Before anyone knew it, the Fridate (as Cat had called it for some strange reason) was here. And Jade- though she would never tell anyone else- was actually looking forward to seeing Beck again. Still, you could never be sure if anything could go wrong and even the slightest things could tick her off.
Like when the taxicab dropped her off at her place at 6:45 at night. "Nice going idiot," Jade barked at him, "I said quarter past six."
"Traffic was a bitch, sue me," he pulled up to her apartment, but parked across the street from it. "That'll be-"
"What're you blind and stupid?" Jade pointed across the street. "That's my apartment."
"There's no parking space over there what am I s'posed to do 'bout it? You owe me $17.85." Jade gave him fifteen dollars. "Where's the rest of it?"
"You would've got it if you drove to the right place on time." She slammed the door to the cab and stomped across the street to her apartment.
However, unbeknownst to anyone else, atop Jade's apartment building- an oddly familiar building for that matter- two giant gargoyle-like statues that sort of resembled dogs started to break apart as the sun started to set.
But again, no one noticed. Particularly not Jade, who was in a rush to get back to her apartment. And once she heard music coming from Sinjin's apartment, she was in even more of a rush for fear that-
"Oh Jade, it's you!" too late, it was as if Sinjin had a stalker sense that knew when she was coming. He stepped outside of his apartment as his door closed behind him. "Real good to see you."
"Hello, Sinjin."
"You gotta come in here; you're missing a wicked rad party. People still say rad right?"
"As horrible as that might sound, I actually have plans tonight."
"Really? Last time I hacked into your cell phone this date was empty."
"You hacked my cell phone?"
"I guess I hacked the old number; I keep forgetting you changed it."
"Well, I do have a date and he'll be here soon so if you don't mind-"
"That's okay, you can bring him along."
"Why would I introduce anyone I come in contact with to you?"
"So is that a yes?" Jade unlocked her apartment and slammed the door. "Oh, okay, see you later then. I'll tell everyone you're comin' 'cause we're gonna play Twister and do some break dancing later." Sinjin hurried over to his apartment, but the door was locked. "Hello! Guys! Can someone let me in?"
Jade ignored Sinjin's whiny screams and went into her bedroom- which many would perceive as a torture chamber but hey, it was her style. While searching for something decent to wear, her phone rang. "What…oh yeah, hi…I just don't like talking to you…listen Liz…fine listen Mom, it's not that I don't want to talk to you- I don't- but I seriously have plans tonight…I'm going on a date…of course I'm going on a date with a man you stupid bitch…oh, get over it…no you don't know him; like I'd actually introduce you to anyone I come in contact with…what does he do…what do you care…no, he works independent…as a ghostbuster…yeah, those guys on TV…yeah, he's the one with the good hair…I'm not going to tell you what happens on my date…goodbye Liz!" Jade hung up the phone. "Bitch never shuts up," when she found something, she exited her bedroom and slumped onto the chair beside the couch to take a brief rest.
A few seconds after closing her eyes, Jade heard what sounded like knocking on the door across from her. What was strange was the door across from her was the door to the kitchen. What was even stranger was that there were pink lights coming from the kitchen. Before she could even stand up to investigate, a hand ripped out the chair she was sitting on and covered her mouth while another hand popped up and placed itself somewhere near the middle to keep her back. When the door to the kitchen flew open, the same dog-like monster Jade saw in her fridge was standing there. This time, it was real and it was waiting for her.
And had anyone noticed, the statues atop the apartment building were nothing more than piles of broken rubble.
…
"Sinjin," one of Sinjin's friends came up to him, "you got some Flintstone's vitamins or something nutritional?"
"Sure do, help yourself," Sinjin opened a cabinet for his guest as he put some food on a buffet table he ordered. "Guys, this is real salmon imported from Nova Scotia, which is in Canada. It costs $24.95 a pound, but I only paid $14.12- after tax though. I'm giving this whole thing as a promotional expense; that's why I invited clients instead of friends." Sinjin patted the shoulder of a pal with an afro. "Having a good time there Burf?" Burf smiled a crooked smile and stuffed some more food in his mouth.
An attractive girl stood up. "Sinjin, this party blows."
"Oh, well maybe if we start dancing or something other people will join in and have a good time." The girl started dancing, and Sinjin awkwardly danced with her. "So you're from North Ridge?"
"Uh-huh. So you can save me money?"
