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Leprechaun Script Part 3 |
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Written by Mark Jones
Four-Leaf Productions, Inc./Purple Tree Productions, Inc.
The more interesting variations from the finished movie are marked in red.
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LEPRECHAUN'S LOW POV, skittering behind a tipped over couch.
BRING UP THE "IRISH MUSIC" as Leprechaun's POV MOVES IN behind Nathan.
Suspense. Suspense. Then...
ALEX AND OZZIE cross in front. Something skittles behind some furniture and to the window.
NATHAN
picks up an empty harmonica case.
TORY: That's Dad's harmonica case.
NATHAN: (puzzled) Looks like the harmonica's missing...
55 EXT. FILED AREA - NIGHT
And we HEAR STRANGE, EERIE HARMONICA MUSIC floating into the night sky.
We CRANE DOWN to where the old, rotting CARNIVAL WAGON sits in the field. It has been assembled into a make-shift camp.
A campfire flickers into the night. A LONE FIGURE sits by the fire. He looks strangely lonely.
Playing the EERIE "IRISH MUSIC" we hear on a harmonica. Playing what sounds like an old Irish jig, but very much more eerie and mystical.
SLOWLY THE CAMERA MOVES IN on the player, THROUGH THE FLAMES of the fire and CLOSE on his face and we see it's LEPRECHAUN.
And he's never looked more horrible.
The reflection of the flames licking his face, throwing strange and frightening shadows on it.
He stops. Looks over at...
HIS JEEP AND ALL HIS TOYS
that he has placed around the camp fire. Teddy Bears and dolls and skateboards and board games, etc. Like a child. Leprechaun picks up the Teddy Bear and begins to talk to it with his horrible Irish brogue.
LEPRECHAUN: Shurr and begorrah... just think, my friend... we're going to be rich again. When we get me gold.
Leprechaun sits against a rock, holding the Teddy Bear to his face.
LEPRECHAUN: They can't refuse me. 'Cause I'm a very persuasive fella...
Leprechaun leans in eye to eye with the Teddy Bear...
LEPRECHAUN: Because from now on... it's no more "Mister Nice Guy!"
And with that, Leprechaun CHOMPS THE HEAD OFF the Teddy Bear. And CHEWS. Swallows. Then he gets up and grabs a toy violin and begins to play a strange "IRISH JIG."
Then he begins to dance... a SPOOKY, CREEPY DANCE... around the fire and around the toys.
As he plays the MUSIC faster... and faster...
and he dances faster and faster...
A strange sight to see this little Leprechaun dancing frantically. Strange foot movements... laughing and dancing...
We CRANE UP as he continues to dance and laugh...
And we notice the old, rusted BEAR TRAP sitting by some of the toys.
THE CAMERA CRANES UP as Leprechaun continues to dance and play the SPOOKY MUSIC.
A strange, macabre sight...
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56 EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
And MUSIC is coming from the living room. The CAMERA MOVES IN...
57 INSIDE THE LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
and our group has the place looking pretty good. Everyone is tired from cleaning the house, looking a little disheveled.
NATHAN: Not bad... think we got this place straightened up in record time. (to Tory) Not bad for a city girl.
Tory makes a face, swats Nathan with a dust rag.
OZZIE AND ALEX
move out from the kitchen, plop down on the sofa, tired. Ozzie turns to Alex and says in a whisper.
OZZIE: Alex... do you think you can kill a Leprechaun?
Alex looks at Ozzie like he's crazy...
ALEX: First of all... it's a stupid question. And second... you can kill anything... including Leprechauns. You just gotta know how to do it. Now me... Gimme a 357 Magnum, press it to the little, green critter's left temple and... (places finger against Ozzie's temple) Blaaaammmmm!!! Brains and guts and oozing cruddy stuff dripping all down his head. (beat) The guy's gone with a capital "Dead".
A LOUD CRASH!
Everyone freezes.
TORY: What was that?
NATHAN: Came from around back.
TORY: I hope the bear didn't decide to come back.
Ozzie doesn't say a word. We know what he thinks.
We hear a BABY CRYING.
NATHAN: Sounds like a baby.
OZZIE: (scared) Uh, oh...
Nathan moves toward the rear kitchen door.
TORY: Nathan... be careful...
DOLLY WITH NATHAN as he moves through the kitchen and toward the back door.
