The Addams Family Page #10

The sound of Gomez's trains has begun to RESOUND throughoutthe house. As Granny reads, a TRAIN WHISTLE pierces thenight, and the kitchen table shakes. Granny looks up fromher reading.

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62 INT. PUGSLEY'S ROOM - SAME TIME 62

Morticia is seated on the bed; she has a family photo albumon her lap. Wednesday and Pugsley, in pajamas, sit besideher, looking at the album.

PUGSLEY:

(pointing at a picture)

Is that Father, when he was little?

MORTICIA:

(also pointing)

Yes. And that's Uncle Fester.

WEDNESDAY:

Where are they?

MORTICIA:

At a birthday party. See the fire trucks?

From Gomez's train room, we hear a voice howl "ALL

ABOARD!", followed by another WHISTLE BLAST.

MORTICIA:

(worried)

Oh, no.

PUGSLEY:

Father's playing with his trains.

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WEDNESDAY:

He must be upset.

MORTICIA:

It's always a bad sign -- hobbies.

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A63 INT. ADDAMS LIBRARY - SAME TIME A63

Grimly determined, Fester removes the well-worn copy of"Greed" from the shelf and the secret panel opens. He's

headed for the vault.

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63 INT. DINING ROOM - SAME TIME 63

The model trains WHISTLE AT FULL BLAST, shrieking in

warning as they round Dead Man's Curve, heading for eachother.

FROM INSIDE ONE OF THE TRAINS -A

LITTLE PASSENGER LOOKS OUT. He passes Gomez still

raving, almost to the boiling point.

GOMEZ:

These thoughts! I'm in torment!

What is truth? What is fiction?

Thing pounds the table in frustration.

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64 INT. LURCH'S BEDROOM - SAME TIME 64

Lurch is sitting up in his too-small bed, wearing his

nightshirt and cap. He is sewing a button on a shirt -a

gentle giant.

The CHUG of the trains now SHAKES the entire house.

Lurch's needle slips from the noise, and he pricks hisfinger. He sucks on his finger, looking troubled.

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A65

INT. THE SECRET CHAMBER - SAME TIME A65

Fester is at the INTERIOR WALL. He pushes against it,

seeing if that will make it turn. Then he remembers...

He looks above and there hang...

THE COUNTLESS CHAINS-(

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each with a rusted metal grip on the end. Which chain to

pull?

From far above in the house, Fester hears the distant

train whistle. He randomly yanks one of the chains.

The CHAIN YANKS BACK, pulling Fester straight upwards.

With a screech of pulleys and geers, the chain rocketshim, hanging on for dear life, toward a NARROW GAP INWHAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE A CEILING. Fester disappears intothe gap.

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B65 INT. PUGSLEY'S ROOM - SAME TIME B65

Morticia and the children are listening to the sounds ofthe trains, now a CHUGGING, WHISTLING CACOPHONY.

PUGSLEY:

(listening)

He's using the diesel...

A SHRILL BLAST is heard.

WEDNESDAY:

The covered bridge...

ANOTHER BLAST.

MORTICIA:

(very concerned)

Dead Man's Curve...

WEDNESDAY:

I know what he's worried about.

MORTICIA:

So do I, darling.

(trying to hide her

anxiety)

But let's get to bed. Now, have youbrushed your teeth and washed behindyour ears?

PUGSLEY:

I did. I'm sorry.

Another BLAST.

WEDNESDAY:

Is that man really Uncle Fester?

Uncle Fester WHOOSHES through the floor-to-cealing piranhatank. Only Morticia sees this.

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65 INT. DINING ROOM - SAME TIME 65

The TRAIN CRASH is imminent.

GOMEZ:

(falling to his knees)

Spirits above me - give me a sign!

Shall I be joyous? Or shall I be

damned?

The TRAINS COLLIDE!

Metal rends. Smoke and flames.

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73 EXT. YARD - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 73

A COAL CHUTE set in the side of the house DROPS opendepositing the soaked, disoriented Fester

AT THE FEET OF MORTICIA

Silhouetted by the full moon, she stands regally abovehim, waiting for him, her velvet cloak covering her nightclothes.

MORTICIA:

(pointedly)

Sleepless night? Walk with me,

Fester.

She turns and glides away. Fester has no choice but to

follow.

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74 EXT. BACK OF HOUSE/THE CEMETERY - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 74

Morticia leads Fester into the chill of the cemetery.

They follow a path that winds among the ELABORATE TOMBSTONES

of the Addams dead. Gomez's golfballs areeverywhere -- on the ground, in statues' upturned hands,

in their open mouths.

As they pass them, Morticia points out various monuments.

The marble statues look so real they could be alive.

MORTICIA:

Aunt Laborgia - executed by a firing

squad. Cousin Fledge - torn limb from

limb by four wild horses. And darling

Uncle Eimar...

Uncle Eimar is a hooded executioner with an upraised ax.

There is an UNEARTHLY MOAN, seeming to come from the tomb.

MORTICIA:

Buried alive. Psychopaths, fiends,

mad-dog killers - roots, Fester.

Pioneers. Lest we forget.

Among the statuary is a MARBLE VULTURE, posed with thedignity of an eagle on a flagpole, but the flagpoleis actually a replica of Fester's bald head.

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MORTICIA:

Your beloved Muerto. After youleft, he was simply... a differentvulture. He wouldn't circle. He

wouldn't peck. That's how much

you mean to this family.

They reach the MAUSOLEUM where MOTHER AND FATHER ADDAMSlie. It stands on a knoll, the HIGHEST POINT IN THE

CEMETERY.

Poison ivy covers the dilapidated Greco-Roman tomb.

Mother and Father Addams have been depicted as a god anda goddess, charioteers driving their steeds to thenetherworld. Father Addams smokes the ubiquitous Addamscigar.

Morticia gazes up at the likenesses of Mother and FatherAddams. But Fester averts his eyes -- the faces seemto be STARING DIRECTLY AT HIM.

MORTICIA:

Mother and Father Addams...

Imagine what we owe them. Oh, Fester,

how I wish the children could have

known them better. But tell that to

an angry mob.

She turns to trace the FAMILY CREST, carved into the

mausoleum. THE TOP OF THE CREST IS A VULTURE. THE

BACKGROUND IS COMPOSED OF THREE LION'S HEADS -- IN ONE

PANEL, A HUNTSMAN HOLDS OPEN THE LION'S HEAD; IN

ANOTHER PANEL, THE LION HAS SWALLOWED HIM UP TO HIS

TORSO; IN THE LAST PANEL, THE LION HAS SWALLOWED THE

HUNTSMAN COMPLETELY BUT FOR ONE DANGLING FOOT. ON A

BANNER AT THE BOTTOM IS THE FAMILY MOTTO IN LATIN.

MORTICIA:

Three lions rampant. The

vulture ascendant. And our

credo "Sic gorgiamus allossubjectatos nunc."

"We gladly feast on those whowould subdue us."

(reflective)

Not just pretty words. As an

Addams, you understand completely,

don't you?

She stares levelly at him.

FESTER:

As an Addams, yes, I do.

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