Ghostbusters Page #9

DANA's apartment

DANA trembles.

Ghostbusters HQ; basement

Walls tremble. Bricks pop out. Everyone starts running.

CON EDISON MAN:

Oh sh*t.

Ghostbusters HQ; entrance

Everyone runs like hell.

EGON:

Clear the building!

Outside Ghostbusters HQ

LOUIS runs out. The door of the fire house is smoking. The roof explodes.

DANA's apartment

DANA is jolted awake.

Outside Ghostbusters HQ

Explosion. Pink strams of psychokinetic energy zap out. Crowd gathers.

LOUIS:

This is it! This is the sign!

walks away

JANINE:

Yeah, it's a sign all right; we're going out of business.

Ecto-1 drives up. Police start to arrive.

RAY:

What happened?

EGON:

The storage facilities blew. He shut off the protection grid.

RAY:

Oh, great.

WINSTON:

That's bad, isn't it?

RAY:

Yeah.

PETER:

Where's the Keymaster?

EGON:

Sh*t!

RAY:

Who's the Keymaster?

EGON:

Come on!

The Ghoustbusters run. PECK and some police stop them.

PECK:

Hold it! I want this man arrested. Captain, these men are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act, and this explosion is a direct result of it!

EGON:

Your mother -

They fight. Police try to keep order.

The ghosts keep pouring out of the fire house roof.

Music:
Magic.

New York City

The pink streams fly over the city.

DANA's apartment

DANA goes to her window, grinning.

Outside subway tunnel

LOUIS passes. Papers fly around. A blue creature rises up out of tunnel.

By taxi

Pink smoke enters a taxi's exhaust. BUSINESSMAN IN CAB enters.

BUSINESSMAN IN CAB

Columbia Building, 53rd street, and I'm in a hurry, so let's not dawdle.

Driver is a zombie. Drives at breakneck speed, making a U-turn. Other cars swerve.

Street

LOUIS walks down street, gazing upwards.

Hot dog cart

Slimer is inside, pigging out.

DANA's apartment

Bolts of pink light fly up, past her window.

Another street

LOUIS walks down, gazing upwards.

DANA's apartment

Her wall explodes.

Street

Pigeons fly from LOUIS.

Remnants of DANA's apartment

She stares out, her hair blowing in the wind.

Jail

WINSTON:

Hey, guard! I want to make a phone call! I just work with these guys! I wasn't even there!

RAY and EGON look over blueprints

EGON:

The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.

RAY:

Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.

PETER:

to other jailbirds

Everyone getting this so far? So what? I guess they just don't make them like they used to.

RAY:

No! Nobody ever made them like this! The architect was either a certified genius or an aesthetic wacko!

PETER:

Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering or physics and just tell me what the hell is going on.

RAY:

You never studied. The whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. Your girlfriend, Pete, lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central.

PETER:

She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers! She barks, she drools, she claws...

EGON:

It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building! Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920 he founded a secret society.

PETER:

Let me guess. Gozer worshippers.

EGON:

Right.

PETER:

No studying!

EGON:

After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone. he had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen!

PETER:

singing

So be good, for goodness sake! Whoa! Somebody's coming! Somebody's coming!

RAY:

We have to get out of here. We've gotta get a judge or something.

WINSTON:

Hey! Hey! Hold it! Now we going to actually going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy old Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?

RAY:

Sumerian, not Babylonian.

PETER:

Yeah, big difference!

WINSTON:

No offense, guys, but I gotta get my own lawyer.

JAIL GUARD:

Okay, Ghostbusters! The mayor wants to see you guys. The whole island's going crazy! Let's go.

PETER:

to other jailbirds

I gotta split. The mayor wants to rap with me about some things.

Outside Ivo Shandor Building

LOUIS walks by. Shocked. Looks up to the top.

Remnants of DANA's apartment

LOUIS:

I am the Keymaster!

DANA:

I am the Gatekeeper.

they kiss, then go up the stairs to the Temple of Zuul

Outside City Hall

Police escort Ghostbusters to the MAYOR. Reporters and photographers try to get press. Music: Savin' The Day.

POLICE CAPTAIN:

Stay back! Stay back!

Inside MAYOR's office

MAYOR:

I got a city blowing up, and you guys are not giving me any answers!

POLICE COMMISIONER

All right. We're blocking the bridges, the roads. I mean -

MAYOR'S AIDE

The Ghostbusters are here, Mr. Mayor.

MAYOR:

The Ghostbusters, all right, the Ghostbusters. Hey, where's this Peck?

PECK:

I am Walter Peck, sir, and I'm prepared to make a full report. These men are consummate snowball artists! They use sensitive nerve gases to induce hallucinations. People think they're seeing ghosts! And they call these bozos, who conveniently show up to deal with the problem with a fake electronic light show!

RAY:

Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.

PECK:

They caused an explosion!

MAYOR:

Is this true?

PETER:

Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.

PECK lunges at PETER. Police try to break up fight.

POLICE SERGEANT:

Break it up, break it up!

PETER:

Well, that's what I heard!

MAYOR:

This is City Hall! Now what am I gonna do here, John? What is this?

FIRE COMMISIONER

All I know is:
that was no light show we saw this morning. I've seen every kind of combustion known to man, but this beats the hell out of me.

POLICE COMMISIONER

The walls in the 53rd precinct were bleeding. How do you explain that?

ARCHBISHOP:

entering

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

MAYOR:

Oh... Your Eminence!

kisses ARCHBISHOP's ring

ARCHBISHOP:

How are you, Lenny?

MAYOR:

You're looking good, Mike.

gives ARCHBISHOP a friendly slap

We're in a real fix, here. What do you think I should do?

ARCHBISHOP:

Lenny, officially, the Church will not take any position on the religious implications of these phenomena. Personally, Lenny, I think it's a sign from God. But don't quote me on that.

MAYOR:

I think that's a smart move, Mike. But I'm not gonna call a press conference and tell everyone to start praying.

WINSTON:

I'm Winston Zeddemore, Your Honor. Look, I've only been with the company for a couple of weeks. But I gotta tell you, these things are real. Since I joined these men, I've seen sh*t that'll turn you white!

PETER:

Well, you could believe Mr. Pecker.

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