(dog growling) (dog barking) (dog continues barking) Tammy, stop it!

Come on, leave it alone.

(growling) (deeper snarling) (dog whimpering) WOMAN: This is private property.

Oh!

Sorry-- I didn't mean to bother anyone.

Then leave, now.

I was just...

I was looking for the old Roman temple.

It's on some of the medieval maps and I just can't seem to find it.

You wouldn't happen to know where it... Run.

There is a footpath.

There is a public right of way.

You can't just order me around... Run or die!

Right-o.

(growling) Tammy?

(growling) (deeper growling) (screaming) (door creaks open) There was a battle here.

People were killed.

They've cleaned shop-- no evidence.

Are you still sure we shouldn't involve the police?

Something happened here last night, Max.

And it wasn't just Tenebrae.

They're not the only ones involved.

Someone shot Dance.

Someone cleared this place out.

We don't know who we can trust.

So we look for our own answers.

We do it ourselves before more people I love get hurt.

Come on.

Let's go and talk to my grandmother.

MAGGIE: I haven't felt this alive in years.

Whatever it was you gave me, it's brought my youth back.

He's messing with stuff he doesn't understand.

Just like his grandfather.

He thought the drugs made him change-- that Hyde was in the bottle.

But he was wrong.

If not the bottle, then where?

It's in the blood.

Henry was born with it-- it was always in him.

It just needed something to bring it out.

And Sir Danvers knew what that was.

What the devil was a senior politician doing mixed up in all this?

I told you, Max-- there are larger forces at work here.

Your father thought so too.

Last time I saw him it was during the war.

He told me that people might try to find me.

Well, Max found you.

Maybe he could find other members of my family.

MAX: I couldn't find any other Jekylls who were close family.

And I looked, believe me.

Hils, do you have the family tree there?

Your family were originally called Jezequiel.

Thank you.

But look.

Here, at the beginning of the last century, the family split.

You Jekylls went one way and the Jezequiels carried on here.

You're the end of the Jekyll line, but... Renata, Gideon, and Brant Jezequiel.

Still alive.

I think we should pay them a visit, don't you?

Lily, I said some very cruel things about your mother, for which I am more sorry than you can ever imagine.

I hope this doesn't come between us.

You're like my port in a storm.

With an ugly concrete sea wall around it, no doubt.

It's very clever how you always use your apologies to make things worse.

Yes, I know.

I think I saw a dog leave a little gift back there.

I was rather tempted to put my foot in that, too.

I know that you'd never lie to me, Lily.

And I promise I will never lie to you.

How chivalrous.

Please, Lily.

I want us to be together.

He said, right before departing.

Where is it you're off to anyway?

Oh, it's family business.

I didn't know you had any family.

It's just boring legal stuff to do with the estate.

Well, goodbye.

GARSON: Robert?

Here.

Should be a bit safer, I think.

You think?

Well, I filtered it a dozen times.

It's the best I can do.

(car horn honking) Change of clothes and spongebag in the brown suitcase.

Coat and hat and spare boots in the burgundy one.

Come on, help me get them into the Humber.

Actually, I was thinking we might take this one and travel lighter.

Really?

Are you sure?

Yes.

Why not?

It'll be fun-- live a little.

Leave them there, Robert.

You know, it goes over 30 if you want it to.

I know that perfectly well, thank you.

His, it's very important you don't tell anyone where we're going.

Mum's the word.

Now, don't get him into any more trouble, will you?

Hils!

Don't I get a hug?

Of course.

You keep your distance.

Come on, let's drive!

Hey-hey!

ROBERT: You, uh... you do remember what Hils said about going over 30?

MAX: Bumpy road-- just being sensible.

What about embracing life for once?

You know, my father, for years and years, was dry and dusty and sensible.

And then suddenly he decided to embrace life.

Well, embrace my mother, anyway, which is why I'm here.

What changed him?

Your grandfather.

When he killed himself I think it rather shook my old man up, made him decide to seize the moment.

And what about you, Max?

Is there a woman in your life?

Plenty, thank you.

No, I meant somebody special.

Come on.

Seize the moment!

(engine racing) There.

How's that?

Much better.

(room falls silent) A warm welcome at the hearth.

Hmm.

We're just closing.

What?

in the middle of the day?

Sir, we're just trying to get to the manor house, the old Jezequiel place, but we can't find a road.

There ain't one.

At least not one that'll take a fancy car like yours.

(laughing) What d'you want to go up there for, anyway?

