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INT. DEREK'S DORM ROOM - LATER
A dark room. A slight disturbance at the door and it comes popping open. Light from the
hall floods the room as Dewey and Gale slip in and close the door behind them.
GALE (checking door) You broke the lock.
DEWEY You broke my heart.
GALE What are we looking for?
DEWEY A bloody knife. A ghost mask. Something like that?
GALECan we turn the light on?
DEWEY That's not the way it's done.
Dewey pulls out his flashlight and begins to search the room. He sifts through drawers and a closet.
DEWEY And it's sexier in the dark.
GALE Dewey, you and I would never make it.
DEWEY Maybe not. But think about the sex. As frustrated as I am...
GALE ..and as lonely as I am...
DEWEY We'd break some furniture.
Gale LAUGHS at this. She reaches over and pats his buttock.
GALE Tell you what. We get through this one. And we'll take out a hotel room. Over here with the light.
Dewey points the light to a framed picture. It's of Joel and Derek - a buddy pose. She sifts through some text books on the desk.
DEWEY They're roomates.
GALE And Joel's pre-med.
DEWEY The sorority girl was gutted with autopsy precision.
GALE Shit! It's both of them. The first murders were to throw us - using the same names as Woodsboro. But they've moved on- -they're getting closer to Sidney. They're not looking for a Himbry or a Tatum to kill. They're looking for the new Tatum.
DEWEY Hallie?
A moment. Then in a splash, they're outta there. CUT TO:
EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET - MINUTES LATER
A squad car makes it's way down the quiet campus street.
INT. SQUAD CAR - SAME
Sidney sits in the backseat. The two police officers ride in front.
SIDNEY Where are you taking me?
POLICE GUARD #1 Actually, I don't know.
POLICE GUARD #2 We're meeting another car that will transport you the rest of the way.
POLICE GUARD #1 Safety precautions.
SIDNEY I feel like Eddie Murphy.
The car comes to a halt in front of a stop light.
POLICE GUARD #1 We feel like Kevin Costner.
Sidney smiles at this just as the car door rips open on the passenger's side. Two hands reach in and yank Police Guard #2 from the car. He starts to CRY OUT but it's cut short. Sid SCREAMS as the Police Guard behind the wheel struggles with his seat belt. He looks up to see a Ghost Masked Figure move around the side of the car towards his door. He reaches for his gun but it's too late. The Ghost has the door open. A flash of silver and the Police Guard's throat is slit.
IN THE BACK SEAT
Sidney SCREAMS and SCREAMS, BEATING on the door of the car. It won't open. She's trapped like a caged animal.
IN THE FRONT SEAT
The Ghost pulls the Police Guard from the car, then gets in, behind the driver's seat. The
Ghost puts the car in drive and takes off down the road.
Sidney looks behind her as the guard's dead bodies lay sprawled in the middle of the road. She turns to the door, BEATING and CLAWING at it. She leans back, manic, and KICKS at the window with her feet. No use.
EXT. CAMPUS DRIVE - SAME
The car makes its way down the deserted street
IN THE BACKSEAT
Sidney is beyond frantic. She eyes the Ghost through the gate. She turns and twists
looking for an escape. Through the window, she sees approaching headlights. She SCREAMS through the closed window
as a car passes by. Sidney takes notice as the car turns onto another campus street. Big, stone school
buildings line each side of a thin, road.
She eyes the Ghost through the rearview window. The white masks turns as hidden eyes bore through her. The Ghost hits the gas, picking up speed.
Sidney looks to the book bag on the seat beside her. She rips it open, rustling through it frantically. She pulls books, pencils, paper... Sid grabs a long, yellow No.2 pencil. She grips it hard, looking to the metal grate just behind the driver's seat. The Ghost's neck is right up against it.
Sid takes the pencil and positions it right behind the Ghost's head, ready to attack.
Without pause, Sid RAMS the pencil through the grate, into the Ghost's neck. It lodges there as the Ghost falls forward in pain, losing control of the wheel for a moment.
