Dracula 2000 Page #4

Sorry, mate.

[Chuckles]

I've been following you all night.

[Grunting]

You!

You got me thinkin'.

MARCUS:
How's this for a concept?

Eye for an eye, mate!

[Sizzling]

Aah! Damn it!

Ow!

Never, ever f*** with an antiques dealer.

[Growling]

[Body falls]

VAN HELSING:
Mary?

[Banging]

DRACULA:
Abraham Van Helsing.

DRACULA:
Beaten by your own reflection.

You can't have her...ever!

Can't I?

VAN HELSING:
If you harm my daughter...

I swear to the Lord Christ--

Shh!

He doesn't care.

In that you can trust.

You stole life from my blood...

and passed it to another.

She's my Mary now.

Never. Never.

You want revenge, take it.

Right here, right now!

You know not the depths of my vengeance.

[Children playing]

BOY:
Who's it?

[Rumbling]

Lucy?

[Telephone rings]

[Ring]

Hello?

LUCY:
Hey, Mare. It's me.

[Sighs] Lucy.

Where are you?

LUCY:
I'm with your father.

What did you say?

LUCY:
Ahh...

Lucy, where are you right now?

LUCY:
Where do you think?

[Dial tone]

[Beeping dial tone]

[Rumbling]

[Telephone off the hook]

[Beeping dial tone]

Aah!

[Beeping dial tone]

Luce?

Father?

[Line ringing]

[Beeping dial tone]

You had him every night in your dreams...

and you never even shared.

It is better than chocolate.

[Hisses]

Aah!

Oh! Oh, my--

So, what makes you the one?

What do you have that we don't have?

SOLINA:
Oh, I know.

SOLINA:
Let's see what we have.

Oh, yes.

No.

SOLINA:
Yeah, I can still taste it on your daddy's blood.

VALERIE:
Oh, yes. The essence.

[Hissing]

What he took from Dracula, he passed on to you.

SOLINA:
Born with his blood...

but not like the rest of us.

Daddy's little prodigal.

VALERIE:
Sorry about your old man.

We sucked him dry.

[Valerie laughing]

Rahrr!

[Hissing]

[Thunder]

[Wolf growling]

Get down!

[Screeching]

You all right? You OK? Yeah?

Where's your father?

Where is he?

MARY:
"My unholy addiction has corrupted Mary's blood...

"and not a day goes by...

"that I don't pray for her mortal soul.

MARY:
"Yesterday, her mother discovered my secret.

"I know now that I shall never see...

"either my wife or daughter again.

"Perhaps it's for the best...

"but the pain of their loss is unendurable."

MARY:
"Still, I must carry on."

You knew about this?

Not until tonight.

So, what now, Simon?

SIMON:
We need a sacred place. Somewhere to hide till dawn.

We'll figure this out.

There's an old seminary nearby with a church.

MARY:
We can go there.

MARY:
So, I'm part of him.

His blood. I'm part of Dracula.

It's what all this is about, isn't it?

I'm his.

Since the moment I was born.

SIMON:
No, Mary. You're not his...

and you never will be.

I won't let that happen.

Why are you doing this?

Well, let's just say...

I made a pretty fair mess of things...

before your father came along.

I was out of control, and he gave me a job...

turned my life around.

Now I can never pay him back.

Except, maybe, by doing right by you.

Or maybe I would've done it anyway.

Do you believe in destiny, Simon?

Fate?

Your father kept us all safe from this evil...

for a hundred years.

He defied death to do it.

Something tells me he didn't ask fate for permission.

Well, I'm not my father.

Don't be so sure.

Wait.

This might be of some use.

Point and pray.

SIMON:
Modern legends all date back...

to the 15th Century warlord Dracula.

MARY:
Father kept him locked up in some kind of dungeon?

SIMON:
He tried to keep him from the world, Mary...

but most of all, he tried to keep him from you.

