Castle Rock

How much doubt...

is reasoNable?

Well, folks...

if I had To choose

whether or not to take someone’s life...

and that is the choice Before you today,

make no mistake...

I don’t think any amount would seem reasonable.

Now, me, I had to kill someone,

I’d need it etched in gold and signed by God Himself.

So I ask...

how much doubt are you folks comfortable with?

He tells me a story...

He says he’s my son, Henry. Adopted.

- ( screams ) Did you start

the fire in the hospital?

And then he starts in: "I heard it, Dad."

We have to go. To the woods.

The schisma has been getting louder again, Henry.

It hasn’t risen to these levels

- in decades. - ( high-pitched hum )

Do you hear it?

We have to go...

We have to go to the woods.

Who are you?

The reason, the stain,

the curse on our town,

dragging evil behind you everywhere you went.

I was trying to get back.

I couldn’t. Then Lacy found me.

- ( muffled shouting ) - Took me to Shawshank.

But after all these years...

I still don’t know what you really are.

You believe me, don’t you?

Bless, O Lord, this food to our purpose,

and keep us ever mindful of the needs of others.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

They painted over my parking spot today.

Painted it blue.

Little white man in a wheelchair.

I thought, "Well, that’s about right."

I never had kids, because of you.

And waited on retirement.

Waited... for instructions from Him.

Hmm.

( ragtime-style guitar playing )

Why...

why are you telling me?

To you, we’re strangers.

But I’ve known you all my life.

I need your help...

to convince Henry to go out there with me.

Henry? Why Henry? He...

Because he hears it, the sound.

I think it’s some kind of door

from one world to the other.

When I went back out there, nothing happened.

I didn’t even know what to look for.

How... How do you know that it’s even there at all?

It has to be.

You believe me, don’t you?

I want to, and...

I just...

Bring Henry to Harmony Hill.

There’s something I want to remind him of.

Wait. I...

What was I like... over there?

Happier.

HENRY ( voicemail ): This is Henry Deaver.

I’m away from my phone,

please leave a message after the tone.

- ( beep ) Henry, I got your text.

I’m sorry, I haven’t seen your mom.

I hope she’s OK. But...

But I really need to talk to you.

Call me as soon as you can.

What the fuck?

Ruth!

It’s me! It’s Molly.

Why don’t you come down from there?

No, dear. I would, but I’ve got to get to the hospital.

You see, I love Alan Pangborn,

so I’ll stay at the hospital three extra days this time,

and Alan won’t leave my side.

How ’bout that?

Ruth, please.

Oh, gosh. Please come down.

Ruth, Alan’s dead.

I know that.

I’m the one who shot him.

But he’s also alive...

other times.

It’s just zigs and zags,

forks in the river,

always changing, always the same.

Alan’s dead, Alan’s alive...

Been here before, be here again.

You and me on the bridge.

Ruth, please.

Let’s just go home.

Oh, you always say that.

Every time.

One...

One of those other times...

you left Matthew.

You went away.

With Alan.

You already had a bag packed.

First time you’ve said that.

Ruth, please.

Tonight’s discharges.

Next chain’s out tomorrow.

Augusta State, 0800.

Hundred-fifty-two less mouths to feed.

Uh, what about Bolduc Correctional?

They’re draggin’ their ass on their intake,

so I’ll keep pushin’. But nobody seems to give a damn

we got a deadline to clear this place out.

The search is focusing

on a wide stretch of Castle Woods

near the suspect’s last known location.

Shawshank’s been open a hundred years.

One head case goes postal, nine of my men are dead...

an institution dies with ’em.

You hear it now?

- It’s that way. - False witness.

I know you don’t hear it.

And I know why you don’t.

You see, I figured out the problem, Henry.

She’s the problem.

She’s forced you to deceive me

- No, sir... - the way that she’s deceived me

for the last year with the Sheriff.

She lies with another man,

and that’s a sin in the eyes of the Lord.

But soon your mother will be called home,

and when she’s gone, we will live pure,

just the two of us, in the cathedral of His voice.

Gone where?

"For the wages of sin... is death."

- Romans. - Romans.

6:23.

That’s a father’s son.

What are you gonna do?

She’s left me no choice.

No.

Henry.

Henry!

Hey. - ( grunts )

You OK, man?

Dude...

this shit’s happening all over town.

Global warming, right?

- ( ethereal sounds ) - ( footfalls )

( police radio chatter in distance )

What the hell?

Front door open.

And now privately owned Shawshank...

- Mom. - will be closing its doors...

Where’s the Queen?

Henry.

...long history of suicide and corruption...

- I just talked to Jackie. - Wh...

- Are you OK? - What are you doing here?

I’ll put this with the pepper, huh?

Um... I found her out on the bridge.

She was gonna jump again.

Jesus.

Henry, you got stabbed.

Henry, what...

I don’t know what’s happening.

He came to me, Henry.

Who?

Warden Lacy, Zalewski, Juniper Hill, Alan...

terrible things just...

just follow him wherever he goes,

like he’s a magnet or something.

And he’s saying