Don't, please.
I'm bleeding.
I can feel it.
Really.
How about this?
I'm sorry for sins committed against thee.
Hail Mary, full of grace.
Blessed art thou among women.
Give me the ax.
You gotta watch her.
She creeps.
What?
The boiler, she creeps.
You tell that peckerwood Ullman
and he spends three hours telling you
how we can't afford a new one.
Even if this is the best hotel in the mountains.
This place is gonna go Rocky Mountain-high
one of these days.
I just hope that tom fool Ullman is here to ride the rocket.
Now, look at here.
This is your pressure gauge, this is your drop valve.
And what's she rated for?
She's rated for 160.
But you couldn't get me to come down here
and stand next to this thing if the dial gets up to 140.
It's got a safety valve.
But the son of a buck has been rusted shut
for the past 20 years.
So here's what you gotta do.
Now, you watch it, it's hot.
Oh yeah, okay.
You dump it like that every night, last thing,
you and your family'll be all right, Mr. Torrance.
But now, you gotta remember, no safety valve,
so don't forget.
It wouldn't do to forget something like that,
now would it?
Come over here
and let me show you where Ullman wants those rattraps set.
He's always talking about rats.
He's crazy on the subject.
Crazy on a lot of subjects, if you ask me.
Oh, this is rat country.
Well, yeah.
I keep telling Ullman,
step one is to get rid of all this stuff.
You talk about putting out a welcome mat
for the little buggers.
He won't do it.
Won't hire a couple of high school kids to do it,
because he's cheap.
You can't fight city hall.
I just put the traps down the way he wants is what I do.
Life's too short to fight with the likes of him.
Amen.
Besides, every hotel's got rats.
Just like every hotel's got its scandals.
I'm sure the Overlook has had its share, huh?
Part of the reason they pay Ullman 60 grand a year is
he's so good at hushing 'em up.
He's great, in fact.
Gotta give the little sucker that much.
We had this lady here last summer.
Wife of some big-shot lawyer,
not that she was with the lawyer
when she checked in, you know.
She was with some college kid.
About the third night of their stay, he cuts out,
she draws herself a nice warm tub of water.
And?
Slit her wrists.
Man, what a mess.
Ullman hushed it up though.
Then there was this last caretaker, Grady.
Yeah, what about him?
Nothing.
What about him?
He killed himself too.
No razorblades for him though.
Shotgun.
Both barrels, pulled the trigger with his toe.
Bam, bam, out go the lights.
Yeah, out go the lights.
Cabin fever, I guess.
Of course, he was alone.
You'll have your wife and your boy with you.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Mr. Torrance.
You wanna watch out for 'em, Mr. Torrance, no offense,
but you wanna watch out for 'em real good.
It'd be bad to get in some kind of jackpot situation up here
after the roads are closed.
I'll take care of them, don't you worry.
Good.
Don't let that little weasel Ullman get your goat.
Listen, I need this job too badly to have that happen.
I know what you're telling me.
Any ghosts?
What?
Well, you said that every hotel's got its rats,
got its scandals.
What about ghosts?
No ghosts, not here.
Come on, let's go.
I thought you got lost!
Nope.
Hey, wait up!
Hey, it's my turn!
Interesting form of the game.
It's called Denver croquet.
Invented by a man named Horace Derwent.
As was the case with Derwent himself,
everything in the game is larger than life.
Twice ordinary croquet size, as a matter of fact.
Kids love it, and most adults come to love it too.
It's more challenging than it looks
because of the size of the ball.
Does your wife fully understand
what you'd be taking on here, Mr. Torrance?
And there's your son, of course.
Wendy is an extraordinary woman.
And your son is also extraordinary?
We like to think so.
I don't suppose you care much for me, Mr. Torrance.
Few on my staff do, I imagine.
They regard me as a bit of a bastard.
They're right.
One has to be a bit
to run a hotel such as this in the manner it deserves.
It is a great hotel.
Good shot!
And it was Horace Derwent who built this hotel, right?
I mean, in addition to inventing Denver croquet?
Not at all.
The Overlook has been here
almost since the turn of the century.
Mr. Derwent was the man who rescued it from extinction.
He renovated it
and turned it into a show place after World War II.
It's run in the black since 1975.
We'd like to keep it that way.
Mr. Ullman,
if you have something you want to say,
why don't you come right out and say it?
Last winter,
there was a grotesque tragedy at the Overlook.
The caretaker-
Yes, I know, did a little home dental work with a shotgun.
Grady, his name was?
Watson's been talking, I see.
Yes, Grady was his name.
I made a mistake, I admit it.
The man was a drunk.
Well, I guess I should have known.
