"CLUE" (1985)

MUSIC:

We are looking up at a house. It stands some distance | away, on a hill. From the moment WE SEE it we know that it is a house of terror -- imposing, Gothic, gloomy, © menacing. Perhaps it is reminiscent of the house in

Psycho, perhaps -- though not a castle -- it has the deserted soulless empty quality of Kane's house when ‘seen first through its gates.

The MUSIC WE HEAR is Thriller music, urgent strings,

‘suggesting panic, suggesting ‘unspoken evil. ‘Bernard

Hermann sort-of-music.

And the weather is overcast. There is a watery moon struggling to break through racing clouds. -But a thunderstorm is on the way.

Superimpose: MAIN. TITLES

A car turns off a ‘highway onto a country lane leading

towards the house. The ‘car would not be the-cat's whiskers even in the year in which this story takes place.

END TITLES - SUPERIMPOSE "1954"

‘CAMERA ‘CRANES DOWN -and MOVES WITH the car AS it approaches

the gates of the house. They are closed. A man gets out of the car. He is a BUTLER. He is dressed like a butler.

' He has the manner of a butler. Even when opening gates

all alone he.does so with the demeanour of a butler. His name is WADSWORTH. -Having opened the gates, he sits back in his car, and motors slowly up the private drive.

AS THE BUTLER's car draws to a halt, there is a distant

RUMBLE of THUNDER. Lights can be seen through some of

the ground floor windows. A savage looking German Shepherd snarls and bares his teeth .at the arriving car. Another German Shepherd is crapping on top of the front steps.

Both dogs are chained up.

“WADSWORTH gets out of the car, locks it methodically, and mounts the steps to the front door. ‘One of the dogs leaps at him, trying to attack him. He throws a chunk of raw

meat at the dogs. They fall upon it hungrily, and retreat to the side of the steps. WADSWORTH is relieved.

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He steps back, eyes'them - satisfied - produces a kev from his overcoat pocket, turns, steps in the dog

Methodically, WADSWORTH opens the front door. It creaks. He comes in sniffs, makes a face, scrapes his shoe, shuts the door, hangs up his.coat-on the coat stand. ‘He wears a black jacket, white tie, stiff collar and vinstripe strousers. He walks across the marble floor, his foot-

. steps echoing on the cold, grey stone. He stops .at the open Dining Room door and looks in. The table is beautifully and meticulously laid for dinner for seven.

YVETTE is the French Maid. She is young, beautiful, with a great figure which is tightly encased in a maid's uni- form -~ black dress, little white apron and cap, sheer black stockings and dainty black shoes. But the skirt is ‘shorter than normal, and very tight over her bottom --

and her black dress is very low cut. Her ample bosom is pushed right up and half out of the top of the dress.

‘She is an outrageous young lady, with an improbable French accent which cannot be reproduced on the page. She has been polishing a glass, and dancing to the latest vsop music on the radio. She bends forward to replace the glass on the tray, her breasts falling beautifully forwarc. WADSWORTH watches.

_ YVETTE OuL, Monsieur.

' WADSWORTH leaves the library, YVETTE sniffs and makes a face. WADSWORTH crosses the hall to the kitchen.

' YVETTE looks'.at the bottom of her shoes, puzzled. We _HEAR a METALLIC SCRAPING SOUND.

AT

‘WADSWORTH comes in. . The COOK, a plump” but

inscrutable Chinese lady, is methodically sharpening .

a large shiny carving knife on a steel. In the

background is ‘film of SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY of

Wisconsin on a 1950's black and white TV set, per- _ forming characteristically at a hearing on the House

Committee of Un-American Activities. (Actual film).

She stands up, face to face with him.

And she settles down and watches the TV as WADSWORTH

leaves.

A MAN's hand grasps hold of the bell-pull. Pulls.

‘INT. BELL TURRET - NIGHT

The bell jerks and clangs.

WADSWORTH is crossing the Hall. The bell stops

‘clanging. He looks at his watch and nods. Every-

thing in order. He opens the door. WE SEE a smartly turned out MAN. He is eyeing the dogs.

He steps aside. But the MAN does not.come in. The MAN's car is parked in the drive. The dogs are back ‘beside their kennel, eating.

He falters. ‘WADSWORTH comes to the rescue.

, WADSWORTH Yes indeed sir, you are expected, Colonel.

The word ‘Colonel seems to reassure the MAN alittle.

- Be aXeEs: in, and WADSWORTH closes the front door.

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CONTINUED (2):

He holds out his hand. COLONEL MUSTARD (for it is he!) No, that's not my name. I'm Colonel...

WADSWORTH holds up his right. hand, sharply. COLONEL

‘MUSTARD flinches. -He reminds -us.a little -:-of Colonel Hall in “Sergeant Bilko”.

-“* “WADSWORTH ‘Forgive me but tonight you may well feel obliged to my employer . for the use of a pseudonym.

COLONEL MUSTARD didn't quite get all that. WADSWORTH turns. and-hangs up COLONEL MUSTARD'S coat on hook. The COLONEL eyes him:suspiciously, and sniffs the .air, .and then looks at his own feet.

“WADSWORTH - I am-‘Wadsworth, sir. The Butler.

And he leads the way across the Hall. COLONEL MUSTARD enters with reluctance and suspicion, looking up and around the. high cold Gothic hall, lit by a flickering chandelier and shafts of moonlight stealing through the

pres anne

“INT. ‘LIBRARY —_ NIGHT

YVETTE is pouring champagne at the-drinks table, as

WADSWORTH and COLONEL MUSTARD enter. YVETTE and the ‘COLONEL look at each other with particular interest.

WADSWORTH notices.

WADSWORTH .

Yvette, would you attend to the Colonel and -give him anything he requires.

(a beat)

‘Within reason, that is.

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There is a RING at the DOORBELL again .... WADSWORTH . leaves, shutting the door behind him softly. The door, like .aall the walls, is covered in bookshelves. COLONEL

"MUSTARD turns to speak to WADSWORTH just as the door has

closed. He can 't even see where the door was. COLONEL MUSTARD Wadsworth... (realizes) Where'd he go?

MRS. WHITE is standing there. She is. a pale, tragic but beautiful looking woman in her thirties. Dark har and

eyes, white skin, dressed in black. WADSWORTH opens the

door. —

She reminds | us of a woman ‘from a Charles Adams cartoon.

She is holding a letter.

__ She steps inside. He helps her off with her coat. ‘He hangs it up. She sniffs, wrinkling her nose in

distaste. Then she checks her feet.

COLONEL MUSTARD is still looking for the door handle. YVETTE is handing a drink to COLONEL MUSTARD. Suddenly the doer opens, and flattens him against the wall. WADSWORTH enpers, ‘followed by MRS. WHITE.

. . WADSWORTH AR. May I introduce you -- Mrs. White, this is Yvette, the maid -- (MRS. WHITE AND. YVETTE flinch on seeing each other) I see you. “know each other...

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: fs MRS. WHITE and YVETTE eye each other ~- then their eyes CY oo turn, in fear, to WADSWORTH. COLONEL MUSTARD appears.

. WADSWORTH Are you all right, Colonel?

A rumble of THUNDER. A stunningly attractive woman, whom we. shall call MISS SCARLET, is bending over the open hood of her automobile. She is staring at the: engine in;despair. She gets into the car, and turns the starter again. The engine is dead.

In ‘the distance «she ‘sees headlights coming toward her.

She tries to attract the attention -of the passing car.

PROFESSOR PLUM is driving along.

He is listening to SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY coming live

froma hearing:of The House :Committee on Un-American

Activities. (Actual recording.) He sees MISS SCARLET,

she's rather a dish, he slows down, stops and reverses back to her.

She gets in.

and eyes her carefully as he drives past. Deciding that

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MISS SCARLET .

Me neither. * (she -gets a letter out -of her purse.

I'm:-going to Hill House ... off

‘Route Forty-One..

PROFESSOR PLUM catches sight of the letter heading.

They look at each other with a mixture-of interest and

‘suspicion. Heavy drops of rain start to fall-on the

windshield. He starts the windshield wipers, and drives on. :

WADSWORTH is introducing MRS. PEACOCK to MRS. WHITE and

‘COLONEL MUSTARD. MRS. .PEACOCK is a wealthy woman, with

‘jewels and -a fur stole with fox tails and claws dangling from -it. She has considerable vanity .

‘COLONEL MUSTARD How do you do?

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YVETTE goes. .WADSWORTH too. . MRS. PEACOCK watches her

‘go, with slight incredulity. YVETTE has apparently been ‘poured into her tight little dress.

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Then MRS. PEACOCK sniffs and surreptitiously checks her * feet, then looks at the others' feet.

Two more cars are parked in the driveway. MRS. PEACOCK's and the car belonging to the dapper young man, tall, slim,

bespectacled and exquisitely turned out, who waits by the

front door. WADSWORTH ‘opens “it.

. MR. GREEN Is this the right address to meet Mr. Boddy?

WADSWORTH nods and stands aside to. admit him.

MR. GREEN nods anxiously. One of the two dogs is

‘straining.at the leash.

-

“MR. - GREEN immediately sits, on a chair just inside the

front-door. WADSWORTH turns and sees him.

INT; PROFESSOR PLUM'S CAR - NIGHT

‘PROFESSOR PLUM is.driving. MISS SCARLET is map reading.

From the P. 0.V. of the house and gates, WE SEE the car. ‘turn off the road towards the house. The car: ‘Stops.

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‘his ‘coat over her head.

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PROFESSOR PLUM and MISS SCARLET's P.O.V., WE SEE the Gothic mansion. It is magnificent, imposing, and scary.

‘There is a tremendous flash of forked lightning, then .a CRACK of THUNDER.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM It's frightened.

Another tremendous THUNDERCLAP and flash -- it is as if the Gods are angry with Hilltop House. PROFESSOR PLUM

-re-starts the engine, and as the car moves ‘forward “through the gates the heavens open. A cloudburst. ‘Rain ‘beats down on the car and the gravel drive. Palm ‘trees ‘bending, nearly flattened :by the gale-force winds.

COLONEL MUSTARD, MRS. WHITE, AND MRS. PEACOCK are standing

around with their glasses of champagne.

YVETTE offers one to MR. GREEN who takes it. They are

all aware of the tremendous storm-outside. Their eyes

turn apprehensively towards the mighty leaded windows,

which rattle as the rain drums against them.

PROFESSOR PLUM and MISS SCARLET are hurrying out of their car,. and up to the front door,. amid the torrential downpour. They RING the DOORBELL, and look about. In

only ‘the few steps from the car they are soaking wet. He

is protecting her from the rain, his hand around. her and

.. {PROFESSOR PLUM (hushed) What a God-forsaken place.

They look around, under the cover of the front porch.

WADSWORTH ‘opens the. door. He is surprised.

“WADSWORTH | Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet? I didn't realize you were _Beaneenees:

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Ae | MISS SCARLET ' sWe weren't. . ome

COLONEL MUSTARD, MRS. WHITE, MRS. PEACOCK, and MR. GREEN | “are standing around nervously, not talking to each other, looking up and around at the great bookcases filled with leather-bound volumes. WADSWORTH enters with PROFESSOR. PLUM and ‘MISS SCARLET.

‘WADSWORTH May I present ... Professor Plum, -and Miss “Scarlet.

They nod. He takes a silver salver from YVETTE and offers the two glasses to MISS SCARLET and PROFESSOR PLUM.

MR. GREEN takes one. ' They all sip thier champagne. The * log fire crackles and spits.

‘WADSWORTH (continuing) ae _ Of course, since you have each - J been addressed by a pseudonym, nef s a«, . - you will .have realized that --mobody here ‘is being .addressed ‘by their real name. -They all glance nervously at each other, with renewed suspicion. Suddenly there is .a terrifying CRASH: Everyone jumps. MR. GREEN's champagne shoots out of his glass and all over himself and MRS. PEACOCK. | ca ES | CUT TO:

It is the GONG, being forcefully struck by THE ‘COOK. 22 - INT. THE LIBRARY/BALL/DINING ‘ROOM

MR. GREEN ‘is mopping up MRS. PEACOCK.

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And he leads everyone out of ‘the Library and across the Hall. As they come into the Hall, THE COOK vanishes into the Kitchen. WADSWORTH leads on into the Dining

Room.

‘They .all crowd in through the door.and hesitate as they

see the beautiful long mahogany table, set.as if fora

-cOllege feast -- silver -cutlery, Wedgewood china, candles ‘and .crystal decanters-and goblets of varying sizes for

various wines. .A vision of Elegance.

They all sit at the table. Three on each side. There

is one empty place, at the head-of the table.

~ COLONEL ‘MUSTARD Is this place for you?

| - WADSWORTH | Indeed no, ‘sir. I -am merely a humble butler.

‘COLONEL ‘MUSTARD ‘Which means what? —

| ; WADSWORTH

The butler is head of the Kitchen . .and-dining room. I keep _-

everything... tidy, that's all.

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MRS. ‘PEACOCK (sitting) “Well, what's all this about, Butler? This dinner party.

“WADSWORTH (smoothly) "Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die... "

PROFESSOR PLUM looks up anxiously.

‘MUSIC! But WADSWORTH is smiling reassuringly.

‘WADSWORTH Merely quoting, sir, from Alfred Lord Tennyson.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD I prefer Kipling myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male."

The LADIES. all stare at him coldly. He picks up a plate of hors d'oeuvres and offers it to MISS SCARLET.

_. MISS SCARLET Sure, I'll eat anything.

YVETTE has been going round the table, with soup bowls.

‘MRS. “PEACOCK gets some, then MISS “SCARLET, civert MRS.

WHITE, then PROFESSOR PLUM, and COLONEL MUSTARD. COLONEL

MUSTARD indicates the elegant Chippendale upright

armchair at the head of the table.

‘COLONEL: MUSTARD So is this for our host?

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No sir -- for the seventh GUSSE.. Mr. Boddy.

All the GUESTS Look at each: other, somewhat, surprised.

MRS. WHITE

So who is our host, Wadsworth?

‘WADSWORTH ignores the question. But he is ‘pouring ‘the wine -- perhaps al did not hear it.

He picks up his spoon, then sees that not everyone has been served.

guest?

PROFESSOR PLUM sees ‘that. everyone has been served. He >

starts eating. So do the others. The slurping sounds

of soup being eaten, as delicately as possible, as

everyone is aware that they are all watching -- and.

listening <= to. each other. BIG CLOSE-UPS or TWO. SHOTS

of each of the SIX GUESTS in turn.

YVETTE goes out to the Kitchen, followed by WADSWORTH .

