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The interior of Rapture has been decorated as the Halls of Hell,<br />

in stylish black and red. The crowd is equal to its<br />

surroundings.<br />

We find LYDIA standing very near the stage area, surrounded by<br />

half a dozen of her old friends from New York.<br />

They are watching one of the evening Talent Acts, which is a<br />

MAGICIAN performing the coffin and swords trick to the thrashing<br />

pre-recorded music of Motorhead. A YOUNG WOMAN enters an upright<br />

coffin and the door is shut, in a way that leaves her face<br />

exposed. The MAGICIAN plunges, one after the other, five swords<br />

through slits in the coffin. He holds up the sixth and final<br />

sword, and then plunges it straight through the young woman's<br />

breast.<br />

The YOUNG WOMAN screams, and a LONG ARC OF SPURTING BLOOD spews<br />

out into the audience, spraying LYDIA's friends. On stage, the<br />

MAGICIAN withdraws the six swords, and opens the coffin. The<br />

YOUNG WOMAN, with a bloody gash in her breast spills out onto the<br />

stage.<br />

The crowd applauds madly as the stage goes completely black. In<br />

the audience, LYDIA wipes the stage blood from her face.<br />

FRIEND #1 turns to FRIEND #2.<br />

LYDIA<br />

This stuff is so lame.<br />

None of it's real.<br />

FRIEND #1<br />

If she mentions those<br />

goddamn ghosts of hers<br />

one more time I'm going<br />

to puke in her cleavage.<br />

LYDIA<br />

I have touched the other<br />

side, you people. And if<br />

you don't believe me just<br />

wait till next Saturday<br />

night.<br />

Suddenly, t<strong>here</strong> is the very loud and very eerie violin obliggato<br />

coming from everyw<strong>here</strong>.<br />

Then, on the blackened appear TWO YELLOW SNAKE'S EYES. Then, a<br />

moment later, we see shape of a violin outlined in white neon.<br />

The lights come up gradually and luridly, to reveal BEETLE JUICE<br />

/ DANNY DEATH, alone on the stage with his electric neon violin.<br />

He has been transformed into the ultimate DEATH ROCKER. For a<br />

few moments, the eerie solo violin continues to play, bringing a<br />

surprising hush over the audience. Then, in a hugely amplified<br />

version of his own voice, we hear him recite the following poem,<br />

to the accompaniment of his violin.<br />

BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />

Young soul, put off your flesh and come<br />

With me into the quiet tomb.<br />

Our bed is lovely, dark and sweet<br />

The earth will swing us as she goes<br />

Beneath our coverlid of snows<br />

And the warm leaden sheet.<br />

By this time he is at the front of the stage, before an<br />

enthralled audience. No one however is more enthralled than<br />

LYDIA, for it becomes apparent that BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH is<br />

directing his words solely to her.<br />

BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />

Dear and dear is their poisoned note<br />

The little snakes of silver throat<br />

In mossy skulls that nest and lie<br />

Ever singing, "Die, Oh die!"<br />

FRIEND #3<br />

He wants your body.<br />

LYDIA<br />

Shhh!<br />

Like a demonic Bruce Sprinsteen, BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH pulls<br />

LYDIA up onto the stage, and in his own voice, repeats the final<br />

chorus directly to her.<br />

BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />

Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note<br />

The little snakes of silver throat

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