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Listen, kids. This campfire stuff is fun, it really is, but it doesn't matter how painstakingly we go over these sewer plans or how many damn flashlights or helmets you've got in that box. When the sun comes up, I'm dust, and I would suggest that you follow me and get the hell out of Dodge!

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Hello nigger. I'm here to pay you back. I'll pay you all back.

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Why does IT hate? Why is IT so mean?

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There's something terribly wrong here in Derry, and you know it!

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I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the Easter Bunny. I believe in the Tooth Fairy. But I don't believe in you. This is battery acid. Now, you disappear!

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I worry about you, Bevvie. Sometimes I worry a lot.

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“Your hair is winter fire, January embers/My heart burns there, too.”

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Pennywise: [from inside the drain] Hiya, Georgie! [reveals himself] Aren't cha gonna say... hello? [Georgie shakes his head] Awww, come on, bucko. Don't you want a... [pulls out a yellow balloon] balloon? [Georgie is initially tempted, but hesitates] Georgie: I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers; My dad said so. Pennywise: Very wise of ya dad, Georgie - very wise indeed. I, Georgie, am Pennywise, the Dancing Clown. You are Georgie. So now we know each other. Keeerect?! Georgie: [still somewhat nervous] I guess so. I gotta go. Pennywise: Go?! Without this? [shows Georgie his fallen paper boat] Georgie: [cheerful] My boat! Pennywise: EX-actly! Go on, kiddo. Take it. [Georgie stares, unsure about reaching into the stormdrain for his boat] Awww. You want it, don't you, Georgie? Of course you do. And there's cotton candy, rides, and all sorts of surprises down here. And balloons too. All colors. Pennywise: [face begins changing from a smile to a frown] Ohh, yes. They float, Georgie

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Pennywise: That’s it! Let go. Be afraid! Bill: B-Bev, the stones! Pennywise: You all taste so much better when you're afraid. Bill: Hurry, Bev. Kill IT! Pennywise: Kill?! [laughs] Me?! Oh you are priceless, brat! I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds, and of children.(Turns to Stan) And you are next! Eddie: This is battery acid, you slime!

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Mike: My dad says there's no way to date this one. He says it's probably from the early or mid-1700s when Derry was a logging town. Bill: Hold it. P-P-P-Pennywise the Clown? Richie: That's him. That's him! Ben: 200 years ago? He was here then? Stan: Come on, it's just a drawing! Mike: Now, look; Here he is again. The same man. Bev: It's not a man. Bill: It... IT! [the scrapbook begins flapping] Th-That's what happened back in Georgie's room. [the scrapbook stops at a page and the picture comes to life. The kids see IT/Pennywise dancing] Look! Pennywise: I'll kill you all! [laughs] I'll drive you crazy, and I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you've ever had! I'm your worst dream come true! I'M EVERYTHING YOU EVER WERE AFRAID OF! Stan: [grabs the book and throws it] NO! Everyone else: YES! Bill: Don't let it get to you, man. Ben: You saw it, too. Stan: I didn't want to... Bill: But you did. Stan: ...Yes. Okay. If that's what you want... Yes. Bill: Yes, that's what I wanted, you t-tur

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Eddie: What are we gonna do? Stan: Do? What do you mean "do"? I just want to forget about it. Bev: It's not just us, it's all the other kids too. Like Velma Daniels, she was in my class. Who's gonna be next? Bill: B-Bev's right, we gotta do something. Ben: We gotta tell somebody. Bev: They don't see what we see. Eddie: Why? Bill: When you grow up, you stop believing. Richie: They'd just laugh their heads off and put us in a nuthatch. Ben: IT kills kids. Damn it. Bev: We've gotta do something. Bill: [after a long pause] Help me. You killed my brother George, you bastard! Let's see you now. Let's see you now. It's scared of us you know? I can feel that. I swear to God I can. I-I wanna kill it. Help me. Please help me. Help!

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Bill: [reading a paper] He...thrusts his-his... Ben: [takes the paper] "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." That's all it says, over and over. Bill: [stuttering heavily] My m-m-mom g-g-gave me that to say to to... to help with my s-s-stutter! Richie: No offense pal, it ain't helping.

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Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin? Eddie: Yeah. Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.

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Richie: I just flew in from L.A., and boy is my tail-section tired... We're hot tonight, it's great to be back here in Derry, breathing in that old Derry Air. Eddie, get all of their names, I want to put them on my Christmas mailer, no, Denbrough there, let's put him on my Norman Mailer. [puts Eddie in a head-lock] I love this guy, he's like the brother I never had. [turns Eddie face-up] Wait a minute! He IS the brother I never had! Mike: Beep beep, Richie. [on the telephone] Hello, Stan? ..Is this the Uris residence? I'm trying to get hold of Stan Uris-- [pause] Oh... Thank you. Thank you, very much. [hangs up] Stan is dead. He cut his wrists in the bathtub right after I phoned him.