. After eating in silence for a while, MRS. PEACOCK speaks

nervously. a a MRS. PEACOCK Well... te Fs

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‘MRS. PEACOCK looks at him, surprised.

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All heads turn towards her. She ‘loses her nerve |

momentarily, then continues, speaking rather too quickly with a Slight air of hysteria.

Somebody's got to break the ice, so it might as well be me. I mean, I'm used to being a hostess, it's part of my husband's work, and ‘it's always difficult when a group of new friends meet together for the first time to get .acquainted, so I'm perfectly prepared to ‘start the ball rolling, I mean, I ‘have. absclutely no idea what ‘we're doing here or what I'm ‘doing here or what this place is about but I'm determined to enjoy myself and very intrigued and oh - my, this soup is delicious, isn't it?

There is a pause. They all still looking at her.

“MRS. ‘WHITE You say you are used to being a hostess as part of your husband's “work?:

“MRS. PEACOCK . Yes. It's an integral part of your life when you're the wife of a... . - (she stops herself)

But then, I forgot, we are not supposed to say who we reall are, are we, though Heavens to Betsy. I don't know why.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD Don't you?

There is another silence. MR. GREEN is staring at MRS.

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MISS SCARLET | (mischievously) -Aren't you gonna ‘tell us?

‘MR. GREEN shrugs. It's not up to him to say, but MRS. PEACOCK can't. leave it alone.

-MRS. PEACOCK How do you know who I am?

| ‘PROFESSOR PLUM Washington? (he ‘looks at MRS. PEACOCK) ‘So you're a politician’ s wife? MRS. PEACOCK realizes she has to brazen it out.

| MRS. PEACOCK

They all stare at her, waiting -for more information.

The door opens suddenly. ‘They all jump a little.

WADSWORTH comes in. He indicates to YVETTE to come in '

and:collect up the soup bowls. She does so ina tense silence, and departs with WADSWORTH, who closes the. door behind them. Meanwhile, the. conversation has

continued.

MRS. — “and what does. your ur husband do?

-MRS,.. WHITE. Nothing.

MRS. PEACOCK can’ t work. out what MRS. WHITE means.

MRS. PEACOCK *

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Well, he just lies around on: = back all day. MISS SCARLET

(dryly) Sounds like hard work to me.

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They all look at MISS SCARLET. Suddenly a panel shoots up behind them. They all jump. MR. .GREEN spills food

or wine over MISS SCARLET. | ee MR. GREEN ‘I'm sorry, I'm a little accident prone.

WE SEE it is a hatch into the Kitchen. YVETTE is placing the main course in the hatch.

In the b. gu, indistinctly, WE “SEE °COOK dishing up food.

WADSWORTH comes into the. Dining» Room, and starts. placing the main course in front of each. guest. It is Chinese food -- a couple of bland looking main dishes with rice, noodles and so forth. MRS. PEACOCK tastes it.

‘WADSWORTH - edges in front:of: the pass-through , so that » .

MRS.. PEACOCK -cannot :see the-COOK.-

She looks at him with further curiosity. WADSWORTH

starts. to pour the wine, topping up one or two glasses. MRS. PEACOCK ‘So. what do you do in. Washington . “DeCey Mr. ‘Green?

MR. GREEN smiles ‘and shakes his. hesd.: MRS. PEACOCK

persists.

-MR.. GREEN smiles a wintry ‘smile.

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‘MRS. “PEACOCK Well, I don't know I'm sure. If I wasn't trying to keep the conversation going we'd all be Sitting here in.an embarrassed silence.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM (curious) Are you frightened of silence, Mrs. Peacock?

-MRS. .PEACOCK (frightened)

“No -- why?

‘PROFESSOR PLUM It just seems to me that you are. You seem to suffer from

what we call pressure of speech.

MISS SCARLET picks this up at once.

° MISS SCARLET ‘We? -Who's "we"?

PROFESSOR PLUM hesitates.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM Er... I do know a little about

psychological medicine, yes.

‘ MRS. WHITE You! re a doctor?

_ “PROFESSOR PLUM (evasively) Iam, but I don't practice.

practice. Don't you, Mrs. Peacock?

MRS. ‘PEACOCK doesn't know what she' s talking about.

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COLONEL MUSTARD is not impressed.

“MRS. - PEACOCK What' s your area of special concern?

MISS ‘SCARLET . ‘So, lf we ever want to find out - about you know what, we could go to UNO Who?

MR. GREEN smiles .a little. ‘They -eat in silence. | PROFESSOR “PLUM ‘So what about you, Colonel _ Mustard? Are you a real Colonel?

COLONEL MUSTARD

. -(diginified)

Iam, sir. ‘And COLONEL MUSTARD continues eating.

They all look at her, then at him. COLONEL MUSTARD stops eating, a. forkful of food. half-way ‘co his mouth.

COLONEL - MUSTARD > How did you know that? Have we met . before, Ma'am?

. MISS SCARLET . oe I've certainly seen you before - though you may not have noticed me, I daresay. — ge

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She smiles at him. MR. GREEN is no fool. He has

'.made a quick deduction. | MR. GREEN

Miss Scarlet, does that mean you live there, too?

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She smiles at ‘him.

. PROFESSOR PLUM I don't.

MR. GREEN is ‘thinking.

MR. “GREEN Yes, ‘but you work for UNO. A government job. ‘And ‘the rest

‘Of us all live in:a-government town. Anyone here not earn

their living from the government one way or another? -

They all look at each other.

“COLONEL MUSTARD stands up.

| COLONEL MUSTARD Wadsworth -- where is our host, and why have we been brought here?

WADSWORTH smiles enigmatically. And the DOORBELL RINGS.

- WADSWORTH walks down the Hall to the front. door. TENSE

MUSIC. He opens. the door, and standing there is an

unprepossessing MAN. One might almost describe him as ugly if one were feeling charitable. Certainly his features are ordinary enough, but there is about him an

‘air of malevolence, bitterness. -- perhaps even evil! He

also bites his nails and picks ‘his ‘teeth, nose, ‘and other -

erifices. He carries .a-small :locked suitcase. As the ‘door opens there is a tremendous flash -of lightning and -@ CRASH ‘OF THUNDER.

WADSWORTH seems Pleased ‘to see him, in an odd sort of way.

- WADSWORTH Ah, . Mr. ‘Boddy. You are eagerly. awaited.

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All SIX GUESTS are listening to the conversation in the

He steps aside to allow MR. BODDY to enter. He does. MR. BODDY looks WADSWORTH up and down, with a sneer on his already unpleasant features.

WADSWORTH is closing the front . ‘door. The wind is howling.

‘They are talking loudly enough to be heard in the Dining

Room.

Hall. So is YVETTE.

‘THE COOK is listening too.

WADSWORTH is hanging up MR. BODDY's hat, coat and umbrella.

‘WADSWORTH turns to face him.

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. WADSWORTH As you wish -- it contains evidence, I presume.

. MR. BODDY Surprises, my friend! That's what it contains -- surprises!

He puts it under the coat rack. As he does so, WADSWORTH

‘turns back to the front.door and locks it with .a deadlock key.

MR. BODDY gives a little smile. Wadsworth sets off +. across the Hall to the Dining Room. MR. BODDY follows.

“WADSWORTH ‘(looking up and around) - Indeed it is a long hall. But then it's a very large house.

_ All the GUESTS are eating in silence. WADSWORTH enters,

followed by MR. BODDY. Everyone turns to look at MR. BODDY as he enters. He stops dead, slightly frightened, when he sees them all. They look at him with curiosity. It should

_ be clear to us that he recognizes them but none of them

recognizes him.

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Meanwhile, YVETTE has been placing ‘the main course in front Of MR. BODDY. ‘He waves it away.

No thanks, Yvette, I'm not

hungry.

MR. GREEN flashes a look at them both. Again he is quick on the uptake. .

. ‘MR. GREEN How did you know ‘her name?

MR. BODDY smiles at YVETTE, and slides his hand up ‘* her skirt. She edges away, disgusted.

‘MR. :‘BODDY -We know each other, don't we dear? .

She nods, almost imperceptibly. WADSWORTH

Forgive my curiosity, Mr. Boddy, but did your letter say the same

thing? MR. BODDY (brusque) No. WADSWORTH iad

T see. Can I interest any of you in fruit: or dessert?

No one is ‘interested. | They shake their heads. Much of the main course has been left uneaten.

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’ WADSWORTH -(continuing) In that case, May I suggest that we adjourn to the Study for coffee and brandy, at which point I believe our unknown host will reveal his intentions.

They all rise.. The MEN stand aside to let the LADIES out first. ,

WADSWORTH signals to YVETTE ‘to start. clearing the

table.

COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET are conversing as * |

they cross the hall. | *

MISS - ‘SCARLET Well, I‘m-certainly ‘looking forward to meeting him.

We see the Study. It is empty. The GUESTS, led by

WADSWORTH cross the Hall from the Dining Room, and . | ‘enter the Study. They ‘stop and look around. :

She offers cigarettes aroung. _ PROFESSOR PLUM takes one, and lights ‘them both up. - ee

" WADSWORTH Please help yourselves to coffee and brandy, and be seated.

And he crosses to the desk, past a blazing leg fire. On

‘the desk there is a plain brown envelope simply addressed:

"TQ WADSWORTH. PLEASE OPEN AFTER DINNER." He picks it up. They settle on chairs and sofas around the room.

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It is a comfortable room, oak paneled, chintz covered upholstered’ chairs and sofa forming a contrast with the heavy leather furniture in the Library .and the :elegance

-of the Dining Room. Unlike the other rooms, which have

wooden parquet flooring, the Study has Persian rugs over

a soft wall-to-wall carpet.

Sitting in a silence as they all watch him, WADSWORTH picks up a fancy letter opener and opens the brown Manilla envelope. He withdraws a short letter. He glances at it, then looks around, replacing the envelope on the desk.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am. instructed to explain to you what you all have in common with each other. Unless.

“(he glances a MR. BODDY) -e. unless you would care to do the honors, Mr. Boddy.

‘MR. -BODDY Why me? Do they know who WADSWORTH

I: don! t think so. ‘You have never identified yourself to them, I believe.

MR. BODDY addresses all the GUESTS. He stands up.

: MR. BODDY We have all been dragged nere for nothing. Its .a hoax. I -suggest we all leave.

He goes out of the house.

MR. BODDY is hurrying towards the front. door. WADSWORTH appears. . - (CONTINUED) .

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(> 30. ~CONTINUED: WADSWORTH You can't leave! MR. BODDY . (snarling).

Who's. going to stop me? . WADSWORTH There is no way out.

MR. ‘BODDY ‘tries :to open the front door. It is “locked. “As he does so, all the GUESTS crush into the doorway _to watch.

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COLONEL MUSTARD: Hear, hear.

on ' -( MISS SCARLET: What is this? ( MRS. PEACOCK: I'm getting very frightened. ‘( MR. . GREEN: He's right! i MRS. WHITE: Let us out.

“PROFESSOR PLUM: ‘You've no right to do this. WADSWORTH quiets them down.

They turn. Reluctantly, MR. BODDY follows. From a * ‘P.O.V. over MR, BODDY's shoulder, we can see that - * he has seen the Conservatory . . “

He hurries towards it. | , | 7

But MR. BODDY takes no notice. So WADSWORTH hurries out into the Hall and hastens down the Hall in pursuit of

MR. BODDY.

Huge green creeping vegetation covers the room. There are many potential. lurking places in here. The rain

is beating down loudly on the glass roof.

‘MR. BODDY is running into the room-which, like all

conservatories, is mostly made of glass.

_.He jumps-.onto.a ledge at the far end, and picks up a

flower -pot preparatory to breaking the glass. WADSWORTH almost runs into the Conservatory.

_ WADSWORTH You can't get out that way.

A vicious ‘snarling Doberman Pinscher leaps up .at the side

of the Conservatory

‘MR. BODDY turns back from the window. © .

Everyone is sitting. YVETTE, who is waiting there, ‘sees that they have refills of coffee, and starts to hand

brandies around. Brandies are silently accepted by COLONEL MUSTARD, PROFESSOR PLUM, and MISS SCARLET.

“WADSWORTH -stands in front of the crackling log fire, and ‘consults the contents-of the envelope which he-opened in

SCENE 29.

They all glance nervously at-each other.

. ‘WADSWORTH

(continuing) - For some considerable time .all of you have been paying what you can afford -- and, in some cases, more than you can afford -- to someone who threatens to expose you. And none: of you “know who's. blackmailing your ‘do you? ;

35 “CONTINUED:

“MRS... .PEACOCK a , (unconvincingly) ( * _ . I've never heard anything so ridiculous, nobody could ‘blackmail me, my life's an ‘Open book. I've never done anything wrong.

‘They all look at her.

"No one replies. They are watchful, and waiting.

“‘WADSWROTH (continuing) ‘Very well. -.As everyone here is in the same boat, there is no harm in my revealing some details. And my instructions : are to do so.

He looks through some typewritten papers that were in the brown envelope. He nods to YVETTE to leave the room. They watch her go. The door closes ‘behind her.

“WADSWORTH I'm sorry. Professor Plum -- you were once a Professor of Psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from ‘delusions of grandeur.

PROFESSOR PLUM _ js oo Yes, but now I work .at. ‘the. United Nations. © =e

‘MISS. SCARLET is very interested ain ‘this revelation.

7 MISS SCARLET ws , Why? What did he do?

29.”

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we . (} ee WADSWORTH

You know what doctors aren't allowed to do with their lady patients?

‘MISS ‘SCARLET looks at- him with a smile, MRS. PEACOCK with disgust.

“WADSWORTH turns to MRS. PEACOCK.

, , MRS. PEACOCK | My husband's a paid consultant. There's nothing wrong with that.

| WADSWORTH Not if it's publicly declared. But if the payment is delivered by slipoing used greenbacks in -plain envelopes under the door of the men's room, how would “you: ‘describe “that transaction?

‘MISS SCARLET I'a say it stank:

“MRS. PEACOCK

. (scathing) How would you know, you've never | 7 -. . ‘been in that mens room.

|. oe ee ae, 7. PROFESSOR PLUM . So it's true. oO!

3 ne | MRS. ~PEACOCK No, it's a vicious lie.

_ (CONTINUED)

i ; —)

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CONTINUED (3):

COLONEL MUSTARD is listening with pleasure.

-WADSWORTH (smoothly) I'm -sure we are all glad to hear that. But you've been paying blackmail for over a year now, to keep this story out of the papers..

MR. GREEN

‘COLONEL MUSTARD And me.

WADSWORTH is surprised.

They all look at her, stunned by this open admission of guilt.

MISS SCARLET _ Well, to be perfectly frank, I run.a “specialized” hotel -- and a telephone service which provides gentlemen with the company of a -young lady for a short while.

PROFESSOR PLUM takes out a notepad and Pencil. He is puRereserce es

(CONTINUED )

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MRS. PEACOCK is appalled.

She stares at PROFESSOR PLUM, disgust written all over her face. But MR. GREEN is thinking.

He stands and walks over to the window.

COLONEL MUSTARD turns on MISS SCARLET. The dialogue is

going very fast.

‘MISS SCARLET (obediently) It's not true.

-PROFESSOR .PLUM Is that true?

“MISS SCARLET No, that's not true.

“WADSWORTH ‘A double negative!

MISS SCARLET nods. WADSWORTH

That sounds like a confession

to me. In fact, the double negative has led to proof positive.

(to COLONEL MUSTARD) I'm afraid you gave yourself away, sir.

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; COLONEL MUSTARD Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?

-PROFESSOR PLUM puts his hand on her knee. She removes

it. Reluctantly, he moves away. WADSWORTH refers to his notes, the ones which came out of the brown enve-. lope, which are still in his hand.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD - -I-don't. -I-came into-money. -During the war. When I-lost my ‘parents.

“WADSWORTH Sometimes, yes. Mrs. White, you have been paying our friend the blackmailer every since your husband died ... shall we say ... mysterious circumstances.

MISS SCARLET laughs. MRS. WHITE turns -to her.

side

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COLONEL MUSTARD

“Then why are you Paying the

blackmailer? |

. MISS SCARLET Why would he want to kill you in public?

wouldn't you say?

Not you, Mrs. White, not you.

MRS. WHITE remains silent. And impassive. MISS SCARLET

is curious.

: MISS ‘SCARLET “What did he do ESE” a living? —

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‘She can't say it, but she gestures vaguely in the

Girection of her groin. The MEN look at her in horror, and their hands go instinctively to cover their balls.

_ MISS “SCARLET (irreverently) What was showing?

WADSWORTH

But he was your second husband. Your first also disappeared.

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- MRS. GREEN coughs :discreetly. Everyone looks at him

He stands up, licks his lips nervously. He is trying to find the courage to speak openly.

MR. GREEN ‘ Um... I have something to say. I'm not going to wait for Wadsworth here to unmask me. I work for the . State Department, and I am a homosexual.

MRS. PEACOCK -tut-tuts.

‘MR. GREEN (continuing) ‘I feel no personal shame or guilt about ‘this, ‘but I-have ‘to ‘keep it quiet or I would lose my job on security. ‘grounds.

There is silence for a moment.

- All eyes turn to MR. BODDY. He says nothing.

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CONTINUED (7):

_ WADSWORTH His secret? Oh, I thought you'd all realized. He's the one who's blackmailing you all.

There is a flash of Lightning and a CLAP OF THUNDER.

This information comes as a bombshell to all of them. COLONEL MUSTARD stands up again.

He moves menacingly ‘towards MR. BODDY. MR. BODDY stands ‘up too. “WADSWORTH intervenes” ‘between them.

‘WADSWORTH Colonel -- please! Den' t do anything rough.

He puts his fists up, for an old-fashioned £i ht. MR,

BODDY responds by stamping abruptly on COLONE MUSTARD's | foot and, as COLONEL MUSTARD bends forward in pain to clutch his foot, MR. BODDY neatly pokes him inthe -eyes with two fingers simultaneously .(like a Three Stooges

routine). As COLONEL MUSTARD yells and collapses, MR.

BODDY throws himself upon him and continues to beat him up. MR. GREEN and PROFESSOR PLUM rush to COLONEL

MUSTARD's rescue, hauling MR. BODDY up off the struggling

COLONEL. MR. BODDY is struggling and fighting them off

‘too -- he is very strong. MRS. WHITE, MISS SCARLET and

MRS. PEACOCK are’ watching. As MR. BODDY is hauled to

his feet MRS. WHITE steps calmly forward and knees him

in the -balls. As MR. BODDY collapses in a heap the other WOMEN clap and -cheer, then run ‘to start kicking

him. WADSWORTH shouts above the brawl.

. _ WADSWORTH Wait! Wait! The police are coming!

The fight stops abruptly.

ae ALL The police? / You must be crazy! .. How can we tell the police? / I'd be ruined! -/ It'd be the end of my career! / Let's get out of here! (and so forth, all together)

‘(CONTINUED )

CONTINUED -(8):

They have surrounded WADSWORTH, vehemently with him.

how he's been able to blackmail you. All you have to do is tell the police, then he will be convicted, and your trouble will be over.

The GUESTS are all horrified.

remonstrating

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CONTINUED “(9):

YVETTE is standing beside an old-fashioned reel-to-reel ‘tape recorder, monitoring the’ recording -of the conversation taking place in the Study. The tape recorder is placed in a cupboard, the doors of which are open.

They are all speaking more or less together.

‘MR. GREEN .(V..0.) Point of order, Sir. Tape recordings aren't admissible evidence.

(COLONEL MUSTARD: I'll deny everything. (MRS. WHITE: I've admitted noebena (MRS. PEACOCK: | Nor have I.

makes himself heard above the hub-bub.

‘WADSWORTH

Ladies and gentlemen -- ‘the police have already been invited. ‘They will ‘be here in forty-five minutes. Tell them the truth and Mr. Boddy will be behind bars.

‘They all stare at him in panic. Then MR. BODDY walks

to the -door. WADSWORTH (continuing) Where are you. going this “time?

“37

‘WADSWORTH is puzzled. And worried.

MR. BODDY emerges from the Study and crosses the Hall. He picks his case up and returns to the Study. HIGH SHOT.

“MR. BODDY re-enters, leaving the door open. He places his attache case -on the desk, turns to face his victims.

. MR. BODDY Can anybody guess what' s in Here?

They look at each other, nonplussed.

MR. BODDY smiles, ‘shakes his head and-.opens the case. In the case are six giftwrapped parcels. He hands one to each of his SIX. GUESTS.

.MR. BODDY Oh, yes.

MR. ‘BODDY “Merely that ‘you were all meeting to. discuss our little... financial arrangements. ‘And that if I did not appear, Wadsworth would be informing the police about it all. Naturally I could hardly resist putting in an appearance.

They are all staring at the smug, complacent, loathsome

figure of MR. BODDY. |

(CONTINUED) |

ce)

‘MR. BODDY (continuing) Open them.

‘They » ‘look at the presents in their hands. MR. ‘BODDY pours himself a-‘brandy from the decanter, sniffs the bouquet, and Sips it.

MISS SCARLET shrugs.

_ MISS SCARLET Why not? I-enjoy getting presents from Scrence men.

She carefully removes the ribbon, the wrapping paper

‘and comes ‘to -- .a-cardboard ‘box. ‘Slowly she lifts the lid. Puzzled, she lifts out a heavy brass Senet set = Ka

She looks at MR. BODDY.

MR. BODDY “Looks. around ‘the :group. MR. BODDY

Nobody else going to open up? Go on, pretend it's Christmas.

‘MRS. WHITE opens her present, and finds .a ‘rope. ‘Then ‘COLONEL MUSTARD, who gets -a-wrench. MR. GREEN gets .a lead pipe. MRS. PEACOCK gets a dagger, and PROFESSOR

PLUM opens his present. It: contains a revolver.

They look at their gifts at first in confusion and, as the revolver appears, in horror.

“MR. “BODDY Acentinuing) ‘In your hands you each have a lethal weapon. If you -denounce me to the police, you will also be exposed and humiliated... I'll see to that in court.

- (CONTINUED)

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“He is walking around the room, coming face to face with -each of them in turn as he speaks.

WADSWORTH reacts, appalled, as the-others eye ‘him

speculatively, weapons at the easy.

MR. ‘BODDY (continuing) He has the key to the front door, which he told me would only be opened over his dead body.

MR. BODDY is now face to face with WADSWORTH.

‘He crosses ‘to the - door. of the Study, and turns ‘to

face ‘them all.

And, standing right beside the door to the Study, - he switches off the lights.

The room, and the SCREEN, are plunged into BLACKNESS. Thuds. Gasps. Screams. A gun-shot. A sound of shattering glass or china. Scuffles. Groans. The

lights are switched on - and MR. BODDY LIES on the

floor. Prone. Face down.

Everyone else is standing where ‘they were standing when ‘the lights went out. CAMERA has HIGH POV, directly above

the centre of the room, looking down. They all stare at MR. BODDY, then rush towards him.

- (CONTINUED)

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‘CONTINUED :(3):: ; :-PROFESSOR -PLUM ‘Stand back -- give him air -- let me see!.

They move back. ‘PROFESSOR PLUM gives him a hasty

- examination. Then he looks up.

‘There is stunned -silence.

MRS.. ‘WHITE “Who ‘had the gun?

‘PROFESSOR PLUM ‘stands up, :surprised..

: PROFESSOR PLUM I did.

The gun is now on the floor, nearby.

: PROFESSOR :-PLUM I didn't!!

-MRS . PEACOCK Well, you had“the gun. ‘If you didn't, who did?

a PROFESSOR PLUM Nobody! Look, there's no gunshot wound.

- PROFESSOR PLUM turns MR. BODDY over. ‘They all look at

‘his front. He's right -- there's no bullet wound.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD crosses over ‘to have a look.

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CONTINUED °(4)+:

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD ‘He's right. And there's a bullet lodged in the panelling. Here! See?

They all cross to have a look at it.

They all stare accusingly at PROFESSOR PLUM.

MRS. WHITE comments in her soft-spoken way:

-aMRS. WHITE But one of us must have killed him.

This quiet observation produces a fearful silence. They all look at each other nervously, aware that .a murderer is present amongst ‘them.

“MRS. PEACOCK I need .a drink.

She puts down the dagger and picks up the brandy goblet that MR. BODDY placed on the table:-near the door just

‘before the lights went out. She raises it to her lips, -and sips a little.

MRS. PEACOCK screams, and drops the glass. She continues

screaming, hysterically. After some moments of continued screaming, MR. GREEN slaps her face.

This stops her, abruptly.

They all look at him. More violence! Is he the murderer?

(CONTINUED) .

‘41.* CONTINUED (5):

They all - except for MRS. PEACOCK who is half-sitting half-lying on the sofa - hurry over to look at the brandy goblet. But it lies broken on the floor.

-MISS SCARLET. Looks like we'll never know.

They all hurry over to the sofa and stare at MRS. PEACOCK. She seems all right.

From another room comes a TERRIBLE SCREAMING SCOUND. *

They all freeze, and stare at each other in terror. Then, at once, MR. GREEN starts screaming too.

The ‘screaming -from ‘the other room is still continuing too.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD grane MR, GREEN by his Papete ‘chen slaps

‘his face.

BECAUSE I'M FRIGHTENED‘

: | COLONEL MUSTARD WHAT OF? :

| MR. GREEN SCREAMING. THERE'S SOMEBODY SCREAMING NEXT DOOR!

| And ‘indeed somebody is still screaming next door.

They all rush out together and into the Hall. (CONTINUED) ©

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The GROUP rushes into the Hall. The screaming seems

‘to be coming from the Billiard .Room. It is still ‘continuing. COLONEL MUSTARD tries the handle. The door is locked. He KNOCKS on the DOOR. He rattles

the handle, then POUNDS on the DOOR again.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM It must be the murderer.

' MRS. WHITE He must have a victim in _ there. Oh. my God, Yvette?!

They bang on the door again. The. SCREAMING stops.

. MISS SCARLET | Hello=-oh! Yoo-hoo: Open the ‘door.

At this moment YVETTE opens the door.

‘They rush in.

There is silence, apart froma faint rhythmic CLICKING SOUND.

. WADSWORTH “You're alive!

. YVETTE -No thanks to you.

She is furious.

(CONPINUED)

( ¥ 41 a

‘MRS... WHITE So the murderer is in this room. YVETTE Yest! MR. GREEN Where?

He looks desperately at PROFESSOR PLUM who is standing next to him.

They all look around desperately.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM How do you know she said that?

“She indicates the tape recorder, the reels still turning,

a small piece of tape catching on a reel makes the CLICKING SOUND.

Because I'm m frightened! .Me too. I also azank the Cognac. Mon Dieu.

(she starts to weep) I can't stay in ‘here ‘by myself.

'(CONTINUED)

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41 CONTINUED:

‘She nods.

COLONEL MUSTARD

- ‘There's safety in numbers, my

dear. |

WADSWORTH switches off the tape

‘recorder.

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“44.

And they return to the Study. MR. BODDY is still lying

there on the. floor. MRS. PEACOCK sits on the sofa

again. They stare at the scene.

ANGLE ON WADSWORTH

He crosses to a chair and sits. MRS. WHITE realizes the full impact of his remarks.

Then they all stare at him. WADSWORTH mops his brow.

And WADSWORTH points to the body of MR. BODDY.

WADSWORTH confesses:

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Now WADSWORTH is building himself up into an emotional state, a-panic attack. MRS. WHITE crosses to WADSWORTH.

‘MRS. ‘WHITE (firmly) . I think you'd ‘better -explain.

They all take a seat. Unfortunately there are only

‘seven possible places to sit. MR. GREEN gets to two

or three of them.a moment too late. Finally, as there

is nowhere for him to-sit, he perches on the edge of a

table. He settles himself comfortably ‘to listen.

- WADSWORTH (continuing) Right. When I ....

‘MR. GREEN'S table collapses. And‘with it go the lamp,

bottle of liquor and glasses that were on it. MR. GREEN, very embarrassed, picks himself up.

| MR. GREEN , I'm sorry, I'ma little accident prone.

(COLONEL MUSTARD (not ‘hearing) He's a little what?

MISS ‘SCARLET lights up another of. her ever-present cigarettes.

Ab.

42 “CONTINUED:

eu ‘WADSWORTH -

| When I said that I was Mr. Boddy's ‘butler, this -was both true and misleading. I was once his butler, but it was not his untimely death this evening which brought my . employment with him to an end. Oh, no!

‘COLONEL MUSTARD When did it come to an end?

He is speaking wihtout irony. WADSWORTH isa very sincere fellow who always tries to understand. |

| | | _ WADSWORTH es ‘He decided to turn his information “to good use and make a little money -out of it. What could be more American than that? -Mr.Boddy was truly an apostle of free enterprise. He became .a rich man... (darkly) . But ‘money . is the fruit of all evil.

