Original subtitles

[theme music]

Human beings, with a few notable exceptions,

tend to believe in the concept of good.

For some reason, we seem toneed the assurance that there

is a purpose to our existence.

An underlying rightness.

For some people, this needs is overwhelming.

A calling, or a vocation, orsimply an enormous sympathy

for our fellow beings.

And if our faith is strong,we will find signs of goodness

all around us.

Even if it's not.

Bologna.

Extra mustard, just for you, Harold.

Thanks.

All right.

Coffee?

Oh, I don't like the looks of that.

Mmn.

Why don't you come by theclinic this afternoon, okay?

No, that's an order, Joey.

BOY: Woo-hoo!

[non-english speech]

[laughter]

Oh, yes!

[pained yell]

[cheering]

[distant laughter]

Hey You hungry?

No.

Liar.

Come on, I'd like to get you something to eat.

Um.

You don't recognize me, do you?

Luann Summerson.

Penn State.

We were in English 402 together.

17th century metaphysical poetry.

Yeah, I know, I know, Iremember, I just don't want to.

Oh.

Well, hey, a lot of people down here

have things that they don't want to remember.

Kind of comes with the territory.

I've got a few things I'dlike to forget, myself.

Do you like pork chops?

What are you, like, SaintLuann of the homeless?

I've been called worse.

Come on, the food's in my freeze.

Oh, really.

Your house.

You're going to take me to your house.

I'm harmless if you are.

Besides, we know each other,I'm not-- we know each other.

You got a cigarette?

LUANN: What?

NICKY: Nothing it just seemsstrange, a woman like you,

living down here.

Well, join the crowd.

My parents, most of my old friends,

they all think I'm crazy.

I can still hear you readingthat paper on John Donne.

"No man is an island entire of itself."

I loved the way they spelledisland then, I-L-A-N-D-E.

Yeah, "Every man is a piece of the continent.

Part of the main."

Any man's death diminishes me, because I

am a part of every man.

Yeah.

It's true

I never really understoodpoetry, you know?

It was kind of too abstract.

But not the way you presented it back then.

Thanks.

Ancient history.

This is me.

Uh, I'm gonna get going.

We just got here.

No, I, uh.

You don't know me.

You don't know what I'm all about.

No, you're wrong.

I, I know you.

Look, I mean, what, do youmake it a habit of picking bums

up off the street and bringing 'em up

into your home or something?

No.

Heh.

It's not a habit.

C'mon.

My husband's.

Maybe someday he'll pick them up

Ex-husband?

Yeah, I suppose that's what you'd call it.

You know, you can take some, if you want.

Help yourself.

No, I'm all right the way I am.

You're a Christian.

Your ex-husband Christian too, huh?

Kind of.

We, we moved down heretogether from sweet suburbia,

down to inner city America, and we joined a mission

that works with the homeless.

What happened with you guys?

Well, faith is really great for the soul,

but it doesn't pay a lot, haha.

Especially down here.

So Max got involved in pyramidsales to make some extra cash.

He was really good at it.

He was too good at it.

So eventually onedoctrine, free enterprise,

just replaced it another.

So it was goodbye inner city.

Ha.

And me.

Sounds like a real jerk.

Well, I'd corroborate, exceptthat as a religious woman,

I've sworn off swearing.

There was a girl in our class Judy MacIntyre?

We got married.

Wow, really?

Mhm.

She was-- she was pretty.

[baby gurgle]

[scream]

LUANN: Nicky?

Yeah, she was really pretty.

Sorry about the floor, thechairs were a wedding gift.

Max took them.

Floor's fine.

What are you looking at?

Do you believe in evil?

Yes, I do.

But I also believe thateverybody is essentially good.

Well, that's a contradiction.

I know Heh.

I struggle with it every day.

I struggle, too.

I put some towels out, ifyou'd like to take a shower.

[scream]

I have to go, but you can stay if you want.

There's a spare key in the pot by the door.

Aren't you afraid that I'll empty the place?

