1. I was 12 going on 13
the first time I saw a dead human being.Copy !req
2. It happened in the summer of 1959...Copy !req
3. a long time ago...Copy !req
4. but only if you measure it
in terms of years.Copy !req
5. I was living in a small town in Oregon
called Castle Rock.Copy !req
6. There were only 1,281 people,
but to me it was the whole world.Copy !req
7. It's the Bossman Bob Cormier.
It's a beautiful Friday morning in Portland.Copy !req
8. It's 90 KLAM degrees and getting hotter.Copy !req
9. Up the ladder with another platter.
It's Bobby Day with Rockin' Robin...Copy !req
10. it's boss.Copy !req
11. How do you know a Frenchman's been
in your backyard?Copy !req
12. I'm French, okay.Copy !req
13. Your garbage cans are empty
and your dog's pregnant.Copy !req
14. Didn't I just say I was French?Copy !req
15. - I knock.
- Shit.Copy !req
16. Twenty-nine.Copy !req
17. Twenty-two.Copy !req
18. Piss up a rope.Copy !req
19. Gordie's out, OI' Gordie just bit the bag
and stepped out the door.Copy !req
20. Come on, man, deal.Copy !req
21. Teddy Duchamp was the craziest guy
we hung around with.Copy !req
22. He didn't have much of a chance in life.Copy !req
23. His dad was given to fits of rage.Copy !req
24. One time he held Teddy's ear to a stove
and almost burned it off.Copy !req
25. I knock.Copy !req
26. You four-eyed pile of shit.Copy !req
27. The "pile of shit" has 1,000 eyes.Copy !req
28. What?Copy !req
29. What's so funny?
I got thirty, what have you got?Copy !req
30. Sixteen.Copy !req
31. Go ahead, keep laughing.Copy !req
32. You're down to your ride, pal.Copy !req
33. Chris Chambers was the leader of our gang
and my best friend.Copy !req
34. He came from a bad family
and everyone just knew he'd turn out bad.Copy !req
35. Including Chris.Copy !req
36. That's not the secret knock.Copy !req
37. I forgot the secret knock. Let me in.Copy !req
38. Vern.Copy !req
39. Come on, you guys, open up.Copy !req
40. Man, you guys are not going
to believe this. This is so boss.Copy !req
41. Wait till you hear this.Copy !req
42. You won't believe it. It's unbelievable.Copy !req
43. Let me catch my breath. I ran all the way
from my house.Copy !req
44. "I ran all the way home"Copy !req
45. Come on. Listen to me, this is boss.Copy !req
46. "Just to say I'm sorry"Copy !req
47. Okay, forget it.
I don't have to tell you nothin'.Copy !req
48. Hold on, you guys. Hold on.
What is it, man?Copy !req
49. Great, you won't believe this, sincerely.Copy !req
50. "I ran all the way home"Copy !req
51. Screw you guys. Forget it.Copy !req
52. What is it?Copy !req
53. Can you camp out tonight?Copy !req
54. I mean, if you tell your folks
we're gonna tent out in my backfield?Copy !req
55. I think so.Copy !req
56. Except my dad's kind of on a mean streak.
He's been drinking a lot lately.Copy !req
57. You got to. Sincerely,
you won't believe this. Can you, Gordie?Copy !req
58. Yeah, probably.Copy !req
59. So what are you pissing and moaning
about Vern-O?Copy !req
60. - I knock.
- What?Copy !req
61. You liar! You ain't got no pat hand.Copy !req
62. You didn't deal yourself no pat hand.Copy !req
63. Make your draw, shitheap.Copy !req
64. You guys want to go see a dead body?Copy !req
65. I was under the porch digging, you know?Copy !req
66. We all understood
what Vern meant right away.Copy !req
67. At the beginning of the school year
he had buried a jar of pennies...Copy !req
68. underneath his house.Copy !req
69. He drew a treasure map
so he could find them again.Copy !req
70. A week later his mom cleaned out
his room and threw away the map.Copy !req
71. Vern had been trying to find those pennies
for nine months...Copy !req
72. nine months, man.Copy !req
73. You didn't know whether laugh or cry.Copy !req
74. Jesus, Billy, we gotta do something.Copy !req
75. Why? Who cares?Copy !req
76. - We saw him.
- So?Copy !req
77. It's nothin' to us. The kid's dead
so it's nothin' to him, neither.Copy !req
78. And who gives a shit if they ever find him?
I don't.Copy !req
79. It's that kid they're talking about
on the radio.Copy !req
80. Brocker or Brower or Flowers,
whatever his name is.Copy !req
81. The train must have hit him.Copy !req
82. Big fucking deal.Copy !req
83. We had all followed
the Ray Brower story closely...Copy !req
84. since he was a kid our age.Copy !req
85. Three days before, he left to pick
blueberries and nobody'd seen him since.Copy !req
86. I think we should tell the cops.Copy !req
87. You don't go squawking to the cops
after you boosted a car.Copy !req
88. They'll want to know how we got way out
on Back Harlow Road.Copy !req
89. They know we don't got no car.Copy !req
90. It's best we just keep quiet,
then they can't touch us.Copy !req
91. But we could make an anonymous call.Copy !req
92. They trace those calls stupid. I seen it
on Highway Patrol and on Dragnet.Copy !req
93. Yeah, right.Copy !req
94. I wish we never boosted
that goddamned Dodge.Copy !req
95. I wish Ace had been with us.Copy !req
96. - We could've said he was in his car.
- He wasn't!Copy !req
97. - Are we gonna tell him?
- We're not going to tell nobody.Copy !req
98. Nobody, never. You dig me?Copy !req
99. I know the Back Harlow Road.Copy !req
100. It comes to a dead end by the Royal River.
The train tracks are right there.Copy !req
101. Me and my dad fished out there.Copy !req
102. If they had known you were under there,
they would've killed you.Copy !req
103. Could he have gotten all the way from
Chamberlain to Harlow? That's really far.Copy !req
104. Sure. He probably started walking on the
tracks and followed them the whole way.Copy !req
105. Yeah, right.Copy !req
106. And then after dark, a train must have
come along and "el smako."Copy !req
107. I bet you, if we find him,
we'll get our pictures in the paper.Copy !req
108. We could even be on TV.Copy !req
109. - Sure.
- We'll be heroes.Copy !req
110. I don't know. Billy will know I found out.Copy !req
111. He's not going to care.
'Cause it's gonna be us that find him.Copy !req
112. Not Billy and Charlie Hogan,
and the boosted the car.Copy !req
113. They'll probably pin a medal on you.Copy !req
114. You think so?Copy !req
115. Sure.Copy !req
116. What'll we tell our folks?Copy !req
117. Exactly what you said.Copy !req
118. We'll tell our folks
that we're tenting in your backfield.Copy !req
119. You tell your folks
your sleeping at Teddy's.Copy !req
120. Then we say we're going
to the drag races the next day.Copy !req
121. We're rock solid
until dinner tomorrow night.Copy !req
122. Man that's a plan and a half.Copy !req
123. But, if we find the body in South Harlow,
they'll know we didn't go to the races.Copy !req
124. We'll get hided.Copy !req
125. Nobody will care...Copy !req
126. because everybody will be jazzed
at our discovery...Copy !req
127. it won't make a difference.Copy !req
128. My dad will hide me anyway,
but it's worth it.Copy !req
129. - Shit, yeah.
- Let's do it. What do you say?Copy !req
130. - All right.
