A/N: Sorry it took so long to update...but I hope you like it. I'm glad people reviewed! But one of my reviewers wanted me to mention that 'superstition' actually belongs to Stevie Wonder. Didn't know, but I still want people to think of Raven's version during the opening credits. After all her version is tied to the movie. And Leotabelle13, when I started this, I had no conscious thought that this storyline resembled BatB; but yeah...that's along the line of where this is going...
stayed tuned for Episode 3
peace, love and lipgloss
Mlle.Fox
BOO-TIFUL BEGINNING
PART 2
(FAD IN, INTERIOR LIBRARY. CARRIE-ANN, THE POSTAL WORKER WHO DISCOVERED THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED HAS FAINTED (AGAIN) AND IS JUST NOW WAKING UP)
RAMSLEY: (ENTERS WITH GLASS OF WATER ON SILVER TRAY) I hope you are feeling better Miss Phelps.
CARRIE-ANN: I am thank you Ramsley! (TAKES GLASS, DRINKS)
LESLIE: You know, this is probably a good thing for ya to find out now you're deliverin' mail to a haunted house. Like when my Aunt Ruby married her third husband, you don't have to worry about any surprises! (AL)
CARRIE-ANN: Yeah…you don't have any ghost dogs do you? (AL)
EDWARD: Why no!
CARRIE-ANN: JUST CHECKING! NOW TELL ME THE REST OF THE STORY! You worked as a real estate developer…
(CLIP OF LES IN TOMPKINS' OFFICE)
LESLIE: (SIGHS) I wish we could keep it the way it is! Gracey Manor is the type of place I would have lived in if I lived in the Old South!
(CUT TO TOMPKINS)
TOMPKINS: If you search the property for me, I'll make you partner!
CARRIE-ANN (VOICEOVER) You came to the house…
(CLIP OF EDWARD MEETING LES)
LESLIE: (EXTENDS HAND) Hi! I'm Leslie Daniels.
CARRIE-ANN (VO) You got invited to dinner and Tompkins rushed over worried about you…
(CLIP OF TOMPKINS ANSWERING PHONE)
TOMPKINS: Les? Leslie?
RECORDING: We're sorry, but the number you called had been disconnected. Please hang up and try again.
CARRIE-ANN: (VO) You stayed for dinner and were stranded for the night…
(CLIP OF DINNER IN BR)
LESLIE: (RUNS TO WINDOW) Are you sure? It can't be that bad can it? Is that a possum floatin' by? (AL)
CARRIE-ANN: (VO) You found a secret passage and were led to Madame Leota…
(CLIP OF LES IN SÉANCE ROOM)
LESLIE: Who are ya? Dr. Seuss' wife? (AL)
CARRIE-ANN: (VO)…discovered the truth about the house…
(CLIP OF LES BACKING AWAY FROM EDWARD)
LESLIE: You're all ghosts!
CARRIE-ANN: (VO) Then you ran into the graveyard and Tompkins' snuck onto the hearse when Edward and Ezra went out to find you!
(CLIP OF TOMPKINS HOPPING ON BACK OF FUNERAL CARRIAGE)
EDWARD: Did something jostle the carriage?
EZRA: It's a bumpy road sir. I need to have the shocks checked! (AL)
(CUT BACK TO PRESENT DAY)
EMMA: Didn't she just go over all of that?
EZRA: (QUIETLY) It's an exposition device so the audience can catch up! (AL)
(FAD OUT)
(OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE)
THE HAUNTED MANSION
(TITLE SEQUENCE SHOWS ART GALLERY WITH LIGHTNING STRIKING. RAVEN'S SONG 'SUPERSTITION" PLAYS. ZOOM IN ON PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL PARKER. PORTRAIT MOVES FROM STANDING STRAIGHT BEHIND ARMCHAIR TO SMILING AND LEANING ON BACK OF CHAIR WITH ELBOW.
ZOOM LEFT TO PORTRAIT OF TERRANCE STAMP STANDING STRAIGHT WITH ARMS BEHIND BACK AND STOIC EXPRESSION. PORTRAIT MOVES TO SHOW RAMSLEY FLICKING LINT OF SHOULDER AND TURNING UP THE CORNER OF HIS LIPS.