“PROFESSOR PLUM And what was your role in all. this?

ci WADSWORTH _ \ Ud. I was a victim, too. At least my wife was.

‘AT. 42 -CONTINUED °(3).: a ‘WADSWORTH, now tearful, wipes his eye with the ‘back of a, his hand. MRS. WHITE offers him her handkerchief. WADSWORTH “(continuing)

Well, we all make mistakes. But Mr. Boddy threatened to give my wife's name to the House ‘Un-American Activities Committee unless she named them. She refused -- and so he blackmailed her. We had no money -- and the price of his silence was that we worked for :him for nothing. ‘We were slaves. Well, to -make-a long story short...

WADSWORTH

The suicide of my wife preyed

on my mind and created -a sense

of ‘injustice in me, and I

resolved to put Mr. Boddy béhind os bars. It seemed to me that-the ed: . best way to do it --.and to free —— all of you from the same burden

‘Of ‘blackmail -- was ‘to get us all

face to face, confront Mr. Boddy

with his crimes, extract a

confession and then turn him over

to the police.

| -- PROFESSOR PLUM stands, and looks at the OTHERS, relieved that he understands what has been going on.

MRS. PEACOCK ‘nods vigorously. MISS SCARLET shakes her head.

‘42

“CONTINUED °(4):: MRS. PEACOCK leaps to her feet.

, MR. ‘GREEN But... how can we possibly find out which of you did it?

‘They all stare. at him. ‘PROFESSOR ‘PLUM ~ What do you mean -- which of

you ‘did it?

. MISS SCARLET We'll all go to the chair.

They all gaze at each other in further horror. ‘Then

- PROFESSOR ‘PLUM gets .an idea.

‘PROFESSOR -PLUM Maybe it wasn't one of us!

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD Who else could it have been?

And as a GROUP, en masse, they rush out of the Study.

EVERYBODY rushes across the Hall to.the Kitchen. |

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“44

It is a large old-fashioned Kitchen, with a range, an oven, an old porcelain sink. Flagstones. And no

‘COOK. The room is empty. The GUESTS, .and YVETTE,

rush in. They stop. They look around.

And beside him, a.cupboard door groans and opens. The COOK falls face first out-of the cupboard. Dead. She has a knife in her back. The dagger.

MISS SCARLET screams.

The COOK is in MR. GREEN'’s arms. He just stands aghast,

Rear to tears, holding her up.

They all stare at him.

‘MR. GREEN (continuing) Well, help me, somebody.

MRS. WHITE, COLONEL MUSTARD an@ MISS SCARLET hurry

forward, and help MR. GREEN lower the body of the COOK to the floor. MRS. WHITE reaches for the knife.

MRS. WHITE stops just in time.

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COLONEL MUSTARD stands up and stares grimly at WADSWORTH.

| COLONEL MUSTARD I think you'd better explain yourself, Wadsworth.

COLONEL MUSTARD eyes her menacingly. He is not amused.

Ne If this was dessert, I'm glad . -I said no.

COLONEL MUSTARD can contain himself no longer. He turns on MISS. SCARLET. ~ °

MRS. WHITE and MRS. GREEN. beth stare at him and: * then stowly back away, terrified. i

_ COLONEL MUSTARD (continuing) I said "if." “If." That's all. (more)

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- pot me. It's-her.

Many husbands -have you -had?

COLONEL MUSTARD

Yours.

“COLONEL MUSTARD ‘Five?

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD You lure men to their death like a spider with flies.

men are most vulnerable.

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Biles CONTINUED (3) COLONEL MUSTARD (cont'd) (very uncomfortable) Well, if it wasn't you, who was m

it? Who had the dagger? It _ _was you, wasn't it, Mrs. Peacock?

They all turn to look at her, standing in the doorway, next to PROFESSOR PLUM, her eyes averted from the dead ‘body. She is suddenly frightened. She licks her lips anxiously.

A pause.

‘WADSWORTH Look -- I suggest that we move the Cook's body into ‘the Study.

COLONEL MUSTARD

| COLONEL MUSTARD Got it! a

WADSWORTH steps forward to the bedy. ‘PROFESSOR PLUM, COLONEL MUSTARD and MR. GREEN: help. The COOK was a big hefty lady, but ‘somehow they lift her up and cart her out of the Kitchen, PROFESSOR PLUM and WADSWORTH

taking an arm each, COLONEL MUSTARD and MR. GREEN

taking a leg each.

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PROFESSOR PLUM, COLONEL MUSTARD, MR. GREEN and WADSWORTH

stagger into the Study. We see a WIDE or HIGH VIEW of the room. It is -empty. The same HIGH POV.

Where MR. BODDY's corpse was, there is nothing.

PROFESSOR PLUM realizes it first.

COLONEL MUSTARD, MR. GREEN and WADSWORTH react in fear.

.ALL :-THREE ‘What???2

PROFESSOR ‘PLUM The body's gone. —

PROFESSOR PLUM has | already let go of the COOK's right arm.

Now, aghast, WADSWORTH lets go of the COOK's left arm. The COOK's top end immediately drops and her head ‘hits

the floor with.a-terrible thud. None of the lifters

notice this. They are staring, frightened, at the place where MR. BODDY previously lay. MRS. PEACOCK tries to

enter, but she can't get into the room because the FOUR “MEN .and the COOK's corpse are more or less blocking the ‘doorway.

‘MRS. PEACOCK What are you all staring at?

Nothing.

oo . .MRS.. .PEACOCK eit” ‘© who's. ‘there?

i‘ ‘COLONEL MUSTARD Nobody.

~ MRS. PEACOCK - What do you mean?

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Mesnwhtl< MISS SCARLET, MRS. WHITE and YVETTE are crowding into the doorway.

MRS. WHITE — Maybe he wasn't dead.

MRS. WHITE turns on MRS. PEACOCK. MRS. WHITE - (angrily) ;

That wasn't called for.

_. . WADSWORTH We'd better look for him.

MR. GREEN and COLONEL MUSTARD. let goof her legs, .and

-both feet thud to the floor. ‘Tentatively, perhaps with

EERIE MUSIC, ‘they -all search the Study -- opening cupboards, under sofas, under the desk. But there's no ‘Sign of the body. -Finally, they all : EOr and stare at each other, completely bemused.

PROFESSOR PLUM is utterly mystified.

MISS “SCARLET

(dryly) It makes quite a difference to

him. (to MRS.. WHITE) Maybe there is life after death.

(MORE) | | (CONTINUED)

45 CONTINUED (2):

( ¥ | WADSWORTH (CONT'D) ~ (looks at his watch) -e. Thirty-five minutes, and we have another corpse on our hands.

MR. GREEN has an inspiration.

A silence. They can't work it out.

Do MPS. PEACOCK

| (legs slightly

crossed)

Well, if you'll-excuse me, I have a-ladies' room in the hall?

y

MRS. PEACOCK hurries out. Meanwhile MISS SCARLET

has picked up the envelope that WADSWORTH ‘had opened

| earlier, and produced some photographic negatives. a She's intrigued.

: MISS SCARLET What' ‘s this, ‘Wadsworth?

WADSWORTH steps forward to reclaim them. WADSWORTH I'm afraid those are the negatives to which Colonel Mustard earlier referred.

(3 He also steps in.

Do

45 “CONTINUED .(3)::

os | a MISS SCARLET Nee Were you planning to blackmail him, Wadsworth?

WADSWORTH is appalled at the idea.

‘MISS SCARLET looks at the negatives.

| PROFESSOR PLUM | What sort of pictures are they?

COLONEL MUSTARD steps in to MISS SCARLET. ‘COLONEL MUSTARD

How dare you, Madam. Give them ‘to me at once!!

-MISS SCARLET | No e-- I think there's something in them that concerns me too.

They struggle over the negatives.

He grabs them. MRS. WHITE, MISS SCARLET and MR. GREEN look over his shoulder.

| MRS. WHITE FON Nobody can get into that position.

(CONTINUED) ©

“46

“CONTINUED ((4)::

He swings her around and down onto the sofa and is about

‘to climb on top of her.

‘Meanwhile, MRS. PEACOCK has found the door of the

Bathroom under the stairs. She tugs at it. It won't open. She tugs again, the door opens -- and the body

o£ MR. BODDY falls out. She screams. Blood is dripping

from his head. He falls against her. She screams and screams. ,

‘INT. THE ‘STUDY

All the OTHERS hear the screaming.

” WADSWORTH It's Mrs. Peacock!

He rushes out into ‘the Hall. The OTHERS follow, WADSWORTH grabbing the negatives from MISS SCARLET as

he goes, and dumping them on the table.

MRS. PEACOCK is. fighting off MR. BODDY, who is. falling all over her. The OTHERS run towards her. There is — ‘blood all over her face. :

WADSWORTH and MR. GREEN pull ‘him off her. And they realize that he now has visible injuries. His head has been bashed. Blood is everywhere.

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They lay him down.

WADSWORTH and PROFESSOR PLUM see her.

-WADSWORTH She's going to faint!

Standing behind her, WADSWORTH holds out his arms to catch her. She faints straight ‘through | them and-ends up on the floor in a ‘heap.

. WADSWORTH | (continuing) Sorry.

MR. GREEN looks at his bloodied hands. ‘So do all ‘the OTHERS. ,

ANGLE ON MRS. WHITE

‘He goes into the toilet, to look for clues.

PROFESSOR PLUM

It's what we call psychotic. (CONTINUED)

‘CONTINUED (2):

‘PROFESSOR PLUM “There's -no need to ‘shout!

‘He ‘stops shouting and, purple in the face, glares at ‘them defiantly. And the heavy brass candlestick wobbles and topples off the top of the door frame of the loo and hits him on the head. It is bloodstained. He reels.

He jolts to the floor.

The rain is still pelting down. RUMBLING THUNDER. Racing clouds. A car is driving down the twisting road ‘near the gates. It is going fast.

-CLOSE-UP - THE MOTORIST

at the wheel, tense, worried.

BXYT. ROAD - ANGLE - CAR

going too fast: It races round a bend, and a cat leaps ‘out into the beam of the ‘headlights. ‘The MOTORIST swerves to avoid it. the CAR SKIDS.

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PROFESSOR PLUM, COLONEL MUSTARD, and MR. GREEN are lugging MR. BODDY into the Study. They put him down in the doorway, because their path is blocked by the COOK's body. COLONEL MUSTARD takes command.

MRS. WHITE, MISS SCARLET and YVETTE clamber over the body and start to drag the.COOK along the floor on her back. The dagger is still ‘sticking .out of her ‘back.

-COLONEL -MUSTARD (continuing) Put the corpses on the sofa.

The MEN hesitate, too dazed to do anything. COLONEL MUSTARD prompts them, indicating the COOK. .

‘The MEN put down MR- BODDY's body, and help the LADIES

lift the COOK up onto the sofa. PROFESSOR PLUM is mesmerized by YVETTE's breasts as she bends forward.

WADSWORTH

‘Careful. Don't get blood :on the sofa. ‘Look, Professor!

| COLONEL MUSTARD. Tip her forward, over the arm.

They do so.

-CONTINUED:

COLONEL “MUSTARD (continuing) Now Mr. Boddy.

‘They haul him up onto the sofa, next to the COOK.

Panting, they stand back.

‘MRS. WHITE You-were given it..

WADSWORTH | Look -- -there -are -still-all these weapons -= the rope, the wrench, the lead pipe, the gun -- let's put them in this cupboard and lock it. There's ‘a homicidal maniac .about.

WADSWORTH, helped by the OTHERS, puts the remaining weapons into the cupboard, and locks the door. He puts rind pocket.

To keep it safe, obviously.

CONTINUED °(.2).:

“MRS. PEACOCK But that means you can open it whenever you want.

.WADSWORTH It also means that you can't.

( ‘MRS. PEACOCK But what if you're the murderer?

“COLONEL | MUSTARD (persisting) ‘But what if :you iare?

MRS. PEACOCK \ (emphatically) But we don't =now we are.

_YVETTE ' In the lock?

He rushes out of the Study. The OTHERS follow.

Led by WADSWORTH, they all rush to the front-doar. -WADSWORTH throws open the door, pulls :back his arm

rapidly -- preparatory to ‘throwing ‘the key into the night -- and realizes that he is standing face’ ‘to face

with ‘the: MOTORIST.

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‘The MOTORIST thinks that WADSWORTH is about to punch

him, and he ‘half ducks and puts up his hands to defend himself and to stave off the attack. WADSWORTH's throwing arm freezes.

He ‘sees that eight people are packed into the front door,

‘Staring at ‘him-with various :expressions’of fear, suspicion, and ‘hysteria.

BACK TO SCENE

. WADSWORTH Just a moment, please.

MOTORIST'S POV - ALL EIGHT PEOPLE

turn in amongst themselves for a hasty whispered

-conference. <= Occasional words float out of the huddle:

"He wants to use the phone"... "I say ‘no'"... What * he doing round here?"... “How can we say no?"... “All

xight? Yes. Yes. AgEee 5”

WADSWORTH turns, and tries to cok as dignified and normal as possible.

“WADSWORTH

very well, sir. Would you like to come ‘in?

The MOTORIST steps in. ALL EIGHT PEOPLE just stare at

| MOTORIST Well... where is it?

. WADSWORTH What? The body? -

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He inadvertently let the question slip out. The OTHERS -react.

MOTORIST | The phone. What body? * . * “WADSWORTH ‘There's no body. Nobody. There's ™

nobody in the Study.

He points to the Study door. ‘The MOTORIST starts walking towards it. ‘Simultaneously.EVERYONE realizes that ‘that is where the BODIES are.

“ALL NOOOOOOCO! !

WADSWORTH ; . No, no, that's been disconnected, | but I think there's one in the | Lounge.

. MOTORIST Thank you.

| 7, - ‘WADSWORTH a . Walk this way.

He sets off, doing his usual dignified Butler walk. The MOTORIST, realizing ‘ehat all eyes are on him,

follows WADSWORTH in an exact imiation of WADSWORTH's idiosyncratic walk.

‘WADSWORTH indicates the hone ‘to. the aortas

‘WADSWORTH When ‘you've made your call, perhaps you would be» -good - enough to wait . here?

| MOTORIST Certainly.

WADSWORTH ‘retreats ‘to ‘the. door, opens it, goes out,

and shuts the door. The MOTORIST is now alone in the Lounse.

| fom,

as he «shuts the door. -He jumps. .COLONEL “MUSTARD ‘is right behind him. ;

WADSWORTH'S POV. =- COLONEL .MUSTARD miming locking the Lounge door. BACK TO SCENE

WADSWORTH nods, and turns the key.

