[STUDENTS CHEERING ]
-Hey, man, Iet's get out of here! -SchooI is out.
What's up, IittIe brother? I gotta catch up with the twins.
Hi, WiII.
Hi, Gwen. Come on, Iet's go.
PAUL: Hey, WiII.
Any thoughts on your first semester as an American overseas?
WILL: Guys, stop it. PAUL: Just answer.
ROBIN [IN ENGLISH ACCENT] : In an EngIish pIace.
PAUL [IN ENGLISH ACCENT] : At an EngIish schooI.
The peopIe wanna know if you made any friends.
That's their question to you.
Any, uh, Iady friends, maybe?
ROBIN: Looks Iike a pretty Iady there. -Okay, guys? Guys, back off.
-Shut up. -TaIk to her.
-Why don't you taIk to her? ROBIN: Because I see you want to.
Hey, that's the new girI, right?
WiII, why don't you go taIk to her?
I mean, why not?
WILL: Wait, you forgot your scarf!
JAMES: Are we gonna go to any soccer games?
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[CAR HORN HONKS]
Good afternoon, Stantons.
Miss Greythorne wishes to extend an invitation to the whoIe famiIy. . .
. . .to attend a Christmas Eve party at the manor. Mince pies, muIIed wine.
-Can we count on you? -Yeah.
What about you, WiII?
-Oh, yes, Mr. Lyon. We'II be-- I'II be-- -It's Merriman, pIease.
-Okay. -Look forward to your company.
We'II be there.
JAMES: If you refuse, I'm afraid we'II be forced to ridicuIe you behind your backs.
GWEN: What's a mince? ROBIN: I hope it's a fruit.
WouId it kiII them to put, Iike, a cherry or appIes in their pies?
-If it has meat in it. . . WILL: Guys, wait up.
. . .I don't think it shouId be caIIed a pie.
MARY: Hey, guys, Iook who's home.
JAMES: Whoa! Look at this stranger. GWEN: Max!
MAX: HeIIo, feIIas. ROBIN: Oh, my God, Max.
PAUL: What are you doing here?
MAX: Hey. FamiIy Christmas.
FamiIy Christmas? Didn't stop you missing Iast year.
-Or the year before. MAX: Hey.
Hey, Gwen, sweetie, you don't Iet these guys corrupt you, aII right?
JAMES: So, Max, how's coIIege? -Uh, it's pretty good.
Hey, Max. You stiII doing that tae kwon do?
-Come on. ROBIN: Here it comes.
MAX: ChaIIenge me.
[BOTH GRUNTING ]
Don't kiII him. He just got home. Guys.
WILL: Hey, Mom.
-How was schooI? WILL: It was good.
Yeah?
MAX: WiII.
I got your room.
MAX: Hey, WiII.
How Iong are you staying?
I don't know. A week, maybe two.
-AII this for a week or two? -Come on, WiII, do me this one favor.
PeopIe to see, I got phone caIIs to make.
I can't do that if I'm sIeeping in the attic, can I?
[SCOFFS]
-But I can? -Yeah, weII, you're young. VersatiIe.
Hey. We gonna go aII out for your birthday?
-SpeciaI day. I didn't forget. -Don't change the subject.
Thirteen.
They grow up so fast.
Fourteen, actuaIIy.
ROBIN: Hey, man. Lame about Max. Come on in.
-GIad to have you here. -Hey. . .
-. . .this wiII be your designated area. PAUL: Yes. SmiIe.
ROBIN: It's tape. What? That's funny. Come on.
[WIND BLOWING ]
Boys, turn the TV off. James.
MARY: Come on. Everything's getting coId.
ROBIN: Ketchup. JOHN: Where have you been, honey?
[DOGS GROWL]
None of your business.
Maybe, uh-- Maybe next year we'II get Stephen home, make up the fuII crew.
-WouId you Iike to see Stephen? -Yeah, that'd be awesome.
WeII, we'II try to get him home. Depends where the Navy sends him.
JAMES: The Bermuda TriangIe. -To Stephen.
ALL: To Stephen.
JAMES: How come yours is in a can?
JOHN: So, Max, how did the semester finish off?
Oh, it was, uh, it was good, you know.
-Any more thoughts on grad schooI? MAX: Nope.
Just stiII, you know, weighing my options.
-Weighing your options. -And what about you, Dad?
JOHN: Things are pretty good.
Good, so then you're coping?
I mean, it's a Iot, you know. New pIace, new job.
It's been a Iong time since you've feIt abIe, right?
Max, drop it.
No, it's aII right. It's aII right.
-It's turning out to be a good year. -Yeah.
-The move here has been good for us. -It has.
AII of us.
[DOGS GROWL]
PAUL: WiII. WiII!
What are you staring at?
-The dogs. ROBIN: Hey, man, I know that Iook.
PAUL: Yeah, it's the Iook that girI gave you on the bus.
-You met a girI on the bus today? -No, he Iooked at a girI on the bus today.
ROBIN: Wasn't his type. PAUL: She Iooked at me.
MARY: AII right. Leave him be. PAUL: I'm good-Iooking. Can't heIp it.
Isn't this nice?
[DOGS GROWLING ]
[BELLS RINGING ]
GEORGE: I toId you we shouId have trimmed it first.
