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Johnny Gruesome (2018)
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(LIQUID PURLING) (CLINKING) (STATIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) I told you before I'm not one to adore You tell me what you're looking for Is what you find You're asking what is real I never know what you feel I'm lying on a bed of filth, scared and crying Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my eyes And you never know I feel like crying tonight I told you one time That the stars were all a lie They paid you a check And now you're gonna do the crime You're not one to be lied I'm the waiter of other people's lies You made a break And now you face the crime Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my eyes And you never know I feel like crying tonight (MUMBLING) Another dream casted away It's all the same It's just a game Tell me what's my name Johnny. Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my... I've been thinking. Oh, man. Should I duck and cover? You know what you need? Please don't tell me. You need to get laid, big time. I don't need to do anything. People are going to start wondering about you, Eric. So let them. JOHNNY: Maybe I should fix you up with Karen. Why would you fix me up with your girlfriend? She could use a good laugh. She only moans when she's with me. Yeesh. I don't blame her. Dude, how can you pass that up? Easy: I know where them lips have been. (MUMBLING) You're still going to be a virgin when you go to college. - Oh! - Sorry. - I'm sorry. - It's okay. JOHNNY: They have secret societies that sacrifice people like you! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Are we going to party hard tonight? Oh, yes, we are. Eric is even coming. All right! GARY: I thought you were too much of a pussy to party on a school night. You call that thinking? (LAUGHING) Let's bounce, Eric doesn't want to be late for English. And Rhonda Young... Yo, Eric! Yeah, Todd? What are you doing hanging out with these headbangers, man? What do you care? Look, man, I'm team captain and I don't like seeing you hanging out with this trash, bro! It looks bad on our image, dude. Who are you calling trash? Hey! It talks, too. I'm calling you trash, Gruesome. You and your little slut and your dope dealing sidekick. The name is Grissom. Yeah? You look pretty gruesome to me there, pal. All right, all three of you... It ain't worth it, Johnny! You two just get to watch. I got it. I got it. (TODD LAUGHS) (THUDDING) (ROCK MUSIC) Watch the car! (CROWD MURMURING) You just made a big mistake, you long-haired freak. (CROWD CHEERING) JOHNNY: Let me make another one. Come on, Todd! Come on, Todd, kick his ass! - Come on, Todd! - Kick his ass, man! Show him what you've got, Johnny! Come on, get him! (REPETITIVE THUDDING) (CROWD CHEERING) (THUDDING) (REPETITIVE THUDDING) All right, man! That's enough, Johnny! What the hell is my name? TODD: Grissom! JOHNNY: Get the hell off my car! Don't touch me, man! Who's gruesome now? (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) "Like one man on a lonesome road, doth walk in fear "and dread, and having once turned round, "turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend "doth close behind him tread." Wooooo! (CLASSMATES LAUGH) Johnny? Yes, Mrs. Crane? Shut up. Yes, ma'am. Sorry I'm late, Mrs. Crane. Mr. Milton wanted me to give you this. Thank you, Rhonda. Hey, Rhonda, how about going for a joy ride tonight? Drop dead, Grissom. Shit. You wanted to see me, Mr. Milton? Trust me, desire has nothing to do with it, Grissom. Todd claims you did this to him in the parking lot. So? Nurse. Sit! When are you going to learn you can't use my school as your personal stomping ground? He started it. It's always the other guy, isn't it? You never do anything wrong. Well, I got news for you mister: your reign of terror is over. I'm suspending you for a week, effective immediately. That asshole was looking for trouble! Maybe that's why he didn't press charges, consider yourself lucky. This is bullshit! Come on, Grissom, we've both played this game long enough to know the rules. How many times you sat in that chair? You said I couldn't graduate if I missed anymore days. Oh, don't worry, I'm not going to flunk you over this. That'd be like punishing myself, wouldn't it? But this is the final inning, one more strike and you're out on your rear. I'm talking expulsion. Got it? Yeah. Got it. Get out of my sight. I don't want to see your face around here for another week. (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (PEOPLE LAUGHING ON TV) (WOMAN MURMURING ON TV) CHARLIE: What the hell are you doing back here? Don't worry about it. Answer me, goddamn it, I'm your father! You want to know why I'm home? I want to know why you don't have a job! You little son of a bitch! What did you just say to me? Huh?! What?! Come out here and face me like a man! You know I can still kick your ass! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) You have to come out sometime... And I'm going to be here. (HARD ROCK MUSIC) In my black car driving And my switchblade shining It'll be a hell of a night I'll the last that you'll see When your night has dead on the floor One day just clear You're not hit, not here Even if you're crying in fear Put your life in my hands It's all part of my plan Make the whole world bleed He, he, hey I'll take my revenge You'll be dead Before I drive away I'll always find a way Wooo! I've always been So, man, I'm never gonna stop I've always been So, man, I'm never gonna stop (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Yeah! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) I died in anger I want revenge The color I see is red I'm never gonna stop Blood is gonna drop Until everybody is dead With a cut, and a slash I will sever, I will gash No-one will be able to stand With a slash and a cut You will quiver, you will rot While I hold your guts in my hands How you doing, Eric? Why aren't we moving? (LAUGHING) What's so funny? I'm not drunk. (SNORTING) Not in my car, Gary. Fine. I'm always been gruesome and I'm never gonna stop (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Hold on. ERIC: Hold on? Why hold on? Slow down, Johnny. JOHNNY: Who you telling what to do? That's fast enough, Johnny. Fuck you. ERIC: Johnny, come on, man! Fuck you, too. You're going to get us all killed! Fuck all of you! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Slow down! KAREN: Gary! ERIC: Gary, come on, dude! You're killing him! (TIRES SCREECHING) (GROANING) (TIRES SCREECHING) No! (TIRES SCREECHING) (THUDDING) (GROANING) Gary! Gary, stop! What is wrong with you?! - Gary! - Get the fuck out here! You stay! (GROANING) You fucking freak! (GRUNTING) Do something! (GRUNTING) Gary, stop! Please! Johnny! (GRUNTING) (GRUNTING) (SOBBING) No! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) KAREN: Oh, God! (SOBBING) ERIC: No! (RUMBLING) Fucking asshole! Cool it! (RETCHING) Don't you dare get sick, Eric! We can't leave any evidence and that includes your barf. What are you talking about? We have to make this look like an accident! We?! You did this! You killed him! He was going to kill all three of us! No! Oh, God! He was not serious, he wouldn't... It was you! Bullshit! He wanted to punch his own ticket and take us with him. He was out of his freaking mind! You're out of your fucking mind! You're so wired you don't know what's real and what isn't. You tell him. He's right, Eric. (SOBBING) Look at the car. If I hadn't pulled the emergency brake, we'd all be dead right now. You didn't have to kill him! What do you think would've happened if I let him go? You knew how he was! I had to protect myself, I had to protect all three of us! Oh, Jesus. Why didn't you stop me? Everything happened so fast. You mean you were too scared. Look, if it was self-defense, the cops will understand. Are you nuts? They'll hang me out to dry, and you two with me. They'll label us drug-addicts and devil-worshipers. They'll lock us up and throw away the key, our lives will be ruined. Our parent's lives will be ruined. Just give me a minute to think, all right? By all means, take your time. It's not like anybody could drive around here any second and see... Where the fuck do you think you're going?! We cannot do this! We have to go to the police. Johnny is dead! What's done is done, and nothing is going to bring him back. JOHNNY: No! Do you want to pay for this the rest of your life? There's no way we get away with this. Who's going to investigate it? Chief Crane's job is handing out speeding tickets. No matter what we do, we'll still miss something. Eric, nobody will know what happened here except us. Do what he says, Eric. What do we do? Give him a burial at sea. JOHNNY: You killed me, you fucking killed me. You killed me, you killed me. You're dead, you're dead, so dead. You're all dead to me, I'm going to kill every one of you. I'm going to kill every one of you. (CELL PHONE BUZZING) Matt? Matt, wake up. (MATT SIGHS) Your phone. Yeah? Jen? Oh, no. Yeah, tell Dan I'll be there in half an hour. What is it? Some idiot drove off the Willow Creek bridge. Oh, God! Do they know who? Not yet, the car's still in the water. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) I wonder what happened. I don't know. I guess the whole town will be talking about it soon enough. Yeah. Hey, I have something for you. Your mom's going to be getting a new car. So this one will be yours. For being such a good kid. Thanks, Dad. Your welcome. Eric, I hope you have a great day. You too. Thanks. I'll see you. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (STUDENTS MURMURING) How'd it go? My folks were in bed when I got home. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. Just be cool, okay? It'll all be over soon. (SIGHING) Thank you and good morning. It's with great sadness that I must inform you of a tragedy which has befallen a fellow student. John Grissom, a senior at this school died last night in an automobile accident. Oh, shit! John was a member of the track team his freshman year and he will be missed. Funeral arrangements will be announced soon. What do you think happened? What goes around comes around, bud. (ROCK MUSIC) Eric? Oh! Hey, Rhonda. Are you hiding? Trying to. I just wanted to say how sorry I am about Johnny. Thanks. I am. I know how close you two were. Just a couple of days ago, you told him to drop dead. You know I didn't mean that. You don't give up, do you? Not when I can see someone's hurting. I'm fine. So you're just naturally rude then? I'm sorry. That's better. Look, I appreciate your concern. Do you want to talk about it? I really don't. That's okay. We can just sit here. Johnny G, what a shame! Not really a surprise, though. Caught that boy shoplifting once. Can you believe it? Stealing! From a blind man, a vet at that. We were in fifth grade. John Vincent Grissom, age 17. Rigor mortis is present in the extremities and lividity has set in. Teeth are generally in good shape, three fillings. There's a mole on his left arm, scar on the right knee, upper lip and right shoulder. There was a bruise on his right breast and abrasions on the knuckles of both hands. He was in a fight the morning before his death. The vessels are occluded and the face is dark red and congested, indicating cyanosis. Clean lungs, strong heart. This was a healthy young man. You put his organs in bags like this? After I weigh them. It makes putting the pieces back together a little less messy. There's a fracture here on the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage. It's my opinion that Mr. Grissom died of intensive and severe injury to his neck, resulting in accidental asphyxiation. You sure this was an accident? That bruise on his neck looks... It's true, most ligature strangulations are homicides, but that's not the case here. You and I both know toxicology is going to show that boy was either drunk or stoned when he drove that car off that bridge. Wasn't wearing a seat belt, steering wheel crushed his throat on impact, plain and simple. MATT: You're the expert. (EERIE MUSIC) (SIGHING) You're in the wrong bathroom. I just wanted to see if you needed a ride home. My mom is getting me. Can I have a swig? Sure. Cheers. You want to grab a bite to eat later? You sure? We can do something else just to take your mind off things. It's only been a week, Gary. Right. Yeah, um... I almost forgot, actually I got you something. What is it? GARY: Just a little something to make you feel better than that hooch. Thanks. Yeah. Just call me if you need anything. (ORGAN MUSIC) (PEOPLE MURMURING) Eric. Hey, thanks for coming. I don't know what to say, Charlie. Don't say anything. It's not necessary. You know, thank your folks for the flowers for me, will you? That was real nice of them. Sure, of course. (SIGHING) Christ, I need a drink. Take it easy, you can go home in a little while. Home to what? An empty house? I was a rotten husband and a lousy father. And now I'm alone. Johnny loved you, Charlie. He may not have always shown it because, well, he was Johnny. But he understood how difficult things have been for you. I don't know. For real. Eric, you were a good friend. I mean, if it wasn't for you, we might have had this funeral a lot sooner. Carol Crane, Mr. Grissom. Oh, Matt's wife, right? Johnny really liked you. I'm so sorry for your loss. CHARLIE: Thank you. Excuse me. Where's Karen? Maybe she turned chicken. Check out the crate yet? No, I'm not going to. Don't be a schmuck. We don't want to draw any attention to ourselves, do we? No-one's going to notice if I don't look inside that coffin. Think again. This time look at Chief Crane over there. Come on. Why do they call it the slumber room anyway? Its not like anyone ever wakes up in here. Did you hear the one about the Jewish undertaker? Shut up. (SIGHING) It doesn't even look like him. Yeah, they have to make you presentable before they throw you in the ground and cover you with dirt. Excuse me, gentlemen, I was wondering if I could ask you for a favor. Name it. Could I impose on you to serve as pall bearers? You can count on us. Wonderful. I'm sure the deceased appreciates your assistance, wherever he is. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Our physical bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God. While we may not all sleep, we will all be transformed, for when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. Those who are living will also be transformed, because our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that never die. Our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. (SIGHING) Death... I think they're going to be a while, want to grab a brew while we wait? - As long as you're buying. - I always buy. (PRIEST MURMURS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) I can't wait until I get my degree so I can get the hell up out of here. Yeah, what then? You'll be an engineer in Buffalo instead of a grave digger in Red Hill. Same shit when winter comes. Uh-uh. Fuck that, I'm going to Florida. You think that's any better? I'll be away from his snow, won't I? Sure, but you'll have hurricanes instead. Humidity, alligators, mutant insects. Okay, I'll be away from all these stiffs. (CHUCKLING) You ever been to Florida? (THUNDERS RUMBLING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SNORTING) (COUGHING) (SNORTING) (THUNDERS RUMBLING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (PANTING) (THUNDERS RUMBLING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (THUNDER RUMBLING) (INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC) (STEPS BUMPING) (DOOR CREAKING) (STEPS BUMPING) (CHUCKLES) Pst! (THUNDERS RUMBLING) (GASPING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) What the f...! Wha?! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Oh! (THUNDER RUMBLES) Ugh! (COUGHING) (THUNDER RUMBLING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SNORTING) Ugh! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Hello? Hello? How the hell did you get that phone? Listen, asshole, if you don't stop calling me, I'm calling the cops. (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Go to hell, you son of a bitch! (SOBBING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (SCREAMING) It's seven o'clock, we're the only ones here. Yeah, how romantic. You going to be much longer? I've got to mop up in here. Do you know who I am? Do you know who my father is? Mop somewhere else tonight, no-one's going to know. I'm done when I'm good and ready. Jesus Christ. (CLICKING) What the hell? (CLICKING) Darryl! Turn the lights back on. Asshole! (CLICKING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Do you want to keep your job? Well? You are fucking with the wrong guy! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Grissom? You're dead, you son of a bitch! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (STUDENTS MURMURING) We missed you at practice yesterday, Eric. Sorry, coach. I ran on my own. Look, I know you're still upset about Johnny, but tonight's meet is important. We can win this one. I understand. Good man! (PLAYFUL MUSIC) Hey, coach. Good morning, Mark. (PLAYFUL MUSIC) MARK: Coach! (PLAYFUL MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (PLAYFUL MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (PANTING) Somebody's body is hanging upside down in the gym! It's Todd. How do you know? His head is in my locker. How'd it get there? I sure as hell didn't put it there! We have to get rid of this thing before the cops show up! We?! Yeah, you're up to your neck in this just as much as I am. I had nothing to do with this. Neither did I, but if the cops think I did, they might take a look at Johnny's accident a little more closely. I'm getting tired of helping you clean up your messes. Dude, I'm the victim here. And as for the other thing, you're not some innocent bystander, you're an accessory. What are we supposed to do, carry him out the front door? Can I have your gym bag? Give me your fucking gym bag or I'll take it from you! That's what you think. (SCREAMING) Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Go to homeroom now! Gym is canceled! Move, now! (CLANKING) Holy crap! (RUSTLING) All right... Stick it in. You're joking, right? Yeah, I always get funny when there's a head in my locker. Stop joking around and put it in. Hell, no! Fine, just hold onto this while I do it. (GROANING) What's wrong? It's stuck. (GROANING) Hurry up. Ah! Oh, God. You're coming with me. That's what you think. Huh, guess what pal? You just put your fingerprints all over the bag, come on! Carol, you don't want to see this. Let go of me, Michael! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) I told you not to look at this. Your husband is on his way. Go back to your classroom and look after your students. I swear to God someone's trying to frame me. People don't have morals anymore, huh? You could say that again. Here. Hm? Head's up. Hey, you can't tell anyone about this, especially not Karen. (SPLASHING) (SIREN BLARING) (GROANING) (SIREN BLARING) Huh. Just in time, huh? Let's go. (SIREN BLARING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) MATT: Has anyone touched that body? No-one's been inside at all until just now. Does this building have cameras in it? Only in the front lobby. It's a safe school, we don't even have vandalism. - I'll need that footage. - You got it. It happened here, then the perp dragged the body across the gym. My office has the attendance reports, we can find out who this is. (SIGHING) I know who it is. Marty Kumler called this morning. Todd never came home last night. MICHAEL: Oh, no! (UPBEAT MUSIC) Hey, what's up? Where you going? To see Johnny's father. Come on, get in. Sure. (UPBEAT MUSIC) No problem. Is he up here on the right? Yeah, I'll let you know when we get close. Okay. I can't believe what happened to Todd. Neither can I. I heard they arrested Darryl Bauer. The janitor? The biggest story to hit this town and I'm stuck working a beat at a monthly school newspaper. (UPBEAT MUSIC) Thanks for the lift. Do you mind if I join you? I feel bad I didn't go to the funeral. I'm sure Charlie would appreciate the company. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Maybe he isn't home? ERIC: Charlie's always home in the daytime. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - Oh, shit! - What? Something bad, stand back. RHONDA: Wait. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Thank you. (GASPS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) ERIC: Call 911. And that's exactly how you found him? Yeah, surrounded by all those empty bottles. Yeah, well, I guess that isn't much a surprise now, is it? No, sir. You'd best be getting home, your folks will be worried about you after what's happened today. All right. Thanks for your help. Come on, I'll give you a ride. Thanks. (CREAKING) What do you see? Nothing, just my imagination. (CREAKING) Are you sure? Yeah. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (KEYS CLINKING) (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) What are you doing here? Your mother let me in. What's wrong? Suffering from a guilty conscience? Aren't you? At least I went to the funeral. Don't you think I wanted to? I loved Johnny. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't see him like that. Charlie's dead. Drank himself to death. Oh, poor Charlie. Yeah, two people died on that bridge. Eric, I've been getting phone calls. Congratulations. Prank calls. Whoever it is, doesn't say anything. Look, call the police if you're worried. The calls are being made on Johnny's phone. That doesn't even make sense. I'm scared. What if whoever it is knows what we did? Maybe it's Gary. He wouldn't do this to me. Oh, yeah? Kind of sounds like you caught his cold. Eric... Karen, dear, you're welcome to stay for dinner. Oh, no, thank you, Mrs. Carter, I have to get home. She's expecting a call. Well, tell your mother I said hello, okay? (WATER PURLING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (CREAKING) (DOOR CREAKING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (FLY BUZZING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (SHUSHING) Oh, God! Where? I don't see him. You killed Todd. JOHNNY: You're damn straight. What do you want? How about... A kiss? You're dead. You're supposed to be dead. Why aren't you dead?! I couldn't sleep! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (MOANING) (GROANING) (SOBBING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Do you think they'll cancel the rest of your track season? I hope so. I never wanted to join the team in the first place. Why did you? Johnny talked me into joining with him. Quits the team after he gets into an argument with Coach Wrangler. RHONDA: Sounds like Johnny. Yeah. What did you see at the house today? ERIC: I told you, nothing. What do you think you saw? You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Try me. (GARY CHUCKLES) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) How's it going? Hi. Everything's fine. Oh, I bet. Oh, no, don't worry, we got ours to go. Are they dating? I don't know. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Goodnight. Goodnight. Bye. See you. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (PANTING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Drinking alone? It's been that kind of week. Yeah, it has. (PHONE BUZZING) Don't answer it. Every time you answer it, someone else is dead. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey hey. Easy. Easy, honey. I know what you're going through. It's going to be okay, all right? It's going to be okay. (STUDENTS MURMURING) Morning, Erica. Don't call me that. GARY: Oh, what's wrong, Romeo? Didn't things go well with Rhonda last night? Mind your business. Relax, I've got to give you credit. It's about time you made a move on that book worm. Like you made a move on Karen? Now she's available, isn't she? I'm glad you got what you were after. GARY: What's that supposed to mean? Isn't Johnny dead because you wanted to get in Karen's pants? Keep it down, would you? Jesus, what are you trying to do? I'm getting rid of a bad itch. (GARY CHUCKLES) I'm warning you, shut up. What if I don't, you going to kill me too? Look, I'm done with you and Karen, all right? Any more dead heads pop up, you get her help. (CLANKING) (STUDENTS MURMURING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Hello! Who goes there?! JOHNNY: Uh, hi, Bill. Johnny?! Johnny G?! Is that you? JOHNNY: No. My name is Sam. Sam? Bullshit! I know the sound of your voice, boy! Bill, just wait, wait a se... And I know the smell of a dead corpse too! (GUN FIRING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (TIRES SCREECHING) (THUDDING) NANCY: Oh, shit! Shit! Hey, hey, what the hell is wrong with...? Oh, my... Oh, my God! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) JOHNNY: Bitch! (RATTLING) (CRUNCHING) (STUDENTS MURMURING) Eric, could I speak with you for a moment? Sure. I'll see you later. Has anything strange happened to you this week? Like what? Oh, I don't know, anything out of the ordinary? Nothing about this week's been ordinary, Ms. Crane. Why do you ask? I just thought since you were Johnny's best friend you might have noticed anything peculiar that's occurred this week? Did anything peculiar happen to you? No, of course not, don't be silly. You can go now, I'm sorry to have wasted your time. You didn't waste it. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SPLASHING) (CHILDREN LAUGHING) CHILDREN: Run! It wasn't me! JOHNNY: What's your name? Tammy. Why are you wearing that mask? JOHNNY: It's part of a game. TAMMY: Can I play? JOHNNY: Maybe. Who were those boys? My brother and his friends. JOHNNY: Where do you live? Right there. JOHNNY: Your mother let you come out and play today? Didn't she warn you about the bad man who's hurting people? Yeah. She said for us to play in our backyard. JOHNNY: Aren't you afraid of me? Why should I be? JOHNNY: Maybe I'm a monster. There's no such thing as monsters, silly. JOHNNY: Didn't your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers? You're not a stranger, I've seen you lots of times. JOHNNY: You have? Yeah, you live right there. What's that, gum? JOHNNY: No gum. Just this. (CLICKING) (SCREAMING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (ROCK MUSIC) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) I heard you and Eric had beef today. Yeah. We don't need that pussy anymore. Whatever you say. (SIREN BLARING) Shit, would you put that away? (ROCK MUSIC) Do you have to stop here? It's not like I really had a choice. You're in quite a hurry. Can you blame us? That school's really dangerous. MATT: You two an item now? It's kind of up in the air, it's a really rough time for both of us. Karen, is Gary here your new beau? Yeah, I guess. There, you see that? A simple answer to a simple question. You going to write me a simple ticket or what? No, no ticket. Just some advice: go home. Stay there. Be careful. I don't need any more dead teenagers on my hands. Thanks, but we're both 18, so your curfew doesn't apply to us... Chief. (CAR ENGINE ROARING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) You want to come inside? I better not, my mom will freak if I don't come straight home with everything that's happening. I guess I'll see you tomorrow, then. Yeah. (CAR ENGINE HUMMING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DOORBELL RINGING) Jesus! What are you doing here? I need to talk to you. I almost just killed you. I lied this morning, something strange has happened to me this week. CAROL: Go on. Yesterday, after your husband walked away from me and Rhonda, I know how crazy this sounds... I saw Johnny in his bedroom window. You know that's impossible, right? I know what I saw. I didn't then, but I do now. I just went over there and saw his funeral suit hanging in his closet. Ms. Crane, what did you want to tell me? I saw him too. I knew it! I need you to come with me. Where? I cannot believe I let you talk me into this. ERIC: You didn't need too much convincing. CAROL: I've been doing some research online. ERIC: So have I. CAROL: A visible ghost or an animated corpse is called a revenant. Taken from the Latin word Revenant. Meaning the returned. The only thing that can stop or trap a revenant is running water. Should we stuff him into a barrel and throw him over Niagara Falls? (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SIGHING) Sorry, Mike, I didn't mean to frighten you. It's Michael. I finished my walk through, everything seems copacetic. You ready to go? Yeah, I'll get my stuff, I'll be out in a minute. I'll be in my car. Hm! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMING) My suspension is over Mr. Milton, can I come back to school? No! No! You can't! Go away! Go away, go back to wherever you came from! Coffins are worse than detention. (SCREAMING) I thought you weren't afraid of me. (GROANING) Please! (JOHNNY LAUGHS) Please! Don't kill me! You need some guts, fat boy. Here, have mine! (SCREAMING) (GROANING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Somebody's already been here. He must have filled the dirt back in after he crawled out. We're the only ones here. Yeah, the only living people here. What do you think you're going to prove by all this? Whether or not Johnny's in his grave. I don't need to see an empty coffin to know he's not in there. I do. And when we find that it's empty, then what? Then we'll have something concrete to show your husband. My husband isn't going to believe that we saw Johnny. Look, if we don't convince him, Johnny keeps killing. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) The liner's been smashed to pieces. The seal's broken too. Hurry. (CREAKING) (GASPING) ERIC: No! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Yeah! (MOANING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (MOANING) Oh, that's it. Oh, yeah. Baby. I love you. (MOANING) Oh, yeah, please, baby. (MOANING) (MOANING) Do you like being with the king? (MOANING) Oh! That was great! Yeah. (SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) (KNOCKING ON DOOR) (PHONE RINGING) Carol, where the hell have you been? Do you have any idea how worried I've been? Rhonda Young's been murdered. What? Her throat was slit wide open. Eric and I found her body. Where? In Johnny Grissom's coffin. What the hell were you doing in Grissom's grave? Eric saw Johnny at Charlie's house yesterday. Just after you left him and Rhonda. MATT: That's... Impossible, I know! I saw him too. Johnny is dead. I didn't say he wasn't. Corpses don't get up and climb out of their graves. Then how do you explain what we found? I can't explain anything... Yet, but that doesn't excuse what you did. What we did is beside the point! Someone murdered Rhonda and hid her body in that coffin! That beautiful young girl is dead. And Johnny's body isn't there. If someone did kill Rhonda, that same person also stole Johnny's body. It must be the same psycho that killed Todd and Michael Milton. Michael? Dan just found him in his office. Oh, God. You're not leaving my sight until we catch this maniac. He's haunting us because we killed him. Gary choked Johnny to death. Me and Karen helped... Make it look like an accident. So it was Belter. Jen, get in here. Johnny put Todd's head in Gary's locker. We threw it in a drainage pipe behind the school. Put an APB out for Gary Belter and Karen Slatter, wanted for questioning in connection with Grissom's death. Send two men over to the cemetery to check out Grissom's grave, tell them to expect the worst. Send another car over to the high school to search a drain pipe out back. Kumler's head might be in it. We're running out of men. You, sit down. (PHONE RINGING) Carol, wait outside. Start talking. You want to get something to eat? (WHOOSHING) What was that? My fly. Mom? You see? You're paranoid. It's probably the shit. I want more. Help yourself. (HARD ROCK MUSIC) There you go, that's my girl. (SNORTING) Snort. It'll help, yeah? (COUGHING) (DOOR CREAKS) JOHNNY: Hi guys, having fun? Jesus! (KAREN SCREAMS) Looks like I caught you with your hand in the cookie jar, Gar. What the hell do you want?! Really? You kill me, total my wheels and steal my girl... What do you think I want?! Forget it, you can have her back! - (SLAPPING) - Bastard! (JOHNNY LAUGHS) (FLY BUZZING) Been there, had that. But uh... I'll let you have this. (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (CLICKING) (CLICKING) (WHOOSHING) (JOHNNY LAUGHS) (THUDDING) (JOHNNY LAUGHS) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (GRUNTING) (CRUNCHING) (SCREAMING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (GRUNTING) (THUDDING) (SOBBING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (SOBBING) Poser. Now it's your turn. (SCREAMING) Go ahead, scream until you're blue in the face, then we'll match. Please! I might have let you live if you hadn't screwed this asshole. Oh, God! It's a little too late to be getting religious, sweetheart. I never loved him. I only ever loved you. We'll be together soon. (THUDDING) (CRUNCHING) I have never been so humiliated in all my entire life! Picking up my son from a police station! I just don't understand how this could happen! You don't understand anything about me! I certainly didn't think I was raising a grave robber! For God's sakes, I'm not a grave robber! Don't use that tone with your mother, Eric! Accessory to murder! Do you have any idea how much money we're going to spend on legal fees? My classmates are being slaughtered left and right, and all you two care about is what the neighbors will think? That's enough! What's the use?! You don't even listen to each other. Eric! MR. CARTER: Come back here! (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (WOMAN LAUGHING) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) (KEYS CLINKING) (BLEEPING) I don't understand you, Carol. You're married to a cop, for Christ's sake! You know damn well you can't exhume a body without a court order, and judges aren't exactly in the habit of issuing them to high school teachers. Criminal trespassing, grave robbery, corruption of a minor. You still think we're making all of this up? Even after your own men confirmed what we found. The only thing that matters now is that we have Eric to testify against Belter. No, we don't. His father just called, the kid climbed out a window and took off in their SUV. I never should have let him leave. Put another APB out, this time for Eric. Dan just called in, he found Belter and Slatter inside the girl's bedroom, double homicide. (SIGHING) MATT: Just