- Gordie?Copy !req
131. Sure.Copy !req
132. Vern?Copy !req
133. I don't know.Copy !req
134. Come on, Vern-O.Copy !req
135. - Okay.
- All right.Copy !req
136. Too cool. Very cool.Copy !req
137. I wanted to share my friends' enthusiasm,
but I couldn't.Copy !req
138. That summer at home,
I had become The Invisible Boy.Copy !req
139. Mom, do you know where my canteen is?Copy !req
140. Mom?Copy !req
141. It's in Denny's room.Copy !req
142. In April, my older brother, Dennis,
had been killed in a jeep accident.Copy !req
143. Four months had passed...Copy !req
144. but my parents still hadn't been able
to put the pieces back together again.Copy !req
145. Gordie, I got something for you.Copy !req
146. This, my friend, is for you.Copy !req
147. - This is your Yankee cap.
- No.Copy !req
148. This is your Yankee cap.Copy !req
149. It's a good luck cap.
Know how many fish we'll catch?Copy !req
150. - How much?
- A bazillion.Copy !req
151. A bazillion fish.
It looks good on you, too. Just like that.Copy !req
152. - No. I'm going blind.
- Don't start with me. Give me a hug.Copy !req
153. You found it.Copy !req
154. You found it.Copy !req
155. Why can't you have friends like Denny's?Copy !req
156. Dad, they're okay.Copy !req
157. Sure they are. A thief and two feebs.Copy !req
158. Chris isn't a thief.Copy !req
159. He stole the milk money at school.Copy !req
160. He's a thief in my book.Copy !req
161. It was almost noon as we set out to find
the body of a dead kid named Ray Brower.Copy !req
162. Right here's cool.Copy !req
163. - Thanks a lot.
- Sure thing.Copy !req
164. - You want to see something?
- What?Copy !req
165. - You okay?
- I'm fine.Copy !req
166. What is it?Copy !req
167. - You've got to see this.
- What is it?Copy !req
168. What is it?Copy !req
169. You want to be the Lone Ranger
or the Cisco Kid?Copy !req
170. Walking, talking Jesus!Copy !req
171. - Where'd you get this?
- Hocked it from my old man's bureau.Copy !req
172. It's a.45.Copy !req
173. I can see that.Copy !req
174. You got shells for it?Copy !req
175. I took what was left in the box.Copy !req
176. My dad'll think he used them himself
shooting at beer cans while he was drunk.Copy !req
177. - Is it loaded?
- Hello, no. What do you think I am?Copy !req
178. Jesus!Copy !req
179. Let's get out of here. Come on.Copy !req
180. Gordie did it. Gordon Lachance
is shooting up Castle Rock.Copy !req
181. Shut up.Copy !req
182. Hey, who did that?
Who's letting cherry bombs off out here?Copy !req
183. You should have seen your face.
Damn, that was cool!Copy !req
184. - That was really fine.
- You knew it was loaded, you wet end!Copy !req
185. I'm in trouble now.
That Tupper babe saw me.Copy !req
186. - Shit, she thought it was firecrackers.
- I don't care. It was a mean trick.Copy !req
187. I didn't know it was loaded.Copy !req
188. - Honest.
- You swear?Copy !req
189. I swear.Copy !req
190. On your mother's name?Copy !req
191. Even if she goes to hell for your lie?Copy !req
192. I swear.Copy !req
193. Pinky swear?Copy !req
194. Pinky swear.Copy !req
195. Girls, where you going?Copy !req
196. - Come on, my brother gave me that!
- And now you're giving it to me.Copy !req
197. Give it to me!Copy !req
198. That's mine.Copy !req
199. You're a real asshole, you know that?Copy !req
200. Your brother's not very polite, Eyeball.Copy !req
201. Now, Christopher.Copy !req
202. I know you didn't mean to insult my friend.Copy !req
203. I know he didn't mean to insult me.Copy !req
204. That's why I'll give him the opportunity
to take it back.Copy !req
205. - Shit.
- Take it back, kid.Copy !req
206. - Stop it, you're hurting him.
- You bastard! Let go, man.Copy !req
207. - Stop it! Cut it out!
- Take it back, kid.Copy !req
208. You big... Okay, I take it back.Copy !req
209. There.Copy !req
210. Now I feel a whole lot better about this.Copy !req
211. How about you?Copy !req
212. Good.Copy !req
213. See you later girls.Copy !req
214. Let's just forget them.Copy !req
215. What do we need a pistol for anyway?Copy !req
216. It's spooky sleeping out at night
in the woods. You might see a bear.Copy !req
217. Or a garbage can.Copy !req
218. I brought a comb.Copy !req
219. What do we need a comb for?Copy !req
220. If we get on TV
we want to look good, don't we?Copy !req
221. - That's a lot of thinking, Vern.
- Thanks.Copy !req
222. Two for flinching.Copy !req
223. How far do you think it's gonna be?Copy !req
224. If we follow the tracks all the way
into Harlow, it should be about 20 miles.Copy !req
225. Sound about right to you?Copy !req
226. It might even be 30.Copy !req
227. Maybe we should just hitchhike.Copy !req
228. - No way, that sucks.
- Why not?Copy !req
229. We could go out to Route 7
to the Shiloh church...Copy !req
230. then down the Back Harlow Road.
We'll be there by sundown.Copy !req
231. That's pussy.Copy !req
232. It's a long way.Copy !req
233. Did your mother ever have any kids
that lived?Copy !req
234. What do you mean?Copy !req
235. We have to fill up at the junkyard.
My dad said it was a safe well.Copy !req
236. - Not if Chopper's there.
