Hellbound: Hellraiser II Page #5

OFFICER:

Sh*t!

The label is adhesive-backed. CORTEZ licks it and presses

it on the mattress. He writes on it - 55L/E1. As he stands up

from doing this, a single drop of blood from his thumb lands on

the mattress. (It is important that we see it is only a single

drop - and nothing like the amount LARRY spilled on the

floorboards.)

CORTEZ leaves the room to fetch a colleague to help him

move the mattress. We move in to see the drop of blood disappear

very quickly into the mattress, as if it is being sucked in.

As this happens, we hear on the soundtrack the faintest RUMBLE.

13 INT OPERATING ROOM NIGHT

A somewhat antiquated and frightening operating room, filled

with machines, monitors, and surgical instruments. The corners of

the room fall away to shadow.

Sitting upright in the centre of the room is a FEMALE PATIENT.

She is awake and staring out at the camera. Twin probes/clamps

are in each of her ears to hold her in place. Her head is shaved

and the skin on the back of her head has been cut open and peeled

apart. The flaps of the skin are held away from the area being

worked on by four clamps. (we never actually see round to the

exposed brain itself)

Immediately behind her, and probing with professional skill and

coolness into her exposed brain, is DOCTOR MALAHIDE. He is in

his late forties and looks like all the great doctors look -

rational, civilized, competent, and powerful. There is an

intensity in his eyes and the lines of his face though that

suggests something more than normal.

The room has several attentive listeners and observers, but the

one nearest to MALAHIDE is his personal student/assistant KYLE

MACRAE, young, conventionally good-looking, with an open,

friendly, face.

MALAHIDE is holding forth on the secrets of his trade, several times

looking away from his patient while still working on her, to make

sure his audience understand his points.

MALAHIDE:

We can bring them back properly

more often than scientific orthodoxy

dictates, ladies and gentlemen. And

the knife, far from the enemy of

of analysis, is often its greatest

ally in solving the puzzles of

psychosis. Analysis isolates and

massages. Surgery pinpoints and

corrects. ... though you've got to

know what you're doing, of course...

Polite laughter from several students.

MALAHIDE:

Some things are obvious. Here,

for example, ...

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