BRING UP the SUSPENSE MUSIC. Nathan is real cautious.
CLOSE ON HIS HAND, turning the doorknob. Creeeek. Door needs oil. The BABY'S CRIES continue...
Nathan looks behind him and sees:
TORY, ALEX AND OZZIE
petrified. Huddled very close. Right on his heels, breathing down his neck.
TORY: (honest) We're like scared, okay?
Nathan motions them to stay back.
NATHAN: You guys stay in the house...
58 EXT. BACK PORCH - NIGHT
Lit by one bare bulb. Casting eerie shadows.
It's real spooky and we can see the large FULL MOON above, spilling BLUE LIGHT
everywhere.
The BABY CRYING stops.
Nathan steps off and moves forward...
Suspense. Suspense. Suspense.
CLOSE ON NATHAN'S FEET, walking on the ground. Carefully. Like on eggshells...
SSSSNNNNAAAAPPPP!!!!
CLOSE ON A RUSTY BEAR TRAP
clamping around his boot! Breaking his ankle. Nathan goes down in pain.
NATHAN: Ahhhhhhh!!!!!
Nathan is taken by surprise, claws frantically at the rusty bear trap.
POV SHOT, of something coming out of the bushes and closing down fast on Nathan.
LEPRECHAUN leaps from the shadows... he wears a toy stethoscope and holds a toy
doctor's bag. He moves to Nathan, laughing an EVIL LAUGH! He begins to hop a bit,
singing:
LEPRECHAUN: (singing like a rhyme) I got you in a bear trap... Gonna make you shut
your yap! Got you in a bear trap... you look like a stupid sap!
Leprechaun stops singing... moves closer to Nathan, looks at his caught foot.
LEPRECHAUN: Looks like you're hurt. Here. Let me take your
temperature.
Leprechaun opens his toy doctor bag and pulls out a toy thermometer. Nathan is
trying to crawl away from this strange, little guy.
LEPRECHAUN: Oh, you don't like to play doctor...
He reaches into the toy bag and pulls out a small hatchet.
LEPRECHAUN: Let's play another game. Let's play "take a toe!"
SWAAAAACK!! SWAAAAACK!! SWAAAAACK!!
Leprechaun is trying to hack off Nathan's toe. Nathan kicks Leprechaun away with his
free foot.
Nathan's FINGERS reach for a stick on the ground... manages to grab it. Swings it up
and BASHES the side of Leprechaun's head. He falls back, dropping his toy bag and
hatchet.
Leprechaun scurries into the bushes.
Tory, Ozzie and Alex rush outside to Nathan, trying to drag him back inside the house,
bear trap and all.
TORY: Nathan!? What happened??
CLOSE ON THE LEPRECHAUN, as he LEAPS RIGHT AT CAMERA!
He attaches himself to Nathan's leg.
BITES IT! Nathan CRIES out in pain. Tory SCREAMS!
TORY: (Frantic) Call the police! My God! Someone call the police!!
OZZIE runs back into the house.
Alex finds a rock. Throws it at Leprechaun. It hits him. Jars him. Leprechaun turns
to Alex.
LEPRECHAUN: I'll get back to you, m'lad.
Leprechaun continues going at it with Nathan. Punching. Hitting.
NATHAN: The shotgun!
ALex takes off into the house. Tory stays, trying to pull the creature off Nathan...
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59 OZZIE in the house on the phone. CAMERA DOLLIES IN on his panicked look.
OZZIE: (screaming into phone) Help! Help! The attack is on! It's happening! Gotta
send help! The Leprechaun is attacking!
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60 INT. SHERIFF'S STATION - NIGHT
A DISPATCHER is on the phone.
DISPATCHER: Right... right, Ozzie. Okay. Okay, thanks.
He hangs up and turns to:
SHERIFF CRONIN
moving into the station house. He's fiftyish, with a beer belly and looks like an
old shoe.
He smokes a smelly CIGAR, much to the disdain of his partner, OFFICER JACQUELINE
PERILLO, a rookie COP.
DISPATCHER: Hey, Sheriff... just got a call from Ozzie. Says the Leprechaun is
attacking. (laughs) What was it last week? UFO'S? No... Big Foot, wasn't it?
Sheriff Cronin turns to Officer Perillo.
SHERIFF CRONIN: You'll learn about Ozzie. He's a good kid... it's just when it comes
to far out tales, he's about the best we got in this town.