Mr. Ullman, weren't you told
that the bottle and I have parted company?
Alcoholics never really part company
with the bottle, correct?
They just go to their meetings
and hope nothing will push them over the edge.
But in the winter, the Overlook is full of edges.
The hotel's board of directors has hired you already though,
over my strenuous objections.
You are a beneficiary
of our politically correct times, Mr. Torrance.
The board has decided to put an alcoholic
less than a year away from his last drink
in charge of one of the greatest resort hotels in America.
May I be frank?
Oh, why stop now?
It makes me sick!
I cannot believe I'm hearing this.
Those men gave me-
Look at it from my standpoint, Mr. Torrance.
I'm told that when you drink,
you become emotionally unstable.
Well, since I'm no longer drinking, I hardly think-
You were teaching at a prep school in Vermont.
That was your last job?
You beat up a student, quite badly.
That was less than five months ago, wasn't it?
After you had quit drinking?
George Hatfield.
I had to cut him from the debating team at Stovington.
He took it personally.
What the hell do you think you're doing, huh?
What the hell do you think you're doing?
That was the last of the storms.
Until then, I wasn't going
to the meetings that you mentioned.
Really?
I was on what the old-timers like to call a dry drunk.
A bad one.
It took losing my teaching job to bring me to AA.
Since then-
Everything's been rosy.
No.
No, not rosy.
Bearable.
You won't find any AA meetings up here.
Not once the show starts to fly.
Yes, I will.
There are three 800-number meetings here during the week.
I'll also be talking to my sponsor on the phone.
I'll have the Big Book with me and my family.
They're the most important thing, Wendy and Danny.
And there's my play.
I'm trying to write a play.
Ah.
And as for this winter,
I'll not only be taking care of the Overlook
but I'll be taking care of myself and my family.
And I won't be doing any of it for you.
I actually find that rather comforting.
I thought that you would.
Mom?
Yeah?
Can I go outside?
Will you stay in the front yard where I can see you?
Sure.
You gonna go wait for Dad?
Uh huh.
What's your drawing?
Fruit.
What you making?
Chicken pie for dinner.
Could you leave out the peas?
Okay.
Danny?
Yeah?
Did your dad get the job?
Uh huh.
He and the man he talked to didn't like each other,
but he got it.
Are you sure?
Uh huh.
Yay!
Do you need me to fix this for you?
No, it's okay.
Daddy will fix it when he gets home.
Well, if you change your mind, I got some tape.
Okay.
Draw good fruit.
Stay where I can see you.
I will.
Draw good fruit.
Pilot to tower, pilot to tower.
Gotta make an emergency landing.
Wing's all screwed up.
Look at this mess!
I'm sorry, Daddy.
I didn't mean to.
I was trying to fix up your desk for a surprise.
I go off to use the phone
and this is what I come back to?
Answer me, you damn pup.
I'll fix you.
You get over here and you take your medicine!
Jack, what did you do to him?
I'm sorry, babe,
it's just that since that George Hatfield thing, I can't...
I don't believe you.
Jack, what did you do to him?
What did you do to Danny?
Doc?
You awake, Doc?
I am never going to another emergency ward, Jack.
I'm never gonna lie for you again either.
You said you didn't need the meetings.
You said you could stop on your own.
I was wrong.
I never,
in all his life, did anything like that to him before.
That's the only reason I'm still in this bed with you.
Still in this house with you.
Still in this life with you.
Anything ever happens again,
I am packing my bags and I'm leaving.
And I'm taking him with me.
You won't need to.
What do you mean?
I'll leave.
One way or the other.
What are you talking about?
About not being able to stand myself like this.
You're right, it's gotta end.
One way or the other.
Danny...
Danny?
What, what do you want?
I'm here.
Danny.
Good shot!
Danny.
Danny!
Hi, Doc.
Hi, Tony.
What do you want?
Tony, you're scaring me.
I know, Doc.
I'm sorry, but I have to.
Stay away, Danny.
Stay away.
♪ Toot Toot Tootsie, goodbye ♪
♪ Toot Toot Tootsie, don't cry ♪
♪ The choo-choo train that takes me away from you ♪
No, Tony.
No.
Please.
No, Tony, no.
Come out and take your medicine.
Come out here, you damned little pup.
Get out here right now.
You're only making it worse for yourself.
I'll find you.
And when I do...
By God, you'll take your medicine now!
No!
Daddy!
Hey, Dad, hi.
Hey, Danny boy.
How you doing, kiddo, huh?
Danny?
Danny, you okay?
Danny?
Dan, what?
Danny?
You all right, son?
I'm okay, Daddy.
Yeah?
Well, give it to me, big boy.
