The Nightmare Before Christmas Page #21

SNOW.

At first, just a few sparkling flakes fall.

VAMPIRE VOICE (O.S.)

Look!

BIG MONSTER VOICE (O.S.)

What is it?

It snows more and more.

WITCH VOICE (O.S.)

White thing's...

ANOTHER WITCH VOICE (O.S.)

Everywhere...

HIGH GHOUL VOICE (O.S.)

Could it be --

DEEP GHOUL VOICE (O.S.)

(finishes the

thought)

-- SNOW??

Zero barks excitedly. Jack finally looks up.

JACK:

(with wonder)

It is snow... But how?

As if in answer to Jack's question we HEAR

SANTA'S BOOMING HO-HO-HO

high up in the sky.

A SLOW SMILE SPREADS ACROSS JACK'S FACE.

The residents of Halloween come out to experience the snow --

this miracle of Christmas that has come to Halloween.

>>>>> CELEBRATION SONG (ECHO OF 'WHAT'S THIS?'?)

Jack joins in the celebration -- but seems always to be looking

around for someone.

CUT TO:

EXT. CEMETERY. CHRISTMAS EVE/CONTINUOUS TIME.

As the celebrating goes on in town below, Sally climbs Cemetery

Hill. Sitting down at the top, she looks out at the round moon

which shines behind the curtain of falling snow. She is moved to

sing a brief reprise of

>>>>> SALLY'S SONG

Soon, A SECOND VOICE joins in, making the song a DUET. The

second voice belongs to

JACK.

He has found Sally.

Jack sings:

JACK:

My dearest friend, if you don't mind

I'd like to join you by your side

Let's sit together, you and I

Alone, where we can watch the sky.

He sits beside her. Together they look out at the moon and the

snow.

WE PULL BACK AND UP:

Above the CLOUDS and the SNOW, past SANTA flying into the

distance aboard his sleigh, above the gleaming light of the

Christmas MOON, and into the NIGHT, pulling BACK AND BACK INTO

THE STARS...

Santa's voice returns to narrate:

SANTA (V.O.)

And finally, everything worked out just fine --

Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time.

But, after that night, things were never the same,

Each holiday now knew the other one's name.

And so when their long isolation had ended,

They cautiously reached out, and slowly befriended.

And each shared a bit of the things that they had

With each other, and found out it wasn't so bad --

They had snowflakes in Halloween, those we could spare,

And we here in Christmas enjoyed a few scares.

The fireworks gave the Easter Bunnies a thrill

And St. Patrick's Day cherishes Easter Eggs still.

And though that one Christmas, things got out of hand,

I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man.

Though misguided I think his intentions were good.

He was just a poor skeleton misunderstood.

So many years later I thought I'd drop in,

And there was old Jack, still looking quite thin.

With four or five skeleton children at hand

Playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band.

And I asked old Jack, 'Do you remember the night,

When the sky was so dark, and the moon shone so bright?

'When a million small children pretending to sleep

Nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak?

'And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back

To that long fateful night? Now, think carefully, Jack.

'Would you do the whole thing all over again?

Knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then?'

And he smiled like the old Pumpkin King that I knew,

Then turned, and asked softly of me... 'Wouldn't you?'

THE END:

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