[REEVE GRUNTS]
REEVE: FuII moon. Lock up tonight.
Better the woIf takes the pig than you.
VALERIE: We lived on the edge of a dark forest.
Few knew our village by name...
...but many had heard of the terrible things that happened there.
My mother always told me, ''Don't talk to strangers.
Go get water and come straight home.''
l tried to be a good girl and do what she said.
PETER: VaIerie.
VALERIE: Believe me, l tried.
PETER: Let's go.
PETER: Shh.
[WHISPERING] Do you have the knife?
[WHISPERING] Right here.
VALERIE: Look, snow white fur.
PETER: I'II make you a pair of hunting boots.
[SQUEAKS]
VALERIE: Do it, Peter.
PETER: You do it. -No, you do it.
MAN: That's it.
VALERIE: l know good girls aren't supposed to hunt rabbits...
...or go into the woods alone.
But since we were kids, he always had a way of making me wanna break the rules.
CESAIRE: Peter! Trees'II stiII be there after we eat.
-Give me that. -What wiII you give me for it?
-They didn't teII you? -TeII me what?
They've arranged for you to marry Henry Lazar.
WeII, my mother finaIIy got what she wanted.
Money.
Henry gets what he's aIways wanted. You.
So, what do we do now?
Do you want to marry him?
You know I don't.
Prove it.
-How? -Run away with me.
[CHUCKLES]
Where wouId we go?
Anywhere you want.
The ocean.
The city.
The mountains.
You afraid?
-No. -Oh, no?
[VALERIE GASPS]
ReaIIy?
You'd Ieave your home?
Your famiIy?
Your whoIe Iife?
I wouId do anything to be with you.
I thought you'd say that.
-Oh, did you? -Ha, ha.
Let's do something about it.
It'd be haIf a day's ride before anyone knows we're gone.
I'II race you.
[BELL TOLLING]
[HORSES WHINNYING]
The woIf.
MAN: This way! Over here!
[CROWD CHATTERING]
It kiIIed again.
But we've kept the peace.
WeII, the woIf has broken it.
Who is it?
TeII me.
It's your sister.
Mother, Father.
[SUZETTE CRYING]
[GASPING]
[VALERIE CRYING]
Lucie!
Thank you, CIaude.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
SUZETTE: Madame Lazar, pIease come in. -Suzette.
-I'm sorry for your Ioss. SUZETTE: Thank you.
Let me take that.
ROSE: HeIIo, Henry. -Ladies.
ADRIAN: Lucie was a good girI.
He's your fianc� now. He's come to offer his condoIences.
-But I bareIy know him. -You'II get to know him.
Now go down there. PIease.
Cesaire.
Come with us to the tavern.
Let the women grieve in their own way.
-I-- I-- I want to go. -No.
I didn't Iove your father when we were first married.
I was in Iove with another man.
But I came to Iove your father.
And he gave me two beautifuI daughters.
AUGUSTE: We shouId count our bIessings.
REEVE: Come on, Father.
It's been aImost 20 years since the woIf has taken a human Iife.
REEVE: Twenty years.
That's because we sacrifice our best Iivestock every fuII moon.
We kept our end of the bargain.
-So now we kiII it. CROWD: Yeah!
[CROWD CHATTERING]
MAN 1 : Let's kiII that thing!
No.
I've summoned Father SoIomon.
MAN 2: Father SoIomon? CROWD: Ha-ha-ha.
He has destroyed werewoIves and witches in cities throughout the kingdom.
He wiII rid us of this beast.
No.
He'II rob us of our vengeance.
I wonder why she was outside on a woIf night.
Maybe she snuck out to meet a boy.
My Lucie never even thought about boys.
She was certainIy taken with my grandson.
She used to come by and foIIow him about Iike a puppy.
She found out that night that Henry was engaged to her sister.
She must have been heartbroken.
Maybe she chose to die rather than Iive without him.
How romantic.
SUZETTE: Prudence!
It's unspeakabIe.
She never even toId me.
Don't worry, dear.
Henry aIways had his eye on you.
You're the pretty one.
[KNOCKING]
PETER: I'm paying my respects.
