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CATHY holds out her left hand.<br />

BARBARA suddenly materializes, holding CATHY's hand.<br />

DELIA, CHARLES, OTHO, and LYDIA's eyes widen to the fullest<br />

possible extent.<br />

OTHO<br />

This is it, Delia.<br />

OTHO pushes DELIA forward, and BARBARA reaches out her hand.<br />

After a tiny moment's hesitation, DELIA takes it. She shudders.<br />

CATHY<br />

As flies the lizard / Serpent fell;<br />

As goblin vizard / At the spell<br />

Of pale wizard / Sinks to hell;<br />

The buried, dead, and slain<br />

Rise again.<br />

CATHY holds out her right hand. ADAM materializes, holding it.<br />

CHARLES is already t<strong>here</strong>, and grasps ADAM's hand, after giving<br />

him a quick, appraising glance in the face. Immediately OTHO and<br />

LYDIA complete the circle around BEETLE JUICE.<br />

BEETLE JUICE<br />

Clever people. Who's been<br />

reading the manual? You,<br />

fat boy? I could make you<br />

rich and thin.<br />

OTHO quivers a moment with hesitation, then he stands up<br />

staunchly.<br />

OTHO<br />

Delia, I'd better be in<br />

your will.<br />

BEETLE JUICE flaps his wings, and a wind begins to blow inside<br />

the house, in a clockwise direction. His seven opponents have to<br />

strain to keep the circle together.<br />

EXT: THE HOUSE -- NIGHT<br />

All the guests have fled. The sculptures lie in ruin. The wind<br />

blows ever harder, in a counter-clockwise direction, around the<br />

house.<br />

INT: LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT<br />

The wind is even stronger inside the room. The wind is breaking<br />

up the furniture, and spinning around crazily and dangerously.<br />

But the circle remains as if at the eye of a hurricane.<br />

BEETLE JUICE, in an uncustomary moment of panic, throws himself<br />

at the perimeter of the circle, but is hurled back by a bolt of<br />

colored electricity. He's burned.<br />

He grins.<br />

BEETLE JUICE<br />

I know more tricks than you.<br />

Here, girlie, want to see<br />

what your friends really<br />

look like?<br />

ADAM and BARBARA shudder in pain, and at once begin to transform<br />

into mouldering corpses. Their clothing rots, their skin<br />

discolors and peels, mould encrusts their features.<br />

At the same time, the lighting in the center of the circle<br />

continues, and BEETLE JUICE does a spastic dance trying to avoid<br />

the charges. He is burned repeatedly.<br />

DELIA and CHARLES, finding that they are holding hands with<br />

corpses, pull away repulsed and horrified.<br />

CATHY<br />

Don't break the circle.<br />

CHARLES and DELIA screw up their courage, and maintain their<br />

grips on the corpses' hands.<br />

The lightning intensifies inside the circle. Outside the circle,<br />

the wind is like a hurricane, and the rest of the living room is<br />

only a blur.<br />

CATHY, growing weak, starts to faint.

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