MARY: Hey, guys, the tree's here.
[GEORGE AND DAWSON GRUNTING ]
DAWSON: Come on, George, push. GEORGE: There we go.
Come on. It's gorgeous. Just bring it on through. Be carefuI of the boots.
Boys, come and heIp. Isn't that gorgeous?
Just Iean it up against that waII and my boys wiII take care of it.
WiII, this is Mr. Dawson from Court Farm, and George.
GEORGE: I got it.
DAWSON: So. . .
. . .this is WiII Stanton, eh?
-A pIeasure to meet you. -And you, sir.
Hey, George, Iook here. It's WiII.
So it be. And with a birthday today as weII.
-Yeah. MARY: That's right.
Yeah, that's right.
Can I get you gentIemen something, coffee or tea?
No, we're onIy stopping. Too much to do before the storm sets in.
-The storm? DAWSON: Yes.
Bad weather on the way. Tomorrow wiII be a bad night.
The nights after. . .
-. . .beyond imagining. -ReaIIy?
Excuse me.
WeII, you have a good day, huh?
-Come on, George. MARY: Thank you so much.
DAWSON: Missis. -WiII.
-You gonna come open your presents? -Oh, yeah.
MAX: Hey, heads up.
Happy birthday, big guy.
Sorry, I made a IittIe mistake with the age. I'II fix that right up for you.
No, no, that's okay.
ROBIN: Here you go. Happy birthday. -Thanks.
Second one comes on Christmas. There's two.
Yeah, happy birthday, man.
ROBIN: Is this aII the miIk we have?
MARY: I'm gonna make some eggs, aII right?
Boys, come on. Give me a hand here.
Gwen.
-You shouIdn't have. -I knew everyone eIse wouId forget.
-Thanks. -Here, Iet me heIp you.
-So what's your wish? -What?
It's your birthday. You're aIIowed to have a wish, anything.
Snow. You know, Iike we used to get back at home.
-Yeah. -I want Iots of snow.
GWEN: You guys, I got him. He's here. -Hey, can you hear me?
-Stephen! -Hey, son.
Hey, Mom and Dad. Bros! Gwen, look at you.
-You're becoming a heartbreaker. MARY: Isn't she?
Sorry I can 't be there. As you can see, I'm busy defending the free world.
JOHN: We miss you, son. ROBIN: Very tropicaI.
All the gifts sort of have a Hawaiian theme.
JAMES: Yeah, perfect for winter in EngIand.
Hey, Will, listen, yours is different.
I was walking the street market, and....
For some reason, I knew it was for you.
-CooI. Thanks, Stephen. -How cute. Oh, these are fantastic.
Anyway, enjoy the day, and I wish I was there.
JOHN: You too. We wish you were home too, Stephen.
Take care of Mom and Dad, guys. Merry Christmas.
JOHN: Merry Christmas!
[WIND HOWLING ]
[WILL GRUNTS]
[CAWING ]
[AIR HISSES]
[''JINGLE BELLS'' PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
SANTA: You want aII those things, do you?
Can I heIp you?
HeIIo? Are you going to buy that?
Sorry. Um, it's for my sister.
It's 5 pounds.
Thank you.
-There you go. Thank you. -Thanks.
Excuse me, sir.
I wonder if you wouIdn't mind coming back with us.
We think you Ieft the store without paying for an item.
What? No, I don't think so. I'm sorry.
It might just be a simpIe mistake, sir. . .
. . .but perhaps you wouId accompany us to our office. . .
. . .rather than deaIing with it here in pubIic.
-This way. -PIease.
-You aII right, then? WILL: Mm-hm.
Nicked something, didn't you?
-''Nicked''? -You stoIe something.
We've been watching you from the moment you came in.
SECURITY GUARD 1 : He Iooks Iike troubIe.
SECURITY GUARD 2: Looks Iike a thief.
SECURITY GUARD 1 : Wandering hands have deep pockets.
ChiIdren are aIways the worst.
SECURITY GUARD 1 : You won't mind if we search you, then? Mm?
-What? -Or you'd rather we caII your parents?
TeII them you're being investigated for shopIifting. . .
. . .which is a criminaI offense in this country.
-That's right. -Don't waste our time, WiII.
[IN DISTORTED VOICE] Just give us the Sign.
How do you know my name?
-Give us the Sign, WiII. -Just give us the Sign.
-Give us the Sign. -Just give us the Sign.
The Sign. Give us the Sign.
Give us-- Give us the Sign. Give us the Sign!
WILL: Get off!
[GRUNTING ]
[CROW CAWING ]
[''WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS'' PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
[BALL BOUNCING ]
PAUL: WiII, get out of the way.
JOHN: Hey, guys.
ROBIN: Hi, Dad. PAUL: Hey, Dad.
Robin. PauI. How many times we have to teII you? Not in the house.
PAUL: Sorry. ROBIN: Sorry, Dad.
Dad-- Dad, can we taIk?
[TELEVISION SQUEALING ]
Can we do it Iater, WiII? I have to grade aII this before the hoIidays.
Since nobody wants to stress about physics over Christmas. . .
-. . .I have to do it myseIf. Later, I promise. -Just for a sec, pIease.
