Labyrinth Page #7

JARETH drops the GOBLIN hard on the floor. FREDDIE sees this and

laughs with delight. JARETH walks over and scoops the BABY up in his

arms. He then carries him over to the window. He calls over to an

ARMED GOBLIN by the door.

JARETH:
I think it's time they had some company.

ARMED GOBLIN:
Yes, Sir!

Be then salutes, causing his visor to close on his face, then

stumbles around looking for the door. JARETH shakes his head.

JARETH:
You'll make a much better goblin than that, won't you,

Freddie!

FREDDIE's response is to clap his sticky baby's hand on to JARETH's

face. JARETH, pretending he doesn't mind, carefully removes it. He

then looks down to the courtyard below.

31EXT:
CASTLE - DAY

JARETH'S POV

ARMED GOBLINS are pouring out of the castle.

32EXT:
CORRIDOR 4 - DAY

SARAH and HOGGLE are striding down a corridor. They are about to come

to a corner.

SARAH:
Are you sure Jareth can turn Freddie into a goblin? I mean,

that's really weird ...

They turn the corner and HOGGLE stops short. SARAH becomes alarmed.

SARAH:
What is it?

HOGGLE gestures for her to be quiet and then we can hear what he

hears -- marching. They look back the way they came.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH'S AND HOGGLE'S POV - A BATTALION OF ARMED GOBLINS, marching

right towards them!

ANOTHER ANGLE:

They look at each other, then turn and run. HOGGLE tries to get

through the wall the way the WORM showed them.

HOGGLE (quoting the worm): Just forget what you think you know and ...

He smacks headlong into the wall. He stops to rub his nose and SARAH

flies by him.

SARAH:
Come on!

33INT:
CASTLE - DAY

FREDDIE is now sitting on the lap of a GOBLIN, happily bopping it on

the nose. JARETH snaps his fingers and a GROUP of sleepy MUSICIANS in

the corner stumble over themselves to pick up their instruments. They

begin to play and JARETH looks out the window and begins a song. He

sings about the labyrinth; what it is -- his domain, and what it is

to OTHERS -- a test, a proving-ground, not for the faint of heart.

34INT:
MAZE MONTAGE - DAY

While JARETH sings, SARAH and HOGGLE try to escape from the GOBLINS.

They get a lead on them for a while and come to another corridor with

crumbling walls. They scamper up to get a look at their position and

see dust rising from several parts of the maze. The GOBLINS are

everywhere.

In another corridor, they are stopped in their tracks by DOZENS OF

LITTLE FUZZY CREATURES who scurry towards them out of the way of the

oncoming GOBLINS. They turn and run back the way they came and as

they do WALL CREATURES chatter nervously and then disappear into the

cracks between the bricks.

In a corridor with very short walls they are able to see the tips of

spears on either side of them, going in the opposite direction.

They enter a corridor with several arches curving over it, forming

small, intermittent bridges. Thinking they are safe, they stop for a

breath, and soon realize that a BATTALION is right behind them. They

scurry up the walls, and as the song comes to an end, they each lie

across an arch hopefully out of sight of the GOBLINS below.

35INT:
ARCHED CORRIDOR - DAY

SARAH and HOGGLE huddle above the corridor on their arches as TWO

GOBLINS bring up the rear.

GOBLIN 1:
I can kill better than you can.

GOBLIN 2:
But I'm better at maiming. Everybody says so.

And they are gone. Shaken, SARAH and HOGGLE slide down from their

hiding places.

SARAH:
Do you think they're gone?

HOGGLE:
Sure they are. Goblins ain't known fer their intelligence, ya

know. They has as much trouble findin' their way through the maze as

you do.

He folds his arms and leans against the wall.

SARAH:
I'm not sure, but I think you just called me stupid ...

Suddenly HOGGLE yells and disappears. He has accidentally leaned on

another secret wall opening. SARAH quickly follows.

36INT:
CORRIDOR 5 - DAY

HOGGLE and SARAH are now in the long circular corridor that divides

the maze from the beginning of the second ring of the labyrinth --

the Garden Maze.

HOGGLE (excited): I think I know where we are!

SARAH:
That'll be a nice change.

He ignores her and looks around excitedly.

HOGGLE:
This place is the end o' the maze! That means we're near the

entrance ta the second ring o' the labyrinth.

SARAH:
The second ring? What's that?

HOGGLE starts down the corridor.

HOGGLE (happily): The Garden Maze!

SARAH (gloomy):
Sounds like a great place ... what's it like?

HOGGLE:
Don't know, I ain't never made it this far before.

He is skipping happily down the corridor when SARAH hears something.

It is a strange clanking sound.

SARAH (frightened): Hoggle! What's that sound?!!

HOGGLE stops skipping and sighs.

HOGGLE:
Now don't go gettin' all girly on me, Missy, now that we's

finally safe ...

SARAH:
So you think we're safe, do you?

HOGGLE (annoyed): Didn't I just say so?!!

SARAH:
Then tell me what you think of that.

SARAH points behind them where the clanking noise is coming from. It

is now much louder. HOGGLE comes over to her and takes a better look.

He screams.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

THEIR POV - A SLASHING MACHINE is coming right towards them. (A

slashing wall is made up of rows of furiously spinning knives, and

chopping cleavers, and has brushes along the bottom to clean up

whatever it encounters in its path.) And there is no way around it

because it completely fills the corridor.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

HOGGLE desperately tries to walk through the wall the way they came

in, but it is to no avail. He just keeps smashing his face. SARAH

starts to run for it.

SARAH:
Come on!

HOGGLE follows, every so often trying, and failing, to get through

the wall.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH, who is far ahead of HOGGLE, comes to a door! And hanging on a

hook next to it is a bunch of keys. She looks back at HOGGLE.

SARAH:
Hoggle, hurry!

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH'S POV - HOGGLE running toward her, and making slow but steady

progress toward them BOTH -- the slashing machine.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

SARAH fumbles with the keys, furiously trying key after key in the

door but to no avail. She is terrified.

SARAH:
None of the keys work!

Desperate, she starts banging on the door. HOGGLE is just a few yards

away from her.

HOGGLE:
Why don't you just try it?

He then tries once more to walk through the wall. SARAH tries the

knob and sure enough, it opens. She is delighted. What she doesn't

see is HOGGLE suddenly disappearing through the floor.

SARAH:
It's open! Hog ...

She turns around and he is gone! And the slashing machine is just a

few yards away! She screams and, in her terror, falls backwards

through the door. It slams shut just as the slashing machine reaches

it WE CAN SEE that FOUR GOBLINS in sanitation workers' uniforms have

been pushing the machine all along. They grunt and strain, cranking

the wheels that turn the knives and pushing all at the same time.

37INT:
PICTURE GALLERY - DAY

SARAH emerges into a large room. The walls are covered with large

paintings in ornate gilt frames. She is a bit stunned by the clone

call with the slashing machine as she approaches the first painting.

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