Sister Act Page #4

Crossing to Vince's office, Christy squares her shoulders

and narrows her eyes with anger as she reaches for the

doorknob. She pauses for a second, and then doubles her

resolve.

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INT. VINCE'S OFFICE

VINCE:

Do it.

(to Joey)

ANGLE on the door to the office, which opens. Christy

appears, with the mink coat in her arms.

CHRISTY:

Stuff this up your...

A GUNSHOT is heard, 0.S. Christy's eyes widen, and her

jaw drops, at what she has just witnessed.

ANGLE on the office. Ernie is slumped in the chair, dead.

Joey stands over him, holding the revolver. Joey, Willy

and Vince stare at Christy.

VINCE:

Babe.

(icy calm)

Christy tries to speak; she can't.

VINCE:

Christy. Is there a problem? With the

coat?

Christy glances around the room; she doesn't move. She

quickly sizes up the situation. She tries to appear

matter-of-fact. unaffected by what she's just seen.

CHRISTY:

No... it's fine.

VINCE:

Yes?

CHRISTY:

Thanks. A lot.

VINCE:

Is that why you came up here, Christy?

To thank me?

CHRISTY:

Sure.

VINCE:

And to say you're sorry. About this

afternoon. And the things you said.

Forgotten. Completely. Do you

understand? Forgotten.

CHRISTY:

(catching the subtext)

Right. Yeah. Forgotten.

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Vince crosses the room, to Christy. He takes her hands in

his, and kisses them.

VINCE:

That's my girl. My girl in mink. Will

you be home? Soon?

Christy kisses Vince, quickly.

CHRISTY:

Right. I'll be... at the apartment.

Call me. Thanks. Again.

Christy reaches for the doorknob, without looking at the

door. She fumbles a bit. She finds the door.

CHRISTY:

Mink. Wow.

Christy walks backwards, out the door. She turns; she is

gone.

JOEY:

Vince -- is she... okay?

VINCE:

Maybe.

(considering this)

WILLY:

I mean, won't she talk? She seemed kind

of upset.

VINCE:

She did.

(making a decision)

Bring her back. Now. For a talk.

JOEY:

And if she runs?

VINCE:

(icy)

Take care of it.

With guns drawn, Willy and Joey run after Christy.

INT. RECEPTION AREA

Christy, clearly terrified, is walking quickly away from

Vince's office. She passes through a glass door which

leads to the cubicle area.

LONG SHOT of the cubicle area, which resembles a darkened

maze. Christy hears Joey approaching; she runs into the

cubicle area.

JOEY:

Christy? He only wants to talk to you!

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ANGLE on Christy, crouched behind a half-wall. She is

clutching the coat.

WILLY:

Christy?

There is a stuffed toy, a "Garfield the Cat," attached to

the wall near Christy, with suction cups. Christy tries to

pull the cat's feet off the wall, very quietly.

JOEY:

Christy?

Christy finally just yanks the cat off the wall. She

hurls it as high and as far as she can, to the opposite end

of the room.

ANGLE on the flying stuffed cat.

Joey sees the blur of the cat; he SHOOTS it, and the cat

explodes.

JOEY:

Come on, Christy! There's no place to

go!

Christy steadies herself against a Xerox machine. She

accidentally activates the machine, which lights up and

starts HUMMING.

ANGLE on Willy, as he hears the Xerox machine. He quickly

moves toward the SOUND.

Willy reaches the Xerox machine; the area is deserted. He

starts moving quickly down the aisle A chair, the kind on

casters, comes rolling out of one of the cubicle doorways;

the chair hits Willy and he falls.

Christy runs out of the cubicle; Willy is on the floor,

struggling to get up. As Christy sprints away, Willy

SHOOTS at her. He misses, but a glass partition SHATTERS.

Christy runs for an open elevator, but it has been

summoned from another floor and the doors are beginning to

close. She runs even faster. A BULLET whistles past her

ear and hits the back wall of the elevator. She reaches

for the doors a moment too late, and the elevator is gone.

Christy scrambles to the door beside the elevator and runs

into a stairwell as two more BULLETS bite pieces out of the

door.

INT. STAIRWELL

Taking the stairs three at a time, Christy is flying,

still clutching the mink. The thugs are gaining on her. A

BULLET hits metal and RICOCHETS off several walls and

steps.

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At the next landing, Christy opens the door and ducks into

a corridor.

INT. CORRIDOR

Exhausted but powered by adrenaline, Christy sprints past

doors to the end of the hall, still with the mink. Joey

appears from the stairwell just as Christy ducks into a

supply room.

INT. SUPPLY ROOM

Christy shoves a cleaning cart aside and wades through a

pile of dirty linen. Joey opens the door just as Christy

dives head first into the laundry chute.

INT. LAUNDRY CHUTE

Christy, lying atop the mink, flies through the chute like

a subway train through a tunnel.

INT. BASEMENT

The chute spits Christy out like a bullet into a huge bin

of dirty linen. Two workers glance around as they load

large washing machines with laundry. Christy climbs out of

the bin and dashes for a door. Working in a hotel, the

workers have seen everything.

INT. LAUNDRY CHUTE

Joey flies through the chute.

INT. BASEMENT

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