Beetlejuice Page #25

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN's eyes dehumanize. They're COLD and

YELLOW.

EXT:
WINTER RIVER TRAIN STATION -- DUSK

The six o'clock train from New York is pulling in. Half a dozen

native Winter Riverites get off the train, carrying shopping bags

bearing the logos of Manhattan stores. After them come four of

LYDIA's DEATH ROCKER friends. We saw them at RAPTURE.

LYDIA gives them hasty greetings, but it's apparent she is

looking for and hoping to see someone else.

She leads them over to the car, which she is driving. She walks

apart with her best friend in the group, TRIXIE. (It's her real

name.)

LYDIA:

Oh God, I feel like a

jerk. I met every single

train from New York and

he's not here yet.

TRIXIE:

You are a jerk. He's

not coming.

LYDIA:

He promised. And Delia's

going to kill me, because

I haven't been at the house

all day.

As they're all piling into the car:

TRIXIE:

Maybe he died and that's

why he couldn't come.

EXT:
THE HOUSE -- DUSK

No more WORKMEN, no more VANS. Everything's ready, and

apparently calm. The strings of party lights on on, illuminating

the tent behind.

It would all be very pretty if we didn't know that ADAM's orchard

had been razed for this.

INT:
MASTER BATHROOM -- DUSK

DELIA is at the mirror, with a towel wrapped around her. She is

drying her hair.

CHARLES lies in the bathtub, nearly comatose, with the shower

running full blast onto his face.

CHARLES:

That man is still locked

in my study.

DELIA:

(Totally unsympathetic)

We've got fifteen minutes

to get dressed.

DELIA walks out of the bedroom.

INT:
MASTER BEDROOM -- DUSK

DELIA walks in, and to her astonishment, finds

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

calmly sitting on the corner of the bed.

DELIA:

What the hell are you still

doing here?

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

I was waiting for my money.

That's fifteen seventy.

DELIA:

Oh God. Look, wait out in

the hall. I'll get it in

a minute.

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

I hope you don't mind, but

I rearranged your closet a

little. It was in such a

mess.

DELIA:

What? Oh, just get out --

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN leaves the room, as DELIA is opening the

closet door.

INT:
THE HALLWAY -- DUSK

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN stands demurely at the door, waiting.

He's waiting for --

DELIA'S BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMS

When they come, he smiles an old lady's smile of satisfaction.

INT:
MASTER BEDROOM -- DUSK

CHARLES runs in from the bathroom, with (or without) towel, and

finds DELIA ripping through her closet like a woman possessed.

Great piles of the ugliest and cheapest and gaudiest polyester

blend clothing imaginable have been strewn on the floor.

DELIA turns to her husband savagely.

DELIA:

There is not one article

of clothing in that closet

which does not bear the

label K-Mart.

She holds up a muu-muu.

DELIA:

That old woman is going

to die.

DELIA flies out of the bedroom, leaving CHARLES reaching for the

pitcher of New England iced tea.

INT:
HALLWAY -- DUSK

DELIA confronts BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN.

DELIA:

Get ready to die!

And by George, she does.

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN's face blanches instantly. Her eyes

bulge and roll crazily. Her blackened tongue unrolls from her

mouth. Her heart palpitates visibly through her dress.

DELIA's rage turns to horror.

DELIA:

Oh god, don't die.

Pulling herself up from the depths, BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

manages to croak out reassurance.

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

I'll be all right. I just

need my pills, and I have to

lie down for a few minutes.

BEETLE JUICE/ OLD WOMAN staggers into OTHO's room, and collapses

on the bed, with DELIA following.

INT. OTHO'S ROOM -- DUSK

DELIA:

Right. Don't die. Just

lie down. We've got plenty

of pills. (Calling) Otho!

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN seems to recover a little.

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN

I'll be all right. Just

leave me alone for a little

while. And when I'm feeling

a little better, I'll get

up and leave. I don't want

to disturb your party.

DELIA:

What about my clothes?

BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN starts to hyperventilate.

DELIA:

No, no, don't do that.

DELIA backs out of the room.

INT:
UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -- DUSK

DELIA comes out of OTHO's room, just as LYDIA is coming up the

stairs from the first floor.

DELIA:

Lydia, find Otho, and tell

him I need five of the red

ones, and I need them right

now.

LYDIA:

Listen, I'm sorry I was

gone --

DELIA doesn't care. She flings open the door of the master

bedroom, and disappears inside.

The door of OTHO's room opens again, and out steps BEETLE JUICE /

DANNY DEATH.

LYDIA melts.

LYDIA:

Oh God. You came.

You really came.

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