I know exactIy why you're here.
I've aIready Iost one daughter.
VaIerie's aII I have Ieft.
You have nothing to offer her.
I have a trade. The same one as your husband.
I know what a woodcutter earns.
Henry's her onIy hope for a better Iife.
If you Iove her...
...you'II Iet her go.
We've aII seen the bones on the traiI to Mount Grimmoor.
That's where the woIf makes its Iair.
BARKEEP: We know the weaknesses of the werewoIf.
It can't come out in dayIight. It can't step onto hoIy ground.
-And there's siIver. MAN 1 : That'II kiII it.
MAN 2: SiIver!
Maybe Father Auguste is right.
Maybe we shouId wait.
[PETER SCOFFS]
MAN 3: Coward.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
ADRIAN: Maybe, my son...
...you shouId find your courage.
You want to hunt the woIf?
Let's hunt it.
Let's kiII it!
MAN 4: Let's kiII the beast!
Let's kiII it!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
ROSE: What's going on?
Come on, boys!
Are you with me?!
Let's go!
VALERIE: Be carefuI.
I Iost my sister. I can't Iose you too.
We can't do this anymore.
You have to go through with it. You have to marry Henry.
But you know I don't want Henry.
Don't make this something it's not.
Look, we had our fun. That's aII it ever was.
I don't beIieve you.
I made something for you.
[HENRY SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I was gonna wait untiI our wedding, but, uh....
Just in case.
You wiII be happy again.
I promise.
BARKEEP: Come on, Henry.
AUGUSTE: We shouId wait.
-We shouId wait for Father SoIomon. MAN 1 : No!
AUGUSTE: He'II be here tomorrow!
MAN 2: We're gonna kiII the woIf. MAN 3: We can take care of this.
That's it? Nobody eIse?
Let's go! Go home to your mama's, then.
Adrian. Thank you for standing up for Lucie. That was no smaII thing.
We'II be famiIy soon. You'd have done the same.
Promise me you'II be carefuI.
Don't worry.
The woIf doesn't want me. I'm aII gristIe.
I mean it, son.
I promise, Mama.
VALERIE: Grandmother.
GRANDMOTHER: Oh.
DarIing. DarIing.
Come.
CarefuI.
There are so many things she didn't teII me.
And I'm her sister. I shouId've known.
That was her choice.
We aII have secrets.
Remember what my grandma used to say:
-''AII sorrows are Iess with bread.'' -''Less with bread.''
Here. Try this.
[VALERIE GASPS]
How beautifuI.
I was making it for your wedding.
[SIGHS]
I don't feeI Iike it's my wedding.
I feeI Iike...
...I'm being soId.
REEVE: Right up there.
You better watch yourseIf.
There's a fork.
Let's spIit up.
Another fork.
We'II take the steep one.
No. We shouId stay together.
[ADRIAN SCREAMS]
[GASPS]
[WOLF GROWLING]
[SHUTTER BANGING]
[HOUSE CREAKING]
[VALERIE GASPS]
Good morning, dear.
Morning, Grandmother.
VALERIE: Grandmother told us that the wolf used to kill entire families...
...snatching children from their beds.
Those stories never seemed real to me. Until now.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
Ripped the thing out!
[CROWD SHOUTING AND CHEERING]
VALERIE: CIaude.
[LAUGHS]
[CART APPROACHING]
To Adrian.
For his sacrifice.
CROWD: To Adrian.
WOMAN: Poor Henry.
VALERIE: Henry.
Your father was a brave man.
HENRY: You know, I was cIose enough to smeII it.
And I was afraid. And I hid from it.
I didn't do anything.
I shouId've saved him.
[METAL CLANKS]
-Henry-- -Just Ieave!
I don't want you to see me Iike this.
[SUZETTE CRYING]
It was Henry's father, wasn't it? The man you Ioved?
Lucie was in Iove with him.
She was a year oIder than me. She couId've married him.
Why did you insist it was me?
I think you know the answer to that.
I want you to say it.
Lucie was Henry's haIf-sister.
Adrian was her father.
Does Papa know about Lucie?
No. And you have to promise me that you'II never teII.
[HORN BLARING]
AUGUSTE: Father SoIomon.
He's here.
ROXANNE: CIaude.
Presenting His Eminence....
Father SoIomon.
GIRLS: Papa.
SOLOMON: Oh, pIease don't cry.
You see? You see aII these chiIdren?
You see how scared they are?
There's a big, bad woIf. Someone has to stop it.
Is that the beast that kiIIed our mother?
SOLOMON: It may very weII be.
Go on. I'II join you soon.
GIRL 1 : No.
SOLOMON: Go.
This is indeed an honor, Your Eminence.
WeIcome. You've arrived just in time for our festivaI.
As you can see, the werewoIf has been deaIt with.
That is not a werewoIf.
No disrespect...
...but we have been Iiving with this beast for two generations.
We know what we're deaIing with.
WeII, no disrespect...
...but you have no idea what you are deaIing with.
[CROWD MURMURING]
I was Iike you once.
My wife's name was PeneIope.
She gave me two beautifuI daughters.
We were a very happy famiIy.
We Iived in a viIIage Iike this.
And Iike Daggerhorn...
...ours was pIagued by a werewoIf.
One fuII moon, my friends and I got drunk.
We decided to hunt it.
It never occurred to us that we might actuaIIy find it, but find it we did.
It ripped...
...my best friend in haIf.
QuickIy.
And then it was on me.
I hacked and hacked at it with my axe.
SuddenIy...
...it was gone.
I had cut off one of its front paws.
I thought it might make a cIever souvenir, and so I took it home.
And there I found my wife...
...with a bIoody rag wrapped around her wrist.
And when I opened my sack...
...the werewoIf's paw...
...was gone.
[CROWD MURMURING]
This was in its pIace.
[ROXANNE GASPS]
SOLOMON: I toId my girIs the werewoIf kiIIed their mother.
But that was a Iie.
I kiIIed her.
When a werewoIf dies, it returns to its human form.
That is just a common gray woIf.
Your werewoIf...
...is stiII very much aIive.
This is one of onIy three siIver swords bIessed by the HoIy See.
May I touch?
No.
This is a very dangerous time.
You aII know what the BIood Moon means.
They have no idea what it means.
The orrery.
The red pIanet converges with the moon once every 13 years.
This is the onIy time a new werewoIf can be created.
[CROWD GASPS]
During the week of the BIood Moon...
...the werewoIf may pass his curse on with a singIe bite.
During a normaI fuII moon, a woIf bite wiII kiII you.
But during a BIood Moon...
...your very souIs are in danger.
SOLOMON: UntiI the BIood Moon wanes in three days...
...you wiII never truIy be safe.
We're safe now. I kiIIed the woIf in its Iair.
The cave at Mount Grimmoor.
SOLOMON: You have been deceived by this beast from the start.
It made you think it Iived on Grimmoor...
...so that you wouId not Iook for it in the most obvious pIace.
The woIf Iives here.
In this viIIage.
Among you.
The reaI kiIIer couId be your neighbor.
-What? SOLOMON: Your best friend.
Even your wife.
-Barricade the viIIage. -You can't do that!
Post men at every gate! No one Ieaves untiI we kiII the woIf!
-As you wish. -The woIf is dead.
Tonight we ceIebrate!
CROWD: Yes!
Go ahead. CeIebrate.
We'II see who is right.
[MAN LAUGHS]
[MUSICIANS PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC]
MAN 1 : The woIf is dead!
[CROWD CHEERING]
MAN 2: Take it off!
[BAAS]
MAN 3: I'II huff, and I'II puff...
...and I'II bIow your house down!
[ALL SQUEALING]
MAN 4: Laugh at the IittIe man!
[WOMEN HOOTING]
VaIerie, come dance.
[WOMEN GIGGLE]
[MAN 3 LAUGHS]
I'II huff...
...I'II puff...
...and I'II bIow your house down.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
[MAN 3 HOWLING]
MAN 3: Ow!
[GRUNTS]
I'II just fIick this off. I'II be fit to see the pope.
Papa.
You're my good girI.
I'm so sorry.
I know. Just go home now, okay?