. The. MOTORIST is -about to -dial :when .he ‘sees and :HEARS <a

KEY ‘BEING .TURNED in the mortice lock. He realizes that he is locked in. He is very -anxious.

WADSWORTH leaves the key in the lock. He turns to face the SIX GUESTS and YVETTE, who are all staring at him.

WADSWORTH nods towards the door.

. WADSWORTH “Still in the lock.

He walks to the front door. -One of the GUESTS opens it

for him. He takes the key from his pocket.

This time there is no one waiting outside. He hurls

the ‘key far up. and away, and it lands in.a.distant

shrubbery, never to be seen again. The front door shuts.

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. COLONEL MUSTARD I need a drink.

There is a general chorus of "Me, too" from the GUESTS. COLONEL MUSTARD leads off to the Library. ALL follow. As they pass the Study door, the COLONEL ‘stops and looks in. MR. BODDY and the COOK are still lying dead on the sofa.

COLONEL: MUSTARD Yes. Two corpses. Everything's fine.

WADSWORTH, bringing up the rear, speaks to himself incredulously.

But COLONEL MUSTARD is leading them all into the pibeaey.

Everyone stands around nervously. COLONEL MUSTARD pours himself a stiff drink, and tries to take. charge.

MISS SCARLET, MR. GREEN, and PROFESSOR PLUM all step forward to help themselves.

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CONTINUED “(2).:

‘PROFESSOR :PLUM If we throw him out he may get even more suspicious.

The COLONEL pulls himself together and takes a swig of

fis drink. Either the alcohol-or the panic seems to

have caused his brain :to seize up.

WADSWORTH is getting angry now.

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COLONEL ‘MUSTARD

Is. there anyone -else in ‘the

house?

NO!

ALL

~~ “(a beat) :

What was the question?

COLONEL MUSTARD is still unsure, and he eyes WADSWORTH

with a steely eye.

That's what ‘he says! “But -do

‘he know?

this -1n-a proper military

fashion.

the house.

i GROUP.

‘Split up?

Yes.

MRS. PEACOCK

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‘Pairs? Yes.

has deep misgivings.

-.. we haven't much time, so let's.split up into -pairs.

-PROFESSOR PLUM

COLONEL MUSTARD

PROFESSOR - ‘PLUM

Wait a minute! Suppose that one of us is the murderer. we split up into pairs, whichever one of us is left alone with the, killer might be

killed!

aa ‘one

es. I suggest ‘we ‘handle

Split up and search

‘PROFESSOR PLUM looks. around . ate the OTHERS.

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This suggestion causes a feeling of mild panic in the

Clearly he

‘CONTINUED (4):

‘COLONEL MUSTARD (triumphantly)

‘Then we would have -.discovered who the murderer was.

COLONEL MUSTARD is quite philosophical .about . this. ‘He shrugs.

- MRS. PEACOCK Yes, but look what happened to the Cook!

There is a pause, while they all consider what happened to the COOK.

| MR. GREEN Are you willing :to take that ‘chance

He waits, expecting a chorus of agreement. After several moments, they ali mutter -- 'none,' ‘course *

not, * not awfully convincing.

. YVETTE. ‘Bon D'accord. ‘But it's dark upstairs and I'm frightened of the dark -- will anyone go with me?

‘They all look at each other sheepishiy.

WADSWORTH

partners.

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CONTINUED (5): He goes over to the fireplace and from the mantlepiece

he takes a box of matches (or some long tapers). He leaves the Library, gesturing to the OTHERS to follow

WADSWORTH, followed by | ace THE OTHERS, crosses the Hall to the Kitchen.

‘WADSWORTH .ccomes into the Kitchen,.crosses to a drawer, and produces a sharp carving knife. He turns abruptly,.,

knife in hand. THE OTHERS gasp, ‘step back, WADSWORTH © is unaware of this. He sets about cutting the

matches into eight different lengths. Then, carefully, his back the THE OTHERS, he places the matches in-his hand so that no one can tell their lengths. He turns to face them.

WADSWORTH - | Ready? The shortest with the ‘second shortest. Agreed?

And let's say the two shortest search the cellar, and-so on up.

‘THey nod and, :-one by one, .accompanied by TENSE MUSIC, ‘they pick out the matchsticks. Then ‘they compare —

lengths. And the result? WADSWORTH is paired with MRS. WHITE, YVETTE with MR. GREEN, COLONEL MUSTARD with MISS SCARLET, .and PROFESSOR PLUM with MRS. PEACOCK.

MRS. | FEACOCK (appalled) | ~ Yuek! (then) Why don't we all search the house together? .

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°61 jjgjINT. THE HALL

ALL RIGHT GUESTS come out of the Kitchen and into the Hall. WE SEE them divide up into their pairs.

PROFESSOR PLUM and MRS. PEACOCK separate from the other six and head ‘towards a doorway that opens up Cellar Stairs. ‘WADSWORTH, MRS. WHITE, YVETTE .and MR. GREEN :all go -up the main stairs. (COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET remain in the Hall.

COLONEL MUSTARD | Well... we know what's in the r Study. We've just come from the Library. And the Stranger is locked in the Lounge. So... ?

fit ; : Ce They cross the Hall, and carefully open the door to the - Billiard Room.

“COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET come in and nervously search it -- under the table, in the cupboards, behind

the full-length drapes at the window... nobody else is there.

‘WADSWORTH and MRS. WHITE are peering anxiously into a couple of dark bedrooms, slightly unwilling to go in.

MRS. WHITE | ‘Yes. Are you?

| | “WADSWORTH Yes.

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“They don't move. They stare at each other suspiciously.

Neither can I. But there must be switches by the beds.

“MRS. WHITE (emphatically) ‘No! I mean... no, thank you.

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He goes into the first Bedroom. She goes into the second.

The landing is empty for.a moment. .CAMERA STAYS ‘there.

Then both their heads reappear around the -doorways,

checking on -each-other.

The rain is still pouring. . The wind is howling. MR.

GREEN and YVETTE pause at the foot of the staircase.

I'm sure there's no one up there.

. YVETTE Then you:go in front.

“MR. GREEN hesitates.

But MR. GREEN doesn't move.

PROFESSOR PLUM and MRS. PEACOCK are standing at the top of the cold flagstone ‘steps. Cold brick walls.

She looks .at the long steep. staircase that falls away before her.

— MRS. PEACOCK Er... no, you can go first... *.

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‘PROFESSOR PLUM What are you frightened of, a- fate worse than death?

. MRS. PEACOCK No. Just death. Isn't that enough?

COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET tentatively .push :open two big double doors at the far -end-of the Hall. They ‘open into a’‘huge dark cavernous space. ‘(It is actually the Ballroom.)

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down the dark cellar stairs.

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“Re starts ‘to run ‘his hands over ‘her body.

| MISS SCARLET (scathingly) I-didn't mean that literally, get your mitts off me!

He obeys hastily.

YVETTE and MR. GREEN-have not moved. They are squeezed in, side by «side, -at ‘the ‘bottom of ‘the narrow staircase.

YVETTE

“GO -on. <‘I'1ll be right thehind

‘you.

‘YVETTE Then let's go together.

MR. GREEN nods. Side by ‘side they walk up the narrow staircase. There isn't room for them both! They look rtidiculous, squeezéd together.

Side by side PROFESSOR PLUM and MRS. PEACOCK are walking It's not easy.

Side by. side, COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET ‘try to

get into the big dark room through the one open double. _ door.

It's not possible. They bang into -each other. They separate. They go again -- they bang together

again!

WADSWORTH is groping =OuHS, in ‘the first. bedroom, aang to find a lamp.

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‘MRS. WHITE is doing the same thing in her room.

_ INT. FIRST BEDROOM

WADSWORTH looks under the bed, fearfully,

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75,

PROFESSOR PLUM and MRS. PEACOCK have reached the bottom of the steps. Various dark rooms open out in front of

them. Eyeing each other with the greatest suspicion, they back away and into separate rooms.

WADSWORTH finds a bedside lamp. CLOSE UP of WADSWORTH's

hand switching it on.

‘INT. SECOND BEDROOM

‘MRS. WHITE, in the second Bedroom ‘now sees a little because of the light spilling through an inter-

connecting door from the first Bedroom to the second. She sees the huge shadow of a person beside her.

‘No reply. She sees a light switch, backs ‘toward it, ‘switches it .on.

She looks round. She is ina children's nursery full .of toys -- dolls, big bears, rocking horses, trains, ete. She has been talking to a ‘big doll.

COLONEL MUSTARD or MISS SCARLET switch on a light. They see a huge Ballroom stretching before them,

a piano at the-.end.

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD © (pleased) o ‘Nobody here. ©

He hasn't even looked.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD You look, I'll search the Kitchen.

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‘He goes. The long curtains move. She stares. They

move again. MISS SCARLET goes slowly -and fearfully towards the curtains. Sharply she pulls -them back.

Nobody there... just a broken pane of glass.

The MOTORIST's car stands just off the side of a road. Then we see that a POLICE patrol car is driving

‘Slowly down the road towards it.

There is a COP alone in the patrol car. He sees the

MOTORIST's abandoned car. He eyes it suspiciously. He pulls up some way past the MOTORIST's car..

-A gloved hand ---male:.or female, we -.can't tell --

removes the key from the lock in the Lounge door.

‘We see the desk in ‘the Study. On it lies the ‘envelope from which WADSWORTH has earlier withdrawn

the letter which he reads to all the GUESTS.

The GLOVED HAND pulls the envelope from the desk. It» pulls out NEGATIVES and PHOTOGRAPHS, one of MR. ‘BODDY, another of THE COOK, another of MR. GREEN. Then one

-of the MOTORIST, the MOTORIST, in-Army ‘uniform, at the

wheel of a. Jeep. NEW ANGLE

The photographs of COLONEL ‘MUSTARD and YVETTE which were earlier left on the table, are being examined. We also see some letters and other papers. Then they are stuffed back into the envelope, which is thrown on to the - ‘blazing log fire. It. burns up.

CAMERA ‘MOVES WITH the GLOVED HAND, ACROSS TO ‘the

_ cupboard. They key is inserted into the lock, the | “door opens, and the weapons are revealed.

The COP walks slowly, curiously, up towards the MOTORIST's car, and wanders around it.

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‘INT.. ‘THE LOUNGE

The MOTORIST is on the telephone.

chead. -He falls. ‘The PHONE drops. The :wrench is ‘dropped.

MISS SCARLET is leaving the BALLROOM. She comes out

COLONEL. MUSTARD. comes out of ‘the Kitchen, .and meets :her.-

Then, ‘held ‘in «a gloved-hand ‘that could be male-«or female, the wrench comes INTO SHOT and hits the MOTORIST .on the

into the Hall. She calls nervously.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD There's no one in the Kitchen.

He nods. They go into it.

This is an eerie looking room, in the dark. ‘Big trees and plants make weird shapes and shadows. But within a few

moments COLONEL MUSTARD -finds :the ‘light switch. ‘And ‘looks -around.

. COLONEL MUSTARD Look! .- ,

He: points. We see that a panel in the wall is slightly ajar. They cross to it. There are steps. down into it. Into pitch darkness. _

They look at each other nervously.

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His voice is amplified by the echoing tunnel.

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MISS “SCARLET -(continuing) ‘Shall we see where it leads?

.There is a flashlight on a nearby shelf or table.

COLONEL MUSTARD grabs it.

They look at each other, and then COLONEL MUSTARD steps ‘in.

‘She follows him in.

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‘INT. THE SECRET PASSAGE

‘TENSE MUSIC as they wind their way along a dark stone narrow passage. The COLONEL trips .on ‘something. He stumbles. It makes a big echoing noise.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD ‘God dammit!

“The gloved hand switches off the light. Now there's “only a little moon Lage coming ‘through a “rack | in the

shutters. .

MISS SCARLET and COLONEL MUSTARD emerge into the room.

: Suddenly she trips, or is pushed. She stumbles forward. He is pushed. He drops the flashlight. It-goes out.

Her foot catches the face of the dead MOTORIST. She ‘falls over his ‘body.

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_ COLONEL MUSTARD Did you hurt yourself?

We can see what she's landed on. She feels around. Her hands finds the MOTORIST's head. She is shocked.

_.MISS -SCARLET (continuing) It's .a body. (she realizes) Somebody else is in here:

The flashlight is switched on. It moves across the

MISS: SCARLET (continuing). Who is it?

‘ COLONEL MUSTARD swings around, swinging out his arm. His hand ‘hits the flashlight held by the GLOVED HAND. Impact: The flashlight flies through the air. It

lands on the floor. ‘A shoe kicks it. It slides across

the floor. It goes out.

“COLONEL MUSTARD The murderer's in here!

MISS SCARLET _ I'm in here with a murderer:

COLONEL MUSTARD crashes over the body and falls on MISS

‘SCARLET. She gasps.

MR. GREEN and YVETTE are in the attic, picking their

‘way among old junk, chests, grandfather clocks, suit- -cases, trunks, old family portraits and, above all, cobwebs and dust. They too have found a light switch

and can now see what they are doing. From below comes the sudden SOUND of MISS SCARLET SCREAMING.

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MISS ‘SCARLET (0.S.) ‘Help: Help! Help: —

YVETTE and MR. GREEN run towards the stairs.

“THE LOUNGE

COLONEL MUSTARD is still lying on MISS SCARLET. She's ‘trying to get away. He's trying to calm her down.

‘MISS -‘SCARLET Leave me alone!

.COLONEL -MUSTARD Of course it's ‘me! .

WADSWORTH and MRS. WHITE emerge from their respective

Bedrooms, hearing the screaming. ‘Then, as YVETTE -and MR. GREEN hurtle down the Attic stairs, they all run down the main stairs into the Hall. We MOVE WITH them. As they reach the main Hall, MRS. PEACOCK and PROFESSOR. PLUM shoot out of the Cellar and collide with them. CRASH:

'-Meanwhile, from the Lounge we hear MISS SCARLET SCREAMING. The dialogue, as always, goes at tremendous

speed.

MISS” SCARLET (0. Ss.) AanaWaanawaghhengnanch*

They all rush to the door of the Lounge. MR. GREEN tries to open it. ; . a

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PROFESSOR ‘PLUM Never mind about the ‘key, unlock ‘the door? .

MR. GREEN is leaping up and down with rage and frustration.

‘LET US IN! LET US IN!!

door.

MISS SCARLET and COLONEL MUSTARD are banging on the

It! ‘$ no good.

WADSWORTH has been unable to open the door.

_ WADSWORTH

(te the door) ‘Stand ‘back!!

