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ADAM looks at the book.<br />
ADAM<br />
(Reading) Section Seventeen-C.<br />
Intercessions and Exorcisms.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Exorcism. That's w<strong>here</strong> they<br />
get rid of us, right?<br />
ADAM<br />
Not this kind. This is w<strong>here</strong><br />
we get rid of them.<br />
BARBARA<br />
What do we have to do?<br />
ADAM<br />
It won't work. We need a<br />
graveyard.<br />
BARBARA<br />
And we can't leave the house.<br />
The MOON over the model town comes on suddenly.<br />
ADAM and BARBARA's gaze follows the directed beams of this moon,<br />
as it shines down into the MODEL GRAVEYARD.<br />
EXT: MODEL GRAVEYARD -- NIGHT<br />
With shovels and lanterns, BARBARA and ADAM are a very unlikely<br />
pair of graverobbers. ADAM is reading the manual by lanternlight.<br />
The mechanized clouds in the sky move across the mechanical moon,<br />
throwing shadows everyw<strong>here</strong>. T<strong>here</strong> is also ground fog.<br />
ADAM<br />
The manual says look for a<br />
grave marked Swallowtail.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Nobody with that name<br />
was ever buried in this<br />
town.<br />
They pass a small mouldering tomnbstone, askew, half-buried in<br />
the ground, the mound before it covered with rotting white roses.<br />
On the tomb is carved the name BETELGEUSE.<br />
ADAM<br />
Yeah, but nobody was<br />
ever buried with that<br />
name either.<br />
He tries to pronounce the name, but it comes out something like<br />
ADAM (cont)<br />
Bettle - gooser.<br />
On a wind suddenly blowing through the trees we hear the<br />
ominously whispered pronunciation:<br />
VOICE<br />
Beetle Juice.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Beetle Juice.<br />
Moving on, looking around other parts of the graveyard, ADAM and<br />
BARBARA next come to a large, white marble monument crowned by<br />
the Angel Gabriel blowing his horn. Carved on the monument is<br />
the name SWALLOWTAIL. Beneath it is the legend, HOPE FOR THE<br />
HOPELESS.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Do we dig?<br />
ADAM<br />
Well, yes, but it says<br />
we have to chant too.<br />
BARBARA<br />
Chant what?<br />
He turns the page in the book.<br />
ADAM<br />
I don't think it says.