get Beelock over there, asap! Copy that. (PHONE RINGING) So much for your theory that Gary was behind all of this. Maybe Eric... Eric was with me, I'm Eric's alibi. He's running away and we have to stop him. He isn't running away. He's going after Johnny. Look, your students are being murdered left and right, it's only natural for you to experience some kind of reaction to what's happening. Eric and I each saw Johnny on two separate occasions. Is Eric having an emotional breakdown too? The exact same emotional breakdown? This whole town has gone insane! He attacked me! MATT: Who did? Johnny. He broke into our house yesterday and he attacked me. I didn't want to tell you because I knew you wouldn't believe me, but it's true. What do you mean, he attacked you? He came into our bathroom and he put his filthy hands on me and he stuck his rotting tongue in my mouth. Will you stop it?! Matt, please listen! Eric has gone after Johnny and we can't let him do this alone! We have to help him before it's too late. (PHONE RINGING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (BLEEPING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Johnny! I'm here, just like you wanted! Come get me, you son of a bitch! (CAR ENGINE HUMMING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) So it's true, they really do return to the scene of the crime. I knew I'd find you here. We've always been on the same wavelength, Eric. Sorry I'm late, I had trouble starting my car. What the hell are you? I'm fucking pissed off! You have no idea how much will power it takes to move even one fucking muscle when your spirit's left your body. Yeah? So why bother? Because nothing's as sweet as revenge, Eric. Not even sex. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? Karen and Gary... I saved the best for last. ERIC: Why me? Because you were my best friend. So why go through with this? Because you're alive and I'm not! It isn't fair! You tried to kill all of us that night, right here! JOHNNY: I was drunk! There's no excuse! You said yourself I never would have done it! I'm not so sure now, after you murdered five people. Well, I stopped giving a fuck what you believe the night you helped Gary dump my fucking body in this creek. Rhonda never did anything to you! She's dead because you loved her. That's the thought that I want you to carry to your grave, Eric. She called out your name. She cried for you, over and over. Where were you? (THUDDING) You sure wiped the smile off my face. (CLICKING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (WHOOSHING) (REPETITIVE THUDDING) (CRUNCHING) (REPETITIVE THUDDING) You were supposed to be my friend! You should have stopped him. You were supposed to have my back! (PANTING) I tried. Bullshit! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (SPLASHING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) We've got to get down there! (SPLASHING) (SCREAMING) Eric! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (JOHNNY LAUGHS) Eric! JOHNNY: You're all dead to me! Dead! I'm going to kill every one of you. (GROANING) No! You might hit Eric. It's not my fault! (GRUNTING) Fuck you! It's isn't my fault, you hear me?! It isn't my fault! (SCREAMING) (RUMBLING) (SCREAMING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) Give me your hand. Give me your hand. That's it, I gotcha. I don't believe what I just saw. Neither do I. You did it! (SPLASHING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMING) (GUNS FIRING) (GRUNTING) (GUNS FIRING) (SCREAMING) (SPLASHING) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) MATT: How the hell are we going to explain this? ERIC: Just don't drag the creek for his body. CAROL: Please destroy that goddamn car. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (JOHNNY LAUGHS) (HARD ROCK MUSIC) I told you before I'm not one to adore You tell me what you're looking for Is what you find You're asking what is real I never know what you feel I'm lying on a bed of filth, scared and crying Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my eyes And you never know I feel like crying tonight I told you one time That the stars were all a lie They paid you a check And now you're gonna do the crime You're not one to be lied I'm the waiter of other people's lies You made a break And now you face the crime Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my eyes And you never know I feel like crying tonight (MUMBLING) Another dream casted away It's all the same It's just a game Tell me what's my name Look into my heart, look into my soul I feel like dying tonight Look into my eyes And you never know I feel like crying tonight I feel like dying I feel like dying tonight I feel like dying I feel like dying tonight (HARD ROCK MUSIC) Monster ride Bringing smoke The parks have tales to tell Black as night Sings by fire On his way back from hell Death mobile Death mobile Death mobile Fire and steel |
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