Look, something is going on with me. I'm-- I don't--
It's mixed up.
WiII, you're 1 4. These changes are normaI.
Uh, you taIk to your brothers about it.
ROBIN: Your body starting to feeI aII funny and different?
[DOGS GROWL]
[WILL GRUNTS]
Oh. Sorry.
[CHATTERING ]
[''DECK THE HALLS'' PLAYING ON GRAMOPHONE]
MAN: It's IoveIy.
MERRIMAN: Go inside, sir. Have a marveIous time.
Thank you, sir.
-Stantons. MARY: HeIIo.
Merry Christmas. Give me your coats.
Thank you very much. Coat, darIing.
MARY: Merry Christmas. -Merry Christmas to you. Coat.
Go on in and have a wonderfuI time. Coats, pIease.
MARY: Oh, Iook at this.
Merry Christmas. Do take something to eat.
-Hope you're hungry. PAUL: I am.
-They're aIways hungry. JOHN: Yes, they are.
Merry Christmas, Miss Greythorne.
-We need to taIk to him. -Discretion, Merriman.
There is a right way to do things.
And a way of getting them done.
A drink for the vicar, pIease.
VICAR: Thank you very much, Merriman. -Less haste, Merriman.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING ]
No way.
WILL: Ha, ha.
[ZAPS]
It's fruit. Mince pie is fruit.
-Oh, thank God. PAUL: It's fruit?
GEORGE: AII right?
-Something to eat? -No. No, I'm fine.
-Drink? -I'm cooI.
Nice to see you again.
Out of your Ieague, buddy.
Watch and Iearn.
-Hey, how you doing? MAGGIE: Hi there.
Thank you.
JAMES: Want some food or something? MAGGIE: Sure.
MERRIMAN: He sIipped away. -He had his reasons.
We ought to go after him.
This may not be the best moment. The boy is troubIed.
I'm used to deaIing with warriors, not boys.
This warrior is a boy.
We can't afford to wait. You know what's out there.
[GRUNTS]
[HOOFBEATS]
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[DOGS BARKING ]
[WILL GRUNTING ]
RIDER: Why do you run, boy? -Who are you? What do you want?
-The Sign. -I don't know what you're taIking about.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Are you frightened of me?
You shouId be, WiII. I'm very angry. AII this time it was you.
-Give me the Sign. -What Sign?
-Give it to me! -I don't know what you're taIking about.
You escaped me once before, a mistake I won't repeat.
-Now, give me the Sign. DAWSON: Leave him be.
Leave the boy aIone, Rider.
You can't fight us aII.
-You're not strong enough. -Not yet, but I wiII be.
My power rises now. Five days are aII I need, then you. . .
. . .and aII your kind wiII be destroyed.
Merry Christmas, WiII.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
WaIk with us, WiII.
-Where? -Through time.
-Where am I? MERRIMAN: This is the Great HaII. . .
. . .where we are strongest. You're safe here, WiII.
No one may enter here without our invitation.
WILL: Who are you?
We are the OId Ones. WeII, to teII the truth. . .
. . .we're neither young nor oId, being outside time.
You're the Iast of us to be born. You are the Sign Seeker.
Everybody keeps taIking about these Signs.
Sorry. HonestIy, I don't know what that is.
GREYTHORNE: WiII. . .
. . .you are part of something that has been waiting for you aII your Iife.
We, the OId Ones, we serve the Light.
The Rider, he serves the Dark.
The Dark is rising, WiII.
It is you who must restore the power of the Light.
Um, I'm sorry, Miss Greythorne, but maybe you've got the wrong guy.
MERRIMAN: A thousand years ago, a great battIe was fought here. . .
. . .between the Light and the Dark.
The Light won, but onIy just. . .
. . .and the Earth was saved.
The Dark was defeated but not destroyed.
GREYTHORNE: To protect the power of the Light. . .
. . .it was divided and hidden in the form of six Signs.
And the Seeker. . .
. . .wiII find the Signs.
WILL: And you think I'm this Seeker?
MERRIMAN: On your 1 4th birthday. . .
. . .when you were first abIe to sense a Sign. . .
. . .the Dark sensed you.
In five days' time, it'II reach its peak.
UnIess you have aII the Signs, you won't be abIe to fight it.
I don't know how to sense a Sign.
The book wiII teII you how the Signs are to be found.
OnIy the Seeker can read the book.
You are speciaI, WiII.
The seventh son of a seventh son.
You got it wrong. Sixth, actuaIIy. I onIy have five brothers.
I guess you made a mistake. I'm sorry. I'm not the one.
GREYTHORNE: You wiII not be abIe to run from this, WiII.
MERRIMAN: Better open that now.
See what'II happen in five days' time if the Dark prevaiIs.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[CAR HORN HONKING ]
[KETTLE WHISTLING ]
Hey, WiII. You're back Iate.
-Where you been? -Went for a waIk.
Why are you aII dirty? Hey, man.
-Where were you? -TeII us.
Leave me aIone!
[BOTH GRUNT]
ROBIN: You okay?
PAUL: Yeah. You? -Yeah.
PAUL: What was that?
ROBIN: I don't know. Puberty?
Where did you get this?
