Horns Page #3
You think you traded
me for the cherry bomb?
You think that's
how things work?
I left it there for you.
It wasn't an accident.
I wanted you to find
it and give it back to me.
I wanted you to
be the one who...
Who what?
What?
What?
Aw, f***!
What the hell is going on here?
Hey!
I was gonna operate, but
I sorta got distracted.
We asked you if we
could have sex instead
and you said it was okay.
How could I possibly
say it was okay?
I was under anesthesia.
You sort of nodded your head.
We thought it was okay.
Father Mould?
Get away from me.
Get away.
Please, leave me alone!
No, no, no, no. I'm not here to
hurt you. Please.
Tell me what I have
to do to stop this.
How do I make them go away?
You killed that
innocent girl Merrin.
There's nothing I can do.
No, I No, except
I didn't kill her!
Please, leave me alone!
I didn't kill her,
Father, and now people
are telling me all these
things I don't want to hear.
I mean, there must be
a prayer you can say.
I'll try anything.
You did this to yourself.
What?
You turned away from God.
You cast yourself
into the darkness.
But I didn't do anything wrong.
Every devil used to be an angel.
And now you've fallen
from grace forever.
When Satan was
banished from Heaven...
he was cursed to crawl
the earth like a snake.
There's no hope for you.
What? So that's it? There's
nothing you can do for me?
I've got a rope in
that shed over there.
I could take you out to that
tree where Merrin died and I...
I could string you up.
Unless you'd like to do the
decent thing and hang yourself.
What do you say?
Lee.
Hey.
Everyone in this town
is going f***ing crazy.
Yeah, the town's
always been crazy.
No, but I think it's because
of me and these goddamn horns.
Yeah.
Wait, what?
The horns.
These horns.
What are you talking about?
Wait, can't you see them?
Are you high right now?
You been hanging out with Terry?
So maybe...
maybe the horns just
don't work on good people.
Yeah, I think you've been
under an inhuman amount
of stress recently.
And maybe you're just starting
to go a little, you know-
A little, oh, cuckoo.
But if I am this crazy and
I can imagine all this...
then I could easily have got so
drunk that I blacked out that
night and killed Merrin and
just forgot all about it, right?
Mom?
Mom?
Well, I didn't know
you were coming.
I didn't know where
else to go, Mom.
Something really bad
is happening to me.
Oh, sweetheart.
Why couldn't you
go somewhere else?
What?
What do you mean?
I don't want to hear
about all your problems.
I don't want to know.
Mom.
Sometimes when you talk,
I just want to sing.
La, la, la, la, la, la!
What are you doing? Mom!
I wanna hold my breath
until you just go away!
Ar- Jesus Christ,
Mom, don't Don't!
Stop it!
I want to write you a letter,
a really nice letter...
about how much Dad
and I love you...
both of us if you would just go.
But where?
Where can I go?
I don't know. Didn't you always
want to go hiking in Alaska?
Didn't you want to go to
Vietnam to teach English?
Those were things
Merrin and I were
gonna do together.
You know that.
I don't care where you go. Just
as long as I don't have to see
you. Because every time I see
you, it just makes me so...
unhappy.
I just want to be happy
again, sweetheart.
No, I understand.
And I don't want you
to be my son anymore.
Oh.
Are you gonna go away?
Ig.
I thought I heard you come in.
Yeah, okay, let me walk
you through this, Dad.
This is the part where you
tell me something awful...
you've been keeping to yourself.
Just say it, we'll
get it out of the way.
I don't know why you
turned out like this.
With your brother, it's easier.
We could always
play music together.
But with you, I never
know what to say to you.
Well, that's not bad,
all things considered.
I think about Merrin.
What a beautiful girl she was.
I loved her.
You know, in a way.
I envied you.
I was never in
love with anyone
the way you two were in
love with each other.
You couldn't hear her
laugh without smiling.
It was like music.
And when I think about
what you did to her...
And you never thought maybe...
just maybe that I didn't do it?
Of course not.
You're trying to get
away with murder.
And the worst part is,
I'm helping you do it.
What? What do
you mean by that?
I went to college
with the guy that runs
the state forensics lab.
Dad, are you telling me
that you got your friend to
set that fire at the lab?
When the world comes for my
son with the knives out...
it's my job to stand in the way.
And if you went to jail...
Dad, the evidence you got
burned up could have saved me.
How could you do it?
She was one of the best
people I ever knew!
She was my favorite
thing about you.
Yeah, me, too.
So if you knew how
much I loved her
then how could you ever
believe I'd killed her?
Isn't that why you killed her?
Because you loved her so much...
and you lost her.
Way more people kill out
of love than out of hate.
What's going on, Ig?
You go home like I asked you to?
Yeah, I did that and it
was very enlightening. Did you
know that my dad got his friend
to start the fire in the lab?
Hypothetically,
if I did know,
I would legally be required
to tell the police.
But maybe, the fire was a
blessing in disguise.
How? How is it a f***ing
blessing? If the lab hadn't
burned down, that evidence
would have cleared me, Lee.
Okay, okay, I know. It's rough
for you staying at your house
right now. Why don't you just
take the keys to my place.
You can crash on the couch.
No, you know what? I'm fine.
I've actually got a lot to do.
I've gotta figure out
who really killed Merrin
and get him to confess.
How you
planning to do that?
Lately, I can be pretty
f***ing persuasive.
Hey, Ig, nice look for you.
Showing your true nature?
You know, I'd
appreciate it if you guys
would all just f*** off.
Come on,
Ig, admit you killed her.
It'd be such a
huge scoop for me.
Oh, good to know your
journalistic integrity is
f***ing unimpeachable.
Hey, you confess to me, I can
get out of stupid local news.
You know what, I got an idea.
How about you guys beat the
sh*t out of each other...
and the winner gets an
exclusive interview with me.
Thought I told
you I don't want you coming
around here no more, Ig.
Jesus Christ!
Al, you don't want to do that.
You'll get arrested.
I don't give a flying
f*** if I get arrested.
But why don't you
get me a whiskey?
You know you want the money.
What I really want...
is to burn this place down
and collect the insurance.
Well, can you not burn
down the bar right now?
I need your help with something.
If anyone knows anything
about who killed Merrin...
you're gonna have
to tell me now.
The only thing I ever
killed was a couple of dogs.
I run a dog fighting ring
out of a supply room back there.
Jesus, Al, I don't
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