SIMON:
He was trying to find a way...

to kill an immortal being.

SIMON:
He knew that Dracula was just one of his many names.

He knew he had to be much older than that...

and the answer may lie hidden in the historical record.

MARY:
Maybe the only way to know death, Simon...

is to...embrace it.

You can't think like that.

You can't.

We know he detests all things Christian...

SIMON:
holy water, the Cross, the Bible.

And silver.

SIMON:
Why silver? It's not uniquely Christian.

Has to be something more.

SIMON:
Something personal.

MARY:
Wait. He wrote something like that.

At my house.

- Is that Hebrew?

- Aramaic.

Aramaic?

That's been a dead language for almost 2,000 years.

MARY:
"Believe in me, for I am the way to...

"to eternity."

You know Aramaic?

No, but he does.

[Boom]

Simon?

Propaganda.

MARY:
Simon. Wait.

SIMON:
Run, Mary!

Get out of here now!

DRACULA:
You think you can defend her with the Bible?

[Bell chiming]

[Whoosh]

[Gasps]

Mary!

[Gasps]

DRACULA:
I have walked the earth for centuries...

in search of a soul not bitten, but born.

I am not like you.

Everything I am is yours.

Mary!

Mary!

SIMON:
Mary!

And all you are is mine.

SIMON:
Mary!

Uhh!

[Crowd yelling]

[Man singing indistinctly]

MAN:
Over here!

Hey, take your shirt off!

[Hisses]

Sh*t.

LUCY:
Ah, simple Simon.

Aah!

[Hisses]

VALERIE:
So tell me...

did you ever dream about making it with a TV star?

[Valerie laughs]

Oh, Simon, why fight it?

Mary's his.

She belongs to him.

No.

We'll all be lovers soon.

No. Unh!

Aah!

You cannot imagine what I've had to endure.

DRACULA:
I have borne the very wrath of God.

Chosen to suffer like no man before.

Who are you?

DRACULA:
It was my last sunset on this earth...

that made me who I am.

Let me show you...

what I have shown no other.

[Woman singing]

Blood of my blood...

flesh of my flesh.

[Thunder]

Judas Iscariot.

The cross, the silver...

all the things you came to despise.

[Gasps]

DRACULA:
You knew this would come to pass.

It was my destiny to betray you...

because you needed me.

Now...

I drink the blood of your children...

but I give them more than just eternal life.

I give them what they crave most.

All the pleasure you would deny them...

forever.

[Laughs]

DRACULA:
You made the world in your image...

but now...

I make it in mine.

Come, Mary.

DRACULA:
Let us feast.

She's one of us now.

You can smell it on her.

We've saved him for you, Mary.

DRACULA:
Show him there is nothing to fear.

Blood...

has always been the coin of our realm.

Save some for us, Mare.

SIMON:
No, Mary, please.

Mary, don't.

Please.

Aah! Aah!

Thanks, Luce.

Hey...

I'd like his head.

Vampire or not, he won't stop hunting us now.

He's yours to end.

Oh, Simon.

B*tch is faking it.

No!

For my father.

Go!

You think you can teach me about betrayal?

Didn't your father ever tell you, Mary?

I can't die. He won't have me.

Did you ever ask?

For what? Forgiveness?

You really think I'd go back to him? Never!

[Click]

[Click]

Ahh!

- He still loves you.

- Does he?

DRACULA:
Just as he still loves you?

Then go back to him...

and see if he'll still have you!

Unh!

Aah!

Simon.

Better make it good.

You and I, we could--

No!

SIMON:
Aah!

This is how you die.

Ohh! Uhh!

[Gasping]

[Choking]

Uhh!

[Choking]

[Gasps]

I...

DRACULA:
release...you.

[Woman singing]

Aah!

SIMON:
Mary!

Mary!

MARY:
Long ago, Judas Iscariot...

tried to die for his sins...

but he was denied.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes