You're not what you appear to be.
Are you really a psychic?
They say she's cursed.
I can read your mind.
You are a witch.
DAVID: Careful. Two people can play at that game.
Nancy!
(MANIACAL LAUGHTER)
I didn't kill him.
Satan himself has come to face me!
BENEDICT: For sinners is always the same. Death.
NARRATOR: Dr. David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged,
a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS)
The creature is driven by rage
and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr. McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead
until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS)
Eyes are the windows of the soul.
Shield yours from me, lest...
(TWIGS CRACKING)
(SIGHS)
Eyes are the windows of the soul.
Shield yours from me, lest you wish to share your darkest spirit.
The gift of prophecy...
(TWIGS BREAKING)
NANCY: No!
(EXCLAIMS)
(GROANS)
Easy. Easy.
Can you roll over? Uh-huh.
(GUN FIRES)
Get away from her.
Go on, move.
She...
She fell. I was trying to help.
Sure. You just wanted to make her more comfortable and loosen her clothes.
BELLE: Nancy, honey, you okay? Yeah, Belle, I think so.
What'd he do to you?
It wasn't him, Belle. I was running...
Running?
Our friend?
Yeah. Come on, let's go.
(EXCLAIMS)
Easy. Easy.
CANDY: I swear, Beth, I don't know how you do it.
Somehow you always manage to get your hair
to look just like a five-and-dime store wig.
(GIGGLING)
Candy, honey, you keep on eating them sweet rolls,
we're gonna need another van just for you.
That's what you think.
Hey!
What happened?
Nancy fell.
Is that all that happened? I'm all right.
Come on, I think you ought to lie down.
Was it Benedict?
Yeah.
I don't like this, Belle. I don't like this at all.
Look, there's nothing to fret about.
Oh, no? He might be after Nancy,
but that don't mean he wouldn't take it out on us.
Look, nobody's gonna get hurt. I'll see to that.
You got to be kidding.
I think she's going to be okay.
Much obliged.
I'm afraid I owe you an apology.
I'm Belle Starr. My stage name.
This is my show.
Beth, Candy. And you met Nancy.
David Burns.
Where's your camper?
I don't have a camper. Just a sleeping bag.
I believe in getting back to nature, too.
Ah.
Oh, well, I have no choice.
BELLE: If you're looking for a job,
maybe I can make up for that pot shot I took at you.
We lost our stage manager a month ago just outside of Decatur.
Well, thank you, but I don't know anything about stage managing.
(CHUCKLING) Between you and me, you don't need to.
This ain't the road company Hello, Dolly!
Well, it really is very kind of you,
but I feel I have to tell you that I might have to leave at any time.
As long as you can then?
All right. I'll go pack my things.
That your idea of security?
A man's a man.
Well, I think he's cute.
Maybe he's stronger than he looks.
LUTHER: Come on, you guys. Get that stuff put away over there!
Where's Darleen? Tell her she's trimming her beard too short.
Get those lines tied around the magic tray!
Come on! We got to open in three hours!
BELLE: Stop your yammering, Luther.
Your top act has hit the lot.
Belle, darling!
Oh, boy!
Oh, it sure is great to see you!
Girls!
BETH: Luther, hey!
How you been? Hey!
Hey, Luther. Oh, it's good to be back.
Nice to see you, darling.
And who's this?
He doesn't look like Cosmos the sword swallower.
I'm afraid Cosmos left us, Luther.
Burns. David Burns.
Hello, David. Hello.
Our new stage manager.
David, why don't you start unloading.
Let's you and me have a talk, okay?
Okay.
Oh, listen, be careful with that. Please. Oh, no.
Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me.
No, it's my fault. I really should keep them in something else.
(EXCLAIMS)
All these yours?
Yeah. Some of my best friends.
Look Homeward, Angel. Thomas Wolfe's a old friend of mine, too.
Comforting, isn't he?
Reminds you there are other lonely people in the world.
Yes.
I wanna thank you for booking us.
I've heard the rumors going around.
That's why Cosmo left us.
Hey, you know how carny folks are, Belle.
They tend to the superstitious.
Luckily,
Paradise Park is managed by a rational man.
He doesn't believe you're a jinx.
How about Paradise Park's owners?
Well, between you and me, they weren't thrilled when I booked you.
Especially when you got canned at Dixieland.
We had nothing to do with that fire.
You don't have to convince me, Belle.
I'd book you till death do us part if you'll let me.
Marriage just ain't my style.
It took me four times to convince me.
Don't worry, Luther. There won't be any trouble.
Just to see you
is worth all the risk.
(ARABIC MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
I call this dance The Mysteries of the Nile.