ZOOM LEFT TO BREATHING DOOR
ZOOM LEFT TO DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF WALLACE SHAWN AND DINA WATERS, STANDING LIKE PAINTING OF "AMERICAN GOTHIC" WITH GRACEY MANOR IN BACKGROUND, EMMA HOLDING A FEATHER DUSTER. PORTRAIT MOVES TO HAVE EMMA DUST VASE OUTSIDE PORTRAIT IN HALLWAY AND EZRA TO ROLL EYES.
ZOOM LEFT TO 'PORTRAIT' OF STACEY ST.CLAIRE SMILING. ADJUSTS HAIR; CAMERA PULLS BACK TO REVEAL PORTRAIT IS A MIRROR AND LESLIE TURNS TO AUDIENCE. CAMERA ZOOMS OUT AND ROOM CHANGES TO BALLROOM. GHOSTS FLY IN WINDOWS AND OTHERS DRESS IN COSTUME DANCE ALL AROUND. CAST STANDS IN FRONT OF ORGAN AND SMILES AT CAMERA. JENNIFER TILLY AS MADAME LEOTA FLOATS UP IN FLOWING GREEN BALL AS A HEAD, ZOOMS IN ON CAMERA. FADS TO BLACK.
(FAD IN ON FLASHBACK, LESLIE RUNNING THROUGH GRAVEYARD CONSTANTLY LOOKING OVER SHOULDER)
LESLIE (VO) : I was so scared, I thought I was in the Women's shoe department at Wal-mart and they just announced the last pair of size eight strappy heels were gone…(AL) Little did I know, that night would change every thing I had ever come to believe in…
(LES RUNS INTO CLEARING, STOPS SHORT UPON BUMPING INTO BACK OF GENTLEMAN GHOST #1.)
GG1: (SURPRISED) Oh! I say!
LESLIE: (STAMMERS) S…S…Sorry…M…M….Mister Ghost…sir…..
GG1: (TIPS HAT SMILES KINDLY) Oh no trouble at all Miss! My fault really! (SECOND GENTLEMAN GHOSTS APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE, BOTH ARE GIVING OFF AURAS OF FLOATING BULE MISTS; LES SQUEAKS)
GG2: Well if you ask me, a lady would have apologized for ramming into you like that!
GG1: (MIFTED) I beg your pardon dsir, but not only is this young woman a lady, as all young women are, she did apologize but it was certain specters like you that have freighted the poor girl so she can't be heard properly.
GG2: Then she should have repeated her apology!
GG1: You sir, are bring very rude!
GG2: Only one who is rude to begin with would try to excuse poor behavior!
GG1: (SHOUTS) YOU SIR...are INTOLERALE!
GG2: (PULLS OUT GLOVE AND SLAPPS GG1 ACROSS FACE) And you sir, I challenge to a duel!
LESLIE: (TRIES TO INTERVENE) Ah…Fellas? Really, ya'll don't have to fight on my…(BOTH GHOSTS PULLS OUT PISTOLS AND TURN WITH THEIR BACKS FACING) Oh Snap! (RUNS OUT OF WAY) (AL)
GG1: Fifty paces?
GG2: Twenty.
LESLIE: (TURNS BACK AND HESITATES) Bye fellas!
BOTH: (TIP HATS BEFORE STARTING TO COUNT) Miss! (AL) One! Two! Three! Four….
LESLIE: (RUNS OFF SCREEN) Now that was just plain weird! (AL)
(SCENE SHIFTS TO EDWARD IN CENTER OR CROWD OF GHOSTS WANDERING ABOUT IN THE GRAVEYARD. THEY ARE ALL COVERED IN A BULE MIST AURA AND SOME LOOK AS THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE, WHILE OTHERS LOOK LIKE DISTORTED IMAGES OF THEIR OLD BODIES. SOME ARE JUST WALKING AND TALKING, OTHERS ARE REENACTING THEIR DEATHS; EDWARD WALKS UP TO PAIR OF VICTORIAN GHOST WOMEN)
EDWARD: Excuse me? Have either of you ladies seen a young woman who's still alive? Petite, short skirts perhaps a little too much facial makeup? (AL AS WOMEN SHAKE HEADS NO, EDWARD SIGHES) Thank you ladies! (WALKS AWAY A LITTLE BIT, LOOKS ACROSS GRAVEYARD TO SEE LESLIE BY ABOVEGROUND GRACEY FAMILY MASEOLUEM) Miss Daniels!