- If he's there we'll send you in.Copy !req
237. Very funny.Copy !req
238. I'm kind of hungry. Who's got the food?Copy !req
239. Did anybody bring anything?Copy !req
240. Not me.Copy !req
241. This is great. What are we supposed
to do? Eat our feet?Copy !req
242. You mean,
you didn't bring anything, either?Copy !req
243. This wasn't my idea. It was Vern's.
Why didn't you bring something?Copy !req
244. I have to think of everything?
I brought the comb.Copy !req
245. What do you need a comb for?
You don't have any hair.Copy !req
246. I brought it for you guys,
so you'd have a comb.Copy !req
247. Let's see how much money we've got?Copy !req
248. I got $1.02.Copy !req
249. And 68 cents from Chris.Copy !req
250. 60 cents from Teddy.Copy !req
251. 7 cents, Vern?Copy !req
252. I haven't found my pennies yet.Copy !req
253. $2.37 cents, not bad.Copy !req
254. Quidaciolu's is at the end of the road
by the junkyard.Copy !req
255. I think we can get some stuff there.Copy !req
256. Train coming.Copy !req
257. Geronimo!Copy !req
258. Come on, Teddy.Copy !req
259. I'm gonna dodge it.Copy !req
260. Get off the tracks. You're crazy.Copy !req
261. Train dodge. Dig it?Copy !req
262. Get the hell off the tracks.
You want to get yourself killed?Copy !req
263. Just like the beach at Normandy.Copy !req
264. Don't tell me what to do or I'll kill you.Copy !req
265. I'm trying to save your life.Copy !req
266. You want to kill yourself?Copy !req
267. Is that what you want, goddamn it?Copy !req
268. You tried to kill yourself.Copy !req
269. I don't need no babysitter.Copy !req
270. You do, too.Copy !req
271. Skin it.Copy !req
272. I could have dodged it.Copy !req
273. Listen, you can dodge it on the way back.Copy !req
274. Peace.Copy !req
275. Skin it.Copy !req
276. About this time, Charlie and Billy
were playing mailbox baseball...Copy !req
277. with Ace and Eyeball.Copy !req
278. Shit on that. Goddamn it!Copy !req
279. Shouldn't have gone for a wooden one.Copy !req
280. Why don't you tell me something
I don't know, asshole?Copy !req
281. Billy, you're up.Copy !req
282. You guys win.
I don't want to play no more.Copy !req
283. You can't quit.Copy !req
284. We only played three innings.
That'd be a non-official game.Copy !req
285. Ace, me and...Copy !req
286. What's with you homos?
You've been acting psycho all day.Copy !req
287. What is it?Copy !req
288. It's nothing, right?Copy !req
289. Then if you don't mind,
I'd like to finish this game...Copy !req
290. before I start collecting
my social security, okay?Copy !req
291. You're up, Billy. Move it.Copy !req
292. All right, give me this fucking stick.Copy !req
293. Let's play ball.Copy !req
294. Foul ball.Copy !req
295. Vern, it looks like
your mom's been out driving again.Copy !req
296. That's so funny I forgot to laugh.Copy !req
297. Stand back, men!Copy !req
298. Paratroopers, over the side!Copy !req
299. "No Trespassing" was enforced
by Milo Pressman, the junkman...Copy !req
300. and his dog, Chopper.Copy !req
301. The most feared and least seen dog
in Castle Rock.Copy !req
302. Legend had it that Milo had
trained Chopper not just to sic...Copy !req
303. but to sic specific parts
of the human anatomy.Copy !req
304. Thus, a kid who had illegally scaled
the junkyard fence...Copy !req
305. might hear the dread cry:
"Chopper, sic balls!"Copy !req
306. But right now neither the dread Chopper
nor Milo...Copy !req
307. was anywhere in sight.Copy !req
308. Teddy's crazy.Copy !req
309. Come on, men, move it out!Copy !req
310. He won't live to be 20, I bet.Copy !req
311. Remember the time you saved him
in the tree?Copy !req
312. I dream about that sometimes.Copy !req
313. Except in the dream I miss him.
I just get a few hairs and down he goes.Copy !req
314. It's weird.Copy !req
315. That is weird.Copy !req
316. But you didn't miss him.Copy !req
317. Chris Chambers never misses, does he?Copy !req
318. Not even when
the ladies leave the seat down.Copy !req
319. Race you.Copy !req
320. - No, I don't think so.
- Over to the pump.Copy !req
321. - I'm kind of tired. Go.
- You're a dead man, Lachance!Copy !req
322. It looks like Lachance
has got him this time.Copy !req
323. He's got Chambers beat.Copy !req
324. But what's this?
Chambers is making his move.Copy !req
325. Lachance is fading
and it's Chambers at the tape.Copy !req
326. The crowd goes wild.Copy !req
327. You guys been watching
The Mickey Mouse Club lately?Copy !req
328. I think Annette's tits are getting bigger.Copy !req
329. - You think so?
- I think so.Copy !req
330. I think he's right.Copy !req
331. I've been noticing that the A and the E
are starting to bend around the sides.Copy !req
332. Annette's tits are great.Copy !req
333. This is a really good time.Copy !req
334. The most.Copy !req
335. A blast.Copy !req
336. Vern didn't just mean being off limits
inside the junkyard...Copy !req
337. or fudging on our folks...Copy !req
338. or going on a hike up the tracks
to Harlow. He meant those things, but...Copy !req
339. it seems to me now it was more
and that we all knew it.Copy !req
340. Everything was there and around us.Copy !req
341. We knew exactly who we were
and exactly where we were going.Copy !req
342. It was grand.Copy !req
343. Great, spit at the fat kid. Real good.Copy !req
344. What time is it?Copy !req
345. It's a quarter after one.Copy !req
346. You'd better go get the food.
Junkyard opens at 3:00.Copy !req
347. Chopper'll be here.Copy !req
348. Sic balls.Copy !req
349. You go. You can pick us up
on the way back.Copy !req
350. I'm not going alone. We should all go.Copy !req
351. - I'm staying right here.
- I'm not going.Copy !req
352. Girls, cool it. We'll flip for it.Copy !req
353. Okay.Copy !req
354. Odd man goes.Copy !req
355. That's you, Gordie, odd as a cod.Copy !req
356. Flip or eat lead.Copy !req
357. Four tails.Copy !req
358. Jesus, man, that's a goocher.Copy !req
359. - That doesn't mean anything.
- No, let's go again.Copy !req
360. That's really bad.Copy !req
361. Remember Clint Bracken and those guys
got wiped out on Weed Hill in Durham?Copy !req
362. He said they flipped for beers
and they came up with a goocher...Copy !req
363. just before they got in the car.Copy !req
364. And, bang! They all got totalled.Copy !req
365. I don't like this. Sincerely.Copy !req
366. Nobody believes that crap
about moons and goochers.Copy !req
367. It's baby stuff.
Now come on, flip again.Copy !req
368. Are you going to flip or not?Copy !req
369. We don't have all day.Copy !req
370. You lose, Gordie.Copy !req
371. Gordie loses.Copy !req
372. Old Gordie just screwed the pooch.Copy !req
373. Does the word "retarded"
mean anything to you?Copy !req
374. Go get the provisions, you morphadite.Copy !req
375. Don't call me any
of your mother's pet names.Copy !req
376. What a wet end you are, Lachance.Copy !req
377. Shut up.Copy !req
378. I don't shut up, I grow up.
And when I look at you, I throw up.Copy !req
379. Then your mother goes around the corner
and she licks it up.Copy !req
380. Finding new and disgusting ways
to degrade a friend's mother...Copy !req
381. was always held as high regard.Copy !req
382. Ain't you Denny Lachance's brother?Copy !req
383. Yes, sir.Copy !req
384. Shame what happened to him.Copy !req
385. The Bible says,
"In the midst of life we are in death."Copy !req
386. Did you know that?Copy !req
387. I lost a brother in Korea.Copy !req
388. You look like your brother Denny.Copy !req
389. People ever tell you that?Copy !req
390. Sometimes.Copy !req
391. I remember the year
he was All-Conference.Copy !req
392. Quarterback, he played.Copy !req
393. Boy, could he throw.Copy !req
394. Father God and Sonny Jesus.Copy !req
395. Could be some scouts
at the game tomorrow.Copy !req
396. - I don't know, Pop.
- Dad, could I have the potatoes?Copy !req
397. - That's what I hear, Son.
- Are you going to see Jane after the game?Copy !req
398. I think she's a lovely girl.Copy !req
399. - Dad, may I please have the potatoes?
- Dorothy, don't talk to the boy about girls.Copy !req
400. He shouldn't be thinking about girls.
This is the biggest game of his life.Copy !req
401. - Dennis, when you're there tomorrow...
- Did you read the story Gordie wrote?Copy !req
402. Gordie wrote a story.Copy !req
403. - It was really good.
