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 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 here.
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. Hey, 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, Ole' 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? Come on.
I've got 30, 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 forget the secret knock. Let me in.Copy !req
38. Vern.Copy !req
39. Come on, you guys, open up.Copy !req
40. Oh, man, you guys are not gonna
believe this. This is so boss.Copy !req
41. Oh, man, 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 homeCopy !req
45. Come on. You guys, listen to me,
'cause this is boss.Copy !req
46. Just to say I'm sorryCopy !req
47. Okay, forget it.
I don't have to tell you nothing.Copy !req
48. Hold on, you guys. Hold on.
What is it, man?Copy !req
49. Okay, great,
you won't believe this, sincerely.Copy !req
50. I ran all the way homeCopy !req
51. Screw you guys. Forget it.Copy !req
52. What is it?Copy !req
53. Can you guys camp out tonight?Copy !req
54. I mean, if you tell your folks
we're gonna tent out in my back field?Copy !req
55. Yeah, 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, man. 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, Verno?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. Well, 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 quart jar of penniesCopy !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 to laugh or cry.Copy !req
74. Jesus Christ, Billy. We gotta do something.Copy !req
75. Why? Who cares?Copy !req
76. - We saw him.
- So?Copy !req
77. It ain't nothing to us. The kid's dead
so it ain't nothing to him, neither.Copy !req
78. And who gives a shit if they ever find him?
I don't.Copy !req
79. But it's that kid they were 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 very closely,Copy !req
84. because he was a kid our age.Copy !req
85. Three days before, he'd gone out to pick
blueberries and nobody had 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, you idiot.Copy !req
88. They're gonna want to know how the hell
we got way out on Back Harlow Road.Copy !req
89. Now they know we don't got no car.Copy !req
90. It's best we just keep our mouth shut,
and then they can't touch us.Copy !req
91. Look, 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 just wish we never boosted
that goddamned Dodge.Copy !req
95. I wish Ace had been with us.
We could've told the cops we was in his car.Copy !req
96. Well, he wasn't!Copy !req
97. - Are we gonna tell him?
- We're not gonna 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 used to fish for Cossies
out there.Copy !req
102. Jesus Christ, man,
if they would have known youCopy !req
103. were under there, they would've killed you.Copy !req
104. Could he have gotten all the way from
Chamberlain to Harlow? That's really far.Copy !req
105. Sure. He must have started walking
on the train tracksCopy !req
106. and just followed them the whole way.Copy !req
107. Yeah. Yeah, right.Copy !req
108. And then after dark, a train must have
come along and... el smacko.Copy !req
109. Yeah.Copy !req
110. Hey. Hey, you guys,Copy !req
111. I bet you anything that if we find him,
we'll get our pictures in the paper.Copy !req
112. - Yeah, we could even be on TV.
- Sure.Copy !req
113. - We'll be heroes.
- Yeah.Copy !req
114. I don't know. Billy will know I found out.Copy !req
115. He's not gonna care.
'Cause it's gonna be us guys that find him.Copy !req
116. Not Billy and Charlie Hogan,
and the boosted car.Copy !req
117. They'll probably pin a medal on you, Vern.Copy !req
118. Yeah, you think so?Copy !req
119. Sure.Copy !req
120. What'll we tell our folks?Copy !req
121. Exactly what you said.Copy !req
122. We'll all tell our folks
we're tenting out in your back field.Copy !req
123. You tell your folks
you're sleeping over at Teddy's.Copy !req
124. Then we say we're going over
to the drag races the next day.Copy !req
125. We're rock solid
until dinner tomorrow night.Copy !req
126. Man, that's a plan-and-a-half.Copy !req
127. But if we do find that kid's body
over in South Harlow,Copy !req
128. they'll know we didn't go to the drag races.
We'll get hided.Copy !req
129. Nobody will careCopy !req
130. because everybody's gonna be so jazzed
about what we foundCopy !req
131. - it's not gonna make a difference.
- Yeah.Copy !req
132. My dad will hide me anyway,
but hell, it's worth a hiding.Copy !req
133. - Shit, yeah.
- Let's do it. What do you say?Copy !req
134. - All right.
- Gordie?Copy !req
135. Sure.Copy !req
136. Vern?Copy !req
137. I don't know.Copy !req
138. Vern.Copy !req
139. Come on, Verno.Copy !req
140. Vern.Copy !req
141. - Come on, Verno.
- Come on, Verno.Copy !req
142. - Okay.
- All right.Copy !req
143. Too cool, too cool! Very cool!
Very, very cool! Yes!Copy !req
144. I wanted to share my friends' enthusiasm,
but I couldn't.Copy !req
145. That summer at home,
I had become the Invisible Boy.Copy !req
146. Mom, do you know where my canteen is?Copy !req
147. Mom?Copy !req
148. It's in Denny's room.Copy !req
149. In April, my older brother, Dennis,
had been killed in a jeep accident.Copy !req
150. Four months had passed,Copy !req
151. but my parents still hadn't been able
to put the pieces back together again.Copy !req
152. Gordie, I got something for you.Copy !req
153. This, my friend, is for you.Copy !req
154. - But, Denny, this is your Yankee cap.
- No, this is your Yankee cap.Copy !req
155. It's a good-luck cap. You wear that cap you
know how many fish we're gonna catch?Copy !req
156. - How much?
- A bazillion.Copy !req
157. A bazillion fish. And it looks good
on you, too. Just like that.Copy !req
158. Hey, Moe, I'm going blind.Copy !req
159. Don't start with me, porcupine.
Come here, give me a hug.Copy !req
160. You found it.Copy !req
161. You found it.Copy !req
162. Yeah.Copy !req
163. Why can't you have friends like Denny's?Copy !req
164. Dad, they're okay.Copy !req
165. Sure they are. A thief and two feebs.Copy !req
166. Chris isn't a thief.Copy !req
167. He stole the milk money at school.Copy !req
168. He's a thief in my book.Copy !req
169. It was almost noon as we set out to find
the body of a dead kid named Ray Brower.Copy !req
170. Right here's cool.Copy !req
171. Hey, Chris.Copy !req
172. - Thanks a lot.
- Sure thing.Copy !req
173. - Gordo.
- Hey, man.Copy !req
174. - You want to see something?
- Sure. What?Copy !req
175. - You okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.Copy !req
176. - Come on, man.
- What is it?Copy !req
177. - Man, you've got to see this.
- Come on, man. What is it?Copy !req
178. Come on, what is it?Copy !req
179. You want to be the Lone Ranger
or the Cisco Kid?Copy !req
180. Walking, talking Jesus!Copy !req
181. - Where'd you get this?
- Hocked it from my old man's bureau.Copy !req
182. It's a.45.Copy !req
183. I can see that.Copy !req
184. - You got shells for it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
185. I took all that was left in the box.Copy !req
186. My dad'll think that he used them himself
shooting at beer cans while he was drunk.Copy !req
187. - Is it loaded?
- Hell, no. What do you think I am?Copy !req
188. - Jesus!
- Jesus!Copy !req
189. Let's get out of here! Come on!Copy !req
190. Gordie did it! Gordie Lachance
is shooting up Castle Rock!Copy !req
191. Shut up!Copy !req
192. Hey, who did that?
Who's letting cherry bombs off out here?Copy !req
193. Oh, man, you should have seen your face.
Damn, that was cool!Copy !req
194. - That was really fine.
- You knew it was loaded, you wet end!Copy !req
195. I'm gonna be in trouble now.
That Tupper babe saw me.Copy !req
196. Shit, Gordie,
she thought it was firecrackers.Copy !req
197. I don't care. That was a mean trick, Chris.Copy !req
198. Hey, Gordie...Copy !req
199. I didn't know it was loaded.Copy !req
200. - Honest.
