Winston steps backwards, spooling out wire as he goes with Louis helping to ensure it comes off correctly. Set up all around the front of the museum are speakers of various shapes, sizes and amps. Wires run from them to a couple of the police cars parked nearby, and then to Ecto-1's radio and PA system. Peter plugs in a microphone into a unit on the dashboard and tests it out. Meanwhile, Ray and Egon work with a couple of firemen directly in front of the museum, making modifications to one of the fire engines.

"Alright, the main tank is modified…pressure shouldn't be a problem," Ray says as he wipes some grease off his hands and slides out from under the engine.

"Tank's almost full," Egon states as he reads the meter on the side of the engine. He nods to the firemen pouring the contents of a drum into the tank feed. Winston hooks up the last of the cables to a generator provided by the city. Minutes later, he and Ray put on packs made up of three cylinders with a hose running to one that hangs from their shoulders by a strap. Egon and Peter throw on their proton packs, and join them by the generator.

"Audio set, electric set," Ray says, flipping two switches on a box on top of the generator.

"Slime blower, primed and set," Winston says, adjusting the chest strap on his pack.

"OOooooh, good slime, good slime! Winston, is our slime in a good mood tonight?" Peter asks, caressing the large central tank.

"I sure hope so. This place is a lot bigger than a toaster."

"It's getting close to midnight, let's go, Venkman," Egon says. Peter nods and pulls the microphone out of his belt, switching it on. He steps up on the running board of the fire engine, looking out at the crowd watching them intently.

"Guys, I can help you!" Louis says, practically jumping in Ray's face.

"Louis, I don't think this is really the time…" Ray starts.

"Please! I wanna be there with you guys!" Louis pleads. Winston places a hand on his shoulder.

"Louis, it's too dangerous, buddy. Sit this one out and we'll start you off light when this is all over, okay?" Louis slumps and nods reluctantly. They all turn to look at Peter on the engine.

"Hello, New York! Coming at you live from the beautiful island of Manhattan is the first ever Ghostbusters New Year's Eve bash! We're gonna squeeze some New Year's juice outta ya, big apple!" Peter nods to Ray. Ray pulls out a walkman hooked up to everything and presses play. "Higher and Higher" begins to play, pumping through every speaker and available PA system around the area at full volume. Two firemen grab the hose on the engine, holding up towards the museum and waiting for their cue.

Sparks of purple energy begin to dance over the shell as the upbeat music begins to raise the spirits of the crowd of people watching. Peter starts singing into the microphone with the song, trying to encourage the others to sing with him. Suddenly, the front of the engine bounces up and down, surprising everyone and almost throwing Peter off. "Yow! I think it's kicking in!"

"Alright, let's do it!" Ray shouts. The firemen brace themselves as the lead fireman pulls the lever on the end of the hose. Positively charged mood slime begins to blast out of the end and onto the shell. The positively charged slime splatters messily all over the solid slime, sending more purple waves of energy dancing over it.

"Ray, it's working!" Egon exclaims. The Ghostbusters look as they see the slime wall starts to pull away from the area being bombarded.

"It is?" Ray asks, giving Peter a look.

"Hey, it's slime time!" Peter says with a smirk.

"Let's get ready," Ray says as they position themselves at the bottom of the stairs. They wait until the slime wall pulls away a bit more.

"Guys, I can go in with you!" Louis pleads with them by the stairs. "Let me just grab a pack…"

"Louis, it's too dangerous in there. We'll talk about it later." Ray motions to the firemen and they cut the slime. The Ghostbusters run up the stairs and past the wall just as it begins to close up again behind them. Louis gets a determined look on his face, grits his teeth, and charges at the museum.

"Hey, stop!" a fireman calls. Too late. Louis dives through the hole just before it reseals behind him and lands on the stairs in a puddle of mood slime. Winston turns back as he hears his grunt when he lands hard.

"Louis!"

"Heh…hi."


Janosz slips Dana's cardboard New Years hat on her head before placing his own on. He smiles as he looks at his watch, then back up at her.

