It's gone. It came, it did its thing, it went away.
It went away, but what the hell was it doing?
What do you think it was doing?
It was picking people out.
What?
It can smell something in people, in their fear...
something that helps it pick people out.
Pick people out for what?
I don't understand how you would know that, sweetie.
A dead boy told me.
I think he was trying to warn me.
He was trying to warn all of us...
that this thing has been around for thousands of years...
and that nothing has been able to kill it.
This is a dream you had?
Well, the boy was dead, so, yes...
I am assuming that it was a dream, Scotty.
You were waving pom-poms at people this morning.
Now all of a sudden you're a psychic hotline?
I don't know!
You want to explain it to me? Because I can't.
The boy was trying to warn us...
that by morning it has to go back into the earth.
Oh, come on.
Into the ground for twenty-three more years.
And then what? Lives happily ever after? Huh?
Why don't you clean out your bong, all right?
Scotty, just listen to her.
It is coming back.
This is a dream she had, Rhonda. Are you going to believe it?
And it doesn't matter if we're hiding on this bus...
or if we're hiding under our beds.
It'll find us...
the ones that it picked out.
Minx, take it easy, OK?
The boy told me that...
it can smell in our fear who it wants...
and what from them...
it wants to eat.
Hello. Is anyone out there?
Hello. We have a serious problem out here.
We need help right away. Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there, please?
We have a... This is Andy Buck.
We have a serious situation out here.
Is anybody out there?
Does anybody hear me?
Dad!
Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?
- 226, are you still there? - I'm so fucking still here.
OK, OK. Just say again what you just told me.
We're not playing games here, right?
Just say it, man.
We are trapped in a broken-down school bus out on east 9...
and something is going to kill us...
if we don't get help out here right away.
Where on 9 east?
In Kissel County. Are you the cops?
What's trying to kill you? What are you talking about?
Just tell me, are you the fucking cops?
Look, now listen to me. I'm already on the 9...
but it's a big highway and so is Kissel County.
Are there any landmarks near you?
Are you close to anything?
Yeah, I'm close to peeing in my fucking pants, man.
Can you just please tell me that you're on the way?
I can't really judge the strength of your signal...
but it doesn't sound close.
What does that mean, man?
It means it's going to take me a while to get to you.
Look, we kind of have a time-critical situation here.
Roger that.
And please tell me that you're coming with backup...
because if you're not the cops...
you got to promise me that you'll call them...
and you'll tell them that we're stuck out here.
I'll call them. I'll call them right now...
but what you've got to do is hang on.
Can you do that? Hang on.
Keep headed east.
Dad?
Just get us out there.
Do it.
Yes!
It's fucking happening, man! It's fucking happening!
We're being fucking rescued!
Help me! Get this thing off me!
Help! Help! Get this thing off!
Help me! Get this thing off me!
Look out!
Half its fuckin' head's gone.
Fuck.
- You gotta be... - Fucking kiddin' me.
Get that door open. Now's our chance.
It's dead, right?
Don't know. Don't care.
It won't open!
Stop pushin' on 'em! They open in!
Something got screwed up!
The door opens.
Maybe it only opens from the outside.
It's an emergency exit, idiot.
Then you fuckin' open it, man!
Get that door open.
How can both fuckin' exits not fuckin' work?
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
He jammed it.
We thought it was trying to come in...
but this frickin' thing was making sure...
we couldn't get out.
Break the fuckin' doors!
Holy shit, man.
Hey, we can pry this thing open.
Give me a pole or a bar or something metal... something big.
Yeah, yeah. That'll work.
Come on, D. You need to get to this side.
Come on, everybody. Come on.
This thing's like a fuckin' shower curtain, man.
It's crazy.
Oh, man, show like you got a pair.
Man, fuck you.
Come on.
Everybody, let's go.
Shower curtain?
This thing's like a fucking piece of toilet paper.
What's it doing, Minx?
What's it doing up there?
It just tore its head off.
It's time to go.
What are you talking about, man? Help is coming.
The 9 is big. Remember?
What if he's an hour away?
What's if he's going in the wrong direction?
