The Addams Family Page #9

Morticia climbs up into the attic.

WEDNESDAY:

I'm going to electrocute him.

MORTICIA:

But we're late for the charity auction.

WEDNESDAY:

(pleading)

Mother...

Morticia pretends to be stern.

MORTICIA:

I said no.

PUGSLEY:

(pleading)

Please...

MORTICIA:

(a beat)

Oh... all right.

She smiles and flips the switch.

ANGLE on Wednesday's face, as we hear the sound of highvoltage sizzling Pugsley. Wednesday is very solemn, herusual impassive self, then a smile breaks through.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 1/7/91 45B

56 INT. BAYSHORE WOMEN'S CLUB - LATER 56

C.U. on the FINGERTRAP, jewels glittering.

then

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MARGARET ALFORD, who

blushes, standing on the auction block as if she werethe item up for auction. She holds her hands aloft,

fingers still ensnared in the ancient finger trap. She

wears the same disheveled dress, unable to disguise itssleeped-in look.

On the stage beside her, JUDGE WOMACK acts as the event'sauctioneer. He reads into the mike from the catalogue:

JUDGE WOMACK:

... encrusted with rubies, and

fifteen emerald chips. It was

donated by Morticia and Gomez

Addams.

Gomez and Morticia sit with their family. They lookaround, modestly.

REACTION SHOTS of various people in the crowd, staring atthe Addams family in horror and disbelief.

JUDGE WOMACK:

Remember, the money we raise goes

to help those less fortunate.

This year, over half our proceeds

will benefit the elderly and the

mentally disabled.

All the Addamses look at Granny proudly. She beams.

JUDGE WOMACK:

I open the bidding at five thousand

dollars.

GOMEZ:

Bah! Not enough!

He thrusts up his arm.

GOMEZ:

Twenty thousand!

MORTICIA:

For the elderly and the insane -(

gazing fondly atGranny)

They've earned it.

JUDGE WOMACK:

is surprised at the bid. Next to him, Margaret looks

confused.

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MARGARET:

What are they doing? It's theirs.

Judge Womack gives her a look that says shut up.

ANGLE on Pugsley. He has a PEASHOOTER in his mouth, aimed

at Judge Womack. Wednesday glares at her brother, andholds out her hand. He sheepishly passes her thepeashooter.

JUDGE WOMACK:

I have twenty -

GOMEZ:

(interrupts)

Twenty-five!

(to Morticia)

Cara mia...

Fester takes Morticia's opera glasses and peers appraisingly

at the glittering finger trap. He smiles greedily.

JUDGE WOMACK:

Twenty-five -

MORTICIA:

bashfully raises her hand.

MORTICIA:

Thirty...

(to Gomez)

Mon sauvage...

MARGARET:

pesters the Judge Womack.

MARGARET:

(to Judge Womack)

What are they doing?

Judge Womack shushes her.

ANGLE on Wednesday. She now has the PEASHOOTER in her

mouth, aimed at Judge Womack. Granny gives her a sternlook; Wednesday sheepishly hands Granny the peashooter.

GOMEZ:

raises his hand.

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GOMEZ:

Thirty-five!

(to Morticia)

Eres divina!

MARGARET:

is increasingly agitated.

MARGARET:

(to Judge Womack)

But I don't understand...

MORTICIA:

raises her hand.

MORTICIA:

Fifty!

Morticia has raised her arm. She lowers it, but keepsit extended for Gomez to kiss. He does so, passionately.

THE FLABBERGASTED JUDGE WOMACK

repeats breathlessly...

JUDGE WOMACK:

I have fifty thousand dollars...

MORTICIA:

Your turn, my ecstacy.

GOMEZ:

It's yours, amore mio.

MORTICIA:

You spoil me... mon amour.

Gomez utters a little cry of wild passion.

Judge Womack hammers his gavel, as Margaret's jaw drops.

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JUDGE WOMACK:

Sold to Morticia Addams for fiftythousand dollars!

Judge Womack shakes his head, in disgust.

48.

As he does so,

a projectile HITS HIS NECK. He YELPS, and grabs his neck.

ANGLE on Granny, with the peashooter in her mouth; she hasclearly just scored the hit on Judge Womack. She and the

children share a conspiratorial smile.

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57 OMITTED 57

58 INT. DUESENBERG - DUSK 58

CLOSEUP ON THE FINGER TRAP -The

jewels glinting in the passing lights.

FESTER:

has his fingers TRAPPED in it. He stares at it, almost

as if he were hypnotized. Morticia, beside him, admires

it also.

MORTICIA:

Isn't it too enchanting?

Fester pulls his fingers, trying to free them.

FESTER:

How do you take it off?

Morticia releases it for him.

MORTICIA:

There's a trick to it. Of course.

Gomez shares a look with Wednesday, then leans forwardfrom his place on the other side of Morticia and,

eyebrows knitted, frowns at Fester.

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A59 EXT. ADDAMS MANSION - NIGHT A59

Several windows are lit.

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ALTERNATE SCENE 58...

58

INT. DUESENBERG - DUSK 58

CLOSEUP ON THE FINGER TRAP -The

jewels glinting in the passing lights.

FESTER:

has his fingers TRAPPED in it. He stares at it, almost

as if hypnotized.

MORTICIA:

Gomez, you shouldn't have. You

bought the fingertrap.

GOMEZ:

It's for charity. And it belongsin the family.

Fester pulls his fingers, trying to free them.

FESTER:

How do you take it off?

Morticia releases it for him.

MORTICIA:

There's a trick to it. Of course.

Gomez shares a look with Wednesday, then leans forwardfrom his place on the other side of Morticia and, eyebrows

knitted, frowns at Fester.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 11/20/90 49.

59 INT. DINING ROOM - LATER 59

Gomez's elaborate MODEL TRAIN LAYOUT fills the room.

The LIONEL TRAIN races through the remains of a stripmined mountain terrace.

Thing gallops into view around one of the mountains, thenpaces back and forth in front of Gomez's transformers.

GOMEZ:

(ranting to Thing)

'How do you take it off?' That's

absurd! That finger trap was a

party favor at his tenth birthday!

Gomez demonically starts his SECOND TRAIN, setting it ona sure collision course with the first.

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60 OMITTED 60

A61 INT. FESTER'S ROOM - BEDTIME A61

Preparing to go to the vault, Fester, with cool professionalism,

slips his safe-cracking tools into thebandoliers strapped across his chest.

He reaches into the drawer for the nitro-glycerine andcomes up with the photo of the young Fester and Gomezbeing brought home from Camp Custer by the U.P.S. man.

He stares at the picture, then tosses it aside as iftouching it burned him. He picks up the nitro, andproceeds with his preparations.

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61 INT. DINING ROOM - SAME TIME 61

Puffing black smoke, the model trains race toward oneanother, toward the inevitable. His emotions churninglike the locomotive wheels, Gomez rants to Thing.

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GOMEZ:

He wore that finger trap for two years!

Mother had to teach him how to eat with his

feet! And the combination, and the

password, and my cigar - and he slept

so well!

Thing paces furiously.

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A62 INT. KITCHEN - SAME TIME A62

Granny sits at the kitchen table, reading cookbooks. There

is a stack of books on the table. Two books are propped

up. Granny reads from the first book; we see the title The

Joy of Cooking. She turns to the second book; we see

the title - Gray's Anatomy.

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