Sheriff Cronin moves to the coffee machine and pours himself a cup. The CAMERA MOVES
IN ON Sheriff Cronin as he cracks a smile...
SHERIFF CRONIN: A Leprechaun... that's a good one...
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ALEX
frantically MOVING WITH HIM as he rushes back outside with the shotgun. He trips...
and the shotgun goes skidding into some bushes.
ALEX: Shit.
Leprechaun bites the tip of Nathan's boot... tries to drag
Nathan into the bushes.
Tory grabs the Leprechaun by the back of his collar... uses all her might to pull,
the boot comes off in Leprechaun's mouth and he tumbles into the bushes...
Leprechaun pops his head out from the bushes, Nathan's boot still in his mouth.
He looks right at Tory... then GROWLS at her.
LEPRECHAUN: Pretty strong for a young lass...
Nathan uses this chance to LUNGE for the shotgun sticking out from the bushes. Whips
around. Aims. Cocks the slide. He FIRES! BLAM!
ON LEPRECHAUN, as the SHOTGUN BLAST PUNCHES into his belly. He's blown backward into
the bushes! He bleeds green blood.
TIGHT ON NATHAN
he crawls over to the bushes.
Takes aim again. At point blank range, unloads the twelve-gauge into the bushes.
Leprechaun SCREAMS in a DEEP, FRIGHTENING voice.
Then silence.
And in the sudden SILENCE, the SOUND of Nathan cocking the shotgun is abnormally loud.
CLICK. CLICK. But whatever was in those bushes could not have lived through that.
ALEX AND OZZIE
are frozen, cowering, gaping. Tory moves to them... hands Nathan a flashlight.
TORY: (stunned horror) Nathan, what the hell was that?
Nathan just shakes his head as he slowly parts the bushes. Shines the light.
62 IN THE BUSHES - NIGHT
Nothing. No Leprechaun.
NATHAN: My God... it's gone...
TORY: (hard to say) Your leg... you're hurt pretty bad...
Ozzie and Alex help her pry the bear trap off his foot. The spikes on the bear
trap cut through his boot. They help Nathan back towards the house.
TORY: We need to call a paramedic.
OZZIE: I took care of it. Called the police. Told them we needed the Army. (beat)
And a paramedic.
TORY: (worried) You didn't tell them it was a Leprechaun, did you?
OZZIE: (proudly) Of course I did. That's what it was. (beat) Wasn't it?
They enter through the back door.
63 INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
They lock the door. Bolt it. Push a table up against it. Tory reaches for the phone.
TORY: We don't know what it was, Ozzie... but if you mentioned a Leprechaun... the
police will think it was a crank call.
She dials. Nothing. Clicks the receiver a few times.
TORY: Shit. Line's dead.
Everyone realizing instinctively it is a new escalation in the struggle. They're stranded.
TORY: Alex, you ever in the Boy Scouts?
ALEX: Cub Scouts.
TORY: Good enough. Help me get his boot off.
Alex helps.
TORY: We've got to stop the bleeding. Ozzie, get everything from the bathroom. Alcohol.
Cotton. Tissue.
Ozzie rushes to the bathroom. Alex brings Tory a blanket to cover Nathan with.
TORY: You're going to be all right, Nathan.
He holds her hand. Tightly. Tries to smile.
Ozzie comes back with the stuff.
OZZIE: Tory... did that thing look like a Leprechaun to you...?
Tory gives him a look, getting a little fed up with Ozzie.
TORY: (frustrated) Ozzie, I admit I don't know what that thing... or person was...
but there are no such things as Leprechauns. Understand? (beat; calming down) But
whatever it was out there is real. And it hurt Nathan real bad... and we've got
to get him to a hospital. And that's what we're gonna do. Okay?
Ozzie nods. Tory begins to dress Nathan's wounds.
TORY: As soon as I stop the bleeding we're all going to carry him out to the pickup.
ALEX: (scared) But what if that... that things is still out there?
NATHAN: I shot it. Put six rounds into it.
TORY: (beat; trying to convince herself) It's gotta be dead... (to Alex) Alex, get
me some ice from the fridge, will ya? It'll help the swelling on Nathan's foot.
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64 THE FRIDGE DOOR opening, light casting eerie shadows on Alex's face. He grabs an
ice tray.
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65 EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
A LOW MIST has begun to cover the ground. Quiet. Too quiet.
