 01:12:29,308 LINDA: "Trent stood at the edge of the rip... 841 01:12:29,470 --> 01:12:33,691 ...stared into the illimitable gulf of the unknown... 842 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:38,522 ...the Stygian world yawning blackly beyond. 843 01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:41,573 Trent's eyes refused to close. 844 01:12:41,774 --> 01:12:43,526 He did not shriek... 845 01:12:43,734 --> 01:12:49,082 ...but the hideous unholy abominations shrieked for him... 846 01:12:49,282 --> 01:12:54,129 ...as in the same second he saw them spill and tumble upward... 847 01:12:54,328 --> 01:12:58,174 ...out of an enormous carrion black pit... 848 01:12:58,374 --> 01:13:01,253 ...choked with the gleaming white bones... 849 01:13:01,460 --> 01:13:04,930 ...of countless unhallowed centuries. 850 01:13:05,131 --> 01:13:09,386 He began to back away from the rip as the army of unspeakable figures... 851 01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:12,438 ...twilit by the glow from the bottomless pit... 852 01:13:12,638 --> 01:13:16,313 ...came pouring at him toward our world." 853 01:13:19,353 --> 01:13:21,196 Come with me. 854 01:13:22,189 --> 01:13:23,611 LINDA: I can't. 855 01:13:24,317 --> 01:13:26,615 I've read to the end. 856 01:13:32,575 --> 01:13:34,577 [PANTING] 857 01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:49,842 [GROWLING] 858 01:14:07,109 --> 01:14:09,111 [JOHN GROANING] 859 01:14:10,112 --> 01:14:12,114 [JOHN SCREAMING] 860 01:14:43,396 --> 01:14:45,023 Hey, kid. 861 01:14:49,652 --> 01:14:51,074 You want a paper? 862 01:14:59,245 --> 01:15:01,293 Have you been in an accident? 863 01:15:03,457 --> 01:15:04,583 Yup. 864 01:15:04,792 --> 01:15:07,170 BOY: You want me to get somebody? 865 01:15:08,671 --> 01:15:10,639 No, just... 866 01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:14,060 Just point me to the highway. 867 01:15:15,344 --> 01:15:16,391 Straight up. 868 01:15:22,184 --> 01:15:23,811 Hey, kid. 869 01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:30,151 Did you ever hear of Hobb's End? 870 01:15:55,009 --> 01:15:57,011 [VEHICLE APPROACHING] 871 01:16:14,278 --> 01:16:16,280 [MUSIC PLAYING ON TV] 872 01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:20,117 [WOMAN SCREAMING ON TV] 873 01:16:24,038 --> 01:16:25,255 MAN: No! 874 01:16:25,456 --> 01:16:26,958 No! 875 01:17:02,952 --> 01:17:04,795 MAN: Mr. Trent. 876 01:17:05,037 --> 01:17:06,163 What? 877 01:17:06,330 --> 01:17:08,207 Package for you, sir. 878 01:17:09,083 --> 01:17:10,585 But nobody knows I'm here. 879 01:17:11,752 --> 01:17:13,800 Well, someone does. 880 01:17:41,365 --> 01:17:43,618 - Who delivered this? -I don't know. 881 01:17:43,826 --> 01:17:44,261 - Who? 882 01:17:44,287 --> 01:17:46,024 MAN: I don't know. I wasn't here last night. 883 01:17:46,203 --> 01:17:47,796 JOHN: Who was it? -I was. 884 01:17:47,997 --> 01:17:49,795 And I didn't see shit. 885 01:18:09,602 --> 01:18:13,527 I remember New York during the Depression. 886 01:18:13,731 --> 01:18:16,484 People think they have it bad now. 887 01:18:16,692 --> 01:18:20,117 You should have seen the Bowery back then. 888 01:18:20,321 --> 01:18:24,701 Bodies piled 2, 3 feet high off the gutter. 889 01:18:41,926 --> 01:18:43,553 [CHUCKLES] 890 01:18:43,761 --> 01:18:45,604 I'm not going anywhere. 891 01:18:45,804 --> 01:18:48,557 I'm God now, you understand? 