"Four minutes to go, and then it's party time!" They turn towards the painting, and Dana's eyes grow wide as a ray of energy flows from Vigo's face to Oscar's. Dana steps forward to try and pull Oscar away, but Janosz grabs her, holding her incredibly tight with just one hand. Vigo's face begins to appear over Oscar's with a victorious smile. "It's happening. It's really happening!" he says, excited. He turns when he hears a humming coming from behind the room's gates. "Eh?"

Proton streams blasts two of the gates off their hinges, allowing the Ghostbusters to enter. Dana takes advantage of the distraction to break free from Janosz's grasp and run over to the pedestal, pulling Oscar off his pillow and running to hide behind one of the room's pillars. Vigo's face fades as he screams out in pain.

"No! Go away!" Janosz shouts at them.

"Happy New Year!" Peter says, positron rifle at the ready.

"Do you know who this is? He's Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!" Janosz tells them with a confident smile. The guys look around the room confused. Janosz follows their gaze, seeing that the painting is missing its occupant. Confusion quickly crosses his face as he wonders what happened.

"Oh, Johnny, did you back the wrong horse. Would you hose him, please?" Peter asks.

"Hose 'im!" Ray agrees. He and Winston hold up their blowers and pull back the trigger levers, sending out waves of slime onto Janosz. He gets covered in the stuff, slipping and sliding back as he tries to get away, but eventually collapses onto the ground. Ray and Winston cut the flow and Janosz lies on the floor in a puddle of slime.

"One down," Winston says.

"On the ground," Ray adds. Dana runs over to Peter, kissing him.

"Oh, am I glad to see you!"

"Hey, Oscar!" Peter says, taking Oscar into his arms and patting his head. Dana smiles, then turns to Ray, motioning to Janosz.

"Is he…dead?"

"Nuh-uh," Ray assures her, "this slime is positively charged. He'll wake up feeling like a million bucks." Suddenly, a wind begins to blow throughout the room. The Ghostbusters look around as Egon's PKE meter begins to beep wildly. He looks down at it, checking the readings. They begin to move around the room, trying to see where the disturbance was coming from. Suddenly, a piece of scaffolding falls to the ground, drawing all their attention towards the back wall as a tube snakes down from the ceiling and wraps around Dana.

"Dana!" Peter exclaims. He hands Winston Oscar and pulls his rifle off of his belt. He aims it upwards and blasts the hose. It crumples on the ground around her feet, and he quickly gives Oscar back to her. "Take him, go hide! Go!" Dana grabs Oscar close and runs to the side where she ducks behind two overturned tables. The Ghostbusters turn to the center of the room where Vigo suddenly materializes.

"Uh-oh…" Egon mutters. Vigo approaches them, an unhappy scowl on his face. Louis, who up until this time was peering through the gates from the hallway, pulls back and presses himself up against the wall, breathing heavily, terrified.

"Hold it right there, dead head!" Ray says, holding up his slime blower at the ready. Vigo turns to him with a look that could kill. "If you want a baby, go knock up some willing hellhound! Otherwise, I'm giving you to the count of three to get back in that painting where you belong! One!"

"Two," Peter says, flipping his positron rifle to full power and moving over to the side between Vigo and Dana's hiding place.

"Three!" Ray shouts. With that, Peter and Egon fire their proton streams at Vigo. Vigo writhes around in pain where he stands as the beams hit him. "You got him! You got him!" Ray exclaims. That statement is quickly disproved when Vigo stands up, swinging out his arms and sending the Ghostbusters flying back with a burst of purple energy. They land on the floor in painful heaps, the energy around them dissipating quickly.

"That was really stupid…" Winston mutters. The Ghostbusters try to get up, but find they have some difficulty. Vigo shrugs off the petty annoyance, and turns towards Dana's hiding place. Outside in the hall, Louis slowly and carefully moves his head around the end of the wall, peering back into the room.

"Oh, no! Come on guys, get up!" he whispers to himself.