THE PICKUP
sits by the porch. Motionless. Like a dead metallic beast.
FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE
opens. Tory, Alex and Ozzie are huddled together, helping Nathan along.
Now, everything seems okay, but we just get this awful feeling they are not going
to make it to the pickup.
Every shadow, every bush they pass holds an ominous threat.
66 INSIDE THE PICKUP
the dome light snaps on as the three shuffle Nathan. Alex and Ozzie get in the
passenger side.
Tory gets in the driver's side. Locks the doors. Looks around. A sigh of relief.
TORY: We made it...
She inserts the key. Things are awful quiet...
HER HAND turns the key. The ENGINE CRANKS over. Not starting. Cranks again. And again.
Still not starting.
TORY: Shit.
Alex's face goes white. He realizes.
ALEX: I forgot. The distributor cap.
ALex looks around, kinda scared. But he knows the dilemma they're in, and he's one
determined kid when he needs to be.
He climbs over Ozzie. Opens the door. Everything "looks" okay. But we sense something
lurking off in the shadows. Something is watching our group.
TORY: (afterthought) Be careful...
INSIDE ENGINE COMPARTMENT as the hood swings up, revealing Alex has opened it.
CLOSE ON ALEX, scared shitless. He reaches down into the dark engine compartment like
there were a bunch of rattlesnakes sleeping in there.
ALEX'S HAND gropes around, searching for the distributor cap. Can't find it.
ON ALEX, confused. Where is it?
Then SUDDENLY!!
DRAMATIC ON LEPRECHAUN
as he rises from the fog, right behind Alex like an ugly sea serpent rising from the
murky ocean depths.
The distributor cap is in Leprechaun's mouth!
Wires dangle.
Alex spins around.
LEPRECHAUN: Looking for this?
Then Leprechaun brings up a small electric fan... without the
safety cage.
LEPRECHAUN: Look what I found in the shed.
And the plug dangles... but the fan turns on!
The wicked blades spinning...
LEPRECHAUN: And it still works!
LEPRECHAUN PLUNGES it toward Alex...
...who jumps out of the way in the nick of time. The fan blades break as they hit
into the radiator.
Alex runs to the passenger side and screams to be let in. Ozzie flings the door open.
Alex jumps in, slamming the door behind him.
Leprechaun begins to pound and pull on the door handle. Sneering. GROWLING. Saliva
dripping from his mouth. He wants in.
INSIDE THE PICKUP
Tory tries to start the engine. Nothing.
ALEX: He's got the cap!
ON THE WINDSHIELD, as Leprechaun swings upside-down into view. Leering.
He draws back his fist. Punches into the windshield. Inside, everyone is SPRAYED WITH
GLASS as the hideous fist shoots through. The palsied fingers GROPE for someone.
Everyone presses up against the back seat. Can't let this "thing" touch them.
Tory's mind going a mile a minute. What can she do? Has to do something.
Then, her hand fumbles for...
CLOSE ON THE CIGARETTE LIGHTER, she punches it in. Seems like hours waiting for it
to heat up. Pop.
She grabs the lighter out of its socket. Presses it HARD on Leprechaun's nose!
Sizzle, as his FLESH BURNS. He SCREAMS.
Draws his head back. His nose smokes.
LEPRECHAUN is pissed. He waddles to side of the truck. CHOMPS DOWN onto the door
handle, locking his mouth around it.
And he rips truck door right off its
hinges! Flings it away and o.s.
THRUSTS HIS HEAD INTO THE CAB, and BITES Ozzie's ear! Then he scurries off and
waddles back into the tool shed.
OZZIE: (covers his ear) My ear! He got my ear!
INSIDE THE PICKUP
Tory is trying to wrap Ozzie's ear with some cloth.
TORY: He just bit it, Ozzie...
They hear LOUD TINKERING coming from the shed. Leprechaun is building something.
ALEX: What the heck is he doing in there...?
67 DRAMATIC ON THE SHED
the doors burst open and we see Leprechaun has made his toy electronic Jeep
into a strange "Road Warrior" type vehicle!
Painted all black, steel screens covering the cab... and steel covers on the
body, and the bumper has been reinforced into a large "battering ram!"
He guns it and heads right for the stalled pickup.
THE PICKUP
as the toy Jeep hits it... BASH!! Again, Leprechaun hits the pickup! And this little
toy Jeep actually begins to push the pickup along...
