It Hatched (2021) Movie Script
1
- No, no, don't... No!
No... Don't... No!
No... No!
Don't... please don't!
- Ptur ... Ptur ...
You seem a little
out of it, man.
Have you been getting
enough sleep lately?
- Yeah sure, I'm fine.
Well maybe I've lost
out on a few Z's.
- Yeah, well you need
to take care of that.
- Yeah, well I'll get
the chance real soon.
- Ok.
I'm sorry to tell you that
your sperm count is still low.
Tell me something ...
how's your work life?
- Fine, just a lot of it.
- What do you do?
- Marine engineering.
- Well Ship ahoy!
Where do you work?
- Currently I'm contracting
for the navy but the job
comes with a lot of moving.
- You know, maybe we just
found your cure, you just need
less work time and no moving.
- You sound like
my wife talking.
- Well, wives are usually
right, aren't they?
- Actually we're
moving again soon.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Where?
- To Iceland. I'm Icelandic and
I haven't been back for years.
- Iceland, wow ... Wow.
You know, that is fascinating
to me 'cause I've always
wanted to go there.
Marine work?
- No, me and the misses we're
moving out to the countryside.
We're opening a
guesthouse way out there.
- That just sounds great.
Well, that's that. You
just found the remedy
to your problems.
- Peace, quiet and
some fresh air.
- B.I.N.G.O.
- Bingo.
- Wow this is a great picture.
Did you draw this yourself?
- Anyway I think it's great,
I love the colors.
- You know when my
grandpa died, I drew him
a lot into my pictures.
At first I drew him dead.
But then after a few
pictures he became alive.
Once I drew him flying
all over the sky.
And he then landed on
our roof top and he
sat on out chimney ...
... and he pooped
down our chimney.
And the poop
landed right on my mothers head.
He used to poop a lot
on my mother's head. We
didn't get along that well.
(Growl.)
- Mira.
- Mira.
- Hi honey. I'm just
gonna watch a little TV,
I can't go to sleep, I
have too much on my mind.
(Growl.)
- Honey, are you OK?
- What?
- There's this old man ...
(Song:rj palli
- Vggusongur Volu.)
- I know this song,
I've heard this. Are
they covering Sigurrs?
- No, It's an old
Icelandic song.
- Oh.
And what is it about?
- It's a lullaby.
It's basically about a
mother gentley rocking her
newborn baby to sleep ...
- Oh.
- ... but still informing
it that there's a face
lurking on their bedroom
window, peaking in.
- No.
- Yeah.
- No, are you serious?
- Absolutely.
- Well, that's pretty dark.
- Most of the Icelandic songs
and fables are pretty dark ...
... it probably has something
to do with the nature.
- Or the isolation.
- Wow, Mira look. It's perfect.
- Are we really gonna live here?
- What do you mean? It's even
better than I hoped. Just
wait 'till we get inside.
- Does anyone live ...
does anyone live close by?
- I don't know ...
maybe, maybe not.
- Peter, is there
a store near by?
- Mira relax, it will be great.
- Nice.
- It's really messy.
- We'll clean it
up in no time Mira.
- Wasn't there supposed
to be any furniture here?
- Well, there ought to be.
- What kind of animals did
you say live around here?
- Birds, sheep and horses.
- Well ... at least we don't
have to sleep on the floor.
- I guess we found
the furniture.
- Yeah.
- Mira.
- Yeah.
- Now we need to get a cat.
- I think we need to
get a big fat cat.
(Laughs)
- Fat cat.
(Song: Dtar - Alveg fr)
- Why are we here?
- Do you wanna go to bed?
- No, silly.
- We did need to
get away, right?
- Right.
Do you love me?
- Yeah.
- Are you sure?
- Of course.
- Do you?
- What?
- Love me?
- I don't know.
You are sometimes you know,
a bit of a shit.
And a bit useless.
- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, I'm
sorry ... I'm sorry.
I don't know where that
came from, I'm sorry.
We should've had
kids a long time ago.
You know, they save love ...
they save relationships ...
Get up.
I want you.
(Radio: Weather report.)
- I recommend the
imported stuff.
Yes ... I used to drink the
other kind but when my wife
came back home one day ...
... with this gourmet
stuff, I never went back.
This is what we call
in Iceland "strgott".
Understand me? "strgott".
- Yes, thank you very
much. We're gonna take the
imported one, won't we Peter?
- Yeah.
- Stop pestering the customers,
just let them do their shopping.
- You stop it.
- Just let them shop, that's
what they came here to do.
- Stop it.
- No, you stop.
- Where are you from?
- I'm Icelandic, my
wife is half-German
- Icelandic? You could've
told me that sooner.
So where are you heading to?
I was asking your husband
where you were heading to?