"Ray! Can you move?" Egon asks.

"No…are you okay?" Ray asks back.

"No. Venkman, how are you?"

"I'm fine," Peter lies as he struggles to make his limbs work. Vigo looks at the desks in his way, and with a simple parting gesture they slide across the floor to expose Dana and Oscar. Dana stands up and slowly moves away, clutching Oscar tightly to her. Vigo raises his hand closed and upside-down. He quickly opens his fingers, sending Dana flying back into the wall with Oscar levitating in mid-air. He then begins to signal "come here" with his hand and Oscar floats over to him. Vigo takes him in his hands and holds him out, smiling as he turns back towards the center of the room.

"No!" Dana shouts, struggling to move but finds herself stuck to the wall via and invisible force. "Please, do something!" she yells at the Ghostbusters.

Out in the hallway, Louis breathes heavily. I have to help, he thinks, But how? He looks down at his slime covered clothing. He reaches up and opens his shirt a bit, exposing his make-shift Ghostbusters uniform underneath. He looks up, the determined look returning to his face.

With all his might, Peter hops off his side, moving forward a bit. He puts all his energy into one last hop, looking up at Vigo. "Not so fast, Vigo! Hey! You! Yeah, the bimbo with the baby!" That gets Vigo's attention as he looks down at him, annoyed. "Anybody tell you the big shoulder look is out? Y'know, I have met some dumb blondes in my time, but you take the taco, pal." The guys all struggle to crane their necks, looking at Peter curiously. "Only a Carpathian would come back NOW and choose New York! Tasty pick, BONE HEAD!" Dana looks at him from across the room, wondering if he flipped his lid. "If you had brain one in that HUGE melon on top of your neck, you'd be living the sweet life in southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley!"

Vigo opens his mouth and a beam of energy flies out, dancing over their bodies. They convulse and spasm as pain rips through their every nerve ending, causing them to scream out in anguish.

"Now we become one!" Vigo says in a demonic voice as he holds Oscar up above him. Oscar cries out in fear, but Vigo just smiles victoriously.

It's now or never, Louis decides. He takes a deep breath, turns, and runs into the room through the blown gate. He knows from before the proton packs have no effect on Vigo, so he move directly for where Winston lies. Vigo spots him just a little too late as Louis grabs Winston's slime blower, holds it up, and pulls back the lever. The slime spews out from the end and begins to land all over Vigo. Vigo staggers back, the positively charged slime reacting with the negative slime that gives him his powers.

"He's weakening!" Egon exclaims, "The slime's neutralizing his powers!"

"I can move!" Ray states as the Ghostbusters begin to scramble to their feet. Vigo lets out a mighty roar as he releases his grasp on Oscar, letting him fall straight to the ground. Peter dives frantically and catches the kid just before he hits. Vigo rears his head up, back inside the painting with the slime evaporating off of him. The background has turned into a purple and pink swirling mess of spectral energy while his face begins to twist and shift.

"He's back in the painting!" Egon exclaims. Dana runs over to Peter, hysterical. He hands Oscar over to her, ushering her away.

"Go find a shady spot," he tells her. She nods, clutching Oscar tight and heads out of the room into the hall. Winston pries his slime blower out of Louis' hands as he stays in his kneeling position on the floor, paralyzed with fear.

"Oh my God…what did I just do? I must be crazy!" he stammers. Peter jumps over to him and quickly pulls him up by the collar.

"Louis…Louis!" He slaps Louis' face, trying to get him back to reality and get him to quit muttering. "Go and watch Dana. You got that? Protect Dana."

"R-Right!" he says, starting to come back to his senses. Peter pushes him towards the gates.

Vigo's head stops shifting and he looks out at the Ghostbusters, letting out an inhuman roar as they gaze upon his change. His forehead is more sloped and his skin has more texture than the average humans'. Small horns protrude from the top of his head while his eyes are solemn black with bloodshot pupils.

