Venom: Let There Be Carnage/Transcript

[The film opens on an establishing shot of a gothic structure -- St. Estes Reform School in California, 1996. The full moon hangs low in the sky, illuminating the building like a spotlight as a young Cletus Kasady constructs a ring in his cell by a toilet.]
Guard: Lights out!
[It goes dark.]
Barrison: Cletus? Are you there?
Kasady: My angel...
[Frances Barrison -- Shriek -- sits by the toilet on the opposite wall. The ring drops out of a drain pipe near it.]
Kasady: This is for you.
[Barrison takes the necklace. Cletus is shown sitting near the drain pipe, talking into it.]
Kasady: What did the doctor say?
Barrison: He said the mutations are enhancing. My powers are too strong! Cletus, I'm scared...
[She slips on the ring.]
Kasady: It's gonna be okay.
Barrison: They're coming to take me away. They're sending me to a place where there are others like me...
Kasady: They can't do that... They can't take you from me, you're my one. BRIGHT! LIGHT!!!!
[Contrary to Kasady's will, the guards come in and do just that.]
Barrison: I will always love you!
Kasady: FRANCES!!!
[Kasady runs over and bangs on the window desperately as Frances is dragged off to a police van, protesting.]
Kasady: FRANCES!!! NO!!! NO!!!!
[Barrison reaches for him but is shoved into the back of a police van, which drives away. In the back of the van, a Detective P. Mulligan monitors her, though at the moment, he's distracted.]
Barrison: Any last words?!
[Mulligan looks up just in time to receive a full blast scream from Shriek. He covers his ears and she pounces on him just as the van topples to the side. She wrestles for his gun, but he fires it, hitting her in the eye. Barrison falls backwards and out of the van as Mulligan brings a shaking hand up to his ear.]
[Much later, Barrison awakens in a glass cell with a bandage over her eye. She checks her hand and finds that she still wears the ring before looking over to see a silver-haired woman staring back at her from another room.]
Silver-haired Woman: Welcome to your new home, Frances.
[Said home, the Ravencroft Institute, is revisited in the present day. Doctors and patients alike roam the grounds as a car pulls up.]
Mulligan: Your old boyfriend's finally getting what he deserves. And the world will be a safer place without him.
[Cut to an establishing shot of San Francisco before cutting to the San Francisco Police Department.]
Eddie: Detective Mulligan, with all due respect, I don't want anything to do with Cletus Kasady!
[Inside, Eddie and Detective Mulligan walk through a hallway, where a female cop bumps into Eddie.]
Mulligan: Well, that's too bad, because he only wants to see you.
[Mulligan stops in the middle of the hall and turns to Eddie.]
Mulligan: Now, in my opinion, you had your chance with Kasady and you blew it.
Eddie: Right, um, so... What does he want?
Mulligan: Maybe he wants to spill the beans about where the missing bodies are buried. So you're gonna have to do the right thing for a change.
[Mulligan walks away and Eddie shifts uncomfortably. Venom's head emerges from Eddie and he tries to take a bite out of the Detective's head before Eddie pulls Venom away and disappears into a bathroom.]
Venom: Take your tiny hands off me! We should be out there protecting the city, lethally!
Eddie: What was that?!
Venom: Unhand me! Man should never consent to crawl when he has the impulse to fly. You are a bottom feeder.
Eddie: Be quiet! How many times have I told you that I want you to hide yourself while I'm working?!
[Cuts to Eddie walking into toward Cletus' cell in his prison room in San Quentin Prison.]
Kasady: Welcome back, Eddie Brock. I've been thinking about you. 
Eddie: What do you want, Cletus? I mean, why am I here?
Kasady: Do a man who's buried alive a kindness, won't you? Get a message out to all my... fans. And in return, I'll give you my life.
Eddie: What?
Kasady: Story. I hear the written word hasn't been working out so well. Piece like this, an exclusive... would put you back on top.
Eddie: Go on.
Kasady: People love serial killers. All my secrets laid bare. So much carnage...
Eddie: But why me?
Kasady: I like you.
Eddie: Alright, it's a deal. What's your message?
Kasady: "That distant cathedral is all I see..."
Eddie: Mm-hm.
Kasady: "Fractured angel, the other part of me." Print that in your column.
Eddie: Is that it? This, um... Who's gonna... Who's gonna read that, some random haiku?
Kasady: Print it, and what's mine is yours.
Eddie: Wow. Lucky me.
Kasady: Goodbye, Eddie.
Reporter: Would you say your friendship with Cletus Kasady is what allowed you to solve this decades-old mystery? You are the only person from the outside world he's spoken with! Seems he likes you.
Eddie: Well, he's a serial killer. I don't see how he can like anyone.
Reporter: Brock was able to uncover what the FBI and police could not. Bowing to public outrage, the governor of California has overturned his moratorium and reinstated the death penalty for Kasady.
[Frances shrieks in sorrow while Kasady punches the wall with his biggest tantrum!]
Reporter: Brock's career has been given a much-needed revival, putting him back on top once more.
[Later that night, a broadcast plays on the television.]
TV Anchor: A harrowing story finally comes to an end. Vindication for the victims and closure for the families, thanks to the diligence of one man. Thank you, Eddie Brock.
Venom: And Venom!
[Venom sits on the couch with a half-eaten pizza. A chicken clucks beside him.]
Venom: You know, this could be us, Eddie. Going out there, solving cases. Fighting bad guys. Maybe I eat them, hmm? And then we save the day...
Eddie: [V.O.] But we saved the day, it's done.
[Venom shakes his head then jumps up, punching a hole in the ceiling.]
Venom: You said I could eat bad guys!
[The alien stomps over to the tire swing and bites it like an infant teething on a pacifier.]
Eddie: This again?
Venom: I need to be free!
[Venom, clearly frustrated, tosses the tire, which remains on its chain, then stalks over to the table by the fridge.]
Venom: Feeling the wind in my hair and the sand between my toes!
Eddie: You don't have any hair!
Venom: You are not listening to me...
[Venom pounds the table in frustration.]
Eddie: Oh, I'm listening.
Venom: I cannot live like this anymore! I'm starving!
Eddie: So eat those guys!
[Cut over to the two chickens in the apartment.]
Venom: I can't! Sonny and Cher are best friends.
Eddie: Are you serious?! That's ridiculous, that's what--
[Venom suddenly returns into Eddie, propelling the reporter towards the wall near the TV. He hits the table under it with some force and groans in pain before pushing himself to his feet.]
Eddie: Man, that was abusive. That was abuse. And that was a two thousand dollar TV. You have got to get control of your aggression, that is why we have Snookie!
Venom: I cannot live on chicken and chocolate alone. I need brains!
[Eddie hobbles over to his writing corner and sits down, pulling out his notebook.]
Eddie: Chickens have brains.
Venom: I most passionately disagree. Look. Look at those poor idiots.
[Eddie turns to look with some reluctance.]
Venom: Small brains.
[He turns back, opening his notebook, then pulling out his laptop.]
Eddie: C'mon, man, it's not their fault that you, uh... You live on the old phenyelathela... Laphenelapheline--
Venom: Phenylethylalanine.
Eddie: Yeah, I just-- I just said that.
Venom: I have told you a thousand times...
Eddie: Yeah?
Venom: ...because it is only found in brains, and in chocolate.
Eddie: [At the same time.] And in chocolate! That's right. Alright, well, how about this: You live in my body, you live by my rules.
Venom: I live in your body because, unfortunately, I don't have many options.
Eddie: Well, how about this, son? The FBI is still investigating us for all of that stuff we were involved with, so if one more head goes missing, we will get hauled off into Area 51!
[Eddie begins typing.]
Eddie: They will kill us both, so somebody has to be responsible.
Venom: Responsibility... is for the mediocre.
[Cuts to Eddie in his apartment. He receives a letter and sits at his table. He opens it and begins to read.]
Eddie: "Dearest pally pal, I hereby invite you to witness my demise, my final moments on this spinning shit wheel that we call Earth..."
Kasady: [Voice Over] You are responsible for bringing about the end of Cletus Kasady. It's only right that you hold the door for me on my way out. They'll stop my heart, just like it stopped at my birth. What if Cletus Kasady had never been revived? He would never have pushed grandma down a flight of stairs. "Bye bye, grandma, you puckered old sphincter!" He would never have thrown a hair dryer in mother's bathtub. "Yes, mama, I'm a bad, bad boy!" He would never have been beaten by the brink of death by daddy-o and sent to... St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children. That circus of hell... With one bright light. Oh, Eddie, we are all born into this world through blood and pain. Every hero has an origin story. Your friend...
Eddie: Cletus Kasady. Kiss, hug, kiss, hug... Smiley face?
[Cuts to Eddie being in the holding room for Cletus' execution.]
Eddie: Anything you wanna unburden yourself with before... Uh, this... Happens?
[Kasady stands, walking away from his tray.]
Kasady: Yes. I have wishes to bestow upon you. I want to wish you... this heartbreak.