[CLAUDE LAUGHS]
Tricked you. Ha-ha-ha.
Impressive.
Where did you Iearn that?
ROXANNE: CIaude.
CIaude, come back to the party.
Looks Iike Rose has a new conquest.
VALERIE: Come on, Prudence.
You Ieft us!
Take it easy, friend.
I said we shouId stick together and you Ieft us...
...and my father is dead because of it!
PIease don't do this.
[CROWD GASPING]
[HENRY GRUNTS]
Keep your hands off her or I'II cut them off!
Peter.
[BOTH LAUGH]
PETER: Leave me aIone.
What's the matter with you? What do I have to do to make you stop?
I Iove you, Peter.
What are you doing with Rose? You don't even Iike her.
I don't have to Iike her to get what I want from her.
You're a terribIe Iiar.
I know you feeI Iike I do.
I know you're burning inside.
I'II never be abIe to give you anything Iike this.
Think I care about Henry's money?
You have a future with him. I'm not gonna Iet you ruin that.
Did my mother get to you?
VaIerie, I'm wrong for you.
I don't care.
I couId eat you up.
Don't you want me?
WOODCUTTER: Hey, Peter.
Come on, give us a hand.
The onIy Iife I want is with you.
[DRUMS BEATING]
[ALL HOOTING]
[SLURRING INDISTINCTLY]
[ALL GIGGLING]
[CHICKEN CLUCKS]
So where did you disappear to?
You know aII that soft hay in the granary?
[VALERIE & ROXANNE GIGGLE]
[GASPS]
[CROWD SCREAMING]
MAN 1 : Run! CAPTAIN: Get to the church!
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
-Peter! CAPTAIN: Go!
CIaude!
[WOLF GROWLS]
You wiII die now, beast!
[SCREAMS]
The woIf can't cross onto hoIy ground! Get to the church!
SOLOMON: The church!
[MAN 3 SCREAMS]
CIaude!
[WOLF GROWLING]
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
Now! Rope it!
[WOLF SNARLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
HoId him!
CIaude!
[SOLDIERS YELL]
[CAPTAIN YELLING]
SOLDIER: It's strong. -God is stronger.
[WOLF GROWLING]
[GROANING]
God is stronger!
I warned you!
Your werewoIf is stiII aIive!
Find it!
Find it.
[PANTING]
Over there!
[BOTH SCREAM]
[WOLF GROWLING]
[VALERIE & ROXANNE SCREAM]
WOLF: You can't escape from me.
Oh, my God. You can speak.
How?
WOLF: You understand me. That's aII that matters, VaIerie.
You know my name.
What are you doing?
[WOLF SNARLS AND ROXANNE SCREAMS]
VALERIE: Human eyes, dark brown.
WOLF: I know you weII.
You dream of Ieaving this viIIage.
Let me take you away.
You and I are the same.
No, I'm nothing Iike you. You're a murderer.
WOLF: You're a kiIIer too, aren't you?
What happened to the rabbit, VaIerie?
VALERIE: I kiIIed it.
WOLF: I know. So come with me.
No.
WOLF: Then the streets wiII run red with bIood. Starting with hers.
[WOLF GROWLS AND ROXANNE CRIES]
SOLOMON: Come on!
Father SoIomon wiII stop you.
WOLF: Father SoIomon wiII die Iike the rest.
I'm coming back for you before the BIood Moon wanes.
[SOLOMON SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
There! Fire!
You taIked to the woIf.
No, it taIked to us.
No, it growIed.
Wait, you heard it taIk to you?
They'II caII me a witch. Don't teII anyone.
No, of course not.
-Get inside onto hoIy ground. -Wait, I have to find my brother.
-And my famiIy. -No one Ieaves untiI sunrise.
CAPTAIN: Go. SOLOMON: For your own safety.
[WOMEN CRYING]
We were wrong to have doubted you, Father.
I've never seen a beast as strong as this.
A creature this powerfuI must come from a Iong uninterrupted bIoodIine.
Each generation more potent than the one before.
We must find it in its human form.
CAPTAIN: But how? It couId be any of them.
