Friday the 13th

MARCIE

Pistachio, fudge ripple, creme de menthe and I are going back to work.

Bill gets up.

BILL

Speaking as black raspberry, I guess I'm ready. Frozen yogurt?

Alice smiles at the reference.

ALICE

I'll be along.

NED

(in a nelly voice)

Don't burn that gorgeous body, or I'll scratch your eyes out...

They head off. Alice turns over to tan her front.

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EXT. FOREST – DAY

A machete rips through some vines. Again it hacks at the brush.

PULLS BACK to reveal Bill clearing away the years of vine growth which have choked off a path. He wipes the perspiration from his eyes and continues along.

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EXT. BEHIND THE MAIN CABIN – DAY

Set up behind the cabin is a make-shift exercise area. There are chinning bars – pipeslashed between two trees – and there's an aging set of parallel bars. There is even a set of weights made from tin cans, pipes and assorted amount of cement.

EXTREME CLOSEUP of Ned's face in a distorted, twisted expression. He explodes his breath.

We PULL BACK to see Brenda watching Ned work out on the uneven parallel bars. He is really very good and there is no doubt about his strength.

BRENDA

Not bad.

As Ned moves off the apparatus, Brenda comes in and does a neat little turn which is dazzling. Ned does a take.

NED

Holy shit...

BRENDA

We wouldn't want you thinking you're the only show-off in camp, would we?

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EXT. LAKE – DAY

The sun has dropped lower on the horizon.

The CAMERA looks down on Alice as she sleeps peacefully in the late sun. A shadow passes across her face, and she awakes with a start.

CUT BACK to see Bill standing over her with a machete.

ALICE

I didn't know I was asleep... What time is it?

BILL

Almost five.

Alice gets up.

ALICE

Now I'm only eleven hours behind schedule. Steve is going to have a small cow.

They walk away from the shore.

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EXT. Alice'S CABIN – DAY

Alice is walking quicker than Bill. We realize we have seen this cabin before – when the snake was placed in it.

BILL

You can only do what you can do.

ALICE

And then Steve looks at you with those hurt eyes – like you don't care about children...

Bill laughs at her imitation.

ALICE

(continuing)

I'll see you later.

She turns to go up the steps to her front door.

BILL

Alice?

She stops and look down at him. He is serious and he cares.

Alice appreciates what's she's just heard. She knows that it wasn't easy for Bill to say.

ALICE

You're very nice.

They share a short silent moment.

BILL

Hope you will.

Bill smiles and turns and jogs off, still carrying his long blade.

Alice watches him go. She shrugs. This might be a good place to stay. She turns and goes into her cabin.

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INT. Alice'S CABIN – DAY

In the F.G. is the camp bed with its white coverlet. The snake is nowhere in sight – which means it could be anywhere.

Alice is humming to herself and is happier now than she has been since we met her.

The room is small. There is the metal-frame cot, an old wooden dresser with a cloudy mirror on top. The walls are a light blue, freshly painted. The wall on the inside does not go all the way to the ceiling so that she can monitor what's going on in the campers' section of the cabin on the other side.

Alice looks at herself in the old cloudy mirror and likes what she sees. She pushes her hair so that she looks a little sexier. She smiles at herself.

She reaches out in CLOSEUP. Open a drawer. Takes out a towel.

Alice turns and goes to her footlocker. Bends down and opens it up. Takes out a terrycloth robe.

She closes the footlocker, stands up and heads out the door.

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EXT. ALICE'S CABIN – DAY

Alice heads from her cabin to the showers.

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INT. SHOWER ROOM – DAY

Alice walks into her room wearing her bathrobe, her hair in a towel-turban. She flicks off her shower clogs, and looks for her hairbrush. She takes her towel off and lets her tangled hair fall down.

She hums. Opens her top drawer. Nothing there.

Opens the next drawer. Nothing there.

Opens the next drawer. Nothing there.

Alice opens the fourth drawer and the snake strikes! It flails at her right wrist, a wrist which we have established earlier as having a Navajo bracelet on it. The snake strikes the bracelet, hangs on as Alice tries to shake it free. The snake falls to the floor and recoils for another attack.

There is no way that Alice can get past the snake to run away. Her scream is loud.

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EXT. MAIN CABIN – DAY

Bill, returning from his last half hour of trail-blazing, hears Alice.

ALICE (O.S.)

Help!

Bill doesn't hesitate. Carrying his machete, he runs to Alice's cabin.

Marcie and Jack follow in the B.G..

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