Surfing. Seemed sort of cooI. . .
. . .and I figured, physics probIem, I know the man to ask.
Since when did physics become cooI?
I don't know. You spend aII your time on it.
I thought maybe we couId spend time on it together.
I aIways hoped you'd stick to more fuIfiIIing pursuits, Iike Xbox.
Dad. ReaIIy, I'm interested.
It's, Iike, some sort of equation about Iight and darkness.
AImost Iike they're fighting for the same space.
What I need to know is, can dark win?
That's not how it works. There are no winners and Iosers in physics, WiII.
But according to this, Dad, maybe darkness isn't just dark.
But Iike. . . . But Iike a thing.
So I mean. . .
. . .couId darkness--? CouId it hurt someone?
''Hurt someone''?
That's not how it. . . .
Look, WiII, don't waste your time with this stuff. It's theoreticaI. It's boring.
-I wanna know. -WeII, you can't.
Look, WiII, you're a kid. Just enjoy it.
Just be happy you don't have to deaI with it. I have work to do.
You know, Dad, when I was IittIe. . .
. . .you never toId me not to be afraid of the dark.
[WINDOW RATTLING ]
[GRUNTS]
MARY: WiII, stay off that foot.
Mom, it's fine, okay? I just twisted it.
I caIIed the doctor to see if you shouId go to the hospitaI.
[KNOCKING ]
-I do not want to go to the hospitaI. -I know. We'II see what he says.
WILL: Mom, I do not want to go to the hospitaI.
MARY: HeIIo, doctor. RIDER: Good afternoon.
MARY: Come in. RIDER: And I hope you don't have to.
HeIIo, WiII. Let's have a Iook, shaII we?
MARY: Come on, sweetheart.
-Come on. WILL: Wait a minute, Mom. Mom.
-Honey, it's aII right. RIDER: Come aIong.
Don't worry, I don't bite.
Come on. There we go.
RIDER: Here we are. Let me see, here.
RIDER: Mm. I wonder, Mrs. Stanton. . .
. . .do you have a tape measure so I can check the sweIIing?
-Yes, yes, I'II go Iook. -No.
-Thank you. -Mom, stay here.
Somebody doesn't want to be separated from his mommy.
MARY: Come on, now. You'II be fine. I'II be right back.
-Leave me aIone. -These oId fooIs. . .
. . .wouId have you do work that they can't. . .
. . .but they haven't toId you that you'II faiI.
Now, give me the Signs, WiII.
I don't forget those who stand with me.
-Nor those who stand against. -I don't have what you want.
WiII, I'm the Dark on this earth.
I'm the end of everything you see and know.
But I can heIp you.
Or I can make things very much worse.
MARY: Here we go.
Ah! WonderfuI.
ActuaIIy, it's fine.
-The good news is he hasn't broken it. -Yes.
But I do think he's damaged the Iigaments, so it's going to take time.
Now, my advice to you, WiIIiam, is take it easy.
And don't Iook so worried. It's not the end of the worId.
Not quite yet.
[MARY AND RIDER CHUCKLE]
-AII right. -AII right?
Terrific. Thank you for coming by. I so appreciate it.
RIDER: You have a IoveIy home. MARY: Oh, thank you.
RIDER: Bye! MARY: Bye-bye.
[DOOR CLOSES]
MARY: It's your brother. Tom.
You two were born just minutes apart.
Another set of twins.
Huh. Can you imagine?
What--? What happened?
We-- We don't know. We don't know.
What do you mean?
Mom, what do you mean?
When you were both. . .
. . .just 2 weeks oId, just new, just babies. . .
[BABIES CRYING ]
. . .there was a storm one night.
[THUNDER CRASHING ]
You were both crying and I took you downstairs.
Your father was working in the study.
I asked him to check on your brother. He was distracted for a few minutes.
And when he went in...
. . .Tom. . . .
He was gone.
What, kidnapped?
They searched for months and we. . . .
We hoped for years, but they didn't. . . .
They never found anything.
-Why didn't you ever teII me? -We were devastated.
EspeciaIIy your dad. You know, he just bIamed himseIf.
As the years went by. . .
. . .we just spoke of it Iess and Iess. . .
. . .untiI finaIIy. . .
. . .just not at aII.
So. . .
. . .was Tom born before me?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was.
Another big brother.
Seventh son.
WILL: ''Six Signs were created to contain the power of the Light. . .
. . .from stone, bronze, iron, wood and water.
But the sixth was to be carried in the essence of a--''
The essence of a human souI?
''The Signs were hidden and scattered throughout time.
The Seeker wiII find them. ''
Okay.
Look at this. This pattern, it's a fractaI.
It's physics. My dad teaches this stuff.
Like a hiding pIace that goes on and on forever.
Like a cIue hidden in pIain sight that decIares the presence of a Sign.
WILL: George, can you pass me your hammer, pIease?
GEORGE: Here you go.
Thank you.
Gwen, I'm sorry.
[WILL GRUNTS]
The Sign of Stone.
Five more to go.
You are the seventh son of a seventh son, WiII Stanton.
You step through time.
One by one, the Signs wiII caII to you. You wiII gather them. . .
. . .and gain the power of the Light. You are the Seeker.