It hasn't survived this Iong by being obvious. Look everywhere.
Look for the signs.
IsoIation.
Witchcraft.
The bIack arts.
AbnormaI behavior.
Strange smeIIs.
Your homes wiII be searched.
Your secrets brought to Iight.
If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear.
But if you are guiIty...
...I swear by AImighty God...
...you wiII be destroyed.
[SOLDIER COUGHING]
He's stiII aIive!
Bring me water!
Hurry!
It's a BIood Moon. So he must--
He's my brother!
[CROWD GASPS]
A man bitten...
...is a man cursed!
PETER: VaIerie, open the door.
[SOLDIER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
We're aII in danger. So we've gotta Ieave now.
Come away with me.
WOLF: Come away with me.
PETER: Get your things. We have to Ieave now.
I can't go with you, Peter.
PETER: Why not?
VALERIE: I'm sorry.
[GASPS]
What happened?
She's going to be aII right.
The woIf just scratched her. That's not a bite.
Lift her head, VaIerie.
Here. Drink this, dear.
It'II heIp you sIeep.
[SUZETTE GRUNTING]
You sIeep.
[GRANDMOTHER SIGHS]
What is it, darIing?
What is it?
The woIf.
It taIked to me.
And you understood it?
As cIearIy as I understand you.
Have you toId anyone eIse about this?
OnIy Roxanne knows, but she won't teII anyone.
She won't even taIk to me about it.
It chose not to kiII you.
I think it wants me aIive.
[GRANDMOTHER SIGHS]
[SUZETTE GROANING]
SUZETTE: No. -Bring me another bandage.
SUZETTE: No.
I have to get cIean water.
VALERIE: Has CIaude come home?
Nobody's seen him.
SOLDIER 1 : There you go, back inside. Now.
SOLDIER 2: You have to Iet us in.
I saw you with Peter.
I know you don't want me Iike that.
I'm not gonna force you to marry me.
I'm gonna break off the engagement.
I'm sorry, Henry.
WOMAN: That's enough!
SOLDIER 1 : Father SoIomon! We found someone hiding!
SOLDIER 2: In the tower!
SOLOMON: QuickIy!
ROXANNE: It's my brother! Don't touch him!
-Get him down! Interrogate him! -He's not the woIf!
Look at him!
His speech is twisted. He communes with demons.
Get him down! Now!
He hasn't done anything!
This is proof that he studies the bIack arts!
He's a conjurer.
-I know him. -Better than I knew my own wife?
You never know what someone is capabIe of.
Get him down! Come on!
[CLAUDE YELLING]
Give me the name of the woIf.
Give me the name.
TeII me the name!
[CLAUDE YELLING]
The Romans invented this.
An ingenious system for extracting the truth.
How can he give you a name? The boy can bareIy speak.
Listen to how he sings of his Iove of Satan.
[CLAUDE YELLING]
We do this for the greater good.
What's the good in this?
I kiIIed my wife to protect my chiIdren.
Our methods of pIeasing God are sometimes fIawed.
You had best deveIop a stomach for it.
[CLAUDE SCREAMING]
[DOOR OPENS]
She says it's important.
I've come to bargain for the reIease of my brother.
SiIver fingernaiIs.
SOLOMON: To kiII a werewoIf.
[SOLOMON YELLS THEN LAUGHS]
Get out.
PIease, I have more than money to offer.
Turn around.
[ROXANNE SOBS]
[LAUGHING]
Enough. Move.
Wait, pIease. I have something eIse.
Spare my brother and I'II give you the name of a witch.
Now, that...
...is worth something.
SOLOMON: TeII them what you toId me.
She can cIimb the taIIest trees. She can run faster than aII the girIs.
She wears a red cIoak. The deviI's coIor.
That's nonsense. I made that cIoak.
SiIence! Continue.
And she can taIk to werewoIves.
[CROWD MURMURING]
I've seen it. With my own eyes.
-Do you deny it? -No, I don't deny it.
And what was the nature of this conversation?
It promised to Ieave Daggerhorn in peace as Iong as I go with it.
The woIf is someone in this viIIage who wants you, VaIerie.
Do you know who it is?
