Halloween H20 Page #19

Frightened students scramble toward the entrance, knocking

party goers into the pool... trampling over others.

AT THE ENTRANCE:

Students stack up against the doors, pounding furiously...

trying to get out.

WILL:

tries to calm the petrified party-goers...

INT. HEADMASTER'S OFFICE - SAME TIME

Keri sits behind her desk, Detective Blake's BUSINESS CARD in

hand...

She picks up the phone, brings it to her ear...

NO DIAL TONE.

She jiggles the receiver... STILL NOTHING. She is distracted

by --

MOLLY'S SCREAMS

from outside her office. Keri crosses to the window...

ANGLE THROUGH THE WINDOW

Molly standing at the gymnasium entrance, pounding against

the door with bloody palms... screaming bloody murder, trying

desperately to get in, while the students on the other side

try in vain to get out.

KERI:

Molly?

The SHAPE approaches her, now only a few feet away.

Molly tugs feverishly at the chains, they hold tight. She

bolts for the bell tower, trailing blood... the SHAPE follows.

ON Keri, horrified... he's back. She charges out of the

office, on a mission...

CUT TO:

INT. BELL TOWER

Molly bursts through the door... she stops at the bottom of

the staircase, looks up to see...

FOUR FLIGHTS OF STAIRS

spiraling high above her. She hobbles up the stairway,

grunting in agony...

As she makes her ascent, she looks down to see...

A SHADOW:

three flights down, begins its climb up the stairs. Molly

picks up the pace...

EXT. BELL TOWER - CONTINUOUS

Molly emerges at the top of the bell tower... runs over to

the rope dangling from the massive bell... pulls with all her

might, causes...

THE BELL:

to swing... BUT there is no sound!

Molly frantically pulls the rope again, SCREAMING madly...

trying desperately to get someone's attention...

Still no sound! She moves to the gargantuan bell, looks

inside and sees...

WALLY'S BODY

stuffed up inside of it, preventing the clapper from striking

the bell.

Molly reaches in, grabs Wally's shirt... tugs with all her

might... expels the cadaver with a final heave-ho.

ON Wally's corpse as it falls four stories down, lands at the

foot of the staircase.

Molly stumbles back... wraps the rope around her wrists, tugs

with all her weight...

RING-RING-RING! THE BELL RESONATES ACROSS CAMPUS. A call

for help...

Molly continues to pull at the rope, her wrists bleeding as

the cord digs into her skin. She watches in horror as...

A SHADOW:

approaches the top of the stairway... a FIGURE emerges,

it's...

THE SHAPE:

Molly SCREAMS... the SHAPE grabs he... wraps the ROPE tightly

around her neck... Molly grasp for breath.

ON KERI:

Running furiously across the campus... trying desperately to

reach the bell tower in time...

ON THE SHAPE:

Moves Molly to the wall of the bell tower, tosses her over

the edge....

ON KERI:

Watches in horror as Molly falls two flights before the rope

goes taunt, snapping her neck instantly... the bell CLANGS.

KERI:

NOOOOOOOOO!

INT. GYMNASIUM - SAME TIME

A group of STUDENTS, with Will at the helm, use a WOODEN

BENCH as a battering ram...

BOOM!

The bench slams against the gym entrance, the metal doors

start to buckle...

BOOM!

ON THE GYMNASIUM DOORS, the weight of the wooden bench pops

the chains wrapped around the handles, the doors fly open...

KERI:

watches as crazed STUDENTS pour out of the gymnasium, head

for the parked buses across campus...

STUDENTS spot Molly dangling from the bell tower... SCREAMS

of terror echo across campus...

Keri turns back to the bell tower... the SHAPE IS GONE!

KERI:

(realizing)

John...

She heads toward --

THE PARKED SCHOOL BUSES

being filled to capacity with screaming teens...

WILL:

leads the charge of getting all students safely aboard.

KERI:

manages to find John amongst the throng...

KERI:

John!

Mother and son reunite...

JOHN:

He found you, didn't he?

KERI:

Get on the bus.

JOHN:

Where's Molly? She's not in her

room...

KERI:

Just get on the bus.

JOHN:

I'm not leaving without her.

KERI:

John, you can't help her now.

JOHN:

What? Where is she?

KERI:

John...

Keri's at a loss for words, it's written all over her face...

JOHN:

Oh, God... no... not Molly.

KERI:

Please, get on the bus...

John hesitates for a beat... climbs into the bus, takes a

window seat...

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