Thirteen Ghosts Page #8

As he steps over the threshold, there's a flicker oflight in the doorway, and a sharp SNICK.

Ben stands in the doorway, surprised, apparentlyparalyzed. His glasses tumble off his face, stems sliced

through. The briefcase in his hand also seems to be

sliced. Half of it falls and halves of dollar bills

spill out onto the floor.

Ben slowly slides to the ground. Or at least his front

half does. The glass door has snapped shut like a razor

blade. Bisecting him laterally, slicing straight throughhis body.

His front half slides down, revealing, for a second, across sectional view of his back half on the far side of

the glass.

As Ben's remains collapse wetly to the floor, the Suicidesmiles and vanishes...

39 INT. CLOCKWORK ROOM -CONTINUOUS ACTION 39

Above the row of levers we see a series of 13 meters at

the base of the pendulum. All read. The needle on the

first meter suddenly dives deep into the red.

40 INT. GREAT HALL -CONTINUOUS ACTION 40

On the floor of the great hall, the RING stops spinningwith a CLICK. The symbol on the innermost ring (the sameas the one in the basement) has lined up with its mate onthe disk.

CUT TO:

41 INT. SECOND FLOOR -HALLWAY -NIGHT 41

Kathy, Bobby and Maggie are walking around, examiningeverything... still excited, oblivious to what's going ondownstairs.

(CONTINUED)

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Kathy passes by one of the bedrooms, and breaks off fromthe other two to check it out.

KATHY:

I'll be in here.

Bobby and Maggie continue on.

microphone.

Bobby turns on his

BOBBY:

(recording)

We are now upstairs... andthere's... more glass.

Bobby clicks off the microphone.

scooter from his bag.

Then removes his

BOBBY:

Race you to the end of thehall...?

MAGGIE:

I really don't think you should beriding that in -And

suddenly Maggie breaks out into a sprint. Bobbyquickly jumps on his scooter, but he's too far behind tocatch up.

BOBBY:

Hey, you cheated!

They reach the end of the hall.

BOBBY:

That wasn't fair, I didn't say

start.

MAGGIE:

Gotta be on your toes, kid.

Maggie walks into one of the rooms. Bobby follows her.

42 INT. BOBBY'S BEDROOM 42

The room's filled with all types of cool, macabre, boystuff. A seven-year-old's dream, if you were a dementedseven-year-old.

BOBBY:

This is definitely my room.

(CONTINUED)

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Maggie plops down on a bed made up with skull andcrossbones sheets. She finds a pair of ghost glasseslying on the bedside table. Puts them on.

MAGGIE:

So, do I look cool?

BOBBY:

No, you look like a dork...

But the nanny isn't listening. She sits there, slack-

jawed.

MAGGIE:

(looking throughglasses)

My God... this is... incredible...

MAGGIE'S POV THROUGH GHOST GLASSES

The etched glass symbols on the wall have been added towith flowing red, glowing symbols. Not only do theyweave in and about the walls, but they create a path onthe floor that leads right out the door.

BACK TO SCENE:

BOBBY:

What? Lemme see.

MAGGIE:

One second.

BOBBY:

C'mon...

Bobby grabs at them. Maggie takes them off.

MAGGIE:

Alright, alright... here...

Bobby puts them on, and reacts.

BOBBY:

Cool!

Bobby grabs his scooter and mike, and takes off down thehall. Maggie gives chase, but it's obvious she's notgoing to catch him.

He zooms in and out of the bedrooms, up and down thehalls, following the glowing red path.

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He takes a couple of turns when he realizes he may havegone too far. The boy has become lost in all the glass.

Bobby is alone.

BOBBY:

Maggie...?

Bobby starts scooting again, only this time with a bit

more urgency.

He passes an open door, which opens into a set of stairsheading down. He stops, backs up, then glances down. At

the bottom of the nearest landing, he catches the glimpseof a figure standing. The female figure is insilhouette, and her head is tilted oddly to one side,

though from this distance, we can't see why.

BOBBY:

Kathy??

The figure oddly shuffles off.

BOBBY:

C'mon, Kath, stop playing games.

With his scooter under his arm, Bobby heads downstairs,

into the darkness of the house.

BOBBY:

I'm gonna tell Dad...

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42A INT. CORRIDOR 42A

Maggie looking tired of searching for Bobby. Suddenly

something O.S. catches her eye.

MAGGIE:

Whoa... what's going on.

43 INT. KATHY'S BEDROOM (SECOND FLOOR) 43

Kathy walks in, but not before she notices that, from thehallway, the room appears to be empty. The glass door,

we now realize, is "trick" glass.

KATHY:

This place is awesome.

Kathy walks over to the bed. Plops down, sinking into

all the silk. Her half-closed eyes tell us --puurrfect.

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Out of the corner of her eye, she spots a door ajar, withthe lights on inside.

KATHY:

No way...

She slips off the bed, opening the door, revealing hernew bathroom. And if ever a room could be carved from a

single diamond, this is it.

KATHY:

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

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It's spectacular. Immaculate. And not only spacious,

but appointed. The shelves are stacked with jewel-likebottles of perfume. Kathy's wet dream.

As we VIEW her FROM BENEATH the glass shelves, she beginsinspecting her own found treasure. Everything seems to

be unashamedly brand-new.

KATHY:

We've struck gold.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

What she also doesn't notice is a pair of ghost glasseslying on the sink. The CAMERA ZOOMS IN THROUGH the

lenses, so that we're now looking at the scene...

THROUGH GHOST GLASSES

And a figure passes behind Kathy, jolting us. The figure

heads for the tub. The CAMERA TURNS TOWARDS the figure,

REVEALING a new level of hell. There's blood spattered

everywhere in the bathroom. We PAN. The gore is

overwhelming.

Still lost in her personal nirvana, Kathy nonchalantlystrolls over to the bathtub, drawing back itsbloodstained curtain. In a TIGHT SHOT, she runs the

water, which is blood-red. On the CUT, she brings it upto her face where it's warm, clear and perfect.

When she leans back a bit, we see the naked female

suicide ghost lying in the bloody tub, wrists slashed,

eyes staring at Kathy, wickedly.

Kathy doesn't see her, because she's not wearing theglasses.

Two words are written in blood on the glass wallssurrounding the tub:

I'M SORRY

Kathy's oblivious of the Suicide, lost in thepossibilities of her bathroom. Running her hand around

the bloody water. She turns the water off... and as soon

as she does, a knife pierces the surface of the water.

KATHY:

It doesn't get any better than

this.

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Suddenly, the Suicide rises up with the rest of herknife, reaching for Kathy, when -

There's BANGING on the bathroom door. Kathy bolts

upright.

BACK TO SCENE:

We snap out of the ghost glasses, and the bathroom's backto normal. All clean glass block. An empty tub.

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