- You swear?Copy !req
201. Yeah, I swear.Copy !req
202. - On your mother's name?
- Yeah.Copy !req
203. Even if she goes to hell 'cause you lied?Copy !req
204. Yeah, I swear.Copy !req
205. Pinkie swear?Copy !req
206. Pinkie swear.Copy !req
207. Hey, girls, where you going?Copy !req
208. Hey, come on, man.
My brother gave me that!Copy !req
209. And now you're giving it to me.Copy !req
210. Give it to me! Come on, man, that's mine!Copy !req
211. You're a real asshole, you know that?Copy !req
212. Your brother's not very polite, Eyeball.Copy !req
213. Now, Christopher,Copy !req
214. I know you didn't mean to insult my friend.Copy !req
215. I know he didn't mean to insult me.Copy !req
216. That's why I'm gonna give him
the opportunity of taking it back.Copy !req
217. - Shit.
- Take it back, kid.Copy !req
218. - Come on, man, stop it, you're hurting him.
- You bastard! Let go, man.Copy !req
219. - Stop it, man! Cut it out!
- Take it back, kid.Copy !req
220. - Cut it out!
- Take it back.Copy !req
221. You big... Okay, okay, I take it back.
I take it back.Copy !req
222. There.Copy !req
223. Now I feel a whole lot better about this.Copy !req
224. How about you?Copy !req
225. Good.Copy !req
226. See you later, girls.Copy !req
227. Come on, just forget them.Copy !req
228. What do we need a pistol for, anyway?Copy !req
229. It's spooky sleeping out at night
in the woods. You might see a bear.Copy !req
230. Or a garbage can.Copy !req
231. I brought a comb.Copy !req
232. What do we need a comb for?Copy !req
233. Well, if we get on TV
we want to look good, don't we?Copy !req
234. - That's a lot of thinking, Vern.
- Thanks.Copy !req
235. Two for flinching.Copy !req
236. How far do you think it's gonna be?Copy !req
237. If we follow the tracks all the way
into Harlow, it'll be about 20 miles.Copy !req
238. Sound about right to you, Gordie?Copy !req
239. Yeah, it might even be 30.Copy !req
240. Maybe we should just hitchhike.Copy !req
241. - No way, that sucks.
- Why not?Copy !req
242. We could go out to Route 7
to the Shiloh Church,Copy !req
243. then down the Back Harlow Road.
We'll be there by sundown.Copy !req
244. That's pussy.Copy !req
245. Hey, it's a long ways.Copy !req
246. Did your mother ever have any kids
that lived?Copy !req
247. What do you mean?Copy !req
248. We have to fill up at the junkyard.
My dad said it's a safe well.Copy !req
249. - Not if Chopper's there.
- If Chopper's there we'll send you in.Copy !req
250. Ha, ha. Very funny.Copy !req
251. Hey, I'm kind of hungry.
Who's got the food?Copy !req
252. Oh, shit! Did anybody bring anything?Copy !req
253. Not me. Gordie?Copy !req
254. This is great. What are we supposed to do?
Eat our feet?Copy !req
255. You mean,
you didn't bring anything, either?Copy !req
256. Shit. This wasn't my idea. It was Vern's idea.
Why didn't you bring something?Copy !req
257. What am I supposed to do?
Think of everything? I brought the comb.Copy !req
258. Oh, great, you brought the comb.Copy !req
259. What do you need a comb for?
You don't even have any hair.Copy !req
260. I brought it for you guys, when we get there.Copy !req
261. Hey, hey, hey!Copy !req
262. Let's see, how much money have we got?Copy !req
263. Yeah, I got $1.02.Copy !req
264. And 68 cents from Chris.Copy !req
265. Sixty cents from Teddy.Copy !req
266. Seven cents, Vern?Copy !req
267. I haven't found my pennies yet.Copy !req
268. Well, $2.37 is not bad.Copy !req
269. Quidacioluo's is at the end of that little road
that goes by the junkyard.Copy !req
270. I think we can get some stuff there.Copy !req
271. Train coming.Copy !req
272. Geronimo!Copy !req
273. - Come on, Teddy.
- No.Copy !req
274. I'm gonna dodge it.Copy !req
275. Come on, Teddy, man. Get off the tracks.
You're crazy.Copy !req
276. Train dodge. Dig it?Copy !req
277. Get the hell off the tracks, Teddy.
You want to get yourself killed?Copy !req
278. Just like the beach at Normandy.Copy !req
279. - Come on, man. Come on.
- No, no!Copy !req
280. Don't tell me what to do or I'll kill you.Copy !req
281. You son of a bitch!Copy !req
282. I was just trying to save your life, man.Copy !req
283. You want to kill yourself?
Is that what you want, God damn it?Copy !req
284. You tried to kill yourself.Copy !req
285. I don't need no babysitter.Copy !req
286. You do, too.Copy !req
287. Skin it.Copy !req
288. I could have dodged it.Copy !req
289. Listen, Teddy,
you can dodge it on the way back, man.Copy !req
290. Peace.Copy !req
291. Skin it.Copy !req
292. About this time, Charlie and Billy
were playing mailbox baseballCopy !req
293. with Ace and Eyeball.Copy !req
294. Shit, I'm out. God damn it!Copy !req
295. Shouldn't have gone for a wooden one.Copy !req
296. Why don't you tell me something
I don't know, asshole?Copy !req
297. Billy, you're UP-Copy !req
298. You guys win. I don't want to play no more.Copy !req
299. You can't quit.Copy !req
300. We only played three innings.
That'd be a non-official game.Copy !req
301. Hey, Ace, me and...Copy !req
302. What's with you homos?
You've been acting psycho all day.Copy !req
303. What is it?Copy !req
304. It's nothing. Nothing. It's nothing, right?Copy !req
305. Then if you gentlemen don't mind,
I'd like to finish this gameCopy !req
306. before I start collecting
my goddamned Social Security, okay?Copy !req
307. You're up, Billy. Move it.Copy !req
308. All right, give me this fucking stick.Copy !req
309. Let's play ball.Copy !req
310. Foul ball.Copy !req
311. Hey, Vern, looks like
your ma's been out driving again.Copy !req
312. That's so funny I forgot to laugh.Copy !req
313. Stand back, men!Copy !req
314. Paratroopers, over the side!Copy !req
315. "No Trespassing" was enforced
by Milo Pressman, the junkmanCopy !req
316. and his dog, Chopper.Copy !req
317. The most feared and least seen dog
in Castle Rock.Copy !req
318. Legend had it that
Milo had trained Chopper not just to sic,Copy !req
319. but to sic specific parts
of the human anatomy.Copy !req
320. Thus, a kid who had illegally scaled
the junkyard fenceCopy !req
321. might hear the dread cry,
"Chopper, sic balls!"Copy !req
322. But right now neither the dread Chopper
nor MiloCopy !req
323. was anywhere in sight.Copy !req
324. Teddy's crazy.Copy !req
325. Where's the B.A.R.?
Come on, men, move it out!Copy !req
326. Yeah. He won't live to be 20, I bet.Copy !req
327. Remember the time you saved him
in the tree?Copy !req
328. Yeah.Copy !req
329. You know, I dream about that sometimes.Copy !req
330. Except in the dream I always miss him.Copy !req
331. I just get a couple of his hairs
and down he goes.Copy !req
332. It's weird.Copy !req
333. Yeah, that is weird.Copy !req
334. But you didn't miss him.Copy !req
335. Chris Chambers never misses, does he?Copy !req
336. Not even when
the ladies leave the seat down.Copy !req
337. Hey, I'll race you.Copy !req
338. - No, I don't think so.