- What did you write, sweetheart?Copy !req
404. That's what I'm talking about.
Football takes concentration.Copy !req
405. You start in on the girls
and his mind's all over the place.Copy !req
406. I really liked it.Copy !req
407. I thought it was great.Copy !req
408. You play football?Copy !req
409. Do you play football?Copy !req
410. No.Copy !req
411. What do you do?Copy !req
412. I don't know.Copy !req
413. Your brother, Denny,
sure could play football.Copy !req
414. There you go, kid. $1.50 of hamburger.Copy !req
415. You, kid! What are you doing there!
Come over here!Copy !req
416. You, come back here, goddamn it!
I'll sic my dog on you.Copy !req
417. Run!Copy !req
418. Chopper, sic him! Sic him, boy!Copy !req
419. Now he said: "Sic him, boy."Copy !req
420. But what I heard was: "Chopper, sic balls."Copy !req
421. That's Chopper?Copy !req
422. Chopper was my first lesson in the vast
difference between myth and reality.Copy !req
423. Come on, Choppie. Kiss my ass, Choppie.Copy !req
424. Come on, bite shit.Copy !req
425. Sic balls, Choppie.Copy !req
426. You kids stop teasing that dog!
You hear me? Stop teasing him!Copy !req
427. Sonny, I'm gonna beat your ass,
teasing my dog like that!Copy !req
428. Let's see you climb over this fence
and get me, fat ass!Copy !req
429. Don't you call me that!Copy !req
430. You little tin weasel
peckerwood loony's son!Copy !req
431. What did you call me?Copy !req
432. I know who you are,
you're Teddy Duchamp.Copy !req
433. Your dad's a loony.Copy !req
434. A loony up in the nuthouse at Togus.Copy !req
435. He took your ear and he put it
to a stove and he burnt it off.Copy !req
436. My father stormed the beach at Normandy.Copy !req
437. He's crazier than a shithouse rat.
No wonder you're acting the way you are...Copy !req
438. with a loony for a father.Copy !req
439. You call my dad a loony again
and I'll kill you.Copy !req
440. Loony, loony.Copy !req
441. I'm gonna rip your head off
and shit down your neck.Copy !req
442. No, I'm gonna kill him!Copy !req
443. You come on and try it,
you little bastard.Copy !req
444. He wants you to go over so he can beat
you up then take you to the cops.Copy !req
445. You watch your mouth.
Let him do his own fighting.Copy !req
446. Sure, you only outweigh him
by 500 pounds, fat ass.Copy !req
447. I know your name.Copy !req
448. You're Lachance. I know all you guys.Copy !req
449. And your fathers will get a call from me.Copy !req
450. Except for the loony up in Togus.Copy !req
451. I'm going to kill you. I'll show you.Copy !req
452. - Get him away from...
- You foulmouthed whoremaster.Copy !req
453. You son of a bitch!Copy !req
454. You come back here.Copy !req
455. Do you hear me?Copy !req
456. Nobody ranks out my old man.Copy !req
457. - My father stormed the beach...
- I said, "Come back here!"Copy !req
458. - He stormed the beach, you faggot!
- Come back here.Copy !req
459. We showed him.
Thought we were a bunch of pussies.Copy !req
460. He ranked my old man.Copy !req
461. I wondered how he could care so much
for his dad who'd almost killed him...Copy !req
462. and I didn't care about my own
who hadn't touched me since I was three.Copy !req
463. That was for eating bleach under the sink.Copy !req
464. He ranked my old man.Copy !req
465. What do you care what a fat old pile
of shit like him says about your dad?Copy !req
466. He still stormed the beach
at Normandy, right?Copy !req
467. Do you think that pile of shit
was at Normandy?Copy !req
468. Forget it, okay?Copy !req
469. He knows nothin' about your old man.
He's shit.Copy !req
470. Whatever's between you and your old man,
he can't change that.Copy !req
471. Forget it, all right?Copy !req
472. I'm sorry if I'm spoiling
everybody's good time.Copy !req
473. It's okay.Copy !req
474. I'm not sure it should be a good time.Copy !req
475. - You saying you want to go back?
- No.Copy !req
476. But going to see a dead kid,
maybe it shouldn't be a party.Copy !req
477. If he's really bad, like all cut up
with blood and shit all over him...Copy !req
478. I might have nightmares.Copy !req
479. All guts and eyeballs
ready to jump and grab...Copy !req
480. Shut up, goddamn it!Copy !req
481. I can't help it.Copy !req
482. Sorry.Copy !req
483. It was only a quarter to three,
but it felt much later.Copy !req
484. It was too hot and too much had happened.Copy !req
485. We weren't even close to the Royal River.Copy !req
486. We needed to get moving if we were
going to make some real miles before dark.Copy !req
487. Hold still, will you?Copy !req
488. So what's with you
and this Connie Palermo chick?Copy !req
489. I've been seeing her for over a month,
and all she'll let me do is feel her tits.Copy !req
490. She's a Catholic. They're all like that.Copy !req
491. You want to get laid
you gotta get yourself a Protestant.Copy !req
492. A Jew's good.Copy !req
493. A KLAM newsbreak.Copy !req
494. We interrupt to bring you an update
on the search for...Copy !req
495. 12 year-old Ray Brower.Copy !req
496. The police have expanded their search
to Mutton...Copy !req
497. Durham and the outlying areas.Copy !req
498. When are they going to give up?Copy !req
499. The kid's gone. They'll never find him.Copy !req
500. Not where they're looking.Copy !req
501. I was right,
they ain't never gonna find him.Copy !req
502. Would you hold still?
You're making me fuck up the snake part.Copy !req
503. I'll tell you how they're gonna find him.Copy !req
504. Ten years from now a hunter's going to go
into the woods to take a leak...Copy !req
505. wind up pissing on his bones.Copy !req
506. I bet you a $1,000
they find him before that.Copy !req
507. Bet you $2,000 they don't.Copy !req
508. - Well, asshole...
- What's the big deal?Copy !req
509. - Who cares?
- Would you two just shut the fuck up.Copy !req
510. If either one of you assholes
had $2,000, I'd kill you both.Copy !req
511. We're back here with The Bossman.Copy !req
512. From the racks and stacks,
it's the best on wax.Copy !req
513. It's the Cordettes, with Lollipop.Copy !req
514. I got some Winstons.Copy !req
515. Hocked them off my old man's dresser.Copy !req
516. One apiece, for after supper.Copy !req
517. That's cool.Copy !req
518. That's when a cigarette tastes best,
after supper.Copy !req
519. Right.Copy !req
520. Do you think I'm weird?Copy !req
521. - Definitely.
- No, seriously.Copy !req
522. Am I weird?Copy !req
523. Yes, but so what? Everybody's weird.Copy !req
524. You ready for school?Copy !req
525. Junior high.Copy !req
526. You know what that means.Copy !req
527. By next June we'll all be split up.Copy !req
528. What are you talking about?
Why would that happen?Copy !req
529. 'Cause it's not going to be like
grammar school, that's why.Copy !req
530. You'll be taking college courses,
and me, Teddy, Vern we'll all be...Copy !req
531. in the shop courses
making ashtrays and birdhouses.Copy !req
532. You're gonna meet a lot of new guys.
Smart guys.Copy !req
533. - Meet a lot of pussies is what you mean.
- No, man.Copy !req
534. Don't say that. Don't even think that.Copy !req
535. - I'm not going in with a lot of pussies.
- Then you're an asshole.Copy !req
536. What's asshole with wanting
to be with your friends?Copy !req
537. It's asshole if your
friends drag you down.Copy !req
538. You hang with us, you'll just be
another wise guy with shit for brains.Copy !req
539. You think Mighty Mouse could
beat up Superman?Copy !req
540. - What are you, cracked?