- Oh. Well we're actually
staying. We're renovating.
We just bought a house and
we're making a guesthouse.
- It's a bed and
breakfast kind of thing.
- Okay, now that's
something, huh?
I'm not sure many
travelers, you know, travel
all the way up here.
- Didn't you say this
place was like a tourist
attraction, Peter?
- We're aiming
for bird watchers.
We're thinking bird watchers.
- Bird watchers.
OK, so where exactly
is this new guesthouse,
this tourist attraction?
- Well it's 50
kilometers up north.
- Botn in Botnsdalur.
- Botn ... ugh ...
- Well, uhh ...
... Well uhh ... I will tell
all the bird watchers ...
When they come here, to
stop by at your place.
- Thank you.
(Growl)
(Growl)
(Footsteps)
(Footsteps continue)
(Footsteps)
- Are you OK?
- Peter, I was just throwing
up, you know ... I'm not OK.
- I did notice, you know.
- I'm sorry ...
... I didn't mean to come at
you like that, it's just ...
... I had a bad dream ...
... and I'm nauseous.
- Well, Mira ...
... do you remember that pile
of furniture in the basement?
- Yeah.
- Underneath it
there was a hole ...
- What do you mean "a hole"?
- In the ground ...
there was a hole in the ground.
- I knew it ...
... I knew we should've
checked this place out
before we like, came here and
moved all our money into it.
And now we're just like,
stuck here in this ...
- Mira.
- I just need to call
someone to take care of this.
- No you won't ...
... in case you forgot,
there's no phone.
I don't know what the
hell I'm doing here.
- Relax Mira ...
... I just need to call
a plumber to take a look.
- And now I'm sick ...
... It's probably because
of the water ... and this
place ... and this water.
- Do you want me to
get you something?
- What are you gonna
get me Peter? Water?
You know, just forget it and
just like go fix this ...
- Mira!
Are you OK?
- I'm feeling a bit
under the weather.
How did it go?
- I couldn't reach anyone. Don't
you need to go and see a doctor?
- No, I'm fine. I'm actually
gonna go back to bed.
(Growl)
- I'm coming...
- It's OK Mira,
it's OK, come on,
It's OK, it's OK, it's OK.
Come on darling. Come on, come
on. You can do it, you can do
it, come on, you can do it.
- I think it's coming!
- What's coming Mira?
- Mira ... I think
we have to push.
- There's no time.
- What do you mean
"there's no time"?
- Oh shit!
- What is it, what is it?
- I think you have to push ...
- Oh my god.
- What do we do?
- What do you mean "do"?
- We need to get
someone's opinion.
- About what?
- Well ...
- This egg.
I don't know ... I mean ...
... do we even know
if it's an egg?
It could ... it
could be an organ.
(Eggshell cracking)
- Peter ...
... Peter, come in here.
You gotta see this.
(Baby cries)
- Could you close the window?
Peter, could you
close the window ...
... so the baby won't get cold.
What are you thinking about?
- A lot of things.
- Like what?
- Like the egg ... that kid ...
... and you ... holding it.
- And what are your
thoughts about that?
- I don't know.
- Mira ...
... what's going on?
- What?
- Are you insane?
- Calm down, Peter.
- Sorry.
OK ...
... Now, this is weird.
- OK.
- "OK"?
- Yeah, but is it bad?
- Probably.
No ...
- Are you sure you're
just not scared?
- Of course I am.
And frankly I'm
pretty creeped out.
- You're such a prick ...
such an immature prick.
You know, you're just too scared
of facing the responsibility.
- Are you insane? Mira, you
face the responsibility,
you just laid an egg.
- I just need to take a look
at those eyes. Just a peak.
Yup.
If I remember correctly I hid
by that nest for a week or so...
...Just to capture that shot...
Well worth it though.
It's hard to describe the
feeling that you get when...
...watching that hatching,
makes it's way from the egg.
This certainly is a strong
and healthy boy you have here.
But...
...how big was the
boy when he was born?
- How big?
- Yeah?
- He just...
...I mean, he...
...He just...
...He just came from...
- Well, hello there.
Nice to see that you are up
Oh, watch out. You must be sore.
Please, have a seat.
How are you feeling?
- I feel alright.
- Are you sure?
- How is he?
- I am Hafli.
- Mira.
- He is great. Healthy as a
horse as we say in Iceland.
- There you are.
- Aren't you healthy?
- He's a peach, isn't he?
- He is truly beautiful.
- Are you sure you're alright?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
Yeah, I feel fine.
- Well I suppose if
you're fine it's OK that
you just get dressed.
If that's OK with you.
You just have to promise
me to drink as much as
you possibly can ...
... Gallons of water
and sleep a lot.
- Thank you doctor.