"Woah, I thought he was ugly before…" Winston mutters. Ray looks up at Vigo and their eyes lock. Vigo sends out his silent commands into Ray's head as Ray's mouth drops open, the dumb look from the other day returning to his face.

"Viggy, Viggy, Viggy! You have been a bad little monkey!" Peter says, turning back to the room and grabbing his gun. Ray steps up to the painting, dumbly looking into it.

"Uh, Ray, could you step aside please we'd like to shoot the monster?" Egon asks.

"Ray."

"Ray!"

"RAY!" Ray turns around, except he's no longer Ray Stantz; instead, the Ghostbusters gasp as they're greeted by the sight of Vigo's demonic head on Ray's body, his eyes full of hate as he looks at them.

"Now I, Ray and Vigo, and shall rule the Earth! Be gone, you pitiful half-men!"

"Now!" Peter shouts. He and Egon open fire, but Vigo leaps into the painting and disappears within, letting the streams hit the canvas harmlessly. Peter looks over at Egon, asking him what they should do now with his expression. Egon looks towards the painting and furrows his brow. He takes off towards it and leaps, disappearing within. Peter and Winston exchange a glance, then Peter takes off towards the painting and leaps inside. Winston holds back a bit, shaking his head.

"Why can't this ever be easy?" He runs and leaps. When he lands he finds himself standing on nothing. All around him, the world moves and swirls making very little sense. There is no up or down. There are no boundaries. There just…is. He ducks as a proton stream flies over his head. "Hey!" He looks up to see Peter and Egon in front of him, blasting spooks away as they fly out from the chaos. The only stable place within the entire realm is the rectangular doorway that clearly shows the restoration room through it. Winston can see Dana and Louis peering into the room at the painting.

"Winston, get Vigo!" Egon says as he fires. Winton looks over to see Vigo standing before them, his arms raised as the spirits fly out from around him. The Ghostbusters uniform he wears begins to fade, being slowly replaced by Vigo's armor. "We have to separate him from Ray before the transformation becomes permanent!" With that, Winston scrambles to his feet and charges forward towards Vigo. Vigo raises his arms and commands spirits to fly at Winston, but Winston easily maneuvers and avoids each one that comes at him. He ducks the last one and stops mere feet from Vigo. Vigo growls as he grabs for the slime blower he still wears.

"Be gone!" Vigo commands, pulling the lever back on the blower; but instead of slime, a wave of flame flies out of it. Winston's eyes open wide as he dives out of the way.

"EGON! He's packing heat! Literally!" Winston scrambles as Vigo turns back towards him, still firing flames. Winston curses to himself as his movements are made clumsy not only by the twisted reality he's now in but the bulky slime pack he wears.

"Winston! Quickly!" Egon shouts. Winston curses as he grabs his slime blower.

"Sorry, buddy, but this is for your own good!" Winston pulls back the lever on his slime blower and the mood slime begins to spit out. Vigo stumbles as his body is covered by the goop. Suddenly, Ray flies forward as Vigo stumbles back. Winston moves close to Ray and crouches down. He cuts his slime and goes to work unhooking Ray from his slime blower. When finished, he grabs Ray under his arms and drags him back towards the others. "Got him!" he declares.

"Get him out of here! We'll handle Vigo!" Peter shouts. Winston pulls Ray back towards the doorway through the painting. Egon and Peter turn towards Vigo after they pass through, and see the magician stand up, commanding the mood slime that covers him to disappear. He begins to approach menacingly and they open fire. Unfortunately, the beams have the exact same effect as before. "Okay, braniac…now what? Our streams don't exactly work on him!"

"We cross the streams," Egon says frankly.

"What! Egon, you love living dangerously, don't you?"

"Just do it!" Peter closes his eyes as he moves his rifle closer to Egon's, all but touching the tips of them. Their streams twist around each other and merge into one large wavy stream of proton energy. Vigo rears back, roaring, as cracks begin to form on his person. Streams of light file through the cracks as more begin to form. "Peter?"

"Yes, Egon?"