Venom: (V.O.) Uh-oh. Too late.
Kasady: I wish for you to see out your days alone, as you always have been.
Venom: (V.O.) Watch it, pal!
Eddie: Wh-Where are you goin' with this?
Kasady: You are a cancer to everyone who ever loved you, Eddie. Decieved your trusting fiancée, and no wonder daddy could never look at you again after you killed his wife, your mother, just by being born.
Venom: (V.O.) You son of a bitch!
[Venom pulls Eddie towards Cletus with his tentacles, slamming him into the prison bars.]
Kasady: I have tasted blood before, my friend, and that is not it. Eddie Brock has a big secret!
Venom: (V.O.) That may have been a mistake.
Eddie: Shut up.
[Eddie pulls up outside the entrance to his apartment.]
Venom: Eddie!
Eddie: I don't wanna hear another word out of your mouth.
Venom: Eddie...
Eddie: I don't wanna hear it!
Venom: Eddie, I am sorry.
[Eddie dismounts his motorcycle and removes his helmet.]
Eddie: That was his last time on record ever!
[In his apartment, Eddie finishes up aggressively brushing his teeth.]
Eddie: There's no more- [He spits out the toothpaste.] Any words for his victims, or, y'know, they're gone. Any clues or outstanding... bodies, we- we've lost forever, and completely...
[He steps out of the bathroom and wipes his face off with a towel.]
Venom: I didn't mean to!
Eddie: You didn't mean to?!
Venom: And I said I'm sorry!
[Eddie storms off, heading further into his apartment.]
Eddie: You didn't mean to, but you did it. I mean, you just decided, I dunno, [He lets out a stream of gibberish and mimes Venom's tentacle with his hand], that's it, you did it. Y'know, you didn't even think that we might get caught? You might get killed? No, you don't think about things like that, do you? You just think about chickens, and you think about you, and you think about what you want, and you think about... you!
[He reaches the sink and begins pouring himself a glass of water out of the tap and takes a drink.]
Venom: Let me remind you of something, Eddie. You were a loser before I came along. You were nothing. I made you special.
Eddie: Oh, you made me special, Huh? Well, let me tell you something, right? Before you came along, I had a life. I didn’t have chickens, alright? But I had dreams! Yeah, I had dreams, and I had a fiancée. And I had a really successful TV show!
[He takes another drink.]
Venom: Ah, you destroyed all of those things by yourself.
[He finishes the drink. Beat.]
Eddie: Yeah. But. You know what? I rebuilt my life, and now I just wanna live it. Good night.
Venom: And how did you build this new life, hm?
[Venom pops out of Eddie's shoulder and enters his "wraith" form, where he's just a head on a tendril. Eddie turns to face the symbiote.]
Eddie: Excuse me?
Venom: Well, who found the clue on the wall so you could be this big shiny hero, hm? Who found the clue? Who?
Eddie: ...Wow!
Venom: Yeah...
Eddie: No! No, no, this is not about being a hero for me, man, this is about wanting to live in peace. Do- Do you understand what I'm talking about?
[Venom cocks his "head" to the side.]
Eddie: No, you don't, you don't understand what I'm talking about, okay, this is about me wanting to live without you whining in my ear all the time about eating bad guys or, like, nagging me about Anne, or destroying my place, or destroying my LIFE!
Venom: Do you know how lucky you are that I chose you?
Eddie: You chose me? Buddy, I'm the only person that took you in when your friends kicked you off the planet Ming-Mong, 'cause you are a reject! You are a pariah! "Lethal Protection", my ass, you couldn't protect anything! You are useless! You couldn't get a job down here cleaning toilets!
[Venom headbutts Eddie, who screams in pain and clutches his face, stumbling back onto the couch. One of the chickens cluck worriedly in the background.]
Venom: I'm sorry! I-I don't know what came over me, here, please, let me fix it...
[Eddie takes his hands away from his face, revealing a broken nose. The scar over it suddenly disappears.]
Eddie: I'm better now--
Venom: So I can break it again!
[Venom headbutts Eddie, who yelps and falls back on the couch. He remains silent for a moment before taking his hands away from his nose, which is again repaired. Rage builds in his eyes.]
Venom: You son of a bitch!
[He slaps Venom, who drags Eddie out of a sitting position and forces him to stick to his refrigerator. Eddie tries to cling to it for support, but Venom throws him to the ground as Eddie pulls the fridge with him. Venom pulls him along to the other side of the room, having Eddie bump into the overturned fridge, before throwing him into a shelf.]
Venom: Out! Get out! Take your stuff! Get out!