- No problem.
And just remember
you promise to rest.
- I will, thank you.
- Well, I think this is it...
...Unless...
...you have any questions.
- Is there a
plummer around here?
- A plummer?
- Yes, we have a broken
pipe in our basement...
...a leak that needs attention.
- Maybe I should pay you
three a visit. Take a look
at the stitches and so on...
...there is a plummer around.
I could probably trick
him into coming with me.
- A plummer? Out here?
- Yes sir. Well at least
the closest thing to one
this far above the equator.
A jack of all trades.
- Peter, did you
bring any clothes?
- I'm asking you to
help me through this.
I can't do this alone.
I love you Peter.
- I love you too.
- Love us ...
... at least try ...
for me.
(Baby cries)
- It's probably
just a stomach ache.
- Should I get the doctor?
- No, I'm sure it'll be fine.
(Mira sings: Schlaf
kindlein schlaf.)
Your father tends the sheep,
Your mother shakes
the apple tree
As falls down a dream for thee
Sleep my child, sleep
Sleep my child, sleep
In the sky there drag the sheep
The shepherd, he
is like the moon
In the sky with lambs bestrewn
Sleep my child, sleep
Sleep my child, sleep
Christ child has a sheep
Your beloved mother
shears the ram
to make fine clothes for madame
Sleep, my child, sleep
- There's my big boy.
Could you hand us a towel?
Could you hand us a towel?
Yeah daddy, could you hand
me a fresh towel please?
Earth to Peter.
- I don't know where
we keep the towels.
- Well, come here and
look over young Nikulas
and I can get the towel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course I can get it.
Look at you.
Oh, here's daddy.
Look what I ...
- What?
- What's wrong with you?
- It was an accident.
- I'm gonna get him dressed now.
- Mira, really ...
... I'm sorry.
- Hi there.
- Good day.
- This looks way
better than I recalled.
- Damn, how spooky
this place is.
- Hi, welcome.
- I was just saying how
lovely this place looks.
- Oh, thank you.
- Hello.
- Well ... Where's the leak?
- Boy, oh boy...
...I think you need something
more than just a plummer.
- One could assume you
two of you are spiking the
breast milk with steroids...
...I've never seen a
child grow this fast.
What do we have here?
- I'm really not sure.
- This hole should not be open.
- What?
- What was covering it?
- Hulda, my dear. Calm down
- That stone tablet.
- I don't know how to read
runes but that tablet seems
awfully old... ancient...
What do you think
this runes mean?
- This hole must be
closed, urgently!
I won't spend another
moment in this house!
- Did you fix it?
- Leave!
- I'm sorry about this,
I'll see you soon.
Bye.
- Peter ... Peter.
Could you hold him for a minute?
I'm going to the bathroom.
There.
Mommy'll be right back.
- Hello ...
(Baby cries)
Hello.
(Mira humming: Schlaf
kindlein, schlaf)
- There my little one.
- Are you OK?
- Mara...
- When you say you've
missed entire days, what
do you mean exactly?
- I don't know.
- Sometimes... I feel
like I'm awake...
...but yet... still asleep.
- Has this been going on for
long? How was your sleep before?
- Before, I came here?
- Before the newborn.
- I've never been
great at sleeping.
Or... I've never slept much.
I don't know. But it
has never been this bad.
- You've been abroad for so
long. You are no longer used to
the amount of day light up here.
Just try to close the curtains.
Just close them properly.
- Do you know lived in "Botn",
before we moved in?
- Nobody has lived
there for many years.
- But, do you know who
was the last resident?
- His name was Gunnar.
His wife left him...
...she left him all by himself
and... ...never returned...
Following that incident, he
closed himself off. Untill...
- Untill what?
- Marriage can be a struggle
for some. Others find
solitude even more difficult.
Perhaps that's what Gunnar
was trying to escape.
- Escape?
- He shot himself in the head
on his kitchen floor, Kaboom!
That's how he escaped. Yup, yup.
But, hey...
...how is it going
with that tablet?
- Huh?
- The stone tablet. Have
you decrypted the runes yet?
- No, I have not.
- It is a unique item.
It might be younger
than it looks.
It's in a flawless condition.
It might just be possible
that Gunnar, wasn't an
amateur archeologist
but rather an artist.
At least more of an artist
than people had thought.
- The woman, she didn't leave.
She never left.
Not her, and not her child.
- My wife? No, she is at home.
- Not your wife. The woman!
She should've left...
But she didn't.
- Mara...
Help me father, son and
the holy spirit, Amen.
Hey.
- Evening.
- Good evening...
- A beautiful evening.
- Yeah...
- Mild and calm,
dark and heavy...
...it's the best time of
the year around these parts.
When the dark returns.
- What do you want?
