Beetlejuice Page #5

BARBARA gives her a sudden wounded look. Jane is immediately

remorseful.

JANE (cont)

I didn't mean that.

ADAM walks in from the kitchen with ROCKET.

ADAM:

Give up, Jane. Barbara and

I are going to stay in this

house forever.

EXT:
ROAD IN FRONT OF HOUSE -- DAY

JIMMY is racing down the hill on his bicycle, ROCKET bounding

after him.

At the bottom of the hill is a rickety bridge, spanning the

rapidly flowing Winter River.

JIMMY's bike goes BUMPITY-BUMPITY-BUMP across the uneven boards.

ROCKET, however, veers off the road in order to chase a squirrel.

JIMMY stops his bike in the middle of the bridge, and calls back

after ROCKET.

JIMMY:

Rocket! Leave that squirrel

alone! Mr. Maitland would

skin you alive if he saw you

chasing his animals!

But ROCKET does not reappear, and JIMMY shrugs, and rides on

towards town.

EXT:
FRONT OF HOUSE -- DAY

JANE comes out the front door of the house. She holds open the

front door, as ADAM and BARBARA come out with the flag cake

between them.

JANE goes out into the yard, and opens the rear of ADAM and

BARBARA's station wagon.

JANE:

I'll see you at the picnic,

won't I?

ADAM:

We haven't missed the town

picnic since --

He looks to BARBARA.

BARBARA:

We've never missed it.

JANE starts to get into her car, but, glancing up at the house

and seeing it as a big fat commission, she gives it one more

shot.

JANE:

Six hundred fifty thousand.

You could move to Maui.

ADAM and BARBARA wave, not even bothering to reply. JANE's car

takes off. Careful of the cake, ADAM shuts the rear door of

their station wagon. As they do, there comes into view a bumper

sticker:
WARNING! I BRAKE FOR ANIMALS!

ADAM and BARBARA get into the car, and drive off.

Directly behind them, over the crest of the hills, comes a

hunter's van. A doe is tied to the open back.

INT:
THE STATION WAGON -- DAY

Going down the hill, and towards the bridge.

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