892 01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:51,689 God's not supposed to be a hack horror writer. 893 01:18:52,645 --> 01:18:55,398 But maybe I can help you believe. 894 01:18:55,606 --> 01:18:57,279 Look around when you wake up. 895 01:18:58,943 --> 01:19:02,117 Did I ever tell you my favorite color was blue? 896 01:19:14,708 --> 01:19:16,710 [SCREAMING] 897 01:19:19,505 --> 01:19:21,507 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 898 01:19:22,716 --> 01:19:24,969 MAN: Relax, buddy. Relax. 899 01:19:25,177 --> 01:19:30,308 - You're awake now. -It was just a bad dream. 900 01:19:31,267 --> 01:19:33,440 Are you deaf and dumb, sir? 901 01:19:35,604 --> 01:19:39,074 I was just there in the town, in that town... 902 01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:43,746 ...and there were people there and shops and homes and-- 903 01:19:43,946 --> 01:19:45,414 WOMAN: I don't doubt that. 904 01:19:45,614 --> 01:19:47,912 What I'm telling you for the 10th time... 905 01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:50,370 ...is it couldn't have been called Hobb's End. 906 01:19:50,577 --> 01:19:54,047 There never was, is, or shall be any such place... 907 01:19:54,248 --> 01:19:56,967 ...by that name in this state. Ever. 908 01:19:57,126 --> 01:19:59,299 I wanna see your supervisor! 909 01:20:44,548 --> 01:20:48,394 HARGLOW: Well, that is quite a story. 910 01:20:48,594 --> 01:20:51,473 If you could write it, I'd publish it. 911 01:20:53,140 --> 01:20:54,892 You don't believe it, do you? 912 01:20:57,728 --> 01:21:02,359 Well, if I don't, what's my option? That I'm crazy? 913 01:21:03,275 --> 01:21:05,027 I'm not crazy. 914 01:21:05,861 --> 01:21:07,329 HARGLOW: Have you heard the rumors... 915 01:21:07,529 --> 01:21:12,285 ...that, uh, Cane's books have affected certain readers? 916 01:21:12,493 --> 01:21:14,746 Yeah, Styles told me. 917 01:21:14,953 --> 01:21:19,880 Styles. Oh, that's the girl you say I sent with you that... 918 01:21:20,084 --> 01:21:22,553 But I know I sent you off alone. 919 01:21:23,837 --> 01:21:26,590 Why wouldn't I remember her? 920 01:21:30,969 --> 01:21:32,346 Well... 921 01:21:33,263 --> 01:21:36,016 Well, that's easy. She was written out. 922 01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:37,855 HARGLOW: Written out? -Yeah. 923 01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:44,067 Look, do you think those books somehow infected you? 924 01:21:44,608 --> 01:21:46,326 Listen to me, Harglow. 925 01:21:46,527 --> 01:21:49,155 Everything I've said is true. It's real. 926 01:21:50,364 --> 01:21:53,163 And that's why I had to destroy the last manuscript. 927 01:21:53,325 --> 01:21:56,169 But I know that's not true. 928 01:21:58,163 --> 01:21:59,460 What are you talking about? 929 01:21:59,623 --> 01:22:02,593 You delivered that manuscript to me months ago. 930 01:22:02,751 --> 01:22:05,971 To me personally in this room. 931 01:22:06,463 --> 01:22:10,263 - I did? -Yes, you did. Last spring. 932 01:22:10,467 --> 01:22:12,811 For God's sakes, we published in July. 933 01:22:13,011 --> 01:22:15,184 The book's been in the stores for seven weeks. 934 01:22:17,808 --> 01:22:18,855 Have you read it? 935 01:22:19,893 --> 01:22:23,272 No, I never read Cane's work. I haven't got the stomach for it. 936 01:22:24,148 --> 01:22:26,401 Pull it. Don't distribute it. 937 01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:29,862 Even if everything I've said is totally Looney Tunes... 