I have an innate feeling about people.

Helps me survive down here.

Besides, after my ex, what's left to steal?

Hey man, hey, can you gimme a penny?

Gimme a napkin.

Gimme a-- [inaudible]

Ah!

[screaming]

Get away!

I don't wanna do this to any more.

Nicky?

That's pretty spiffy, ha.

Max never looked this good in them.

Yeah, well, I thinkyou're a little prejudiced.

I suppose I am.

I was worried about you.

There was a homeless man stabbed in the street,

and I-- I thought it might be you.

Uh, no, I'm safe.

So are you.

Haha.

"Whoever come to shroud me, do not harm

nor question much that subtle wreath

of hair which crowns my arm.

The mystery, the sign youmust not touch, for 'tis

naught but my outward soul."

That's some.

It's beautiful.

Yeah, heh.

Do you know why Iinvited you into my place?

I remember how you spoke in class.

Every word was so clear and pure.

I was like most people.

I didn't understand poetry.

I wish I did.

You understood everyword, and when you spoke,

everyone listened.

I kept telling myself that I wanted

to get to know you better.

Why didn't you?

Nah, I was shy.

And you seemed interested in Judy.

What happened?

I lost my way.

Well, a lot of people do.

Did you love her?

Yeah, I-- I loved Judy very much.

We had a little girl.

She was really beautiful.

What went wrong?

Um.

They were taken from me.

They're dead.

Oh.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

So, this all part of your religious work?

Ha, I'm not that religious.

I haven't felt the love of a man in a long time.

I'm a bum.

I sleep on the street.

Nicky, listen to me.

You were a bum, but beforethat, you were something else.

You had a home and a family.

You understood the truth of words.

You can be whatever you want.

They're coming.

I can feel it.

Wh-who?

Nicky, who?

I can't do this anymore.

I can't.

I put on the clothes.

Maybe I can be normal, theyleave me alone, and I'd forget.

Ain't gonna happen, no.

It's too late, it's too late.

Nicky, I don't understand.

It's the fire.

It burns so bright.

It never goes out, never dies.

If you have that fire, they come after you.

I can't kill all of them.

I can't kill them all Ican't keep doing this, I--

Oh my god.

No, it's--it's not what you think.

That homeless man thatwas stabbed on the street.

I-- I have to do that.

That's what I do, I--I-- you don't understand,

I have to hunt thesepeople down and kill them.

[PANICKED] You killing me too?

I never hurt you!

I'd protect you.

From who?

From the freaks!

They're out there, the bums, the crazies.

They're freaks, who-- whosuck the life out of people.

Their faces don't look right, they're all,

like, all pinned back and stretched.

You don't see them stretch.

It starts to happen whenyou-- you don't see that.

They feed on us, Luann.

On our hopes and on our dreams.

They're the ones who got my family.

They were coming for me, butthey killed them instead.

They feed on the people whosefire burns the brightest,

and I can see the fire in your eyes.

Nicky, just let me call someone, please--

You don't get it!

They'll get in the hospitals.

You send me to prison,they'll get in the prison.

I won't last a night.

Send me there, I won't last the night.

You don't believe me.

[scream]

Take it.

Take it.

You're gonna need it.

Take it, OK?

I don't know why, but yougotta cut 'em to kill 'em.

I know, I look like I'm insane.

Hey, if I were you, I'd think I was crazy, too.

I want you to think about it.

You're a good person, Luann.

Fire burns in your eyes.

LUANN: Extra mustard, just for you, Harold.

[shouting]

What-- tell me what I saw!

- I had to save you. - Tell me what I saw.

What's going on?

They're gonna be coming after you now.

No.

I'm sorry.

It's over.

[police sirens]

If you do believe in good, and if you

need to find it to prove its existence,

then just look around you.

It's everywhere.

Seek and ye shall find.

But never forget.

If you accept the existence ofgood, you will encounter evil.

[ending theme] Love.

Obsession.

Power and possession.

Hunger!

Oh oh.