- I find the darkness
quite interesting...
...it varies in weight.
- You can't weigh
the darkness...
...it's just the lack of light.
- One's psyche has no boundries.
It simply feels what it feels.
How's your wife?
- My wife?
She is fine.
Why do you ask?
- Marriage can be difficult.
Especially when a new
member joins the family.
- Yeah...
- Is he strong and healthy?
- Sure...
- Yeah.
They are so delightful
these poor little things...
...So sweet and helpless.
Did the birth go well?
Are you the father?
- What?
- Is the child yours?
- I'm not sure.
- I think we both know that
the child is not human.
Under no circumstances
can it leave the premises.
- What can I do?
What do you mean?
- We must stick
together, us pals.
The floor is creaking,
loud and clear,
a creep that breeds a scare,
now the curtain
falls, dark and cold,
as a woman lays with a mare
- Goochie, goochie goo.
Oh my god. Peter
did you see that?
Oh my god, daddy
aren't you proud?
- What?
- Nikulas, he was just
smiling. Isn't that fantastic?
- Yeah.
- "Yeah".
Is that all you have?
- What do you mean?
- I don't know. You know,
I'm witnessing a miracle.
Like the greatest
miracle there is.
And you just say ... "yeah".
- Mira, I don't think you're
handling this in any normal way.
- Oh ... the normal way.
You maybe can tell me, what
is the normal way, Peter?
- Have you ever thought
about the possibility ...
... that this kid
might be an oddity?
- What, an oddity?
- Or a devil?
- "A devil"?
- Yeah, or a kind of a ...
- What is it Peter, is
it an oddity or a devil?
- Mira, if you had a patient ...
- Oh god. - Just follow
me for a second. OK?
If that patient ...
... your patient ...
... laid an egg ...
- OK, Peter. I know
you're tired ...
- Shut the fuck up.
Now, if that patient ...
... laid an egg.
And then the egg hatches ...
... and from inside
it, there's this ...
... devil.
This demonic little thing.
And the patient acts as if
everything is normal.
Now, what would you
say to that patient?
- Peter, you're
starting to scare me.
- You're avoiding the subject.
You would say, that
patient is nuts.
That person is insane.
An insane person with a
devil egg, right? Right?
- Are you listening to yourself?
Is that how you see Nikulas?
- Who?
Nikulas?
You mean this
devil, from an egg?
- I thought that
everything was just gonna
be different this time.
- Mira ...
... we need to get
rid of the kid.
- You know ... us
... coming here ...
... was a bad idea.
I think ...
... you know, I think
I need to leave.
- Damn this house.
- Peter, I'm leaving
and I'm not changing my mind.
- Mira ... don't be a gumdrop.
Don't be a silly-Billy-gumdrop
- Well ... OK.
- Mira, I love you
and I love our little son.
I just wanna shrink the
both of you down and ...
... put you in my
pocket and walk around.
- The car ... it wouldn't start.
Do you know why?
- I don't know ... it is old.
- Are you sure you didn't do
something to the car?
- What ... who me?
Are you serious?
You're being a
silly-Billy-gumdrop again.
- Well, I'll be leaving now.
- Mira!
- Mira! I won't let you leave!
- Are you OK darling?
- Shit!
- Maybe we should go
and see the doctor.
- Mira!
Let's stop this silly
game and make up, OK?
We could cuddle!
Make love!
We could go for a stroll
with young Nikulas.
I could even teach him
how to ride a bike!
Mira.
Give me the boy!
- I'm gonna take that fucking
kid of hers and I will...
- Honey!
I'm home!
I've already counted to 10 and
I know you're here somewhere!
Mira, darling!
Mira, ready or not!
- Mira.
Honey.
- Bium, bium bambalo,
Bambalo and dilli dillido,
I will rock your cradle tonight,
And then I'm gonna
eat your brains out.
(Growl)
- No, Mira!
Mira, please help!
Mira, I love you. Remember
all the good times ...
- No, no, no!
(Growl)
- No!
No, go! No, no!
(Growl)
(Peter screaming)
- So, would you like them over
easy or the sunny side up?
Alrighty mister.
You know, that's the
way I always wanted them
when I was growing up.
I used to be so mad at
my mother if she put
them on the sunny side.
I would just not eat them ...
... not even if there was
nothing else for me to eat.
The same was actually
with bratwurst ...
... remember, the sausage.
It had to be black as cole if
I was supposed to eat it.
Wow ...
... what a great picture.
I love the colors.
You know what? When
you grow up ...
... I think you're gonna
be somebody like Leonardo
Da Vinci or Andy Warhol.
Oh, they are painters. Artists.
I'm gonna tell you
more about that later.
Is anything on TV?
OK, this looks good.