938 01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:32,243 ...I know this book will drive people crazy. 939 01:22:32,865 --> 01:22:35,084 Well, let's hope so. 940 01:22:35,659 --> 01:22:37,707 The movie comes out next month. 941 01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:49,756 [ALL YELLING] 942 01:22:49,923 --> 01:22:52,221 MAN [OVER RADIO]: The newest and presumably posthumous work 943 01:22:52,426 --> 01:22:56,806 ...of Sutter Cane continues to sit at number one on the best-seller list. 944 01:22:57,014 --> 01:23:01,861 In the Mouth of Madness is expected to break all previous publishing records. 945 01:23:02,060 --> 01:23:04,688 On the local scene, police are at a loss to explain... 946 01:23:04,897 --> 01:23:08,151 ...the outbreak of violent crime among the city's clergy. 947 01:23:08,358 --> 01:23:10,360 The mayor has called an emergency meeting... 948 01:23:10,527 --> 01:23:12,621 ...of law enforcement and medical agencies... 949 01:23:12,779 --> 01:23:16,659 ...to discuss an apparent epidemic of paranoid schizophrenia. 950 01:23:16,867 --> 01:23:19,245 WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Just an unbelievably horrible story, Bob. 951 01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:23,003 What began locally has now broken out into a global epidemic. 952 01:23:23,207 --> 01:23:25,630 An epidemic of monumental proportions... 953 01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:29,213 ...of senseless, seemingly unmotivated acts of violence. 954 01:23:29,421 --> 01:23:32,265 - There are major... -Like the book? 955 01:23:32,966 --> 01:23:34,968 I love it. 956 01:23:35,135 --> 01:23:36,603 Good. 957 01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:38,973 Then this shouldn't come as a surprise. 958 01:23:43,185 --> 01:23:45,187 [ALL SCREAMING AND SHOUTING] 959 01:23:55,531 --> 01:23:58,080 It's spreading out there, isn't it? 960 01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,413 WRENN: Just because you know the symptoms doesn't mean... 961 01:24:02,621 --> 01:24:04,214 ...to say your story's true. 962 01:24:04,373 --> 01:24:06,751 It's Cane's story. 963 01:24:07,251 --> 01:24:09,049 And it'll spread with each new reader. 964 01:24:09,253 --> 01:24:13,053 That's how it gets its power. 965 01:24:14,758 --> 01:24:17,102 What about the people who don't read? 966 01:24:19,763 --> 01:24:21,606 There's a movie. 967 01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:23,316 [SCOFFS] 968 01:24:23,517 --> 01:24:25,519 Oh, yes, of course. 969 01:24:32,150 --> 01:24:33,572 I'm gonna leave now. 970 01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:36,329 But I'll be coming back, I promise. 971 01:24:36,530 --> 01:24:38,453 I want to help you. 972 01:24:39,283 --> 01:24:43,083 There's no hurry. It's safer in here now. 973 01:24:43,245 --> 01:24:45,623 It'll get worse out there. 974 01:24:46,123 --> 01:24:47,545 WRENN: Why? 975 01:24:50,961 --> 01:24:53,464 Every species can smell its own extinction. 976 01:24:54,548 --> 01:24:56,767 The last ones left... 977 01:24:57,175 --> 01:24:58,973 ...won't have a pretty time of it. 978 01:24:59,595 --> 01:25:03,566 And in 10 years, maybe less... 979 01:25:04,308 --> 01:25:09,064 ...the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children. 