Yeah, yeah!
Hey, good one, huh?
Whoa!
Last one.
Whoa! - Don't drop him, Jack.
Kissing.
Yeah, that's what I've been missing.
Hey, go get the groceries, okay?
Can you make it all by yourself?
Sure, I can.
Yeah, all the way up those stairs?
Sure.
There he is, ladies and germs.
Doc Torrance, world's strongest man!
You got it.
Well, I was a lock.
You knew that, didn't you?
No, I didn't.
Neither did you.
A strong enough phone call from Ullman,
the board could have reversed itself
in spite of your old drinking buddy, Al.
Did you get all of that stuff from little Kreskin?
No.
What Danny has didn't come from outer space, you know.
Maybe I got a little of it too.
Maybe we both do.
But he knew that I got the job, didn't he?
He sure did.
He knew that you and Ullman didn't like each other
but that you got it.
Let me tell you something,
that Ullman was one vicious little son of a...
Once the job starts, you'll never have to see him.
Thank God for small favors.
Hello?
Yes, this is Al Shockley.
I'll accept the charges.
Jack.
How'd it go with Ullman?
Uh, well, he made it very clear
that he didn't approve of hiring an alcoholic
as a caretaker of what he considers
to be the world's greatest hotel, but I got the job.
And I just called to say thanks.
Well, you know what they say
at the AA meetings, don't you?
Don't thank me, thank your higher power.
Yeah, well, in this case,
I'd say my higher power is the board of directors
and you, Al, so thank you.
And if I cannot finish my play snowed in all winter,
I don't know if I'll ever be able to.
Oh, you'll finish.
Listen, Jack.
Did you tell Ullman you had a slip before you left Vermont?
Doc?
You okay, Doc?
No.
No, I did not.
Well, that's maybe not so good.
You know what they say in the meetings, Jack.
Honesty in all our affairs.
Um, sometimes honesty's a luxury, Al.
And I need this job, you know?
I mean, I really need this job.
And Ullman never actually came out and asked.
Okay, I get the point.
Hitting your meetings?
Yeah, every night, every night.
Listen, I have some milk and a quart of ice cream here
that's starting to get warm, so I think I better...
I understand.
Well, have a great winter up there.
And listen, Jack,
if you need to talk about our mutual problem,
you've got my number.
Yes, I do.
Thank you.
Thanks for everything.
Yeah, very easy for you, isn't it?
Check book kid, yeah.
Ugh.
Come on, get off my butt, man.
That's okay, Daddy.
Let him sit on it and rotate.
Daniel Torrance, where did you hear that?
Elmer Martin at daycare.
Well, don't you say it anymore, okay?
Why?
It's not nice.
Get off the road!
Hey, read between the lines, pal.
Fuel pump.
The fuel pump will make it another three miles, Wendy,
so just relax, okay?
Look who's talking.
Get away, fly.
What's that one, Mom?
It says "Entering Sidewinder Pass."
Yeah, that's as far as the snow plows go
in the wintertime, Danny.
The road is closed
from here all the way over to Buckland, Utah.
So that's why the Overlook is
just a summertime hotel, right?
That's right.
The pantry's fully stocked, right, Jack?
Of course, why?
Well, I wouldn't want to end up like the Donner Party.
Who are the Donners and what kind of party did they have?
All right, well, actually, Daniel,
it was kind of a dinner party.
The Donners had a dinner.
It was a Donner-dinner.
That's right, that's exactly what it was.
It was a Donner-dinner.
What's that one?
That sign says "We stop
and take a look where we're gonna spend the winter."
Wow.
That's an authentic wow, all right.
Jack, it's wonderful.
Yeah, there she is.
Redrum.
Join us, Danny.
Come out here, you damn pup.
Danny.
Danny!
Hey, Doc.
It's dangerous.
You ought to stay away from there.
I can't.
You know I can't.
Whoa, a little close to the edge there, Doc.
Danny, are you all right?
I'm fine.
Come on, let's go.
Well, you were right about the fuel pump.
Hung right in there.
Guess I was.
Although for the last five miles, I did have my doubts.
What are those animals, Daddy?
Ah, that's called a topiary, Dan.
Those are animals that are made out of hedges.
Aren't they cool?
They sure are.
Danny, are you sure you're all right?
Oh, come on, he's fine.
Ullman's gone, thank God.
The cook, Hallorann his name is,
is supposed to meet us here, show us around.
You know, Danny, it was those topiaries
that made Uncle Al think of me for the job, you know that?
He remembered that I used to work for a landscaping company
when I was in college.
Yeah.
I used to trim this lady's topiary.
In fact, I used to trim her topiary at least once a week,
sometimes twice.
