Ghostbusters Page #5

EGON:

voice over walkie-talkie

Ray? Ray! Come in please!

PETER:

I feel so funky.

RAY:

Spengler! I'm with Venkman! He got slimed!

EGON:

That's great, Ray! Save some for me! Get down here right away. It just went into a ballroom!

Lobby

RAY talks to HOTEL MANAGER regarding the bust.

RAY:

Okay, sir. If you and your staff will just wait out here, we'll take care of it.

Ballroom

The Ghostbusters hide under a table. RAY scans with his ecto-goggles and sees Slimer near a chandilier.

RAY:

There it is, on the ceiling.

PETER:

That's the one that got me.

they come out from under table

RAY:

All right, boys. Ready? Throw it!

They fire. Slimer flies away. The chandilier falls on a table and smashes.

Lobby

HOTEL MANAGER is worried. He tries to open door. Finds it locked.

Ballroom

RAY:

I did that! I did that! That's my fault!

PETER:

That's okay. The table broke the fall.

EGON:

There's something very important I forgot to tell you.

PETER:

What?

EGON:

Don't cross the streams.

PETER:

Why?

EGON:

It would be bad.

PETER:

I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. What do you mean, bad?

EGON:

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

RAY:

Total protonic reversal.

PETER:

All right, that's bad, okay. Important safety tip, don't cross the streams. Thanks, Egon. All right. Ray, take the left. Egon, take the right. Okay, Ray. Give me one eye on the outside... Ray!

RAY fires. Slimer screams and flies away.

Egon!

EGON fires. Destroys crystal glasses, a layer cake, etc. Slimer flies behind a bar. EGON fires. Keeps firing even after Slimer flies away.

Okay, all right, hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Whoa! Nice shooting, Tex!

Slimer hides at the ceiling

Lobby

HOTEL MANAGER:

I assure you, Mrs. Van Hoffman, there is nothing wrong with the room. It will be ready promptly, in time, as soon as your guests are with us.

Ballroom

RAY:

The last throw took something out of him, but he's gonna move! I need some; I need some room to put the trap down. Give me some room.

EGON chucks a table

Lobby

HOTEL MANAGER:

to MRS. VAN HOFFMAN

If you'll excuse me, please.

sends a bellhop to get security

Ballroom

RAY:

We gotta get this in the clear!

PETER:

Wait, wait! I always wanted to do this.

pulls tablecloth out from under table, knocking everything but flowers over

And the flowers are still standing!

RAY sends out the trap

RAY:

Okay, on my go signal. Spengler, I want a confinement stream from you. Okay? Go!

EGON fires and hits Slimer

Okay, hold him up there. He's gonna move. Hold him up. Go!

PETER fires and hits

EGON:

It's working, Ray!

RAY:

Start bringing him down. Start bringing him down. You got him. Don't cross the streams.

PETER:

Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?

EGON:

Venkman, shorten your stream! I don't want my face burned off!

RAY:

All right. I'm opening the trap now; don't look directly into the trap!

opens trap

EGON:

his eyes widening

I looked at the trap, Ray.

RAY:

Bring your streams off as soon as I close the trap. Get ready. I'm closing it, now!

Closes trap. PETER and EGON stop firing and look away. Slimer is sucked into trap. The Ghostbusters look at it, keeping their guns pointed at it.

EGON:

shoving trap with foot; makes blue lightning

It's in there.

PETER:

to Slimer

Hey!

RAY:

Well, that wasn't such a chore, now, was it?

Lobby

A crowd has gathered.

HOTEL MANAGER:

Mr. Smith, quickly. I want that door open now! Stand over there!

PETER:

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

HOTEL MANAGER:

Did you see it? What is it?

RAY:

We got it!

HOTEL MANAGER:

What is it? Will there be any more of them?

RAY:

Sir, what you have there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class Five full roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too!

PETER:

Now, Let's talk seriously, now. For the entrapment, we're gonna have to ask you for four big ones. Four thousand dollars for that. But we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast, and that's only going to come to one thousand dollars, fortunately.

HOTEL MANAGER:

Five thousand dollars? I had no idea it would be so much. I won't pay it.

PETER:

Well, that's all right! We can just put it right back in there.

RAY:

We certainly can, Dr. Venkman.

HOTEL MANAGER:

No, no, no, no! All right! I'll pay anything!

PETER:

Thanks so much.

RAY:

Thank you! Hope we can help you again! All right, coming through! Watch out! Class Five full roaming vapor! Watch out!

Begin musical montage. Music: Ghostbusters.

An apartment

A woman does crunches while ROGER GRIMSBY gives the news.

ROGER GRIMSBY:

Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby. Today the entire eastern seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity. Alleged ghost sightings and related supernatural occurrences have been reported across the entire tri-state area.

New York City street

JOE FRANKLIN:

Well, everybody's heard ghost stories around the campfire. Heck, my grandma used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up! But now, as if some unperceived authority...

Ghostbusters HQ; bedroom

Alarm bell rings. PETER, RAY and EGON run out, still in their sleeping clothes. USA Today wipes to:

Street

Ecto-1 rushes past. New York Post wipes to:

Outside Chinese restaurant

A Chinese man gives PETER and RAY some free Peking duck. They bow in thanks.

Outside a building

RAY wields a trap.

RAY:

Stand aside please!

A street

Ecto-1 drives up. We hear LARRY KING talking. Time wipes to:

LARRY KING's studio

LARRY KING:

Hi, this is Larry King. The phone-in topic today: ghosts and ghostbusting. The controversy builds, more sightings are reported. Some maintain these professional paranormal eliminators in New York are the cause of it all.

Rockefeller Center

PETER, RAY and EGON run along. Omni wipes to:

Outside a building

EGON comes out, with a trap.

EGON:

I got it! Pete? Ray!

Outside yet another building

PETER, RAY and EGON triumphantly exit to a cheering crowd. RAY waves trap. Atlantic Monthly wipes to:

A street

The Ghostbusters run down, brandishing proton guns. CASEY KASEM talks. His broadcast runs into the next scene.

CASEY KASEM:

Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again, this time at the fashionable dance club, The Rose. The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem! Now on with the countdown.

DANA's kitchen

DANA listens to CASEY KASEM. Laughs and sips champagne.

A building

PETER:

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week! No job is too big! No fee is too big!

Ghostbusters HQ; JANINE's desk

JANINE:

on phone

Is it just a mist, or does it have arms and legs?

An apartment

A woman watches the news as she strings her cello.

TV REPORTER:

to RAY

As they say in TV, I'm sure there's one big question on everybody's mind and I imagine you are the man to answer it. How is Elvis? And have you seen him lately?

Globe wipes to:

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