I'd think very hard if I were you.
TeII me.
TeII me who it is.
Give me a name.
It wants her, not you.
If you wish to save yourseIves, simpIy give it what it wants.
You can't give her to the woIf. That's human sacrifice.
We've aII made sacrifices.
The triaI is over. Go back to your homes.
I said go home. AII of you!
-I thought you cared about her. -I do care.
I do care.
I'm trying to be smart about it.
CAPTAIN: Go to the granary.
You're gonna try and rescue her?
-WeII, I'II heIp. -I'm not that desperate.
Oh, reaIIy? Then what's your pIan, huh?
See, you don't have one.
Look, you've seen those Iocks.
I've got a shop and I've got tooIs. You need me.
Okay. Fine.
But if you're the woIf, I'm gonna chop your head off.
I wiII do the same to you.
Fair enough.
CAPTAIN: Go home!
Where's my brother? Father SoIomon toId me you'd reIease him.
We did.
[ROXANNE CRYING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
VALERIE: Grandma.
Bread. BIanket.
Do you need anything eIse?
I do not want you to use that knife.
-We have to find the woIf. VALERIE: By sundown?
Listen, the woIf wants you. But first it kiIIed your sister.
No. I didn't know it, but Lucie was in Iove with Henry.
And when she found out about my engagement...
...she gave herseIf to the woIf.
No. Lucie wouIdn't do that.
SOLDIER: Your time is up. -But she might have responded to Henry.
PIease see that she gets that.
[SOLDIER CHUCKLES]
Oaf.
Cesaire.
I'm gonna save your daughter. And then I intend to marry her.
I'd Iike your bIessing in this, but I can Iive without it.
What can I do?
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
We're cIosed.
It's me.
HeIIo, Henry.
-I brought you some biscuits. -Thanks.
I just wanna thank you for speaking up this morning.
Here, try some.
Yes.
That was very brave of you.
I said what I feIt.
You know...
...I want you to know you're under no obIigation to stand up for VaIerie.
You're no Ionger engaged to her.
She's in Iove with someone eIse.
That doesn't mean I've stopped caring about her.
I imagine that's just how Lucie feIt about you.
[SCOFFS]
She had a crush on me.
Oh, more than a crush. I think she wouId have done absoIuteIy anything for you.
Even agree to meet you on a woIf night if you asked her to.
Why are you doing this?
Do you think I'm the woIf? Are you accusing me of murder?
I'm not accusing you of anything.
I just want to find out the truth.
It's you.
My God, it's you. I can smeII it on you.
Heh. What can you smeII on me?
The night my father died, I couId smeII the woIf. It was Iike a deep musk.
And I can smeII it aII over you right now.
What do you do out there in that cabin aII by yourseIf in the middIe of the night?
On the night that Lucie died?
You don't know, do you?
I know what you're doing. And I'm not gonna Iet you turn this on me.
Oh.
You're coming with us.
[CESAIRE GRUNTING]
-I haven't done anything. -Just a precaution.
Father SoIomon doesn't want any troubIe from the witch's famiIy.
[LOCK RATTLING]
It's time to put on your harIot's robe.
CESAIRE: VaIerie.
I did my best to protect you.
You and Lucie.
I know, Papa.
You taught us to be strong.
VALERIE: Father Solomon had designed the mask for public disgrace.
And even my friends stared, judging me.
SUZETTE: Stop.
VALERIE: What if they were right?
Maybe the wolf knew something l didn't.
Maybe there was something dark inside of me.
You shouId aII go home!
[VALERIE BREATHING]
I'm so sorry, VaIerie.
I didn't mean for this to happen.
BIess you, my dear.
[VALERIE GASPS]
VALERIE: Prudence.
VaIerie?
Roxanne wanted me to teII you how sorry she is.
-She said those things to save her brother. VALERIE: I know. TeII her I forgive her.
Of course.
But I wanted to say....
I don't know what to say.
VALERIE: But you don't have to say anything.
But I want to.
I want you to know that...
...you may have fooIed Roxanne...
...but you don't fooI me.
Not anymore.
You were aIways too good.
Too pretty.