- Why not?Copy !req
541. The other day, he was carrying
five elephants in one hand.Copy !req
542. You don't know nothin'.Copy !req
543. Mighty Mouse is a cartoon.Copy !req
544. Superman is a real guy.
No way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.Copy !req
545. Yeah, maybe you're right.Copy !req
546. Would be a good fight, though.Copy !req
547. You could be a real writer someday.Copy !req
548. Fuck writing! I don't to be a writer.Copy !req
549. - It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- That's your dad talking.Copy !req
550. - Bullshit!
- Bulltrue!Copy !req
551. I know how your dad feels about you.
He doesn't care about you.Copy !req
552. Denny was the one he cared about,
and don't try to tell me different.Copy !req
553. You're just a kid, Gordie.Copy !req
554. Gee thanks, Dad.Copy !req
555. I wish to hell I was your dad.Copy !req
556. You wouldn't be talking about taking
these stupid shop courses if I was.Copy !req
557. It's like God gave you something, man,
all those stories that you can make up...Copy !req
558. and He said, "This is what we got
for you. Try not to lose it."Copy !req
559. Kids lose everything unless there's
someone there to look out for them.Copy !req
560. If your parents are too fucked-up to do it,
then maybe I should.Copy !req
561. Come on, you guys, let's get moving.Copy !req
562. By the time we get there
the kid won't even be dead anymore.Copy !req
563. Any of you guys know
when the next train is due?Copy !req
564. We could go down to the Route 136 Bridge.Copy !req
565. What? Are you crazy?
That's five miles down the river.Copy !req
566. You walk five miles down the river,
you gotta walk five miles back.Copy !req
567. That could take till dark.Copy !req
568. We go across here, we can get
to the same place in 10 minutes.Copy !req
569. But if a train comes,
there's nowhere to go.Copy !req
570. No, there isn't. You just jump.Copy !req
571. - Teddy, it's a 100 feet.
- Yeah, Teddy.Copy !req
572. You guys can go around if you want.Copy !req
573. I'm crossing here.Copy !req
574. And while you guys
are dragging your candyasses...Copy !req
575. half-way across the state and back,
I'll be waiting for you on the other side...Copy !req
576. relaxing with my thoughts.Copy !req
577. You use your left hand
or your right hand for that?Copy !req
578. You wish.Copy !req
579. I lost the comb.Copy !req
580. Forget it, Vern.Copy !req
581. Train!Copy !req
582. Shit!Copy !req
583. Move it, man! Go on! Move it!Copy !req
584. Get up, Vern! Damn it!Copy !req
585. Get up! Move it!Copy !req
586. Shit, Vern!Copy !req
587. - Get up, man!
- I don't want to. We're gonna fall.Copy !req
588. We're gonna die, damn it! Get up!Copy !req
589. Go.Copy !req
590. - You've got to go faster!
- I can't, Gordie!Copy !req
591. Run!Copy !req
592. Run, Vern, run! Move your ass!Copy !req
593. Run, goddamn it, run!Copy !req
594. At least now we know
when the next train was due.Copy !req
595. That was the all-time train dodge.
Too cool.Copy !req
596. You were so scared you looked like
Abbott Costello when he saw the mummy.Copy !req
597. I wasn't that scared.Copy !req
598. No, really, I wasn't. Sincerely.Copy !req
599. Then you won't mind if we check
your underpants for Hershey squirts.Copy !req
600. Go screw.Copy !req
601. You'd better turn yours over.Copy !req
602. This is the way I like to do it.Copy !req
603. Man!Copy !req
604. You got any more, Gordie?Copy !req
605. Sorry, Vern.Copy !req
606. It's not funny.
What am I supposed to eat?Copy !req
607. - Why don't you cook your dick?
- It'd be a small meal.Copy !req
608. Screw you guys, I got it.Copy !req
609. Nothing like a smoke after a meal.Copy !req
610. I cherish these moments.Copy !req
611. What? What did I say?Copy !req
612. Gordie, why don't you tell us a story?Copy !req
613. I don't know.Copy !req
614. - Come on.
- Yeah, come on, Gordie.Copy !req
615. None of your horror stories, okay?Copy !req
616. I don't want to hear no horror stories.
I'm not up for that.Copy !req
617. Tell us one about Sergeant Steel
and his battling leathernecks.Copy !req
618. The one I've been thinking about
is kind of different.Copy !req
619. It's about this pie-eating contest.Copy !req
620. The main guy of the story is this fat kid
that nobody likes, named Davie Hogan.Copy !req
621. Like Charlie Hogan's
brother, if he had one.Copy !req
622. Good, Vern.Copy !req
623. Go on.Copy !req
624. Well, this kid, he's our age,
but he's fat. Real fat.Copy !req
625. He weighs close to 180,
but it's not his fault. It's his glands.Copy !req
626. My cousin's like that. Sincerely.Copy !req
627. She weighs over 300 pounds. Supposed
to be a "hyboid" gland or somethin'.Copy !req
628. I don't know about any "hyboid" gland,
but what a blimp!Copy !req
629. No shit.
She looks like a Thanksgiving turkey.Copy !req
630. - And, you know, this one time...
- Shut up, Vern.Copy !req
631. Right. Go on. It's a swell story.Copy !req
632. All the kids, instead of calling him Davie,
they called him Lardass. Lardass Hogan.Copy !req
633. Even his little brother
and sister called him Lardass.Copy !req
634. At school they put this sticker on his back
that says, "Wide Load."Copy !req
635. And they rank him out and beat him up
whenever they get a chance.Copy !req
636. But one day he gets an idea.Copy !req
637. The greatest revenge idea a kid ever had.Copy !req
638. Is this thing on? Can you hear me?Copy !req
639. The next contestant
in the Great Tri-County Pie Eat...Copy !req
640. Principal John Wiggins.Copy !req
641. And our celebrity contestant,
from KLAM in Portland...Copy !req
642. The Boss-man himself, Bob Cormier!Copy !req
643. From the racks and stacks
it's the best on wax...Copy !req
644. how about another double, golden oldie,
sound sandwich from KLAM in Portland...Copy !req
645. - it's...
- Boss!Copy !req
646. Next, a newcomer to the Pie Eat,
but one we expect...Copy !req
647. great things from in the future,
young Master David Hogan.Copy !req
648. - Are you all right, young man?
