Pet Sematary Page #6
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- 1989
- 103 min
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RACHEL:
That's enough of that kind of talk!
LOUIS:
I just said--
RACHEL:
I know what you just said. Ellie,
clear your place.
ELLIE goes slowly back to the table.
ELLIE (sets the plate down)
I'm scared. What if school here isn't
like in Chicago! I'm scared and I want
to go h-h-home!
ELLIE bursts into loud tears and puts her hands over her face.
INT. THE KITCHEN, A NEW ANGLE (FEATURES LOUIS AND RACHEL)
THE CAMERA FOLLOWS as they go to the table to comfort ELLIE.
RACHEL:
You'll be fine, Ellie. Now you can be
excused. Go and wash your face.
LOUIS:
And Church will be fine.
ELLIE (anxious)
Do you promise, Daddy?
LOUIS:
Well, honey...you know that...
RACHEL:
Don't shilly-shally, Louis. Give
the little girl her promise.
LOUIS (reluctantly)
Church will be fine. I promise.
ELLIE:
Yayyyy!
She runs off, cheered up. And RACHEL is cheered up, too.
RACHEL:
Thank you, Louis.
LOUIS:
Oh, you're welcome. Only if some-
thing should go wrong while he's under
the gas--it's a one-in-a-thousand shot,
but it happens--you explain to her.
He gets up and leaves the table. She looks after him, stunned and
a little frightened.
INT. GAGE
GAGE (conversationally)
Here, Durch!
He picks up a large glob of scrambled eggs from his tray and
throws it in the direction of the cat-carrier.
INT. THE CAT-CARRIER
CHURCH is close to the mesh, looking out. Scrambled eggs hit the
mesh, driving him back, surprised.
The school bus pulls up, red lights flashing. ELLIE runs toward it
across the lawn, with her lunch-box.
EXT. LOUIS, RACHEL, AND GAGE, IN THE FRONT DOORWAY
RACHEL:
Have a great day!
LOUIS grabs GAGE'S hand and makes him wave it.
GAGE:
Bye-bye!
EXT. THE BUS
ELLIE climbs aboard. The red flashers go out and the bus pulls
away.
EXT. THE CREED DRIVEWAY MORNING
The station wagon is parked there. LOUIS comes out with a heavy
briefcase in one hand and the cat-carrier in the other. He opens
the wagon's doorgate.
A small car turns into the CREED driveway and parks beside LOUIS.
A rather sour-looking middle-aged woman gets out and crosses the
front of her car. Her color is bad. This is MISSY DANDRIDGE. She
looks at the cat-carrier.
MISSY:
Gonna get his--
LOUIS:
--nuts cut, yes. Thank you, Missy,
for introducing that colorful phrase
into my daughter's vocabulary.
MISSY:
Don't mention it.
She opens the passenger side door of her car and we see a big neat
pile of folded sheets. She reaches for them, then winces and
presses her hands against her midriff for a moment, as if with an
attack of indigestion.
LOUIS (sees this)
How's that belly-ache of yours?
MISSY (gets the sheets)
No better and no worse.
LOUIS:
You ought to see a doctor about it.
MISSY:
It'll pass. They always do.
She starts toward the house with the sheets.
RACHEL hurries past MISSY, who turns to look and then goes on into
the house. LOUIS has just put the cat-carrier into the back of the
wagon and closed the doorgate as RACHEL reaches him.
RACHEL (anxious)
Still friends, doc?
LOUIS appears to consider this seriously for a moment...and then
he smiles and hugs her. They kiss.
RACHEL:
Thank God. I was a little worried
there. Have a great first day at
school, doc. No broken bones.
LOUIS (smiles)
Not so much as a sprain.
EXT. VICTOR PASCOW AND FRIENDS MORNING
PASCOW is in a blanket that is being carried by three boys and one
girl. They are all yelling at each other not to joggle him, not to
drop him. A small knot of horrified college kids moves with the
bearers.
