Red Riding Hood Page #5

Have you told anyone else about this?

Only Roxanne knows,

but she won't tell anyone.

She won't even talk to me about it.

It chose not to kill you.

I think it wants me alive.

- No.

- Bring me another bandage.

No.

I have to get clean water.

Has Claude come home?

Nobody's seen him.

There you go, back inside. Now.

You have to let us in.

I saw you with Peter.

I know you don't want me like that.

I'm not gonna force you to marry me.

I'm gonna break off the engagement.

I'm sorry, Henry.

That's enough!

Father Solomon!

We found someone hiding!

In the tower!

Quickly!

- It's my brother! Don't touch him!

- Get him down!

- Interrogate him!

- He's not the wolf!

Look at him!

His speech is twisted.

He communes with demons.

Get him down! Now!

He hasn't done anything!

This is proof

that he studies the black arts!

He's a conjurer.

- I know him.

- Better than I knew my own wife?

You never know

what someone is capable of.

Get him down! Come on!

Give me the name of the wolf.

Give me the name.

Tell me the name!

The Romans invented this.

An ingenious system

for extracting the truth.

How can he give you a name?

The boy can barely speak.

Listen to how he sings

of his love of Satan.

We do this for the greater good.

What's the good in this?

I killed my wife to protect my children.

Our methods of pleasing God

are sometimes flawed.

You had best develop a stomach for it.

She says it's important.

I've come to bargain

for the release of my brother.

Silver fingernails.

To kill a werewolf.

Get out.

Please, I have more than money to offer.

Turn around.

Enough. Move.

Wait, please. I have something else.

Spare my brother

and I'll give you the name of a witch.

Now, that...

...is worth something.

Tell them what you told me.

She can climb the tallest trees.

She can run faster than all the girls.

She wears a red cloak.

The devil's color.

That's nonsense. I made that cloak.

Silence! Continue.

And she can talk to werewolves.

I've seen it. With my own eyes.

- Do you deny it?

- No, I don't deny it.

And what was the nature

of this conversation?

It promised to leave Daggerhorn

in peace as long as I go with it.

The wolf is someone in this village

who wants you, Valerie.

Do you know who it is?

I'd think very hard if I were you.

Tell me.

Tell me who it is.

Give me a name.

It wants her, not you.

If you wish to save yourselves,

simply give it what it wants.

You can't give her to the wolf.

That's human sacrifice.

We've all made sacrifices.

The trial is over.

Go back to your homes.

I said go home. All of you!

- I thought you cared about her.

- I do care.

I do care.

I'm trying to be smart about it.

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