"RUN!" They stop blasting and turn back towards the painting. Vigo lets out one final roar before he explodes, sending a fireball streaming out at them. Egon and Peter dive out of the painting and hit the restoration room floor just as the fireball passes over them.

Outside, the slime shell around the museum cracks up and flies upward into the air, disappearing in the night sky. The crowd cheers while Lenny breathes a sigh of relief.

Inside the Restoration Room, Winston and Egon help up a slime-drenched Ray as he comes to.

"What the hell happened?" Winston asks.

"I figured the protonic reversal of crossing the streams would cause a destabilization of Vigo's powers and sub pocket dimension, collapsing it in and around himself and forcing his essence to theoretically cross over to wherever it is spirits go when they're not here or in our Containment Unit." Winston blinks at Egon.

"Sorry I asked." He grabs a hold of Ray as he slips a little on the slime puddle formed from when he was lying on it, but he regains his balance and seems alright. "How you feeling?" Winston asks. Ray puts on a dumb smile.

"Groovy."

Peter and Dana approach each other. She smiles at him and he returns it.

"Are you okay?" he asks.

"Yeah," she says. He looks down at Oscar in her arms, then smiles at Dana. He reaches up and gently pushes Oscar aside.

"Spread out, Shorty," and with that, he moves in and they kiss. It's quickly interrupted when Louis jumps on them, giving them both a big hug.

"This was so great! This was the best time of life!"

"I bet," Peter says, giving Dana a smile. She smiles back at him.

"Thank you, Louis. Nice outfit, by the way," she says.

"Thanks! So, am I a Ghostbuster now?" Louis asks, looking up at Peter.

"Um, we'll talk."

"I love you guys!" Ray says, Egon and Winston exchanging a glance. "I love all you guys!" He places his hands on their shoulders, leaving a slimy spot on them. "And I love Venkman…wow, real friendship!"

"Yeah, that's nice, Ray," Winston says, turning him around and pushing him to start walking. "We gotta live with this?" he whispers to Egon.

"Hey, that guy's awake!" Louis shouts, pointing over to Janosz as he stirs a bit.

On the other side of the Restoration Room, Janosz begins to awaken in his puddle of slime, singing a strange song. Egon and Ray step over him and reach down to pick him up. Janosz stands wobbly, but quickly gets his bearings. He looks down at his clothes, clinging to his body due to the wet slime.

"Ugh, why am I dripping with goo?" he asks.

"You had a violent prolonged transformative episode," Egon tell him.

"Huh?"

"You were possessed," Ray clarifies. "Sorry we hadda hose ya there, but you were kinda outta control." He places a hand on his shoulder, and smiles warmly at him. "Hey, man, let me tell you something…I love you."

"You do?" Ray nods. "Well, I love you too!" They embrace in a tight hug. Winston turns away before he loses his lunch and begins to walk across the Restoration Room. He stops when he takes notice of the painting. He tilts his head and laughs.

"Hey, guys…you wanna take a look at this?" Egon, Ray, Peter and Dana and Louis all walk over to where Winston stands, following his gaze.

"Wow," Ray says.

"Early Renaissance, I think. Rafael or Pierre Della Francesco," Egon states.

"No, I believe it was one of the Fettuccini's…" Peter corrects. Before them stands the painting behind the smoldering cradle where Vigo tried to possess Oscar. Instead of the eerie landscape and the image of a tyrant, it's now a much cooler piece in a forest setting. Standing up draped in a golden robe is Egon without his glasses, his arms crossed with a book pressed against the exposed part of his chest. Next to him stands Ray draped in a brown robe, holding up an olive branch. In front of them crouches Winston in a red robe holding up a majestic wooden harp, while Peter sits next to him in a green robe holding down a sword while pointing up off to the side with his eyes rolled up. In the middle of them all floats little baby Oscar on a cloud.

"I wonder if they'll let us take it home," Louis muses.


