Hellbound: Hellraiser II Page #22

They are good at their job - within seconds LARRY is secured on

the gurney and they head for the door, KIRSTY and TIFFANY behind

them. The following exchanges are spoken on the move.

KIRSTY:

Is he going to be 0.K.?

INTERN:

We just can't say.

O.R.'s on standby. They'll

do what they can.

KIRSTY:

But it's bad?

The INTERNS exchange a glance and decide honesty is best.

INTERN:

(gently but flatly)

Yeah. It's bad.

105 INT. ELEVATOR DAY

The elevator is uncomfortably full, KIRSTY and TIFFANY squashed

up against the back while the INTERNS hold the gurney in the

centre.

The elevator is descending. The ride seems to take longer than it

should, even though they are going to basement level;like the

look of TIFFANY's room, it's ALMOST normal but just different

enough to make us slightly uneasy in an un-focused way.

Eventually, though, it does come to a stop. TIFFANY squeezes

KIRSTY's shoulder sympathetically (NOTE. RE: TIFFANY's character

- it should be clear to the audience by this stage that, though

she is still mute, TIFFANY is now a responsive, more rounded

character)

The INTERNS wheel the gurney out of the elevator and the girls

follow.

106 INT. BASEMENT CORRIDOR DAY

The basement corridor is long, cavernous, and not very pleasant.

It has a grimier, more uncared-for look than the upper floors and

the high ceiling is covered with an intricate system of naked

pipes and conduits.

The INTERNS wheel LARRY down this corridor, going so fast that

KIRSTY and TIFFANY are continually breaking into a trot to keep

up with them.

At the far and of the corridor are a set of double doors. The

nearer they all get to these doors, the tackier the corridor

seems to become. The walls now have pipes running over them, as

well as the ceiling, and several of these pipes are dripping

water into small pools on the corridor floor. The sound of these

drips is artificially loud on the soundtrack.

Finally, the doors are reached and the INTERNS, LARRY, KIRSTY and

TIFFANY disappear through them.

107 INT. PRE-OP ROOM DAY

This is a small ante-room to the operating room which is beyond a

further set of double doors. Without ceremony the two INTERNS

pass straight across this room to those doors and wheel the

gurney through, one of them throwing back a parting remark to

KIRSTY.

INTERN:

Wait out here. A doctor

will talk to you when

we know more.

The double doors part and close, giving just a glimpse of the

operating room beyond, all lights, monitors and whirring machinery,

and the several gowned and masked experts attending to LARRY.

As the doors close, KIRSTY turns to TIFFANY, expecting a long

wait before anyone comes to speak to them. Surprisingly, though,

the doors open again almost immediately and two figures step

through. They, too, are masked and gowned in surgical green and

very little of them is visible.

KIRSTY:

Is he going to be all right?

1st GOWNED FIGURE

(matter of factly)

No. He's not going to be

all right.

KIRSTY staggers visibly, shocked by this bluntness.

KIRSTY:

Wh...

1st GOWNED FIGURE

No. He's going to die. He's got

a ruptured aorta. He's going to

die in agony.

As he makes this speech, the mask of his colleague stains rapidly

with blood, as if it is literally pouring from its mouth.

Simultaneously, his own mask is slowly pierced by a score of nails

bursting through from beneath.

TIFFANY screams.

The 1st GOWNED FIGURE pulls the mask and cap away from its face -

It is PINHEAD. His colleague does the same. It is the FEMALE

CENOBITE.

KIRSTY:

Oh, F***.

She's had too much experience with these two to hesitate. She

grabs TIFFANY's arm and bursts through the double doors to the

corridor.

108 INT. BASEMENT CORRIDOR DAY

We are now looking along the corridor in the other direction -

back towards the elevator.

KIRSTY and TIFFANY come into shot, running rapidly along the

corridor.

As they make their way, a rumbling, flatulent sound is heard from

the overhead pipes and they all begin to drip blood not water.

We hear the sound of the doors flying open behind them.

KIRSTY and TIFFANY reach the elevator. KIRSTY presses frantically

on the call button, while TIFFANY looks behind them with

frightened eyes.

KIRSTY:

C'mon. C'MON!

The sound of steadily-pacing, purposeful feet is heard coming up

the corridor, getting louder, coming closer.

KIRSTY begins hammering on the closed elevator doors. TIFFANY

stifles a cry with her hand.

KIRSTY:

COME ON!!

Suddenly, the doors fly open. KIRSTY and TIFFANY tumble into the

elevator.

109 INT. BASEMENT CORRIDOR DAY (GIRLS' P.O.V.)

We see the door-frame of the elevator and the floor buttons

beside it and, looking down the corridor through the open

elevator doors, PINHEAD and the FEMALE CENOBITE marching towards

us.

We also see KIRSTY'S finger jabbing frantically at the floor

buttons. The doors are not closing. The CENOBITES are getting

very close.

Finally, just as PINHEAD breaks from his determined but medium-

paced stride and speeds up eagerly for the last two or three

yards, extending his arm as he does so, the door slams shut

across our vision and we hear the elevator machinery start up.

110 INT. ELEVATOR DAY

KIRSTY leans against the back wall of the elevator, breathing

heavily. TIFFANY stands very still in the middle, a frozen

expression of fear on her face.

KIRSTY:

Faster, you bastard, faster!

She slams her fist against the elevator wall. The elevator

stops. Its lights flicker.

KIRSTY:

Oh, Jesus. I'm sorry. I'm

sorry. I didn't mean it.

The elevator starts again.

KIRSTY:

It's 0.K. They can't beat an

elevator. Not upstairs. It'll be O.K.

The lift stops, but this time it's where they want it. KIRSTY's

finger hesitates over the DOOR OPEN button.

KIRSTY:

It'll be O.K.

She presses the button.

111 INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR DAY (GIRLS P.O.V.)

We are looking at the closed elevator door. When it opens we

will be looking down the corridor on the main hospital floor -

the floor with the girls' rooms on.

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