Yes, you like this. I can tell.
- No, no, don't... No!
No... Don't... No!
No... No!
Don't... please don't!
- Ptur ... Ptur ...
You seem a little
out of it, man.
Have you been getting
enough sleep lately?
- Yeah sure, I'm fine.
Well maybe I've lost
out on a few Z's.
- Yeah, well you need
to take care of that.
- Yeah, well I'll get
the chance real soon.
- Ok.
I'm sorry to tell you that
your sperm count is still low.
Tell me something ...
how's your work life?
- Fine, just a lot of it.
- What do you do?
- Marine engineering.
- Well Ship ahoy!
Where do you work?
- Currently I'm contracting
for the navy but the job
comes with a lot of moving.
- You know, maybe we just
found your cure, you just need
less work time and no moving.
- You sound like
my wife talking.
- Well, wives are usually
right, aren't they?
- Actually we're
moving again soon.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Where?
- To Iceland. I'm Icelandic and
I haven't been back for years.
- Iceland, wow ... Wow.
You know, that is fascinating
to me 'cause I've always
wanted to go there.
Marine work?
- No, me and the misses we're
moving out to the countryside.
We're opening a
guesthouse way out there.
- That just sounds great.
Well, that's that. You
just found the remedy
to your problems.
- Peace, quiet and
some fresh air.
- B.I.N.G.O.
- Bingo.
- Wow this is a great picture.
Did you draw this yourself?
- Anyway I think it's great,
I love the colors.
- You know when my
grandpa died, I drew him
a lot into my pictures.
At first I drew him dead.
But then after a few
pictures he became alive.
Once I drew him flying
all over the sky.
And he then landed on
our roof top and he
sat on out chimney ...
... and he pooped
down our chimney.
And the poop
landed right on my mothers head.
He used to poop a lot
on my mother's head. We
didn't get along that well.
(Growl.)
- Mira.
- Mira.
- Hi honey. I'm just
gonna watch a little TV,
I can't go to sleep, I
have too much on my mind.
(Growl.)
- Honey, are you OK?
- What?
- There's this old man ...
(Song:rj palli
- Vggusongur Volu.)
- I know this song,
I've heard this. Are
they covering Sigurrs?
- No, It's an old
Icelandic song.
- Oh.
And what is it about?
- It's a lullaby.
It's basically about a
mother gentley rocking her
newborn baby to sleep ...
- Oh.
- ... but still informing
it that there's a face
lurking on their bedroom
window, peaking in.
- No.
- Yeah.
- No, are you serious?
- Absolutely.
- Well, that's pretty dark.
- Most of the Icelandic songs
and fables are pretty dark ...
... it probably has something
to do with the nature.
- Or the isolation.
- Wow, Mira look. It's perfect.
- Are we really gonna live here?
- What do you mean? It's even
better than I hoped. Just
wait 'till we get inside.
- Does anyone live ...
does anyone live close by?
- I don't know ...
maybe, maybe not.
- Peter, is there
a store near by?
- Mira relax, it will be great.
- Nice.
- It's really messy.
- We'll clean it
up in no time Mira.
- Wasn't there supposed
to be any furniture here?
- Well, there ought to be.
- What kind of animals did
you say live around here?
- Birds, sheep and horses.
- Well ... at least we don't
have to sleep on the floor.
- I guess we found
the furniture.
- Yeah.
- Mira.
- Yeah.
- Now we need to get a cat.
- I think we need to
get a big fat cat.
(Laughs)
- Fat cat.
(Song: Dtar - Alveg fr)
- Why are we here?
- Do you wanna go to bed?
- No, silly.
- We did need to
get away, right?
- Right.
Do you love me?
- Yeah.
- Are you sure?
- Of course.
- Do you?
- What?
- Love me?
- I don't know.
You are sometimes you know,
a bit of a shit.
And a bit useless.
- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, I'm
sorry ... I'm sorry.
I don't know where that
came from, I'm sorry.
We should've had
kids a long time ago.
You know, they save love ...
they save relationships ...
Get up.
I want you.
(Radio: Weather report.)
- I recommend the
imported stuff.
Yes ... I used to drink the
other kind but when my wife
came back home one day ...
... with this gourmet
stuff, I never went back.
This is what we call
in Iceland "strgott".
Understand me? "strgott".
- Yes, thank you very
much. We're gonna take the
imported one, won't we Peter?
- Yeah.
- Stop pestering the customers,
just let them do their shopping.
- You stop it.
- Just let them shop, that's
what they came here to do.
- Stop it.
- No, you stop.
- Where are you from?
- I'm Icelandic, my
wife is half-German
- Icelandic? You could've
told me that sooner.
So where are you heading to?
I was asking your husband
where you were heading to?