(LES SQUEAKS; RUNS INTO MASEOLUEM)
Miss Daniels! Miss Daniels don't go in there! Come back! (RUNS AFTER HER. THOMPSON POKES HEAD OUT FROM BEHIND TREE, FOLLOWS EDWARD TO MASEOLEUM; EDWARD GOES THROUGH DOOR, THOMPSON SMACKS RIGHT INTO DOOR, FALLING UNCONSCIOUS; AL)
(SCENE SHIFTS TO INTEROR MASEOLEUM; LES RACES DOWN STAIRS, EDWARD FOLLOWING. NOW THAT EDWARD IS INSIDE, HIS BLUE MIST AURA IS GONE AND HE LOOKS LIKE A LIVING MAN AGAIN)
LESLIE: Get away from me Casper! (AL)
EDWARD: Please Miss Daniels I implore you listen to me! We won't hurt you! We'd never even consider hurting you!
LESLIE (RUNS ACROSS IRON WROUGHT BRIDGE AND BEHIND BLACK CYRPT KEEPING IT BETWEEN HER AND EDWARD) How the sam hill do I know you ain't just sayin' that?
EDWARD: Because I'm a man of honor!
LESLIE: Who is dead! Don't forget dead! (AL)
EDWARD: So I'm a man of honor who is dead! Alright! Now please, this place isn't safe!
LESLIE: And why the H-E-double hockey sticks not? (GROUND RUMBLES AND EVERYTHING SHAKES INHUMAN GROANS CRY OUT)
EDWARD: Because, unlike myself, my staff and most of the inhabitants of the graveyard, the tomb is cursed with the living dead who will attack if disturbed. (GROUND RUMBLES AGAIN)
LESLIE: (WIDE EYED) Why?
EDWARD: Because they were already dead when the curse fell upon the house. It made them the undead.
LESLIE: You mean zombies? (INHUMAN GROAN CRYS OUT AGAIN, CRYPTS START TO SHAKE) Great, I'm in a 'Night of the Livin' Dead' flick! (AL)
EDWARD: (COMES AROUND BLACK CRYPT TO HER SIDE; LES BACKS UP CAUTIOUSLY) As a gentleman, I can't allow a lady to place herself in unnessecary danger. Please. Let me take you from this place?
LESLIE: (LOOKS HIM OVER. HE SEEMS SO KIND AND WELL MANNERED. NOT EVEN A HINT OF MALICE IS IN HIS EYES. AND HE LOOKS GENERALLY CONCERNED ABOUT HER. BUT LES IS STUBBORN AND PROUD.) Not until you tell me what this curse is about and how you came to be a reject from 'Tales of the Cryptkeeper'! (AL)
EDWARD: (CONFUSED) Does that unusal phrasing mean you wish me to tell you how we all came to bound to these grounds? (AL)
LESLIE: Well ya went the long way around restatin' it, but heck yeah! (AL)
EDWARD: (GOES OVER TO SPOT ON WALL, PULLS LANTERN, SECRET PASSAGE IS REVEALED; LED GASPS. EDWARD WALKS BACK OVER TO HER) First of all, my grandfather, Captain Ambrose Gracey, was a pirate sailing under false colors. He would trade with Jean Lafiette for valuable and very stolen contraband to sell on the black market. That's how he started our family fortune and why he built numerous secret passageways on his property. I'll tell you the rest of the tale while we head back to the house. If you'll only trust me. (HOLDS OUT ARM FOR HER. SHE STILL ISN'T SURE) It's all right. There's nothing to be afraid of! (A/N: " Couldn't resist Mate!" -Captain Jack Sparrow)
LESLIE: (TAKES ARM RELUCTANTLY AND ALLOWS HERSELF TO BE LED THROUGH THE PASSAGEWAY) If I end up dead, I'm coming back to knock your behind to kingdom come! (AL)