MERRIMAN: Not aII the Signs wiII be so easy.
And the Rider wants them too.
He may try to trick or threaten you.
-WeII, then how do I face the darkness? -You'II Iearn to face it as you are.
You have powers, WiII.
You'II be abIe to command Iight or fire. . .
. . .move objects, summon great strength. . .
. . .and, of course, step through time.
-Can I fIy? -What?
You know. Zoom. FIy.
No. No, I don't think you can.
MERRIMAN: Merry Christmas.
RIDER: Mrs. Stanton. -Yes.
May I introduce you to my mother?
Mother, this is Mrs. Stanton. She Iives in the viIIage.
HeIIo.
And this is the young boy I was teIIing you about.
VICAR: A very happy Christmas to you aII.
If we can now stand. . .
. . .we'II sing hymn number one from the hymn book, ''Joy to the WorId. ''
[ALL SINGING ''JO Y TO THE WORLD'']
Where is everybody?
ExactIy when they were.
It's we that have moved.
They can't see it, of course. You've sensed a Sign, WiII.
You've moved us through time.
It's Iate 1 3th or earIy 1 4th century.
I see.
The crypt has not been bricked up, so that means we're before the pIague.
About 1 290, I'd say.
Be quick, WiII. The Rider was present and he wiII hunt you through time.
I don't know where it is exactIy, just that it's here.
[CROW CAWS]
[GROWLING ]
I suggest we prepare.
Merriman, guard the Seeker.
What do you reckon?
Dragon.
GEORGE: He wouIdn't send a dragon against us, Mr. Dawson.
Knows better than that.
-It couId be a shapeIess beast, I suppose. -No. Dragon.
GEORGE: I don't think so.
FIagon of aIe says it is.
[FOOTSTEPS POUNDING ]
GEORGE: That ain't no dragon.
GREYTHORNE: Be carefuI. She's not what she seems.
[HISSING ]
WiII, where's the Sign?
-I'm Iooking. I'm not sure. -Concentrate!
I'm trying!
Guys!
DAWSON: Stand back, WiII! Stand back, WiII!
[WILL GRUNTING ]
[MERRIMAN GRUNTS]
Hurry, WiII! Hurry!
WILL: I'm trying. Ugh! Disgusting.
MERRIMAN: Come on, boy!
Find the Sign!
WiII, use your powers.
My powers? Right. My powers.
Light!
Awesome.
''Thomas Stanton. ''
You aII right, Miss Greythorne?
GREYTHORNE: This is highIy unpIeasant.
WiII, do hurry up!
WiII! Do something! WiII!
Okay, WiII. Your powers.
MERRIMAN: WiII, hurry!
[WILL YELPS]
I found the Sign. Guys, I found the Sign!
[ALL SINGING ''JO Y TO THE WORLD'']
MARY: Thank you very much.
-Merry Christmas to you. VICAR: And you.
Professor, are you aware that we have a Stanton buried in this churchyard?
-A Stanton here? No, I had no idea. MARY: ReaIIy?
GREYTHORNE: This section is the oIdest part of the church. You see there?
A stone buiIt into the waII.
-Did you enjoy the service? -How about your dear oId mom, eh?
[MOTHER HISSES]
Your time wiII come.
''Here Iie the remains of. . .
. . .Thomas Stanton. ''
Stanton, Tom.
GREYTHORNE: He's buried in the crypt beIow the church.
An ancestor, perhaps.
-My ancestor was an OId One? -Oh, not onIy that, WiII.
He was a craftsman.
MERRIMAN: In a time...
...of great danger, when the Dark threatened...
...he made the Signs in secret, even from us.
He told us that five were made of common substance.
And the sixth Sign?
Stanton said it couId never be found because it was never hidden.
Then how am I supposed to find it?
You're the Seeker. You're our guide. OnIy you can interpret the meaning.
A souI freeIy given to unIeash the power of the Light.
His own?
Stanton, he made a choice, WiII.
His famiIy. . .
. . .fIed from the Dark, across the Iand. . .
. . .and his descendants, across the water.
UntiI one day. . .
-. . .they returned. MARY: I don't see any dates.
Oh, so, there's no way of knowing, is there?
It couId be nothing to do with us, right?
-I mean, just coincidence. -Right.
Yes, of course. Coincidence.
WeII, Merry Christmas.
Yes. Merry Christmas to you.
Miss Greythorne is a generous supporter of the coIIege.
You fixed a job for my dad?
Destiny brought you here, WiII. We just took care of the detaiIs.
RIDER: My power increases by the day and in three, I reach my peak.
But the Seeker has two Signs now and with each, his strength aIso grows.
My offer is true. Work fast, bring me what I want. . .
. . .and then you shaII reap your reward.
JOHN: Best one yet.
MARY: Thank you, sweetheart. It was good, wasn't it?
JOHN: Oh, I'm stuffed.
MARY: I am so fuII. And we've got Iots of turkey Ieftovers.
-Fantastic for sandwiches. JOHN: Good, sandwiches.
MARY: Hi, guys. JAMES: Hey. Um. . . .
MARY: Hi. -Everyone, this is Maggie.
-Maggie, everyone. MAGGIE: Hi.
JOHN: Hi, Maggie. MARY: How you doing?
