Clue Page #12

The guests walk onto the main floor.

WADSWORTH:

No gun. Yvette dropped it here.

(declaring)

Very well . . . I know who did it.

ALL:

(incredulously)

You do?

WADSWORTH:

And furthermore, I'm going to tell you how it was all done.

Follow me.

He walks to the library. The guests follow.

114 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--LIBRARY -- 114

Wadsworth addresses the assembled guests.

WADSWORTH:

In order to help you understand what happened,

I shall need to take you through the events of the evening,

step by step.

At the start of the evening, Yvette was here, by herself,

waiting to offer you all a glass of champagne.

I was in the Hall.

(pauses)

I know, because I was there.

Then, I hurried across to the kitchen.

He waves for the guests to follow him.

115 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--KITCHEN -- 115

Wadsworth is running into the kitchen, the guests following.

WADSWORTH:

And the cook was in here, alive, sharpening knives,

preparing for dinner. And then . . .

116 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL -- 116

Wadsworth springs up to the front door, the guests following closely.

He proceeds to act out events.

WADSWORTH:

And the doorbell rang . . .

(to Col. Mustard)

And it was you!

MUSTARD:

Yes . . .

WADSWORTH:

(breathlessly)

I asked you for your coat, and I recognized you as Colonel Mustard

and I prevented you from telling your real name because I didn't want

any of you to use any name other than your pseudonym and I

introduced myself to you as a butler and I ran across the Hall

to the library!

He does so, with the confused guests in tow.

117 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--LIBRARY -- 117

Wadsworth imitates everything he describes.

WADSWORTH:

And then Yvette met you . . . and smiled . . .

(he smiles)

. . . and poured you a drink.

He runs for the Hall.

118 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL--FOYER -- 118

Wadsworth heads for the front door.

WADSWORTH:

(still breathless)

And the doorbell rang! And it was Mrs. White, looking pale and tragic,

and I took her coat, and made off!

They head for the library again.

119 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--LIBRARY -- 119

WADSWORTH:

And I introduced to Colonel Mustard.

(imitating them)

Hello. Hello.

And I noticed that Mrs. White and Yvette . . . flinched!

Then . . . there was a rumble of thunder, and a crash of lightning.

He demonstrates.

WADSWORTH:

And, to make a long story short--

ALL:

Too late.

WADSWORTH:

--one by one, you all arrived.

120 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL -- 120

Wadsworth grabs the gong mallet.

WADSWORTH:

And then the gong was struck by the cook!

He does so.

WADSWORTH:

And we went into the dining room!

121 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--DINING ROOM -- 121

Wadsworth goes around the table, indicating chairs.

WADSWORTH:

(breathless)

And Mrs. Peacock sat here, and Professor Plum sat here . . .

(acts as if slurping soup)

and Mrs. White sat here . . .

(imitates them slurping soup)

and Mr. Green, Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard.

This chair (indicates the head) was vacant.

Anyway, we all revealed we'd all received a letter.

(points at various chairs)

And you'd had a letter, and you'd had a letter, and you'd had a letter--

ALL:

Get on with it!!

WADSWORTH:

The point is--blackmail!

GREEN:

But all this came out after dinner--in the study!

WADSWORTH:

You're right!

He heads into the Hall.

122 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL -- 122

The party runs across the Hall to the study.

123 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--STUDY -- 123

The butler rushes around the room, pointing at different locations.

WADSWORTH:

Mr. Green stood here, and Mrs. Peacock here, and Miss Scarlet

here, and Professor Plum here, and Colonel Mustard, and

Mrs. White, and--

ALL:

Get on with it!!!

WADSWORTH:

I'm getting there, I'm getting there!!

And Mr. Boddy went to get his surprise packages from the Hall.

And you all opened your presents,

(he shuts the door)

And Mr. Boddy switched out the lights!

Wadsworth turns off the lights.

Pause.

Everyone screams.

The lights are flipped back on.

Wadsworth is lying on the floor, and the guests,

tired of all this, react with disgust.

The butler opens his eyes.

WADSWORTH:

Mr. Boddy lay on the floor, apparently dead.

PLUM:

He was dead! I examined him!

WADSWORTH:

Then why was he bashed on the head a few minutes later with

a candlestick if he was dead already?

PLUM:

All right, I made a mistake!

WADSWORTH:

Right!

But if so, why was Mr. Boddy pretending to be dead?

(more quietly)

It could only be because he realized his scheme had misfired,

and the gunshot was intended to kill him, not me.

Look.

(points at blood on one of Mr. Boddy's ear lobes)

The bullet grazed his ear. Clearly his best way of escaping death

was to pretend to be dead already.

PLUM:

So whoever grabbed the gun from me in the dark was trying

to kill HIM!

WADSWORTH:

But remember what happened next.

He goes to the door and picks up the glass from a table.

WADSWORTH:

Mrs. Peacock took a drink.

(points at Prof. Plum)

You said, "Maybe it's poisoned!"

She screams!

Wadsworth screams in falsetto.

He takes Mrs. Peacock, who helpfully(?) starts to scream.

The butler sits her down on the couch.

WADSWORTH:

Mr. Green . . .

(Wadsworth slaps Mrs. Peacock)

(he imitates Mr. Green)

Well . . . I had to stop her screaming . . .

(back to himself)

Then--more screaming--Yvette--the billiard room!

We all rushed out!

As they do now.

124 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--BILLIARD ROOM -- 124

Wadsworth sits on the pool table.

The guests pool around the door.

WADSWORTH:

But one of us . . . wasn't here.

(nasally accent)

No.

ALL:

(imitating him)

No?

WADSWORTH:

(responding in kind)

No.

Maybe one of us was murdering the cook.

Who wasn't here with us?

The guests pause.

GREEN:

Do you know?

WADSWORTH:

(with certainty)

I do.

(continues at his breathless rate)

While we stood here, trying to stop Yvette from panicking . . .

He leaves for the study.

124a -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE STUDY -- 124a

WADSWORTH:

. . . one of us could have stayed in the study,

picked up the dagger . . .

(he does so)

124b -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL -- 124b

Wadsworth is running down the Hall.

WADSWORTH:

. . . run down the Hall . . .

124c -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--KITCHEN -- 124c

WADSWORTH:

. . . and stabbed the cook.

He plunges the dagger into a chicken as the guests arrive

at the door.

PEACOCK:

Oh, how could he risk it?

We might have seen him running back.

Wadsworth goes over to the freezer and pushes open the back of

the freezer, exposing the kitchen/study secret passage.

WADSWORTH:

Not if they used this secret passage.

Mrs. Peacock gasps.

WADSWORTH:

And the murderer ran back down the secret passage to the study.

Wadsworth leaves the kitchen for the Hall.

125 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE HALL -- 125

The butler is going for the study.

WHITE:

(yelling)

Is that where it comes out?

WADSWORTH:

(yelling back)

Yes! Look!

126 -- INT. GROUND FLOOR--THE STUDY -- 126

Wadsworth pushes open the picture.

GREEN:

Wha--?

MUSTARD:

How did you know?

WADSWORTH:

This house belongs to a friend of mine. I've known all along.

GREEN:

So you could be the murderer.

WADSWORTH:

(laughing)

Don't be ridiculous.

If I was the murderer, why would I reveal to you how I did it?

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