The car jumps the curb and SLAMS against a building. The Ghost yanks the wheel, over correcting. He tries to bring it back to the road but doesn't see the lamp post that stands directly in the car's path.
The Squad car makes direct contact with the lamp post, SLAMMING into it, bringing the car to a CRASHING HALT, lodging it agaisnt the building's stone exterior. Smoke rises from a bashed engine as it emits a fatal rumbling.
INSIDE THE CAR
All is still. In the backseat, Sidney rises from the floorboards. She looks up to see the
Ghost Masked figure slumped over the steering wheel. Out.
Sid quickly pulls herself together, looking about, sizing up her options. She tugs on the door handle. It won't budge. She looks to the passenger's side of the car. It's flush against the building.
Then she notices the metal grate. The edge has been pried apart in the crash. Sidney reaches for it, pulling on it, bending it backwards... CREAK!
Sid tries to stifle the noise it makes, all the while eyeing the Ghost who remains unconscious. She creates an opening large enough for her to crawl through. She lifts herself up and pulls herself through to the... FRONT SEAT
Sid falls down into the seat, her eyes never leaving the Ghost. She lay crumpled up against the smashed passenger's door, the only sound is her own TERRIFIED BREATHING. She watches the Ghost Masked Figure. His body doesn't move. She contemplates her next move.
The only way out is through the driver's door. After what seems an eternity, she slowly reaches over with her foot and nudges the Ghost. No movement. Nothing. She slides across the seat towards the Ghost, moving to his side. She reaches with her hand and pushes on the Ghost's shoulder. His body moves, slumping back against the back of the seat. It clears space for her to pass through. She sits up on her feet, facing the Ghost. With her leg, she reaches over him, straddling him. She leans against the steering wheel, her arm quickly reaching for the door knob. HONK!
Her back brushes against the horn. Sid TENSES, her face a little more than a foot from the Ghost Mask. He doesn't move. He's completely out cold. Sid pushes the car door open and starts to slide completely over the Ghost when she stops.
She looks to the Ghost. CLOSE ON HER FACE as she fights with a decision. Then, with a fierce determination, Sid reaches for the Ghost Mask. She finds the edge and begins to peels the Mask away when...
THE GHOST COMES TO LIFE lunging forward. Sidney SCREAMS, leaping, falling out the car door.
OUTSIDE THE CAR
BAM!
Sid hits the pavement hard. She lifts herself up when her entire body is YANKED VIOLENTLY BACKWARDS.
The Ghost has hold of her foot, pulling her back into the car. Sidney KICKS and WRITHES breaking free. She hops to her feet as the Ghost emerges from the car. Sidney SLAMS the car door shut. It catches the Ghost, knocking him backwards. Sid tears off, down the street, running, burning up the pavement.
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EXT. FILM SCHOOL - MINUTES LATER
The film school sits in the still darkness.
INT. HALLWAY - SAME
Dewey and Gale move down a dark and shadowed hallway. THUMP! They stop cold.
GALE Ssshh! What was that?
DEWEY Let's find out.
Dewey keeps moving.
GALE This is all too familiar.
DEWEY Over here.
Dewey has lead her to a door marked LECTURE HALL.
INT. LECTURE HALL - SAME
The same room seen earlier. A large, rounded room with three levels of seats that shoot
straight up to the ceiling. A podium stands center. Video monitors hang from the ceiling in
different places around the room.
Dewey and Gale enter. If not for the red EXIT SIGNS that hang over the exit doors, the room would be completely dark. They move down the first level of chairs to the lecturn.
GALE Maybe they never got here. He could have taken her anywhere.
DEWEY C'mon. Let's go.
CLICK! STATIC! A noise from above takes their attention. They looks up as a video monitor comes to life. Images appear.
CLOSE ON MONITOR
Home-made video footage fills the screen. A movie theatre, people standing in line. The
home camera ZOOMS in to a YOUNG COUPLE. Maureen and Phil come into view.
ON DEWEY AND GALE
Gale watches the screen as Dewey looks around the room, searching for it's source.
CLICK! Another monitor comes to life. More home shot video footage. This time of a big house. A closer look reveals it to be the Chi Omega Sorority House. A young girl stands on the front porch talking on a portable phone. It's Cici.
