Ghostbusters II Page #15

MAYOR:

All right -- the Ghostbusters. I'll tell

you right now; I've got two hundred of the

heaviest campaign contributors in the city

out there eating bad roast chicken waiting

for me to give the speech of my life.

You've got two minutes. Make it good.

STANTZ:

You get enough negative energy flowing in a

dense environment like Manhattan, it starts

to build up, and if we don't do something

fast this whole place will blow like a frog

on a hotplate.

WINSTON:

Tell him about the toaster.

VENKMAN:

I don't think he's ready for the toaster.

MAYOR:

(shaking his head)

Being miserable and treating other people

like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given

right. What am I supposed to do -- go on

television and tell eight million people

they have to be nice to each other? I'm

sorry, none of this makes any sense to me,

and if anything does happen we've got plenty

of paid professionals to deal with it. Your

two minutes are up. Good night, gentlemen.

The mayor exits, leaving the Ghostbusters to Hardemeyer.

HARDEMEYER:

(smirking)

That's quite a story.

VENKMAN:

Yeah, I think the Times might be interested,

don't you? The Post might have a lot of fun

with it, too.

Hardemeyer's eyes go cold and calculating.

HARDEMEYER:

Before you go running to the newspapers with

this, would you consider telling this slime

thing to some people downtown?

VENKMAN:

Now you're talking.

CUT TO:

INT. PARKVIEW HOSPITAL - PSYCHIATRIC WARD - NIGHT (LATER)

An attendant opens a locked door with a wire mesh window and the

Ghostbusters, in straitjackets, are led into the psych ward as Hardemeyer

confers with the chief PSYCHIATRIST.

WINSTON:

(protesting)

I'm telling you, we're not crazy. He is!

HARDEMEYER:

He laughs off the remark.

HARDEMEYER:

(to the Psychiatrist)

The mayor wants them kept under strict

observation for a few days. We think

they're seriously disturbed and potentially

dangerous.

PSYCHIATRIST:

We'll do whatever's necessary.

Hardemeyer shakes his hand and exits as the door slams shut on the

Ghostbusters.

INT. VENKMAN'S LOFT - NIGHT (SAME TIME)

Louis and Janine are watching an old rerun on TV, eating popcorn, while

Dana is stretched out on the other sofa.

DANA:

(wishing they'd leave)

You know you really don't have to stay.

Peter should be back soon.

LOUIS:

Oh no, we don't mind.

She hears a little CRY from the nursery and sits up.

DANA:

Excuse me. I think Oscar is up.

She crosses to the bedroom.

INT. VENKMAN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Dana enters and immediately notices that the crib is empty and the window

is open.

DANA:

(screams)

Louis!

Frantic now, Dana rushes to the window and looks out, as Louis and Janine

come running in.

EXT. WINDOW LEDGE - DANA'S POV - NIGHT (ECLIPSE)

The baby is standing out on the ledge at the corner of the building,

fifty feet above the street, staring off into the distance as if he's

waiting for something.

EXT. WINDOW LEDGE - NIGHT (ECLIPSE) (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Dana climbs out onto the ledge and starts inching slowly toward the baby.

Then she stops as a miraculous apparition materializes.

LOUIS AND JANINE

They lean out the window, gaping at the apparition.

EXT. VENKMAN'S LEDGE - APPARITION

A sweet, kindly-looking English nanny appears, pushing a pram, strolling

on thin air parallel to the ledge high above the ground. Her face looks

remarkably like Janosz Poha's. The nanny extends her hand to the BABY

who GURGLES sweetly as he reaches out to take it.

DANA:

She watches in helpless horror.

DANA:

(screams)

No!!

GHOST NANNY:

She picks up the baby and lays it gently in the pram, then turns and

smiles at Dana. The smile turns to a hideous grin, then the nanny

shrieks at Dana and takes off like a shot with the baby.

DANA:

She watches the creature fly off with Oscar, then climbs back through

the window assisted by Louis and Janine.

DANA:

(resolutely)

Louis, you have to find Peter and tell him

what happened.

LOUIS:

(confused and worried)

Where're you going?

DANA:

To get my baby back.

CUT TO:

EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT (A LITTLE LATER)

A taxi pulls up, Dana jumps out and rushes into the museum. The moment

the door closes behind her, there is a loud THUNDERCLAP, the ground

trembles and a massive amount of slime erupts from around the base of

the museum and starts covering the walls, sealing her inside the

building.

CUT TO:

INT. PARKVIEW PSYCHIATRIC - PADDED ROOM - NIGHT (SAME TIME)

Venkman, Stantz, Spengler and Winston are in a padded cell. They are

handcuffed and the cuffs are chained to thick leather belts around their

waists. Venkman stands there banging his head into the padded wall

while the others try to explain the situation to a skeptical

Psychiatrist.

STANTZ:

We think the spirit of Vigo the Carpathian

is alive in a painting at the Manhattan

Museum.

PSYCHIATRIST:

I see. And are there any other paintings in

the museum with bad spirits in them?

SPENGLER:

(impatient)

You're wasting valuable time! We have reason

to believe that Vigo is drawing strength from

a psychomagnetheric slime flow that's been

collecting under the city.

PSYCHIATRIST:

Yes, tell me about the slime.

WINSTON:

It's potent stuff. We made a toaster dance

with it, then a bathtub tried to eat his

friend's baby.

The psychiatrist looks at Venkman.

VENKMAN:

Don't look at me. I think they're nuts.

CUT TO:

INT. MUSEUM RESTORATION STUDIO - NIGHT (SAME TIME)

Moonlight streams through the skylight above, bathing the studio in

eerie white light. Oscar is lying safely on a table in front of the

painting of Vigo. Dana enters cautiously and sees the baby. Seeing no

one else about, she quickly sneaks down to the table and picks up the

baby, hugging hin tight, greatly relieved to find him unharmed and

intact.

JANOSZ (O.S.)

I knew you would come.

Startled, Dana turns at the sound of his voice as Janosz steps out from

behind the Vigo painting.

DANA:

(defiantly)

What do you want with my baby?

JANOSZ:

No harm will come to the child. You might

even say it's a privilege. He will be the

vessel for the spirit of Vigo. And you --

well, you will be the mother of the ruler

of the world. Doesn't that sound nice?

DANA:

If this is what the world will be like, I

don't want to live in it.

JANOSZ:

(confidentially, indicating

Vigo)

I don't believe we have the luxury of choice.

DANA:

Everybody has a choice.

JANOSZ:

Not in this case, my dear. Take a look.

That's not Gainsborough's Blue Boy up there.

He's Vigo!

DANA:

I don't care who he is. He's not taking my

baby.

Dana walks quickly to the door but suddenly Oscar flies out of her arms,

floats across the room and lands lightly back in the cradle.

DANA:

She turns and looks at Vigo, for the first time feeling his power.

JANOSZ:

You will see. It's all for the best.

CUT TO:

EXT. PARKVIEW HOSPITAL - DAY (NEXT MORNING)

It's the last day of the year and the sun is shining brightly.

CUT TO:

INT. PARKVIEW PSYCHIATRIC WARD - DAY (SAME TIME)

The Ghostbusters are sitting in the dayroom, a dingy lounge for patients

in the locked ward. There is a television set, a Ping-Pong table and a

few tables and chairs. Stantz is looking at the sky through the heavy

wire mesh covering the windows.

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