- Right to the pump, man. Come on.Copy !req
339. - I'm kind of tired. Go!
- You're a dead man, Lachance!Copy !req
340. It looks like Lachance has got him this time.Copy !req
341. He's got Chambers beat.Copy !req
342. But what's this?
Chambers is making his move.Copy !req
343. Lachance is fading
and it's Chambers at the tape.Copy !req
344. The crowd goes wild.Copy !req
345. A 12-pointer.Copy !req
346. Hey, you guys been watching
The Mickey Mouse Club lately?Copy !req
347. Yeah.Copy !req
348. I think Annette's tits are getting bigger.Copy !req
349. - You think so?
- Yeah, I think so.Copy !req
350. Yeah, I think he's right.Copy !req
351. I've been noticing lately that the A and the E
are starting to bend around the sides.Copy !req
352. - Annette's tits are great.
- Yeah.Copy !req
353. This is really a good time.Copy !req
354. The most.Copy !req
355. A blast.Copy !req
356. Vern didn't just mean being off limits
inside the junkyardCopy !req
357. or fudging on our folksCopy !req
358. or going on a hike up the rail road tracks
to Harlow. He meant those things, butCopy !req
359. it seems to me now it was more
and that we all knew it.Copy !req
360. Everything was there and around us.Copy !req
361. We knew exactly who we were
and exactly where we were going.Copy !req
362. It was grand.Copy !req
363. Great, spit at the fat kid. Real good.Copy !req
364. What time is it, Gordie?Copy !req
365. It's 1:15Copy !req
366. We'd better go get the food.
Junkyard opens at 3:00.Copy !req
367. Chopper“ be here.Copy !req
368. Sic balls.Copy !req
369. You go.
You could pick us up on the way back.Copy !req
370. I'm not going alone. We should all go.Copy !req
371. - I'm staying right here.
- Yeah, man, I'm not going.Copy !req
372. Girls, cool it. We'll flip for it.Copy !req
373. Okay.Copy !req
374. Odd man goes.Copy !req
375. That's you, Gordie, odd as a cod.Copy !req
376. Flip or eat lead.Copy !req
377. Four tails.Copy !req
378. Oh, Jesus, man, that's a goocher.Copy !req
379. - Come on, Vern.
- That doesn't mean anything.Copy !req
380. No, let's go again.Copy !req
381. No, man, a goocher. That's really bad.Copy !req
382. You remember when Clint Bracken
and those guysCopy !req
383. got wiped out on Weed Hill in Durham?Copy !req
384. Billy told me they were flipping for beersCopy !req
385. and they came up with a goocher
just before they got into the car.Copy !req
386. And, bang! They all got totaled.Copy !req
387. I don't like this. Sincerely.Copy !req
388. Verno, nobody believes that crap
about moons and goochers.Copy !req
389. It's baby stuff. Now come on, flip again.Copy !req
390. You gonna flip or not?Copy !req
391. Come on, Vern, we don't have all day.Copy !req
392. You lose, Gordie.Copy !req
393. Gordie loses.Copy !req
394. Old Gordie just screwed the pooch.Copy !req
395. Does the word "retarded"
mean anything to you?Copy !req
396. Gordie, go get the provisions,
you morphadite.Copy !req
397. Don't call me any
of your mother's pet names.Copy !req
398. What a wet end you are, Lachance.Copy !req
399. Shut up.Copy !req
400. I don't shut up, I grow up.
And when I look at you, I throw up.Copy !req
401. And then your mother goes
around the corner and she licks it up.Copy !req
402. Finding new and preferably disgusting ways
to degrade a friend's motherCopy !req
403. was always held in high regard.Copy !req
404. Ain't you Denny Lachance's brother?Copy !req
405. Yes, sir.Copy !req
406. Shame what happened to him.Copy !req
407. The Bible says,
"In the midst of life we are in death."Copy !req
408. Did you know that?Copy !req
409. I lost a brother in Korea.Copy !req
410. You look like your brother Denny.Copy !req
411. People ever tell you that?Copy !req
412. Sometimes.Copy !req
413. I remember the year he was All-Conference.Copy !req
414. Quarterback, he played.Copy !req
415. Boy, could he throw.Copy !req
416. Father God and Sonny Jesus.Copy !req
417. Could be some scouts
at the game tomorrow.Copy !req
418. - I don't know, Pop.
- Dad, could I have the potatoes?Copy !req
419. - That's what I hear, Son.
- Are you going to see Jane after the game?Copy !req
420. I think she's a lovely girl.Copy !req
421. - Dad, may I please have the potatoes?
- Dorothy, don't talk to the boy about girls.Copy !req
422. He shouldn't be thinking about girls.
This is the biggest game of his life.Copy !req
423. - Dennis, when you're out there tomorrow...
- Pop, did you read the story Gordie wrote?Copy !req
424. Gordie wrote a story.Copy !req
425. - It was really good.
- What did you write, sweetheart?Copy !req
426. Now, see, that's what I'm talking about.
Football takes concentration.Copy !req
427. You start in on the girls
and his mind's all over the place.Copy !req
428. Gordie, I really liked it.Copy !req
429. - I thought it was great.
- I don't want you interrupting me.Copy !req
430. Now you see I'm talking to the boy,
don%you?Copy !req
431. You play football?Copy !req
432. Hmm?Copy !req
433. Do you play football?Copy !req
434. No.Copy !req
435. What do you do?Copy !req
436. I don't know.Copy !req
437. Yeah, well, your brother, Denny,
sure could play football.Copy !req
438. Here you go, kid. $1.50 of hamburger.Copy !req
439. Hey, you, kid! What are you doing there?
Come over here!Copy !req
440. You, come back here, God damn it!
I'll sic my dog on you.Copy !req
441. Run, Gordie, run! Run, Gordie!Copy !req
442. Chopper, sic him! Sic him, boy!Copy !req
443. Now, he said, "him, boy."Copy !req
444. But what I heard was, "Chopper, sic balls."Copy !req
445. That's Chopper?Copy !req
446. Chopper was my first lesson in the vast
difference between myth and reality.Copy !req
447. Come on, Choppie. Kiss my ass, Choppie.
Choppie. Kiss my ass.Copy !req
448. Come on, bite shit.Copy !req
449. Go on, Choppie. Sic balls, Choppie.Copy !req
450. You kids, stop teasing that dog!
You hear me? Stop teasing him!Copy !req
451. Sonny, I'm gonna beat your ass,
teasing my dog like that!Copy !req
452. Yeah, I'd like to see you try and climb over
this fence and get me, fat ass!Copy !req
453. Don't you call me that!Copy !req
454. You little tin-weasel
peckerwood loony's son!Copy !req
455. What did you call me?Copy !req
456. I know who you are. You're Teddy Duchamp.Copy !req
457. Your dad's a loony.Copy !req
458. A loony up in the nuthouse at Togus.Copy !req
459. He took your ear and he put it to a stove
and he burned it off.Copy !req
460. My father stormed the beach at Normandy.Copy !req
461. He's crazier than a shithouse rat.
No wonder you're acting the way you are,Copy !req
462. with a loony for a father.Copy !req
463. You call my dad a loony again
and I'll kill you.Copy !req
464. Loony, loony, loony.Copy !req
465. I'm gonna rip your head off
and shit down your neck.Copy !req
466. No, I'm gonna kill him!Copy !req
467. You come on and try it,
you little slimy bastard.Copy !req
468. He wants you to go over there
so he can beat the piss out of youCopy !req
469. and then take you to the cops.Copy !req
470. You watch your mouth, smart guy.
Let him do his own fighting.Copy !req
471. Sure, you only outweigh him
by 500 pounds, fat ass.Copy !req
472. I know your name.Copy !req
473. You're Lachance. I know all you guys.Copy !req
474. And all your fathers are gonna
get a call from me.Copy !req
475. Except for the loony up in Togus.Copy !req
476. - Come on, man.
