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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.

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