Dracula Page #4

We are ready for him.

Martin, come. I'll show you where we can

put Mr Renfield where he won't escape.

Maybe you're right, but I have me doubts.

Come along, old fly-eater.

Now you mustn't get out of it this time.

You've got to stay in your room...

Van Helsing!

Now that you have learned

what you have learned,

it would be well for you

to return to your own country.

I prefer to remain, and protect

those whom you would destroy.

You are too late.

My blood now flows through her veins.

She will live through

the centuries to come...

as I have lived.

Should you escape us, Dracula,

we know how to save Miss Mina's soul,

if not her life.

If she dies by day.

But I shall see that she dies by night.

And I will have Carfax Abbey

torn down stone by stone,

excavated a mile around.

I will find your earth box

and drive that stake through your heart.

Come here.

Come...

here.

Your will is strong,

Van Helsing.

More wolfbane?

More effective than wolfbane, Count.

Indeed?

(snarls)

(Mina) Open the windows, Briggs,

let in some air!

The odour in the room from that horrible

weed! It's stifling! I can't stand it!

- But the professor gave orders.

- Never mind the professor now.

Now, please, go back to bed at once.

I'm going to call your father.

What is it, Briggs?

I don't know, Mr Harker.

I felt strangely dizzy.

And when it cleared away, Miss Mina was

up and dressed and out on the terrace.

- And I can't get her to go to bed.

- Well, let me see her. Tell her I'm here.

John?

Oh, John, I'm so glad you're here.

What have they been doing to me, dear?

Locking me in my room! Oh, and

the horrible smell of that awful weed.

It's been like a nightmare.

What's been the matter?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Mina...

You're so... like a changed girl.

Oh, you look wonderful!

I feel wonderful.

I've never felt better in my life.

I'm so glad to see you like this.

I've been awfully worried about you.

Mr Harker, you'd better

bring Miss Mina inside.

That's all right, Briggs - now that I'm here.

Run along, Briggs. Don't worry.

John... Look, the fog's lifting.

See how plain you can see the stars.

Yes.

Millions of them.

I've never seen them so close.

Why, it looks as if you could

reach out and touch them.

Would you like me to get you a ha...

Why, what's the matter?

Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.

Come. Let's sit down.

Van Helsing.

Seward. That which I feared

from the beginning has happened.

What?

Dracula boasts that he has fused

his blood with that of Miss Mina.

In life she will now become

the foul thing of the night that he is.

- But Van Helsing...

- Come, Seward.

There's not a moment to be lost.

Oh, but I love the fog!

I love nights with fog.

Well, only yesterday you said

you were afraid of the night.

But, darling, I could never have said

anything so silly! I couldn't!

I love the night.

Why, it's the only time I feel really alive.

- There's that bat again!

- (bat squeaks)

- Yes?

- Shoo!

- Look out. He'll get in your hair.

- (squeaking)

Yes?

- My, that was a big bat.

- (squeaking)

I will.

You will what?

Why, I didn't say anything.

Yes, you did. You said "I will".

Oh, no, I didn't.

John... Come, sit down.

There must be some way,

some way to save her.

There is only one...

(Mina) John, that funny little old

professor... He has a crucifix.

Now I want you to get it

away from him and hide it.

But why, dear?

Oh, he'll be wanting to protect me again -

from the night, or Count Dracula,

or whatever it is.

Well, I don't know. He may be right, Mina.

Your eyes!

They look at me so strangely.

Mina!

- Mina, you're...

- No, Mina, no!

(Mina screams)

Give me that!

What's the idea? Have you gone crazy?

- Are you trying to frighten her to death?!

- No, I was trying to save her.

Save her? That's a fine way!

It's all right, darling.

Oh, John, darling!

You must go away from me!

(wails)

The cross! Put it away!

After what's happened

I can't bear to look at it.

- What's happened?

- I can't tell you. I can't.

But you must. You must tell me.

I have a right to know.

Oh, John...

You can believe everything he says.

It's all the truth.

Dracula, he...

Dracula?!

What's he done to you, dear? Tell me.

He came to me.

He opened a vein in his arm...

and he made me drink.

(gunshot)

What is it? Who is it, Martin?

It's that big grey bat again, sir.

There's no use wasting your bullets,

Martin. They cannot harm that bat.

No, sir.

He's crazy!

They're all crazy.

They're all crazy except you and me.

Sometimes I have me doubts about you.

Yes.

(creaking)

(Harker) That's Renfield!

What's he doing at the abbey?

Come, Mr Harker.

(creaking)

(clanking)

Master! Master, I'm here!

Where else would he be going

but to Dracula?

What is it, master?

What do you want me to do?

Look! Here's an opening.

(Harker) Mina!

Mina!

I didn't lead them here, master!

I didn't know, I swear!

No! No!

(Dracula) Wait!

I'm loyal to you, master.

I'm your slave. I didn't betray you!

Oh, no, don't! Don't kill me!

Let me live, please!

Punish me, torture me, but let me live!

I can't die with all those lives

on my conscience!

All that blood on my hands!

Argh! Argh!

Mina! Mina!

- He'll kill her if we don't get to her!

- (Van Helsing) We must not be too late.

We have him trapped! Day is breaking!

We have him trapped!

(woman screams)

He's killing her!

Mina! Mina, where are you?

Mina! Mina!

Mina, where are you?

Mina?

Mina?

Mina! Mina!

Harker! Harker!

- See her?

- Come.

Where? Where are you?

Here. Here, Harker. I have found them.

Get me a piece of stone - anything -

to help me drive the stake

through their hearts.

(banging)

Is she...? How does she...?

She is not here.

Then... then she may be alive!

Mina! Mina!

Mina!

Mina!

- (hammer blow)

- (groan)

Aarghh...

(groan trails off into silence)

(Mina shrieks)

Mina!

Mina! Mina!

Oh, John! John, darling!

I heard you calling,

but I couldn't say anything.

We thought he'd killed you, dear.

The daylight stopped him.

Oh, if you could have seen

the look on his face!

There's nothing more to fear, Miss Mina.

Dracula is dead for ever.

No, no, no. You must go.

- But aren't you coming with us?

- Not yet. Presently. Come, John.

(church bells)

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