Ah.
It doesn't pay to wear yourself out before a performance.
Thanks for your concern, honey.
Your first tour of the Nile?
Are you a dancer?
Oh, no. No, I'm a mentalist.
Delphia, the intuitive.
Oh.
A mind reader? Really?
Yes, come. Please. Oh...
Yes, let's see.
Are you serious?
(CHUCKLING) I am serious.
All right.
This is very interesting.
You're not what you appear to be.
You've been a professional man.
A lawyer, or businessman...
No.
No. Somebody in medicine.
And you have a problem.
A serious problem which has taken you far away from home.
Yes.
And you're afraid of people finding out.
Yes. Well, that's very interesting.
Sometimes I get carried away.
Are you really a psychic?
I read people.
You have no calluses on your hands, so you're not a laborer.
And when I fell, you showed some knowledge of medicine.
And the flicker in your eye just then told me
that I'd probably made a pretty good guess.
As to your problem...
When someone like you signs ups with a carny,
chances are he's got problems.
I'm sorry. I hope I haven't scared you away.
I tend to do that.
No, you haven't.
But I am disappointed.
Disappointed? Why?
I wanted to see you dance.
Hello, Mr. Tom Thumb. Hi.
Tom, David Burns. Hi, David.
Hello, Tom. Very nice to meet you.
How's it going?
It's going all right. It's nice to be part of the family.
Yeah, great. Me, too.
So long, Tom.
So long. Bye-bye.
You can forget about making a play for her. I've tried.
Got her nose in the air when it comes to us common folk.
Who's the man with her?
I don't know, some new guy. Works with them.
David something.
He probably thinks he's real lucky getting so close to her.
Hell, she ain't even that pretty.
And he ain't lucky.
Huh?
You...
You ain't heard about this Nancy?
Heard what?
Well,
if you ain't, I'm not one to spread rumors.
I ain't that kind of man.
What kind of rumors?
Well, people on the circuit, they say she's cursed.
Bad luck follows wherever she goes.
JIMMY: Cursed?
Well, what's she done to be cursed for?
A crime worse than you could imagine.
BENEDICT: When a woman is cursed like that,
it touches everyone she knows.
And God's vengeance for sinners is always the same.
Death.
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(ARABIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Hey, come on, get out of there! Get out of there!
(MEN WHISTLING)
Five minutes.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Shield yours from me, lest you wish to share your darkest secret.
Careful.
Two people can play at that game.
Would you rise, please?
Thank you.
I think...
Let me see, now. Yes.
Yes.
You have worked very hard in your life,
physical work.
Perhaps on a farm.
Or perhaps a mill.
Indeed, yes. Yes, a mill.
As a child,
you always wanted to leave home.
You also always wanted an education,
and you had to get it on your own.
And
you always wanted something special out of life.
Not bad.
Thank you.
Do I still have calluses?
Enough, and...
And my wanting something special?
Oh, that's in your eyes.
I left home when I was 16 chasing that something.
Even got married to do it, but that didn't work out.
And the carnival?
Well, that's just taken me a little bit farther, that's all.
And are you where it is you wish to be?
Oh, not just yet.
I'm not unhappy with what I do here.
I try to make people happy.
You watch the show, you'll see.
All right, I will.
But what about you, David?
Do you know where it is you're going?
You know, I think that's why I'm attracted to you.
Birds of a feather not quite sure where we're flying.
(ALL WHOOPING)
Ladies and...
Ladies and gentlemen,
our next attraction is very different.
(CROWD BOOING)
But just as exciting. As Shakespeare said,
"There are many more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
"Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
And such a thing is prophecy.
The divine gift so rarely visited upon mankind.
And with us tonight,
we have one of those blessed individuals.
Ladies and gentlemen, here she is,
the heiress to the oracles of ancient Egypt,
Delphia!
MAN 1: Can she dance? Can she dance?
MAN 2: Where's the dancer?
MAN 3: Give her a chance!
WOMAN: Come on, quiet now.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Shield yours from me, lest you wish to share your darkest secret.
The images are beginning to form.
From out of the mist.
There is a person here,
a woman,
who has a problem that is troubling her,
and the minister could not help.
You have a man who can't stay away from the bottle,
and you're threatening to leave him.
Don't be afraid.
Who are you?
It's me you're talking to.
Yes.
(PEOPLE GASP) WOMAN: Oh, look!
You have tried to be hard on your man.
But that hasn't worked.
What he needs is your patience and your understanding.
He loves me.
So give him your love,
and things will work out.
I can feel that.
Oh, if you want to spend the money,
get her something simple.
