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In the far corner of the room, two guests begin a spasmodic,<br />
frantic dancing. This continues in a wave across the room, until<br />
all the guests are participating in this physical insanity --<br />
crarshing off one another, smashing againt the walls, some of<br />
them flying up to the ceiling and hitting their heads, nosediving<br />
along the carpets. BEETLE JUICE, with a wicked laugh and<br />
cackle, dances amongst them all.<br />
On the stairway appear, in this order, LYDIA, DELIA, CHARLES<br />
carrying CATHY, and OTHO bringing up the rear.<br />
BEETLE JUICE looks up at them. A wicked smile crosses his face.<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
Party's over.<br />
The MUSIC stops. The dancers collapse like puppets whose strings<br />
have been severed.<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
Everybody leave.<br />
The windows all shoot up in their frames, smashing frames and<br />
glass.<br />
The doors of the house fly open with crashes.<br />
EXT: HOUSE -- NIGHT<br />
One beat, and then from every door and open window, frantic<br />
GUESTS pour out of the house.<br />
They scatter in all directions in the yard, and chased by DELIA's<br />
lumbering sculptures, they race towards their cars.<br />
It is pandemonium.<br />
INT: LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT<br />
A deadly silence seems to have overtaken the house.<br />
BEETLE JUICE stands in the middle of the empty living room.<br />
The DEETZs just look at him.<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
I tell you, you guys sure<br />
know how to throw a party.<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
Come closer. I won't bite.<br />
CHARLES looks at OTHO. OTHO gives him the go-ahead. CHARLES<br />
cautiously comes closer, and puts CATHY in a chair immediately in<br />
front of, and facing BEETLE JUICE.<br />
CHARLES<br />
You don't have to do this.<br />
CATHY<br />
I do have to. This house<br />
belongs to us. All of us.<br />
CHARLES retreats. BEETLE JUICE grins. He sprouts an enormous<br />
pair of LEATHER WINGS. His face alters -- and become a truly<br />
malicious mirror of his twisted soul.<br />
CATHY doesn't answer.<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
Who are you, little girl?<br />
And what do you have to<br />
say to me?<br />
BEETLE JUICE<br />
W<strong>here</strong> are your friends?<br />
Hiding out in the attic, I<br />
suppose. Don't worry about<br />
them. Once I've done with<br />
you, I've got a few surprises<br />
in store for our ghosts.<br />
CATHY<br />
As sudden thunder / Pierces night;<br />
As magic wonder / Mad affright<br />
Rives asunder / Men's delight:<br />
Our ghost, our corpse, and we<br />
Rise to be.