ON GALE AND DEWEY
GALE Jesus Christ!
DEWEY He filmed his victims.
CLICK! ANOTHER MONITOR TURNS ON
It's Randy standing outside the newsvan with the cellular phone to his ear.
CLICK! Another monitor turns on. It's of a man and woman back to the camera. The couple move in frame. It becomes apparent quick. It's Gale and Dewey. As they stand in the room--live. They're being taped.
CLOSE ON DEWEY AND GALE
GALE Shit!
Dewey spins around. He reaches for the gun he no longer carries.
DEWEY Dammit!
He looks around the room, up to the two levels above them. He spots a small light on the second level. He squints his eyes and sees a FIGURE standing behind it.
GALE Let's go.
DEWEY No, wait here.
Dewey hands her his flashlight and takes off for the stair rise that leads to the upper level.
GALE No, Dewey, let's call for backup.
But Dewey is gone, leaving Gale alone. She turns to the monitor to see her face in fear- stricken CLOSE UP.
ON THE UPPER LEVEL
Dewey moves fast, limping his way to the level's edge. He approaches the railing and
makes his way around to the shining light.
He reaches it, finding nothing but a camera and tripod. It sits alone against the railing. Dewey surveys the second level. Empty seats everywhere. Completely bare.
Dewey looks down to the main floor...to Gale who looks up to him.
GALE Dewey?
DEWEY There's nothing. I'm coming down.
Dewey turns to leave, his eye catching a monitor that hangs level with the railing. On the monitor, Gale is in frame, looking up at Dewey, her face fear stained. She takes a step forward, moving out of frame, revealing
THE GHOST who stands right behind her. Dewey looks down to see the Ghost standing directly behind Gale.
DEWEY (cont'd) Watch out!
DOWN BELOW Gale turns just in time to see the gleam of a killer's knife as it darts out of the darkness. Gale catapults, just dodging it. She moves like lightning up the aisle of seats.
UP ABOVE Dewey races for the stairs, going as fast as his handicapped leg will allow.
DOWN BELOW Gale tears out the exit door, the Killer right behind her.
AT THE LECTURN
Dewey arrives, searching, looking for Gale.
DEWEY (cont'd) Gale!
He eyes the exit door as it slowly closes. He moves for it.
INT. CORRIDOR - SAME
Gale races down the hallway, eyeing the nearest door. She tears it open, disappearing
into...
INT. SOUND STAGE - SAME
Gale finds herself in the student studios. She stands in a huge control booth that overlooks
a dubbing stage. Lots of glass walls and doors. It has a maze quality.
Gale moves out a side door and into a dubbing room. Darkness everywhere Gale stops for a second, listening as she main door CREAKS open. And then FOOTSTEPS are heard, making their way towards her.
Gale proceeds deeper into the studio. She moves into a sound proof room and closes the door. Not seeing the...
GHOST FIGURE that stands behind her. She turns around and SCREAMS. She starts out, but then realizes he's standing in the control booth. She's protected by a clear, large, plexiglass window that wraps around the room. The ghost moves out the side door, heading her way. He disappears out of view. Gale freaks. She races to the door, trying to secure it. There's no lock.
AT THE MAIN DOOR
Dewey slips through quietly, trying his best to be quick on his toes. Through the control
booth window, he immediately spots Gale.
INSIDE THE DUBBING ROOM
Gale looks for objects to block the door with. She drags a shelf of sound equipment
towards the door.
OUTSIDE THE DUBBING ROOM
Dewey moves to the window.
DEWEY Gale! Gale!
She doesn't hear him. The room is sound proof. He BEATS against the glass. Still, she doesn't turn to him.
INSIDE THE DUBBING ROOM
Gale shoves everything she can find against the door, not seeing or hearing Dewey as he
POUNDS against the sound proof barrier behind her.
She also doesn't see the Killer that appears behind Dewey. He moves on him swift and focused.
