IT: Welcome to Derry

(PROJECTOR STARTING UP, WHIRRING)

See, I told you there was weird shit going on

over at the airbase!

They made a giant fucking mutant baby!

-(MUTANT BABY SHRIEKS) -(KIDS SCREAMING)

Come on, Susie!

-(INDISTINCT CLAMOR) -(MUTANT BABY SCREECHES, GROWLS)

-(MUTANT BABY SNARLS) Guys, come on!

-(LILLY BAINBRIDGE WHIMPERS) -(HEARTBEAT THUMPING FAST)

-(MUTANT BABY SHRIEKS) -(TEDDY URIS SCREAMS)

-(MUTANT BABY GROWLS) -(TEDDY SCREAMING)

(RONNIE GROGAN SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)

Go! Go! Go! -(MUTANT BABY GROWLS)

-(PHIL YELLS) -(MUTANT BABY ROARS)

(SHOUTING) Susie!

-Lilly! Give me your hand.

-(SHRIEKS) -(LILLY SCREAMS)

-(DOG BARKING) -(BABY CRYING)

-(DOG CONTINUES BARKING) -(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

So, Grogan, huh?

Chief’s pretty sure.

The projectionist in the movie theater...

with the candlestick.

Little Philly Malkin went to school with my boy.

Show some respect.

Sorry.

-(DOG BARKING) -(DISTANT CHATTER)

And what do you think he did to 'em?

A lot of blood, no bodies?

How the hell should I know?

Maybe he ate 'em.

-(LAUGHS) -(CHUCKLES)

Those poor parents, though.

It's a goddamn tragedy is what it is.

-Sick bastard. -(EXHALES DEEPLY)

They're still out there.

-(WATER STOPS) -Well, they gon' stay out there

'til they either find those kids

or figure out how to pin this on me.

I told 'em you were nowhere near

that theater when all that ugliness happened.

Told 'em you were here, in bed,

after watching the Andy Griffith with me.

Told 'em they could ask you all about it.

And you think they gon' take my momma's word for an alibi?

They're trying to intimidate us is what.

Make you confess to something you didn't do.

-(DISH CLATTERS) -Well, fuck 'em!

Calm down, Momma.

You know Ronnie's still sleeping.

And she shouldn't have let those kids in

in the first damn place.

They were just trying to figure out what happened to that Clements boy.

That's all.

-None of this is her fault. -It's your fault.

Filling her head full of Hollywood nonsense,

thinking she Nora Charles or some such

till she forget how the world really is.

She's safe, Momma.

That's all that matters.

You're going to send that girl back to school next week.

She need that education

if she ever going to get the hell out of this town.

Momma, kids missing, people watching us,

whispering behind my back, your back, our backs.

If you think I'm lettin' Ronnie out of my sight,

you got another thing coming.

You can't protect that girl forever.

Now come Monday, she gon' march into that school

with her head held high.

Ronnie, don't play with me now. I know you're there.

Veronica Grogan.

Are they really gonna try and pin this on you

-and take you away? -No. No, baby. No.

I heard, you said-- -I know-- I know what I said.

-That's just grown folks talking. Come on.

Nothing's gonna happen to me.

Everything will be okay.

You hear me?

There he is. -Dad!

Ooh!

Let me see the grip.

-Yeah, that's the best you got? -That you can handle.

-Oh, it's like that. Okay. -(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

There you go.

-How you doing? -(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

-Uh, I wanna see my room. -Upstairs.

Whew.

Uh, you know I've been waiting on this porch for you

for two hours.

Two hours, yeah.

Well, we kept it well below the speed limit.

-Hey, baby. -Hey.

(GROANS) Ow. -Oh. What's wrong?

I had a little mishap on base

and it banged me up a little bit.

-Oh no. Bad? -I'll live.

What you think?

-It's more space. It's very nice.

Hey, yeah, quiet neighborhood. Yeah?

Mm-hmm. -All right.

It's beautiful. -Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Good afternoon.

You sure we're... we're good here?

If anybody's got a problem with it,

they can take it up with JFK.

Oh! Oh my... (CHUCKLES)

This thing is amazing.

Oh, would you look at that.

Yeah, I found a nice little secondhand shop downtown.

-Owner cut me a deal. -Mm-hmm.

It's the exact kind I wanted.

How did you know?

You think your old man doesn't know his own kid?

Well, last present you got me was a tie.

Will, you said you loved that tie.

Yeah, well, you can't see Jupiter with a tie.

You know, when we need to, pilots,

we use planets to help us navigate.

So we keep a device inside of the cockpit

in case of a malfunction.

-A sextant, right? That's exactly right.

My little navigator.

Be better at night, but in the meantime,

maybe we could use this to spy on the neighbors.

I don't think we should do that.

Yeah, prob-- probably not.

It was just a joke.

Can I?

Yeah, sure, please. Yeah.

It's got a mirror inside. Two mirrors, actually.

You know, you have one mirror to collect the light, and--

And one that magnifies it.

That's right, son.

I'm not about to sweat out my silky press.

We were moving in such a haste.

You know Charlotte's not going to bed

without Charlotte's headscarf.

I'm going to get organized tomorrow.

That was a good call on the telescope, baby. Thank you.

Figured the last thing that boy needed was another baseball

he was going to use as a paperweight.

His age, I'd have given a kidney for a proper mitt.

Well, he isn't you.

Now is he?

He's too smart for his own good. That's what he is.

He's just trying to impress you.

That hurt?

What's the exact opposite of hurt?