Friday the 13th Page #8

45 EXT. WATER - DAY

The group sits or lies in the cool water, more or less focused

on NED, who is acting as moderator.

NED:

What do you want to be when you grow up?

BRENDA:

Dancer.

MARCIE:

Cowboy.

NED:

Girls can't be cowboys.

MARCIE:

Okay, Fireman.

NED goes to JACK.

NED:

Jack?

JACK:

Coach, athletic director somewhere.

BILL:

Filmmaker.

ALICE:

Artist.

NED:

Doctor. Now, if you were a flavor of

ice cream, what would you be?

MARCIE:

Rocky Road.

They laugh.

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46 EXT. MAIN CAMP AREA - DAY

The PROWLER looks in LONG SHOT down at the lake and we can just

make out the COUNSELLORS.

The CAMERA PANS and we move toward cabins.

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47 EXT. LAKE - DAY

ALICE is treading water, talking with BRENDA, as NED comes up

out of nowhere.

BRENDA:

Vitamin C's supposed to neutralize the

nitrites or something.

NED surfaces between them. He looks with googly eyes at ALICE.

NED:

There are sand sharks in this lake and

they can eat the bathing suit right off

you.

ALICE laughs.

NED:

(continuing)

See? I'm getting to you. Very slowly.

NED does a porpoise drive and disappears.

BRENDA is not laughing. She is looking off towards the cabin

area.

ALICE sees her and look where she looks.

ALICE:

What'd you see?

BRENDA:

I don't know. Marcie's got me paranoid.

She smiles.

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48 EXT. BEHIND ALICE'S CABIN - DAY

The CAMERA, shooting from the PROWLER's POV, moves to a place

alongside Alice's cabin. There is underbrush about two feet

tall and all around that area. The PROWLER stops, leans down

and reaches into FRAME with a gloved hand.

The gloved hand reaches into the underbrush for the tip of a

burlap bag which has been secreted there. The hand lifts the

bag, which has something in it that moves.

The CAMERA MOVES around to the side of the cabin right below

the window. The window is open, making entry quite simple.

The PROWLER's gloved hands untie the neck of the bag, reach in

and haul out quickly a medium-sized snake. One hand has the

animal firmly behind the jaws. The hand takes the snake and

puts it through the open window, leaving it on the clean white

coverlet. It slithers across the bed.

The PROWLER's hand closes the window.

The CAMERA MOVES towards one of the sheds.

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49 EXT. EDGE OF LAKE - DAY

BILL and ALICE are lying on the shore on their towels, watching

the OTHERS in the water and grabbing some afternoon sun. ALICE

is on her stomach, tracing angular designs in the sand. BILL

is on his back, listening.

BILL:

It still hurts?

ALICE:

I walked into it knowing I'd get hurt,

but I thought I could stand anything.

(pause)

I just wasn't ready for that kind of

pain. We were supposed to meet in L.A.

When I got back there, he sent a telegram

saying he was going back to his wife.

BILL turns over so he can look at her better.

BILL:

What'll you do when you leave here?

ALICE:

I don't know.

Various feet enter the FRAME. BILL and ALICE look up to see

JACK with his arm around MARCIE, NED toweling his head, and

BRENDA putting on her blue workshirt.

MARCIE:

Pistachio, fudge ripple, creme de menthe

and I are going back to work.

BILL gets up.

BILL:

Speaking as black raspberry, I guess I'm

ready. Frozen yogurt?

ALICE smiles at the reference.

ALICE:

I'll be along.

NED:

(in a nelly voice)

Don't burn that gorgeous body, or I'll

scratch your eyes out...

They head off. ALICE turns over to tan her front.

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50 EXT. FOREST - DAY

A machete rips through some vines. Again it hacks at the brush.

PULLS BACK to reveal BILL clearing away the years of vine

growth which have choked off a path. He wipes the perspiration

from his eyes and continues along.

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51 EXT. BEHIND THE MAIN CABIN - DAY

Set up behind the cabin is a make-shift exercise area. There

are chinning bars--pipeslashed between two trees--and there's

an aging set of parallel bars. There is even a set of weights

made from tin cans, pipes and assorted amount of cement.

ECU of NEDS's face in a distorted, twisted expression. He

explodes his breath.

We PULL BACK to see BRENDA watching NED work out on the uneven

parallel bars. He is really very good and there is no doubt

about his strength.

BRENDA:

Not bad.

As NED moves off the apparatus, BRENDA comes in and does a neat

little turn which is dazzling. NED does a take.

NED:

Holy sh*t...

BRENDA:

We wouldn't want you thinking you're the

only show-off in camp, would we?

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