Hellraiser: Judgment Page #3

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There are still more.

"It is a terrible, ponderous

chain you are making, Scrooge."

Charles Dickens.

Now what?

Next, you'll meet the assessor,

and my, what a meal he has ahead of him.

What have you done?

You will be taken to be cleaned

and then to the surgeon.

Oh. No, it can't be.

I hate this place.

The stench, the dark hole.

The seedy games and indulgences

we allow you to play

as part of the arrangement.

- Why are you here?

- Let him go.

- He has no business here.

- I don't understand.

Well, just because it falls into your web

does not make it prey for the spider.

Catch and release. Do you understand?

- What about the assessor?

- Clerical error, quite literally.

- I've never...

- I don't care!

The jury never passed their verdict.

You'll let him go, do you understand?

- Not really, no.

- Well, do you understand who is in charge?

So let him go.

Do not give me a reason to come back here.

You must be cleaned on the inside too!

No!

A moment of your time.

A-a candidate...

I need your assistance

with your... your guidance.

What?

His answers choked the assessor.

Forced the jury in.

So... what do you feel?

Innocent?

Where is he now?

I sent him to be cleaned.

He's gone!

Escaped with one of the boxes.

The pages.

Take.

Eat this in remembrance of my body.

You must go after him.

Bring him back. We must dig deeper.

We must find out what you feel

once you've released.

There's no need to go after him.

He'll be back.

It's 2:
30 in the morning.

You... you got your flashlight?

- Yeah, why?

- I'll drive.

Why? What's up?

Huh?

What's going on?

You want to call this in?

What are we doing here?

What the f*** are we doing here?

So?

Come on, man!

Nice. Nice place.

Put an offer in yet?

- Or are you in escrow?

- F***.

Hey!

What is going on?

You drag my ass out here in the middle

of the f***ing night with no explanation?

You barely talk to me anymore, man.

Alison is worried about you.

Oh, you'd know that.

Man, we're all worried about you, Sean.

I'll drive you back to your car.

They are a conduit to the unimaginable.

Sensation, rebirth, death, lust, hate.

Hey, hey, hey.

It's just a dream.

Just a dream. You're okay.

It's okay. Come here. Come here.

It's okay.

I don't know what's goin' on anymore.

This case... it's destroying you.

Sean!

What?

What is going on? What are you doing?

What...

Judgment and redemption

to those who open the box.

Thank you.

Almond milk.

Thanks.

So what's on your mind?

Your brother?

Just curious.

You been here for a couple

of days, what do you see?

I see two people mired in a pretty dark case.

One of whom is probably internalizing

a little bit too much of it.

Honestly, I don't know

that I would be any different.

Yeah, he's not running right.

- Did you talk to somebody about that?

- Not official, but I do talk to his wife.

- Alison.

- Yeah. How did you know that?

Did he ever suffer

from any PTSD when he came back?

Not that I know of, but he's never really

talked about what went on over there.

Drinking, drugs?

None of that?

He drank for a little while,

but he is sober now.

Just lately he's been distant.

I think maybe it's starting

to have an effect on him.

I...

What?

Look, I was assigned

to this case for two reasons:

One of them is to expedite

the catching of the Preceptor

and the other is because there are

some concerns about Sean's behavior.

So, I am here first and foremost to help you

with the case but also to evaluate.

We've been working our ass off on this case.

And it's not about that!

This is genuine concern for someone

who might be in too deep.

It's Alison.

Hey, you.

What?

He is?

Don't worry about it.

I'll come by and pick him up.

You take Sara to school.

Okay.

His car broke down. Have to go pick him up.

He didn't call you?

I gotta go.

Hey.

Hey.

Sean!

I'll, uh, I'll go take a shower.

Ah, wait a second, please.

You got to straighten up.

Just in case Egerton has other

motivations for being with us.

Meaning what?

Think about it.

How long have you been drinking again?

Alison and I got in a bit of a fight.

I had a few drinks. It caught up with me.

I got this.

Go get cleaned up.

Sean...

no one is judging you.

Like I told somebody else,

only God can judge me.

God will judge both the righteous man

and the wicked man.

"It was the best of times.

"It was the worst of times."

If I had a relationship like that...

Hello.

Hey.

Take a look at this.

This is the first letter from the Preceptor.

Read here.

"There is no accountability. I will

bring back the wrath of the Almighty.

"I will be the plague of retribution.

"It will be the season of darkness

and winter of despair." And?

And I just found this at Sean's house.

Hmmm, Dickens. He didn't tell you about this?

He mentioned the book,

but he didn't mention this.

- Well, maybe he just put it together.

- Then why didn't he say anything?

I don't know.

You should ask him. Where is he?

- He's on his way.

- I thought he had some kind of car trouble.

He did not have car trouble.

He was drunk, and I had to go help him.

- You said he was sober.

- He was. He is.

- David, what the f*** is going on?

- I don't know. That's why I came to you.

We're going to have to talk to him.

Okay.

- Talk to who?

- You. What happened to your face?

About what?

Hello.

Yes, this is Carter. Yes. That Carter.

He did.

What exactly?

Phone? Where?

We'll be there.

Medical examiner.

Found Crystal Lanning's cell phone.

Wedged down her throat.

- You're kidding me.

- He wants us there.

Okay.

You and I go.

David stays here and goes through

some of that evidence.

Okay.

Okay.

Sh*t!

Forgot my phone. Just give me a sec.

Forget your cell phone?

Need you to do me a favor.

Take a quick look around.

See if you find anything unusual.

- I'm not investigating my brother.

- I'm not asking you to.

Take a look. For his sake.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, it seems to be running okay now.

What?

The car. David said you had

some car trouble this morning.

Marriage trouble.

Oh.

At least you're honest.

Can I ask you something? Honestly?

Do you think you're too close to this case?

Probably, but it's my work.

Yeah, but if it's tearing your world apart.

What can I do?

There's only one commandment left.

Got to finish it all the way

to the end, right?

I get that, and I think it's really

admirable, but this is not a tour of duty.

It is for me.

I was reading through some

of the notes from the Preceptor.

I noticed a lot of the turn

of phrase is very poetic.

Almost reads like literature.

You know, David mentioned

that you read a lot,

so I thought I'd ask if anything

struck a chord with you.

Not really.

I mean, there are a couple of lines lifted

from A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens,

but nothing else comes to mind.

Did you bring that up in the investigation?

Didn't seem relevant.

After all, it is the most

popular book on the planet.

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