- I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!Copy !req
477. - Get him away from that man.
- You little foul-mouthed whoremaster.Copy !req
478. You son of a bitch!Copy !req
479. You come back here.Copy !req
480. Come back here, you hear me?Copy !req
481. - Nobody ranks out my old man.
- Come back here.Copy !req
482. - My father stormed the beach at Normandy.
- I said come back here!Copy !req
483. - He stormed the beach, you faggot!
- Come back here.Copy !req
484. We showed him.
Thought we were a bunch of pussies.Copy !req
485. He ranked my old man.Copy !req
486. I wondered how Teddy could care so much
for his dad who'd practically killed himCopy !req
487. and I couldn't give a shit about my own dadCopy !req
488. who hadn't laid a hand on me
since I was three.Copy !req
489. And that was for eating bleach
under the sink.Copy !req
490. He ranked my old man.Copy !req
491. What do you care what a fat old pile of shit
like him says about your dad?Copy !req
492. He still stormed the beach
at Normandy, right?Copy !req
493. Yeah, forget it.Copy !req
494. Do you think that pile of shit
was at Normandy?Copy !req
495. Forget it, all right?Copy !req
496. He don't know nothing about your old man.
He's just dog shit.Copy !req
497. Whatever's between you and your old man,
he can't change that.Copy !req
498. Forget it, all right? Just forget it!Copy !req
499. I'm sorry if I'm spoiling
everybody's good time.Copy !req
500. It's okay, man. It's okay.Copy !req
501. I'm not sure it should be a good time.Copy !req
502. - You saying you want to go back?
- No.Copy !req
503. But going to see a dead kid,
maybe it shouldn't be a party.Copy !req
504. Yeah,Copy !req
505. like if he's really bad, like all cut up
and blood and shit all over him,Copy !req
506. - I might have nightmares.
- Come on, Vern.Copy !req
507. You know, like all guts and eyeballs
all ready to jump and grab...Copy !req
508. - Shut up, Vern. God damn it!
- Come on, Vern.Copy !req
509. I can't help it.Copy !req
510. Sorry.Copy !req
511. It was only 2:45, but it felt much later.Copy !req
512. It was too hot and too much had happened.Copy !req
513. We weren't even close
to the Royal River yet.Copy !req
514. We were gonna have to get movingCopy !req
515. if we were gonna make some real miles
before dark.Copy !req
516. Hold still, Will you?Copy !req
517. So, what's with you
and this Connie Palermo chick?Copy !req
518. I've been seeing her for over a month now,
and all she'll let me do is feel her tits.Copy !req
519. She's a Catholic, man. They're all like that.Copy !req
520. You want to get laid
you gotta get yourself a Protestant.Copy !req
521. A Jew's good.Copy !req
522. A KLAM newsbreak.Copy !req
523. We interrupt to bring you an update
on the search forCopy !req
524. the missing 12-year-old Ray Brower.Copy !req
525. The police have expanded their efforts
to include Motton,Copy !req
526. Durham and the outlying areas.Copy !req
527. Shit, when are they gonna give up?Copy !req
528. The kid's gone.
They're never gonna find him.Copy !req
529. Not where they're looking.Copy !req
530. Hey, I was right, Charlie,
they ain't never gonna find him.Copy !req
531. Would you hold still?
You're making me fuck up the snake part.Copy !req
532. I'll tell you how they're gonna find him.Copy !req
533. Ten years from now, some hunter's
gonna go in the woods to take a leak,Copy !req
534. wind up pissing on his bones.Copy !req
535. I bet you $1,000 they find him before that.Copy !req
536. Bet you $2,000 they don't.Copy !req
537. - Well, asshole...
- Hey, what's the big deal?Copy !req
538. - Who cares?
- Would you two just shut the fuck up?Copy !req
539. If either one of you assholes had $2,000,
I'd kill you both.Copy !req
540. We're back here with
The Bossman, Bob Cormier.Copy !req
541. From the racks and stacks,
it's the best on wax.Copy !req
542. It's the Chordettes, with Lollipop.Copy !req
543. Hey, I got some Winstone.Copy !req
544. Hooked them off my old man's dresser.Copy !req
545. One apiece for after supper.Copy !req
546. - Yeah, that's cool.
- Yeah.Copy !req
547. That's when a cigarette tastes best,
after supper.Copy !req
548. Right.Copy !req
549. Do you think I'm weird?Copy !req
550. - Definitely.
- No, man, seriously.Copy !req
551. Am I weird?Copy !req
552. Yes, but so what? Everybody's weird.Copy !req
553. You ready for school?Copy !req
554. No.Copy !req
555. Junior high.Copy !req
556. You know what that means.Copy !req
557. By next June we'll all be split up.Copy !req
558. What are you talking about?
Why would that happen?Copy !req
559. 'Cause it's not gonna be like
grammar school, that's why.Copy !req
560. You'll be taking your college courses,
and me, Teddy and Vern,Copy !req
561. we'll all be in the shop courses
with the rest of the retardsCopy !req
562. making ashtrays and birdhouses.Copy !req
563. You're gonna meet a lot of new guys.
Smart guys.Copy !req
564. - Meet a lot of pussies is what you mean.
- No, man.Copy !req
565. Don't say that. Don't even think that.Copy !req
566. I'm not going in with a lot of pussies,
forget it.Copy !req
567. Well, then you're an asshole.Copy !req
568. What's asshole about wanting
to be with your friends?Copy !req
569. It's asshole if your friends drag you down.Copy !req
570. You hang with us, you'll just be
another wise guy with shit for brains.Copy !req
571. You think Mighty Mouse could
beat up Superman?Copy !req
572. - What are you, cracked?
- Why not?Copy !req
573. I saw the other day, he was carrying
five elephants in one hand.Copy !req
574. Boy, you don't know nothing.Copy !req
575. Mighty Mouse is a cartoon.Copy !req
576. Superman is a real guy.
No way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.Copy !req
577. Yeah, maybe you're right.Copy !req
578. Would be a good fight, though.Copy !req
579. I mean,
you could be a real writer someday, Gordie.Copy !req
580. Fuck writing! I don't want to be a writer.Copy !req
581. - It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- That's your dad talking.Copy !req
582. - Bullshit!
- Bulltrue!Copy !req
583. I know how your dad feels about you.
He doesn't give a shit about you.Copy !req
584. Denny was the one he cared about,
and don't try to tell me different.Copy !req
585. You're just a kid, Gordie.Copy !req
586. Oh, gee thanks, Dad.Copy !req
587. I wish the hell I was your dad.Copy !req
588. You wouldn't be going around talking about
taking these stupid shop courses if I was.Copy !req
589. It's like God gave you something, man,
all those stories that you can make up,Copy !req
590. and He said, "This is what we got
for you, kid. Try not to lose it."Copy !req
591. But kids lose everything unless there's
someone there to look out for them.Copy !req
592. And if your parents are too fucked-up
to do it, then maybe I should.Copy !req
593. Come on, you guys, let's get moving.Copy !req
594. Yeah, by the time we get there
the kid won't even be dead anymore.Copy !req
595. Any of you guys know
when the next train is due?Copy !req
596. We could go down to the Route 136 bridge.Copy !req
597. What? Are you crazy?
That's five miles down the river.Copy !req
598. You walk five miles down the river,
you gotta walk five miles back.Copy !req
599. That could take till dark.Copy !req
600. We go across here, we can get
to the same place in 10 minutes.Copy !req
601. Yeah, but if a train comes,
there's nowheres to go.Copy !req
602. Hell, there isn't. You just jump.Copy !req
603. - Teddy, it's 100 feet.