- Oh. Well we're actually
staying. We're renovating.
We just bought a house and
we're making a guesthouse.
- It's a bed and
breakfast kind of thing.
- Okay, now that's
something, huh?
I'm not sure many
travelers, you know, travel
all the way up here.
- Didn't you say this
place was like a tourist
attraction, Peter?
- We're aiming
for bird watchers.
We're thinking bird watchers.
- Bird watchers.
OK, so where exactly
is this new guesthouse,
this tourist attraction?
- Well it's 50
kilometers up north.
- Botn in Botnsdalur.
- Botn ... ugh ...
- Well, uhh ...
... Well uhh ... I will tell
all the bird watchers ...
When they come here, to
stop by at your place.
- Thank you.
(Growl)
(Growl)
(Footsteps)
(Footsteps continue)
(Footsteps)
- Are you OK?
- Peter, I was just throwing
up, you know ... I'm not OK.
- I did notice, you know.
- I'm sorry ...
... I didn't mean to come at
you like that, it's just ...
... I had a bad dream ...
... and I'm nauseous.
- Well, Mira ...
... do you remember that pile
of furniture in the basement?
- Yeah.
- Underneath it
there was a hole ...
- What do you mean "a hole"?
- In the ground ...
there was a hole in the ground.
- I knew it ...
... I knew we should've
checked this place out
before we like, came here and
moved all our money into it.
And now we're just like,
stuck here in this ...
- Mira.
- I just need to call
someone to take care of this.
- No you won't ...
... in case you forgot,
there's no phone.
I don't know what the
hell I'm doing here.
- Relax Mira ...
... I just need to call
a plumber to take a look.
- And now I'm sick ...
... It's probably because
of the water ... and this
place ... and this water.
- Do you want me to
get you something?
- What are you gonna
get me Peter? Water?
You know, just forget it and
just like go fix this ...
- Mira!
Are you OK?
- I'm feeling a bit
under the weather.
How did it go?
- I couldn't reach anyone. Don't
you need to go and see a doctor?
- No, I'm fine. I'm actually
gonna go back to bed.
(Growl)
- I'm coming...
- It's OK Mira,
it's OK, come on,
It's OK, it's OK, it's OK.
Come on darling. Come on, come
on. You can do it, you can do
it, come on, you can do it.
- I think it's coming!
- What's coming Mira?
- Mira ... I think
we have to push.
- There's no time.
- What do you mean
"there's no time"?
- Oh shit!
- What is it, what is it?
- I think you have to push ...
- Oh my god.
- What do we do?
- What do you mean "do"?
- We need to get
someone's opinion.
- About what?
- Well ...
- This egg.
I don't know ... I mean ...
... do we even know
if it's an egg?
It could ... it
could be an organ.
(Eggshell cracking)
- Peter ...
... Peter, come in here.
You gotta see this.
(Baby cries)
- Could you close the window?
Peter, could you
close the window ...
... so the baby won't get cold.
What are you thinking about?
- A lot of things.
- Like what?
- Like the egg ... that kid ...
... and you ... holding it.
- And what are your
thoughts about that?
- I don't know.
- Mira ...
... what's going on?
- What?
- Are you insane?
- Calm down, Peter.
- Sorry.
OK ...
... Now, this is weird.
- OK.
- "OK"?
- Yeah, but is it bad?
- Probably.
No ...
- Are you sure you're
just not scared?
- Of course I am.
And frankly I'm
pretty creeped out.
- You're such a prick ...
such an immature prick.
You know, you're just too scared
of facing the responsibility.
- Are you insane? Mira, you
face the responsibility,
you just laid an egg.
- I just need to take a look
at those eyes. Just a peak.
Yup.
If I remember correctly I hid
by that nest for a week or so...
...Just to capture that shot...
Well worth it though.
It's hard to describe the
feeling that you get when...
...watching that hatching,
makes it's way from the egg.
This certainly is a strong
and healthy boy you have here.
But...
...how big was the
boy when he was born?
- How big?
- Yeah?
- He just...
...I mean, he...
...He just...
...He just came from...
- Well, hello there.
Nice to see that you are up
Oh, watch out. You must be sore.
Please, have a seat.
How are you feeling?
- I feel alright.
- Are you sure?
- How is he?
- I am Hafli.
- Mira.
- He is great. Healthy as a
horse as we say in Iceland.
- There you are.
- Aren't you healthy?
- He's a peach, isn't he?
- He is truly beautiful.
- Are you sure you're alright?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
Yeah, I feel fine.
- Well I suppose if
you're fine it's OK that
you just get dressed.
If that's OK with you.
You just have to promise
me to drink as much as
you possibly can ...
... Gallons of water
and sleep a lot.
- Thank you doctor.
- No problem.
