The Addams Family Page #5

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INT. MOTEL ROOM - SAME TIME A30

A typical, rundown, highway-style motel room, with stainedfiberglass curtains and a splotchy oil painting. Gordon

is seated on the bed, facing a cracked mirror. Abigailstands behind him, consulting a picture of FESTER thatTully has lent them.

ABIGAIL:

(staring at the

picture)

It's uncanny. My little boy, andthis hideous creature.

GORDON:

(hurt)

Mother...

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ABIGAIL:

(correcting herself)

Handsome creation.

(putting a towel on

Gordon's shoulders)

Think of it, my angel - no moregrubby store-front scams. No more

loansharking to scum like TullyAlford. All that delicious money

-I can feel it, right in myfingertips.

GORDON:

So can I...

ABIGAIL:

(in his ear)

Just one week and out. You locate

the vault and then we're gone poof!

Before they notice what'smissing.

GORDON:

And Alford?

ABIGAIL:

We need him - for now. And later,

we'll be miles away, and he'lltake the rap.

GORDON:

(intensely)

You're so good.

Abigail holds up a shaving brush, covered with foam.

ABIGAIL:

(seductively)

Shave and a haircut, Mister?

GORDON:

(breathing heavily)

Two bits.

Gordon moans orgasmically as Abigail begins to shave him.

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31 INT. ENTRYWAY - A FEW MINUTES LATER 31

Lurch peels off Margaret's and Tully's wet overcoats.

Margaret wears the same clothes she wore on her earliervisit -- the finger trap has made it impossible for herto change.

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MARGARET:

What a miserable evening.

TULLY:

Don't add to it.

Wednesday has come to escort them. Tully tries to makeconversation.

TULLY:

Big night for you guys! Hey,

small fry.

Tully reaches out to pat Wednesday's head. She moves away.

MARGARET:

Hello, sweetheart.

(holding up hertrapped hands)

Could you?

Wednesday deftly releases the trap from Margaret's fingers.

Margaret is amazed. She tries to straighten her disheveledclothes.

MARGARET:

Thank God. Call me a cab, Tully...

TULLY:

Get it yourself...

MARGARET:

Give me the car keys...

TULLY:

Give it a rest...

Morticia appears.

MORTICIA:

Welcome, honored guests.

Lurch presents a tray of vile-looking canapes. Morticia

motions to the tray.

MORTICIA:

Entrails?

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A32 LURCH AT HIS ORGAN A32

He plays a CRASHING CHORD.

MORTICIA (O.S.)

Let us gather, in this house ofyearning, on this day of heartsickloss, at this table of woe. Is

everyone comfortable?

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32 INT. DEN - SAME TIME 32

The family and Tully and Margaret sit at a round table,

the crystal ball in the center. In the background, Lurchcontinues to play mood music on the organ. Morticia

holds a tarnished gold CANDLEHOLDER in the shape of aRAVEN. The candle is in its belly and the beams of lightglow from its eyes.

MORTICIA:

Sing, O spirits! Harken, all souls!

Every year on this date, we offer aclarion call to Fester Addams.

WEDNESDAY:

(to Pugsley)

Stop it!

GOMEZ:

(scolding, playfully)

Pugsley...

Pugsley has a meat cleaver aimed at his sister.

Reluctantly, he hands it to Gomez.

GOMEZ:

(bemused, to Tully)

Kids.

MORTICIA:

(raising the raven)

From generations, to generation,

our beacon to the beyond.

(passing the ravento Wednesday)

Do you accept the glorious burden?

WEDNESDAY:

(taking the raven)

May it weigh me down through allmy melancholy years.

MORTICIA:

All close eyes and join hands.

They do. Granny takes a squeamish Margaret's hand.

GRANNY:

Ow! What a grip!

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Granny pulls away, leaving her "hand" behind, her sleeveapparently empty.

GRANNY:

My hand! She's got my hand!

Left holding Thing, Margaret shrieks.

Pugsley laughs appreciatively.

Margaret tries to shake Thing off, but he hangs ontightly. Granny cackles.

MARGARET:

Excuse me...

Ashen, Margaret tries to escape. Tully pulls her backto her seat.

TULLY:

Sit down, Pumpkin. Join the fun.

MORTICIA:

(affectionately)

Mama, you should know better.

Thing - you're a handful.

Thing lets go and runs off.

Margaret sits, stiff as a corpse. Still chuckling,

Granny takes a hold of Margaret's now-rigid hand with herown real hand. Margaret shudders.

With a last look around the table to insure that everyonehas settled down, Morticia resumes the seance.

MORTICIA:

Wednesday...

WEDNESDAY:

(intones)

"Let us ransom you

from the power of the grave.

Tonight, O Death,

Let us be your plague."

MORTICIA:

Mama...

GRANNY:

I feel that he's near... Fester

Addams, gather your strength and

knock three times.

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33 OMITTED 33

and and

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35 EXT. THE FRONT DOOR - SAME TIME 35

We see Gordon's hand on the DOOR KNOCKER - just his hand.

He pounds THREE TIMES, the heavy hollow soundreverberating...

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36 INT. DEN - SAME TIME 36

Granny's eyes pop open.

GRANNY:

Did you hear that?!

MORTICIA:

Ask again, Mama. Quickly.

Lurch's organ music perfectly underscores and punctuatesthe scene.

TULLY:

By all means!

Tully smirks, barely able to contain his smug enthusiasm.

GOMEZ:

(urgently)

Ask! Ask!

GRANNY:

Fester Addams - I demand that you

knock again!

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37 EXT. THE FRONT DOOR - SAME TIME 37

Waiting for someone to answer, Gordon's hand again KNOCKSTHREE TIMES, this time even harder.

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38 INT. DEN - SAME TIME 38

The knocking reverberates through the room. Jubilant,

Gomez springs to his feet. Lurch hits a crescendo on

the organ.

GOMEZ:

He's at the door!

He runs out and through the house to the

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39 INT./EXT. ENTRYWAY/FRONT STOOP - SAME TIME 39

His family at his heels, Gomez eagerly pulls open thefront door.

There on the front steps stands GORDON -- FESTER FROMBEYOND. Gordon's head is completely shaved, and hisclothing and pallor are pure Fester. The exact

resemblance is shocking. It seems a miracle.

Gomez and Fester stare at each other. Fester's eyeshave a hard, I-dare-you-to-question-me look in them.

Neither man says a word.

MORTICIA:

Could it be?

GRANNY:

Is that him?

TULLY:

(innocently)

Is it possible?

MARGARET:

Oh my God...

Morticia looks to Gomez for confirmation. Gomez and

Fester continue their face-off.

Gomez breaks the stalemate.

GOMEZ:

Fester!

FESTER:

Gomez!

Gomez throws open his arms. He smothers Fester in an

embrace. Fester endures it. Abigail steps forward; shenow wears a plain, dowdy suit, and her hair is in braidedcoils. She now speaks in a German/Austrian accent.

ABIGAIL:

Gut evenink. I am Dr. Pinder-Schloss.

40 INT. DRAWING ROOM - A SHORT WHILE LATER 40

Fester stands by the tall, baronial fireplace where anenormous fire burns. Steam rises off his wet greatcoat,

enveloping him. He seems immobile, a pair of shiningblack ferret eyes, calculating.

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