INSIDE THE DUBBING STAGE Gale can't take her eyes off the door. Her face is terrified. If she'd only turn around, she would see Dewey - his face terror stricken as a knife is hurled into him repeatedely. With each thrust, blood is splattered against the glass.
IN THE CONTROL BOOTH Dewey SCREAMS for his life, caught completely off guard. He falls forward onto the control panels. Suddenly, microphone feedback tears through the studios as Dewey's CRIES are heard throughout the stage.
IN THE DUBBING STAGE Dewey's DEATH SCREAM rips through the room.
Gale turns to the window to see Dewey, his face smashed against it, blood smeared across the glass. She moves to the window, her face only inches from his. A moment as their eyes meet. Dewey's life is near gone. His eyes reveal it. Gale BEATS against the glass window.
GALE(through tears) NOOOOOOO!
Dewey's body slides down, out of view. Gale is mortified. She looks to the Killer who has already made his way through the control booth. He's coming for her. She races to the door, throws the things away.
She manages to pull the door open just enough to slide through. And she's off and running.
Gale finds a door and plows through it, stopping only long enough to lock it.
BAM! The Ghost RAMS it from the other side but it holds. Gale surveys her surroundings. She's in a storage room. She eyes another door. She moves through it and out into...
THE HALLWAY Gale shoots down it.
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EXT. CAMPUS STREET - SECONDS LATER
Sidney races down the deserted street. Not a soul in sight. She reaches a corner, moves off
the road and passes through a series of trees and shrubs, coming out onto...
EXT. SORORITY ROW - SAME The houses have long since gone to sleep. The Delta Zeta House stares at Sidney. Lights burn from within. Sid goes for it.
EXT. DELTA ZETA FRONT PORCH - SAME Sid makes her way up the front porch. She POUNDS on the front door, SCREAMING her lungs out.
SIDNEY SOMEBODYPLEASEOPENUPSOMEBODY!
Sid wastes no time, she moves along the wraparound porch, beating at the windows. But nothing. Everybody is off partying. Suddenly, Sid hears something. A WHIMPERING. She turns to find Murphy and Lois, laying, strewn across the end of the porch. Passed out.
Sid runs to them.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Oh God, help me. We have to call the police.
Sid kneels over Murphy, shaking her. Murphy's eyes open and she GIGGLES. The girl is completely wasted. She has no comprehension skills at all.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Do you have keys? I need to get inside.
Sid looks to Lois. She's in worse shape.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Shit!
Sid contemplates, not knowing what to do. She leaves them, moving down off the porch and around to the back of the house. She gets to the back door, tries it. It's locked too.
Sidney checks out the yard. Off to the side, she spots a big tree with a...
BODY, lying next to it in a heap on the ground She moves toward it.
As Sid approaches she sees clearly that it's Mickey. He lay on his side, curled, knees to chest, his arm still chained to the tree.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Mickey? Mickey?
A look of dread creeps across her face. He lay there very much dead.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Oh God, no, Mickey...
She kneels over his body just as it stirs, lifting up, rising. Mickey's face comes into view, coated in dried funk, his eyes wide.
MICKEY Sid? Jesus, where's Hallie? I've been here all night.
SIDNEY Listen to me. We've got to get help. The Killer's here.
MICKEY What are you talking about?
SIDNEY He's after me.
Mickey pulls on his chained arm.
MICKEY Shit! You've got to cut me down, Sid.
Sid inspects the chain. It's meant to hold.
SIDNEY I'll be right back.
MICKEY Where you going?
Sidney moves to the shed that's attached to the garage. Leaning against the side are a row of garden tools. Sid settles on a shovel. Sid returns to Mickey who has risen to his feet. He's pulling and twisting the bike chain that binds him.
SIDNEY Watch out.
Sid lifts the shovel up and brings it down directly on the lock. It bends somewhat but stays in tact.
MICKEY Do it again.
CLANK! A noise behind them. They both spin around peering into the night.
MICKEY (CONT'D) What was that?
SIDNEY Don't panic.
Sidney, determined, raises the shovel high and brings it down with great force. It CRACKS the lock, loosening it. Mickey pulls on it. It won't quite give.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Watch out.
