House on Haunted Hill Page #13

They start walking down the weirdly pulsing corridor.

EDDIE:

So, who are you really?

Sara stiffens for a second. Then, calmly:

SARA:

What? Deep down inside?

EDDIE:

Start with the name you were born with,

and we'll work forward from there.

SARA:

I told you already: Jennifer Jenzen,

Executive V.P. of --

EDDIE:

I don't think so...

SARA:

Why not?

EDDIE:

Most of my business is making deliveries

to high rollers. And I have yet to meet

one Executive who could tie their own

shoes -- let alone rewire an entire

house. You don't fit the bill -- not

even close.

SARA:

(grinning)

There's always exceptions.

EDDIE:

Not in the movie biz. So, c'mon,

gimme the truth.

Ahead of them, Sara sees the corridor splits into two.

SARA:

The truth is, if we keep taking rights,

we're going to have to end up where we

started.

She beckons him to follow her, starts walking down the

corridor to the right.

SARA:

Look, we're all gonna be out of here in

a little while and go our separate ways,

all a million bucks richer. What's it

matter who I am or who I'm not?

There's no response from Eddie.

SARA:

Okay... So let's say, hypothetically,

I'm not exactly who I should be -- okay,

so you're right, you're a genius, I

don't know anybody who could've ever

seen right through me like that --

does that end the discussion?

No response from Eddie.

SARA:

Alright, look:
my real name is Sara,

and I'm a secretary -- was, anyway -- to

the real Jennifer B*tch who was invited

here, and now you know and I'm begging

you don't tell anybody, 'cuz I'm out of

a job and could really use even a tenth

of that money, okay?

No response from Eddie.

SARA:

Can I just get a "yes" or a "no"??

She turns:
Eddie's nowhere to be seen.

CUT TO:

INT. GEAR ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Pritchett and Price stand in the "Lockdown" control room,

staring at a rusted lever that Price has snapped off.

PRICE:

We may have to...look for other

means to get out of here.

Price looks around the room.

PRITCHETT:

What happened to what's-their-names?

CUT TO:

INT. BASEMENT CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

Sara trotting down one CORRIDOR --

SARA:

Eddie...?

INT. BASEMENT - ANOTHER CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

Sara moving and picking up speed:

SARA:

If this is your idea of funny, think

again!

INT. BASEMENT - ANOTHER CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

Sara moves even faster:

SARA:

In fact, you're really starting to

piss me off!

INT. BASEMENT - ANOTHER CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

And suddenly, she slams on the brakes -- because at the far

end of this Corridor, she spots:

EDDIE - quick-stepping right-to-left through the

intersection ahead.

SARA:

Hey, pal:
game called on account

of boredom, let's go --

And then she sees: in the strobe-flicker of light, his EYES

look devoid of pupils, as though replaced by something

METALLIC.

SARA:

Eddie...??

Eddie keeps walking, turns into another corridor and

disappears from sight.

SARA:

What is your problem?

She runs after him.

CUT TO:

INT. BASEMENT - ANOTHER CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS

Sara again spots Eddie at the other end.

SARA:

Hey!

He keeps on walking, turns into a room, disappears from

sight.

SARA:

You know, I was actually starting to

like you, you creep!

Nonetheless, she chases after him into --

CUT TO:

INT. MORGUE ROOM

Sara stops, scared. God-knows what this room's purpose was

long ago, now it's just a space filled with enormous glass

tanks, vat-like things filled with BLOOD. But no Eddie. She

shouts to the air:

SARA:

Okay, you win. You've successfully

creeped me out.

-- and then her EYES GO WIDE as she spots

EDDIE -- perched above a Vat -- he's teetering, his

equilibrium like a marionette's -- in danger of dropping

right into the Vat!

SARA:

What are you doing --

-- Eddie drops like a stone into the Vat.

SARA:

-- Eddie!!

She scrambles up to the top of the Vat, looks down into it:

nothing but that thick opaque muck -- but there's SOMETHING

ROILING beneath it. Sara plunges her arms down into it --

SARA:

-- Eddie! Eddie! Oh my god!

-- BAM! Something does -- yanking her down hard into the Vat

-- and continuing to pull -- she's to her shoulders in it --

and her head's about to go in --

SARA:

-- Eddie!!

VOICE (O.S.)

Over here.

Sara darts the one eye still above the muck-line behind her.

EDDIE MOSES -- is standing in the doorway, a completely

baffled expression on his face.

EDDIE:

What's going on, you lose something

down there?

SARA -- looks back down into the Vat in horror. Lets out

a scream. Whatever's in there releases her arms and she

goes tumbling ass-over-teakettle down to the floor, her

arms released.

Eddie runs to her, takes her in his arms, sopping himself in

the same blood.

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