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Biting back his frustration, Tully reads the title, "GONEWITH THE WIND." He opens the cover. A HURRICANE BLAST OF

WIND GUSTS from the open book, blowing Tully's hairstraight up, rippling his facial muscles. He manages toclose the book and, heart pounding, returns it to theshelf. He grins sheepishly at

LURCH:

Who's been watching him from where he dusts in the hall, afeather duster in his gigantic hands.

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20 INT. GOMEZ'S STUDY - LATER 20

C.U. TULLY'S BRIEFCASE

Now filled with greenish DOUBLOONS.

Gomez, wearing a green accountant's eyeshade, weighs afinal handful of coins on an old-fashioned measuring scale,

then tosses them into Tully's briefcase.

GOMEZ:

There - the monthly expenses.

Tully snaps the briefcase shut and hoists it from Gomez'sdesk. It's dead weight in his hand -- another hatefulordeal.

TULLY:

(trying to

phrase it)

I don't suppose you have any paper

money in that vault. Gomez, it's

time. For the new fund. A

checkbook.

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GOMEZ:

Never! The banks - I don't trust

them.

(confidentially)

Strange people, Tully.

TULLY:

Really?

GOMEZ:

(his arm around

Tully)

Not like you and me. Or Fester.

The seance - I need you here.

For him.

TULLY:

Seance?

Tully lugs the briefcase toward the door.

GOMEZ:

Eight o'clock. By the way ...

Tully turns back.

Gomez flips an extra DOUBLOON across the room. It lands

expertly in Tully's vest pocket.

GOMEZ:

I broke another of Judge Womack'swindows this morning.

Tully resumes his put-upon march to the door.

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B27 EXT. JUDGE WOMACK'S HOUSE - A LITTLE LATER B27

Tully is on the front steps, (Judge Womack won't let himinside), searching his pockets for the doubloon, helplessly

enduring another of the Judge's tongue lashings.

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JUDGE WOMACK:

(to Tully)

Still working for Addams...

(to Margaret)

Mother warned you, Margaret. I can

still hear her voice, clear as a

bell, she'd always say, day in and

day out, "Marry Tully Alford..."

TULLY:

"... And you'll hear Satan laugh."

Here's your doubloon.

MARGARET:

(still wearing thefingertrap)

I'm stuck!

JUDGE WOMACK:

(to Tully)

You lowlife.

(to Margaret)

Are those emeralds?

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C27 INT. TULLY'S LAW OFFICE - LATER C27

Tully enters the secretary's alcove, still lugging hisimpossibly heavy briefcase. His offices were once quiteelegant, but now the leather on the chairs is starting tocrack and a repainting is long overdue.

Tully looks around for his secretary.

TULLY:

Miss Bradbury ...

(annoyed)

Miss Bradbury!

ABIGAIL (O.S.)

She's at lunch, Mr. Alford.

Alarmed, Tully steps into

D27 INT. TULLY'S OFFICE - SAME TIME D27

Sitting in a chair on the client's side of Tully's desk isABIGAIL CRAVEN, an arrogant, aristocratic-seeming 60ishdoyenne. Her steely will and conniving manipulativenessare barely veiled by a thin layer of polish and good

manners.

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Instantly obsequious, Tully sets his heavy briefcase on hisdesk and shakes her hand.

TULLY:

Mrs. Craven, I was just about tocall you.

ABIGAIL:

I'm certain you were.

(she gestures)

You haven't met my son, Gordon, havehave you, Mr. Alford?

Tully turns amiably, but his face falls at the sight of:

GORDON CRAVEN:

Fleshy and round, in his 40's, impeccably if eccentricallydressed, his dark hair plastered with pomade. With his

barrel chest and his kamikaze demeanor, he is IMMEDIATELY

THREATENING.

Tully blanches.

GORDON:

Is this the one, Mother? The

deadbeat you mentioned?

Before Tully can react, Gordon has him by the throat,

hanging him upside down from the wall like an oil painting.

TULLY:

(choking)

Wait a minute, hold on! You have

to listen to me!

ABIGAIL:

We do, Mr. Alford? And why?

TULLY:

Please... Just hear me out...

GORDON:

Mother... your call.

ABIGAIL:

(to Tully)

Gordon and I enjoy a very... specialrelationship. I'm wild about him.

GORDON:

(infatuated)

She's a pip.

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ABIGAIL:

Refreshing, no?

(after a beat)

Down, Gordon.

GORDON:

Mother...

ABIGAIL:

(sternly)

Gordon.

TULLY:

Gordon!

Gordon lets go, dropping him on his head. Whimpering, Tullycrawls toward his desk.

ABIGAIL:

And how is your wife, Mr. Alford? I've

heard so much about her. Still

charming? Still spending?

TULLY:

I don't have the money to repay you...

I've tried everything...

ABIGAIL:

We've lent you a considerable sum. Manythousands of dollars. Payment due.

TULLY:

Soon, I promise.

ABIGAIL:

Oh, Gordon - I want to believe him...

GORDON:

So do I...

ABIGAIL:

(re:
Gordon)

He's so terribly trusting.

GORDON:

She's a saint.

ABIGAIL:

(to Gordon)

Silly boy... make me proud.

Gordon grabs Tully and sweeps him onto his desk.

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TULLY'S BRIEFCASE

pops open as it hits the floor. The Addams' doubloons

SPILL OUT.

Abigail and Gordon light up at the sight of the gold. Theyshare a malicious smile. Gordon leers down at the battered

Tully.

GORDON:

He lied to us, Mother.

TULLY:

(babbling hysterically)

It's not what you think! Those are

doubloons! For the Addams account!

ABIGAIL:

Addams?

TULLY:

There's more, there's a fortune, but

no one can get to it! Don't you think

I've tried?

ABIGAIL:

Have you? Have you tried hard

enough? Ask him, Sweetheart.

Gordon descends on Tully, menacingly.

TULLY:

No! Sweetheart! Don't ask!

TULLY'S CRINGING POV

Gordon's face hovers inches from his own. The glare fromthe lightbulb hanging overhead whites out Gordon's hair -making

Gordon look as bald as a cue-ball.

It's like a sudden vision. The inspiration is obviouslyborn of terror. Gordon is the SPITTING IMAGE OF THE

LONG-LOST FESTER, as he would appear twenty-five yearslater.

TULLY,

disbelieving, comes nose-to-nose with Gordon.

TULLY:

(in a shocked,

croaky whisper)

Fester...?

Gordon makes a face at his mother.

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23.

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EXT. THE ADDAMS MANSION - SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE E27

NIGHT SKY:

RAIN, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!

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INT. ADDAMS MANSION DEN - EVENING 27

Morticia stands at the open window. Gomez stands behind

her, his arms around her waist.

GOMEZ:

(passionately)

Hailstones...

MORTICIA:

And lightning...

GOMEZ:

(nuzzling her)

It's a miserable night.

MORTICIA:

(aroused)

I know, darling. Seance weather.

Morticia leans out the window.

MORTICIA:

(festively)

Children, we're starting!

(amused)

Put down that antenna!

Another LIGHTNING FLASH.

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