[His mother won't let him go away on an overnight school camping trip]
Dad would let me go.
Well, Dad is an abusive, chain-smoking methadone addict.
Who would attract someone like that?
And to think he left you.
John! I know you get your smart mouth from my side of the family. So I'll cut you a break. But point check, you're going too far!
No, I'm going to Yosemite.
Look, Mom, help me out here. I need a little more open air, I've earned it. Look, I know that today is the day...
Oh, really? What day is that, John?
[Creeped out]
Oh, I hadn't noticed.
Look, Mom, we're through will all that. We really are.
[after catching John and Charlie out of school]
What the **** do you think you're doing?
Mom, I'm real uncomfortable with you saying that word.
Then don't put me in the position, John! Do you know what day it is? Of all the days for you to pull this shit, just what do you think you can do? Just wander around town? I don't ask you for very much, just give me one day!
Mom, I've given 17 years!
And I need you to be responsible! Do you know what that means?
Don't talk to me about responsibility, Mom!
I just need this one thing!
Mom, I am not responsible for you. That's it; I've had enough. I can't take it anymore, Mom. He's dead. Michael Myers is dead!
What do you want me to say?
That it's over, that we should try to make some attempt at a happy existence, Mom, 'cause all the shit that's going on inside of your head is leaking out on me, and I can't take it anymore. You told me, yourself, you watched him burn.
I didn't exactly stay to see his ashes, John.
Mom, 20 years. 20 years. Don't you think he would've shown up by now? What's he waiting for, huh?
[Laurie doesn't respond]
Mom, I can't live like this [Starts to walk away]
What...What does that mean, John?
If you wanna stay handcuffed to your dead brother, that's fine, but you're not dragging me along, not anymore!
I'm not who you think I am.
Will Brennan Okay. Who are you?
My name's not Kerri Tate.
Will Brennan Ooh. What is it?
Will Brennan Strode?
Strode. I changed my name when I went into hiding.
Will Brennan Oh, I like that. That's like...like...like the Witness Protection Program. What did you, like, rat out the mob, or something?
My brother killed my sister...when she was seventeen.
Will Brennan Well, that's...sickly. How'd he do that?
With a really big sharp kitchen knife.
Will Brennan That's terrible. Take off your clothes.
Will Brennan Okay.
They locked him up for a long time, but he got out and...he came after me. But I got away. But he killed a lot of my friends. It happened– [in unison with Will Brennan] –on Halloween.
You've heard the whole story.
Will Brennan Who hasn't? Michael Myers. It's like twenty years ago, right?
Will Brennan And the girl that... What happened to the sister? She died, right?
No. She faked her death...and, now, she's the head mistress of a very posh, secluded private school in Northern California.
Will Brennan What?
Hoping and praying every year...that her brother won't find her.
Will Brennan You're telling me the truth?!
Now, do you want a drink?
Molly please, do you have any thoughts on Victor and Elizabeth?
Molly Cartwell Well, um, well I think that Victor should have confronted the monster sooner. He's completely responsible for Elizabeth's death because he was so paralyzed by fear that he never did anything. It took death for the guy to get a clue.
And why do you think he was finally able to confront his monster?
Molly Cartwell I think that Victor had reached a point in his life where he had nothing left to lose. I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved. Victor finally had to face it. It was about redemption... it was his fate.
[voiceover]
I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding. Not even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply...evil.