And just remember
you promise to rest.
- I will, thank you.
- Well, I think this is it...
...Unless...
...you have any questions.
- Is there a
plummer around here?
- A plummer?
- Yes, we have a broken
pipe in our basement...
...a leak that needs attention.
- Maybe I should pay you
three a visit. Take a look
at the stitches and so on...
...there is a plummer around.
I could probably trick
him into coming with me.
- A plummer? Out here?
- Yes sir. Well at least
the closest thing to one
this far above the equator.
A jack of all trades.
- Peter, did you
bring any clothes?
- I'm asking you to
help me through this.
I can't do this alone.
I love you Peter.
- I love you too.
- Love us ...
... at least try ...
for me.
(Baby cries)
- It's probably
just a stomach ache.
- Should I get the doctor?
- No, I'm sure it'll be fine.
(Mira sings: Schlaf
kindlein schlaf.)
Your father tends the sheep,
Your mother shakes
the apple tree
As falls down a dream for thee
Sleep my child, sleep
Sleep my child, sleep
In the sky there drag the sheep
The shepherd, he
is like the moon
In the sky with lambs bestrewn
Sleep my child, sleep
Sleep my child, sleep
Christ child has a sheep
Your beloved mother
shears the ram
to make fine clothes for madame
Sleep, my child, sleep
- There's my big boy.
Could you hand us a towel?
Could you hand us a towel?
Yeah daddy, could you hand
me a fresh towel please?
Earth to Peter.
- I don't know where
we keep the towels.
- Well, come here and
look over young Nikulas
and I can get the towel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course I can get it.
Look at you.
Oh, here's daddy.
Look what I ...
- What?
- What's wrong with you?
- It was an accident.
- I'm gonna get him dressed now.
- Mira, really ...
... I'm sorry.
- Hi there.
- Good day.
- This looks way
better than I recalled.
- Damn, how spooky
this place is.
- Hi, welcome.
- I was just saying how
lovely this place looks.
- Oh, thank you.
- Hello.
- Well ... Where's the leak?
- Boy, oh boy...
...I think you need something
more than just a plummer.
- One could assume you
two of you are spiking the
breast milk with steroids...
...I've never seen a
child grow this fast.
What do we have here?
- I'm really not sure.
- This hole should not be open.
- What?
- What was covering it?
- Hulda, my dear. Calm down
- That stone tablet.
- I don't know how to read
runes but that tablet seems
awfully old... ancient...
What do you think
this runes mean?
- This hole must be
closed, urgently!
I won't spend another
moment in this house!
- Did you fix it?
- Leave!
- I'm sorry about this,
I'll see you soon.
Bye.
- Peter ... Peter.
Could you hold him for a minute?
I'm going to the bathroom.
There.
Mommy'll be right back.
- Hello ...
(Baby cries)
Hello.
(Mira humming: Schlaf
kindlein, schlaf)
- There my little one.
- Are you OK?
- Mara...
- When you say you've
missed entire days, what
do you mean exactly?
- I don't know.
- Sometimes... I feel
like I'm awake...
...but yet... still asleep.
- Has this been going on for
long? How was your sleep before?
- Before, I came here?
- Before the newborn.
- I've never been
great at sleeping.
Or... I've never slept much.
I don't know. But it
has never been this bad.
- You've been abroad for so
long. You are no longer used to
the amount of day light up here.
Just try to close the curtains.
Just close them properly.
- Do you know lived in "Botn",
before we moved in?
- Nobody has lived
there for many years.
- But, do you know who
was the last resident?
- His name was Gunnar.
His wife left him...
...she left him all by himself
and... ...never returned...
Following that incident, he
closed himself off. Untill...
- Untill what?
- Marriage can be a struggle
for some. Others find
solitude even more difficult.
Perhaps that's what Gunnar
was trying to escape.
- Escape?
- He shot himself in the head
on his kitchen floor, Kaboom!
That's how he escaped. Yup, yup.
But, hey...
...how is it going
with that tablet?
- Huh?
- The stone tablet. Have
you decrypted the runes yet?
- No, I have not.
- It is a unique item.
It might be younger
than it looks.
It's in a flawless condition.
It might just be possible
that Gunnar, wasn't an
amateur archeologist
but rather an artist.
At least more of an artist
than people had thought.
- The woman, she didn't leave.
She never left.
Not her, and not her child.
- My wife? No, she is at home.
- Not your wife. The woman!
She should've left...
But she didn't.
- Mara...
Help me father, son and
the holy spirit, Amen.
Hey.
- Evening.
- Good evening...
- A beautiful evening.
- Yeah...
- Mild and calm,
dark and heavy...
...it's the best time of
the year around these parts.
When the dark returns.
- What do you want?
