Labyrinth Page #15

78INT:
CASTLE - NIGHT

A door opens in a dark part of the castle. LUDO, SARAH and DIDYMUS

enter. They look around and quickly tip-toe down a dark corridor.

They turn a corner and see some GOBLINS marching their way. They duck

out of sight.

79EXT:
CASTLE - NIGHT

The main entrance to the castle. TWO-GOBLIN GUARDS stand outside the

large wooden doors. The results of the THREESOME's escape can be

heard in the distance. A FIGURE staggers out of the dark, singing

drunkenly. It is HOGGLE.

HOGGLE:
" ... it's so cold in the night with no gold to keep me warm

... "

He trips over his feet as he approaches the GUARD.

GUARD:
Who goes there?

HOGGLE " ... so cold, oh so cold ... "

GUARD 2:
Don't worry about him. He's on Jareth's payroll now.

HOGGLE falls to the ground, then picks himself up.

HOGGLE:
Thash right. Jareth owes me sumthin' ... an' I'm here ta

collect ...

They laugh at him, then step aside and let him enter.

80INT:
CASTLE - NIGHT

A GROUP OF GOBLINS stand in a circle in a corridor. They torment a

tiny, fuzzy yapping CREATURE with their nipper sticks. The CREATURE

gets away from them and goes scurrying down the corridor. The GOBLINS

laugh. It turns a corner and starts yapping for all it's worth.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH, LUDO and DIDYMUS pressed against the wall, trying to not be

noticed. Unfortunately the little CREATURE has no sympathy for their

plight. It stands at their feet, making a ruckus.

SARAH (whispering): Shut up, you little monster!

LUDO bends down to pet it in the hopes of quieting it.

LUDO:
Nice ... thing ...

But the CREATURE doesn't want a pet. It sinks its teeth into LUDO's

hand. LUDO howls.

DIDYMUS:
I fear that this means trouble.

The GOBLINS yell and start running down the corridor.

SARAH:
Run for it!

They are off, the CREATURE and the GOBLINS at their heels.

81INT:
CORRIDOR - NIGHT

The THREE are running for all they're worth. SARAH pulls the watch

out of her pocket. It is on the 12:30.

SARAH:
Only a half hour left! We've got to find Freddie!

ANOTHER ANGLE:

Yet another GROUP OF GOBLINS running right toward them. They stop in

their tracks and start running in the opposite direction.

82INT:
INNER COURTYARD - NIGHT

The THREE come careening into the long narrow inner courtyard.

Balconies look down on it from the floor above. Opposite them is a

large ornate door. They have a lead on the GOBLINS chasing them, but

not for long.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

On one of the balconies a particularly repulsive little GOBLIN laughs

sadistically. The THREE look up and see the GOBLIN with his hands on

a huge lever. He pushes it down gleefully and the floor opens up in

front of the THREESOME. It appears to be a bottomless pit, too wide

to leap across. Horrified they look behind them and see the GOBLINS

gaining on them. And they're throwing spears! Suddenly there is a

triumphant yell from the balcony opposite the repulsive GOBLIN, and

then a FIGURE leaps off it swinging on a rope.

SARAH:
Hoggle!

It certainly is! He wrestles with the hideous GOBLIN and in the

struggle it falls screaming into the pit. HOGGLE then grabs the lever

and it is not a second too soon. The pursuing GOBLINS are entering

the courtyard.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

The floor closes and the THREE run to the door. An enraged PURSUER

aims a spear at HOGGLE. He is hit. SARAH screams as LUDO struggles

with the door. It won't budge and he begins to smash his body against

it.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

A seemingly half-dead HOGGLE staggers to his feet and throws his body

on the lever. He appears to faint from the strain but the weight of

his body pushes the lever and the floor opens again.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

The enraged GOBLINS are stopped in their tracks by the yawning pit.

They hurl spears at the THREESOME but it is to no avail. LUDO smashes

down the door and they run in.

83INT:
JARETH'S QUARTERS - NIGHT

SARAH, DIDYMUS, and LUDO carrying HOGGLE enter the room where we have

seen JARETH and FREDDIE. They lock the door behind them. No one is

there and FREDDIE's cradle is rocking, as if someone had removed him

only moments before. LUDO places HOGGLE down and SARAH looks

feverishly around the room. She spots a door.

SARAH:
That's the only way he could have gone!

She runs to the door and LUDO and DIDYMUS follow.

SARAH:
No. I have to face him alone!

DIDYMUS:
But, my lady ...

He is interrupted by the sound of GOBLINS in pursuit. They start

trying to smash down the door. LUDO runs to it and presses his body

against it. HOGGLE moans and DIDYMUS and SARAH run to his side.

HOGGLE:
I don't expect ya to fergive me, Missy, but ...

She puts her finger to his lips.

SARAH:
Forgive you for what? Saving our lives?

HOGGLE:
But, I betrayed ya, I gave ya that damned peach ...

SARAH:
Ssh! You did the only thing you could do ...

She looks down at his empty belt.

SARAH:
... and I see you lost all your treasures in the process.

HOGGLE:
I don't care if I never sees another treasure again!

SARAH (smiles):
Here. Just in case you change your mind.

She slips off her mother's ring and presses it into HOGGLE's hand. He

is overwhelmed and SARAH smiles at his pleasure.

HOGGLE:
And Jareth said ya could never love me.

SARAH:
Jareth doesn't know everything.

She leaps to her feet and HOGGLE moans.

SARAH:
Take care of him, Didymus.

DIDYMUS:
I'll guard the valiant Hoggle with my life!

The GOBLINS give the door a particularly loud smash and LUDO presses

against the door even harder.

LUDO:
Ludo ... too!

She runs to the other door and stops to look back at them.

SARAH:
No maiden could have wished for nobler knights.

And she is gone.

84ESCHER ROTUNDA - NIGHT

SARAH enters an overwhelming room with many staircases, balconies and

doorways at different heights and at all kinds of strange angles that

obviously have no relation to what we know as gravity. Her knees

buckling from vertigo. Then she gasps.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

JARETH is sitting on the wall with all the ease of a fly.

JARETH:
I've been expecting you.

SARAH stumbles and falls into the room, ending up on the ceiling. She

tries to adjust to being upside down.

SARAH:
Where's Freddie?!!!

She has to look down and sideways to see JARETH and it is clearly

grueling.

JARETH:
He's right there.

And he points to one of the stairways that juts out at a right angle

from the wall. FREDDIE is climbing up the stairs happily, but from

SARAH's point of view it looks like he will fall when he gets to the

top.

SARAH (screaming): Freddie! No!!!

FREDDIE gets to the top but doesn't fall, instead he ends up crawling

up the wall. SARAH sighs with relief and closes her eyes. This sends

her reeling and she ends up in one of the archways. She tries to

orient herself but there is no up, no down, no sideways. And the BABY

is about to crawl off a balcony! SARAH screams and JARETH laughs. He

begins a song that tells SARAH she never really understood what was

gain on. Nothing is what it appears to be, not even things like "up"

and "down."

ANOTHER ANGLE:

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