Ghostbusters Page #5

EGON:

I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.

RAY:

calling to them from upstairs

Hey! Does this pole still work?

slides down the fire pole

Wow! This place is great! When can we move in? You've got to try this pole! I'm gonna get my stuff.

runs up stairs

Hey, we should stay here tonight. Sleep here! You know, to try it out!

PETER:

I think we'll take it.

REAL ESTATE WOMAN

Good.

Outside Ivo Shandor Building

The building is huge and grandiose. Ominous music. Show the terror dog statues on the roof. DANA BARRETT gets out of a taxi and enters the building.

Inside Shandor Building

DANA gets off the elevator. Sees a neighbor.

DANA:

Oh, hi.

LOUIS TULLY pops out of his apartment

LOUIS:

Oh, Dana, it's you!

DANA:

Oh, hi, yes Louis, it's me.

LOUIS:

I thought it was the drugstore.

DANA:

Oh, are you sick?

LOUIS:

Oh! No, no, I'm fine, I feel great! Just ordered some more vitamins and stuff. I was just exercising. I taped a 20-minute workout and played it back at high speed on my machine so it only took ten minutes. I got a great workout.

DANA:

Good.

LOUIS:

You wanna come in for a mineral water or something?

DANA:

Oh, I'd really like to, Louis, but I have to go rehearsal now. Excuse me.

LOUIS:

No sweat, I'll take a rain check on that. I always have plenty of low sodium mineral water and other nutritious foods in the house. But you already know that.

DANA:

Yeah, I know that.

LOUIS:

Listen, that reminds me, I'm having a big party for all my clients, my fourth anniversary as an accountant, you know, and even though you do your own tax return, which you shouldn't do, I'd like you to stop by, being that you're my neighbor and all -

DANA:

cutting him off

Well, thank you, Louis, I'll really try to stop by.

LOUIS:

Listen, that reminds me, you shouldn't leave your TV on so loud when you go out. The creep down the hall phoned the manager.

DANA:

That's strange, I didn't realize I'd left it on.

LOUIS:

Well, yeah, you know what I did? I climbed on the ledge and tried to disconnect the cable, but I couldn't get in, so you know what I did? I turned my TV up real loud too so everyone would think all our TVs had something wrong with them -

DANA:

closing her door on him

Bye, Louis.

LOUIS:

Okay, so I'll see you later, huh?! I'll give you a call! I'm going to go have a shower.

tries to open his door, but he's locked himself out

DANA's living room

DANA watches an ad on TV. In the ad: PETER, RAY and EGON stand outside the fire house wearing long blue coats and talk to the camera.

RAY:

Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night?

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