I'm here on family business with Gideon Jezequiel.

(scoffs) Mr. Jezequiel died a year ago.

It's just his widow now.

Perhaps we should telephone first.

They're not on the telephone up there.

Listen, it'll be dark soon.

Best you head back the way you came.

Is there a problem?

What on earth is this?

Wouldn't want you to come to any harm.

You could stay here.

If you must.

Something's killing the animals?

I see your pub's called the Black Dog.

Legend round these parts.

They call it Old Shuck.

The story goes if you see it, you're not long for this world.

Listen, I want to get to that house.

There's a footpath.

But it might not be safe.

Well.

Then you won't mind if I borrow this?

(door thuds closed) MAX (chuckling): He was good value, wasn't he?

I imagine anyone passing through gets the same yarn.

"Not safe to be out at night.

Why not rent one of our convenient rooms?"

(laughs) Rather clever, really.

Probably one lamb got bitten by a fox, and he's managed to spin it out into (in Boris Karloff voice): The Hound From Hell.

(laughing) Very good!

...I was quite proud about it, many years ago now.

Max, Max.

We must be getting close.

(gate creaks) I expect this is quite the ancestral pile.

The Jezequiels have lived here since the dark ages.

The name comes with the house.

Poor old Gideon married into it.

What else did he marry into?

What is it?

What is that?

Whatever did this bit through the bone.

Still believe the Black Dog's just a yarn?

There are monsters, Max.

You know that now-- you've seen them.

Wait for me.

(wings flapping) MAX: Money really does run in your family, doesn't it, Robert?

It doesn't in mine.

All right?

Yes, I'm perfectly fine.

(knocking on door) Renata Jezequiel?

Good evening.

Sorry to drop by unannounced.

The village is that way.

Oh no, we're not lost.

My name's Robert Jekyll.

I think you might be a relative of mine.

I doubt it.

Well, a very distant relative.

What is it you want?

I'm trying to trace my family history, and I think you might be part of it.

I can't help you.

Please, please.

A relative?

Well, perhaps you'd better come in.

Well, this is very kind of you.

If you really are family, it's the least I can do.

That's Brant.

My son.

This is his room.

Oh, he won't mind?

He's up at Cambridge until the long vacation.

(knocking on door) You have a lovely home.

I'll let you get settled in.

This is a turn-up.

Nicer beds than you'd get at a pub.

And the company's prettier, too.

Something happened, Max.

The moment I touched her hand she just changed her mind about us.

And?

And there was a...

I don't know what.

Some kind of... glimpse of something.

I think she probably just got a proper look at me and knew she was on to a good thing.

Did you see her feet?

What?

(whispering): I don't know what it means.

When I touched his hand, I felt this energy.

If he's lying, if he's come to threaten us, I know what I have to do.

I love you.

I'm so sorry.

(creaking downstairs) (heavy door closes) (animal howling in distance) (grunts) (distorted animal noises) (growling) (animal sniffing) (loud bark) (gasping) (door creaks downstairs) Max?

Renata?

Is anyone there?

(door closing) (growling) (growling) (growling) (barking and growling) (yells) (gasping) (birds chirping) (door opens and closes) MAX: Ah!

Good morning.

You're up early.

For a city boy.

(chuckling) Isn't it quite cold without shoes?

It's a habit I got into when I was a girl.

I like it-- feeling connected to the land.

You probably think it's stupid.

No.

Connected sounds quite nice, actually.

This place is lovely.

Well, we've been here for centuries.

It's somewhat diminished now.

I think it's rather fine.

It's out-of-date-- not in the best repair.

I'm out-of-date and not in the best repair, and I'm still rather fine.

(laughing) (indistinct conversation) It must be difficult managing this place by yourself.

We heard that your husband died.

I'm very sorry.

Thank you.

Do you mind my asking what happened?

He had an accident walking in the woods last winter.

He tripped and broke his leg.

It snowed that night and covered his tracks.

He was dead of exposure before we found him.

I'm very sorry.

Max?

What?

We need to go.

Excuse me.

Is there some kind of hurry?

I was having a perfectly pleasant chat with Renata.

What on earth's got into you?

I don't trust her, not one inch.

What?

Why not?

There's something not right here, Max.

Here.

I found this.

She said her son, Brant, was up at Cambridge.

He's not-- he's missing.

There's a whole stack of letters up in his room from his college to say if he doesn't come back they're going to give his place away.

Renata left the house-- did you know that?

She was gone all night.

A woman, out in the woods on her own, in bare feet.

She's been through a lot.

Perhaps we should just ask her straight out, instead of all this subterfuge.

Do you really not sense anything wrong here?

Nothing at all?

I don't know.

She hid something from me in the library.

A book.

It might be nothing.

(coughing) Max?

Are you all right?

Absolutely.

All right.

Then let's get some answers.

Max, it's fine.

But... (knocking on door) We brought your stick back.

Thank you.

Tell us about the dog.

There is something out there.

I used to be like you when I first came here.

You think it's all a bit of a laugh.

Pub called The Black Dog.

Tall tales of Old Shuck roaming the woods.

But he's there.

And everybody knows.

They don't talk about it, mind.

They look the other way.

They stay in at night and they bolt their doors.

I think it's been this way for centuries.

(whispering): There is a secret here in Long Barrow.

And Old Shuck is guarding it.

From sheep?

Look.

Here.

And here.

They were never found.

ROBERT: "Local historian Willard Neysmith."

This is from last week.

Here, call Brant's college.

Find out if he was just late, or if he's vanished like the rest of these people.

It's the Jezequiels.

Gideon weren't one of them.

They buried him in secret.

They've an old chapel up there.

But if you dug him up...

He died of exposure.

There are rumors.

I thought they found his body in the woods.

No.

They found his body in the chapel, torn apart.

I didn't speak to his tutor, but Brant is missing from the college.

I don't like this, Max.

And where was Renata going last night?

Why wasn't she frightened of the black dog?

Old Shuck the hellhound?

You don't think it's real?

It's real enough to kill Renata's husband.

And maybe her son, too.

The landlord said Gideon was buried here, but all of these graves are ancient.

(growling) Robert.

Edmund Jezequiel.

MAX: There's something here.

There are some initials-- W.N.

Willard Neysmith.

The historian who disappeared.

What was he doing out here?

Why come all this way just for a small family chapel?

(snarls echoing in distance) Robert?

I heard something.

Don't worry-- it's just the hellhound.

I knew it.

You lied from the start.

I know what you want, and you're not having it.

And what would that be?

How dare you say you're my family?

Do you think I don't know what you are?

What?

You know I have the power to destroy you.

The landlord told us... Go!

What are you hiding?

Robert, come on.

Come on.

Renata, I promise you, we didn't come here to make trouble.

Let me talk to him.

Too late for that-- run!

If you're very lucky, you may get out alive.

(breathing heavily) (water dripping) (gasps) (indistinct conversation) Yes.

Right, got it.

Yeah, I'll be sure to tell them.

Thank you.

Are you sure this is wise?

She told us to leave.

We need to see what's in that book she hid from you.

Where is it?

Under the table.

Here.

Robert, for heaven's sake!

(creature growling) (growling) MAX: Good Lord.

My family album has photographs of me on the beach in the Isle of Wight.

ROBERT: Recognize this?

There's the house.

"Sir Ulric Jezequiel and his faithful hound."

It looks like creatures and monsters come here all through history.

And when they come, the black dog is here to greet them.

Who does this remind you of?

Captain Dance.

But that's impossible.

This is hundreds of years old.

Why do you think Renata was hiding this from us?

She is one of them.

She's Tenebrae.

She is the Black Dog.

(dog barking in distance) (snarling) (screaming from outside) MAX: Oh, good Lord!

He was on his way to find us.

Brant's tutor was concerned for the boy's safety.

Wanted to talk to us about his mother.

Are you all right?

Not really, no.

(creature snarling nearby) Shall we go back inside?

Why not?

The Jekylls ended up with Hyde, the Jezequiels with the Black Dog.

But it's the same thing-- transformation, metamorphosis.

You're saying Renata is a shape-shifter?

Yes, Maggie was right.

It's in the blood.

Do you really think she killed her own husband, her own son?

I have no control over Hyde.

God knows what she does when the change is on her.

What was that?

(gasps) Robert?

Are you sure you want to do that?

What if we need your monster before the night's over?

Oh, my giddy aunt!

Max, Max.

It can't get in.

Are you sure?

Max, Max, talk to me.

Tell me, why did you never have a girl?

What?

Come on!

Talk to me-- take your mind off it.

I saw the way you were with Renata.

You clearly want to care for someone, so why don't you?

F... funny.

I don't normally talk about it, but...

There's something not right with my heart.

Inherited and all that, a bit like you.

Well, the doctors say I could go any time, but they've said that for years, so it doesn't stop me having fun.

