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