Ghostbusters Page #10

PECK:

My name is Peck!

PETER:

Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

MAYOR:

What do you mean, biblical?

RAY:

What he means is Old Testament biblical, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!

EGON:

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!

WINSTON:

The dead rising from the grave!

PETER:

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

MAYOR:

Enough! I get the point! What if you're wrong?

PETER:

If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail. Peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it! But if I'm right, and we can stop this thing; Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.

MAYOR smiles. ARCHBISHOP nods.

PECK:

all the wind sucked out of his sails

I don't believe you're seriously considering listening to these men.

PETER smiles a smug smile.

MAYOR:

Get him out of here.

PETER:

waving

Bye.

PECK:

I'll fix you, Venkman. I'm gonna fix you!

PETER:

I am going to send you a nice fruit basket. I'm gonna miss him!

PECK:

All right, all right!

MAYOR:

You've got work to do. Now what do you need from me?

The streets of New York

Music:
Savin' The Day. The streets are clear, but the sidewalks are jammed with people waving signs and cheering. Military and police personnel yell things. The Ghostbusters wait in Ecto-1 with their police escort.

PETER:

Come on, let's run some red lights!

The cars start moving.

Outside Ivo Shandor Building

Dark clouds gather atop the building, shrouding the Temple of Zuul. The police escort drives up. The Ghostbusters get out and suit up. The crowd cheers.

PETER:

Hello, New York! Well, hi, everyone!

raises RAY's hand high

Dr. Ray Stantz! Would you please? The heart of the Ghostbusters! Thank you. They love you. They love you here!

walks down the sidewalk, shaking and kissing hands

I like that shirt, pal! Gotta run. Got a date with a ghost! All right, whatever happens, let's be professionals.

The Ghostbusters assemble in front of the building, looking up at the darkness above. Lightning strikes the building.

RAY:

We might have to put a little overtime in on this one!

Earthquake! A water main breaks. People fall and scream. A pit opens below the Ghostbusters. They fall in. So does the front end of a police car. The earthquake suddenly stops. The crowd comes to its feet.

PEOPLE IN CROWD:

Are you all right?

Ghostbusters?

Are they all right?

A dazed RAY pops out of the hole

There they are!

the others climb out of the hole

Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters!

PETER:

We're all right, it's all right, we can take it! You gotta learn to play rough! You wanna play rough?

RAY:

Yeah!

WINSTON:

Let's go!

Music:
Savin' The Day. They grab hands, pushing down, then up, and go into building

Ivo Shandor Building; many flights of stairs

They groan as they climb the stairs.

PETER:

Where are we?

RAY:

Oh, it looks like we're in the teens somewhere.

PETER:

Well, when we get to twenty, tell me. I'm gonna throw up.

Temple of Zuul

DANA and LOUIS stand on terror dog pedestals. Lightning shoots between them and the gates to the spirit world. The gates open up.

Floor 22

RAY:

Twenty-two. Is this it?

PETER:

Yeah.

EGON:

Art Deco. Very nice.

RAY:

Where is it?

PETER:

It's at the end of the hall.

Remnants of DANA's apartment

RAY points out the stairs to the Temple of Zuul.

RAY:

Hey, where do these stairs go?

PETER:

They go up.

He's about to go upstairs. Lightning goes off. He pushes his friends on.

Okay. Go ahead. Come on, go ahead. Come on. Go ahead!

Temple of Zuul

The Ghostbusters arrive. Lightning strikes DANA and LOUIS.

PETER:

Dana!

DANA and LOUIS turn into terror dogs

Okay. That's all. She's a dog.

The Ghostbusters line up in front of the temple. GOZER emerges from the temple.

RAY:

It's a girl.

GOZER pets the terror dogs

EGON:

It's Gozer.

WINSTON:

I thought Gozer was a man.

EGON:

It's whatever it wants to be.

PETER:

Well, whatever it is, it's gotta get by us!

RAY:

Right!

PETER:

Go get her, Ray!

RAY steps up

RAY:

Gozer the Gozerian! Good evening! As a duly designated representative of the state, county and city of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension!

PETER:

That ought to do it. Thanks very much, Ray.

GOZER:

Are you a god?

PETER nods "yes" to RAY

RAY:

No.

GOZER:

reaching its arms back into the temple

Then... die!

Fires lightning at the Ghostbusters. They sail across the temple, clinging to the edge of the building.

Outside Ivo Shandor Building

Crowd screams.

Temple of Zuul

WINSTON:

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "Yes!"

RAY nods

PETER:

All right. This chick is toast!

they march up to the temple

Got your stick?

PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON

unhooking proton guns

Holding!

PETER:

Heat 'em up!

PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON

charging guns

Smoking!

PETER:

Make 'em hard!

PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON

Ready!

PETER:

Let's show this prehistoric b*tch how we do things downtown. Strike!

They blast GOZER. It yowls and flips across the temple.

Nimble little minx, isn't she? Aim for the flat top!

They blast again. GOZER vanishes.

Well! That wasn't so hard.

RAY:

We neutralized it! You know what that means? A complete particle reversal!

WINSTON:

Hey, we have the tools, we have the talent!

PETER:

It's Miller time!

EGON:

looking at PKE meter

Ray? This looks extraordinarily bad.

Earthquake at the temple. Rocks fall.

Look out!

Outside Ivo Shandor Building

Rocks fall. Crowd screams.

Temple of Zuul

Voice of GOZER sounds.

GOZER:

Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler, has come! Choose and perish!

RAY:

What do you mean, choose? We don't understand!

GOZER:

Choose! Choose the form of the Destructor!

PETER:

Whoa! I get it, I get it. Very cute! Whatever we think of - if we think of J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover will appear and destroy us, okay? So empty your heads. Empty your heads. Don't think of anything. We've only got one shot at this.

GOZER:

The choice is made! The Traveler has come!

PETER:

Whoa! Whoa! Nobody choosed anything! Did you choose anything?

EGON:

No!

PETER:

Did you?

WINSTON:

My mind's totally blank!

PETER:

I didn't choose anything!

PETER, EGON and WINSTON stare at RAY

RAY:

trembling

I couldn't help it. It just popped in there!

PETER:

What? What just popped in there?

RAY:

I - I tried to think -

stomping and screaming from below

EGON:

Look!

RAY:

No! It can't be!

WINSTON:

What is it?

RAY:

It can't be!

WINSTON:

What did you do, Ray?

RAY:

It can't be!

WINSTON:

Aw, sh*t!

RAY:

solemnly

It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Outside Shandor Building

Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man stomps cars as people run and scream in terror.

Temple of Zuul

PETER:

Well, there's something you don't see every day.

RAY:

I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay-Puft...

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