CLOSE ON TOY JEEP'S WHEELS churning, grabbing traction and actually shoving the
pickup along the ground sideways...
LEPRECHAUN: (singing) Ring around the rosy... a pocket full of posies... (pulls
flowers out of his pocket) Ashes, ashes...
LEPRECHAUN in his "Road Warrior" Jeep forces the pickup down into a small ravine.
LEPRECHAUN: (singing) ... we all fall down!
68 THE PICKUP
turns over on its side, tumbling, landing upside down in the bottom of the dry ravine.
LEPRECHAUN
gets out of his toy Jeep and waddles down into the ravine, GIGGLING and LAUGHING...
maybe a bit of saliva dripping out from his mouth.
69 IN THE RAVINE
and we see Leprechaun's legs, with his big ol' buckled shoes, trampling the high
brush in the ravine. He moves to the upside down pickup. Peers into the broken window.
LEPRECHAUN'S POV
The cab is empty. Leprechaun is pissed. He snarls.
LEPRECHAUN: Where'd you go, my friends...?
Leprechaun looks around, trying to find our friends in the high brush.
LEPRECHAUN: Come to me, m'lads... I want to know something... (beat) I want to know
where my gold is... give it back to a little old, harmless Leprechaun...
OUR FRIENDS HUDDLED IN THE BUSHES
Tory has placed a crude bandage on Ozzie's ear. Otherwise they are okay. They watch
as Leprechaun's ugly feet move right past them... not seeing them. They don't breathe.
LEPRECHAUN'S VOICE: (singing) Come out, come out... where ever you are!
This Leprechaun is one demented guy. Slowly our kids begin to inch their way back
towards the house... faster they move and suddenly:
LEPRECHAUN
spots them. Gives chase... gaining on them as they head for the front door.
ON OUR FRIENDS
as they head for the front door... the Leprechaun right behind them. They bull the
door open and rush inside.
Leprechaun moves in right behind them, but Nathan slams the door shut, just as
Leprechaun manages to stick his hand through. Thush! Leprechaun pulls his hand back and
we see it's missing!
70 LEPRECHAUN'S SEVERED hand lies on the porch. Sheared off at the wrist.
The fingers begin to move. The severed hand begins to "crawl" away. Like an ugly,
distorted spider.
The Leprechaun grabs his hand.
LEPRECHAUN: Talk about giving a hand...
Leprechaun puts his severed hand into his coat pocket,
but the wiggling hand crawls out and as Leprechaun tries to keep the hand from
climbing out of his pocket he scurries into the foliage...
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71 INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
Tory and the others are locking the door and pushing couches and such up against
the door.
Others go to the window. Look out.
TORY: He's not out there...
NATHAN: My God... that... that thing out there... you all saw.
TORY: (realizes) A phone. Have to call for help.
ALEX: The phone is dead.
On their dreaded looks, we...
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72 INSIDE J.D.'S HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT
Slamming the phone down for the fifth time. Worried. He picks it up. Dials.
J.D.: Hello? Ah, I've been having trouble trying to get through to 555-2734. Yeah...
okay. (beat) Lines down? Are you sure? That's impossible. No. I've been trying for
the last hour. Okay. Thanks.
J.D. hangs up. Really worried now.
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73 INSIDE THE FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
Our group is in action. Locking up the place. Securing it. Nathan and
Deputy Perillo are propped up on a couch.
Nathan is changing his bandages.
Ozzie has a blood-soaked bandage on his ear. Alex moves INTO SHOT.
TORY: You got the back door, right?
ALEX: Yeah. And I checked all the back room windows, too. They're locked up tight.
TORY: Double check the windows in the kitchen.
Tory checks Ozzie's ear bandage.
OZZIE: My ear hurts a lot, Tory. And I bet he made a boot out of it.
ALEX: Just a small one...
OZZIE: (brings his frog out) Ralph isn't happy about
this at all.
TORY: (tightening the bandage) You're gonna be okay, Ozzie.
ALEX: Sure... there was this famous painter who had only one ear.
TORY: (firm) Alex, after you check the windows, get some ice for Ozzie's ear.
And boil some water.
Alex moves to the kitchen. NATHAN'S HAND reaches out and grabs Tory, startling her.
NATHAN: (weakly) You're doing real good, babe.