- Lardass how was your trip?Copy !req
649. I hear you got a big appetite, Lardass.Copy !req
650. Don't even think about winning this.Copy !req
651. Boy are you fat.Copy !req
652. Don't pay attention to those fools,
Lardass. Davie.Copy !req
653. And now,
the one you've all been waiting for.Copy !req
654. The four-time champion,
our own Bill Travis.Copy !req
655. Listen I got $10 riding
on you myself, Billy Boy.Copy !req
656. All right. Are you ready?Copy !req
657. Hands behind your backs, gentlemen.Copy !req
658. Drum roll.Copy !req
659. Hey, Lardass. Chow down, Wide Load.Copy !req
660. Go.Copy !req
661. Done!Copy !req
662. Done!Copy !req
663. Done!Copy !req
664. You better pace yourself,
if you want to hold out.Copy !req
665. Come on, Lardass!Copy !req
666. Lardass, Lardass!Copy !req
667. What the audience didn't know, was
that Lardass wasn't interested in winning.Copy !req
668. What he wanted was revenge.Copy !req
669. And right before he was introduced,
he'd gotten ready for it.Copy !req
670. Principal John Wiggins.Copy !req
671. And our celebrity contestant
from KLAM in Portland...Copy !req
672. The Bossman himself, Bob Cormier!Copy !req
673. From the racks and stacks
it's the best on wax...Copy !req
674. how about another double, golden oldie,
sound sandwich from KLAM in Portland...Copy !req
675. it's...Copy !req
676. Done.Copy !req
677. Diving into his fifth pie, Lardass began
to imagine that he wasn't eating pies.Copy !req
678. He pretended he was eating cowflops...Copy !req
679. and rat guts in blueberry sauce.Copy !req
680. Done.Copy !req
681. Slowly, a sound started to build
in Lardass's stomach.Copy !req
682. A strange and scary sound...Copy !req
683. like a log truck coming
at you at 100 miles an hour.Copy !req
684. Suddenly, Lardass opened his mouth...Copy !req
685. and before Bill Travis knew it...Copy !req
686. he was covered with five pies worth
of used blueberries.Copy !req
687. The women in the audience screamed.Copy !req
688. Bossman Bob Cormier took one look
at Bill Travis and barfed on Wiggins.Copy !req
689. Wiggins barfed on the lumberjack
that was sitting next to him.Copy !req
690. Mayor Grundy barfed on his wife's tits!Copy !req
691. But when the smell hit the crowd...Copy !req
692. that's when Lardass's plan
really started to work.Copy !req
693. Girlfriends barfed on boyfriends.Copy !req
694. Kids barfed on their parents.Copy !req
695. A fat lady barfed in her purse.Copy !req
696. The Donelley twins barfed on each other.Copy !req
697. The Women's Auxiliary barfed all over
the Benevolent Order of Antelopes.Copy !req
698. And Lardass just sat back
and enjoyed what he'd created.Copy !req
699. A complete and total barfarama.Copy !req
700. - Too cool!
- That was the best, just the best.Copy !req
701. Then what happened?Copy !req
702. What do you mean?Copy !req
703. I mean, what happened?Copy !req
704. What do you mean, "What happened?"
That's the end.Copy !req
705. How can that be the end? What kind of an
ending is that? What happens to Lardass?Copy !req
706. I don't know.Copy !req
707. Maybe he went home and celebrated
with a couple of cheeseburgers.Copy !req
708. Jesus, that ending sucks.Copy !req
709. Why don't you make it
so that Lardass goes home...Copy !req
710. and he shoots his father.Copy !req
711. Then he runs away
and he joins the Texas Rangers.Copy !req
712. How about that?Copy !req
713. I don't know.Copy !req
714. Something good like that.Copy !req
715. I like the ending. The barfing was good.Copy !req
716. But there's one thing
I didn't understand.Copy !req
717. Did Lardass have to pay
to get into the contest?Copy !req
718. No, Vern, they just let him in.Copy !req
719. Great, great story.Copy !req
720. It's a great story.
I just didn't like the ending.Copy !req
721. Where's the radio?
Let's see if we can get some sounds.Copy !req
722. Here.Copy !req
723. We talked into the night.Copy !req
724. The kind of talk that seemed important
until you discover girls.Copy !req
725. All right.Copy !req
726. Mickey's a Mouse. Donald's a duck.
Pluto's a dog.Copy !req
727. What's Goofy?Copy !req
728. If I could only have one food
for the rest of my life?Copy !req
729. That's easy. Pez.Copy !req
730. Cherry flavored Pez.
No question about it.Copy !req
731. Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.Copy !req
732. I knew the $64,000 Question was fixed.Copy !req
733. There's no way anybody can know
that much about opera.Copy !req
734. He can't be a dog.
He wears a hat and drives a car.Copy !req
735. Wagon Train is a really cool show...Copy !req
736. but did you ever notice
that they never get anywhere?Copy !req
737. They just keep wagon training.Copy !req
738. God, that's weird.Copy !req
739. What the hell is Goofy?Copy !req
740. Not one of us mentioned Ray Brower,
but we were all thinking about him.Copy !req
741. Oh, my God.Copy !req
742. It's the Brower kid.Copy !req
743. His ghost is out walking in the woods.Copy !req
744. I promise I won't hock
no more dirty books.Copy !req
745. I promise I won't say no more bad swears.
I promise I'll eat my lima beans.Copy !req
746. Two for flinching.Copy !req
747. What is it, Chris?Copy !req
748. Maybe it's coyotes.Copy !req
749. Sounds like a woman screaming.Copy !req
750. It's not coyotes. It's his ghost.Copy !req
751. Don't say that.Copy !req
752. Teddy, sit down.Copy !req
753. I'm gonna go look for it.
I want to see the ghost.Copy !req
754. Don't say that.Copy !req
755. I just want to see it!
I just want to see what he looks like.Copy !req
756. Jesus H. Bald-headed Christ!Copy !req
757. Maybe we should stand guard.Copy !req
758. That's a good idea.Copy !req
759. Give me the gun.
I'll take the first watch.Copy !req
760. 23:00 hours.
Corporal Teddy Duchamp stands guard.Copy !req
761. No sign of the enemy. The fort is secure.Copy !req
762. Shut up, Teddy,
and keep your eyes peeled.Copy !req
763. - Cut it out.
- I'm trying to sleep.Copy !req
764. The dogfaces rested easy...Copy !req
765. in the knowledge that
Corporal Teddy Duchamp...Copy !req
766. was protecting all that was dear to them.Copy !req
767. It should have been you, Gordon.Copy !req
768. Are you okay?Copy !req
769. You were dreaming.Copy !req
770. I didn't cry at Denny's funeral.Copy !req
771. I miss him, Chris.Copy !req
772. I really miss him.Copy !req
773. I know.Copy !req
774. Go back to sleep.Copy !req
775. Maybe you could go
into the college courses with me.Copy !req
776. That'll be the day.Copy !req
777. Why not? You're smart enough.Copy !req
778. They won't let me.Copy !req
779. What do you mean?Copy !req
780. It's the way the people think
of my family in this town.Copy !req
781. It's the way they think of me. I'm just one
of those low-life Chambers kids.Copy !req
782. That's not true.Copy !req
783. It is.Copy !req
784. No one asked me if I took the milk money.Copy !req
785. I just got a three-day vacation.Copy !req
786. Did you take it?Copy !req
787. Yeah, I took it. You knew I took it.Copy !req
788. Teddy knew I took it.Copy !req
789. Everyone knew I took it.
Even Vern knew, I think.Copy !req
790. Maybe I was sorry,
and I tried to give it back.Copy !req
791. You tried to give it back?Copy !req
792. Maybe, just maybe.Copy !req
793. Maybe I took it to Old Lady Simons
and told her, and the money was all there.Copy !req
794. But I still got a three-day vacation,
because it never showed up.Copy !req
795. And maybe the next week,
old Lady Simons...Copy !req
796. had this brand new skirt on
when she came to school.Copy !req
797. Yeah, it was brown and it had dots on it.Copy !req
798. Let's just say that I stole the milk money,
but old Lady Simons stole it back from me.Copy !req
799. Just suppose that I told this story.Copy !req
800. Me, Chris Chambers,
kid brother to Eyeball Chambers.Copy !req
801. Do you think anyone
would have believed it?Copy !req
802. No.Copy !req
803. You think that bitch would have tried that
if it had been one of those douche bags...Copy !req
804. from The View,
if they had taken the money?Copy !req
805. - No way.