Get away, why?
Did she have nice hedges, Daddy?
Oh, they were, yeah, well...
What, what did I say?
Nothing, honey.
Oh, look.
Look at this.
There's a playground, huh?
A playground all to yourself.
You never have to wait in line to go down the slide.
Not bad, huh?
Cool.
We'll come back for the bags later.
Let's go find this guy Hallorann.
Did you think they were coming to get you, Doc?
Of course not.
They're just hedges.
Correct!
Give that man a cigar and a blowtorch to light it with.
Well, what do you think?
Wow!
Yes, sir, built in 1909.
That's what the guidebook says,
they give it to all the guests.
It's incredible, it's just incredible seeing it like this.
No one else here.
Are you sure there is someone here?
Uh, well...
You folks must be the Torrances.
Right, right, I'm Jack.
- Pleased to meet you, Jack. - Let me take these.
This is my wife, Wendy,
and the short one there is our boy, Danny.
Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Torrance.
Dick Hallorann.
Nice to know you, Mr. Hallorann.
Dick, please.
Nice to meet you.
I'm pleased to meet you.
Come on now, level with me, son.
Are you gonna spend the whole winter here?
Yeah.
No, you gonna come down to St. Pete with me.
Learn to make Creole shrimp, the best on earth.
When you're not studying them college girls
in their bikinis, that is.
Oh, Jack, how you doing?
Good to see you.
Very well, let me take these for you.
Thanks, thanks a lot.
Wendy, Danny, this is Mr. Watson.
He's the custodian, the regular custodian that is.
Plain old Pete gets me every time.
Nice to meet you, Pete.
Thank you, ma'am.
Nice to meet you, Pete.
Howdy, partner.
Son.
Are you a buckaroo or a tenderfoot?
I guess I'm a tenderfoot.
We're from Vermont.
Tenderest feet you ever saw.
You'll be a buckaroo come springtime,
I can guaran-damn-tee you that.
Then you'll be ready for a hat like mine.
Though I guess maybe you would want one a tad smaller, huh?
Excuse me, son.
I'll take your stuff on down to the cars.
Hey, no, no, Pete, I got this.
You show them the kitchen, I'll take care of this, okay?
The kitchen is your territory, Dick.
That's true, but I seen it a zillion times, okay?
And I need some fresh air.
Give me the keys, cowboy.
Whatever you say.
Come on right on out this, back this way, folks.
The kitchen is in here.
You wanna lend me a hand, Doc?
If my mommy says I can.
Okay.
Let's get you zipped up, it's cold out there.
Mr. Hallorann, I'm sorry, Dick.
How did you know that we call Danny "Doc" sometimes?
Oh, I heard it when you came in.
Um, I was in the back.
The acoustics in this place are funny.
You'll see for yourself.
Okay.
Well, Doc.
You gonna give me a hand or you just gonna stand there?
Okay, folks, back this way.
Now watch out for this, this flapper here.
She'll pull out and bite you.
You shine on, boy.
Harder than anybody I ever met in my life
and I'm 60 come this January.
Shine on?
You got a knack, that's all.
I've always called it the shining.
My gram called it that too.
She had it.
Had it strong.
We used to sit in the kitchen
when I was a boy no older than you
and have long talks without ever opening our mouths.
Am I the only one you ever met?
No, child, no.
Are there lots then?
Nope, but you do run across them from time to time
like folks with six fingers on a hand
or eyes that ain't the same color, don't quite match up.
Most folks who shine, only shine a little.
But you, son, I can feel it coming off you like heat.
I bet you just about glow in the damn dark, boy.
My Bessie.
It came off the assembly line in 1959.
Not a speck of rust on her.
Isn't she sweet?
Sweet as honey from the bee.
That's what you said.
That's right.
Give me a blast.
Huh?
Think at me as hard as you can.
I wanna see just how much you got.
What do you want me to think?
Anything as long as it's hard.
Okay.
Hi, Dick!
Hey!
Mr. Hallorann?
Dick.
Are you okay?
Your nose!
I'm okay.
It's nothing.
I broke a piece of your car.
I'm sorry.
Please don't tell my dad.
He could get mad.
Nobody's gonna tell your daddy anything, Danny.
This is between you and me.
You did that?
Yeah.
Sometimes it happens when I think really hard.
Once I was at a basketball game with my dad at his school
and I got excited.
You ain't a pistol, Danny.
You're an all-out atomic bomb.
Did you go as hard as you could?
You didn't, did you?
No.
I got scared at the last second and held back.
It's a good thing you did.
You probably would've torn my poor head clean off.
You can feed an army with this stuff in here.
What's this?