"Sure can, and if you want I can…" there was a knock on the door, "…just keep dancing, I'm gonna go see who's here." He opened the door and invited two guys inside. "I didn't think you guys would show up! Everyone, these are the guys I used to do special effects with at the community theatre before Jade West's restraining order made me leave. You guys'll like Jade, and she should be here with her date sometime this evening." His mop-topped friend handed him a giant duffel bag. "Hot beef, you brought the pyrotechnics! I'm just gonna go leave 'em in my room with everyone else's purses and miscellaneous items." Without looking- or even noticing what was in his bedroom- Sinjin assumed he tossed the bag onto his bed. "Any of you guys wanna play Parcheesi?" A sudden, loud growl filled the party with silence. "Okay, who brought the dog?"
All of a sudden another dog-like monster burst through Sinjin's door as party guests ran and hid in fear. And this monster had its sights set on Sinjin. As fast as his scrawny body could run, Sinjin ran into an elevator, and out of the building screaming for help. And for a scrawny guy, he was surprisingly fast and agile- as he demonstrated when he climbed over the brick wall at the park across the street. "I'm going to bring this up at the next tenant's meeting," he said to himself as he ran. "There's not supposed to be any pets in the building."
As this was going on, a man with wild hair who looked like a hippie was having a conversation with himself. "I would agree with you on the U.S.'s decision to rebuild that country whose name I can never pronounce; but I disagree with you on the bigger issue. I believe that Bigfoot is real and he can easily mate with a mermaid," he ran to the space across from him and started speaking in a deep, raspier voice. "I never said Bigfoot doesn't exist, he does. I'm saying it's impossible for him to mate with a mermaid because they're part human. A unicorn, maybe," he ran to the opposite side. "And I firmly believe that Bigfoot is part human- hence the term foot in his name. Think things through Sikowitz," the man proceeded to run to the other side again. "Ah but Sikowitz, mermaids do not have reproductive organs," again with the running. "Some do. Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle there are-"
Sikowitz's conversation with himself was interrupted when a terrified Sinjin barreled past him screaming, "RUN! RUN! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
Sikowitz scoffed. "The young people have no decency anymore," he went to the opposite side. "I agree with you on that." The terror dog ran past the crazy hippie. "Good Gandhi that is a big hamster!"
Sinjin kept on running until he came across a fancy restaurant with glass windows. "HELP! SOMEBODY LET ME IN!" He pounded on the windows to get people's attentions, but it seemed nobody heard him, not even when the terror dog approached him. "Nice doggie," Sinjin held himself against the window. "If you promise not to eat me I'll get you a Beggin' Strip." Sinjin screamed as the dog lunged for him, but nobody in the restaurant seemed to care.
…
Beck arrived at Jade's apartment to find cops all over the front. Just to be on the safe side, he approached a cop. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk," a cop answered.
"Good to know," Beck went into the building and up to Jade's apartment. Brushing off the cops in an apartment without a door on Jade's floor, he knocked on her door. Jade answered the door in a loose orange dress, her hair was down and messy and she looked like she desperately wanted some physical intimacy as she licked her tongue over her teeth. "That's a different look for you, isn't it? Not that I have any objections but this is the first time I've seen some real color on you."
"Are you the Keymaster?" she inquired with a breathy voice.
"Not that I know of." Jade slammed the door in his face. "Take two," Beck knocked on her door and she answered it the way she did the first time.
"Are you the Keymaster?"
"Yes, yes I am," she moved out of the way so he could enter her apartment. "What's up with this Keymaster stuff is this a role playing thing?"
"I am Zuul, and I am the Gatekeeper."
"Gee, you don't say," Beck was observing the claw and burn marks around her kitchen door as she slinked off into her bedroom. "So what are we gonna do tonight Zuul?"
"We must prepare for the coming of Gozer."
"Gozer, huh?"
"The destructor." By this point, Jade was sprawled out on her bed.
"Are we still going out or what?"
Jade started panting as if she was bracing herself for physical pleasure. "Do you want this body?"
Beck suspiciously raised his eyebrow. "Is that a trick question?"
Jade got on her knees and grabbed Beck by his tie, "Take me now, sub-creature."
"You know, we never talk anymore." She pulled him onto the bed and climbed on top of him. "I have a rule not to get involved with possessed people." She started to make out with him. "But it's fun to break the rules sometime," he rolled over and got on top of her.
"I want you inside me," Jade moaned.
"Sounds like you got someone in there already; might be a little crowded." The only reason Beck was on top of her was so that he himself could get off of the bed. "Gee, and I thought you weren't that excited for our date." He placed Jade's hands over her chest so that he knew where they were. "Had I known you were gonna be possessed I would've taken a rain check. But if it's any trouble, I'd like to speak to Jade now. Jade, it's Beck."
"There is no Jade, there is only Zuul."
