Ghostbusters II Page #2

BOY:

No, he just says you're full of crap and that's

why you went out of business.

He kicks Stantz in the leg. Stantz grabs him by the shirtfront.

STANTZ:

(low and menacing)

I'm watching you.

(to Winston)

Song.

Winston switches on a tiny TAPE RECORDER which starts PLAYING the

Ghostbusters THEME SONG. Stantz and WInston start singing

STANTZ AND WINSTON

'There's something wrong in the neighborhood.

Who you gonna call?'

KIDS:

(all together)

He-Man!!

CUT TO:

EXT. WEST 77TH STREET - DAY (LATER)

Stantz and Winston wearily load their equipment into the Ectomobile.

WINSTON:

That's it, Ray. I've had it. No more parties.

I'm tired of taking abuse from over-privileged

nine-year-olds.

STANTZ:

Come on, Winston. We can't quit now. The

holidays are coming up. It's our best season.

They get in the car

INT. ECTO-1 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Stantz tries to start the car, but the engine won't turn over.

WINSTON:

Give it up, Ray. You're living in the past.

Ghostbusters doesn't exist anymore. In a year

these kids won't even remember who we are.

STANTZ:

(tries to start the car again)

Ungrateful little Yuppie larvae. After all we

did for this city.

WINSTON:

Yeah, what did we do, Ray? The last real job

we had we bubbled up a hundred foot marshmallow

man and blew the top three floors off an uptown

highrise.

STANTZ:

Yeah, but what a ride. You can't make a

hamburger without chopping up a cow.

He turns the key again, the ENGING TURNS OVER, then starts GRINDING and

CLUNKING disastrously, chewing up vital parts and dropping twisted bits

of metal onto the pavement. Finally, with a BLAST of black sooty

exhaust from the tailpipe, Ecto-1 shudders and dies. Frustrated, Stantz

bangs his head lightly on the steering wheel

CUT TO:

INT. WKRR-TV STUDIO RECEPTION AREA - DAY (LATER)

A bank of monitors in the lobby show the program now running on WKRR,

Channel 10 in New York. We PUSH IN ON one of the monitors as a title

card and logo come up accompanied by some EERIE SYNTHESIZER MUSIC, and

we return to the show in progress: "World of the Psychic with Dr. Peter

Venkman." There is a video dissolve to a standard talk show set and

sitting there is our host PETER VENKMAN, the renowned and somewhat

infamous ex-Ghostbuster.

VENKMAN:

He turns TO CAMERA and talks to his viewers in a suavely engaging tone,

understated and intimate.

VENKMAN:

Hi, welcome back to the 'World of the Psychic,'

I'm Peter Venkman and I'm chatting with my guest,

author, lecturer and of course, psychic, Milton

Anglund.

(to his guest)

Milt, your new book is called The End of the

World. Isn't that kind of like writing about

gum disease. Yes, it could happen, but do you

think anybody wants to read a book about it?

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