- Yeah, Teddy.Copy !req
604. Look, you guys can go around
if you want to.Copy !req
605. I'm crossing here.Copy !req
606. And while you guys
are dragging your candy assesCopy !req
607. half-way across the state and back,
I'll be waiting for you on the other sideCopy !req
608. relaxing with my thoughts.Copy !req
609. You use your left hand
or your right hand for that?Copy !req
610. You wish.Copy !req
611. I lost the comb.Copy !req
612. Forget it, Vern.Copy !req
613. Train!Copy !req
614. Oh, shit!Copy !req
615. Move it, man! Go on! Move it!Copy !req
616. Get up, Vern! Damn it!Copy !req
617. Get up! Move it!Copy !req
618. Shit, Vern!Copy !req
619. - Get up, man!
- I don't want to. We're gonna fall.Copy !req
620. We're gonna die, damn it! Get up!Copy !req
621. Go.Copy !req
622. - Vern, you gotta go faster!
- I can't, Gordie!Copy !req
623. Run!Copy !req
624. Run. Run, man! Move your ass, man!Copy !req
625. Move it!Copy !req
626. Faster! Run! Go!Copy !req
627. - Run, God damn it, run!
- Run, run, run!Copy !req
628. Faster!Copy !req
629. Hey, at least now we know
when the next train was due.Copy !req
630. Man, that was the all-time train dodge.
Too cool.Copy !req
631. Vern, you were so scaredCopy !req
632. you looked like that fat guy in Abbott and
Costello, when he saw the mummy.Copy !req
633. I wasn't that scared.Copy !req
634. No, really, I wasn't. Sincerely.Copy !req
635. Okay, then you won't mind if we
check the seat ofCopy !req
636. your Jockeys for Hershey squirts, will you?Copy !req
637. Go screw.Copy !req
638. Hey, Vern, you'd better turn yours over.Copy !req
639. - This is the way I like to do it.
- Fine.Copy !req
640. Oh, man! Oh, no, man!Copy !req
641. You got any more, Gordie?Copy !req
642. Sorry, Vern.Copy !req
643. This is not funny.
What am I supposed to eat?Copy !req
644. - Why don't you cook your dick?
- It'd be a small meal.Copy !req
645. Screw you guys, I got it.Copy !req
646. Nothing like a smoke after a meal.Copy !req
647. Yeah, I cherish these moments.Copy !req
648. What? What did I say?Copy !req
649. Hey, Gordo, why don't you tell us a story?Copy !req
650. I don't know.Copy !req
651. - Oh, come on.
- Yeah, come on, Gordo.Copy !req
652. But not one of your horror stories, okay?Copy !req
653. I don't want to hear no horror stories.
I'm not up for that, man.Copy !req
654. Why don't you tell us one about Sergeant
Steele and his battling leathernecks?Copy !req
655. Well, the one I've been thinking about
is kind of different.Copy !req
656. It's about this pie-eating contest.Copy !req
657. The main guy of the story is this fat kid
that nobody likes, named Davie Hogan.Copy !req
658. Like Charlie Hogan's brother, if he had one.Copy !req
659. Good, Vern.Copy !req
660. Go on, Gordie.Copy !req
661. Well, this kid, he's our age, but he's fat.
Real fat.Copy !req
662. He weighs close to 180, but, you know,
it's not his fault. It's his glands.Copy !req
663. Oh, yeah, my cousin's like that. Sincerely.Copy !req
664. She weighs over 300 pounds. Supposed
to be a "hyboid" gland or something.Copy !req
665. I don't know about any "hyboid" gland,
but what a blimp!Copy !req
666. No shit.
She looks like a Thanksgiving turkey.Copy !req
667. - And, you know, this one time...
- Will you shut up, Vern?Copy !req
668. Yeah, right. Go on, Gordie. It's a swell story.Copy !req
669. All the kids, instead of calling him Davie,
they call him Lardass. Lardass Hogan.Copy !req
670. Even his little brother
and sister call him Lardass.Copy !req
671. At school they put this sticker on his back
that says, "Wide Load."Copy !req
672. And they rank him out and beat him up
whenever they get a chance.Copy !req
673. But one day he gets an idea.Copy !req
674. The greatest revenge idea a kid ever had.Copy !req
675. - Is this thing on? Can you hear me?
- Yeah!Copy !req
676. Now, the next contestant
in the Great Tri-County Pie EatCopy !req
677. Principal John Wiggins.Copy !req
678. And our celebrity contestant,
from KLAM in Portland,Copy !req
679. The Bossman himself, Bob Cormier!Copy !req
680. Thanks, man.Copy !req
681. Hey, from the racks and stacks
it's the best on wax.Copy !req
682. How about another double, golden oldie,
twin-spin sound sandwichCopy !req
683. from KLAM in Portland?Copy !req
684. - It's. ..
- Boss!Copy !req
685. Next, a newcomer to the Pie Eat,
but one we expectCopy !req
686. great things from in the future,
young master David Hogan.Copy !req
687. - Are you all right, young man?
- Hey, Lardass, how was your trip?Copy !req
688. I hear you got a big appetite, Lardass.Copy !req
689. Don't even think about winning this.Copy !req
690. Boy, are you fat.Copy !req
691. Don't pay attention to those fools, Lardass.
I mean, Davie.Copy !req
692. And now,
the one you've all been waiting for.Copy !req
693. The four-time champion,
our own Bill Travis.Copy !req
694. Listen I got $10 riding
on you myself, Billy Boy.Copy !req
695. All right. Are you ready?Copy !req
696. Hands behind your backs, gentlemen.Copy !req
697. Drum roll.Copy !req
698. Hey, Lardass. Chow down, Wide Load.Copy !req
699. Go.Copy !req
700. Done!Copy !req
701. Done!Copy !req
702. Done!Copy !req
703. Done!Copy !req
704. You better pace yourself,
if you want to hold out, boy.Copy !req
705. Come on, Lardass!Copy !req
706. - Lardass!
- Lardass!Copy !req
707. What the audience didn't know,Copy !req
708. was that Lardass
wasn't really interested in winning.Copy !req
709. What he wanted was revenge.Copy !req
710. And right before he was introduced,
he'd gotten ready for it.Copy !req
711. Principal John Wiggins.Copy !req
712. And our celebrity contestant
from KLAM in Portland,Copy !req
713. The Bossman himself, Bob Cormier!Copy !req
714. Hey, from the racks and stacks
it's the best on wax.Copy !req
715. How about another double, golden oldie,
twin-spin sound sandwichCopy !req
716. from KLAM in Portland?Copy !req
717. It's...Copy !req
718. Done.Copy !req
719. Diving into his fifth pie, Lardass began
to imagine that he wasn't eating pies.Copy !req
720. He pretended he was eating cow flopsCopy !req
721. and rat guts in blueberry sauce.Copy !req
722. Done.Copy !req
723. - Lardass!