(EXTERIOR MASEOLEUM. THOMPSON WAKES AND REMEMBERS WHY HE'S HERE. FRANTICALLY PULLS OPEN DOOR AND GOES DOWN INTO INTERIOR MASEOLEUM. AT FOOT OF STEPS HE YELLS) Leslie! (SUDDENLY, EVERYTHING SHAKES AND CRYPTS OPEN TO REVEAL THE DECAYED CORPSES OF THE FORMER GRACEY FAMILY. THEY HISS, GROWL AND SLOWLY LIMP TOWARDS THOMPSON MENACINGLY.) This is nuts! ME! Fighting zombies! (AL; SHRUGS) What the hell! (YELLS AND THROWS HIMSELF INTO MOB OF ZOMBIES; AL AND APPLAUSE)
(SCENE SHIFTS TO INTERIOR MANSION, EMMA PACING FRONT HALL FLOOR WRINGING HANDS NERVOUSLY. RAMSELY STANDING CALMLY NEARBY)
RAMSELY: Madam, you must controll yourself!
EMMA: (NERVOUSLY) I'm worried about Miss Daniels! This place isn't safe for a living body! Oh! It's barely safe for the dead! Rest in Peace my foot! (AL; RAMSLEY GIVES HER WARNING STARE) Sir! (AL; EZRA ENTERS STILL IN HIS DRIVING ATTIRE AS EMMA SLAPS HIS SHOULDER AND SNAPS) About time! Where's the Master? Where's Miss Daniels?
EZRA: (WORRIED) You mean the Master isn't back yet?
RAMSLEY: (STEPS FORWARD) Wasn't he with you?
EZRA: Yes, but he told me to let him off at the cemetary and head back! He said he didn't think Miss Daniels would be comfortable riding back in a hearst! (AL)
RAMSLEY: One would only hope so! (AL)
EMMA: So if the Master hasn't returned with Miss Daniels yet, where could they be?
(SCENE SHIFTS TO INTERIOR PASSAGEWAY; EDWARD LEADING LES) (A/N: The following is almost directly from the movie)
EDWARD: Although it's a bit faded from it's original grandeur, this house was once filled with so many things. With so much life. With grand parties, dancing, laughter and above all, hope. Being a Gracey meant that you were denied nothing. The world was yours."
LESLIE: What happened here Mr. Gracey?
EDWARD: (SADLY) She did.
LESLIE: Who?
EDWARD: Elizabeth. Her's is the story that haunt's these walls. (SIGHS GRIMLY) She died here in this house. She was so very young. so very beautiful. She and I were engaged to be married.
LESLIE: (SYMPATHETIC) Oh Mr. Gracey...
EDWARD: And I loved her more than life itself! But we were from different worlds and couldn't be together.
LESLIE: How did she die Mr. Gracey?
EDWARD: (SHUTS EYES AS IF IN PAIN) She took her own life. (LES GASPS AND COVERS MOUTH) Poison. After that my life became unbearable.
And so, without love...without hope...without...Elizabeth, I hung myself. Then all who were there the night she and I died were cursed to remain here upon their deaths.
LESLIE: Until what?
EDWARD: Until such a time I learn to live in death when I failed to live in life.
LESLIE: (CONFUSED) Say what? (AL)
EDWARD: (SMALL SMILE ON HIS LIPS) Suicide is an easy way out of living. I was suppose to move on with my life, keeping Elizabeth but a wonderful memory safe in my heart. Since I failed to do that in life, I must do it in death.
LESLIE: O...kay...(AL) And who told ya this?
EDWARD: Madame Leota.