He walks firmly back from ‘the door. “He is at his

mos> macho.

‘WADSWORTH

(continuing) There's no alternative. I'1l have to break it down.) .

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-MISS SCARLET and COLONEL MUSTARD.

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MRS. PEACOCK loses her temper. She shouts at the door... oO MRS. PEACOCK Will you shut up! We're doing our best.

XVETTE comes running out of the Study. The revolver is in her hand. She trips over WADSWORTH, whom she does

‘not see writhing :on ‘the floor. The «GUN.-GOES .OFF as ‘she falls. It shoots the:-gilt rope that -holds -up :the

chandelier above the Hall. The -chandelier comes loose,* hanging on by a thread. Meanwhile, when the gun went * off, everyone else dived for cover behind furniture,

or flat on the floor. YVETTE picks herself up, and

runs to the locked Lounge door. She FIRES the GUN at

the lock. The lock is shot away.

There is a pause. Complete silence. Then COLONEL

-MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET open the door. ‘They look

shattered. EVERYONE ELSE picks themselves up. COLONEL MUSTARD Why were you shooting that thing at us?

You might have killed us. I can't . hal take any more scares. oa iS

The Chandelier comes crashing down behind him. The *

shock frightens them all out of their wits. a"

‘MISS SCARLET (quietly) ‘Look.

She stands aside. They all peer in through the

door and see the dead MOTORIST. Then they look at

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door. The chandelier thread is. unwinding faster.

against the wall, and dive for cover (respectively).

‘INT.. THE HALL

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‘(Clutches his arm, then realizes) I've been shot: They're shooting

-at us! THEY'RE SHOOTING AT vUS!!

The chandelier is hanging lopsided. CLOSER: We see it is hanging by a thread which is unwinding.

YVETTE picks herself up and runs to the locked Lounge

She FIRES THE GUN at the lock, once, then once again.

COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET flatten themselves

The lock has been shot away. Pause.

Complete silence. Then COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET open the door. They look shatterec.

EVERYONE ELSE picks themselves up. The chandelier rope is unwinding even faster:

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD Why were you shooting that thing at us? ..

The chandelier rope is unwinding at-even greater speed. From a HIGH POV, beside the unwinding rope, looking

‘down through the chandelier, we see that it is directly

above COLONEL MUSTARD.

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-He takes .a-step away, towards a-chair-.or sofa. -He is facing CAMERA. As ‘he -takes that step, the chandelier ‘comes crashing down behind him. The shock almost gives him - and them - a heart attack:

She stands aside, and-switches.on the light in the -Lounge..

They all peer in through the door and see the DEAD MOTORIST, who lies in the foreground.

‘MRS. WHITE He needed that hole in the head ike -a hole in the -head.

-COLONEL. ‘MUSTARD (outraged) We found him, together.

| They all crowd into the Lounge and gape at the secret

passage. . -.MISS SCARLET * It comes from the Conservatory.

MISS SCARLET, overwhelmed by her ordeal, sinks exhausted on. ‘to a sofa.

COLONEL MUSTARD: =

Thank God you were able to - “get us out, Yvette.

They all look at YVETTE. sus eeens has) tie gun in her hand. They all suddenly stare at the ‘gun.

; MRS. PEACOCK From the cupboard?

‘PROFESSOR -PLUM But it was locked.

They all look at her!

They are all -amazed.

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Sure -enough, the cupboard door is open. And the key is in the lock. ‘They all rush ‘in -=- and, Stopping abruptly., ‘stare at it. Then MRS. PEACOCK turns .accusingly on YVETTE.

-MRS. .PEACOCK How did you know it was unlocked? How did you know you could get at the gun? . YVETTE

(defensive)

I didn't. I think: I break it. open - but it was open already.

And at this critical juncture the FRONT DOOR BELL RINGS. DING... DONG...

They all stand still, frozen in terror, not knowing whether to go to the front door or not.

They wait. And hope.

ond

They wait. And hope.

I'm going to open it. Why?

I've nothing to hide. I didn't do itt:

He rushes out of the study. They all follow.

They rush from the “Study to the Hall, towards the

' ifront -door.

The COP is waiting outside the front door. ‘Suddenly

it is opened by MR. GREEN, with the seven OTHERS crowding

the doorway beside and behind him.

_ MR. GREEN slams the front door in his face. A momentary pause, then MR. GREEN flings the door open again.

The COP appears slightly puzzled by this behavior, but after a moment he continues where he left off.

, COP I found an abandoned car near the. gates of this house. Did the driver come here - for help, by any chance?

They all try to smooth away his suspicions.

“CONTINUED:

But MR. GREEN feels he must tell the truth. | MR. GREEN Well, actually, yes. ALL No!:!

The .COP eyes the group.

“COP There seems to be some disagreement.

The COP is not satisfied, apparently.

WADSWORTH is struggling to regain his usual composure.

the one in -the... {he was about to dndicate

‘the Lounge) eee OF... nO, you can usé the one in the Stu... No! Um. Would you be kind enough to wait in the... er... the Library. COP Sure. :

He comes in. As he steps into the Hall, he notices YVETTE. He stops and eyes her suspiciously.

- 94 CONTINUED (2): aa . st She gives a Gallic shrug. COP ‘You all seem very anxious about something. ‘WADSWORTH

Its because that chandelier fell down. It could have. -killed us.

MISS ‘SCARLET hurries to the Lounge and PROFESSOR -PLUM to the Study. They shut both doors fast (and ‘therefore too loudly) as ‘he walks by. “SLAM! SLAM: “One after the other! The COP notices. WADSWORTH shows the COP into the Library.

The COP picks .up -the- cognac.

‘COP In case -of what?

But WADSWORTH has shut the door, also with a bang. And locked it. But this time he is in a big hurry, andleaves the key in the lock. He hurries back along the Hall, to where the SIX GUESTS and YVETTE are still standing, panic~stricken.

We see, and they see, the door handle being jiggled ‘up and. down.

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CONTINUED (3)

-And they all look pretty threatening. “So MR. GREEN

shuts up.

The COP is trying to open the locked door. Puzzled, he leaves it and crosses to the telephone. He is about to lift the receiver when it RINGS. Very loud.

‘He jumps.

Then he answers it.

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‘He goes to the door, and jiggles the handle.

CONTINUED :

COP

Hello? ... Yes? . Okay, okay.

WADSWORTH and the GROUP have frozen.

“COLONEL MUSTARD Was that the phone?

They turn towards the Library door.

The COP is on the phone.

. COP

ane who shall I say is calling? (he listens, then replies sarcastically)

Oh, yes? And I'm Harry Truman. (there is a torment of angry abuse shouted down

the line)

Okay, okay, sir, I'll try, sir. I

apologize, but I'm locked in a room

here...

Then he Calls out through the door.

There is a momentary pause. Then the key is jiggled, and unlocked. He sees, and opens the door. WADSWORTH, YVETTE, COLONEL MUSTARD, MR. GREEN, MISS SCARLET, MRS. WHITE,

MRS. PEACOCK and PROFESSOR PLUM are all standing there. WADSWORTH speaks with as much innocence as he can muster.

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The COP grins.

WADSWORTH was about to answer one of the first questions, but this last inquiry floors him.

COP : J. Edgar Hoover's on the line.

| WADSWORTH J. Edgar Hoover?

when he hesitates and prudently removes the key from the lock. He shuts the door.

The COP is left standing in the Hall with the OTHERS. | | COP | What's going on here? MISS SCARLET We're having a party.

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Cy | 98 CONTINUED: . COP

Mind if I look around?

They all stare at him with desperation in their eyes. Except for MISS SCARLET.

Me??.??

MISS SCARLET ; Yes. Why don't you show him the Dining Room - or the Kitchen ~- or the Ballroom.

- MR. GREEN (still squeaking) Fine.

(he pulls himself together, and lowers his voice two octaves) Fine: Come with me, officer, I'll show

bias you the Dining Room - or the Kitchen -

or the Ballroom.

And he leads him away, the COP going somewhat reluctantly, his eyes lingering on the Study and Lounge doors. As the COP and MR. GREEN disappear into the Dining Room, MISS SCARLET turns to the OTHERS.

“The COP and MR. GREEN come into the Dining Room.

MR. GREEN's voice is still high-pitched in terror.

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Saacet

MR. GREEN

“What two rooms?

MISS SCARLET is talking to MRS. WHITE and COLONEL MUSTARD in front of the bodies of THE COOK and MR. BODDY on the

And she grabs a bottle of brandy from the sideboard.

MISS SCARLET and PROFESSOR PLUM whizz across the Hall and into the Lounge just as MR. GREEN and the COP emerge from the Dining Room. The COP points at the Study and Lounge

He walks purposefully towards the Study. MR. GREEN hurries after him,. geabs his arm, and stops hin.

' MR. GREEN Officer, I don't think you should go in there.

The COP stops walking and stares .at him.

. COP (suspiciously) Why not?. MR. GREEN Um... (wildly)

Well, because... because... oh, it's all too shocking.

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The COP brushes MR. GREEN aside, goes to the Study and opens the door.

The lights are off. The PHONOGRAPH is PLAYING, softly. * "I Ain't Got No Body," an old 78 rpm record. .

The COP switches the light. On the sofa MRS. WHITE is sitting on the knee of the dead MR. BODDY. She is kissing him on the mouth. He appears, from the COP'S POV to be embracing her - but we can see that his arms and hands are being manipulated by MRS. WHITE-like a big puppet. ‘The COP sees this, and his eyes turn to another couple: the COOK is standing up in a corner, her arms around COLONEL MUSTARD, and he appears.to be kissing her. The COOK's hands are moving through his hair.»

NEW ANGLE .

‘In the corner, we see that COOK's hands are behind her ‘back, and MRS. PEACOCK is concealed behind COOK = and it is MRS, PEACOCK's hands which are caressing COLONEL MUSTARD.

The COP turns to MR. GREEN, who is watching open-mouthed.

He leaves the room, followed by MR. GREEN. MRS. PEACOCK comes out from behind the dead COOK. She is looking demented.

MRS. WHITE stops kissing MR. BODDY.

. MRS. PEACOCK (nastily) Before or after you cut his head off?

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Sage

MISS SCARLET is pouring brandy into the mouth of the

- @ead MOTORIST.

The COP and MR. GREEN cross the Hall and open the Lounge Door.

MISS SCARLET and PROFESSOR PLUM are in an embrace.

The MOTORIST is now lying back in a chair, his head injury not visible from the front. A half empty bottle of brandy has his fingers curled round it.

The COP enters. MISS SCARLET and PROFESSOR PLUM separate. The COP eyes them. MR. GREEN is still open-mouthed.

; COP Excuse me.

He sees the MOTORIST and crosses over to him. He sees the bottle. He bends down and sniffs his breath.

The COP shakes the MOTORIST. The bottle slips to the floor. The MOTORIST, not.surprisingly, doesn't wake up when shaken. The COP bends down towards his ear. CoP I hope you're not going to drive home? | ‘PROFESSOR PLUM

He won't be driving home, officer, I promise you that.

CoP: (looking up) Someone will give him a “lift?

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The COP nods. MR. GREEN is still open-mouthed.

WADSWORTH is on the phone.

He replaces the receiver, and, remembering his situation, hurries out into the Hall.

WADSWORTH sees the COP and MR. GREEN coming out of the Leunge.

WADSWORTH is shattered by this statement. As always, the dialogue maintains a considerable pace - therein lies the humor. |

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la : 106A CONTINUED: oF | * COP No. This is America. WADSWORTH I see. COP

It's a free country, didn't you know?

‘WADSWORTH I didn' t know it was that free?

Slight pause.

7 COP May I use the phone. now?

WADSWORTH | Certainly.

Delighted, he shows the COP into the Library. The COP goes in, and WADSWORTH locks the door. Again he

leaves the key in the lock.

to the telephone.

All the GROUP come out of the Study and Lounge.

|

| MR. GREEN : Why did you lock him in there again? | WADSWORTH

We didn't finish searching the house.

MR. GREEN | ‘The police came already. - ALL () _ SHUT UP!

The COP again notices the door being lecked. He turns

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YVETTE takes MR. GREEN by the hand.

And they hurry up the main stairs. WADSWORTH and MRS. WHITE follow. We MOVE WITH them, TO a HIGH AND VERY WIDE SHOT as they all come up the stairs, and simultaneously MRS. PEACOCK and PROFESSOR PLUM return to the Cellar stairs.

On the second floor landing WADSWORTH goes back into ‘the First Bedroom, MRS. WHITE into the second Bedroom. We MOVE 'WITH YVETTE and MR. GREEN UP TO the stairs INTO the Attic where they separate and go into different rooms of which there .are many. We WATCH MR. GREEN peering nervously behind doors, into cupboards, into trunks.

COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET enter the Kitchen. COLONEL MUSTARD eyes a different cupboard door. He moves steadily toward it, opens it -- and a fold-up ironing board drops out and hits him on the head. He reels. Then he looks around. His eye is caught by the cupboard out of which the COOK fell.

‘He opens the door. It looks like a big broom cupboard. Then, with an eerie creak, the back wall of the cupboard moves -- and opens. Another secret passage!

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INTO. SECRET PASSAGE

COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET see a crack of light at the end of the tunnel. They push at the wall -- it opens -- to their amazement.

-.. They have arrived in the Study. They look at each

other, astonished.

They leave the Study through the door into the Hall.

‘They cross the Hall -- and we -- HEAR a NOISE. An

unfamiliar noise. Perhaps just a creaking sound.

COLONEL MUSTARD stops abruptly.

WE SEE, in BIG CLOSEUP, A MAINS ELECTRICITY SWITCH.

We don't know where it is -- unless we have been very observant and seen it in the Background of one of the

scenes so far.

‘It is a big red lever. It is labelled: 'POWER.' The

‘Seen FROM the driveway, all the lights in the house

We see in the dim light, a huge rack of wine bottles.

(NOTE: It will have been seen, perhaps slightly out on

focus, earlier in the film.)

same GLOVED HAND - which could be male or female - comes INTO SHOT. It grabs the lever, and pulls. The light goes out.

snap out. OMITTED.

PROFESSOR PLUM hears a SOUND. Is it a rat - or a man? A NOISE comes from behind it.

Is anyone there?

MRS. PEACOCK can just see a large round shape. WE CAN SEE it is a huge old-fashioned central heating boiler.

It makes occasional ‘quiet GURGLES and HISSES. She stops, terrified.

The room is dark, but some light is coming in through the Hall. COLONEL MUSTARD and MISS SCARLET walk around on a polished wooden floor. They walk slowly» feeling for obstructions.