TORY: (squeezing his hand) Now, just take it easy, Hick. (beat) How do you feel?
NATHAN: I feel fine...
TORY: (smiling) You're a lousy liar...
Tory checks the wrappings on his legs.
TORY: I'm going to have to make this tighter... (clinches it) Too tight?
Nathan shakes his head "no."
Alex returns with a bowl of ice. Tory wraps up some cubes into a towel, presses
it against Ozzie's bandaged ear.
OZZIE: I kinda liked my ear, y'know. (beat) And the Leprechaun has mine.
TORY: It's not a Leprechaun, Ozzie.
OZZIE: But he said... and he was green. Had them buckles on his shoes...
TORY: You can buy costumes...
OZZIE: (beat) Well... what about the gold...
Alex jabs Ozzie in the side.
OZZIE: Ouch. (to Tory) Never mind.
TORY: Wait a minute... what is this about gold?
Tory looks to Alex who reacts. A guilty face. He hesitates for a beat... then...
ALEX: (to Ozzie) I guess we'd better tell them... (to Tory) I think we might know
something about that gold.
TORY: Go on...
ALEX: Y'see, we found it. In the wagon.
OZZIE: It was the magic of the rainbow...
ALEX: And we didn't think it belonged to anybody. So we hid it. We were going to
save it for Ozzie's operation. (beat) To fix his brain...
A long beat here as Tory stares at Alex. She pulls him to the side.
TORY: Alex... (beat) You can't fix Ozzie's brain...
ALEX: (beat) I know... but Ozzie doesn't know that...
And his look tells Tory...
TORY: Listen, obviously there's someone out there who is a very sick person. And
he wants that gold... and if giving it to him will make him leave us alone... then
we're going to give it to him. (means it) Where's the gold, Alex?
ALEX: (reluctantly) I hid it in the old well in the back. I tied the bag to the crank.
TORY: I'm going to get the gold.
She starts for the back door... Nathan reaches up and stops her.
TORY: I have to. You're hurt.
NATHAN: But you take this...
He brings up the heavy shotgun. Hands it to her. She doesn't take it.
TORY: I've never even held a gun before. I hate guns.
Nathan opens the slide, loads it with five shells. Cocks it.
NATHAN: Just aim... and pull the trigger.
Tory knows she has to take it. She does. She raises it clumsily. And it's very
evident that she's never held a gun before...
But this is a different place and a different time.
TORY: I'll be okay... all he wants is the gold. (wanting to believe) He'll leave
us alone if he gets it...
Tory moves to the back door... and carefully opens it. Carefully peers out... then
moves outside...
74 EXT. REAR OF FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
very spooky. Tory looking right and left. She spots the well. Moves to it.
ON THE WELL
Tory places the shotgun against the well. Looks around again. Did she hear something?
Tory begins to turn the wooden crank... slowly the rope winds onto the wooden shaft.
SOMETHING'S POV - LOW TO THE GROUND as it comes waddling through the foliage and
heading into the backyard of the farmhouse... spots Tory... stops.
ON TORY AT THE WELL, she senses something stalking her.
Then she looks and sees something scuttling through the bushes and heading right
towards her! Faster and faster... Tory's time is running out... but she's got to get
the bag of gold up... it's winding, but not fast enough...
TIGHT ON THE ROPE and it begins to fray... then snaps!
TORY DESPERATELY GRABS for the gold bag... catches it at the last second.
TORY: Shit.
Tory holds the bag of gold, turns around...
AND LEPRECHAUN IS STANDING THERE!!
LEPRECHAUN: (singing "Hush Little Baby") Hush little baby, don't say a word...
Gimme my gold for a Mocking Bird...
"Magically" Leprechaun produces a Mocking Bird and it flutters at Tory's face,
flying away!
Tory's shaken, but she knows what she has to do, Tory holds out the bag of gold.
TORY: Here! Here's what you're looking for. This is it! Right?!
Leprechaun looks at her strangely.
LEPRECHAUN: My gold?
TORY: Yes. It's the gold. Take it and just leave us alone.
LEPRECHAUN: How do I know it's me gold? (beat; quickly) Maybe it's a trick.
TORY: It's no trick... just take it and leave us alone!
She holds out the bag... Leprechaun's ugly hand reaches out to take it. And with
some magical "Disney Dust" the bag floats over to Leprechaun.
LEPRECHAUN: Ah, my powers returning...