LESLIE: Oh wait! Is she that giant paperweight you got upstairs? (AL)
EDWARD: (CHUCKLES) In life, she was hired by my mother to contact my older siblings on the other side. (SEEING LES'S CONFUSION, HE EXPLAINS) They died of Scarlet Fever they contracted while we were visiting my mother's family. She became horribly depressed. She was no longer the vital, active woman she was. Father and Ramsley had to take over the things she was in charge of. She died a few months later and Father began to raise me to be his heir. He paid for the county courthouse, making sure taxes were waved off, he left the care of the shipping company to his board of trustees and he left Ramsley to find me a suitable bride.
LESLIE: You started to tell me all of this. You said Elizabeth came from a poor family?
EDWARD: Yes, she did. Her father was the local cheif of police. He didn't make a very good salary though. Except for the size of her dowry, she was educated, well mannered and cultured. Ramsley eventually approved because she had the makings to be a fine Mistress of Gracey Manor, but my father only thought she was a little gold digger. He died of a heart atttack, but not before telling the board at the shipping company to guilt me into not marrying her. It didn't work, but it upset Elizabeth...she couldn't take it. (AT THIS POINT HIS VOICE IS BITTER. THEY STOP AT A DEAD END, BUT EDWARD TAPS A CERTAIN SPOT AND A DOOR OPENS LEADING THEM TO A CROWDED DUSTY ATTIC)
LESLIE: I'm sorry I didn't listen before...It must be rough going through the memories again...
EDWARD: (SHRUGS; THEN LEADS HER OVER TO A DRESSMAKERS DUMMY WITH A BEAUTIFUL WHITE EMPIRE WAIST GOWN ON IT, DRAPED WITH A SHEER NETTING.) This was to have been her wedding dress.
LESLIE: It's lovely!
EDWARD: (BRUSHES HAND OVER SHOULDER OF DRESS) It would have been lovelier still if she ever had the chance to wear it! Now it only serves as a dark reminder of what could have been.
LESLIE: To love someone so much and then lose them so suddenly. I can't imagine how awful that must be.
EDWARD: (BORES HIS EYES INTO HER OWN) If you truly love someone they never leave you. They remain in your heart forever. (LES GULPS, FIGHTING HER ATTRACTION TO HIM. SHE LOOKS AWAY ONLY TO MEET WITH A PAIR ON PAINTED EYES. IT'S A PORTRAIT OF A BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMAN WITH LIGHT SKIN AND A YELLOW DRESS.
LESLIE: Who's...?
EDWARD: (SMILES SADLY OVER HER SHOULDER) That's Elizabeth.
LESLIE: (CAUTIOUSLY) So...part of your father's problem with her...had to do with her being black didn't it? (EDWARD NODS HEAD) She was beautiful. (EDWARD LOOKS FROM THE PORTRAIT OF HIS LOVE TO LES AND RETURNS THE SMILE SHE IS GIVING HIM. HE HAS FOUND A FRIEND WHO UNDERSTANDS.)
(SCENE SHIFTS TO GRAVEYARD. EZRA IS ONCE AGAIN AT THE REINS OF THE HEARST, BUT THIS TIME, EMMA IS BESIDE HIM)
EMMA: "Will you stop for directions?"
EZRA: "I'm not lost! I'm just trying to get my bearings!
EMMA: "Yeah right! You said the same thing on our wedding night! (AL; SUDDENLY A SHOUT IS HEARD AND THEY STOP THE HEARST A FEW FEET FROM THE FAMILY MASEOLEUM THOMPSON FALLS OUT DOOR, AND BEATS ZOMBIES HANDS AWAY WITH A TORCH. HE SLAMS THE DOOR AND FUMES. HIS CLOTHES ARE NOTHING BUT RAGS HANGING OFF HIS BODY NOW. EMMA AND EZRA LOOK UNCERTAINLY AT HIM, THEN EXCHANGE A LOOK, THEN LOOK BACK AT HIM. AL. THOMPSON STOMPS UP TO HEARST AND JABS FINGER UP AT EZRA)
THOMPSON: You two! You are going to take me back to the mansion, right now!
EMMA: But...
THOMPSON: No buts Lady! I've kicked the ugly out of your kind enough tonight so I'm not afraid of you! Now move!
