Lake Placid Page #4

JACK:

Let's go.

As they start out, Kelly grabs Jack by the arm.

KELLY:

Excuse me. One other thing, it's

a small point, but... I have a

thing about being humored, and I'm

feeling humored, more by him, but

you seemed quick to join in.

JACK:

Ma'am, your first impression isn't

going well.

As JANINE POST, sixteen, flirtatious little vixen, steps up.

JANINE:

Excuse me? Is it true you're going

to look for some kind of monster in

Black Lake?

KEOUGH:

We're just going to investigate an

accident. There's no monster.

JANINE:

We heard a man got bit in half.

KEOUGH:

There was an accident, that's all.

Nothing to worry about.

And Janine goes into the store. The men just watch her go.

Sixteen going on twenty, nubile. Kelly just looks at the men,

gaping at the girl.

KELLY:

Please.

CUT TO:

EXT. LAKE - DAY

Keough, Jack, and Kelly are in a boat motoring towards a

farmhouse. No other houses in sight.

INT. FARM HOUSE - DAY

Jack, Kelly and Keough are questioning DELORES BICKERMAN, mid-

sixties, eccentric if not slightly daffy. She's brought out

refreshments.

BICKERMAN:

Oh, my husband passed away almost

two years ago.

KEOUGH:

My department doesn't have any

record of that, Mrs. Bickerman.

BICKERMAN:

(with some attitude)

Oh well, I'm sorry. I didn't

realize you keep such a firm track

of the dead.

KELLY:

(gently)

What was the cause of your

husband's death, Ma'am, do you

know?

Off Bickerman's silence--

KELLY (CONT'D)

We don't mean to invade your

privacy but... was he ill, was he

sick?

KEOUGH:

Was he swallowed?

KELLY:

(reprimanding)

Sheriff.

JACK:

Mrs. Bickerman, the reason we're

up here... a man was fatally

attacked yesterday by some animal

in this lake. Do you know how your

husband died?

BICKERMAN:

(brightly)

Oh yes. I killed him.

Keough clenches his eyes shut. The old woman's a loon.

JACK:

You killed him.

BICKERMAN:

(happily)

Oh, yes.

KEOUGH:

And how would you have accomplished

this, Ma'am?

BICKERMAN:

(rattling it off quickly,

simply)

Well, he was very ill and he

refused to go see a doctor and

well... I think he had Alzheimer's,

he would be coherent one day,

incoherent the next and one

coherent day, he asked me to end

his suffering. I wouldn't do it

but he kept insisting and insisting

and deteriorating till the point

the only cognitive thing he could

really do was that I finish him

off. Finally I just gave in and

hit him on the head with a skillet

then buried him under the bulkhead.

Jack, Keough, and Kelly just stare back at this crazy woman.

Off their looks--

BICKERMAN (CONT'D)

(to Keough)

Dig him up if you don't believe me,

Javert.

CUT TO:

EXT. LAKE - DAY

Keough and Kelly are in the boat slowly traveling along the

thickly wooded shoreline.

KEOUGH:

Half mile up, there's a clearing.

JACK:

You gonna dig up that lady's

husband?

KEOUGH:

I'll call the coroner.

KELLY:

(looking around)

What is with this lake? It looks

black and... there are no waves or

anything.

KEOUGH:

They wanted to call it Lake Placid.

But somebody said that name was

taken.

KELLY:

(to Jack)

Gee.

Jack smiles, gets her sarcasm.

KEOUGH:

The tents were sent ahead, they

should already be set-up.

KELLY:

(what?)

We're staying in tents?

KEOUGH:

I told you. Two days, we'd have to

camp.

KELLY:

Yes, camp, I thought that meant

Holiday Inn, I never heard "tents",

will there be toilets?

KEOUGH:

(seeing something)

What the hell?

Keough's attention has been otherwise arrested. He sees

something in the water.

KELLY:

What?

KEOUGH:

(slowing the boat)

I thought I saw...

KELLY:

It looks like a branch.

He leans over to grab something floating in the water. Looks

like a branch. He lifts it up, revealing it to be an antler.

Connected to the severed head of a moose. Keough, seeing it as

he lifts it, screams, throwing it.

It hits Kelly and she screams, a blood-curdling scream, as the

HEAD hits the floor of the boat with a HEAVY THUD. Kelly rears

back, still screaming, and belts Keough in the shoulder.

KEOUGH:

Hey!!

KELLY:

You threw it at me!!

KEOUGH:

(denying)

I just let go of it.

KELLY JACK

You threw it at me!! Alright.

(to Jack)

Did you see that?

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