"Good to know. But I have to talk to Jade. Jade, if you're in there I need to talk to you. Jade?"
Jade's voice suddenly became a deep baritone. "There is no Jade, there is only Zuul." When she spoke, her mouth didn't move.
"You ever thought of taking up ventriloquism; it's like possession, but afterwards you don't need an exorcism. Zuul, if you don't let me talk to Jade, there's gonna be some real trouble. I'm gonna count to three, and you better let Jade talk to me. One…two…two and a half…" Before Beck got to three, Jade's body levitated itself and was up at least four feet over her bed. "Jade?" the monster growled at him. "Okay, okay," Beck started to search her room. "You just stay up there and I'm gonna…" he noticed a kit on a shelf and opened it, "…you keep Thorozine in a first aid kit?"
…
Meanwhile at the firehouse, it was just Robbie and Cat. It wasn't as if Robbie could tell though. While Cat was upstairs getting ready for something, Robbie was all alone in the basement perfecting yet another invention.
"Robbie," Cat's high pitched voice startled him.
Robbie apprehensively dropped his tools. "Cat? You're uh…you're still here?"
She giggled. "Tonight's our date."
"Date?"
"For the bacteria exhibit? You were supposed to take me a while ago, but we've been so busy. So I checked the schedule, and tonight is a night off."
"I uh…I guess it is. You still wanna go?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Gee, no girl's ever wanted to go with me to a bacteria exhibit…no girl's really wanted to go anywhere in public with me."
Cat's face fell. "So we're not going?"
"As much as I want to, the museum closed at five."
"Poo!"
"But uh…" Robbie gulped, "if you like we could uh…we could…by we I mean you and I…us, Cat and Robbie," when he pointed to her as Robbie and him as Cat, she couldn't help but giggle, which caused him to give out a nervous laugh, "…we could do something else...like-"
"-go back to my apartment and watch a movie."
"Your apartment? Your actual residence?"
Cat giggled. "You're so funny. Yes, my apartment. We could get some pizza and watch a movie."
"That sounds…that actually sounds like something I'd do with the guys. So when I'm socializing with the guys I'm on a date with them?"
She giggled again. "Robbie, you're so funny. I'll meet you upstairs okay."
"KK-I mean, sure."
Cat skipped up the stairs and got herself ready as there was a knock on the door. When she answered the door, there was a policeman. "Whatever it is, my brother didn't do it."
"Actually, I'm here to drop something off to the Ghostbusters," the officer informed.
"KK, hold on," she ran over to Robbie as Robbie was coming up the stairs. "Robbie, there's a police guy here with something for you."
"For me directly?" Robbie's inquiry made Cat shrug. With the redhead following, Robbie went to the door and approached the cop.
"You a ghostbuster?" the cop questioned.
"Yes sir officer."
"We picked up some guy lurking around the park who keeps calling himself Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster. We noticed his eyes turned red and we thought maybe there was something ghost related so us boys thought it'd be a good idea to bring him to the ghostbusters."
"All right." Robbie (and Cat) followed the cop to his car where a disheveled looking Sinjin van Cleef was in a straightjacket.
Sinjin looked at Robbie and asked, "Are you the Gatekeeper?"
Robbie took his PKE meter out of his pocket (because he kept his PKE meter with him at all times) and waved it over Sinjin. "Definite readings. Could you gentleman bring him inside to our upstairs laboratory facility?"
"Eh, sure," the lead cop and another cop each took a side and guided Sinjin inside the firehouse.
"So this means we can't go on that date, huh?" Cat asked.
"I don't think so," Robbie replied.
"Phooey!"
"But you're welcome to stay here as I perform some tests on this guy."
"Yay!" Cat took Robbie by his hand, completely surprising him. "That was real nice of you to take him in like this. You're a real humanitarian."
"Yeah, well I don't think he's human."
I hope no one minds but I found it weird that Peter brought Thorozine on his date with Dana (which didn't get any explanation) so considering Jade's character I thought it best if she had it on her person and he found it in her room. Not only do I feel is this a better choice, but it gives us a mini explanation.
And if anyone's wondering, I took out the scene where Louis talks to the horse in the park saying Gozer's coming and put in a little Cabbie scene which segued into us finding out that Sinjin is the Keymaster.
I have also been using deleted scenes/original script concepts from the movie. The scene where Sikowitz is arguing with himself is a replica of a deleted scene where Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd play bums arguing about something I know nothing about as Louis comes running in fear from the terror dog. The scene is on YouTube if anyone cares. And you can be sure I'm gonna use the deleted scene between Egon & Janine if anyone knows what I'm talking about- that scene is also on YouTube.
