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| MATRIX: AndrAIa! (He freezes on the landing, unable to take his eyes off the body) RAY: (Ray walks across another floor, and instantly stops when he sees the hanging body. His jaw drops) Dude. . .. (He looks down at Matrix) Howabout getting her down? MATRIX: (He looks to his left and sees a rope tied to the balcony beside him. He shrugs, and uses his gun to shoot the rope into split frays.) MOUSE: Hey! (Mouse lands with a thud before Matrix) Ouch! What the hell were you thinking? MATRIX: You’re not AndrAIa! MOUSE: Doy, sugah. RAY: (He dashes down to Mouse and places his fingers on her neck, then looks up at Matrix in horror) MOUSE: (panicked look) What? RAY: She’s unconscious! (He scoops up Mouse in heroic fashion) We need to get her somewhere where I can look at her. MATRIX: (mutters) Pervert. (The screen fades to another bedroom, the exact copy of all earlier bedrooms seen. Ray, still carrying an obviously-conscious Mouse, bursts into the room, followed by Matrix. Ray dumps Mouse onto the bed) MOUSE: I’m beginning to think that faking my death wasn’t such a good idea. RAY: Close your eyes! MOUSE: (Closes eyes) RAY: (again, he checks Mouse’s pulse. He looks fearfully to Matrix) BOB: (enters the room) AndrAIa? Did anything happen to AndrAIa? MATRIX: (exasperated) No, nothing happened to AndrAIa. BOB: (disappointed) Then why’d I come up here for? (He sees Mouse) Ray, what are you doing with my wife? RAY: Uh.... Um, Bob, I hate to tell you this, but your wife is dead. BOB: (shocked) Dead? How can this be? (He tries to look sad, but just barely avoids laughing) RAY: She hung herself. She commited suicide. BOB: (He nods, and falls to the bedside beside Mouse) Please.... I need to be alone. MATRIX: (horrified) With a dead body? RAY: Agh! Come on! (He and Matrix step into the hall) The others must know about this. I’ll go tell Dot and Mike. You tell AndrAIa. MATRIX: Right. (He starts off down the hall, calling AndrAIa’s name. He enters about ten identical rooms before finding AndrAIa’s) AndrAIa? AndrAIa? (He looks into her suitcase) AndrAIa? (He opens the closet door, and sees the head of Slash hanging by the antenna) Alphanumeric! (He picks up the head and carries it from the room) (The scene shows again the parlor. Ray, Mike, and Dot are sitting in the chairs, playing Go Fish. They look up in horror as Matrix trots in with Slash’s head) MATRIX: (obviously quite pleased with himself) Look what I found! DOT: Ew!! It probably has germs! (She pulls out her SHOUT wipes and tosses them at Matrix) MIKE: It’s one of THEM!! (Pulls himself into fetal position and starts wimpering.) They’ll come for Mouse now. MATRIX: (laughs and tosses the head into Mike’s lap) MIKE: (screams bloody murder) MATRIX: I’m gonna go look for AndrAIa now. (The scene switches back to AndrAIa’s room.) MATRIX: AndrAIa? Are you in here yet? ANDRAIA: Matrix! (She leaps out of nowhere into his arms. She is obviously very shaken up) He tried to kill me! MATRIX: (Ignoring her) AndrAIa, Mouse is dead. She hanged herself. ANDRAIA: (instantly calms down) Do I care? MATRIX: (shruggs) No. No one else really does. ANDRAIA: Oh. Okay. I just didn’t want to seem mean. MATRIX: Yeah. ANDRAIA: So.. anyway... HE TRIED TO KILL ME! MATRIX: (Calmly) Who did? ANDRAIA: Bob! He... he came up behind me. . . so I didn’t see him but I know for a fact that it was him anyway, and he tried to strangle me. . . and I was unconscious. . . and he took me to that room downstairs. Even though I was unconscious I knew what was going on. He thought I was dead.. I just barely snuck back up here.” MATRIX: Bob? Are you sure it was Bob? (He glances around fearfully, and shoves her into the closet just as a knock comes at the door) RAY: (Without waiting for an answer, Ray opens the door) Matrix, I’m sure you’re thinking the same thing I am. MATRIX: Huh? RAY: (Sigh) Um.. . anyway, we’re having a meeting downstairs. MATRIX: I just hope there isn’t another death. (He steps out after Ray and closes the door) ANDRAIA: (pounding at closet door, her voice muffled) Matrix? To be continued... |
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