EZRA: Yes sir! And I use that term loosely! (AL AND APPLAUSE AS THOMPSON CLIMBS IN BACK OF HEARST AND THEY DRIVE OFF)
(SCENE SHIFTS TO HOUSE INTERIOR HALL AS EDWARD ESCORTS LES DOWN STAIRS. RAMSLEY ENTERS FROM LIBRARY.)
RAMSLEY: Sir! Miss Daniels! You're here! Thank God you're safe! I had to send Ezra and Miss Emma out again to search for you.
EDWARD: We're alright Ramsley! And Miss Daniels knows all about us now.
RAMSLEY: She does?
LESLIE: I do! (AL)
EDWARD: Now the question is...what are we going to do with you?
LESLIE: (HANDS ON HIPS) Well if you know what's good for ya...(LES IS INTERRUPTED BY THOMPSON RUSHING IN FRONT DOOR, EMMA AND EZRA FOLLOWING) Joe?
THOMPSON: (GRABS HER HAND) Come on Sugar! We're leaving! I see dead people! (AL AND APPLAUSE)
LESLIE: Joe! I can't leave now! I just got here! And it's the middle of the night!
THOMPSON: Babe did you hear me? We're leaving! But don't worry...we'll be back with bulldozers!
EDWARD: (FURIOUS) What? (THOMPSON GETS NOSE TO NOSE WITH HIM)
THOMPSON: You heard me Vapor breath! (AL) State law requires a LIVING resident in a house or it's declared abandoned and property of the state.
EMMA: (BECOMING UPSET AS EZRA TRYS TO COMFORT HER) But this is our home!
THOMPSON: You should have thought of that before you died! Come on Sweets, let's make tracks!
LESLIE: (ANGRY, STOPS HIM AND SLAPS HIM. AUDIENCE APPLAUSE) I ain't goin' anywhere with you!
THOMPSON: Then you're fired! But I'm still going to get Gracey Manor. After all, they can't stop me! They're dead!
LESLIE: Then I'm moving in! You can't get a hold of Gracey Manor if I live here! So there! (STICKS OUT TONGUE; AL)
THOMPSON AND GHOSTS: What? (AL)
LESLIE: Ya'll heard me!
THOMPSON: Leslie, this is insane!
LESLIE: What's insane is that I ever though working with you was a career goal! Get out!(AA)
THOMPSON: (GRABS WRISTS) Leslie, you're coming with me!
LESLIE: You're hurting me!
EDWARD: (TAPS THOMPSONS SHOULDER AND THEN PUNCHES HIM ACROSS THE JAW. THOMPSON STAGGERS AWAY FROM LES; EDWARD SAYS DANGEROUSLY) I believe Miss Daniels asked you to leave Sir! (THOMPSON JUST STANDS THERE DUMBFOUNDED)
RAMSELY: (DARKLY) Perhaps he needs a bit of persuassion Sir?
EDWARD: (STARTS TO SHIFT IN A BLUE MIST AURA) I belive you're right Ramsley! (GRABS A STARTLED THOMPSON BY THE THROAT AND PULLS HIM TOWARD THE FRONT DOOR)
EZRA: (OPENS FRONT DOOR) Allow me sir! (AL)
EDWARD: Thank you Ezra! (THROWS THOMPSON OUT)
EZRA: (TO THOMPSON BEFORE SHUTTING DOOR) And stay out! (AL AND APPLAUSE)
EDWARD: (BLUE AURA DISSAPAITS; EDWARD SAYS TO LES CONCERNED) Are you alright?
LESLIE: (SMILES WHILE RUBBING WRISTS) Just gettin' use to a real live gentleman is all!
RAMSLEY: Sir? What are we going to do with Miss Daniels? She told that fool she would live here!
EDWARD: (SMILES AT LES) We have no choice. We need Miss Daniels around to keep the mansion.
LESLIE: Nice to be needed! (AL)
EDWARD: But what are we going to do about living expenses? I don't have access to my account for obvious reasons...how will you live here without an income?
(LESLIE THINKS, THEN SMILE SPREADS ON HER FACE)
EZRA: That can't be good! (AL)
(RIPPLE DISSOLVE BACK TO PRESENT DAY. LES TELLS CARRIE ANN)
LESLIE: So I sold the Story to Disney! (AL) And they in turn made the movie!
