Friday the 13th

ALICE

Ned? We're gonna be working together for a while. You're a nice guy without all the entertainment, okay?

Ned relaxes. Nods. He knows what she means. He turns to look at the others.

NED

Tell 'em I'm sorry?

Alice nods.

ALICE

Sure.

NED

I'm gonna go lie down and catch some z's. Today wiped me out.

(pause)

Thanks, Alice.

ALICE

You're welcome.

The CAMERA stays on Alice's face as Ned exits. In the B.G., Marcie speaks.

MARCIE

I hope that's the last time we see the Camp Crystal Lake Drama Program.

CUT TO:

EXT. MAIN CAMP AREA – EVENING

We watch Ned come away from the main cabin and walk moodily toward his cabin.

The CAMERA stays with the troubled child as he stops, leans down, picks up a pebble and skips it off into the brush. It cuts through. He flips a few stones in his hand.

Ned looks off. Sees something.

WE SEE WHAT HE SEES
 

A shape – a human shape – standing by a cabin.

Ned walks towards it.

NED

Hello? Can I help you?

CUT TO:

INT. KITCHEN AREA – EVENING

Alice is just drying her hands. She stands next to a giant stack of clean dishes and pots.

Brenda is reading a magazine while picking at some cauliflower and cucumber slices.

Bill and Jack saunter in.

JACK

You just had some lucky shots.

BILL

Where's Ned?

ALICE

He went to bed early.

MARCIE

I don't blame him.

BRENDA

He's probably setting up another one of his practical jokes.

MARCIE

Yeah, like draining the lake!

They laugh.

JACK

(to Marcie)

Hey, how about a walk by the lake?

The OTHERS all go "Ooooooooh."

JACK

(continuing)

Just a walk, for Chrissakes.

MARCIE

(kidding)

Boy, we sure do have a lot of filthy small-minded people around here.

(to Jack)

Wait a minute, I'll get my diaphragm and be right with you.

Marcie puts an arm through Jack's arm and they exit.

The OTHERS laugh.

CUT TO:

EXT. EDGE OF LAKE – NIGHT

Jack and Marcie walk across the pint needles towards the lake. There is the low rumble of thunder preceeded by a faint glow on the horizon.

Jack and Marcie walk along the shore to the lake. They have turned on the flashlights which they carry with them.

JACK

Wind's up. It's shifted a good hundred and eighty degrees.

MARCIE

Makes me want to hold on and never let go.

JACK

I love you.

MARCIE

I love you.

They kiss. Marcie pulls back.

MARCIE

(continuing)

What about Neddy?

JACK

I don't love Neddy.

MARCIE

He keeps on acting like such an asshole!

JACK

(yelling)

Ned!

MARCIE

Don't call him.

JACK

I thought you wanted to give him one of your motherly lectures. Ned is gonna do whatever he wants to do, you know.

MARCIE

I guess...

The moon is victim of a blank cloud which cuts off the light.

JACK

Looks like a storm.

MARCIE

I'm a little scared of storms. Always have been. Since I was a kid.

JACK

You? The brick?

Jack shines the flashlight so that we can see her face in eerie shadows. She flashes hers at him.

MARCIE

I've dreamed this dream. Maybe half a dozen times. There is a thunderstorm. The rain comes down like pebbles. I can hear the sound. I try to close my ears off. It doesn't work. The sounds gets louder. The rain turns to blood and the blood washes down in little rivers. And the sound stops.

A loud crack of heat lightning slices the sky apart. Marcie is startled and reaches out for her lover.

JACK

It's just a dream.

MARCIE

I call it my shower dream.

They look at one another in the two lights. They grin. Rain drops begin to fall on their faces and on the lake behind them.

JACK

This is no dream. Want to escape for a while?

MARCIE

Lead the way!

Jack turns and jogs toward the nearest cabin. Marcie is only a half step behind, laughing.

FROM A DISTANT ANGLE we watch them run. There is no theme, just the rumble of thunder...

CUT TO:

INT. BOY'S CABIN – NIGHT

The door bursts open, a flashlight pierces the shadows, and Jack and Marcie rush in and plop on the bottom bunk of the nearest bed.

MARCIE

Are you wet?

JACK

Just a little. Wait a minute, woman.

He reaches down and put his flashlight on its end so it points straight up and gives them some light to see by.

They go into a long passionate kiss which is broken by Marcie's hand coming up from behind Jack and tugging his t-shirt up towards his head. He leans back and takes it off, and tosses it at the CAMERA.

CUT TO:

EXT. FRONT OF MAIN CABIN – NIGHT

The rain has gathered in intensity. Alice comes up to the front door and looks out. Bill comes up behind her.

ALICE

Jack and Marcie are gonna be drenched.

BILL

Not if they're where I think they are.

Alice laughs.

ALICE

I'm not always this stupid.

She turned back into the cabin.

CUT TO:

INT. BOY'S CABIN – NIGHT

TIGHT on Jack and Marcie as they make love under a camp blanket. Their breathing and noises are heard just above the sounds of the rain outside.

The CAMERA becomes interested in a droplet which appear to have leaked from the ceiling, hit the vertical member of the bed and dribbled down. As the bed shakes with its love-making, the CAMERA PANS up the bunk's strut to trace the droplet's course.

As the CAMERA PANS UPWARD, it pulls back slightly and we see Ned lying in the upper bunk. In a flash of lightning we realize he is dead: his throat has been slashed.

 
ANOTHER ANGLE
 

Jack and Marcie lie completely still beneath their blanket. The CAMERA PANS along their quiet bodies. Marcie's face is contented. Jack is ready to doze off.