Labyrinth Page #3

16INT:
HALLWAY - NIGHT

SARAH comes out of the nursery and hurries down the stairs. ZAKAR

follows. FREDDIE is still crying.

SARAH:
Maybe you'd better leave ...

She gets to the bottom of the stairs. FREDDIE whimpers. ZAKAR is

making her very nervous.

SARAH:
... I, uh, don't think I care to talk to you about the play.

He is right behind her, almost too close.

ZAKAR:
Neither do I.

SARAH is shocked and disturbed by this.

SARAH:
What!

ZAKAR reaches over and smoothes FREDDIE's hair.

ZAKAR:
I'm more concerned about the baby, of course.

SARAH pulls FREDDIE out of his reach.

SARAH:
Freddie's just fine.

But he isn't. He's still crying. ZAKAR reaches into his pocket and

pulls out a coin. Be runs it over his fingers right in front of

FREDDIE's face. The BABY stops crying.

ZAKAR:
There, isn't that better?

SARAH (nervously): Uh, sure ... but you really have to leave ...

ZAKAR ignores her and heads into the living room.

ZAKAR:
I'm not just a playwright, as you can see ... bring him in

here and I'll do some other tricks for him ...

SARAH:
No! You've got to ...

But he is already in the living room. She follows, still holding the

BABY.

17INT:
LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

ZAKAR is sitting on the sofa, looking very comfortable. SARAH stands

in the doorway, not sure what to do. Reluctantly, she goes and sits

down across from him.

ZAKAR:
Now watch this, Freddie ...

He reaches into his breast pocket and tugs on the handkerchief there.

It comes out followed by many others, all different colours. SARAH

rolls her eyes. This is not that exciting a trick. FREDDIE isn't

impressed, either. In fact he starts to cry again.

ZAKAR:
So you're going to be like that, are you, Freddie? Well, you

know what that means?

He leans across the table and SARAH pulls the BABY closer.

ZAKAR:
It's time to call the goblins!

SARAH:
What?!!

SARAH is surprised to hear this, to say the least. It echoes her

silly threat to FREDDIE earlier.

ZAKAR:
Yes. That's what we do with bad babies ... we send for the

goblins!!

And with that he reaches into yet another pocket and pulls out a

poorly made, very silly-looking goblin hand puppet. SARAH laughs

with relief. ZAKAR, his hand in the puppet, talks in a high-pitched,

unconvincing goblin voice.

ZAKAR:
You like goblins, don't'cha, Freddie? (singsong) but I bet

your sister doesn't ...

SARAH rolls her eyes at this, and then gasps. Because for one very

strange moment, the puppet keeps bouncing, but both of ZAKAR's hands

are visible! And then the puppet seems to move away from the table,

and disappear! FREDDIE claps his hands with delight. SARAH jumps out

of her chair.

SARAH:
Where is it?!!!

ZAKAR points to a large cabinet against the wall.

ZAKAR:
It's in there.

SARAH:
Impossible!

ZAKAR:
See for yourself.

SARAH hesitates for a moment, and then places FREDDIE carefully on

the rug. She then marches over to the cabinet and throws open the

door.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

the puppet, grinning wildly from inside the cabinet.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH gasps and involuntarily slams the door. She whirls around to

face ZAKAR.

SARAH:
How did you do that?!!

ZAKAR leans back into the sofa.

ZAKAR:
Magic.

SARAH:
Oh sure ...

She nods, skeptically. She can't see -- but WE CAN DEFINITELY SEE --

the cabinet door slowly open behind her, and out of it comes a tiny,

fierce-looking GOBLIN! This is not a puppet, but a living creature

that moves quickly out of sight with an exaggerated tiptoe. SARAH is

busy with another problem. She doesn't see FREDDIE!

SARAH:
Where's Freddie?!!

ZAKAR shrugs. In a panic, SARAH begins to look around this room. She

calls for FREDDIE and, as she passes in front of the living room

doorway, WE CAN SEE something scurry across the hallway. SARAH stops

and listens.

SARAH:
Freddie?

But it wasn't a BABY she heard. Behind her there is more scurrying as

CREATURES begin to appear from various parts of the room. We hear

faint snickering. She turns to ZAKAR, terrified.

SARAH:
Where is he?!!

ZAKAR points to the chair SARAH was sitting in. She is behind the

chair and can't see anything. But when she comes around in front of

it she sees FREDDIE comfortably ensconced in the cushions. And he's

playing with the goblin puppet! SARAH reaches over and grabs the

puppet out of his hands. She flings it across the room and scoops up

the BABY.

SARAH:
Who are you?!!!

ZAKAR throws back his head and laughs, then suddenly leaps off the

sofa and lands very close to her.

ZAKAR:
I've been known by many names ... but the one I prefer is

_Jareth, King of the Goblins_!!!

SARAH holds FREDDIE close and backs away.

SARAH:
I don't believe this!

Amidst thunder and lightning JARETH flings his arms up into the air,

and he is suddenly dressed in strange, medieval garb, a cloak

swirling around him. And what's worse, much, much worse, is that

suddenly GOBLINS are everywhere! Popping out of drawers, from under

chairs, swinging off the chandeliers. SARAH turns and runs out of the

room.

18INT:
FOYER - NIGHT

It's worse in here! The GOBLINS are pouring down the stairs, SOME

slide down the bannister! SARAH tries running into another room, but

is soon back, followed by a DOZEN MORE! She barely makes it to the

front door and struggles to open it with the BABY in her arms. The

GOBLINS pull her back and laugh wildly. They fling her right into

JARETH's arms. He scoops FREDDIE up and whirls away from her. SARAH

tries to grab the BABY back but the GOBLINS get between them.

SARAH (hysterical): Give him back, you monster! Give him back!

JARETH only laughs and starts to swirl gracefully. FREDDIE laughs

with delight and SARAH struggles to reach him. With a superhuman

effort she pushes through the MASS OF CREATURES and grabs onto

JARETH's fluttering cloak. It's like being caught up in a whirlwind

of incredible force.

SARAH (screaming): I ... won't ... let ... you ... take ... him!

But it's too late. SARAH's feet leave the ground and she is pulled

with them and the whole MASS OF GOBLINS. JARETH and FREDDIE swirl up

through where the ceiling would have been, up into the blackness.

There's a QUICK MONTAGE OF SHOTS: JARETH's laughing face; SARAH,

desperate as her fingers are losing their grip; FREDDIE, who's having

a great time; GOBLINS, ALL gleeful; then -- JARETH's garment pulls

out of SARAH's grip. She falls OUT OF FRAME, a silent scream on her

face.

19EXT:
LABYRINTH - DAY

A WIDE PEACEFUL SHOT

The sky is pink, and the WHITE BIRD swoops by us as WE TILT DOWN TO

SEE the exterior wall of the labyrinth. It is a high masonry wall

that extends off in either direction. Along the wall are various

ornamental bushes and there is a small figure of a dwarf, his back to

us, peeing into a tiny pond. It looks for all the world like one of

those ornamental garden sculptures. But it isn't. This is HOGGLE. In

a CLOSER SHOT, which is quite discreet, HOGGLE finishes peeing, and

goes over to a particularly lush shrub. A few butterfly-like

creatures, flower fairies, flit around the bushes.

HOGGLE:
An' how's me pride an' joy!

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