Sid raises the shovel again, unfaltering. She doesn't see the Ghost Masked Figure that slides down from the tree branch behind her. The Figure moves quickly and gracefully, coming to a stance directly behind Sid.
Mickey looks up, just in time.
MICKEY SIDNEYWATCHOUT!
Sid turns just as the Killer strikes. But Sid is ready. Without thought, she swings the shovel at the Ghost, catching his mid-section, sending him flying. Mickey goes ballistic chained to the tree. He pulls, twists, squirms...anything to free himself.
The Ghost rises, moving on Mickey. Sidney sees this.
SIDNEY Hey.
Sidney distracts the Ghost. She takes off, the Ghost following her. She moves around the tree, sprinting across the yard, running smack into...
THE GHOST MASKED KILLER
But Sidney spins around as two Ghosts appear on each side of her. She stands THUNDERSTRUCK as the two Killers descend on her. She dives between the two but they counter, keeping her surrounded.
Sid watches as one of the Ghosts withdraws his knife. She turns to the other. His knife is already poised. They close in on her, ready to strike.
She looks for an escape. There's not one. BAM!
Suddenly, Mickey appears, barreling into one of the Ghosts. They go sprawling across the grass.
MICKEY Run, Sid...
Sidney makes her break, she runs passed them, towards the front of the yard.
Mickey leaps to his feat. The Killer right behind him. He now finds himself in Sid's predicament. He doesn't know where to run. The two Killer's close in on him. Sidney gets to the corner of the house. She stops...she doesn't want to leave Mickey. She turns back around just in time to see...
Mickey sandwiched in between the two Ghosts. They're knives strike at the same time. One through the stomach, the other through the back. They withdraw their knives. Mickey's body suspends, momentarily hanging in the air. Then collapses to a heap on the ground.
Both Ghosts turn to Sid at the same time. She takes off running, along the side of the house, through a row of shrub that take her to...
EXT. STREET - SAME Sid is back on the campus street, running down the middle of it.
She spots a car stopped at a red light half a block up. KIDS are inside, rock music BLARES. Sid SCREAMS and SCREAMS but they don't hear her. She runs, feet pounding, toward them but the light turns green and the car takes off. It's taillights fading in the night.
She turns finding herself alone in a parking lot. The theatre sits in the distance. She spots someone entering the theatre. It looks like Hallie.
SIDNEY Hallie?
But Hallie doesn't hear her. Sid races forward.
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EXT. CAMPUS MINUTES LATER
Gale races down the empty campus street. She eyes an emergency phone that's attached
to a street lamp. She goes for it.
Gale rips the phone from its cradle, presses the CALL button.
VOICE (from phone) What is your emergency please?
GALE Someone's trying to kill me. I need the police.
VOICE Are you in danger now?
GALE Yes, goddammit!
VOICE Where is your attacker?
GALE I don't know.
VOICE Stay under the safety light. Help is on its way.
GALE The safety what? Fuck that!
Just then, Gale hears a NOISE. A door opening. She looks up to see Sidney disappear through the side theatre door.
GALE SIDNEY!
But Sidney has already disappeared inside. Gale yells into the phone.
GALE (cont'd) Fuckin' hurry.
Gale throws the phone down and tears off for Sidney.
INT. THEATRE SAME The theatre is big and old. Plush chairs, balcony, huge proscenium stage.
Sidney enters through a side house door. She pulls on it, releasing the emeregency lock. She makes her way down the aisle toward the orchestra section.
SIDNEY Hello?
The stage is dark and bare with the exceptions of the furniture from the DEATHTRAP set. BUMP! A noise from the stage wings.
SIDNEY (cont'd) Hallie?
Sidney moves down front to the little bridge that extends out over the orchestra pit. She crosses it and moves to stage center, peering into the wings on either side of her.
Complete darkness.
DRIP! DRIP! Something drips down from above and onto Sidney. She wipes it from her face when...
CLICK! A spot light turns on from the back of the house, illuminating Sid center stage. She jumps at this, unnerved. She looks to her hand, covered in crimson. Then out to the house...the light is blinding.