- Lardass!Copy !req
724. Slowly, a sound started to build
in Lardass' stomach.Copy !req
725. A strange and scary sound,Copy !req
726. like a log truck coming
at you at 100 miles an hour.Copy !req
727. Suddenly, Lardass opened his mouthCopy !req
728. and before Bill Travis knew itCopy !req
729. he was covered with five pies worth
of used blueberries.Copy !req
730. The women in the audience screamed.Copy !req
731. Bossman Bob Cormier took one look
at Bill TravisCopy !req
732. and barfed on Principal Wiggins.Copy !req
733. Principal Wiggins barfed on the lumberjack
that was sitting next to him.Copy !req
734. Mayor Grundy barfed on his wife's tits!Copy !req
735. But when the smell hit the crowdCopy !req
736. that's when Lardass' plan
really started to work.Copy !req
737. Girlfriends barfed on boyfriends.Copy !req
738. Kids barfed on their parents.Copy !req
739. A fat lady barfed in her purse.Copy !req
740. The Donelley twins barfed on each other.Copy !req
741. And the Women's Auxiliary barfed all over
the Benevolent Order of Antelopes.Copy !req
742. And Lardass just sat back
and enjoyed what he'd created.Copy !req
743. A complete and total barf-o-rama.Copy !req
744. - Too cool! Too cool!
- Man, that was the best, just the best.Copy !req
745. - Yeah.
- Then what happened?Copy !req
746. What do you mean?Copy !req
747. I mean, what happened?Copy !req
748. What do you mean, "What happened?"
That's the end.Copy !req
749. How can that be the end? What kind of an
ending is that? What happened to Lardass?Copy !req
750. I don't know.Copy !req
751. Maybe he went home and celebrated
with a couple of cheeseburgers.Copy !req
752. Jeez, that ending sucks.Copy !req
753. Why don't you make it
so that Lardass goes homeCopy !req
754. and he shoots his father?Copy !req
755. Then he runs away and he joins
the Texas Rangers. How about that?Copy !req
756. I don't know.Copy !req
757. Something good like that.Copy !req
758. I like the ending.
The barfing was really good.Copy !req
759. But there's one thing I didn't understand.Copy !req
760. Did Lardass have to pay
to get into the contest?Copy !req
761. No, Vern, they just let him in.Copy !req
762. Oh, great, great story.Copy !req
763. Yeah, it's a great story, Gordie.
I just didn't like the ending.Copy !req
764. Hey, Verno, where's the radio?
Let's see if we can get some sounds.Copy !req
765. Here.Copy !req
766. We talked into the night.Copy !req
767. The kind of talk that seemed important
until you discover girls.Copy !req
768. All right. All right.Copy !req
769. Mickey's a mouse. Donald's a duck.
Pluto's a dog.Copy !req
770. What's Goofy?Copy !req
771. If I could only have one food
for the rest of my life?Copy !req
772. That's easy. Pez.Copy !req
773. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.Copy !req
774. Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.Copy !req
775. I knew The $64,000 Question was fixed.Copy !req
776. There's no way anybody could know
that much about opera.Copy !req
777. He can't be a dog.
He wears a hat and drives a car.Copy !req
778. Wagon Train is a really cool show,Copy !req
779. but did you ever notice
that they never get anywhere?Copy !req
780. They just keep wagon training.Copy !req
781. God, that's weird.Copy !req
782. What the hell is Goofy?Copy !req
783. Not one of us mentioned Ray Brower,
but we were all thinking about him.Copy !req
784. Oh, my God.Copy !req
785. It's that Brower kid.Copy !req
786. His ghost is out walking in the woods.Copy !req
787. I promise I won't hock no more dirty books.Copy !req
788. I promise I won't say no more bad swears.
I promise I'll eat all my lima beans.Copy !req
789. Two for flinching.Copy !req
790. What is it, Chris?Copy !req
791. Maybe it's coyotes.Copy !req
792. Sounds like a woman screaming.Copy !req
793. It's not coyotes. It's his ghost.Copy !req
794. Don't say that.Copy !req
795. Hey, Teddy, sit down.Copy !req
796. I'm gonna go look for it.
I want to see the ghost.Copy !req
797. Don't say that.Copy !req
798. I just want to see it!
I just want to see what he looks like.Copy !req
799. Jesus H. bald-headed Christ!Copy !req
800. Maybe we should stand guard.Copy !req
801. Yeah, that's a good idea.Copy !req
802. Give me the gun. I'll take the first watch.Copy !req
803. 2300 hours.
Corporal Teddy Duchamp stands guard.Copy !req
804. No sign of the enemy. The fort is secure.Copy !req
805. Shut up, Teddy, and keep your eyes peeled.Copy !req
806. - Teddy, cut it out, okay?
- I'm trying to sleep.Copy !req
807. The dogfaces rested easyCopy !req
808. in the knowledge that
Corporal Teddy DuchampCopy !req
809. - was protecting all that was dear to them.
- Teddy.Copy !req
810. It should have been you, Gordon.Copy !req
811. Are you okay?Copy !req
812. You were dreaming.Copy !req
813. I didn't cry at Denny's funeral.Copy !req
814. I miss him, Chris.Copy !req
815. I really miss him.Copy !req
816. I know.Copy !req
817. Go back to sleep.Copy !req
818. Maybe you could go
into the college courses with me.Copy !req
819. That'll be the day.Copy !req
820. Why not? You're smart enough.Copy !req
821. They won't let me.Copy !req
822. What do you mean?Copy !req
823. It's the way the people think
of my family in this town.Copy !req
824. It's the way they think of me.
I'm just one of those low-life Chambers kids.Copy !req
825. That's not true.Copy !req
826. Oh, it is.Copy !req
827. No one even asked me
if I took the milk money that time.Copy !req
828. I just got a three-day vacation.Copy !req
829. Did you take it?Copy !req
830. Yeah, I took it. You knew I took it.Copy !req
831. Teddy knew I took it.Copy !req
832. Everyone knew I took it.
Even Vern knew it, I think.Copy !req
833. Maybe I was sorry,
and I tried to give it back.Copy !req
834. You tried to give it back?Copy !req
835. Maybe, just maybe.Copy !req
836. And maybe I took it to old lady Simons
and told her, and the money was all there.Copy !req
837. But I still got a three-day vacation,
because it never showed up.Copy !req
838. And maybe the next week, old lady SimonsCopy !req
839. had this brand new skirt on
when she came to school.Copy !req
840. - Yeah, it was brown and it had dots on it.
- Yeah.Copy !req
841. So let's just say that I stole the milk money,
but old lady Simons stole it back from me.Copy !req
842. Just suppose that I told this story.Copy !req
843. Me, Chris Chambers,
kid brother to Eyeball Chambers.Copy !req
844. Do you think that
anyone would have believed it?Copy !req
845. No.Copy !req
846. And do you think that that bitch would have
dared tried something like thatCopy !req
847. if it'd been one of those douche bagsCopy !req
848. from up on the View,
if they had taken the money?Copy !req
849. - No way.
- Hell, no.Copy !req
850. But, with me...Copy !req
851. I'm sure she had her eye on that skirt
for a long time.Copy !req
852. Anyway, she saw her chance
and she took it.Copy !req
853. I was the stupid one
for even trying to give it back.Copy !req
854. I just never thought,Copy !req
855. I never thought that a teacher...Copy !req
856. Oh, who gives a fuck anyway?Copy !req
857. I just wishCopy !req
858. that I could go someplace
where nobody knows me.Copy !req
859. I guess I'm just a pussy, huh?Copy !req
860. No way, man.Copy !req
861. The freight woke up the other guysCopy !req
862. and it was on the tip of my tongue
to tell them about the deer, but I didn't.Copy !req
863. That was the one thing I kept to myself.Copy !req
864. I've never spoken or written of it
until just now.Copy !req
865. Jeez, Gordie, how come you didn't get
some breakfast stuff likeCopy !req
866. Twinkies, and Pez, and root beer?Copy !req
867. Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced
shopper could've gotten moreCopy !req
868. for your seven cents.Copy !req
869. With our stomachs rumbling,
we pressed on toward the Royal River.Copy !req
870. The reality of Ray Brower was growing,
and kept us moving despite the heat.Copy !req
871. For me, the idea
of seeing that kid's dead bodyCopy !req
872. was starting to become an obsession.Copy !req
873. Gentlemen, the Royal.Copy !req
874. God, the tracks go way out of the way.Copy !req
875. If we cut across this field right here,
we'll be there in an hour.Copy !req
876. I think we should stick to the tracks.Copy !req
877. I say we go across the field.Copy !req
878. Gordie?Copy !req
879. - Yeah.
