Friday the 13th Page #9

52 EXT. LAKE - DAY

The sun has dropped lower on the horizon.

The CAMERA looks down on ALICE as she sleeps peacefully in the

late sun. A shadow passes across her face, and she awakes with

a start.

CUT BACK to see BILL standing over her with a machete.

ALICE:

I didn't know I was asleep...What time

is it?

BILL:

Almost five.

ALICE gets up.

ALICE:

Now I'm only eleven hours behind

schedule. Steve is going to have a

small cow.

They walk away from the shore.

CUT TO:

53 EXT. ALICE'S CABIN - DAY

ALICE is walking quicker than BILL. We realize we have seen

this cabin before--when the snake was placed in it.

BILL:

You can only do what you can do.

ALICE:

And then Steve looks at you with those

hurt eyes--like you don't care about

children...

BILL laughs at her imitation.

ALICE:

(continuing)

I'll see you later.

She turns to go up the steps to her front door.

BILL:

Alice?

She stops and look down at him. He is serious and he cares.

ALICE appreciates what's she's just heard. She knows that it

wasn't easy for BILL to say.

ALICE:

You're very nice.

They share a short silent moment.

BILL:

Hope you will.

BILL smiles and turns and jogs off, still carrying his long

blade.

ALICE watches him go. She shrugs. This might be a good place

to stay. She turns and goes into her cabin.

CUT TO:

54 INT. ALICE'S CABIN - DAY

In the FG is the camp bed with its white coverlet. The snake

is nowhere in sight--which means it could be anywhere.

ALICE is humming to herself and is happier now than she has

been since we met her.

The room is small. There is the metal-frame cot, an old wooden

dresser with a cloudy mirror on top. The walls are a light

blue, freshly painted. The wall on the inside does not go all

the way to the ceiling so that she can monitor what's going on

in the campers' section of the cabin on the other side.

ALICE looks at herself in the old cloudy mirror and likes what

she sees. She pushes her hair so that she looks a little

sexier. She smiles at herself.

She reaches out in CU. Open a drawer. Takes out a towel.

ALICE turns and goes to her footlocker. Bends down and opens

it up. Takes out a terrycloth robe.

She closes the footlocker, stands up and heads out the door.

CUT TO:

55 EXT. ALICE'S CABIN - DAY

ALICE heads from her cabin to the showers.

CUT TO:

56 INT. SHOWER ROOM - DAY

ALICE walks into her room wearing her bathrobe, her hair in a

towel-turban. She flicks off her shower clogs, and looks for

her hairbrush. She takes her towel off and lets her tangled

hair fall down.

She hums. Opens her top drawer. Nothing there.

Opens the next drawer. Nothing there.

Opens the next drawer. Nothing there.

ALICE opens the fourth drawer and the snake strikes! It flails

at her right wrist, a wrist which we have established earlier

as having a Navajo bracelet on it. The snake strikes the

bracelet, hangs on as ALICE tries to shake it free. The snake

falls to the floor and recoils for another attack.

There is no way that ALICE can get past the snake to run away.

Her scream is loud.

CUT TO:

57 EXT. MAIN CABIN - DAY

BILL, returning from his last half hour of trail-blazing, hears

ALICE.

ALICE (O.S.)

Help!

BILL doesn't hesitate. Carrying his machete, he runs to

ALICE's cabin.

MARCIE and JACK follow in the BG.

CUT TO:

58 INT. ALICE'S CABIN - DAY

ALICE is backed against the wall. The snake could strike and

get her.

BILL runs into the room, still carrying his machete. He looks

at ALICE.

ALICE:

(a tight whisper)

There's a f***ing snake in here.

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