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WEDNESDAY:

Pugsley, sit in the chair.

Why?

PUGSLEY:

WEDNESDAY:

So we can play a game.

PUGSLEY:

(climbing into thechair)

What game?

WEDNESDAY:

It's called...

(she thinks)

"Is there a God?"

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49 INT. ENTRANCE TO THE VAULT - SAME TIME 49

Still singing, Gomez poles toward A MASSIVE METAL DOOR,

SIX FEET ACROSS AND TEN FEET HIGH, set right into theROCK OF THE GROTTO. Gomez docks at the narrow ledge infront of the door.

Gomez leaps onto the ledge and Fester follows. He's

getting excited now, wondering what treasures existbehind this door.

The vault...

FESTER:

Gomez goes to work on the oversized combination lock.

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GOMEZ:

(knowingly, to

Fester)

Two to the right, ten to theleft, and then around to...?

FESTER:

(guessing)

Five?

GOMEZ:

(surprised)

Eleven. Two, ten, eleven. Eyes,

fingers, toes.

Fester licks his lips in anticipation.

GOMEZ:

So many years...

FESTER:

Long, barren years...

GOMEZ:

Years that we wasted...

FESTER:

Years we'll bring back...

GOMEZ:

We enter together - a triumphantreturn!

FESTER:

We enter as brothers - we enter...

GOMEZ:

As one!

Gomez slowly opens the door, revealing...

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51 INT. VAULT - SAME TIME 51

Rather than a treasure trove, it looks like A DECREPIT

NINETEENTH CENTURY MEN'S CLUB -- torn red leather chairs

and settees, an assortment of TORTURE DEVICES and HUNTING

TROPHIES. An elaborate bar with a cracked mirror.

GOMEZ:

Welcome back!

FESTER:

(very disappointed)

Thanks.

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GOMEZ:

Our secret place. Sanctus

sanctorum. If these walls could

talk, eh, old man?

FESTER:

(looking around,

unsure)

What... what would they say?

GOMEZ:

(assumes that Fester

is joking)

You tell me.

FESTER:

You go first.

GOMEZ:

(gesturing to Fester,

out of respect)

Senior partner...

FESTER:

(desperately)

Junior spaceman.

GOMEZ:

First a brandy!

(indicating the bar)

Do the honors.

(opening a largewooden box)

I've got a real treat in store.

FESTER:

(grumbling to himself,

as he chooses a

bottle from the bar)

Where is it, you ridiculous imbecile...

There are a half-dozen excellent brandies on the well-

stocked shelf. Fester pockets a silver jigger, thenchooses a bottle AND THE BAR SPINS AROUND with Fester,

revealing...

THE INTERIOR TREASURE ROOM -

A STONE CAVERN stacked high with ADDAMS TREASURE -- gold,

jewels, bizarre but priceless statuary from around theworld.

Fester gets one slack-jawed glimpse and THE BAR SPINSAGAIN, depositing him back in the OUTER ROOM.

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Gomez has been too busy digging through the box to havenoticed Fester's carousel ride. He turns -- his arms overflowing

with FILM CANS.

GOMEZ:

Showtime!

And, with shaking hands, Fester pours himself a stiffdrink and replaces the bottle on the shelf.

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B53 INT. ATTIC - SAME TIME B53

Wednesday is strapping Pugsley's arms and legs into theelectric chair.

PUGSLEY:

But if he's not Uncle Fester, then

who is he?

WEDNESDAY:

Somebody else.

Wednesday pushes a button, and the lights on the chair

go on. The entire mechanism hums and vibrates.

WEDNESDAY:

It has to warm up.

PUGSLEY:

Why?

WEDNESDAY:

So it can kill you.

PUGSLEY:

(after a beat)

I knew that.

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53 INT. OUTER TREASURE ROOM - SAME TIME 53

Gomez is running home movies. He and Fester sit in side-

by-side armchairs with the stuffing coming out. Theysmoke cigars and drink brandy from extra-large snifters.

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ON THE HOME-MOVIE SCREEN -

The young Gomez and Fester, shark fins strapped to theirbacks, sneak around a corner toward a swimming pool crowdedwith kids. The film then JUMP CUTS to:

Young Gomez has buried young Fester in the sand at thebeach. Only Fester's head appears from beneath a mound. A

few yards away, a single hand struggles out of the sand,

clearly another person. The film JUMP CUTS to:

A hand-held 16mm camera weaves its way through a group ofball-goers, finally focussing on a head and shoulders shotof Gomez and Fester, now in their teens. The Addams boyslook both sinister and dashing in their tuxedos and Gomezis already smoking his trademark cigar.

GOMEZ:

Here! The debutante ball! Remember

that fateful night?

FESTER:

(guessing)

Of course... your first cigar...

GOMEZ:

What? Come on, old man, I've

smoked since I was five. Mother

insisted.

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ON THE SCREEN -

the boys flank their dates, the TWINS from the pictures onFester's bureau -- BEAUTIFUL RED-HEADS with dementia in

their eyes. Throughout the twins are seen only from thewaist up.

FESTER:

(covering his

tracks)

Flora and Fauna. Quite the pair,

eh, Gomez?

Gomez sighs, and then becomes extremely dramatic.

GOMEZ:

Can you ever forgive me?

FESTER:

What?

GOMEZ:

I didn't love them. Yet, I wooed

them, both, out of foolish pride.

You were so dashing, you could haveany woman you wanted, dead or alive.

I was jealous, insanely jealous.

I admit that now. But I never meant

to drive you off, not to the BermudaTriangle.

FESTER:

(holding up a hand,

very gracious)

Water under the bridge. Forgiven.

Forgotten.

Gomez holds out his arms. Fester endures the hug.

Gomez turns the hug into a painful headlock. Fester

gasps for breath.

GOMEZ:

(playfully)

Say it! Say the password!

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FESTER:

(choking)

The password? I... I...

GOMEZ:

(continuing tochoke him)

Come on, stop fooling, youremember...

FESTER:

(turning blue)

Please... I'm choking... please...

Gomez, perplexed, releases Fester.

GOMEZ:

You forgot our secret password?

The word we used one hundred times

a day? Our special private namefor each other?

FESTER:

(rubbing his neck,

still gasping)

That was a long time ago, we werechildren... you almost killed me,

you demented freak...

GOMEZ:

(shocked)

Did you say... demented freak?

FESTER:

Yes, you demented freak!

Fester has accidentally hit on the password.

lights up; he flings open his arms.

Gomez

GOMEZ:

(joyously)

Demented freak!

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The electric chair is really humming. Pugsley now hasthe chair's helmet on as well. Wednesday is about tothrow the huge master SWITCH.

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PUGSLEY:

But why would Dr. Pinder-Schlosstell a lie?

WEDNESDAY:

Because she wants something. Do

you have a last request?

PUGSLEY:

Can I have ice cream?

WEDNESDAY:

No.

PUGSLEY:

(sighing)

Then just do it.

As Wednesday is about to throw the switch, Morticia'shead appears from the trap door.

MORTICIA:

Children - what are you doing?

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