Too perfect.
You tricked us.
Now you're gonna get what you deserve.
VALERIE: Prudence, I think you shouId go.
PRUDENCE: Yes.
It won't be Iong now.
The woIf is coming.
SOLOMON: The wolf lives here.
Your neighbor. Your best friend. Even your wife.
You're the pretty one.
-I couId eat you up. -You wiII be happy again.
VALERIE: Human eyes, dark brown.
WOLF: l know you well.
Do you know how you kiII a tiger, Father Auguste?
You tie out your best goat...
...and wait.
SOLDIER 1 : Fire!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
-Put it out! -Unh.
Go!
I'm gonna get you out of here.
[SOLDIER 2 COUGHING]
SOLDIER 2: It's too much!
[PETER GRUNTS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
HENRY: Don't move.
There! He's taken the bait! Fire!
Wait, that's not the woIf!
He's aiding a witch!
-Fire! AUGUSTE: No!
Run!
[KNIFE SQUELCHES]
[AUGUSTE GROANS THEN GRUNTS]
Run.
[ALL GRUNTING]
This one started the fire.
Lock him up. In the eIephant!
-Go! -Move it!
SOLOMON: The witch has escaped!
Get over here! Find the witch!
Come on, Peter's meeting us with the horses.
[THUMPING]
VaIerie!
VALERIE: Where's Peter?
I don't know.
He said he'd be here.
If he doesn't show...
...I'm gonna take you away.
WOLF: Let me take you away.
Do you think I'm the woIf?
SOLOMON: Find the witch!
[WOLF GROWLING]
SOLDIER 3: Come on! QuickIy!
HENRY: Go.
SOLDIER 3: That way!
We shouId go to the church.
The woIf can't cross onto hoIy ground.
CAPTAIN: Some with me! This way! Let's go!
SOLDIER 4: I heard something over there.
SOLDIER 5: They're in here! After them!
WOLF: Valerie.
[GRUNTS]
[GASPS]
[HENRY GRUNTS]
Henry. Henry.
Go. VaIerie, go!
No. I'm not Ieaving you.
VALERIE: We cIaim sanctuary. -You are not on hoIy ground yet.
-This... -Unh.
[HENRY GROANING]
...beIongs to me.
[WOLF GROWLING AND MAN YELLING]
[SWORD CLANKS]
[GROWLING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
You want her aIive?!
KiII it!
[SCREAMING]
[CAPTAIN YELLS THEN GRUNTS]
WOLF: VaIerie.
Step across the gate, or I'II destroy this viIIage.
Come with me before the sun rises.
Make your decision.
I won't Iet you destroy my home.
-I'II go with you. -Don't! VaIerie. No.
If you promise to Ieave them aIone.
No. I won't Iet you sacrifice yourseIf for us.
[WOLF SNARLS]
-Nor wiII I. MARGUERITE: Nor wiII I.
I stand by VaIerie.
[WOLF SNARLING]
WOLF: You can't hide from me.
-Aah! -The witch wiII stiII burn!
[CROWD GASPING]
[SOLOMON GRUNTS]
Under the BIood Moon...
...a man bitten is a man cursed.
My chiIdren wiII be orphaned.
My brother...
...had chiIdren too.
I meant onIy to serve.
To protect us from darkness.
[SOLOMON GROANS]
Under the BIood Moon...
...a man bitten is a man cursed.
Where's Peter?
[VALERIE GASPS]
Grandmother.
What big eyes you have.
The better to see you with, my dear.
Grandmother, what big ears you have.
The better to hear you with, my dear.
What big teeth you have.
[IN DEEP VOICE] The better to eat you with, my dear.
[PANTING]
VaIerie. What are you doing out of bed?
I was so worried.
It Iooks much better.
Where are you going?
To Grandmother's. I think she's in danger.
We're going after the woIf before the storm can cover its tracks.
It'II be human again and we can finaIIy kiII it.
And I have....
What? TeII me.
Peter is stiII missing.
I'II do what I have to do.
PIease be carefuI.
PETER: VaIerie.
Thank God you're aII right.
Where were you?
PETER: I was trapped in that brazen beast aII night.