CLOSE ON HIS FINGERS as he grabs the bag.
Brings it to his ear and shakes it, smiling at the clanking the coins do.
LEPRECHAUN: Ahh... it sounds like me gold.
Leprechaun opens the bag, peers inside. Smiles widely.
LEPRECHAUN: Looks like me gold.
He sniffs the bag.
LEPRECHAUN: Smells like me gold.
He takes a coin and bites down on it.
LEPRECHAUN: Tastes like me gold.
Leprechaun CACKLES LOUDLY and does an Irish jig for a few beats, then scurries
up to Tory, grabbing her face, squeezing her cheeks.
LEPRECHAUN: Ah... a pretty lass... how 'bout giving Daddy a kiss...?
Leprechaun "puckers his lips" at Tory, then "jigs" his way into the foliage
as a shocked Tory moves back into the house.
75 BACK INSIDE THE HOUSE - NIGHT
Tory bolts the door behind her. She moves to the others. All eyes turn to her.
TORY: (long beat) He took it.
Nothing more needs to be said. A sigh of relief.
TORY: He got what he wanted. We can get everyone to a hospital. And we can go
for help... we're gonna be safe now... (beat) It's all over now...
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LEPRECHAUN'S CAMP - NIGHT
Leprechaun is counting his gold coins...
LEPRECHAUN: Ninety-six... ninety-seven... ninety-eight... ninety-nine...
He stops. Only ninety-nine gold coins. One missing. It's in Ozzie's stomach.
Leprechaun becomes furious.
LEPRECHAUN: A missing coin!! I've been tricked! They've got me coin. No one
takes a Leprechaun's gold!
He SNARLS, as we...
CUT BACK TO:
77 INSIDE THE FARMHOUSE - NIGHT
Our group is gathered around.
TORY: We've got to get out of here...
A LOUD NOISE! And that's exactly what no one needed at this time.
ALEX: Shit.
And now our group huddles together and the CAMERA MOVES IN, symbolizing the
utter trapped feeling everyone has.
The EERIE SUSPENSE MUSIC builds. Something is in the house.
Nathan reaches for the shotgun. Checks it. Empty. Deputy Perillo
grabs some shells from a pouch on her belt. Hands them to Nathan. He tries to
get up, his foot hurts bad.
TORY: Nathan, you're hurt too bad.
NATHAN: Sounded like it was coming from the back.
Tory leads the way, Alex and Ozzie follow.
CUT TO:
78 THE HALLWAY
We see the SHADOW OF SOMEONE slowly moving along. We can't tell whose it is. Then
another. And another.
It's our group, slowly inching their way down the spooky hallway. Tory trains
the shotgun ahead.
Alex and Ozzie watching the rear.
The suspense builds as they CRINGE each time the pass an open doorway. Anything
could jump out at anytime and we are just waiting for something like that to happen.
They are scared shitless. They come to a corner.
SOMETHING IS AROUND THAT CORNER! We know it. And, as they turn...
A FIGURE confronts them.
Our group terrified, their hearts jump into their mouths.
It's J.D.. Smiling.
J.D.: Hi, there. (beat) I've been trying to call. But your line's been dead for an
hour and I was worried so I thought---
TORY: (urgently) How did you get in?
J.D.: The back door was wide open...
Before he can finish, his earlier statement has registered with Tory. A look of
ABSOLUTE PANIC... overwhelming fear bathes over her.
TORY: My God! It's in the house!!
NATHAN: What?
And Tory is already ushering J.D. along with the others as they run back to
the living room.
78 THE LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
TORY is on the move.
TORY: It's in the house!
J.D. is confused by all this.
J.D.: What's in the house? What the hell is going on?
OZZIE: It's the Leprechaun, Mr. Reding.
J.D.: What are you talking about?
TORY: I don't get it... we gave him all his gold. Why isn't he leaving us alone...
Alex and Ozzie exchange looks...
J.D. reacts to Nathan who hobbles a bit when he walks.
J.D.: Shit. What happened to you?
TORY: You wouldn't believe it.
Nathan takes the shotgun, cocks it.
NATHAN: My ankle's killin' me, but my hands are okay. (beat) We should split up.
Try and flush it out.
J.D. moves to a drawer, pulling out a .38 revolver.
J.D.: My hand's a little stiff, but I can handle a revolver.
Tory reacts...
TORY: Geeze... guns...