- Let's go.Copy !req
880. Take no prisoners!Copy !req
881. Hey, you guys, it's a lot safer if we...Copy !req
882. Come on, men. Let's take on the...Copy !req
883. You don't know what's in those woods.Copy !req
884. - Let's go. We're gonna get...
- Hey, you guys, wait up for me!Copy !req
885. Ace, I gotta tell you something, but you
gotta swear on your mother's good nameCopy !req
886. that you won't tell anybody.Copy !req
887. You got it, pal.Copy !req
888. Hey, Eyeball, you know that Brower kid?Copy !req
889. What about him?Copy !req
890. I could tell you something about him,
but you gotta swearCopy !req
891. on your mother's good nameCopy !req
892. you ain't gonna tell nobody.Copy !req
893. Billy and Charlie had managed to keep
their enormous secret for about 36 hours.Copy !req
894. A personal record for both of them.Copy !req
895. By noon, Ace and Eyeball had told
their secret to everybody in the gang.Copy !req
896. I guess for those guys, protecting their
mother's good name wasn't a top priority.Copy !req
897. Hey, listen, Ace.
Maybe me and Charlie shouldn't go.Copy !req
898. Yeah, maybe you could go without us?Copy !req
899. You guys are acting like my grandmother
having a conniption fit.Copy !req
900. I don't see your problem.Copy !req
901. We go up with a whole bunch
of fishing gear,Copy !req
902. and if a cop asks what we're doing there,Copy !req
903. "We're here to take a couple of steelhead
out of the river and look what we found."Copy !req
904. Yeah, come on, man,
we're gonna be famous.Copy !req
905. We're gonna be on every radio and TV show
in the country.Copy !req
906. I still don't think we should go.Copy !req
907. Okay. Okay.Copy !req
908. You've stated your position clearly.Copy !req
909. Now, I'm gonna state mine.Copy !req
910. Get in the fucking car. Now!Copy !req
911. - Let's go.
- Yeah, let's go.Copy !req
912. - I hate this shortcut.
- "I hate this shortcut."Copy !req
913. You flinched! Two for flinching.Copy !req
914. But you flinched.Copy !req
915. I know. Two for flinching.Copy !req
916. How are we supposed to get across this?Copy !req
917. - We use you as a raft.
- Very funny.Copy !req
918. Hey, you know, it's not that deep.
We can walk across.Copy !req
919. I told you we should have stuck
to the tracks.Copy !req
920. Is it me,
or are you the world's biggest pussy?Copy !req
921. I suppose this is fun for you.Copy !req
922. No, but this is.Copy !req
923. Want some more?Copy !req
924. - Stop it, come on!
- Come on, Teddy, act your age.Copy !req
925. This is my age.Copy !req
926. I'm in the prime of my youth,
and I'll only be young once.Copy !req
927. Yeah, but you're going to be stupid
for the rest of your life.Copy !req
928. Rank-out!Copy !req
929. Oh, that's it, Chambers.
You just signed your own death warrant.Copy !req
930. You die, Chambers!Copy !req
931. Get him! Get Vern!Copy !req
932. - Vern Tessio dies!
- No, Teddy, you're gonna die!Copy !req
933. Hey, where do you think
you're going, Lachance?Copy !req
934. - Yeah, Lachance?
- Come on, you guys.Copy !req
935. Pile on!Copy !req
936. - Come on, you guys. I don't wanna do this.
- Pile on!Copy !req
937. Get off!Copy !req
938. - Sleeper hold. Sleeper hold.
- Stop it. I'm serious.Copy !req
939. No one gets out of a sleeper hold.Copy !req
940. Vern, there's something on your neck.Copy !req
941. Yeah, right, I'm not falling for that one,
Lachance.Copy !req
942. No, Vern, there is something on your neck.Copy !req
943. It's a leech. Leeches!Copy !req
944. - Oh, my God!
- Leeches!Copy !req
945. Jesus Christ!Copy !req
946. Oh, my God!Copy !req
947. Get them off!Copy !req
948. They're on me!Copy !req
949. - Gordie, man, there's some on your back.
- Get them off!Copy !req
950. - Oh, my God! They're all over my legs!
- They're on your back!Copy !req
951. Are there any on mine, man?Copy !req
952. Oh, Chris.Copy !req
953. Oh, shit, Chris.Copy !req
954. Oh, shit, man.Copy !req
955. Gordie, man, are you okay?Copy !req
956. Can you hear me?Copy !req
957. Gordie, are you there?Copy !req
958. Maybe he's dead.Copy !req
959. He's not dead. He's still breathing, you idiot.Copy !req
960. Well, I don't know.Copy !req
961. Just cool it, you guys. He just fainted.Copy !req
962. Gordie?Copy !req
963. God, I never met anybody
who fainted before.Copy !req
964. Maybe he made a bad mistake
and looked at your face.Copy !req
965. Shut up, Teddy.Copy !req
966. You okay, Gordie?Copy !req
967. - Yeah.
- Let's go.Copy !req
968. Maybe we should take Gordie back.Copy !req
969. Great, Chambers,
now you're turning pussy, too!Copy !req
970. What's your problem, Duchamp?Copy !req
971. He had a leech hanging from his balls.
He fainted.Copy !req
972. What are you? His mother?Copy !req
973. - Eat shit.
- You eat shit.Copy !req
974. I think Chris is right. Let's go back.Copy !req
975. What a surprise! The king of the pussies
wants to go back, too.Copy !req
976. - Stop calling me that.
- What, "Pussy"? Pussy!Copy !req
977. - Stop it!
- Pussy!Copy !req
978. You four-eyed psycho!Copy !req
979. Get off me!Copy !req
980. Two for flinching. Do you like it?
Do you like it? Two for flinching.Copy !req
981. - Stop it.
- You like it, huh, Teddy?Copy !req
982. - Come on, you guys. Break it up.
- Stop it. Stop it!Copy !req
983. I'm not going back.Copy !req
984. - Idiot.
- Shut up! Retard.Copy !req
985. At the time, I didn't know why I needed
to see that body so badly.Copy !req
986. Even if no one had followed me,
I would have gone on alone.Copy !req
987. No way, Ace! Not this time, man. No way!Copy !req
988. - Go for it, Vince. Go for it.
- You want to race? Oh, yeah?Copy !req
989. Oh, my God, I got him.Copy !req
990. You are history, guy. History!Copy !req
991. - Fall back, Ace.
- Come on, don't fuck around.Copy !req
992. - Jesus Christ, Ace! Fall back, man!
- What are you doing?Copy !req
993. Shit, man! Shit!Copy !req
994. I won.Copy !req
995. You let him beat you, you cock-knocker.Copy !req
996. Coming through the woods,
I bet we saved over an hour.Copy !req
997. - Teddy?
- Yeah?Copy !req
998. Is this the Back Harlow Road?Copy !req
999. Yeah.Copy !req
1000. The Brower kid must be
around here someplace.Copy !req
1001. Teddy, you and Vern
watch the left side of the tracks.Copy !req
1002. - We'll take the right.
