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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.

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