There are fucking cops on the way, man.
And you want the rest of us...
to sit underneath that big hole in the roof...
and hope that thing doesn't come crashing in here?
What do you mean, the rest of us?
I mean...
it's time to stop being polite.
There are two classes of people on this bus now.
It had its pick of twenty of us back there...
and it picked who?
Dante was one.
Another one was you, Jake.
Oh, god damn it, Scott. Don't...
And we all saw him go for you, Bucky.
What the hell is that supposed to mean, huh?
Two classes of people?
What, the "will be eaten" and the "won't be eaten"?
Fuck you, Scotty.
Minxie says this thing...
gets anybody it picks out, no matter what.
Don't put me in this.
She also said that after tonight...
it goes away, and for a long time, Scott.
You tell us, Minxie.
Are we safe if we can hide out till morning...
or is this thing gonna come after these guys...
with everything it's got 'cause it only has till morning?
Huh?
We're screwed, right?
Yeah.
Scotty, you're not talkin'...
about throwing people off this bus?
It's funny you should say that, D...
'cause the only other one...
we know it picked out for sure was you.
Whoa! Hold on a second!
We all saw the way it sniffed you out back there.
You were the only one it gave tongue action, man...
- and we all saw it. - Scotty!
I don't understand what you're trying to do.
I'm trying to stay alive.
You're trying to split us up!
We have just dropped a notch on the fucking food chain, man.
This is about living or dying now, OK?
And if this bus is the only thing...
keeping that fucker away for us...
how safe are we, you guys...
with everybody it's hungry for sittin' inside it?
I want to see hands.
I want to see hands...
'cause as shitty a deal as it is...
I gotta say I'd like you, Bucky, and Jake off this bus, man.
You listen to me, you piece of shit!
He looked at you, too, bro.
I saw him, and you did, too.
He looked right at you and smiled.
And when you made Jake take the lights off it...
he could've looked at you twice and licked his fucking lips...
but we don't know that.
So you keep your little blacklist.
'Cause when he takes you out... and I hope he does...
I'm gonna be the one gettin' as far away...
from your sorry ass as I can.
"Time to go" is right.
- I'm gonna go find that farm. - Then I'm going with you.
You know I'm coming.
You want to keep this bus?
Then you sit in it.
Right under that big hole.
See how long you last.
Look, I'm sorry, D.
You are so right about that.
Come on, guys.
Come on, help is on the way.
Why are we splitting up?
He said he was coming.
We're gonna leave, and he's gonna pull up.
That bus is a deathtrap, Bucky. Use your head.
You're really gonna let them go alone?
What, do you want to go with them?
We don't know who it picked out.
Jesus Christ, it looked at everyone.
Scotty, let go of me.
- Let go of you? - Let go of me!
Fuck.
Rho...
tell me you're really walking away from me.
You used me. You used all of us!
All you care about is yourself.
Rho...
You want to know, Scotty, what I found out today?
When people get really scared...
it's just like when they get drunk.
The real person comes to the surface.
We could've protected D and Jake and all of us...
if we'd stuck together!
You know, like in a team.
Hey. Hey!
Jonny!
- Open the door! - Open the door!
Open the door!
You little cocksucker! I will fucking fry you!
You open these goddamn doors! You open them right now!
Jonny, open the fucking doors, man! Open the...
Open the... This is my bus, too, man!
Run!
Run! He's right behind you, D!
Run! Run!
Get back! Get off! Break off!
Oh, God!
- Shit! - Hold on, hold on!
Hold still!
Stop moving! Stop!
Come on, Scotty!
You're hurting him! You're hurting him!
Get me...
- Hold still! Pull it out! - Hold on!
Stop it! Keep back! Stop moving!
It's in there like it's welded!
Pull that out! You're hurting him!
Stop it, Scotty!
- Hold still! - Stop it, Scotty!
Izzy, hold him! Hold him!
Scotty, hold still!
Get it!
Please fuckin' hurry!
Oh, God!
Oh, shit! Please hurry!
Oh, God! Please hurry!
Oh, D, I'm sorry, man! I'm so sorry!