Eddie: This is my house!
[Venom throws more things out of Eddie's apartment. A homeless man takes notice of the commotion and shouts towards the open window.]
Homeless Man: Keep it down up there!
[Venom takes a lamp and shatters it against a wall. Eddie tries to get up but Venom throws Eddie towards a wall.]
Venom: Get out!
[Eddie moans in distress as he looks up to see Venom throwing everything out with his tentacles -- plates, furniture, etc. It all comes to a head when Venom dangles an expensive flat-screen television out the window. Eddie takes one of the chickens and raises it over his head.]
Venom: Sonny?
[Venom pops out of Eddie's shoulder to confront him.]
Venom: You wouldn't dare!
Eddie: Yeah, absolutely.
[The two of them stare each other down briefly before their attention turns to the television. Venom drops it and it crashes to the ground below, the screen shattering on impact.]
Eddie: No, no, no!
[Eddie rushes over to the window and looks down at the remains of his television.]
Venom: Yeah!
Eddie: No!
Homeless Man: I'm calling the police!
Eddie: I-- I am so sorry!
[Eddie walks away from the window and mutters, exhausted:]
Eddie: Show yourself...
[Venom emerges again and Eddie throws any pretenses of civility out the window, throwing a right hook at Venom, who dodges it effortlessly. Venom wraps his tentacle head around Venom's neck like a noose and begins choking Eddie while moving in to lick his face. Eddie grabs Venom's tongue and tugs down on it, causing Venom to launch Eddie across the room, where he lands flat on his back.]
Venom: You can't win!
[Venom flips Eddie over onto his front.]
Eddie: Take a look at me. Look at the size of you. Puny.
[Eddie grabs a bowling ball and smashes it across Venom's face, knocking out most of the symbiote's teeth.]
Venom: How dare you!
[Venom regrows the teeth and flips Eddie again before pinning him to the ceiling.]
Venom: I guess this is goodbye!
Eddie: Oh, yeah! Finally, something we agree on...
[Eddie activates the fire alarm, separating himself and Venom. The symbiote launches itself out the window and towards the homeless man.]
Homeless Man: What in the world?!
[The symbiote falls on him, bonding in seconds.]
Homeless Man: Oh, this crazy shit!
[Venom forms over the homeless man and stalks off. Meanwhile, in his apartment, Eddie sighs with relief, alone in his head for the first time in ages. A crash outside catches his attention.]
Eddie: No. No.
[Another crash. Eddie runs over to the window.]
Eddie: No, no, no, no-- No!
[Outside, Venom has begun destroying Eddie's motorcycle.]
Venom: Yeah!
[Venom chucks a piece of it towards Eddie's apartment, then another.]
Eddie: No!
Venom: Oh, yeah!
[Venom stalks off, for real this time.]
Eddie: No--
[Venom stumbles and the homeless man emerges from his form. Venom quickly jumps to another host -- a cyclist who begins screaming. Eddie runs towards a separate window, following the sounds.]
Eddie: No, no, no--
[He leans out the window.]
Eddie: I wish I never met you!
[Venom forms a middle finger directed towards Eddie.]
Venom: Sayonara!
[Venom re-attaches himself to the cyclist, who bikes away screaming.]
[In an execution chamber, a curtain pulls back to reveal Kasady strapped to a gurney. A guard stands to his right and the Prison Warden stands to his left. Outside, there is a viewing party of, presumably, his victims' families.]
Warden: Cletus Kasady, you have been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by the State of California. May your passing bring closure to the victims' families, and may you find peace in the hereafter.
[Cletus flexes his hand, encased in the restraints.]
Kasady: Soon come chaos. Chaos soon come.
Warden: Are those your final words?
[Kasady lifts his head and speaks to the viewers:]
Kasady: Enjoy the show!
[The viewing party flinches back slightly. Kassidy leans his head back and the Warden turns his attention towards the clock, which hits 9. A technician hits a button, which begins feeding an anesthetic into Kassidy's system. The serial killer falls asleep and the second cocktail is injected, but before it can reach his veins, the Carnage symbiote blocks the tube. Kasady awakens and begins to twitch as his veins become more pronounced.]
Guard: Warden--
Kasady: Something wicked this way comes.
[Kasady violently thrashes around as red spikes begin to grow from his body.]
Guard 2: Please! I got a family!
Kasady: Any last words, Warden?!
Warden: Don't! Please!
Venom: Look at all these weirdos! My kind of people!
Clown Ravegoer: Nice costume!
Raver: Hey! Awesome work!