Something special Dick left for your Christmas dinner.
I think there's a capon for Thanksgiving.
That would be in one of the smaller freezers.
You get to that through the pantry.
How many smaller freezers are there?
Three.
Come on.
Are those really necessary?
Can't trust latches in the Overlook.
Doors, even heavy ones like these,
have a way of coming open.
Drafts, I guess.
Now you got three stoves, six ovens,
counting your microwave and your Dutch ovens.
Yeah.
Cook a TV dinner in every one of them.
TV dinners are what I do best.
I'll have to leave a trail of bread crumbs
every time I come in this place.
Well, you can't let it get you down.
It's big but it's still just a kitchen.
Most of this stuff you won't even have to touch.
There's a pantry back there.
There's a vegetable bin here.
We've got a root cellar behind the trap door back there,
it's full of potatoes right now.
You got a meat slicer here.
You got a food processor over there.
You got sinks over there.
The dishwashers are over there.
Two of them, two each.
What is this here?
Well, Dick has left you a complete list
of all the edibles in the place.
Can you read his writing?
120 pounds of hamburger.
16 gallons, gallons of redeye chili.
Three legs of lamb, bacon, pork chops, halibut, peas, corn.
There's only three of us.
Yeah, and the roads are gonna be closed up here
from late October to late April.
All the telephone lines are above ground.
They all blow over in the winter.
You got a CB.
And you wanna make damn sure it's working good
because that's your big out in an emergency.
Basically, ma'am, you gotta depend on yourself.
The Forest Service, the National Guards might get a chopper
in here for an emergency,
but what with those crosswinds blowing
off the Paiute Mountains to the west,
San Marco Mountains to the south, you can't count on it.
And you wouldn't wanna end up like the Donners,
now would you?
No.
No, I don't.
Now, don't scare the lady, Pete, okay?
Maybe it's good to be scared sometimes.
A little bit.
Now, you know the winters in Vermont,
but it's different up here.
Compared to Vermont,
this place is the dark side of the moon, buddy.
I got time to show you the dining room, come on.
Let me show you this, you're gonna like it, I think.
Right, right this way.
My gram called it shining on.
The Bible calls it having visions.
And the scientists call it precognition.
But it all comes to the same thing,
no matter what you call it.
Seeing the future.
One possible future.
Because those things you shine on,
they don't always come to pass.
That's how it is for me anyway.
Now you listen to me.
I've had some bad dreams here myself
and some bad feelings.
And maybe a half a dozen times I've seen things.
Not real things, but not nice either.
What were they, Dick?
I don't need to go into details, boy.
But once it had to do with those damned hedge animals.
And I saw something in one of the rooms.
I want you to promise me that you'll never go in there.
That you'll just steer right clear.
Which room?
Never mind.
217.
217, isn't it?
Maybe and maybe not.
Just promise me you won't go in.
I promise.
The Overlook's a funny place.
Probably not the best place in the world
for a kid that's got the shining.
But you say your dad needs a job.
He does, he really does.
You do all right
if you just keep a good head on your shoulders.
What that means mostly is remembering
that anything you might see here can't hurt you.
Do you get that?
Like pictures in a book?
That's right.
People with the shining see things like pictures in a book.
And sometimes book pictures can be scary.
My dad has a book with Bluebeard in it.
And it had a picture in it
of a man with a lady's cut-off head.
My mom was mad at my dad for reading it to me.
I mean, the story was okay.
I liked it.
But the picture gave me nightmares.
But it was just a picture, right?
Just a picture.
Should you see something scary like that here, Doc,
just look the other way and count to 10.
And when you look back, it'll be gone.
Do you get it?
Look the other way and count to 10.
Good.
Oh, there's a hell of a view here.
Just look at that.
Dining room seats 200.
Used to seat almost twice that many
when Horace Derwent ran the place.
He was this rich fella-
Oh yeah, I know who he was.
If you're a drinking man,
I hope you brought along your own supplies.
This place has been picked clean.
The employees had their end-of-the-season party last night.
I don't drink.
Well, maybe that's just as well.
That's the end of the tour.
Let's go see if we can find the buckaroo.
Right.
Listen, son.
If there is trouble, you just give a big loud holler
like the one that broke my tail light out.
And I might even hear you way down in Florida.
And if I do, I'll come on the run.
Really?
It's a promise.
Sarah Hallorann's little boy Dick always keeps a promise.
Come on.
Let's go inside and see how your folks are making out.
Okay.
Gotta get moving.
Rawlins ain't getting any closer while I'm standing here.
Jack.
Take care, buddy.
Watch that boiler.
Dump it every night, the son-of-a-buck creeps.
I will.