Alex moves to the group holding a baseball bat.
ALEX: This'll take care of him.
Everyone is armed. All listen in the darkness for the slightest betrayal of movement.
J.D.: I'll go with Alex and Ozzie.
That leaves Tory and Nathan with the shotgun.
NATHAN: There's two hallways and the kitchen, right?
J.D.: And the basement.
Some reason that strikes a chill in everyone.
J.D.: Let's work from here toward the back.
Everyone fans out. Moving as if every object in the room had a million volts running
through it. Tory notices Ozzie's ear is bleeding through the head bandage.
TORY: Alex, grab some more ice for Ozzie's ear, will you?
Alex zooms into the kitchen.
80 INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT
Alex lays his baseball bat on the counter, moving to the fridge.
WE DOLLY IN CLOSER as he opens the refrigerator door...
AND THE DAMN LEPRECHAUN LEAPS OUT!!
Alex splashes to the floor, SCREAMING! Leprechaun claws at his face.
HIS LONG, SHARP FINGERNAILS tear his arm.
It's a petrifying scene as Alex tries to fight off this creature.
TORY AND NATHAN come running... can't shoot in the confined space.
Nathan stares in dumbfounded shock.
NATHAN: Shit.
Nathan bravely grabs the Leprechaun, and, with every ounce of strength,
lifts the creature and throws him... Leprechaun falls back and onto the stove...
ON THE GRILL
and Leprechaun's hand falls onto the grill... begins to cook. He can't remove his
hand as it fries on the heated grill.
LEPRECHAUN: Ahhhhhh!!!!
He tries to pull his hand free, but it's stuck and continues to sizzle on the hot
grill.
Leprechaun frantically reaches for a spatula on the counter... struggles to reach
it... finally grabs it and uses the spatula to scoop up his frying hand and frees
himself.
He turns and looks at the others as he holds up his charred
hand.
LEPRECHAUN: Ah... well done.
Leprechaun scurries into one of the open kitchen cabinet doors. Nathan slams it shut.
The cabinet door to the right swings open and Leprechaun gropes his ugly arm out
and grabs for Nathan.
LEPRECHAUN: Peek a boo... I see you...
They slam that door shut.
The cabinet door to the left opens and Leprechaun reaches out to grab them...
LEPRECHAUN: I want me gold...
They slam that door shut. Then the middle door swings open and Leprechaun is in
that cabinet!
LEPRECHAUN: You should have picked door number two, m'lad.
That door slams shut. Nathan grabs the shotgun from Tory, cocking it and aiming
it at the cabinets. He swings open all three doors and all three are
now empty!
NATHAN: (confused) Where'd he go?!
ON THE SMALL SLIDING SILVERWARE DRAWER... waist level. It slowly opens and
Leprechaun's hand reaches up and grabs Nathan's crotch.
LEPRECHAUN: Just turn your head and cough.
Nathan stiffens... then immediately snaps the shotgun barrel down at the drawer.
Fires! BLAAAMMM!! The drawer is obliterated. Leprechaun is gone.
Tory looks to Nathan. Everyone not knowing what to think.
SUDDENLY!!
Leprechaun is behind them!
LEPRECHAUN: Y'missed me.
ALEX eyes his baseball bat. Grabs it. Swings it down onto Leprechaun. Leprechaun
SNARLS at Alex...
...then SCURRIES away, into the shadows.
Nathan points in the direction Leprechaun went.
NATHAN: That way!
81 DOWN THE HALLWAY
DOLLYING with them as the group splits up and moves down the hall.
ON TORY AND NATHAN
carefully checking doors and rooms.
TORY: I told you you wouldn't believe it.
They move into the den. Carefully looking around.
SUDDENLY!
They hear the WHEELS OF A SKATEBOARD moving down the hallway. They spin around
and see:
THE HALLWAY and Leprechaun is sitting in a funny position on a skateboard as it
wheels by. Nathan fires his shotgun. Misses.
Then from the other direction the skateboard wheels past, this time Leprechaun is
in a different funny position.
He makes a face as Nathan fires once again! And misses.
Like a carnival shooting gallery, Leprechaun skateboards past again, in an even
funnier position on the skateboard... with each successive pass, Leprechaun
makes a different pose.
Finally, on the last pass...
...the skateboard is empty! Where did Leprechaun go?
Cocks the slide.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
He's out of ammo.