Raver 2: Greatest costume ever, oh my god! Is that Japanese?
Venom: No! I made it myself!
Female Raver: Hey!
Venom: Oh, hey!
Female Raver: Hello, gorgeous...
Venom: Oh, sorry, no, you're not my type. I am out! Of the Eddie closet! 
[Cuts to Venom standing on a stage, grabbing the mic from the female singer, interrupting her song.] 
Venom: Eddie was wrong. He kept me hidden because he was ashamed. But look at me now! You love me, and I'm free! Stop this cruel treatment of aliens! It is wrong. All of us should be able to live together on this ball of rock! Free to be who we be! Lethal Protector, out!
Venom: Osho says, “When you love someone, you accept the whole person, with all of their defects”.
Eddie: “Defects”?
Venom: Nobody is perfect!
Eddie: Just go back, go back. Wait, are you telling me—? You just said… that you love me.
Venom: Ummm…
Eddie: (grins) You did!
Carnage: Father, one of us must die.
Eddie: (groans) We need fire.
(Carnage roars)
Venom: (Looking to Shriek) Or sound.
(Venom knocks Shriek back to the bell!)
(Bell clangs)
(Shriek screams)
(The rope starts to break as Shriek begins to use her sonic scream to destroy the tower!)
Carnage: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Venom: He did not taste good.
Kasady: I'm a killer, with or without the monster, Eddie. You know what I really wanted?
Eddie: No, what was it, Cletus?
Kasady: I told you that you weren't listening.
Eddie: Well, I'm listening now.
Kasady: I wanted your friendship.
Eddie: I'm sorry, Cletus.
[Venom's face quickly reforms over Eddie's.]
Venom: Fuck this guy!
[Venom quickly bites Cletus' head off and casts his body to the ground.]
=== Post-Credits Scene ===
[We open with a zoom in on a woman's face, then a man's as he gazes down in shock. The woman caresses her stomach -- she's pregnant, and the baby is his. The camera pulls back to reveal this is all taking place on television.]
Venom: I love this show.
Eddie: Yeah.
[A cut reveals that Eddie is staying in a run-down hotel room. He is vegging out, laying on the middle of the bed, and considering it's nighttime, he's not going anywhere any time soon.]
Venom: Maximiliano's feelings are not being validated.
Eddie: Yeah, well he never should've kept such an insane secret, man.
Venom: We all have a past, Eddie.
Eddie: Wait, are you hiding stuff from me?
Venom: 80 billion light-years of hive knowledge across universes would explode your tiny little brain.
Eddie: What- What does that even mean, man?
Venom: Well, let me give you a taste then. Just the smallest fraction of the things we symbiotes have experienced.
Eddie: Okay?
Venom: Ready, Eddie?
Eddie: Yeah!
[A low-pitched rumble sounds off as Eddie begins looking uncomfortable. The television in front of him begins to glitch as the room chaotically shifts from Eddie's shabby room to a sunlit, beachside hotel room.]
Venom: What's happening?!
Eddie: Oh, no! No, no, no!
[Eddie rockets to a sitting position as the shift completes.]
Venom: What the hell is that?!
[Eddie looks to his side to see a decorative towel.]
Eddie: Oh, that's, uh, that- That's just a towel.
[Eddie glances around the room.]
Eddie: [as they're transported to another dimension] Where are we? What- What did you do?!
Venom: That wasn't me!
[they see J. Jonah Jameson reveal Spider-Man's idenity as Peter Parker on TV]
[From the television, a familiar newsman speaks...]
Jameson: Incredibly, this shocking revelation, brought to light by yours truly, has only raised more questions about the secret life of Peter Parker.
[Venom hums thoughtfully.]
Eddie: What? What- What is it?
[Venom shifts into existence over Eddie and stalks towards the television, which has shifted to a video of Tom Holland's Peter Parker standing in the middle of what appears to be Times Square, unmasked but in his suit constructed at the end of "Spider-Man: Far From Home".]
Jameson: AKA, Spider-Man. AKA, The Spider-Menace. But rest assured dear viewers, we here at The Daily Bugle will not rest until we've uncovered the truth behind his web of lies!
Venom: [sees Peter Parker's identity as Spider-Man exposed on TV] That... guy...
[Venom licks the screen with relish. We cut away from him to reveal a shirtless man in swim trunks stepping out of the bathroom]
Jameson: I'm J. Jonah Jameson! Good night from The Daily Bugle, and God help us all!
Hotel Guest: Dude. What are you doing in my room?
[Eddie, having shifted back, shrugs helplessly and mutters, just as confused as the guest.]
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