Can I heIp with anything?
MARY: No, we're fine, reaIIy. Don't worry about it.
We're just stopping for a minute, then we're gonna run--
-James, come on, heIp your mom. JAMES: What?
MARY: That's right, James. HeIp your mom.
JAMES: Thanks. MARY: Yeah. Come on over.
[BLOWING ]
Are you an OId One?
Do I Iook Iike an OId One?
No, no! I just. . . . OIder.
I'm just here to Iook out for you. Okay?
Brr. Catch your death out here.
-Can I heIp you? -Yes, Max, I think you can.
Very good.
-Here you go. -Thank you.
I can do much more.
[WHISPERS] I have powers.
Come here.
So you and James, are you guys. . .?
-Are you guys, Iike, um. . .? -What?
-Friends? -Yes. I Iike your brother.
I mean, ''boyfriend-girIfriend'' friends.
WiII, aren't there more important things for you to be thinking about right now?
It's important to me.
I've been thinking about you--
I just. . . . I feIt Iike we were connected.
Hey, where you been?
Waiting for you, and hanging with your IittIe brother.
So sweet.
Let's go.
Yeah.
''Sweet. '' Aw.
Can we taIk?
I've spent my Iife being WiII Stanton, a sociaI inadequate.
Most of the time I'm just invisibIe.
Then you come aIong and teII me I'm speciaI and that I've got powers.
So I'm Iike, ''Great, now Iife's gonna be better now, right?''
No. No, it's not.
I am no superhero.
I'm stiII me.
You are the Seeker, WiII.
The future of the human race rests on you. Don't you understand this?
Look, I'm supposed to save the worId?
Okay, I can't even figure out how to taIk to a girI.
Don't Iet a girI distract you. You've got work to do.
There are onIy three days Ieft. Go on.
-Fine. -Go on!
-Three days, WiII. -I got it.
[SCREAMING ]
Miss Greythorne. Look.
What is he doing? Hm?
[WILL SCREAMS]
Expressing himseIf.
MERRIMAN: Doesn't he know he'II exhaust his powers?
You are not without your own Iessons to Iearn, Merriman.
He came to you, not for more warnings. He needed you simpIy to Iisten.
[SCREAMS]
WiII?
Gwen, what are you doing here?
-Are you okay? -Yeah, I'm fine.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
[THUNDER RUMBLING ]
What?
Stay cIose.
[MEN YELLING ]
What happened?
-We stepped through time. -What?
Gwen, go!
[KITTEN MEWS]
Gwen! Gwen, get down. Get down.
[MAN SCREAMS]
There it is.
Shh. Shh. You're okay. It's gonna be okay.
I need to get that shieId, Gwen. It's the onIy way we'II get home. Trust me.
[HORN BLOWING ]
Be quiet. It's okay. Stay there. It's okay.
[KITTEN MEWING ]
[MAN GRUNTING ]
[WILL YELLING ]
WiII!
[GWEN SCREAMS]
WILL: Leave her aIone!
WiII!
[WATCH BEEPING ]
Okay. You want the watch? Yeah? Yeah?
AII right. Trade? AII right. Watch for the shieId. Okay?
AII right.
Gwen, we got it.
We got it!
MERRIMAN: WiII! I warned you!
Gwen, go home. I'II catch up. Don't teII anybody about this, okay?
Okay, go home. Go.
You exhausted your powers. You couId have been kiIIed.
I got the Sign, didn't I? On my own. I didn't see any of you heIping.
You were seIfish and irresponsibIe. Every day, the Dark is tightening its grip.
-OnIy you stand in its way. -Yeah. Yeah, you keep teIIing me.
WiII, WiII, WiII, pIease! AII right, I'm sorry. If you wish. . .
. . .to express yourseIf, I'm sure that I can Iisten.
It's so-- You know, and I'm Iike--
The whoIe thing's just, uhn! You know?
Is that it?
-Yeah. -Miss Greythorne said this is. . . .
This is naturaI for someone your age.
What if I can't do this?
Trust that you can.
Even the smaIIest Iight shines in the darkness.
Go on.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
RIDER: The height of my power approaches. . .
. . .yet stiII the boy coIIects, and now hoIds three Signs.
You know what you must do. But understand. . .
. . .you are not the onIy one that I've enIisted.
So deIiver on your promise or I shaII deIiver on mine.
[HORSE NEIGHING ]
Seeker!
Witness my wrath!
[CROWS CAWING ]
[WIND HOWLING ]
GREYTHORNE: Our Seeker has very IittIe time. . .
. . .perhaps not enough.
MAN 1 : Throw it on the back. MAN 2: Leave it.
[SIREN WAILING ]
They're compIeteIy out of food!
There's none Ieft!
We're gonna have to eat whatever Mom's got in the freezer.
Come on.
-Max, you aII right? -You know, about your room. . .
. . .it'II be more than a coupIe weeks.
Yeah? Yeah, okay. Whatever.
MAX [IN DISTORTED VOICE] : ''Whatever''?
I'm sick and tired of your attitude.
Saying things behind my back, turning everyone against me. . .
. . .you think I don't see that?
Max. Max, what's going on?
[IN RIDER'S VOICE] You've got issues, WiII.
You wanna sort them out?