Danny, you hang in there.
You're gonna be a buckaroo come springtime,
I guaran-damn-tee you that.
Miss, good luck to you.
Dick.
Try to be nice to them old folks down there in St. Pete.
You're gonna be one of them, first thing you know.
I showed them the kitchen, you show 'em the rest, I'm gone.
This damn place seems to make my arthritis worse every year.
Especially this time of the year.
Pete.
See you May 15.
- You got a date. - All right.
Hey.
Maybe Ullman will die this winter.
And maybe he won't.
But it's happy thoughts that keep us young.
That's what my mama used to always say.
You know it, buddy.
I'll be a pallbearer.
He's got a case on that boiler, hasn't he?
He sure does.
You wanna see more of this place?
I ain't got long myself
if I wanna get to Denver before dark.
It'd be my pleasure.
- I'd love it. - Yeah, we'd all love it.
All right, come on.
Danny?
What did you and Mr. Hallorann talk about?
Nothing, honey.
Just stuff.
Excuse me just a minute.
Got a little business to attend to.
Can I borrow that for a second?
You're the writer.
Wonderful.
Wonderful things the two of you are teaching my son.
Respect for authority.
Credit where credit is due.
Well, come on, everybody.
It's time for your first trip on Overlook's main elevator,
installed back in 1926.
Just look the other way and count to 10.
And when you look back, he'll be gone.
Danny, coming?
Uh huh.
Don't worry, Doc.
Safe as houses.
Isn't that what they said about the Titanic?
It's okay, Doc, really.
This baby's made thousands of trips.
Yeah, but there's always that last one.
You can laugh if you want, Jack,
and I'm sure this elevator is perfectly safe,
but this is the last time
the three of us are ever gonna be in it at the same time.
If it ever stopped while we were all in it this winter...
Wendy, that is just...
Sensible.
Never take a chance up here, Jack.
Not in the Overlook.
Third floor.
All out for the presidential suite.
What's so sweet about it?
You know, four presidents have stayed here.
Wilson, Harding, FDR, and Nixon.
Even Ullman don't brag too much on Nixon.
Danny, you all right?
Don't think it's gonna bite you, do you, Doc?
Of course not.
In my opinion,
this is the best view of the Rockies the hotel's got.
Maybe the best view of the Rockies anybody's got.
Huh?
Yeah, I guess.
It's gorgeous.
Pretty plush pad, huh?
Don't.
Please, man, don't.
Ullman wanted me to remind you about the roof.
Oh yeah, he wants me to re-shingle it.
That little sucker will get all the "for free"
out of you he can.
How about this?
Give me the ax.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
I thought for a second we lost you there, Doc.
No, Daddy.
I'm right here.
Look at that.
Second floor.
The elevator is the easiest way to the service area
but we'll take the stairs back down.
That's a relief.
I thought you'd like that.
You know, the guest rooms are off-limits, Doc.
All the guest rooms.
Mr. Ullman already made that perfectly clear today.
I won't go in the rooms, Dick.
Or the suite places either.
Good.
Well, come on back downstairs, folks.
I'll show you your caretakers apartment.
It ain't the presidential suite, but it ain't bad either.
And now you're home.
It's great, huh?
It's like the cabin in Michigan we used to have
when I was little.
Summers were okay,
but in the winter when the show came, it was magic.
So great, huh?
Very great indeed.
Okay.
Yeah, I can write in here.
Just move in a small desk.
No windows.
No distractions.
Come on this way.
The master bedroom, Madame.
Excellent, Jeeves.
Ah, big bed.
Plenty of room for movement.
Jack.
Where's Danny?
Danny?
Doc, where are you?
In here.
Dad, Mom, look.
Bunk beds.
I'm gonna sleep on the top, okay?
It's okay by me, champ.
It okay by you, Wendy?
It's okay by me.
Very okay.
This is so cool.
It is.
Thank you, Dick.
My pleasure, Wendy.
You're good people.
And with God's help, you'll have a good winter up here.
And I gotta go.
You wanna see me off, Danny?
Sure.
I promise to take good care of your kitchen.
I know you will.
Enjoy that turkey.
The capon too.
We will.
They're like pictures in a book, Doc.
They can't hurt you.
All right.
Call me if you need me.
A big loud shout.
I will.
Winter well, Danny.
Okay.
Bye, Dick.
Bye.
Keep them safe, Lord.
That little boy most of all.
Please.
♪ He could keep you up for hours ♪
♪ San Francisco ♪
♪ New York City ♪
♪ Strangely silent ♪
♪ Strangely empty ♪
♪ His graffiti filled the subway ♪
♪ But where's my brother ♪
Oh, ow!