- Hell, no.Copy !req
806. But, with me...Copy !req
807. I'm sure she had her eye on that skirt
for a long time.Copy !req
808. Anyway, she saw her chance
and she took it.Copy !req
809. I was the stupid one
for even trying to give it back.Copy !req
810. I just never thought...Copy !req
811. I never thought that a teacher...Copy !req
812. Who gives a fuck anyway?Copy !req
813. I just wish...Copy !req
814. that I could go someplace
where nobody knows me.Copy !req
815. I guess I'm just a pussy.Copy !req
816. No way, man.Copy !req
817. The freight woke up the other guys...Copy !req
818. and it was on the tip of my tongue
to tell them about the deer, but I didn't.Copy !req
819. That was the one thing I kept to myself.Copy !req
820. I've never spoken or written of it
until just now.Copy !req
821. How come you didn't get
some breakfast stuff like...Copy !req
822. Twinkies, and Pez, and root beer?Copy !req
823. Sorry. I guess a more experienced shopper
could've gotten more for your 7 cents.Copy !req
824. With our stomachs rumbling,
we pressed on toward the Royal River.Copy !req
825. The reality of Ray Brower was growing,
and kept us moving despite the heat.Copy !req
826. For me, the idea
of seeing that kid's dead body...Copy !req
827. was starting to become an obsession.Copy !req
828. Gentlemen, the Royal.Copy !req
829. God, the tracks go way out of the way.Copy !req
830. We cut across this field right here,
we'll be there in an hour.Copy !req
831. I think we should stick to the tracks.Copy !req
832. I say we go across the field.Copy !req
833. Gordie?Copy !req
834. - Yeah.
- Let's go.Copy !req
835. Take no prisoners!Copy !req
836. You guys, it's a lot safer if we...Copy !req
837. Come on, men. Let's take on the...Copy !req
838. You don't know what's in those woods.Copy !req
839. You guys, wait up for me!Copy !req
840. I gotta tell you something,
but swear on your mother's name...Copy !req
841. that you won't tell anybody.Copy !req
842. You got it, pal.Copy !req
843. Eyeball, you know that Brower kid?Copy !req
844. What about him?Copy !req
845. I'll tell you something, but you must swear
on your mother's good name...Copy !req
846. you won't tell nobody.Copy !req
847. Billy and Charlie had managed to keep
their enormous secret for about 36 hours.Copy !req
848. A personal record for both of them.Copy !req
849. By noon, Ace and Eyeball had told
their secret to everybody in the gang.Copy !req
850. I guess for those guys, protecting their
mother's good name wasn't a top priority.Copy !req
851. Ace, maybe me and Charlie shouldn't go.Copy !req
852. Maybe you could go without us?Copy !req
853. You guys are acting like my grandmother
having a conniption fit.Copy !req
854. I don't see your problem.Copy !req
855. We take a bunch of fishing gear,
so if a cop asks us what we're doing:Copy !req
856. "We're here to take a couple of steelhead
out of the river. Look what we found."Copy !req
857. Come on, man, we're gonna be famous.Copy !req
858. We'll be on every radio and TV show
in the country.Copy !req
859. I still don't think we should go.Copy !req
860. Okay.Copy !req
861. You've stated your position clearly.Copy !req
862. Now, I'm gonna state mine.Copy !req
863. Get in the fucking car. Now!Copy !req
864. Let's go, man.Copy !req
865. - I hate this shortcut.
- "I hate this shortcut."Copy !req
866. You flinched! Two for flinching.Copy !req
867. But you flinched.Copy !req
868. I know. Two for flinching.Copy !req
869. How are we supposed to get across this?Copy !req
870. - We use you as a raft.
- Very funny.Copy !req
871. It's not that deep. We can walk across.Copy !req
872. I told you we should have stuck
to the tracks.Copy !req
873. Is it me,
or are you the world's biggest pussy?Copy !req
874. I suppose this is fun for you.Copy !req
875. No, but this is.Copy !req
876. Want some more?Copy !req
877. - Stop it, come on!
- Act your age.Copy !req
878. This is my age.Copy !req
879. I'm in the prime of my youth,
and I'll only be young once.Copy !req
880. But you're going to be stupid
for the rest of your life.Copy !req
881. That's it, Chambers.
You just signed your own death warrant.Copy !req
882. You die, Chambers!Copy !req
883. Get him, Chambers!Copy !req
884. - Vern's afraid he's gonna die!
- Teddy, you're gonna die!Copy !req
885. Where do you think
you're going, Lachance?Copy !req
886. Come on, you guys.Copy !req
887. Pile on!Copy !req
888. I don't want to do this.Copy !req
889. Get off!Copy !req
890. - Sleeper hold.
- Stop it. I'm serious.Copy !req
891. No one gets out of the sleeper hold.Copy !req
892. - Vern, there's something on your neck.
- I'm not falling for that one, Lachance.Copy !req
893. No, there is something on your neck.Copy !req
894. It's a leech. Leeches!Copy !req
895. - Oh, my God!
- Leeches!Copy !req
896. Get them off!Copy !req
897. Lay off me!Copy !req
898. - Gordie, there's some on your back.
- Get them off!Copy !req
899. Are there any on mine?Copy !req
900. Oh, shit, Chris.Copy !req
901. Oh, shit, man.Copy !req
902. Are you okay?Copy !req
903. Can you hear me?Copy !req
904. Are you there?Copy !req
905. Maybe he's dead.Copy !req
906. He's not dead.
He's still breathing, idiot.Copy !req
907. I don't know.Copy !req
908. Just cool it, you guys. He just fainted.Copy !req
909. I never met anybody who fainted before.Copy !req
910. Maybe he made a bad mistake
and looked at your face.Copy !req
911. Shut up, Teddy.Copy !req
912. You okay?Copy !req
913. - Yeah.
- Let's go.Copy !req
914. Maybe we should take Gordie back.Copy !req
915. Great, Chambers,
now you're turning pussy, too!Copy !req
916. What's your problem?
He had a leech on his balls. He fainted.Copy !req
917. Are you his mother?Copy !req
918. - Eat shit.
- You eat shit.Copy !req
919. I think Chris is right. Let's go back.Copy !req
920. What a surprise! The king of the pussies
wants to go back, too.Copy !req
921. - Stop calling me that.
- What, "pussy"? Pussy!Copy !req
922. - Stop it!
- Pussy!Copy !req
923. You four-eyed psycho!Copy !req
924. Get off me!Copy !req
925. Two for flinching.
Do I get two for flinching?Copy !req
926. You like it, Teddy?Copy !req
927. - Come on, you guys. Break it up.
- Stop it!Copy !req
928. I'm not going back.Copy !req
929. - Idiot.
- Shut up! Retard.Copy !req
930. At the time, I didn't know why I needed
to see that body so badly.Copy !req
931. Even if no one had followed me,
I would have gone on alone.Copy !req
932. No way, Ace! Not this time, man.
No way!Copy !req
933. - Go for it, Vince.
- You want to race?Copy !req
934. Oh, my God, I got him.Copy !req
935. You are history. History!Copy !req
936. - Fall back, Ace.
- Don't fuck around.Copy !req
937. Jesus Christ, Ace! Fall back, man!Copy !req
938. Shit, man! Shit!Copy !req
939. I won.Copy !req
940. You let him beat you, you cock-knocker.Copy !req
941. Coming though the woods,
I bet we saved over an hour.Copy !req
942. Is this the Back Harlow Road?Copy !req
943. The Brower kid must be
around here someplace.Copy !req
944. Teddy and Vern
watch the left side of the tracks.Copy !req
945. - We'll take the right.
