Beetlejuice Page #33

CATHY holds out her left hand.

BARBARA suddenly materializes, holding CATHY's hand.

DELIA, CHARLES, OTHO, and LYDIA's eyes widen to the fullest

possible extent.

OTHO:

This is it, Delia.

OTHO pushes DELIA forward, and BARBARA reaches out her hand.

After a tiny moment's hesitation, DELIA takes it. She shudders.

CATHY:

As flies the lizard / Serpent fell;

As goblin vizard / At the spell

Of pale wizard / Sinks to hell;

The buried, dead, and slain

Rise again.

CATHY holds out her right hand. ADAM materializes, holding it.

CHARLES is already there, and grasps ADAM's hand, after giving

him a quick, appraising glance in the face. Immediately OTHO and

LYDIA complete the circle around BEETLE JUICE.

BEETLE JUICE:

Clever people. Who's been

reading the manual? You,

fat boy? I could make you

rich and thin.

OTHO quivers a moment with hesitation, then he stands up

staunchly.

OTHO:

Delia, I'd better be in

your will.

BEETLE JUICE flaps his wings, and a wind begins to blow inside

the house, in a clockwise direction. His seven opponents have to

strain to keep the circle together.

EXT:
THE HOUSE -- NIGHT

All the guests have fled. The sculptures lie in ruin. The wind

blows ever harder, in a counter-clockwise direction, around the

house.

INT:
LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT

The wind is even stronger inside the room. The wind is breaking

up the furniture, and spinning around crazily and dangerously.

But the circle remains as if at the eye of a hurricane.

BEETLE JUICE, in an uncustomary moment of panic, throws himself

at the perimeter of the circle, but is hurled back by a bolt of

colored electricity. He's burned.

BEETLE JUICE:

I know more tricks than you.

Here, girlie, want to see

what your friends really

look like?

He grins.

ADAM and BARBARA shudder in pain, and at once begin to transform

into mouldering corpses. Their clothing rots, their skin

discolors and peels, mould encrusts their features.

At the same time, the lighting in the center of the circle

continues, and BEETLE JUICE does a spastic dance trying to avoid

the charges. He is burned repeatedly.

DELIA and CHARLES, finding that they are holding hands with

corpses, pull away repulsed and horrified.

CATHY:

Don't break the circle.

CHARLES and DELIA screw up their courage, and maintain their

grips on the corpses' hands.

The lightning intensifies inside the circle. Outside the circle,

the wind is like a hurricane, and the rest of the living room is

only a blur.

CATHY, growing weak, starts to faint.

BARBARA CORPSE:

(Groaning) Nowwwwww .

Having said this, BARBARA's jaw falls off.

CATHY:

Today is a thought

A fear is tomorrow

And yesterday is our sin

And our sorrow

And life is a death.

Dear ghosts, so to die

Is to live --

And like is a worthless lie,

Then we weep for ourselves,

and wish you goodbye.

ADAM and BARBARA's corpses turn a last, lingering glance on

CATHY.

BEETLE JUICE screams in frustration and pain. One last terrific

bolt of colored lightning envelops him, and causes his wings to

burst into lurid flame. He leaps high into the air, smashing

through the ceiling.

ON THE SECOND FLOOR --

BEETLE JUICE, howling, crashes through the floor, and then

through the ceiling here as well.

IN THE ATTIC --

he crashes through the attic floor, and then out through the

roof.

EXT:
THE HOUSE -- NIGHT

BEETLE JUICE is A BALL OF FIRE at the top of the whirlwind

surrounding the house. He explodes like a massive display of

fireworks.

Almost instantly, the wind calms down.

INT:
LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT

The downstairs walls of the house have been completely

obliterated, leaving only the frame. There is nothing whatever

left of the furnishings. Moonlight shines down through the

vertical holes BEETLE JUICE blasted through the house.

CHARLES:

Is everybody all right?

Cathy?

CATHY has collapsed between two small piles of dust and bones and

scraps of cloth, all that is left of ADAM and BARBARA. DELIA

raises a limp CATHY, and after a tense moment, CATHY's eyes

struggle open.

OTHO:

There are doors man is not

meant to open. There are

places man is not meant to

tread. I guess Connecticut

is one of them.

LYDIA:

They gave up their lives

to save us and the house.

DELIA:

They were already dead.

(Beat) But you're right,

they did sacrifice themselves.

CATHY:

They can't be dead!

She runs for the stairs.

OTHO is standing beneath the holes in the ceiling, looking up at

the moon.

OTHO:

We could think about a

skylight.

But the DEETZs have already started up the stairs, after CATHY.

INT:
ATTIC -- NIGHT

In shadows, CATHY stands over the model. Some of it survives,

some it was sheered off in BEETLE JUICE's ascension.

LYDIA, CHARLES, and DELIA come silently into the room, and stand

together, looking at the miniature version of their own home.

CHARLES:

We have two choices.

We can stay and try to

put this house together

again. Or we can move

back to New York.

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