Oh my God.
Wendy!
She went to town.
Go on.
Get a life.
You guys.
You'll like this.
I guess you'll take your medicine now,
my nasty little friends.
I guess you will.
Hey.
Daddy!
Look what Mommy bought me.
What?
It's a funny car model.
Mommy says you'll help me put it together
after I finish my first reader.
She says you're good at stuff like...
Hey, neat!
Is it a bees' nest?
Nope.
Wasps.
Hey.
How'd you do?
Better.
The truck only stalled twice this time,
but nobody honked at me.
Got two more bags down there.
Oh God.
You wouldn't think,
with all the stuff Hallorann left us in the kitchen.
Yeah, but nothing in the way of fresh vegetables.
Once the snow falls,
we're not gonna be doing too much shopping down the...
Danny!
Danny, don't!
It's okay, it's okay.
I killed them all, slaughtered 'em with a bug bomb.
I, on the other hand, sustained several hits.
Oh my God, look at that.
It's swollen.
You should see a doctor.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
I'm not allergic or anything, just hurts.
What do you say, Doc?
It's yours if you want it.
Of course I want it.
Can I keep it in my room, Mom?
Do you think that's...
It's fine.
They're all dead, guaranteed.
It is the ugliest thing in the universe.
Of course my son wants it in his room.
Go on, Doc, be my guest.
You should have seen it.
It was under those rotted shingles.
Hey, Wendy.
Uh...
Are you happy?
Tell me the truth.
This is the happiest I've been since,
since Danny was born.
I'm glad.
I got it, I got it.
God, it is beautiful.
Oh yeah, 73 degrees today.
Well, the snow's still gonna come.
As hard as that is to believe.
So you're happy, huh?
Kid's happy, you think?
You're the one that has the long conversations with him
every night before bed.
Yeah, but they're usually about what he wants to be
when he grows up
or who'd win in a fight between Spider-Man and Batman.
About the Overlook, he's totally quiet.
Maybe that's 'cause there's nothing wrong, you know?
He hasn't had any of those...
Fits?
I hate it when you say that.
They're not fits.
All right, I'm sorry.
You're right.
Fugues, how's that?
Fugues.
Look, whatever they were, fits, fugues, or trances,
you know, he had most of them
when things were not going so well for us
and they're better now.
They're better now.
Yeah, they are.
You sure that ugly thing you gave him is really safe?
It's a wasp nest.
It's safe as safe can be.
Okay?
"'We have no room for a puppy here.
Where will he go?'
'Who will give me a home?'
The little puppy was sad.
'Why does no one like me?'
he wondered.
'Why won't anyone give me a home?'
But he was not dis...
Dis..."
Discouraged.
"'Somewhere there will be a home for me, '
thought the little puppy.
'Somewhere I will find people who will feed me and pet me.
They will ne...'"
They will never.
Don't tell me, Mom.
Don't always tell me.
I can get it, I can.
I'm sorry, I know you can.
You are doing so fantastic.
But it's bedtime.
A couple more pages, please?
No, Doc, no.
How come I have to go to bed so early?
Because...
I need the rest, okay?
So go on now, brush.
First I need to kiss Daddy.
Okay, go kiss Daddy.
Daddy?
Hey, Doc.
I have to go to bed now.
Aw, come here.
Kiss.
Come on, give me a kiss.
Ugh, you better brush your teeth.
I smell chocolate milk on your breath.
That's where I'm going right now.
Good.
How's your play?
The play is good.
Play's excellent.
How was reading with Mommy?
Good, except she never gives me time
to sound out the words.
Well, I will talk to her about that.
Good, she really needs it.
Okay, beat it.
Danny, we have to talk.
Go lock the door first.
Why?
Danny, just do it, quick!
Hey.
He is picking up new words so quickly.
It is spooky.
Yeah.
He, uh, he says you don't give him enough time
to sound them out.
He's right, I guess I just...
I hate to see him struggle.
It's like he thinks someone's gonna shoot him
if he screws up a single word of the little puppy.
He's so smart.
But, you know, Jack, he's too hard on himself.
I wonder why he needs to learn to read so badly?
I don't know.
Okay.
You didn't fall asleep in there, did you, Danny?
Danny?
Danny, open the door.
It is late and I'm too tired to be playing games.
Danny!
I can't even hear myself think, let alone write.
He won't open the door.
- Danny! - Danny!
Danny, open up, now!
Dan...
If I have to break this lock, Danny,
you're going to bed with a hot butt, I guarantee it.
I think he's having one of his attacks.
Jack, open the door.
Danny. - Danny?
Danny, wake up, son.
Danny.
Look at his eyes, Jack.