- All right.Copy !req
946. There he is! I see him! Look!Copy !req
947. Look over there! I see him!Copy !req
948. None of us could breathe.Copy !req
949. Somewhere under those bushes
was the rest of Ray Brower.Copy !req
950. The train had knocked Ray
out of his Keds...Copy !req
951. just like it had knocked the life
out of his body.Copy !req
952. Jesus.Copy !req
953. The kid wasn't sick.Copy !req
954. The kid wasn't sleeping.Copy !req
955. The kid was dead.Copy !req
956. Let's look for some long branches.
We'll build him a stretcher.Copy !req
957. Gordie?Copy !req
958. Why did you have to die?Copy !req
959. What's the matter with Gordie?Copy !req
960. Nothing.Copy !req
961. You guys just go over there
and look for some branches?Copy !req
962. Okay.Copy !req
963. Why did he have to die, Chris?Copy !req
964. Why did Denny have to die? Why?Copy !req
965. I don't know.Copy !req
966. - It should have been me.
- Don't say that.Copy !req
967. - It should have been me.
- Don't say that, man.Copy !req
968. I'm no good.
My dad said it. I'm no good.Copy !req
969. He doesn't know you.Copy !req
970. He hates me.Copy !req
971. He doesn't hate you.Copy !req
972. - He hates me.
- No.Copy !req
973. He just doesn't know you.Copy !req
974. He hates me. My dad hates me.Copy !req
975. He hates me. Oh, God.Copy !req
976. You're gonna be a great writer someday.Copy !req
977. You might even write about us guys,
if you ever get hard-up for material.Copy !req
978. I guess I'd have to be pretty hard-up?Copy !req
979. Yeah.Copy !req
980. What the fuck do you know about this?Copy !req
981. Son of a bitch! My little brother.Copy !req
982. You wasn't planning on taking
the body from us, was you, boys?Copy !req
983. You get away.Copy !req
984. We found him. We got dibs.Copy !req
985. We better start running, Eyeball.
They got dibs.Copy !req
986. We earned him. You guys came in a car.
That's not fair. He's ours.Copy !req
987. "That's not fair. He's ours."Copy !req
988. Well, not anymore.Copy !req
989. There are four of us, Eyeball.
You just make your move.Copy !req
990. We will. Don't you worry.Copy !req
991. Vern, you little son of a whore.Copy !req
992. - You was under the porch.
- No, I swear it wasn't me.Copy !req
993. You keyhole-peeping bung.
I ought to beat the living shit out of you.Copy !req
994. You guys have two choices.Copy !req
995. Either leave quietly and we take the body...Copy !req
996. or you stay
and we beat the shit out of you.Copy !req
997. And we take the body.Copy !req
998. - Besides, me and Billy found him first.
- Vern told us how you found him.Copy !req
999. "Billy, I wish we'd never boosted that car."Copy !req
1000. "Billy, I think I just turned
my Fruit of the Looms into fudge factory."Copy !req
1001. - That's it. Your ass is grass!
- Hold it.Copy !req
1002. Okay, Chambers, you little faggot.
This is your last chance.Copy !req
1003. What do you say, kid?Copy !req
1004. Why don't you go home
and fuck your mother some more?Copy !req
1005. You're dead.Copy !req
1006. Come on, let's split.Copy !req
1007. - They're not taking him.
- Come on, this is crazy.Copy !req
1008. - They're not taking him.
- He's got a knife, man.Copy !req
1009. Ace, come on.Copy !req
1010. You're gonna have to kill me, Ace.Copy !req
1011. No problem.Copy !req
1012. You're not taking him.
Nobody's taking him.Copy !req
1013. Come on, kid, just give me the gun
before you take your foot off.Copy !req
1014. You ain't got the sack
to shoot a woodchuck.Copy !req
1015. Don't move, Ace.Copy !req
1016. I'll kill you. I swear to God.Copy !req
1017. Come on, Lachance, give me the gun.Copy !req
1018. You must have at least some
of your brother's good sense.Copy !req
1019. Suck my fat one,
you cheap dime-store hood.Copy !req
1020. What are you going to do, shoot us all?Copy !req
1021. No, just you.Copy !req
1022. We're gonna get you for this.Copy !req
1023. Maybe you will and maybe you won't.Copy !req
1024. We will.Copy !req
1025. We're not going to forget this,
if that's what you're thinking.Copy !req
1026. This is big time, baby.Copy !req
1027. "Suck my fat one"?Copy !req
1028. Whoever told you,
you had a fat one, Lachance?Copy !req
1029. Biggest one in four counties.Copy !req
1030. Are we going to take him?Copy !req
1031. No.Copy !req
1032. But we came all this way?Copy !req
1033. We're supposed to be heroes.Copy !req
1034. Not this way, Teddy.Copy !req
1035. Chris, give me a hand.Copy !req
1036. Ray Brower's body was found...Copy !req
1037. but neither our gang
nor their gang got the credit.Copy !req
1038. We decided that an anonymous phone call
was the best thing to do.Copy !req
1039. We headed home. And although
many thoughts raced through our minds...Copy !req
1040. we barely spoke.Copy !req
1041. We walked all night
and made it back to Castle Rock...Copy !req
1042. a little past 5:00 on Sunday morning,
the day before Labour Day.Copy !req
1043. We'd only been gone two days,
but somehow the town seemed different...Copy !req
1044. smaller.Copy !req
1045. See you in school.Copy !req
1046. See you in Junior High.Copy !req
1047. Penny.Copy !req
1048. I better get home, before my mom
puts me on the "10 Most Wanted List."Copy !req
1049. No hard feelings, okay?Copy !req
1050. No way, man.Copy !req
1051. As time went on we saw less and less
of Teddy and Vern...Copy !req
1052. until eventually they became
just two more faces in the halls.Copy !req
1053. It happens sometimes.Copy !req
1054. Friends come in and out of your life
like busboys in a restaurant.Copy !req
1055. I heard that Vern got married
out of high school, had four kids...Copy !req
1056. and is now the forklift operator
at the Arsenault Lumber Yard.Copy !req
1057. Teddy tried to get into the Army,
but his eyes and his ear kept him out.Copy !req
1058. Last I'd heard
he'd spent some time in jail...Copy !req
1059. and was now doing odd jobs
around Castle Rock.Copy !req
1060. I'm never gonna get out of this town,
am I, Gordie?Copy !req
1061. You can do anything you want, man.Copy !req
1062. Sure.Copy !req
1063. Give me some skin.Copy !req
1064. I'll see you.Copy !req
1065. Not if I see you first.Copy !req
1066. Chris did get out.Copy !req
1067. He enrolled in the
college courses with me.Copy !req
1068. And although it was hard,
he gutted it out like he always did.Copy !req
1069. He went on to college
and eventually became a lawyer.Copy !req
1070. Last week,
he entered a fast-food restaurant.Copy !req
1071. Just ahead of him,
two men got into an argument.Copy !req
1072. One of them pulled a knife.Copy !req
1073. Chris, who'd always made the best peace,
tried to break it up.Copy !req
1074. He was stabbed in the throat.Copy !req
1075. He died almost instantly.Copy !req
1076. Dad, can we go now?Copy !req
1077. - You ready?
- We've been ready for an hour.Copy !req
1078. I'll be right there.Copy !req
1079. He said that a half hour ago.Copy !req
1080. Yeah my dad's weird.
He gets like that when he's writing.Copy !req