The Boxtrolls Page #5

MR. GRISTLE

Ah, yes. FOOT!

WHACK! Gristle kicks the box, and it flies toward Mr. Pickles

and Mr. Trout.

MR. TROUT

There’s one!

Mr. Pickles scoops it up in a dog catcher’s net.

MR. PICKLES

Come on, ya squirmy monster. Your

days of evil-doin’ are over.

Mr. Gristle finds another shivering box. He swings his bat.

MR. GRISTLE

BOOM!

WHACK! A box slides over to Trout. A dizzy boxtroll pops out

for a moment, groaning. Trout taps its head and the boxtroll

retreats.

MR. TROUT

You really think these boxtrolls

understand the duality of good and

evil?

MR. PICKLES

They must, right? Why else would

they hide from us. We are the good

guys.

Mr. Pickles strolls off with both boxtroll and net.

MR. GRISTLE (O.S.)

(hitting more boxes)

Nice! NICE!

WHACK! Another box slides over to Trout. Trout scoops up the

box before the creature can get away. The boxtroll’s legs

dangle below as it is carried away.

MR. TROUT

Yeah... I suppose we are.

CLOSE ON:
Fish and Shoe, in the shadows at the edge of the

alley, gurgle to each other while the Red Hats are

distracted. Their heads stay hidden in their boxes as they

waddle slowly out of the alley.

11.

Mr. Gristle is too preoccupied with smashing other boxes to

notice them. He grunts and laughs with the effort.

Snatcher spots Fish and Shoe as they exit the alley and

points at them.

SNATCHER:

MR. GRISTLE!

MR. GRISTLE

Hmm?

SNATCHER:

ACQUIRE THEM!

Brandishing his cricket bat, Gristle springs after Fish and

Shoe.

MR. GRISTLE

Acquire! ACQUIRE! HAHAHA!

The boxtrolls pop out of their boxes and RUN!

EXT. CHEESEBRIDGE STREET

Gristle closes in on them as they sprint down an alley. The

boxtrolls join hands and vault over a fence like a Slinky

toy.

Gristle smashes THROUGH the fence-

MR. GRISTLE

COME BACK AND LET ME HIT YOU!

--but the boxtrolls have disappeared. Gristle stalks down the

street and disappears around a corner.

After Gristle disappears, two boxes that are holding up a

broken street cart suddenly move. It’s Fish and Shoe hiding

in plain sight.

Once they are sure they are not being followed they open a

drainage pipe and slip underground into the sewers-

(0300 UDW) UNDERWORLD Eggs

INT. BOXTROLL CAVERN - ENTRANCE CHUTES

-- where they leap into cardboard-lined BOXTROLL CHUTES. They

drop through the chutes, sliding on the cardboard, until they

join up with other boxtrolls returning from a night of

gathering.

12.

They descend deeper underground until they are collected

together in a funnel-shaped cave and one by one drop onto an-

INT. BOXTROLL CAVERN

-- elaborate conveyor belt system for a roller coaster ride

into a HUGE DARK SPACE with blinking lights and a cacophony

of MECHANICAL NOISE. Fish, Shoe and boxtrolls of all shapes

and sizes shoot off the end of the conveyor belt and tumble

across the floor.

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