- I find the darkness
quite interesting...
...it varies in weight.
- You can't weigh
the darkness...
...it's just the lack of light.
- One's psyche has no boundries.
It simply feels what it feels.
How's your wife?
- My wife?
She is fine.
Why do you ask?
- Marriage can be difficult.
Especially when a new
member joins the family.
- Yeah...
- Is he strong and healthy?
- Sure...
- Yeah.
They are so delightful
these poor little things...
...So sweet and helpless.
Did the birth go well?
Are you the father?
- What?
- Is the child yours?
- I'm not sure.
- I think we both know that
the child is not human.
Under no circumstances
can it leave the premises.
- What can I do?
What do you mean?
- We must stick
together, us pals.
The floor is creaking,
loud and clear,
a creep that breeds a scare,
now the curtain
falls, dark and cold,
as a woman lays with a mare
- Goochie, goochie goo.
Oh my god. Peter
did you see that?
Oh my god, daddy
aren't you proud?
- What?
- Nikulas, he was just
smiling. Isn't that fantastic?
- Yeah.
- "Yeah".
Is that all you have?
- What do you mean?
- I don't know. You know,
I'm witnessing a miracle.
Like the greatest
miracle there is.
And you just say ... "yeah".
- Mira, I don't think you're
handling this in any normal way.
- Oh ... the normal way.
You maybe can tell me, what
is the normal way, Peter?
- Have you ever thought
about the possibility ...
... that this kid
might be an oddity?
- What, an oddity?
- Or a devil?
- "A devil"?
- Yeah, or a kind of a ...
- What is it Peter, is
it an oddity or a devil?
- Mira, if you had a patient ...
- Oh god. - Just follow
me for a second. OK?
If that patient ...
... your patient ...
... laid an egg ...
- OK, Peter. I know
you're tired ...
- Shut the fuck up.
Now, if that patient ...
... laid an egg.
And then the egg hatches ...
... and from inside
it, there's this ...
... devil.
This demonic little thing.
And the patient acts as if
everything is normal.
Now, what would you
say to that patient?
- Peter, you're
starting to scare me.
- You're avoiding the subject.
You would say, that
patient is nuts.
That person is insane.
An insane person with a
devil egg, right? Right?
- Are you listening to yourself?
Is that how you see Nikulas?
- Who?
Nikulas?
You mean this
devil, from an egg?
- I thought that
everything was just gonna
be different this time.
- Mira ...
... we need to get
rid of the kid.
- You know ... us
... coming here ...
... was a bad idea.
I think ...
... you know, I think
I need to leave.
- Damn this house.
- Peter, I'm leaving
and I'm not changing my mind.
- Mira ... don't be a gumdrop.
Don't be a silly-Billy-gumdrop
- Well ... OK.
- Mira, I love you
and I love our little son.
I just wanna shrink the
both of you down and ...
... put you in my
pocket and walk around.
- The car ... it wouldn't start.
Do you know why?
- I don't know ... it is old.
- Are you sure you didn't do
something to the car?
- What ... who me?
Are you serious?
You're being a
silly-Billy-gumdrop again.
- Well, I'll be leaving now.
- Mira!
- Mira! I won't let you leave!
- Are you OK darling?
- Shit!
- Maybe we should go
and see the doctor.
- Mira!
Let's stop this silly
game and make up, OK?
We could cuddle!
Make love!
We could go for a stroll
with young Nikulas.
I could even teach him
how to ride a bike!
Mira.
Give me the boy!
- I'm gonna take that fucking
kid of hers and I will...
- Honey!
I'm home!
I've already counted to 10 and
I know you're here somewhere!
Mira, darling!
Mira, ready or not!
- Mira.
Honey.
- Bium, bium bambalo,
Bambalo and dilli dillido,
I will rock your cradle tonight,
And then I'm gonna
eat your brains out.
(Growl)
- No, Mira!
Mira, please help!
Mira, I love you. Remember
all the good times ...
- No, no, no!
(Growl)
- No!
No, go! No, no!
(Growl)
(Peter screaming)
- So, would you like them over
easy or the sunny side up?
Alrighty mister.
You know, that's the
way I always wanted them
when I was growing up.
I used to be so mad at
my mother if she put
them on the sunny side.
I would just not eat them ...
... not even if there was
nothing else for me to eat.
The same was actually
with bratwurst ...
... remember, the sausage.
It had to be black as cole if
I was supposed to eat it.
Wow ...
... what a great picture.
I love the colors.
You know what? When
you grow up ...
... I think you're gonna
be somebody like Leonardo
Da Vinci or Andy Warhol.
Oh, they are painters. Artists.
I'm gonna tell you
more about that later.
Is anything on TV?
OK, this looks good.
Yes, you like this. I can tell.