I finaIIy broke out.
Don't come near me.
VaIerie, what?
You don't beIieve me?
I'II hurt you.
No, you won't.
PIease don't.
[BOTH GRUNT]
Grandmother!
[PANTING]
Grandmother, are you aII right?
I had a nightmare.
-Ah! -I'm fine.
[GRANDMOTHER COUGHS]
I just woke up.
There's some soup if you're hungry.
[GRANDMOTHER COUGHING]
-I think the woIf is out there. -It's aII right, darIing. We're safe in here.
Eat up. Remember:
-''AII sorrows are Iess with bread.'' -''Less with bread.''
That's right.
Eat up, my dear.
What is this?
Father, what are you doing here?
Where's Grandmother?
I had no choice.
She finaIIy reaIized what I am.
How couId you do this?
Sit down.
[IN DEEP VOICE] Sit down.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Oh, VaIerie.
I've been so disrespected.
I've settIed for far Iess than I deserve.
So I decided I'd Ieave.
For the city.
[WOLF GROWLS]
For richer hunting grounds.
Why didn't you just Ieave?
Because I Ioved you girIs.
I wanted you to come with me.
-But you had to wait for the BIood Moon. -Yes.
By birthright...
...the gift wouId go first to my eIdest daughter.
So l forged a letter.
But when l tried to speak to her--
WOLF: Henry's not coming, Lucie.
[WOLF GROWLS]
[CRYING]
--she didn't understand me.
Any offspring of mine with my woIf bIood wouId've been abIe to do so.
And then it aII made sense.
Lucie couIdn't be my daughter. Your mother Iied to me.
But you knew that aIready, didn't you?
After aII these years of being so cIever and so carefuI, I just Iost controI.
[LUCIE SCREAMS]
I'm sorry for Lucie.
You took revenge on Mother.
[SCREAMS]
And her Iover.
[WOLF GROWLS]
[ADRIAN SCREAMING]
CESAIRE: Henry smelled the wolf that night.
And then again yesterday.
He thought the smell came from your grandmother.
But she had lived with that smell her whole life.
You see, my father was a wolf too.
The smell remained on his clothing.
Mother never knew what it meant...
[GRANDMOTHER GROANS]
CESAIRE: ...till the moment she died.
I Ioved her.
Her and Lucie both. I never wanted to hurt them.
VaIerie, come with me.
It's the Iast day of the BIood Moon.
One bite, and you'II be Iike me.
I won't do what you do.
I can't.
Yes, you can, VaIerie.
My bIood aIready courses through your veins.
It's a gift.
It's a gift my father gave to me that now I can give to you.
I'm stronger than he was, you'II be even stronger than me.
Think about it.
We wiII be invincibIe.
There must be a God, because you're the deviI.
And you're the deviI's daughter.
You're not so terrifying when the sun is up.
[PETER GRUNTS]
How wouId you know?
[PETER GRUNTING]
VALERIE: Papa!
I have something for you.
[CESAIRE GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
VALERIE: Peter.
Get me out of here.
Ow.
He bit me.
When the moon rises...
...I'II be Iike him.
A beast.
VALERIE: Everything l knew was ripped apart.
l saw it all differently.
All the lies. My mother's, my father's.
He was all l had left.
VALERIE: Peter.
VALERIE: Even when l doubted him...
...even when l wounded him...
...Peter was true.
I'm so sorry.
PETER: No one can know about your father.
They'II hang you...
...for being the daughter of the woIf.
Peter.
PETER: I have to Ieave.
You won't be safe with me...
...untiI I Iearn how to protect you from....
I'II wait for you.
I thought you'd say that.
VALERIE: lt was the most brutal winter l could remember.
With time, my mother finally realized that Father would never return.
Henry found his courage.
He chose a life of honor, protecting us from darkness.
Daggerhorn fell back into its old rhythms.
The wolf didn't come back.
But the village still lived in fear.
lt was the only life they knew.
l could no longer live there.
l felt more freedom in the shadows of the forest.
To live apart carries its own dangers.
But of those...
...l am less afraid.
VOICE [WHISPERS]: VaIerie.
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