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Decline Of The
Romanian Vampire
Writer: Glenn Davis and William Laurin. Director: Jeff Woolnough
Tag
(A graveyard. We see Max walking through the graveyard putting wild rose branches on the graves. He sees the Helsing family crypt and heads towards it)
Max: Wow. Uncle Gustav's family crypt.
(He notices there a cross in the handle of the door)
Max: Good thinking. Great way to keep vampires out.
(He goes inside. We see an empty open stone casket. Max spots a pile of ash on the floor. It's surrounded by a circle of ash. Max starts to rub some of the circle of ash away. An orange glow comes from the pile of ash as it starts to swirl upwards. Max backs away as Klaus in full vampire gear)
Max: Klaus
Klaus: I'm free. (he steps out of circle) Look at me I'm out. (To Max) You set me free. I'm in your debt.
Max: What?
Klaus: You broke the circle of holy water that imprisoned me and as an expression of my gratitude, I'm not going to suck the life from you. Until we meet again of course.
(Klaus laughs then heads to the door. He takes his cape of)
Klaus: I shall do such things. What they are yet I know not but they shall be the terrors of the earth. (he laughs then leaves)
(cut to opening credits)
Act 1
(Exterior of Helsing House)
Gustav: (from inside) This is a very serious matter
(cut to interior. Gustav is pacing around he looks very mad)
Gustav: Very serious indeed. You had no business going into that crypt. Absolutely none
Max: I was just wild rose branches on the graves to keep the the vampires away
Gustav: I'm sorry Max. You couldn't have known. It's just with Klaus loose anything could happen
Max: Yeah but I don't understand what he was doing in your family crypt
Gustav: I had sealed him in there, trapped because I wanted to
(Chris and Sophie enter)
Chris: We're back. Movie was sold out
Sophie: The nutty Professor always packs them in
Gustav: I'm very glad you're home. I want the three of you to go to Uncle Wilheim's for a while
Max: What?
Chris: Why?
Gustav: The vampire Klaus is on the loose and I'm sure he'll come after me
Chris: Well then we'll stay here and fight him with you
Gustav: No. I appreciate the offer but as they say in the westerns 'I want you out of town by sundown'
(View of the town. The camera pans until Lucard Industries comes into view.)
Lucard: Shekabu Salaam. I am terribly sorry to hear about that fire in your oilfield. It must be costing you millions.
(Interior Lucard's Office. Lucard is on the phone)
Lucard: Of course my petrochemical concern has great expertise in dealing with such . . . accidents. Yes they can be there by this evening and then perhaps we can reconsider that rather exhorbident price you quoted me last week. I look forward to hearing from you. At your convenience of course.
Klaus: (out of shot) 'I every inch a king'
Lucard: King Lear act 4 scene 5
Klaus: King Lear act 4 scene 6
(Lucard hangs up the phone and turns to face Klaus)
Lucard: And the speech continues 'When I do stare see how the subject quakes' I would advise you to bear that In mind if you've come seeking vengeance as I'm sure you have
Klaus: I have but not against you
Lucard: I stood by and allowed Helsing to seal you in that crypt and you don't bear a grudge?
Klaus: I did at first. I spent long bitter hours consumed with thoughts of vengeance but then I realised that you were right
Lucard: Indeed
Klaus: I'd a great deal of time to think Alexander. Eventually I realised that I had no one to blame for my predicament but myself
Lucard: And?
Klaus: I was too rash, too emotional, too unstable. That's what got me trapped in there. I know that now. Take me back Alexander. I shall prove as loyal and dedicated a soldier as you could ever want.
Lucard: So the prodigal son returns and I'm expected to slay the fatted calf and say all is forgiven? Well no.
Klaus: What if I was to offer you a triumph you've so long desired? What if I were to offer you Gustav Helsing?
Lucard: Easier said than done as I have learned from bitter experience
Klaus: With all due respect. I have one great advantage in dealing with Helsing
(Lucard indicates for Klaus to sit down)
(Night. Exterior Lucard's castle)
(Inside Lucard's Castle, The great hall. Gustav comes in through the door at the top of the stairs. He has a bag of vampire weapons with him)
Gustav: Klaus? Klaus? Are you here?
(Klaus appears at the bottom of the stairs in full vampire gear)
Klaus: Father. I knew you'd come if I offered you what you really want
Gustav: You can't give me that
Klaus: In spite of everything that's happened I really do wish I could be your son again but we both know that's impossible, I'm beyond help. That is why I offer you this triumph over Dracula.