- All right.Copy !req
1003. There he is! I see him! Look!Copy !req
1004. Look over there! I see him!Copy !req
1005. None of us could breathe.Copy !req
1006. Somewhere under those bushes
was the rest of Ray Brower.Copy !req
1007. The train had knocked Ray Brower
out of his Keds,Copy !req
1008. just like it had knocked the life
out of his body.Copy !req
1009. Jesus.Copy !req
1010. The kid wasn't sick.Copy !req
1011. The kid wasn't sleeping.Copy !req
1012. The kid was dead.Copy !req
1013. Let's look for some long branches.
We'll build him a stretcher.Copy !req
1014. Gordie?Copy !req
1015. Why did you have to die?Copy !req
1016. What's the matter with Gordie?Copy !req
1017. Nothing.Copy !req
1018. Why don't you guys just go over there
and look for some branches, okay?Copy !req
1019. Okay.Copy !req
1020. Why did he have to die, Chris?Copy !req
1021. Why did Denny have to die? Why?Copy !req
1022. I don't know.Copy !req
1023. - It should have been me.
- Don't say that.Copy !req
1024. - It should have been me.
- Don't say that, man.Copy !req
1025. I'm no good. My dad said it. I'm no good.Copy !req
1026. He doesn't know you.Copy !req
1027. He hates me.Copy !req
1028. He doesn't hate you.Copy !req
1029. - He hates me.
- No.Copy !req
1030. He just doesn't know you.Copy !req
1031. He hates me. My dad hates me.Copy !req
1032. He hates me. Oh, God.Copy !req
1033. You're gonna be a great writer someday,
Gordie.Copy !req
1034. You might even write about us guys,
if you ever get hard up for material.Copy !req
1035. I guess I'd have to be pretty hard up, huh?Copy !req
1036. Yeah.Copy !req
1037. What the fuck do you know about this?Copy !req
1038. Son of a bitch! My little brother.Copy !req
1039. You wasn't planning on taking
the body from us, was you, boys?Copy !req
1040. You get away, man.Copy !req
1041. We found him. We got dibs.Copy !req
1042. We better start running, Eyeball.
They got dibs.Copy !req
1043. We earned him, man. You guys
came in a car. That's not fair. He's ours.Copy !req
1044. "That's not fair. He's ours."Copy !req
1045. Well, not anymore.Copy !req
1046. There are four of us, Eyeball.
You just make your move.Copy !req
1047. Oh, we will. Don't you worry.Copy !req
1048. Vern, you little son of a whore.Copy !req
1049. - You was under the porch.
- No, I swear it wasn't me.Copy !req
1050. You keyhole-peeping bung.
I ought to beat the living shit out of you.Copy !req
1051. You guys have two choices.Copy !req
1052. You either leave quietly
and we take the bodyCopy !req
1053. or you stay and we beat the shit out of you.Copy !req
1054. And we take the body.Copy !req
1055. - Besides, me and Billy found him first.
- Yeah, Vern told us how you found him.Copy !req
1056. "Billy, I wish we'd never boosted that car."Copy !req
1057. "Billy, I think I just turned
my Fruit of the Looms into a fudge factory."Copy !req
1058. - That's it. Your ass is grass!
- Hold it.Copy !req
1059. Okay, Chambers, you little faggot.
This is your last chance.Copy !req
1060. What do you say, kid?Copy !req
1061. Why don't you go home
and fuck your mother some more?Copy !req
1062. You're dead.Copy !req
1063. Come on, Chris, let's split.Copy !req
1064. - They're not taking him.
- Come on, man, this is crazy.Copy !req
1065. - They're not taking him.
- He's got a knife, man.Copy !req
1066. Ace, come on, man.Copy !req
1067. You're gonna have to kill me, Ace.Copy !req
1068. No problem.Copy !req
1069. You're not taking him. Nobody's taking him.Copy !req
1070. Come on, kid, just give me the gun
before you take your foot off.Copy !req
1071. You ain't got the sack
to shoot a woodchuck.Copy !req
1072. Don't move, Ace.Copy !req
1073. I'll kill you. I swear to God.Copy !req
1074. Come on, Lachance, give me the gun.Copy !req
1075. You must have at least some
of your brother's good sense.Copy !req
1076. Suck my fat one,
you cheap dime-store hood.Copy !req
1077. What are you going to do, shoot us all?Copy !req
1078. No, Ace, just you.Copy !req
1079. We're gonna get you for this.Copy !req
1080. Maybe you will and maybe you won't.Copy !req
1081. Oh, we will.Copy !req
1082. We're not gonna forget this,
if that's what you're thinking.Copy !req
1083. This is big time, baby.Copy !req
1084. "Suck my fat one"?Copy !req
1085. Whoever told you,
you had a fat one, Lachance?Copy !req
1086. - Biggest one in four counties.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1087. Are we gonna take him?Copy !req
1088. No.Copy !req
1089. But we came all this way?Copy !req
1090. We were supposed to be heroes.Copy !req
1091. Not this way, Teddy.Copy !req
1092. Chris, give me a hand.Copy !req
1093. Ray Brower's body was found,Copy !req
1094. but neither our gang
nor their gang got the credit.Copy !req
1095. In the end, we decided that an anonymous
phone call was the best thing to do.Copy !req
1096. We headed home. And although
many thoughts raced through our minds,Copy !req
1097. we barely spoke.Copy !req
1098. We walked through the night
and made it back to Castle RockCopy !req
1099. a little past 5:00 on Sunday morning,
the day before Labor Day.Copy !req
1100. We'd only been gone two days,
but somehow the town seemed different,Copy !req
1101. smaller.Copy !req
1102. Well, see you in school.Copy !req
1103. - Yeah.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1104. See you in junior high.Copy !req
1105. A penny.Copy !req
1106. Well, guys, I better get home before my
mom puts me on the "10 Most Wanted List."Copy !req
1107. Hey, Chris?Copy !req
1108. No hard feelings, okay?Copy !req
1109. No way, man.Copy !req
1110. As time went on we saw less and less
of Teddy and VernCopy !req
1111. until eventually they became
just two more faces in the halls.Copy !req
1112. It happens sometimes.Copy !req
1113. Friends come in and out of your life
like busboys in a restaurant.Copy !req
1114. I heard that Vern got married
out of high school, had four kidsCopy !req
1115. and is now the forklift operator
at the Arsenault Lumber Yard.Copy !req
1116. Teddy tried several times to get into the
army, but his eyes and his ear kept him out.Copy !req
1117. Last I'd heard he'd spent some time in jailCopy !req
1118. and was now doing odd jobs
around Castle Rock.Copy !req
1119. I'm never gonna get out of this town,
am I, Gordie?Copy !req
1120. You can do anything you want, man.Copy !req
1121. Yeah, sure.Copy !req
1122. Give me some skin.Copy !req
1123. I'll see ya.Copy !req
1124. Not if I see you first.Copy !req
1125. Chris did get out.Copy !req
1126. He enrolled in the college courses with me.Copy !req
1127. And although it was hard,
he gutted it out like he always did.Copy !req
1128. He went on to college and eventually
became a lawyer.Copy !req
1129. Last week, he entered a fast-food restaurant.Copy !req
1130. Just ahead of him,
two men got into an argument.Copy !req
1131. One of them pulled a knife.Copy !req
1132. Chris, who'd always made the best peace,
tried to break it up.Copy !req
1133. He was stabbed in the throat.Copy !req
1134. He died almost instantly.Copy !req
1135. Dad, can we go now?Copy !req
1136. - You ready?
- Yeah, we've been ready for an hour.Copy !req
1137. Okay, I'll be right there.Copy !req
1138. He said that a half hour ago.Copy !req
1139. Yeah, my dad's weird.
He gets like that when he's writing.Copy !req