Thirteen Ghosts Page #11

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54 INT. HOUSE -BASEMENT -TRAP ROOM 54

Bobby lies on the floor. He rises, shaky, turns --andrealizes that he's trapped in a space perhaps twenty feetwide by ten feet long, surrounded on all four sides byglass walls. Other spaces are dimly visible through the

glass. He looks around. No way out.

Then, on the other side of the glass wall, he sees Arthurmoving down the passage on the other side.

BOBBY:

Dad! Dad!

But Arthur cannot hear or see him. An instant later,

Kathy comes INTO VIEW...

BOBBY:

Kathy! Kathy! Dad!

He bangs on the glass, but his fists hardly make a sound.

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55 INT. BASEMENT -CORRIDOR -WITH ARTHUR AND KATHY 55

Arthur hurries forward. Kathy behind him.

KATHY:

Dad, slow down...

ARTHUR:

Bobby!!

Arthur charges forward, searching. Kathy stays close.

KATHY:

We're gonna get lost...

And on that note, Arthur turns the corner, and finds

Bobby's microphone and glasses lying in the middle of thecorridor floor. He stops in his tracks. Kathy notices

them too.

Both of them fear the worst. They slowly walk over to

the items. Arthur picks up Bobby's microphone, whileKathy grabs his glasses.

Arthur presses PLAY on the RECORDER --Bobby's last wordsbellow out.

BOBBY (V.O.)

(screaming on recorder)

Dad! Dad!!

Arthur quickly clicks the RECORDER OFF. He tries to keepit together, but we can see the pain on his face. Kathy

breaks down.

56 INT. TRAP ROOM -SAME TIME 56

ON Bobby's side of the wall, Bobby pounds on the glass ashe sees Arthur comfort Kathy with a hug.

BOBBY:

Dad! Kath! Here! I'm in here!

The wall behind him begins to move --pushing in. He

gasps, and scrambles back as it comes forward, the spacein which he's trapped in getting narrower.

And to make matters worse, Arthur and Kathy vanish fromhis sight behind the "trick" glass. Bobby's about to

lose it...

57 INT. CORRIDOR -WITH ARTHUR AND KATHY 57

Arthur's comforting his daughter.

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ARTHUR:

Don't worry, we'll find him.

Kathy pulls it together.

58 INT. OTHER SIDE OF BASEMENT -WITH RAFKIN AND MAGGIE 58

Rafkin and Maggie pass another empty cube. The symbol

on the open door gets Rafkin's attention.

RAFKIN:

Oh sh*t...

KALINA:

What?

RAFKIN:

The Jackal's loose. We got to getthe hell out of here.

He turns back the way they came. Maggie follows.

59 INT. CORRIDOR -WITH ARTHUR AND KATHY -SAME TIME 59

Kathy holds up the glasses to her father.

KATHY:

Dad, Bobby was wearing these.

Maybe Rafkin was right. Maybe

there really are -

ARTHUR:

Kathy, think about what you'resaying...

Kathy raises the glasses to her face...

ARTHUR (O.S.)

... there's no such thing as -

... revealing a face from Hell before her --the Jackal.

THROUGH GHOST GLASSES

With unnaturally long limbs and fingers with long, jaggednails; its sloping head and bulging eyes contained in thecage it wears on his head, the Jackal stands before Kathyin a shredded straitjacket, half torn off, half burned

away.

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He supplies a madman's grin, saliva dripping, baringunnaturally large, crooked teeth, and then suddenly, whena heartbeat can seem like an eternity, he leaps at Kathyas if shot out of a shotgun.

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Kathy screams as she's literally propelled down the hall.

ARTHUR'S POV

At the end of the corridor, Kathy is seen being draggedinvisibly across the floor, pinned to the wall, thendragged up it to the ceiling.

KATHY:

Daddy! Help me!! Oh God!!

Her clothes are shredded from her body.

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Arthur, running -

ARTHUR:

Kathy!?

KATHY:

Daddy, help me!

Arthur, without glasses, can't see the Jackal, but he cansee the impossible spectacle of an invisible somethingsavagely tearing his daughter apart.

ARTHUR:

Kathy! What is it? I can't see a

thing!

Arthur grabs Kathy, tries to drag her away. But the

Jackal won't let go. Kathy is hoisted in the air betweenthe two, a tug of war that's killing her. Arthur won't

let go of her hands and the invisible Jackal won't let goof her feet. Bloody scratches rip open along her legs asher clothes are ripped to shreds.

KATHY:

Make it let go! Make it let go!

ARTHUR:

Where is it?! Kathy, tell me

where it is -

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Arthur grabs all the material he can and pulls. It

tears. Kathy rebounds, almost falling.

The Jackal leaps on her like a hellish animal, scratchingher with both fingers and toes. She screams over and

over. Arthur sees bloody scratches appear on Kathy'sskin, deep, red, sharp.

ARTHUR:

Jesus Christ, get off! Get off!

Hysterical, Arthur finally pulls Kathy up and drags herdown the passage. The Jackal leaps again, yanking her from

Arthur's grasp.

Arthur barely catches hold of Kathy's arm and pulls.

But the Jackal's too strong... and he's losing her...

Suddenly, the corridor lights up behind him, and aphosphorous flare is tossed to the floor beside him.

The JACKAL SHRIEKS with unearthly horror!

A second set of hands grabs hold of Kathy and pullsalongside Arthur. Arthur turns and comes face-to-face

with Kalina, knapsack slung over her shoulder, glasses onher face. He does a double-take, then -

ARTHUR:

Who the hell're you?

KALINA:

Pull!!

Together, the two pull Kathy down the hall, away from theJackal.

The Jackal regains his wits and attacks. It's a race

now.

KALINA:

Run, goddammit!!!

Arthur and Kalina drag Kathy down the hall, trying tooutrun the Jackal.

KATHY'S POV (UPSIDE DOWN GOING BACKWARDS)

The thing gives chase, closing the gap in the blink of an

eye.

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BACK TO SCENE:

KATHY:

Hurry, Daddy!!

At the last possible moment, the Jackal leaps.

Kathy screams again.

The Jackal suddenly slams into an invisible barrier.

Kathy reacts with astonishment as the ghost rips andtears into the barrier like a wild animal trying to getat meat... sparks fly.

The trio tries to regain themselves around the corner.

Kathy's in Arthur's arms, cut, bruised, crying. He

looks up with fire in his eyes at Kalina -ARTHUR

Just who the hell are you, how the

hell did you get in here, and whatthe hell was that!?

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60 INT. BASEMENT GLASS CORRIDOR -WITH RAFKIN AND MAGGIE

The duo weave their way through the basement's maze ofglass trying to locate Arthur and Kathy. Rafkin pullsMaggie along, trying to find the way out, but it's no

use. The hallways all look the same.

Pulling her around a corner, they find themselvestrapped. A glass barrier cuts them off from the rest ofthe corridor.

RAFKIN:

Sh*t!! Gotta go back.

Rafkin grabs Maggie, turns, suddenly stops. He looks

down the hall. Maggie isn't sure why. Rafkin starts

backing up.

MAGGIE:

What? What!?

RAFKIN:

(whispering)

Don't talk. Don't move.

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MAGGIE:

(whispering)

Why?

RAFKIN:

(whispering)

Somehow we got behind enemy lines.

Hands her the glasses. Maggie can see a tiny boy carryinga hatchet moving towards them in the dark. She turns back

towards Rafkin for affirmation. When she looks back -

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