[RINGING ]
[MAX CHUCKLES IN NORMAL VOICE]
WeII, weII. What do we have here, huh? You sense a Sign?
-Is that what we're doing here, Seeker? -You're getting weird.
-Dude, this isn't reaIIy you. -Oh, reaIIy? It isn't?
Is this reaI enough for you?
[MAX YELLS]
PROMOTER: Ladies and gentIemen. MAN: Ladies and gentIemen.
PROMOTER: Gather around. MAN: Gather around.
PROMOTER: For the main event. MAN: For the main event.
We have the champion!
[CROWD CHEERING ]
And chaIIenging our champion today, the chaIIenger.
[CROWD BOOS]
PROMOTER: Ladies and gentIemen. . .
. . .fame, fortune and happiness await you. Lay your--
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS]
PROMOTER: Let the championship begin. MAX: Where's the Sign?
PROMOTER: Get him out! I want him out of here.
WILL: Put me down! Put me down!
[WILL YELLS]
MAX: We jumped through time. You sense a Sign?
Give me the Signs.
Give me aII the Signs.
I. . .
. . .hate to do this to my own brother. . .
. . .but you're not giving me any choice. So I'm gonna count to 1 0.
-One. -Max!
-It doesn't matter about coIIege. -Two.
-Three! -That's why your stuff's in boxes.
-Because you're not going back. -Four.
-Because you dropped out. So what? -Five.
Mom and Dad wiII understand.
-Six. -The Dark is using you, Max.
-Seven. -It is using your fear.
You fIunked some exams. So what? Big deaI.
-It's how you deaI with it, Max. -Eight.
You don't have to deaI aIone. Your famiIy Ioves you.
No. Nine.
Max. . .
. . .I hate to do this to my own brother.
PROMOTER: The champion!
[CROWD CHEERING ]
[WILL READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]
[CHUCKLES]
[MAX GROANS]
WILL: You aII right? -My head hurts.
-What happened? -You feII.
MAX: Hey, uh, Dad? -Yeah.
You got a sec?
Yeah. Come on in.
[GEORGE AND DAWSON LAUGH]
GEORGE: It won't be steaIing. We'II Ieave some money, eh?
DAWSON: Rather you wiII.
-A IittIe wager, George. A fIagon of aIe. GEORGE: Yeah.
Nice try, Mr. Dawson.
Dragons indeed.
Anyway, it's a shame to Ieave the oId pIace aII quiet and Ionesome.
RIDER: Off duty, gentIemen?
Very careIess, straying out at a time Iike this.
We're here for a wager, Rider.
We'II take you up on yours as weII.
Oh, you OId Ones.
You're not scared of anything, are you?
WeII, that's good.
That's going to make it so much easier.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[CROWS CAWING ]
[WIND HOWLING ]
MAN [ON RADIO] : The government has declared a state of emergency.
Attempts are being made to deliver essential supplies...
... to the most severely affected areas.
Experts believe the current conditions will last for at least another week.
You guys, Miss Greythorne has invited everybody in the viIIage. . .
. . .to come stay at the manor.
They have their own generator there, their own food, fueI. . .
. . .which is more than we have.
That was the Iast of our soup heated on the Iast of our gas.
Okay, that's it. We pack our bags tonight.
-Tomorrow morning, we go. PAUL: What if the weatherman's wrong?
He is. The storm wiII peak in two days. That's aII we have.
If it doesn't get better by then. . .
. . .it never wiII.
Um. . . . Just thinking out Ioud.
''The Light and the Dark. '' Were you working on this when Tom disappeared?
I shouId have been caring for you boys.
Instead, I was. . . .
My work. WeII, I thought I was onto something great.
A reveIation. It was just an obsession, though.
It was Iike I was being. . . .
JOHN: Being pushed to unlock this darkness. I couldn 't stop it.
And I Iost myseIf.
And worse...
. . .I Iost Tom.
-It was my fauIt. -Dad.
That wasn't your fauIt.
MARY: Max, come on!
PAUL: No, no! Hey! Guys! Guys! No! Hey!
JOHN: Let them go. They'II be fine. Come on.
MERRIMAN: We have four Signs? -Yes.
-The other two? -Look, I'II find them, okay?
WiII, tomorrow is what?
WiII. WiII. Tomorrow is the finaI day.
Yeah, I know. But even if I find the fifth Sign. . .
. . .I have no idea how to find the sixth.
When I first saw you, I thought, ''No, a boy, not a warrior. ''
I was wrong. You've come a Iong way. . .
. . .both as the Seeker and as WiII Stanton.
I beIieve in you, WiII. You'II find what you need.
-Now, where are we strongest? -The Great HaII.
-If the Dark reaches its peak, meet there. -I can't Ieave my famiIy.
The onIy way to heIp your famiIy is to defeat the Dark. It's our onIy hope.
Where's George?
Our enemy knows no mercy.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
RIDER: Your tricks can onIy deIay. And you have just trapped yourseIves.
MAN [ON RADIO] : We are currently experiencing a temporary calm...
...in what the Meteorological Office describes as...
... the most ferocious storm ever recorded.
Reports from around the world say the worst is yet to come.
Arctic winds, bringing more snow...
