THIRTEEN GHOSTS - Daily Script

THIRTEEN GHOSTS - Rev. 10/27/00 39.
38 CONTINUED: 38
Ben turns to see the door that held the Suicide back
slides open.
BEN
Hey, I was only kidding...
The ghost steps into the hallway towards Ben, blocking
the route to the stairs. Ben back-pedals in horror.
Backing right into an open doorway...
As he steps over the threshold, there's a flicker of
light in the doorway, and a sharp SNICK.
Ben stands in the doorway, surprised, apparently
paralyzed. 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 through
his body.
His front half slides down, revealing, for a second, a
cross sectional view of his back half on the far side of
the glass.
As Ben's remains collapse wetly to the floor, the Suicide
smiles 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 spinning
with a CLICK. The symbol on the innermost ring (the same
as the one in the basement) has lined up with its mate on
the disk.
CUT TO:
41 INT. SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY - NIGHT 41
Kathy, Bobby and Maggie are walking around, examining
everything... still excited, oblivious to what's going on
downstairs.
(CONTINUED)