Please fuckin' help!
Scotty! Scotty!
Damn it! Scotty! Scotty!
What is it, boy? What is it?
Papa!
Go. Go!
Where did you come from?
From that bus?
How far up ahead?
Huh?
Come on, answer me.
It doesn't matter.
There's no one on the bus, and you can't kill it.
Jacky, get the dog inside.
Look, you can't stop it!
You get in the cabin with Jack Jr.
You stay down till this is over.
This'll never be over!
It doesn't matter what you do.
It'll be back...
twenty-three years from now...
and twenty-three years from then.
Get us to that bus.
Jonny?
What was that?
Jonny?
Bucky!
What are you doin' here?
You let her in, huh, Jonny?
Have you seen anybody else?
What are you doing?
That thing is after you, Bucky.
Hey, there's no farm out there, man.
I must... I must've run ten miles all over this fuckin' valley.
Bucky...
come on, just please go away.
Don't make me go back out there again, man.
It's fuckin' freaky out there, man. Please.
Get around the bus!
Jacky!
Get us around this bus now!
Now! Get around the bus!
Jacky, get out! Get out of there now!
Jacky!
You all right?
Jacky, answer me!
Are you OK?
I think so.
Jacky, get us away from the bus!
Come on, let's go! Get us away from the bus!
Come on, Jacky, go on! Get us away!
Move it!
Dad?
- Dad? - Yeah!
Dad!
All you kids, get down!
Jacky!
You gotta get us away from the bus now!
Come on!
Dad!
Dad, get out of there.
The spool's jammed in the cradle!
Dad, just get out!
The cradle's welded to the truck's frame.
Get out, dad!
He'll rip my gun right out of the truck!
Dad, just get the fuck out of there!
Dad, dad...
are you OK?
Dad!
Dad?
Dad!
You're not going to believe this...
but I think I found a way out of here.
What?
Minxie said it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what Minxie said.
Right?
The others might've gotten away.
We don't know that.
Kimball, too.
Hey, nobody gets to decide we die.
No dream, nobody... nobody gets to decide that!
That is bullshit!
I hope so.
Come on, I want to go show you a big ugly bug.
That's the truck that passed us this morning...
you remember, with the big bug on top of it?
You think we can just drive away in it?
No, but I think I know how to hot-wire a truck.
That's how I got in my bar fight.
I was trying to steal somebody's truck.
A gay bar?
Jesus Christ.
Wherever he was going, I don't think he made it.
Oh, my God. The keys are in it.
Come on, man, the keys are in it.
It's not birds.
- Come on. - Fuck!
Shit!
D!
Go! Go, go!
Go, go, go! Go, go!
Go, man, go!
I'm a sitting duck back here, Izzy! Step on it!
I've got it floored!
Go! Come on, go!
- Go faster! Make it go faster! - I can't!
Go, go!
Go, man! Go, go!
Izzy, go!
Go! Izzy! Move this piece of shit!
Come on! Come on! Move it!
Izzy! Go, go!
Izzy, do something!
Izzy!
Get down!
Izzy!
Come on! Come on!
Izzy!
Izzy, fucking do something!
- Get out! - What?
Come on! Come on! Come on!
- Get out! - Are you fucking crazy?
Izzy! Izzy!
- Come on! Izzy! - Stay down!
Stay down!
It isn't dead.
Its time ran out.
It looks dead to me.
You Taggart?
That's right.
Can we see it?
Can you read?
This something real?
Because I heard it was a bunch of bullshit.
It's still five bucks.
Where'd it come from?
My dad killed it.
Yeah, but where'd it come from?
It's five bucks from you, too.
How'd he kill it?
Ask him.
Come on, man.
We ought to go get our money back.
What the hell is it?
What do you think it is?
We don't touch it.
What's the story on this thing?
Whatever you've heard, probably.
You expect us to think that that thing's real?
Don't really care.
How'd you kill it?
Stabbed it right through the heart...
with a big homemade harpoon.
When?
About twenty-three years ago.
You waiting for something?
About three more days...
give or take a day or two.