PASCOW'S head is upside down to the CAMERA, which retreats ahead
of the advancing students. Fixed eyes stare. Half of his head has
been shattered inward. Before the catastrophe he was a husky male
of about twenty. He's dressed in a U of M muscle shirt and red
jogging shorts.
THE CAMERA PULLS JERKILY TO ONE SIDE, allowing the bearers to
mount the steps of a brick building. The infirmary. The lookers-on
break to either side. The infirmary doors open.
EXT.. NURSE CHARLTON, AT THE DOORS
She's the head nurse, a tough old babe of about fifty.
CHARLTON:
Holy Jesus.
(turns)
Steve! Steve! Dr. Creed! Dr. Creed,
we've got a mess here! Stat!
The bearers sweep past her and inside, leaving a red smear of
blood across the midriff of MARCY CHARLTON'S uniform.
INT. THE INFIRMARY RECEPTION AREA
THE CAMERA will show us all we need to see, but its movements will
seem almost random; this is like being in the hotel kitchen after
Sirhan shot Bobby.
As the students bring in PASCOW, LOUIS comes running, followed by
STEVE MASTERTON, his P.A. Standing to one side are two student
nurses in candystriper uniforms. They're boggled and horrified.
LOUIS kneels. THE CAMERA RUSHES FORWARD, shoving between
onlookers. LOUIS looks at the wound. There's shattered bone and
There's a scream; the girl who was carrying one corner of the
blanket is having hysterics.
GIRL:
Vic! Vic! Oh Christ! Vic!
LOUIS (to CHARLTON)
Get her out. Get them all out.
CHARLTON puts her arms around the girl.
GIRL (struggling)
No! No! He can't die! He can't die!
THE CAMERA MOVES BACK DOWN as LOUIS takes an opthalmascope from
STEVE and shines it in PASCOW'S bulging, fixed eyes.
CHARLTON is just pushing the last of them gawkers and bearers out
the door.
LOUIS:
Steve, get the ambulance over here
right now. He's got to go to EMMC.
STEVE:
The ambulance is at Sonny's Sunoco
downtown, getting--
LOUIS:
--a new muffler, oh sh*t--
PASCOW makes a weird gargling noise. Blood suddenly spurts out of
his mouth. He begins to seizure.
One of the candystripers shrieks. THE CAMERA JERKS UP TO COVER the
student nurses. One turns and throws up on the wall.
CHARLTON rushes over.
CANDYSTRIPER:
I can't look at it...I can't stand it...
CHARLTON (slaps her)
Yes you by God can. Go get the hard
stretcher!
As they start away, one helping the other down the hall, and as
CHARLTON starts over to where PASCOW lies dying on his blanket,
THE CAMERA DROPS TO LOUIS AND STEVE.
LOUIS:
Help me hold him.
They hold PASCOW'S spasming body.
STEVE:
It wouldn't matter if we did have
the ambulance.
LOUIS:
It wouldn't matter if we had the SST.
PASCOW begins to quiet.
LOUIS:
He's going. Steve, go call the motor-
pool. Marcy, roll out the crash wagon.
CHARLTON:
It won't--
LOUIS:
I know it won't! But let's for God's
sake do it by the rules!
She leaves. LOUIS is alone with PASCOW. CHARLTON has drawn the
drapes, so the doctor and the dying man have complete if temporary
privacy.
INT. LOUIS AND PASCOW, A CLOSER SHOT
LOIS:
There wasn't even supposed to be a
sprain today, my friend--that's what
I told her.
PASCOW'S fixed eyes suddenly roll and his left hand bear-traps
LOUIS'S right wrist. The dying man pulls him slowly but
relentlessly down, until their faces are only inches apart.
PASCOW:
...Pet Sematary...
LOUIS recoils, breaking the grip of the hand...but he cannot quite
snap the grip of those bright dying eyes. Blood leaks from
PASCOW'S mouth.
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