MISS SCARLET sees a large looming shape in front of her. She's frightened. In fact, it is the. shape of the raised lid of a baby weaee, piano.

—_,

The window has been left slightly open. On this floor the windows haven't been shuttered. Some moonlight

lights the room a little. The WINDOWS RATTLE and the curtains move in the draft.

WADSWORTH blunders into the dressing room in the dark.

It is well lit by moonlight. He turns, sees himself in a full-length mirror, and thinks it's somebody else.

Aaaaagh:

He steps back and falls over the dressing table stool, against the dressing table -- which collapses under his weight with a tremendous CRASH:

MRS. WHITE turns and screams in terror.

OMITTED

The COP is on the phone. He hears the screams, and looks around nervously. He is still holding the phone.

CoP Hello... hello...

MR. GREEN and YVETTE run into each other at the top of the

Attic stairs. They collide, and hang on to each other in terror.

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( | - Spee a YVETTE ™ Get away from me.

And together they tumble down the stairs. MR. GREEN falls in a heap.

YVETTE is hurrying down the main stairs. She can just see enough and she has the bannisters to guide her.

VERY TENSE MUSIC.

She reaches the Hall, and crosses silently to the Billiard Room door.

She opens the door and comes in.

~ We HEAR A WHISPERED VOICE 0O.S.

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WHISPERING VOICE — Yes.

She comes in and shuts the door.

YVETTE comes towards CAMERA, speaking. She is moving into a BIG HEAD-AND-SHOULDERS CLOSE-UP.

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129 © CONTINUED:

(Ne The rope is thrown around her neck. She is horrified. NA Her eyes widen. YVETTE (continuing) It's you!!

And the rope is jerked, closing her windpipe.

The COP is talking desperately on the phone.

COP

“(on phone) There's something funny going on here. I don't know what it is... No, I'm not on duty, but I have a feeling that I'm in danger... You know that big. ugly house on top of --

_.* 3 ; And INTO SHOT, behind the COP's head, COMES THE LEAD a - PIPE. The same GLOVED HAND is holding it. It hits him on the head with a thud. The COP falls to the floor.

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DING... DONG...

BIG CLOSE-UPS of all the GUESTS and WADSWORTH, as the BELL goes. Again, the background to each CLOSE-UP ; should be unclear, so that we don't know where each of them is.

From INSIDE the Hall, the FRONT DOOR opens. The YOUNG WOMAN from Western Union stands there, looking towards

US, smiling. Then she SINGS:

YOUNG WOMAN

. (singing) . IT... AM..:; . ~ YOUR SINGING TELEGRAM... CRACK! A GUNSHOT!

The YOUNG WOMAN falls dead.

. The FRONT DOOR SLAMS shut.

MR. GREEN HEARS the GUNSHOT from below. He turns appalled, stumbles towards a door, opens it -- and runs into a cupboard! THUD!

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‘wildly:

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COLONEL MUSTARD hears, and -- after a moment's shock -- ~- Runs towards the Hall. He bumps into the dining table -- knocks it forward, and plates and glasses CRASH to the floor. He has hurt himself.

MISS -SCARLET hears all the noise, and looks towards the door.

MRS. WHITE, ‘trying to find the door in the dark, bangs into a large box.

A huge Jack-in-a-box springs out immediately in front of her. She almost has heart failure. Then, screaming

| | MRS. WHITE

Help: Help: " | . |

WADSWORTH is blundering around. He hears MRS. WHITE SHOUTING for help (o.s.). He calls out.

He finds a door. He calls out again. WADSWORTH

(continuing) Found it. —

| His hand turns a handle. He moves quickly forward. He

bumps into another obstruction: His hand finds another handle. . 1s . :

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“ . (continuing) (~ . Coming:

He jerks the handle and goes through the next Goor. Immediately he hits a wall.

He finds another handle.

‘WADSWORTH (continuing) Another handle?

He turns it. Water cascades over him!

He stumbles cut, through the Bathroom door, finds. the ‘Bedroom, and -- now with the help of moonlight in the Main Hall...

ire “142 INT. MAIN LANDING - STAIRS AND BALL

--- WADSWORTH hurries dripping down the stairs, and into

the KITCHEN. Just inside the door he finds the

Electricity Mains lever. He switches it back <-- and

the lights come on all over the house. And the PHONOGRAPE * starts up again, in the study, very slowly at first, “ gtadually coming up to speed. . -

WE MOVE WITH WADSWORTH back into the Hall. And gradually the SIX GUESTS congregate there with him -- MR. GREEN coming down the stairs, MRS. PEACOCK and PROFESSOR PLUM emerging from the Cellar, COLONEL MUSTARD from the wreckage of the Dining Roem and MISS SCARLET from the Ballrcen.

Slowly they wander around checking the rooms --

(Shooting towards ‘the ‘deor).

They come to the Billiard Room --'and see YVETTE lying strangled, the noose around her neck, across the billiard table. Dazed, they turn --

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is seen | clearly on her forehead.

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(Shooting towards door) - and see the corpse of the COP.

They all look at each other.

_ MRS. WHITE/MRS. PEACOCK So did I. :

WADSWORTH throws it open -- and at their feet is the body. of the YOUNG WOMAN. The bullet's point of entry

They gape. He turns and SLAMS the FRONT DOOR shut.

He crosses to the door of the Lounge. He looks at the floor, then turns to the OTHERS.

_ (CONTINUED)

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No gun. Yvette dropped it here. Remember? Now it's

‘gone.

They all look at each other with deep suspicicn.

Very well.

I know who did it.

(CONTINUED )

CONTINUED (2): He nods. WADSWORTH . And furthermore, I'm going to tell you all how it was all done. They react. WADSWORTH (continuing) Follow me. He leads them all into the LIBRARY . (NOTE)

The scenes that follow may initially seem somewhat long-

. winded, verbal and therefore slow. The speed of these

scenes cannot be judged by the usual criteria. WADSWORTH's explanation of what has happened so far will be played at

an absolutely TREMENDOUS speed, whenever hyphenated; the words spoken so fast that they may be completely unintelligible.

His actions will illustrate the words and thus make them comprehensible to the audience, but they will also happen

at tremendous speed.

The result will be something like an under-cranked, speeded up section -- except that it will not be under-cranked

cand will be done by the acting of WADSWORTH. It will be

a comic tour-de-force.

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‘WADSWORTH runs to tne Kitchen. The SIX GUESTS follow him, alse

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They all come into the Library.

running, to keep up.

WADSWORTH. enters the Kitchen, followed by the OTHERS. He stops dead. Perhaps they bump into hin. , .

WADSWORTH . . . | And~the~Cook-was-in-here-~alive, sharpening- the-knives, PReparingrcinner = Tnen..:

WADSWORTH turns and runs out of the ‘Kitchen. The OTHER follew.

WADSWORTH races across the Hall, the OTHERS in hot pursuit, flings

‘epen the front door, and rings the doorbell.

He ‘points to COLONEL MUSTARD.

WADSWORTH , at incredible speed, mines and re-enacts COLONEL MUSTARD' s arrival, reproducing what he and the COLONEL did, as he says:

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~ WADSWORTH “T-asked-you- -for-your-coat, an Feeeen ee you~as—Colonel-Mustard-and- ~preventes-you~ froo-telling-me-your-real-name-as-I-didn't- want-any-of-you-to-be-addressed-dy-any- name-other-than-your-pseudonym-and-1 - © introduced-anyself-tco-you~as-the-Butler. i-lea¢-you~across-the-Hal i- eo ehiesteenasy a=”

Having mimed theintroduction, the taking of the coat, he runs back to the Library, the OTHERS breatalessly behind his.

-yav.. INT. THE LIBRazy. (shooting towards window)

DSWGRTH rushes in, and grabs the bottle a5 champagne. WADSWORTS And-Yverce-net-you-and-sziled- (he smiles, YVETTE-like) and-poured-you-a- -drink, . (he sloshes champagne into a glass) and...

. AA ; . He rushes out.

He arrives back at the front door,having almost collided with- the GROUP as he comes out of the LIBRARY. fo. WADSWORTH .. the-doorbell-rang-again-and-it-wes- | ee Mrs-White-looking-pale-and-tragic-and- ae I-told-her-she-was-expected-and=took-her- | ‘gas . peer snd“nung= 2) up-aediae

He's on his way back to the Library. The OTHERS can hardly keep up with hin. ;

WAD SWORTH is whizzing back into the Library. _The ercur follows to the doorway. . WADSWORTH

and I introduced Mrs White to Colonel Mustard

fp : oes . (he mimes himself, MRS WHITE

a, . and COLONEL MUSTARD simultaneously,

Se . shaking hands with himself in all directions)

and I noticed that Mrs White and Yvette flinched:

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— ta -e .

. IN. THE HALL.

Then what?

WADS®ORTH

Then-ve-heard- -a- ~runble-of-~ thunder-and- -a~crash-of-lightning-

(he imitates thunder and

lightning at phenomenal speed) and- to-cut~-a-long-story-short-one-by-one- you~all-arrived. -Mrs-Peacock-shook-hands- with-Yvette-and—Colonel-Mustard-and-Mr—Green- was-of fered-champagne-by-Yvette~and-Professor- Plum-and-Miss-Scarlett-arrived-together-and- were-all-introduced-and-then-

He rushes out into the Hall. |

(shooting towards GONG from CENTRE of HALL, PANNING past STAIRS to DINING ROOM) DSsOKTH ‘skids to a halt at the gong.

* ADSKORTH ~the-gong-«as-struck- (he strikes the gong, everybody ‘else jumps)

| #by-the-Cook~and-we-went- ~into-the-Dining- _ Room.

And he's gone.

WADSWORTH is moving around the dining table, sitting down,

Stancing up, at truly phenomenal speed, as he describes. °

(he sits and stands) and-Professor-Plum- (sits and stands) and-Miss-Scarlett-and-Mrs-White-and-this- chair-was-vacant-and-

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MP GREEN

But this all came out in the Study after dinner: —

7 | WADSWORTH You're righti:!

With one accord, they all turn and race out of the Dining Room.

(low angle, shooting down HALL towards BALLROOM

At lightning speed, they cross the Hall.

They are al. crowded into the Study. The corpses of MR BODDY and the COOK are still where they were left after the COP saw them.

WADSWORTH s2ts in each chair in turn as he says:

Sed

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-WADSWORTH Mr. -Green-sat-here-and-Mrs.-Peacock- here-and-Miss~-Scarlet-here-and- Professor-Pium-here-and-Colonel- Mustard-and=Mrs.-White-and-

_ -WADSWORTH I'M GETTING THERE, I'M GETTING THERE!

Mr. ~Boddy-came-to-get-his-surprise- _ Packages=fromithe7nali=

By now WADSWORTH is in the Hall, miming collecting the packages. (low angle shot from STEPS outside STUDY)

By now he is ‘travelling almost at the speed of sound. -

He switches out the lights. They all scream. The lights are switched on. WADSWORTH lies prone on the floor.

They stare at WADSWORTH , aghast! -Suddenly, WADSWORTH sits up. He talks at normal speed.

WADSWORTH

That's right. Mr.. Boddy lay here, apparently dead.

(CONTINUED).

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SO PROFESSOR ‘PLUM I. did not!

PROFESSOR PLUM stares at the ring of accusing faces. He shrugs.

‘PROFESSOR PLUM Okay, I made a mistake.

WADSWORTH

Right. But if so, why was Mr.

Boddy pretending to be dead? --

it could only be because he | realized that his scheme had | misfired and that the gunshot , was intended to kill him -- ‘not 7 “me. Look.

a ' He pulls MR. BODDY's head forward, and points to his ear. : There is a slight graze on it. (This should have been ; visible to the highly observant viewer sometime earlier in the film.)

Lo ae PROFESSOR PLUM se So whoever grabbed the gun from me in the dark was trying to kill him.

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CONTINUED (2):

‘WADSWORTH ‘But remember what happened next?

WADSWORTH up to full speed.

He

He

He

He

He

He

He

takes a drink like MRS. PEACOCK.:

screams.

. WADSWORTH (continuing) | ~and-drops-the-glass-

drops the glass. |

takes MRS. PEACOCK to the sofa.

slaps MRS. PEACOCK's face.

slaps MR. GREEN' s face. WADSWORTH (continuing) -~and-we-rushed-out-

is gone.

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_ INT. HALL

‘WADSWORTH arrives at the BILLIARD ROOM doorway by the OTHERS.

The door is open.

They are all standing in the doorway. WADSWORTH turns to them. Back to normal speed, he intones — with significance.

-WADWWORTH

But one of us wasn't here! ALL

No? WADSWORTH

No, Maybe one of us was murdering the Cook! Who wasn't here, with us?

They all look around. None of them .can remeber. (But the observant viewer might be able to if he/she thinks back to the relevant moment -=- who wasn! t on camera?)

. WADSWORTH I do. While we stood here...

BILLIARD ROOM door)

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They all stare at WADSWORTH .

WADSWORTH (continuing) . - . and stabbed the Cook.

He enters the Kitchen. They follow.

He pushes it, and all except COLONEL MUSTARD and

MISS SCARLET gasp in amazament.

' WADSWORTH (continuing) .7~ and the murderer ran back down the secret passage to the Study.

panning ° towards FRONT BOOR)

“MRS. WHITE Is that where it comes out?

WADSWORTH enters, followed by the OTHERS. He shows them the Study entrance to the secret passage.

- CONTINUED

' WADSWORTH

- This house belongs to a friend

WADSWORTH

No one has an answer for this.

of mine. I've known all along. MR. GREEN

So you could be the murderer!

laughs. | WADSWORTH

Don't be ridiculous. If I was the murderer, why would I. reveal to you how I did it?

So they nod.

| MR. GREEN | Well . . . who else knew about

this secret passage?

He has no

She nods.

You found it.

-COLONEL MUSTARD But I didn ti!

WADSWORTH

Because he was definitely with us all in the Billiard Room doorway while Yvette “was screaming.

Don't you remember?

They all fall silent, staring at each other with mutual

suspicion.

MRS. PEACOCK

But what I don't understand is, why was the Cook murdered?

She had nothing to do with Mr. Boddy.