(Gustav is now standing beside Klaus)
Gustav: You said you'd show me his resting place
Klaus: I will show you the place where he derives his power. Where he's most vulnerable. Where you can finish him once and for all and then, maybe then I can await a cure
Gustav: Where is Dracula
Klaus: He's around here somewhere
(Gustav looks around the room. Klaus grabs his bag from him)
Klaus: Dracula
(Lucard appears before them)
Lucard: You bellowed
Klaus: This gentleman was looking for you
Gustav: So this was just a trick to lure me here
Lucard: And not much of one. I must say Helsing I'm disappointed in you, You're death is going to be almost anticlimactic. It will be hard for me to savour this ultimate triumph but I suppose I'll manage. Well done Klaus
Klaus: Thank you. it was embarrassingly easy really
Lucard: Yes. Perhaps old Gustav is growing a little simple
Klaus: Perhaps he is but then I'd say the same thing applies to you
Lucard: I beg your pardon?
Klaus: Oh haven't I made myself clear? Please let me explain
(he pushes a table with a large wooden chest on top of it to the bottom of the stairs)
Klaus: This deliciously small bit of plastic explosive (he pens the lid of the chest and we see the bomb) has enough power in it to destroy and entire wing of of your castle. Pity about the furnishings Alexander. Now lets set it for say, 30 minutes.
(we see him set the timer on the bomb for 30minutes)
Lucard: What foolishness is this I could survive any explosion.
Klaus: True, true, however I think you'll feel a little worse for where around this
(Klaus opens the front of the chest to reveal a glowing green cross. Lucard backs away from it)
Gustav: My god that's the cross of the Silesia
Klaus: Correct for 20 points
Gustav: It's been lost for centuries
Klaus: Yes until I found it and wired it to the plastic explosive
Lucard: Klaus, I'm warning you
Klaus: Oh no, no. I'm warning you. Now that the front is off the lead lined box your powers are disappearing even as we speak. Lucky enough I had the wisdom to equip myself with this rather dashing cape, made by the rarest silk of Silesia, which, as you know Alexander, negates the effects of the cross of the cross of Silesia. Stylish and functional. Unfortunately Alexander you haven't dressed for the occasion so you'll be quite dead in oh about 30 minutes. (looking at the timer on the bomb) Oh now isn't this a coincidence? It looks like you two will blink out of existence at precisely the same moment, leaving little not so old me to pick up the pieces. Well (he bows) I must be off. (he goes to leave) Oh a couple of points. The room is sealed, there's no way out. The cross prevents Alexander from using his vampire powers and Daddy can't touch the bomb or it will go off early and make an awful mess and of course Alexander, don't go anywhere near the cross. it would kill you very quickly. Well do enjoy your last minutes together. Ta ta.
(Klaus laughs and then leaves leaving Lucard and Helsing trapped together)
End Of Act 1
Act 2
(Interior Lucard Castle. The Great Hall. Close up of bomb now with 15minutes 18 seconds left)
Lucard: I have always been immune to time
(Cut to Lucard leaning up against the window. He is undoing his tie)
Lucard: What an Inconvenience not to be
Gustav: (examining the cross and bomb) Well so much for your boasts about the inevitable triumph of evil. This is certainly some triumph alright. Look at you now.
Lucard: Locked up with an annoying and nattering old man. It is embarrassing I admit
Gustav: Always so proud, so sure of yourself
Lucard: You would be too if you were me. I have lived in so many ages, seen so many things and survived them all. Including quite a few members of your clan. I used to drink with Shakespeare you know? (Laughing) He told a good joke. He appreciated beautiful women in fact he was such a fine fellow I never bit him. I have always thought he got some ideas from me actually.
Gustav: Richard Third I assume
Lucard: I hope no. Richard is a rather mean sort of character don't you think. A miscalculator
Gustav: If you're in any play it's Titus Andronicus
Lucard: Well that one does have a wonderful death speech 'If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul' Now Helsing, that one does ring true
Gustav: And in the end all that your evil accomplished was to bring you here
Lucard: You straight and narrow path has brought you to exactly the same end as my evil one. After all what are good and evil? Two sides of a coin. Energy and matter, time and space. It's all the same in the end.
Gustav: Nonsense. You offer only darkness to the world. I pursue hope, belief
Lucard: Belief! Please. This is not a century for belief. That's what makes things so easy from me. No one believes I could exist. You know Helsing, when Bram Stoker wrote that novel about me, I thought I was through, exposed but I entered the realm of fiction and then all those movies. I still say Olivier was right for the part or George Raft at the very least but then people might have been ready to believe in me. As it was I became a figure of fun. It was humiliating at first and then I realised, it was ideal for someone of my ambition not to be taken seriously. And now it seems I should have taken Klaus more seriously
(Close up of time 11minutes 56 seconds remaining)
(Interior Helsing home. Sophie, Chris and Max enter)
Sophie: What if Uncle Wilheim notices we're gone?
Max: No way. The hiding a dummy under the covers trick always works
Chris: How do you know?
Max: I've led a secret life
Chris: Uncle Gustav we've come back to help you
Max: Yeah and somebody's gonna . . . .
(they get no answer)
Sophie: Uncle Gustav?