An imitation gold locket will not make her love you any more.
Her name...
Her name is Susan, isn't it?
Oh, no, not Susan.
It's Dorothy or Dena...
It's Debbie!
Debbie! Yes.
Her name's Debbie.
And she's here on the grounds today.
But she wouldn't come to the show, would she?
That's right, yeah.
And you want to marry her.
How am I gonna work out the job trouble I got?
You might try some manners!
(PEOPLE MUTTERING)
Oh, yeah.
Images are beginning to form.
I hope they're better than those idiots my brother-in-law keeps hiring.
You run a small business, sir.
Or rather you rule over a small business,
and you have a hard time giving responsibility to others.
Sure, when those idiots don't know when to come in from out of the rain.
But you can't do it all yourself.
You've tried.
And it's affected your health, yes?
You get headaches.
Yeah, and high blood pressure!
You just have to learn to trust your employees.
Give them the chance to make the same mistakes that you made.
Hey, Delphia, if you're so smart,
why don't you explain the trouble at the Stoller Brothers United Show.
Or Valhalla!
Or why Fun Pike had to shut down!
No, Delphia, don't!
David, go after her. What is it?
Just look after her!
Mr. Benedict!
Mr. Benedict, I want to talk to you!
Mr. Benedict?
(MOANS)
Mr. Benedict, you got no reason to be doing what you're doing.
(NANCY SCREAMS)
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast in the world!"
I didn't kill him.
I'll see you dead for your crime.
Nancy?
David, I'm down here!
Nancy?
NANCY: David, down here!
NANCY: I'm down here, David! Please!
(MANIACAL LAUGHTER)
David, where are you?
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
(GASPS)
(RO ARS)
(ROARS)
(SCREAMS)
(LAUGHING)
(ROARS)
(ROARING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Too bad, man. Try it again.
Hey.
I mean, it was some kind of demon or something.
Green and ugly and...
You just had a snoot full's all.
Well, something smashed up that funhouse.
JIMMY: Listen, when I was a kid, there was this farmhand.
Everywhere he worked,
livestock died, crops withered, people got sick.
They finally drove him out of town.
Now overnight things got better.
The man was evil.
Pure evil. Just like this Nancy here.
Amen.
That kind of stuff don't happen.
Maybe in the Bible, but not now.
Careful, brother.
The Good Book is yesterday, today and forever.
He knows.
He was at the Stoller Brothers United Show before they had that fire.
Go on, man. Tell him.
Well, all I know is,
this Nancy and old man Stoller had words.
Next day,
the whole outfit burned down.
Luther made a big mistake when he hired them.
Sooner or later, it's gonna be one of us that gets hurt.
(EXCLAIMS)
No trouble, huh?
Luther, you can't blame us for this.
Yeah? Who am I supposed to blame?
It's this guy Benedict. I told you, he's got it in for us.
Luther, I followed him in here yesterday.
Jimmy says he was with him.
Anyway, it's ridiculous.
Benedict isn't strong enough to bust a hole through that wall.
Mr. Mason, surely you don't think that Nancy could've done this.
All I know is trouble seems to follow Belle and her show.
I'm a rational man. I had a year and a half of junior college.
I don't believe in jinx.
Unfortunately, the man I work for won't take the chance.
All right, Luther, spit it out. You gonna can us?
Believe me, Belle, I don't want to, but I...
NANCY: That's just what Benedict wants.
If there's anything that I can do.
If I can help you repair the damage.
Anything at all, I'd be happy to.
All right.
Okay.
I make my living on suckers.
And I'm the king of the suckers!
Sucker! That's me. Sucker.
NANCY: Come in.
You're easy to read. You want to know what's going on, huh?
Sit down.
About a year ago, we were playing a small town in Arkansas,
and I met this boy.
He was 18.
He was very unhappy, very lonely.
And he used to come to my trailer and we would talk.
And I suppose he also had a crush on me,
but it was always very innocent, very sweet.
And I tried to help him.
This boy had problems with his daddy.
Serious problems.
One day his daddy followed him
and started hollering
and saying that the carnival was devil's work,
and that I was a witch,
and that I had corrupted his boy.
That night, that boy hanged himself.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I just wanted to help him.
The boy's father was Benedict.
And ever since then, he's been dogging us,
setting fires, breaking machinery,
getting us blamed as jinxes.
He's gonna drive this witch out.
Have you called the police?
We have no proof, David.
He's a very clever sick man.
With his lies and innuendoes,
he knows how to use people to get what he wants.
And what he wants
is for me to hurt as badly as he hurts.
I should've told you all of this.
That was selfish.
But I didn't want you to go.