CLANK! A NOISE from above..ropes, pulleys moving. Sid looks up as a set wall comes PLOWING down at her. She leaps out of the way, falling to the floor.
The wall falls into place on the stage. It is the back wall of the set that's dressed with framed pictures and antique weapons and...
DEWEY who hangs from it, pinned up against the wall, very much deadk, arms outstretched, crucified. His body a bloody mess. Sidney stops, stunned. She stands frozen in unspeakable horror. Her entire being ripped apart. She breaks into tears. And then...
Sid backs up, moving, racing toward the wings when another wall flies in, sealing the backstage area off, trapping her. She looks in shock at...
HALLIE strung up, her body hanging lifeless. Sid SCREAMS, turning, running to the other side of the stage when a third wall comes flying in, creating the three walled set of DEATHTRAP. Attached to it, is the body of Joel. Dead. Blood everywhere. And then, Sid hears...
CLAPPING! A single pair of hands from somewhere in the house...applauding. She turns around and spots a FIGURE moving down the aisle. She can't make out who it is.
Sid bolts. She spots the set door up center, near Dewey's body. She goes for it, ripping it open to find...
COTTON WEARY STANDING IN THE DOORFRAME
Sid SCREAMS. But then sees his face, he looks scared. And then, Cotton's body falls forward to the floor, his arms and legs bound by electric tape.
Sid turns back to the front of the stage. The Figure is now walking across the bridge, holding something...a light attached to a video camera. She's being filmed. Sid looks back to Cotton who looks up to her with pleading eyes.
COTTON Quick, untie me.
Sid is paniced. She doesn't know what to do. She leans down to untie him but stops.
VOICE (from behind video camera) You've seen this movie before, haven't you?
Sidney looks to the voice. The camera is pulled away to reveal...
DEREK.
He smiles at her.
DEREK Smile for the camera.
Sidney remains silent.
COTTON Sid, c'mon.
Side backs away from Cotton. She doesn't trust either one of them. Derek watches her, amused.
DEREK Go on, untie him.
SIDNEY No. This is a set up.
DEREK That's quick.
COTTON Please, Sidney, he's going to kill us.
Derek begins filming again.
DEREK You must be dealing with some serious trust issues right about now.
Sidney says nothing. She egdes away, moving to the wall where Hallie hangs.
DEREK (cont'd) Sidney, you can't keep your back to the audience like that. Could you cheat a little forward for me?
COTTON Please, Sidney.
DEREK You're really stumped, aren't you? You know there's two killers but you don't know who they are. I'm a given. The boyfriend. Way obvious. But now you're torn. Everyone else appears to be dead. Except for Cotton. Hmmm? Hmmm?
Suddenly, Hallie comes to life behind Sid, reaching out, grabbing her. Sid JUMPS. She spins around to find Hallie breaking out in a torrent of GIGGLES. Very much alive.
HALLIE Paaaaiiin...yah, such pain... The story of your life, Sid.
Sidney stares in mortal shock as Hallie cuts herself down from the wall with a big hunting knife.
DEREK Need some help, honey.
HALLIE I got it..
Sidney's eyes go back and forth between the two.
DEREK You should really see your face right now, Sid. It's doing some freaky shit.
Derek's right. Sid's face appears completely tortured.
HALLIE Yeah, you look quizzical yet pensive.
DEREK Yeah, how can we help? Do you have any questions regarding the sequel of your life?
Sidney stares them down. She's been here before.
SIDNEY Why?
DEREK Good question. You took the bait.
HALLIE Ever see NATURAL BORN KILLERS? Well, Derek and I have this whole Mickey/Mallory-Woody Harrelson/Juliette Lewis thing going on.
DEREK I really don't like that comparison, honey.
HALLIE (to Sid) He hates Oliver Stone.
DEREK I find his work overwrought.
Sid is waning.
HALLIE C'mon, Sid, don't fade on us. We've been planning this baby for a year. Humor us.
Sid turns to Cotton. She kneels down and begins to untie him.
DEREK Nope. You had your chance.
Derek dummy lunges at her with the knife. Sid backs off.