The Ghostbusters walk down the steps of the museum, their arms held up in victory as the crowd of onlookers cheer and chant their names. The day has been won, and the city that never sleeps is safe to sleep once more…
Below First Avenue, the Van Horne station of the Pneumatic Transit System sits quietly below the bustling of the city above. Darkness has enveloped this area once again without the river of slime to provide illumination. However, down in the well where the tracks lay, something begins to stir within a crack in the foundation. Slowly, the slime pushes its way up through it, bubbling as it goes and begins to gather into a puddle around the opening.

The end.

For now.


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Written by

Chris Buchner

Based on the screenplay written by

Dan Aykroyd & Harold Ramis

Based on characters created by

Dan Aykroyd & Harold Ramis

BILL MURRAY
DAN AYKROYD
SIGOURNEY WEAVER
HAROLD RAMIS
RICK MORANIS
ERNIE HUDSON
ANNIE POTTS
PETER MacNICOL
KURT FULLER
DAVID MARGULIES
HARRIS YULIN
JANET MARGOLIN
WILL DEUTSCHENDORF
HANK DEUTSCHENDORF
And
SLIMER

Executive Producers
Bernie Brillstein
Joe Medjuck
Michael C. Gross

Director of Photography
Michael Chapman

Production Designer
Bo Welch

Edited by
Chris Buchner
Mario Franzetti

Associate Producers
Sheldon Kahn
Gordon Webb

Visual Effects Supervisor
Dennis Muren, A.S.C.

Costumes Designed by
Gloria Gresham

Music by
Randy Edelman

Casting by
Michael Chinich

Cast
Dr. Peter Venkman...BILL MURRAY
Dr. Raymond Stantz...DAN AYKROYD
Dana Barrett...SIGOURNEY WEAVER
Dr. Egon Spengler...HAROLD RAMIS
Louis Tully...RICK MORANIS
Winston Zeddemore...ERNIE HUDSON
Janine Melnitz...ANNIE POTTS
Janosz Poha...PETER MacNICOL
The Judge...HARRIS YULIN
The Mayor of NY...DAVID MARGUILIES
Hardemeyer...KURT FULLER
The Prosecutor...JANET MARGOLIN
Vigo...WILHEM von HOMBURG
Baby Oscar...WILLIAM T. DEUTSCHENDORF
...HENRY J. DEUTSCHENDORF, II
Frank the Doorman...MICHAEL P. MORAN
Meter Maid...OLIVIA WARD
Man with a Ticket...MORDECAI LAWNER
Young Woman on Crutches...SUSAN BOEHM
First Cop...DAVE FLOREK
Con Ed Supervisor...RICHARD FORONJY
Bailiff...GEORGE WILBUR
Stenographer...SHARON KRAMER
Mayor's Doorman...BOBBY BARESFORD BROWN
Maitre'd...CHRISTOPHER NEAME
Slimed Restaurant Patron...JUDY OVITZ
Restaurant Cop #1...TOM DUGAN
Restaurant Cop #2...ANGELO Di MASCIO
Store Manager...ROBERT ALAN BEUTH
Police Sergeant...RALPH MONACO
Police Lieutenant...RON CUMMINS
Dock Supervisor...CHEECH MARIN
Maria, Dana's Maid...YVETTE CRUISE
Detective #1...JOHN HAMMIL
Detective #2...RAY GLANZMANN
Detective #3...ALEX ZIMMERMAN
Psychiatrist...BRIAN DOYLE-MURRAY
Woman with Fur Coat...LOUISE TROY
Plaza Hotel Man...DOUGLAS SEALE
Public Works Official...BEN STEIN
Fire Commissioner...ERIK HOLLAND
Police Commissioner...PHILLIP BAKER HALL
Walter Peck...WILLIAM ATHERTON
Milton Angland...KEVIN DUNN
Elaine...CHLOE WEBB
Fireman #1...MARIO FRANZETTI
Fireman #2...KENT HOWARDS

GHOSTBUSTERS 2.5 TM & © 2004 ATOMIC COMICS GROUP. GHOSTBUSTERS 2 AND ALL RELATED CHARACTERS TM & © COLUMBIA PICTURES, INC.