CARRIE ANN: Yeah, but they changed Ramsely into the villian, and you into a family of four! (AL) Why did they do that?
RAMSLEY: (IMPATIENTLY) Artistic License! (AL)
EDWARD: Well, it's not like we could sue them or anything...
LESLIE: Though it is a lovely thought! (AL)
EDWARD: (CONTINUES) Besides, one of the original Disney Imagineers visited here as a child on a dare. Our story inspired him to suggest the idea for the ride.
EZRA: And when the studio heard their really was a Gracey Manor, they practically threw money at Les!
LESLIE: Well, not quite! I'm still stuggling to fix this place up so the Board of Health will let me keep living here!
RAMSLEY: That's the Republicans for you! (AL)
CARRIE ANN: (STANDS) Speaking of Uncle Sam who signs my checks...(AL) I've got to get going!
LESLIE: (STANDS) I'll walk you out!
EDWARD: (SHAKES CARRIE ANN'S HAND) Miss Phelps! It's been a pleasure! Thank you for your visit!
CARRIE ANN: Thank you for having me! It was nice to meet all of you! Bye! (EXITS LIBRARY WITH LES)
EZRA: I'd thought she never leave! (AL)
(INTERIOR HALL)
CARRIE ANN: Now Les, level with me...You do like-like Mr. Gracey don't you?
LESLIE: (DRYLY AS SHE HOLDS OPEN DOOR) Sugar if the man wasn't dead, I'd jump him faster than a dog in heat!(AL AS SHE WAVES BYE AND CLOSES DOOR)
EDWARD: (ENTERS FROM LIBRARY) Miss Daniels? You know, telling Miss Phelps our story reminded me of any issue we must discuss.
LESLIE: What's that?
EDWARD: You must stop telling people our story! (AL) You tell it as if this is your house and have every right to.
LESLIE: Mr. Gracey? Is you're name on the mail?
EDWARD: No...
LESLIE: Well until it is, I'll do whatever the dang well I please! ( AL; PATS SHOULDER AS EZRA, EMMA AND RAMSLEY ENTER; TO EZRA AND EMMA) Come on ya'll! I think I want to tear down a wall in my room to make room for all my shoes! (AL)
EDWARD: (TO RAMSELY AS LES, EZRA, AND EMMA EXITS UPSTAIRS) "How is it possible for a beautiful charming young woman to have the unmitigated gall to waltz into our lives and completely take over the house?"
RAMSLEY: (DRYLY) "Especially considering we're all dead, sir!"
FAD OUT
COMMERCIAL
TAG END
BLOOPERS
(SCENE CHALKBOARD SNAPS IN FRONT OF CAMERA; SCENE OF LES MEETING EDWARD FIRST TIME)
STACEY ST. CLAIRE: My boss not my dog! (STANDS THERE SMILING AT NATHANIAL WHO IS SMILING AND SHAKING TO CONTROL HIS LAUGHTER) Ahh snap! (NATHANIAL, TERRANCE AND CREW BREAK OUT LAUGHING; STACEY TURNS FROM THEM)
(SCENE OF EZRA AND EMMA DISCUSSING LESLIE)
DINA: You were the one that suggested we listen in on her phone call!
WALLACE: We...ah...I'm so sorry! (DINA BURST OUT LAUGHING)
(SCENE OF LESLIE TALKING TO THOMPSON:
STACEY: Really! (BRUCE HAS HIS BACK TO THE CAMERA BUT WE SEE HIS SHOULDERS SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER; STACEY POINTS FINGER IN HIS FACE) Don't you dare! Don't you dare start laughing! (SHE AND BRUCE BOTH LAUGH; STACEY SIGHES) Oh...Lordy he keeps messing me up!
BRUCE: I'm sorry but It's just the way you say 'Really!' It inhumanly high pitched! ( LAUGHS WITH HER AND AUDIENCE)
(BLOOPERS END WITH NATHANIAL MUGGING FOR CAMERA)