It rather puts a damper on, well, falling in love.

That's like making a promise that you'll be there for someone-- a promise I can't be sure of keeping.

Best not to get into that sort of situation, I've always felt-- better all round.

(crashing sound) Come on.

What, out there?

Well, neither of us did very well out of our inheritance, did we?

Quite.

I'd rather have a stamp collection, wouldn't you?

I've been living like a bloody invalid all these years, until I met you.

Turns out, it's rather fun to put your foot down once in a while.

(crashing and banging) The truth is, I haven't felt this alive in... well, ever.

It's stopped.

Where is it?

RENATA: You should have left when I gave you the chance!

I really am most terribly sorry.

Was that the right thing to do?

Don't worry.

If she's anything like me, she'll bounce right back.

That's what I'm rather worried about.

Now what?

(groaning) Don't try to move.

I'd rather not hit you again.

But I will if I have to.

You're the Black Dog.

It runs in the family.

Down the years.

Down the centuries.

Whether you want it or not.

Beware of the dog!

You do realize I could just change, right now?

Are you going to?

I don't want to hurt you.

I don't want to hurt you either.

I'm sorry about all this.

(chuckles) I mean it.

I like you.

A lot.

Not exactly the best time to come out with it, I do realize, but I like you.

The moment I saw you, actually.

And good Lord, this is harder than I'd thought.

Max... No, sorry.

It's just... no practice at this sort of stuff.

You're a good man, Max, but you don't understand.

What you're asking for, it's... it's not possible.

We could never be together-- it's not safe here.

Because of what happened to your husband?

You've killed people, I know that.

But I don't believe it was your fault.

I don't blame you for... Max, no, stop it, Max.

I realize you can't help what you do when you're changed.

Max, I didn't kill Gideon!

I haven't killed anyone!

It's not me.

It's Brant.

It's my son.

I don't believe you.

I've seen how you are.

I kill sheep for him.

I kill animals and take them to him.

I try to keep him fed, so he won't...

So he won't hunt people?

He's my son.

What was I supposed to do?

He has a taste for it now.

He lets the beast rule him.

We're supposed to be guardians.

We're supposed to protect this place against monsters, but he kills for sport, not duty.

Gideon tried to stop him.

He killed your husband?

His father.

I have seen the face of the great god Pan.

The Black Dog isn't greeting them-- he's keeping them away.

What is it you're guarding?

What do they come for?

There's a sword hidden in the chapel-- a weapon to fight back against the darkness.

We keep it safe until it's needed.

That's our vow, that's what's in our blood.

Robert went to the chapel.

Brant will kill him!

(something cracks) (crack) The monsters you're guarding against, it's Tenebrae, isn't it?

Yes.

We're not with them.

We're fighting them.

Robert changes too, doesn't he?

Then he might just have a chance.

(growling) (growling) What are you?

Two men in one body?

Should've kept out, monster.

Cave Canem.

Beware of the dog.

How many men have you killed?

Not just men.

Not just killed.

Eaten!

MAX: How do we stop Brant?

RENATA: The soil.

Our strength is in the earth.

(growling) (snarling and grunting) MAX: Get him off the ground, Robert!

Don't let him touch the ground!

Brant!

He's not the enemy.

He's like us.

No one's like me!

Max!

Max!

Max!

Max, Max, Max.

It's all right, Max.

I'm here with you.

Hold on, all right?

Just... just hold on.

I don't think that's going to cut it, old boy.

Max, stay with us.

Come on.

Funny thing.

I've always been scared of living.

Turns out I'm not that scared of dying.

You're not dying.

Always thought it would be my heart.

It's been a lot of fun, Robert.

Thank you for giving me a stab at life.

Tell me, Renata, did we have a chance?

Max?

Max!

Max... Don't worry.

Leave Max to me-- I'll organize everything.

Thank you.

This war, with Tenebrae, it's been going on a long time, hasn't it?

You should have this-- the Jezequiel family book.

It will help in your fight.

Help you understand who you are.

Who we are.

What are we?

You know what we are.

We're creatures who change.

But you can control it.

You'll learn, Robert, trust me.

But you have to accept it's part of who you are.

Use it well.

Not like Brant.

Why don't you come with me?

Help me?

You don't need to be here anymore.

Yes, I do.

It's what we've always done.

We guard this place.

I can't change who I am any more than you can.

And I'm the only one left now.

If there's ever anything I can do, you know where to find me.

Thank you.