Stephen King's It Page #8

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I was pedaling too fast.

Hell, I didn 't want to see it,

whatever it was.

It took him hours

to tell me what happened.

He said he was down in Lampkin Park

by a bird feeder, watching birds.

Like a good Boy Scout.

Remember, he used to call it

collecting birds?

Stan...

Stan!

He said he didn 't mean to go

into that house...

... but this voice kept

whispering to him.

Naturally, being Stan, he figured

there was a rational explanation.

Hello?

Stanley.

Yeah?

I'm right here.

He was trapped.

He held his bird book out

in front of him...

... and said the names

of birds he could remember.

Longneck Finch, Speckled Grouse,

Baltimore Oriole...

...Great Egret, Hammerhead Woodpecker,

Brown Thrush.

Brown Thrush.

The day that we went into the sewer,

Stan saw It.

Face to face.

Not the clown. But he saw

what was behind the clown.

He ran up to me in school.

And he said, "I saw It, Eddie.

I looked right into its..."

Some kind of lights.

"I looked right into its deadlights."

Then he said, and I hadn't thought

of it until just now, I swear, he said:

"I looked into its deadlights...

...and I wanted to be there."

- Deadlights.

I need a drink.

Yeah, me too.

- I've got something here. Anyone else?

- Yeah.

Sorry I'm late.

Well, let's see who's here.

Billy boy!

Richie, you still here?

Nice nose job. No one would suspect.

Haystack! Putting on weight?

Bevvie, your dad isn't worried.

He loves your choice in men.

How's your sex life?

What's your sex life?

Mikey, you got us all here.

It's the only way you'd see us,

since you'd never leave this town.

I made it, guys.

I'm in the deadlights now.

It's true what they say. We all float

down here. And you will too.

In fact, they all float!

They all float!

Oh, my God!

My God.

I don't know about you,

but I'm sick of this place!

I will listen to anything, but could

we do it someplace else? Please?

Okay. Just help me with this stuff.

Bill, what is it?

"He... thrusts his..."

"He thrusts his fists against the post

and still insists he sees the ghosts."

- That's all it says, over and over.

- My mom gave me that...

...to say...

...to help with my stutter.

No offense, pal. It ain't helping.

Let's get the hell out of here.

What do you say?

Henry.

Down here, Henry.

Belch? What are you doing there?

You got a problem in there

you need some help with, Henry?

That's a good boy.

You don't have to talk.

I can hear you when you think it.

They can't hear me.

- What do you want, Miller?

- Same thing you want.

- I want to pay them back.

- Yeah.

- Pay them back.

- You're gonna have to get out.

You're gonna have to go back to Derry.

I need you, Henry.

- We all need you.

- They can 't hurt you.

We didn't think they could hurt us,

but they did.

- Bested you.

- Don 't talk about that.

I can take care of them

if they only half believe.

But you're alive, Henry.

You can get them if they believe,

half believe or don't believe.

- One by one, Henry.

- I can 't get out of here.

They got wires on the windows,

and Koontz is on the door tonight.

Man, Koontz is the worst.

- I hate him.

- I'll take care of Koontz, Henry.

Lead the way, Henry.

Lead the way.

All right, I've had it! Your head's

gonna be bouncing off the floor...

No, no, no, Mike.

No, no, no.

I will have no need of this stuff.

Thanks for thinking of me...

...and including it just in case,

but none for me! Thank you!

- Richie, you're shouting.

- I know.

Beep, beep, Richie. Beep, beep.

Talk to us, Mike. Tell us stories.

Tell us things so we don't have to

remember what we saw in the library.

Hey, Eddie. Come on, pal.

Don't let it get you. Fight it.

I saw myself. I saw myself back there.

I know it's just camphor water,

but I need it anyway.

Take it easy, pal.

If it works, it's good.

You've believed in it...

...and that's all that ever mattered.

- Thanks.

You all remember what was going on

in Derry 30 years ago.

There were killings, maimings,

disappearances. Mostly children.

Everybody was afraid

but nobody did anything.

Until we went after It.

We almost killed It.

Bowers confessed and the killings

stopped. Until now, 30 years later.

If you count backwards by 30...

...every date corresponds to a disaster

in Derry's history.

The fire at the Black Spot Club.

The explosion

at the old ironworks.

The massacre at Drake's Creek.

And on, and on.

The biggest mystery is how 253

settlers disappeared without a trace.

Thank you for that illuminating,

if somewhat morbid history.

She didn 't want to know.

You knew all about this. Even then.

- Miss Douglas didn't want to know.

- It's a disease, Bev.

None of them wants to know.

- It's too horrible. They act...

- Like it didn't happen.

I remember a man, Mr. Ross.

He was on his front porch.

I was coming home from school.

Henry Bowers was waiting.

Right outside my house.

I saw Mr. Ross across the street.

He looked so concerned.

I thought he was

going to help me, but...

I couldn 't believe it.

He just turned around and went inside.

That was when it hit me.

There was something

terribly wrong in Derry.

How did you get out of that?

Daddy came home. One of the only times

I was really glad to see him.

It's 30 years later and the killings

start up again. At least six so far.

There've been many disappearances.

I wanted to be certain

before I called anyone.

And I became certain when I found

something at the latest crime site.

God, that was just yesterday.

Anyway, this is it.

Georgie?

For some reason, there's something

special about us being together.

That summer,

our togetherness made us strong.

Otherwise It would have

picked us off one by one.

Is it an accident

that none of us have kids?

Even Stan?

Although when we came together...

...we were, well, we were all losers.

Now look. Six of you left Derry

and became unusually successful.

- Real winners.

- Leaving you holding the bag.

You kept the light on for all of us.

I feel bad about that.

- Me too.

- It's nobody's fault.

Our parents decided

who stayed and who went.

- I stayed here because I wanted to.

- You stayed because you had to.

I don't know what'll

happen tomorrow.

But I do know that I appreciate what

you've done for everyone.

- Good evening.

- How much farther is Derry?

I guess about maybe

500 yards to the city limits.

Thank God.

I nearly fell asleep a while ago.

I've been driving forever.

Just cross the old bridge

at the barrens and hang a left.

- The barrens?

- Where the kids used to play.

Thank you. I'll be going now.

Don't you want your balloon first,

Mrs. Denbrough?

Don't you want it?

Don't you want it?

They chased me up the hall

and started slapping me.

And the coach found me lying there.

I thought he'd help,

but he made fun of me.

And something snapped.

I said, "You coach track, right?"

He sneered. I said, "You listen to me,

you son of a b*tch...

...I'll run down everything

you've got...

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