980 01:25:09,271 --> 01:25:12,241 A myth. Nothing more. 981 01:25:17,404 --> 01:25:19,406 [DOOR OPENS] 982 01:25:20,282 --> 01:25:21,659 [DOOR CLOSES] 983 01:25:21,867 --> 01:25:23,869 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 984 01:25:32,878 --> 01:25:36,007 Did he have anything to say? 985 01:25:36,715 --> 01:25:38,934 No. It was useless. 986 01:25:39,217 --> 01:25:41,265 He thinks he's fiction... 987 01:25:41,970 --> 01:25:45,395 ...and that Sutter Cane's causing the epidemic. 988 01:25:47,476 --> 01:25:51,356 Do you read Sutter Cane? 989 01:26:15,003 --> 01:26:17,005 [PEOPLE SCREAMING] 990 01:26:24,137 --> 01:26:25,810 WOMAN: Oh, God! 991 01:27:07,806 --> 01:27:09,808 [BANGING ON DOOR] 992 01:28:33,850 --> 01:28:36,774 MAN [ON RADIO]: I'll try to continue this emergency broadcast... 993 01:28:36,937 --> 01:28:39,440 ...as long as we can hold out here. 994 01:28:39,856 --> 01:28:41,824 The city is almost completely deserted now. 995 01:28:42,025 --> 01:28:45,620 There are only a few stragglers left on the streets. 996 01:28:45,779 --> 01:28:50,000 No emergency services. The fires continue to burn out of control. 997 01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:54,000 This incredible epidemic of random mass killing... 998 01:28:54,204 --> 01:28:56,707 ...has spread to every country in the civilized world. 999 01:28:56,915 --> 01:29:00,340 Every hour, more people are becoming infected... 1000 01:29:00,544 --> 01:29:03,889 ...being driven to senseless acts of extreme violence. 1001 01:29:04,089 --> 01:29:06,763 Now, we have gotten reports, sketchy at best... 1002 01:29:06,967 --> 01:29:10,938 ...of people mutating, their bodies swelling and distorting... 1003 01:29:11,137 --> 01:29:13,139 ...changing somehow. 1004 01:29:13,515 --> 01:29:16,564 Locally, the mass killings appear to have moved inland. 1005 01:29:16,893 --> 01:29:18,895 All major cities on the East Coast are silent. 1006 01:29:19,062 --> 01:29:22,066 We lost contact with Los Angeles and the West Coast last night. 1007 01:29:22,274 --> 01:29:26,199 So it's impossible at this time to know how many unaffected people are left. 1008 01:29:27,654 --> 01:29:32,751 If for any reason, you are one of us who hasn't become infected... 1009 01:29:32,951 --> 01:29:34,419 ...take shelter immediately. 1010 01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:36,713 Do not trust any friends or family members. 1011 01:29:36,913 --> 01:29:39,291 I repeat, do not-- 1012 01:29:42,419 --> 01:29:43,511 MAN 1 [ONSCREEN]: Oh, you go in. Get in there. 1013 01:29:43,670 --> 01:29:44,762 MAN 2: Go. 1014 01:29:44,963 --> 01:29:46,465 JOHN [ONSCREEN]: No! 1015 01:29:46,673 --> 01:29:48,346 No, wait, wait. 1016 01:29:48,550 --> 01:29:51,770 I'm sorry about the balls. It was a lucky shot, that's all. 1017 01:29:51,970 --> 01:29:53,472 Wait! 1018 01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,603 I'm not insane. 1019 01:29:55,807 --> 01:29:59,357 Do you hear me? I'm not insane! 1020 01:30:02,564 --> 01:30:05,784 MAN [ONSCREEN]: Relax, buddy. You're awake now. 1021 01:30:05,942 --> 01:30:07,068 [SNORTS] 1022 01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:09,863 This is not a Sutter Cane story. This is not reality. 1023 01:30:10,071 --> 01:30:11,618 Not reality. Not reality. 1024 01:30:11,823 --> 01:30:14,121 This is reality. 1025 01:30:14,326 --> 01:30:15,543 Hear that? Reality. 1026 01:30:15,744 --> 01:30:17,838 Not reality. Reality. 1027 01:35:18,171 --> 01:35:20,173 [English - US - SDH]