The Beast Must Die

1

- This film

is a detective story

in which you are the detective.

The question is not who is the murderer,

but who is the werewolf?

After all the clues have been shown,

you will get a chance to give your answer.

Watch for the werewolf break.

- Have visual contact.

- Have scanner contact,

repeat, have scanner contact.

Go!

- Target in woods,

have lost visual contact.

- Target heading towards

map reference 263475,

repeat, map reference 263475, intercept.

Target at exactly map

reference 261471, intercept!

Target breaking right.

Target taking cover, not moving.

I can hear his heartbeats.

You're about 10 yards away.

Zero in, number one.

He's right by ground mic 87.

He's yours.

You will get another chance, let him go.

Target now heading 0262475.

- Bang, you're dead!

- Not until you pull that trigger, boy!

- Number three, 10 yards to your right.

Target breaking right, intercept and kill.

They're blanks, of course, an

added personal touch of mine.

I thought maybe, uh,

it would give you an extra kick.

Well, you are satisfied with my efforts?

- But I spotted the television cameras

and the mics you had staked in the ground.

They could be destroyed!

- But what you haven't seen is this.

The underground grid pattern.

Now, each one of those red

lights represents a microphone

buried immediately under the surface,

and each one can detect a human footstep

up to the range of one mile.

- Ok, so the whole area's covered.

Now, what if deer or some other animal

moves into your fancy grid system?

- This analyzes and rates every vibration,

computerized to identify

bird, beast, or man.

- Now, what about this house?

- Yes, the house.

Up to the range of 100 yards,

there is a pressure

strip under the ground.

Nothing can cross that

without activating the alarms.

Nothing can penetrate your estate

without you knowing about

it and identifying it.

- And being able to pinpoint it.

- As I've proved to you with

you, yourself, as the target!

- Good, you've earned your money, pavel.

- And since it is a great

deal of money, thank you.

May I now ask a question?

- Ask away.

- All this expense, why?

Protection?

- Against whom?

I have enemies, what big man doesn't?

In this world, you're either

the hunter or the hunted.

- And you are the hunter?

- Always.

On safari or in the board

room, it's all the same.

I go after what I want.

With money, that is not very difficult.

Money buys things, men shape events.

Half the kids I grew

up with are right there

in the same stinking shantytowns,

still hustling spooked

tourists for a living.

- And how did you, uh, shape events?

- I told you, I was born a hunter.

I set my sights on the right tourists.

Tracked it, snared it,

and allowed her to take

me to Miami, Florida.

I was very determined.

- Oh, I'm, uh, I'm quite aware

of your, uh, reputation.

Still, my question stands, why all this?

- Hmm, because this is

going to help me hunt

the biggest game of all.

- Perhaps you can tell us why you arranged

to have yourself shot.

- Certainly, just checking

the system's effectiveness.

- System, what system?

Men popping up out of the bushes,

and then frightening us to death?

- Oh, just part of my grand design.

The same plan that got you

all here at the same time.

Why do you think I invited you?

Because every one of you

sitting here in this room

has one thing in common, death.

You, bennington, once you

were a united nations delegate

til two members of your grubby entourage

mysteriously disappeared.

- There was an inquiry and

i was completely exonerated.

- So completely that they threw you

out of the diplomatic core.

Now, you're a part-time

television personality,

which I suppose makes you

everybody's houseguest.

- I don't have to take

that kind of talk from you!

- You just did.

And how about our friend,

the maestro, here?

International concert pianist,

plays all over the world, or used to.

Now, there are certain European capitals

where he is not welcomed anymore.

Seems there were nasty

killings in those cities

and always when you were playing there.

All the victims were found

with their throats torn out.

- Tom, if you're trying to

completely ruin our weekend--

- and if you're trying

to protect Davina, no go.

She wasn't invited

because she's your friend.

She's here on her own account,

because funny things happen

when Davina gilmore's

in a house party, like

you end up a guest short.

Some poor man or woman

quite dead and half-eaten.

- Tom, stop it!

- But you asked me to explain,

and I haven't finished yet!

Mr. foote knows all

about eating human flesh.

Isn't that right, Paul,

you went to prison for it

once, didn't you, Paul'?

- Well, somebody's been

doing his homework.

Still, that's no secret.

I started out to be a doctor.

- Really?

- Yes, really, there were nine

of us medical students involved.

We each ate a piece of human flesh.

Anatomical specimen!

- I know all that.

What I don't know is why.

- Curiosity, bravado, I don't know.

- Maybe you couldn't help yourself,

but that's more Dr. lundgren's subject.

- My subject is archeology.

- But not your passion.

Your overwhelming

interest is the loup-garou.

- Oh, yeah.

- The what?

- I prefer to call it rolok.

- Call it what you like,

the result's the same.

Human flesh torn out and eaten,

as one of you knows only too well,

because one of you

sitting here in this room

is a werewolf.

- If only I could believe it was a joke,

but you never joke, ever!

So, that leaves only

one other alternative.

You're out of your mind.

- I have never been

more serious in my life.

- Serious?

- One of our guests is

a werewolf, I know it.

- Then why invite them here?

Send them home, please.

- They're here and they're staying.

- Tom, I don't know what you're planning.

I don't care, but please,

for my sake.

- Things are easy to give up,

but a dream, a dream of hunting and facing

what no man has ever trapped before,

to give up that dream, no way.

- Tom?

What if the werewolf turns out to be me'?

" Pow!

Where were you going?

- I was going to the village!

- You were trying to escape!

- You don't really believe that one of us

is a, a werewolf?

- I certainly do.

- And you think it is me!

- It's a possibility.

- Look, I'll tell you what.

I'll stay here, you let the others go.

- Who are you trying to protect, Davina?

Is it Davina?

Let's go back, uh, this way, please.

Before the night's over, I'll

know exactly which one it is.

- Your werewolf, hmm?

- Hmm, a man who, by the

light of the full moon,

turns into a savage and ravening beast.

I understood they were very

common in your country.

- That is one of the

reasons I left my country,

why I escaped to england.

Away from a mentality that

believes in such things.

- Well, in Poland they may rely on garlic

and wolf bane strung about the house.

I prefer to make use of science.

- Well, if he's your werewolf,

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes