diff --git a/tools/scripts/tower-expect b/tools/scripts/tower-expect
index b4a04e4161..c682aa7e9f 100755
--- a/tools/scripts/tower-expect
+++ b/tools/scripts/tower-expect
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 AWX_LIB=`/var/lib/awx/venv/tower/bin/python -c 'import os, awx; print os.path.dirname(awx.__file__)'`
 . /var/lib/awx/venv/tower/bin/activate
-exec env TOWER_LIB_DIRECTORY=$AWX_LIB/lib $AWX_LIB/main/isolated/run.py "$@"
+exec env TOWER_LIB_DIRECTORY=$AWX_LIB/lib /var/lib/awx/venv/tower/bin/python $AWX_LIB/main/isolated/run.pyc "$@"