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Pennywise: (indicating a number of freshly dug graves) Take your pick, Buh-Buh-Buh-Billy boy. Oh, except for the one on the end, that's already taken. Sorry. Bill: I remember you, and I remember we beat you. I'm not afraid of you.

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Last chance, Tozier - get out before it gets dark tonight. You're TOO OLD to stop me! You're ALL TOO OLD! Excuse me, sir, do you have Prince Albert in a can? You DO?! Well, you better let the poor guy out! Wuhah! Wuhah! Wuhah! Wuhah! Wuhah! Wuhah! GET OUT!! Last chance, Tozier! Get out! Get out while you can! (off-screen) Excuse me, ma'am, is your refrigerator running? [gasps] It IS?! Well, you better catch it before it runs away! Wuhah! Wuhah! Wuhah! Oh, I kill myself!

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Bill: Audra, my brother who died... Audra: Yes, George? Bill: He didn't just die. He was m-m-murdered. Audra: Why didn't you ever...? Bill: Tell you? Because I forgot. Because I forgot. Almost like it never happened. I know that this doesn't make any sense, but I have to go. Audra: But why? Bill: Because we made a p-promise. Audra: Why are you stuttering like that? Bill: I don't know. I used to stutter when I was a kid.

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Bill: Swear to me. Swear to me that if IT isn't dead, we'll all come back. Bev: I swear. Ben: Swear. Mike: I swear it. Richie: I swear. Eddie: I swear, too. Stan: Swear.

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Mike: ...If you want to see Henry Bowers, you'll find him up at Juniper Hills. Bev: Ever since the trial where he confessed to all the murders of all the children. Ben: He was down there with us, down there in the sewer. Richie: That creep was going to kill Stan. Eddie: He was going to kill us all. Bill: I remember when they pulled him out, his hair had turned white... Ben: He was babbling about a bright light... Bev: ...and a clown. Mike: And no one believed him. Bill: Except when he said that he murdered all the kids.

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Richie: I hope that someone remembered to bring something useful, like a machine gun. Bev: [holding up slingshot] I brought this. It's the only thing I saved from those days. Ben: I remember you were a dead shot, Bev. Eddie: Couldn't miss. Ben: IT was like it was supposed to be, Bev. Remember? You hit the clown, Pennywise, in the head. It broke open. Bev: And underneath it was a light. Ben: Bright lights. Bill: Deadlights.

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Richie: One out of ten. You're worse than I am, kiddo. At this rate, we might as well let that damn clown take us one by one. Bill: Beep beep, Richie. Who's left? Ben? Bev? Richie: Yeah, and one of them better be good, Bill, because right now, you're in the lead with a pathetic three out of 10. Bill: Richie, will you PLEASE shut up?! Richie: You know, you don't stutter all the time?

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Mike: Thanks. Stan: Any time. Mike: Who are you guys anyway? Eddie: We're sort of a club. Bev: Yeah, the Losers Club. Richie: Yeah. Bill: You w-want in? Mike: Yeah. Yeah, I do.

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Nobody's ever gonna say a single word a sister of mine is on well fair. So, you're welcome as long as you need to stay. But I have to say you're spoiling the boy, Arlene, who needs a firm hand: Discipline.

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Arlene: We'll have a home of our own one day, Benny, I promise. Ben: I know, Mama. Arlene: Benny, as long as we're guests in this house, I need you to help me. Ben: They wouldn't treat us like this if Daddy were still alive. Arlene: Come on inside now and apologize. Ben: Apologize? But he was... Arlene: Benny, you must. Ben: No, I hate it here! I hate it here! [climbs onto his bicycle and rides off in despair] Arlene: Benny, come on, Benny! Benny!

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Offstage voice: Ben! Benny! Up here, Ben! Ben: [turns around and gets up] Daddy? Captain Hanscom: Benny! [Ben motions towards waterworks building] Ben! Ben! Hi, Ben! Ben: Daddy? Captain Hanscom: That's my home now, son! [Ben cannot believe it when suddenly he sees his father holding balloons] Captain Hanscom: You want a balloon, Ben? They float! Pennywise: They all float. Captain Hanscom: Come here, son! You'll like it down there! Pennywise: You'll never have to grow up! [laughs, changes back to normal, points at Ben, and disappears as a skeleton comes out of the water] They float. They all float. And when you're down here with me, Fatboy, you'll float too. [laughs]

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Eddie: That's great, Ben. You should write that one down. Ben: Bill's our writer. Bill: I just write horror stories.

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Richie: So, you, Haystack, what are you building? A dam or something? Ben: Yeah. Richie: Have you ever built one before? Ben: No. Richie: How do you know it will work? Ben: Well, of course it would. Why wouldn't it? Richie: Yeah, but how do you know? Ben: I just know. Bill: Yeah, he just knows. Bev: Yeah. Eddie: Yeah. Stan: Yeah. Richie: Well, okay.

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Richie: Don't talk. You're gonna be fine, Spaghetti-Man. Eddie: Richie, please. For the last time, don't call me that. You know how I... [dies]