Max: He's not here?
Sophie: The first place Klaus would go once he got out is the castle
Max: Yeah and Uncle Gustav would follow him there. We can't let him face this alone
(Exterior Lucard Castle cut to Interior close up on timer 7minutes left)
Gustav: 7 minutes left
Lucard: You are the vampire expert tell me how to protect my powers from that thing
Gustav: (laughing) Isn't it ironic that you should die at the hands of your own creature?
Lucard: He is your creature at least as much as he is mine Helsing. Be careful how you throw your ironies around. Weak or not I could still destroy you
Gustav: What good would that do?
Lucard: It would give me enormous satisfaction
(Gustav runs and gets a stake from the bag Klaus had left behind)
Gustav: Would you prefer to die like this than to wait for the cross to finish you?
Lucard: Perhaps you would prefer a torn throat to the wait for the bomb
Gustav: Better to end fighting that waiting
Lucard: I couldn't agree more. At least one of us will know a final triumph
(they charge at each other)
(Interior Lucard Castle. One of the many hallways. Sophie, Chris and Max enter)
Sophie: Are you sure you have the holy water?
Max: For the last time Sophie YES! I have the holy water
Chris: Shhhh
Sophie: Someone has to check these things. I just want to be prepared that's all
(Klaus in bat form starts flying around them)
Klaus: For the unexpected I hope (laughs)
(they scramble for the nearest door. As they leave Klaus appears laughing)
Klaus: Perhaps I should go tell my friends the Calvary's arrived, and then retreated. Oh yes it's irresistible
(The Great Hall. Close up on timer now at 2minutes 25 remaining. Klaus comes in through the top door and heads down the stairs)
Klaus: Oh gentlemen, gentlemen? I thought I'd just tell you that the children were here and I tore their throats out. (Lucard and Helsing are no where to be seen) Aww now you only have a few minutes left, you're not going to waste them playing hide and seek. Answer me!
(He sees them. they are lying on the floor. Lucard has apparently been staked and Gustav lies motionless alongside him)
Klaus: Oh my my my you've cheated the hangman. You've killed each other instead of giving me the satisfaction. (he approaches them and kneels down) Well I am still satisfied. Do you understand? Of course not. You're beyond understanding both of you. But you make a fine group portrait non the less. My two fathers what a good title for a tv show. If only you'd listened to me, if only you'd respected me, if only you'd loved me. I would have killed you anyway (he laughs and stands up turning his back to them) Wait a minute if Lucard was staked he would have disintegrated
(the cape is pulled off Klaus as Lucard appears behind him and grabs him round the neck)
Lucard: Helsing the card quickly
(Gustav grabs the card Klaus used to activate the bomb from Klaus' pocket. With 1 second to spare he swipes the card and the bomb stops)
Lucard: Thank you Klaus for making that stupid mistake we both knew you would make. You never could resist the chance to watch your victim dangle and so, even in my weakened condition I was able to plant that temptation in your mind. Helsing the cross
Klaus: Father you have him now. The creature that took me from you. This is how I wanted it/ Kill him!
Lucard: Helsing, we were partners?
(Gustav closes the front of the box and the cross is gone. Lucard vamps out . Lucard and Klaus hiss at each other. Klaus vanishes. Lucard turns to look at Gustav. Gustav tries to run for the stairs but Lucard blocks his way still in vampire mode)
Lucard: You are god's own fool Helsing. What makes you think I'm not going to kill you now?
Gustav: I just spared you. We worked together to save ourselves. Surely you'd grant me leave to fight again another day?
Lucard: Our discussion are at an end Helsing. I will now give you an object lesson in the principle difference between good and evil. (he grabs Gustav) No surrender, no mercy.
(Lucard moves in to bite him. Chris, Max and Sophie arrive with crosses)
Max: Leave him alone Lucard
Gustav: Open the front of that box Max
(Lucard backs away as Max opens the chest)
End of Act 2
Tag
(Exterior Lucard Castle)
Gustav: Another principle difference between good and evil Lucard
(Interior again. Sophie and Max are holding crosses. Chris has a stake. The cross of Selesia is still in view0)
Gustav: The strength of your forces is based on terror and profit and blind obedience. You're forever looking over your shoulder for the next Klaus. When my comrades choose to disobey me, as they have tonight, they do so for all the right reasons. Now evil may claim much in this world but we still have on our side a small item called love
(Chris moves in to stake Lucard. Lucard grabs a sword from a suit of armour near him and keeps them at bay as he heads up the stairs and out the top door)
Gustav: He has no power in the presence of that cross. That was his only escape
(Max takes the cross of Selesia)
Max: Wow this thing could come in handy
(They all leave.)
Gustav: So how did you bribe Uncle Wilheim?
THE END
Transcribed By Elaine. Please e-mail any corrections to corrections@dracula.tvheaven.com