...are expected to cause disruptions in northern England...
...and further south to London by tomorrow morning.
RIDER: Now with the darkness comes the coId.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
RIDER: Give me the Signs, Will.
Give me the Signs, or I will hurt those who are dear to you.
WILL: Leave us alone.
RIDER: Do you want to ever go home with them again?
Give me the Signs and they will live.
Give me the Signs, Will.
WILL: No.
Gwen! Look out!
[DAWSON YELLS]
[ALL YELLING ]
MERRIMAN: Hang on.
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
DAWSON: Come, chiId!
RIDER: Do you love your family? Do you care about them?
Give me the Signs or I wiII choose for you.
Mary. Mary!
Look out.
-HeIp Dad! -Boys, get under the stairs!
WILL: Get back!
[HORSE NEIGHS]
RIDER: The boy is more capabIe than I thought.
Return to him. Bring me the Signs and you wiII never age.
MARY: Are you aII right? JOHN: Thank God you're safe.
MARY: What's going on?
RIDER: Now Iet water finish what ice has begun.
JOHN: Stay together.
It's just water.
[ALL SHOUTING ]
WiII!
Come with me. You're not safe here.
You need to give me the Signs.
They're my responsibiIity. I can handIe them.
-Let me protect them. -I don't think I can do that.
It's me, WiII.
Maggie.
Do you beIieve what you said?
That we're connected?
Yeah.
I feIt it too.
You need to give me the Signs before it's too Iate.
You need to trust me.
Do you trust me?
Yeah, I trust you.
RIDER: Hurry, witch.
With another Sign, he will undo you.
Give me the Signs.
-Aagh! Just give me the Signs! -No!
[WILL YELLS]
[ALL SCREAMING ]
RIDER: You have failed me for the last time.
MAGGIE: Agh! Give me the Signs! WILL: No!
MAGGIE [IN DISTORTED VOICE] : Give me the Signs!
WILL: Back off!
[MAGGIE SCREAMING ]
JOHN: HeIp! MERRIMAN: HoId on!
-I'm coming! MARY: We're under the stairs!
GWEN: HeIp, pIease! HeIp!
JOHN: Grab Mr. Merriman's hands.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[POUNDING ]
[RUMBLING ]
The Rider's reached fuII strength. But he can't enter here unIess we Iet him.
I stiII don't have the sixth Sign.
Keep the faith, WiII. You'II find it, I know you wiII.
MARY: No.
MARY: WiII. JOHN: WiII.
WiII, Iet us in. PIease, WiII, Iet us in.
-Dad, is that you? -Don't Iisten, WiII.
JOHN: It's your mother. GWEN: She's hurt reaI bad.
-Gwen, is that you? MERRIMAN: Don't Iisten!
[MARY CRYING ]
MARY: Open the door. -Don't Iisten!
MARY: HeIp me, WiII. -Mom!
Mom!
JOHN: Open this door, WiII!
Don't open the door!
MARY: HeIp me. Open the door!
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[IN MARY'S VOICE] Thank you, WiII.
[RIDER GROWLING ]
RIDER [IN NORMAL VOICE] : Where are your guardians now?
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Have they abandoned their Seeker?
Did you disappoint them, WiII?
A thousand years of waiting and what was there to show? Nothing!
Nothing but a boy who couId not do what was asked of him.
Generations of hope and promise, aII a waste.
I have something here you might recognize.
Once before I made you an offer, WiII. Now here it is again.
Give me the Signs and the boy wiII Iive.
WILL: I'm not afraid to die.
I'm not afraid to die!
RIDER: Who says it's you?
-Tom? RIDER: Yes.
Poor IittIe Tom.
The wrong twin. My prisoner these Iast 1 4 years.
Imagine how he's missed his dear twin brother.
MERRIMAN: Resist him, WiII! You're WiII Stanton.
You are the Seeker.
RIDER: Give them to me. WILL: No!
RIDER: Then your time is at an end.
[MERRIMAN SHOUTING ]
[MERRIMAN GRUNTS]
[MERRIMAN YELLS]
[GREYTHORNE YELLS]
RIDER: Say goodbye to IittIe Tom.
WILL: No! Tom!
[RIDER GRUNTS]
You're aIone, boy. You faiIed to find the sixth Sign.
And with onIy five, you're no match for me.
You're a faiIure, WiII.
MERRIMAN: I believe in you, Will.
You'll find what you need.
A soul freely given to unleash the power of the Light.
It's me. My souI.
[HORSE WHINNIES]
I am WiII Stanton. . .
. . .the seventh son of a seventh son.
I have read the book.
I have waIked through time.
I have gathered five Signs.
The sixth couId not be found, because it was not hidden from me.
I am the sixth Sign.
And I have restored. . .
. . .the power of the Light.
[RIDER YELLS]
[RIDER SCREAMS]
It's over, right?
It's never over. But today is a good day.
WILL: George.
GEORGE: Mr. Dawson.
George.
I wanna go home.
GREYTHORNE: I think you shouId.
There's someone who wants to go with you.
Tom.
There's some peopIe I want you to meet.
Come on.
WiII?
You did aII right.
He might have shown some appreciation, after aII we've done for him.
He's onIy 1 4. It's a difficuIt age.