Baby, come on, come back.
Good shot.
Great party, isn't it?
Good shot.
Now give me the ax.
Danny, what is wrong with you?
Wake up.
Wake up, now!
Where's Tony?
Tony was here.
There's no Tony, Doc.
We talked about that.
Yes, he was, he was!
He was in the mirror.
All right, you were having a fainting spell of some kind.
- He was! - Listen to him, Jack.
Daddy, Tony was here.
He was here.
There is no Tony except for your stuffed dog!
There's no imaginary pal who comes and shows you the future.
Now will you stop with that crap?
Jack.
You keep your hands off of him!
What are you doing?
What the hell do you think you're doing?
Am I bad, Daddy?
Like when I messed up your papers?
No.
Danny, I'm not mad at you.
Not a bit.
I just got scared because I thought...
You know what, I don't know what I thought.
Why'd you lock the door, Danny?
Tony told me to.
I know you don't believe in him but-
You know what, sometimes I do believe in him.
And sometimes I sound mad because he scares me.
Sometimes he scares me too.
So why did Tony tell you to lock the bathroom door, Doc?
I don't know.
I can't remember.
Okay, all right.
Sweet dreams.
Sweet repose.
All the bed,
all the clothes.
Good night, baby.
Sleep tight, okay?
Good night, my boy.
You're not really mad at me, are you?
No.
Danny, no.
Not a bit?
Not a bit.
I love you, Doc.
You'd never hurt Mommy or me, would you, Daddy?
No, Danny, of course not.
Because you're different now.
Yeah, that's right.
You have your meetings now.
Yeah.
I got one down at Sidewinder and on the CB.
I think Tony told me about a game.
Oh, yes?
What sort of game?
Denver croquet.
It's like regular croquet, except it's bigger.
Yeah.
That's right.
Tony said the mallets are dangerous.
That I should stay away from them.
That...
Danny?
Who was it that told you about Denver croquet?
It was Dick Hallorann, wasn't it?
Danny?
Are you asleep?
You didn't leave it in Boulder, Daddy.
It's in your wallet.
It's been in your wallet all the time.
Behind your driver's license.
Is he asleep?
What are you doing?
I'm looking for something.
Look.
We took this when Danny was six months old, remember?
Yeah, I thought you lost it.
Yeah, me too.
But it was behind my driver's license all along.
And Danny knew.
If it happens again, we have to take him to a doctor here.
There's one in Sidewinder that's supposed to be good.
He's not a pediatrician, he's a GP,
but the lady at the supermarket said kids love him.
If it happens again,
I'm sending the both of you to your mother's.
And I know how you feel about her.
You have no idea how I feel about her.
There's nowhere else.
I didn't mean to shake him.
And I sure didn't mean to shout.
I was scared.
You know?
Scared.
You know what scares me?
Your anger.
It's like having a live wire in the house.
I don't want this to be an angry place, Jack.
We've had enough of those in the family, God knows.
I don't mean just since we got married.
With your father and my mother.
I'm sorry.
How many ways can I say it?
I was scared too, Jack.
You know?
I love you.
Do you?
Yeah.
I love you too.
What is it now?
Mommy, get them off!
What is it?
You said it was safe, Jack!
Let's just get him out of here.
All right, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, does it hurt bad?
You said the wasps were dead!
I know I did, honey.
Stay here with Mommy, I'll be right back.
Yeah.
How do you like that, you little bastards?
Huh.
Sting me.
Why don't you sting me now?
My God.
How are you?
Stung, that's how we are.
Hold your arm out, Doc.
What are you gonna do, Daddy?
I need to put a hurt
on those people that made the bug bomb.
Okay, your turn.
What do you think?
I think $5,000 a sting should do it.
Don't you think?
I followed the directions on that label,
I swear to you I did.
I carried that damned nest underneath my shirt,
for God's sakes.
And Danny was carrying it around.
Dan?
They must have only been stunned.
Danny.
Why do I have to screw up everything?
Oh, Jack, you don't.
The bug bomb must have been defective.
Had to have been.
Had to have been, there's no other explanation.
Would you get rid of that nest?
I really don't want it here with us.
Right now.
Tomorrow I want to make an appointment
with that doctor to see Danny.
First thing.
Oh my God.
Freeze, you bastards.
What was that, Jack?
Something fell, that's all.
Something fell, it's probably in the kitchen
'cause I went through there like a whirlwind.
I was looking for something to put over that damn nest.
Are you sure that's all it was?
Yeah, sure as can be.
That's what you said about the nest too.
All right, don't worry, Wendy.
Everything's gonna be fine, I swear to you.
From your lips to God's ear, Jack.
Good shot!