I'm sorry.
I'm not.
But I am concerned
about Mr. Benedict. If his problem becomes public,
I'm going to have to leave, Nancy.
I understand.
Don't go.
Not yet. Please.
I taught him as good as I could, Lord.
I held him on a strong rein.
I tried to make him understand your word.
He slipped through these hands but one time.
Oh, yes, Lord.
Yes, I am ready.
Ask.
Ask and I shall be your right hand.
I shall rise like Gideon among the Ammonites,
like Samson in the temple of Dagon!
What's that, Lord?
Yes.
Yes, the she-witch has taken a warlock.
His name is David,
but he betrays his namesake.
He is Ahab to her Jezebel.
Yes.
Yes, Lord.
As my son perished, so shall this David.
And her loved one,
as she took my loved one from me,
so shall this David perish.
After she has grieved,
she, too, shall perish.
Oh, how just are the wages of her sin.
Thy will be done.
Excuse me, guys. I'm looking for Benedict.
Look, I really need to find him, okay?
You guys don't want trouble, I'm trying to stop trouble.
(SCOFFS)
Hey, man.
Benedict wants to see you, too.
He's working the carousel.
David!
Hi.
What did he want?
Oh...
Well, he was just explaining about some of the wiring in the funhouse, that's all.
You wanna get some dinner?
Well, I have a little work I have to do now,
but how about after the first show?
Okay.
A date.
JIMMY: I ain't telling.
You just stay away from me. I don't know nothing about...
You forget. I can read your mind.
Now you and David were talking about me.
No, about Benedict.
Yes. David went to see him, didn't he?
You are a witch. Just like Benedict said.
Where are they?
You don't need to tell me. It will come.
They're at the Ferris wheel.
No.
No, in the arcade.
At the carousel.
Yes.
The carousel.
Right this way everybody goes!
Belle Starr and her girls! Have a good time, kid.
Have a good time, everybody.
Go right in here. Right in here. Come on!
Make it fast! The girls are naked!
Naked! They haven't got a stitch on!
Let's go! Everybody goes!
MAN: Take it off!
Nancy, honey, come on. You're on next.
What are you looking for?
My necklace, Belle, the one with the pentagram on it.
Oh, I think I saw it in your dressing room. I'll find it.
MAN: Hey, come on!
(CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Nancy?
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
Have you seen Nancy?
It's not my turn to watch her.
Beth, we've got trouble. You've got to go on next.
I can't find one of my fans!
Well, try it with one. Go on.
Mr. Benedict.
BENEDICT: Come to plead the devil's case?
I came to help someone I care for.
There was someone I cared for.
But now I only have his memory.
I'm sorry.
I do know what it means to have lost a loved one.
She corrupted him.
She led him from a path of righteousness.
I know you believe that. To lose a son
is so terrible, so painful,
you had to blame someone.
Are you saying I made this up?
No.
I'm saying Nancy is not to blame.
I raised him right.
Hard but right.
A child needs a firm hand.
You spare the rod, you spoil...
You watch them grow from nothing,
and you try...
You try so hard.
You're a very good talker. Very good.
But so was the serpent in Eden.
Judgment has been passed.
Do you have the right to make that judgment?
Not mine! His!
I am but the instrument of His justice.
But doesn't it say in the Bible,
"Thou art a God
"so ready to pardon,
"gracious and merciful,
"so slow to anger,
"but of great kindness."
Have you read Deuteronomy?
"I will render vengeance unto mine enemies,
"and will reward those who hate me.
"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,
"and my sword shall devour flesh."
And
the time
is now!
(EXCLAIMS)
Mr. Benedict?
Where's David?
I'm not your lover's keeper.
You tell me where he is!
Or what? You'll shoot me?
I don't fear death. I know where my soul is going.
NANCY: You stop that!
As sure as I know where yours is going tonight!
You deal in death. You stop me.
No, don't!
Help! Stop, please!
Hey, you!
(ROARS)
At last!
Satan himself has come to face me!
(ROARS)
Beelzebub! Asmodeus!
Azazel!
(GROWLING)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(ROARS)
BENEDICT: Get away!
Get away! Leave me alone!
(EXCLAIMING)
(ROARS)
You're leaving.
Things have happened here
that would bring attention to us.
To me.
I can't let that happen.
It has to do with that creature, doesn't it?
David, I don't know what the problem is,
but it doesn't matter to me.
All right.
All right, all right.
You know, I think it's about time for me to be moving on.
Start looking for something.
Something special.
I hope you find it.
You, too.
The eyes are the window of the soul.
Shield yours from me, lest you wish to share your darkest secret.