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ON. ‘WADSWORTH NM Of course she did! I gathered you all here together because you were all implicated in . Mr. Boddy's dastardly blackmail. Did none of you deduce that the others were involved too? _ MRS. WHITE What others? WADSWORTH The Cook? And Yvette? They are all amazed. | ce ALL | _ No. | ; | . WADSWORTH , That's how he got all his information. _ Before he could blackmail ‘anyone, Mr. Boddy had to find out their guilty | secret. The Cook and Yvette were his ao accomplices. NH COLONEL MUSTARD I see! So whoever knew that the Cook was involved, killed her. WADSWORTH Yes. I know -- because I was Mr. Boddy's butler -- that the Cook had worked for one of you. —. ALL who? | WADSWORTH ; (turns to see MRS. WHITE) | - You recognized Yvette, didn't you? Don't deny it. fo a MRS. WHITE "Ge What do you mean, don't deny it. I'm not denying anything. WADSWORTH . (triumphant) ge That's another denial!

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MRS. PEACOCK'S eyes open wide.

‘He looks at COLONEL MUSTARD. ~ COLONEL MUSTARD

swallow, nervously.

We have already established that you were one of Miss Scarlet's clients. That was why you were so desperate to get those negatives. Photographs of you and Yvette in flagrante delicto, remember?

MRS. WHITE ~ That would have been quite an achievement since she" s dead already.

COLONEL MUSTARD looks. very shifty.

MRS. WHITE — (points at COLONEL MUSTARD) | So he had the motive.

(he is back to top speed) ‘So-the=Cook-was-dead , ~we~lugged-~ ‘her~back-to-the-Study-and-Mrs. ~ Peacock-was-screaming-

WADSWORTH is arriving at the toilet. He screams and throws open the door of the toilet.

an

AND

(he throws Mr. Green to the floor) ~playing-dead-but-one-of-us-knows-- he 's-still-alive. | (he hauls Mr. Green. up) ‘I-explained-that-I-was-Mr. -Boddy' s- Butler-and-I 'd-invited-you-here-and- we-realized-there-was-only-one-other- person-in-the-house- : (he points to the kitchen) . ALL The Cook: They all rush out of the Study. WADSWORTH leaps into the secret passage. .

OMITTED

They all arrive in the Kitchen, stop dead. Then plucking up his courage MR. GREEN flings open the cupboard door and WADSWORTH, enacting the Cook's death falls out into his arms?

- WADSWORTH : By now she was dead. We laid her down with our backs to the cupboard. One-of-us slipped-through-the-same-secret-passage-

63 CONTINUED:

; WADSWORTH ‘Of course! Back-to-the-Study.

. 164 INT. THE STUDY

WADSWORTH rushes into the Study, ance over to the secret panel. As ever, he mimes this sequence as he describes it. They watch from the kitchen ‘doorway. WADSWORTH The murderer is in the secret passage. Meanwhile, Mr. ~Boddy-had-been-on-the-floor.

He throws MR. GREEN on the floor again.

p=, - He picks him up again, and then discards him by Ae throwing him down again. .

- WADSWORTH (continuing) - The-murderer~-came-out-of-the- secret-panel- ...

He does it.

He mimes it. The he pushes. MR. GREEN out into the Hall.

He hits MR. GREEN on the head and knocks him down again. MR. GREEN leaps up, breaking away from him.

eos aiet

164A

‘164B

109A.

Then the murderer dragged him into the toilet.

WADSWORTH illustrates this by throwing a gibbering MR. GREEN into the BATHROOM.

(Cy 265 INT. THo KITCHEN

P

WADSWORTH

and-then-nonchalantly-rejoined-us- * beside-the-Cook 's-body-in-the- kitchen. It-took-less-than-half-

a-minute. -

He races. past them - EXITS frame. A moment later, they rush after hin.

| 166 INT. THE STUDY (shooting towards WEAPONS CUPBOARD and DOORWAYS)

WADSWORTH enters frame from the right, in front of the cupboard. = WADSVORTH -and-we-put-the-weapons-in=the-cupboard- -locked-it-ran-to-the-front-door-

They see him coming and all hurry out ahead of him.

~ 167 INT. THE HALL (Pan with group from STUDY door to FRONT door)

‘e's and back into the Hall, to the front door.

‘WADSWORTH --- to-throw-away-the-key-

He flings open the front door.

He slams the door _ (CONTINUED)

MR. ° GREEN ‘Wait a minute! Colonel Mustard has a top secret Pentagon job, Mrs. White's husband was a nuclear physicist and Yvette is a link between them. |

. PROFESSOR PLUM . What is your top secret job, Colonel?

‘the secret of the next fusion bomb.

MRS. WHITE speaks, with mounting excitement.

_ MRS. PEACOCK Was it a plot between them, Wadsworth, or did Colonel Mustard do it alone?

COLONEL MUSTARD reacts.

_ WADSWORTH ‘We shall see. Let's look at the other murders.

: WADSWORTH It wasn't luck. I invited him.

167%. CONTINUED (2):

7 ALL You did??-

WADSWORTH

Of course. It's obvious. Everyone. here tonight was either Mr. Boddy's . victim or accomplice. Everyone who has died gave him vital information about one of you. I got them here, so that they'd give evidence against him and force him to confess.

‘MISS SCARLET “So who knew the guy who came. to make the telephone call?

WADSWORTH waits a moment. Then COLONEL MUSTARD Speaks

again. COLONEL MUSTARD He was my driver during the war. WADSWORTH And what was he holding over your ae (a beat) Oo) Mo Or do I have to tell them?

‘COLONEL MUSTARD

He knew I was a war profiteer.

I stole essential Air Force radio

spare parts and sold them on the

black market. That's where I made all my money. (emotionally) . But that doesn't make me a

murderer.

sO ‘ MRS. _ PEACOCK aa : . (appalled) . My God!

\ 1673 CONTINUED:

They all look at each other, waiting for someone to confess.

PROFESSOR PLUM opens the door and looks down sadly at the dead SINGING TELEGRAM GIRL.

PROFESSOR PLUM ; She was my patient once. I had an affair with her. That's why I lost my license. Mr. Boddy found that out

too. ‘Sad pause. WADSWORTH Let's put her in the Study with the’ ‘others.

The THREE MEN pick her up.

The MEN carry her in. MRS. PEACOCK shuts the fron door again.

; , They run with her body to the Study and hurl her through ; the doorway.

| i 7 167E. “Int. STUDY (Low angle at at doorway, shoot ing towards Hall)

The SINGING TELEGRAM flies through the air above the camera.

NEW ANGLE:

‘The SINGING TELEGRAM lands on the sofa, shooting towards fireplace or wall opposite fireplace.

| t ‘

HALL

113A.

; PROFESSOR PLUM But how did the murderer know about them all? I mean, I admit I guessed that this young singer had informed .on me to Mr. Boddy -- but I didn't know about any of you

till this evening. I mean, I'd

never even met Mr. Boddy. ALL

That's right/ Nor had I. Yes, how did he know? Etc.

i

a

Bs ; e: :

167F .CONTINUED

MRS. PEACOCK’ That's right, it was Colonel Mustard's suggestion...

‘PROFESSOR PLUM And after we split up there were ‘four more murders.

COLONEL MUSTARD makes no reply. He just stares at them, maintaining a dignified silence. .

He goes back to the Study, exiting frame.

WEAPONS CUPBOARD) He ‘enters frame and crosses to the desk.

lis. (170 ©CONTINUED:

( P. MRS. WHITE ~ : Where's the envelope now?

| | — _ WADSWORTH

Gone. Destroyed. Perhaps in the fire -- the only possible place.

He goes to the fire and:picks out a burnt up envelope. ‘Bits of photographs crumble as he examines it. They are unrecognizable.

MISS SCARLET runs excitably to the Lounge. The OTHERS follow to the doorway, and we PAN and see her through the doorway. ;

| MISS SCARLET fee The Colonel Mustard found the secret Ch passage from the Conservatory to the .Loung <- where we found the Motorist

dead! ' L70A INT. HALL (PANNING from STUDY DOOR to FRONT. DOOR to LOUNGE DOOR) WADSWORTH

We-couldn' t-get-in. So-Yvette-got-the- gun-from-the-open-cupboard=-shot-the-door- open. Bang! And-then-the-front-door- ~ beli-rang-again.

The FRONT DOOR BELL RINGS. They all look at each other, aghast. a

| . . - COLONEL MUSTARD : | How did you do that?

cy | ; | (CONTINUED)

170A CONTINUED:

And she runs out of the Study.

171 “INT./EXT. FRONT DOOR

“MRS. PEACOCK has rushed to the front door. She flings

it open. An earnest looking ELDERLY MAN is standing EnOEes He has pamphlets in his hand.

The OTHERS are ALL WATCHING, mesmerized.

| ELDERLY Repent. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

MRS. PEACOCK | (screaming) Go away:

-_ : 7 _ MRS. PEACOCK

a (completely bananas) Our lives are in danger. GET LOST?:

LA ie

171 CONTINUED: rs | And she SLAMS the DOOR in the ELDERLY MAN's face. Then turns, panting, leaning against the door, emotionally wrung out.

WADSWORTH enters FRAME RIGHT. ‘WADSWORTH (continuing) a ue: «th we-forgot-the-cupboard- with-the-weapons-was-now-unlocked.

He has ‘demonstrated all of this. at truly sHenomenai. speed. .

He runs to.the top of the Cellar stairs. And THERE is the MAIN ELECTRICITY SWITCH.

He switches it off. They all SCREAM! He switches it back on again.

CUT OFF POINT FOR ALL ENDINGS. (A) 171C INT. HALL (shooting in ALL directions)

WADSWORTH demonstrates and mimes the whole of the -hext speech as he describes what happened.

| WADSWORTH (continuing) In-the-dark-the-murderer-ran-from- Se Lo here-across-the-hall-to-the-Study, - eat gets-the~rope-and-the-lead-pipe. ; . He~ran-to-the-Billiard-Room-strangled

Yvette- » (MORE) , (CONTINUED).

a eye

CONTINUED (.2):

_ WADSWORTH (CONT'D) . (he half throttles MRS. WHITE, .as MR. .GREEN ducks for cover) ~Ran-to-the-Library- ...

MR. GREEN DUCKS out of the way again.

A pause,

and hits the Cop with the lead pipe.

(hits COLONEL MUSTARD’

on the head) Then-coming-out-of-the-Library- he-saw-automobile-lights-coming=-up- the-drive. It-was-the-Singing- Telegram. MThe-murderer-picked-up-

the-gun-where-Yvette-left-it-here- .

beside-the-Lounge-door-opened-the- front-door-recogni zed-the-singing=- girl-from-her-photograph-and-shot- her?! Then-ra n-back-to-the-Cellar!

as this last remark sinks slowly in.

A dramatic pause.

_MRS. PEACOCK Me? What's it got to do with me?

COLONEL MUSTARD | The finger of suspicion points at you. MRS. PEACOCK Its rude to point.

MA) -171¢

—

(A) I18A.

‘WADSWORTH

-You- murdered them all. You were

the person who was missing ‘when

‘the cook: and Mr. Boddy were:

murdered! And the Cook used tc

be your: Cook -- don't you: remember

your: fatal mistake? <-- you told us all at dinner that we were eating -

one of your favorite recipes.

(MORE)

(A) 171¢c - CONTINUED

Cr: in Cantonese cuisine, .are not often Se! to be found in Washington, D.C.

He looks as ‘though he's going to throw up.

_ MRS. PEACOCK Why would I have murdered all the others?

| WADSWORTH No -- Communism was just a red herring. Mrs. Peacock did it all.

_ WADSWORTH Very well. The gun is missing. Gentlemen, turn out your pockets. -- ladies, empty your purses. Whoever has the gun is the murderer.

MRS. PEACOCK suddenly produces the gun from her. purse.

: MRS. PEACOCK Very well. What do you propose to do about it?

The OTHERS back away from her nervously into a corner. All. except WADSWORTH.

(A) 120.

(A) 171C CONTINUED : a | —_ MRS. PEACOCK Noel 7 Nothing? © WADSWORTH (blandly)

Nothing at all. I don't approve of murder, but it seems to me that you have performed a public service, ridding the world of an appalling blackmailer and his disgusting informers.

| | | WADSWORTH , Why should the police come? : . . Nobody's called them.

EVERYONE is astonished.

He moves towards the study door. MRS. PEACOCK steps forward, gesturing menacingly with the gun. a

a MRS. PEACOCK Good idea. But I'll.leave first, if you'don't mind.

\ | i | |

fi J \ ' | i

_. WADSWORTH Be my guest. -I think we all owe you a vote of thanks.

MRS. PEACOCK slowly and carefully, gun trained on them, walks backwards to the front door.

| WADSWORTH starts SINGING. “( 4 - (CONTINUED)

173°

et

And slowly

(A) 121. (5) 3

FOR SHE'S A JOLLY GOOD ‘FELLOW...

the OTHERS join in.

AND SO SAY ALL OF US,

AND SO SAY ALL OF US,

FOR SHE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW.

And MRS. PEACOCK is out of the front door.

OMITTED

COLONEL MUSTARD, PROFESSOR PLUM, MRS. WHITE, MISS SCARLET, and MR. GREEN are staring in amazement at

WADSWORTH.

COLONEL ‘MUSTARD You mean...

COLONEL MUSTARD

But... there's one thing I still don't understand.

(A) 173 | |

(A) 174 : 175

| 176

(A) 122

‘PROFESSOR PLUM Is there going to be a cover-up?

. ‘WADSWORTH Yes -- why do you you think it's run by a man called Hoover?

MRS. PEACOCK comes out. of the front door, backing away with the gun. Suddenly the ELDERLY EVANGELIST

appears behind her, from behind the porch.

MRS. PEACOCK is embarrassed to be caught red-handed with the gun.

| (A) 123. {A) 176 CONTINUED:

~~ MRS. PEACOCK al Oh! (affecting surprise) So I.am. Well, it's dangerous out here, it's so isolated.

— MRS. PEACOCK ‘No. I guess I don't.

She puts it down on the stonebalustrade and walks-to her

car. CAMERA MOVES WITH her. She opens her car door. |

| “We have PANNED to exclude the EVANGELIST from:.the shot. oo ELDERLY EVANGALIST (0.S.) ©

Oh, Mrs. Peacock.

She turns, intrigued.

<3

_. MRS. PEACOCK How did you know my name?

And he FIRES THE REVOLVER at her. BANG: Surprised, she collapses OUT OF FRAME, dead. The ELDERLY EVANGALIST twirls the gun around his finger like a cowboy hero. Bright searchlights light up the drive. From out of the surroundings comes SEVER COPS and FBI AGENTS, guns in hand.

WADSWORTH and the OTHERS rush out into the porch.

| ELDERLY EVANGALIST

| (continuing) I got her. She who lives by the gun shall die by the’ gun.

oo | f | (CONTINUED)

(A176 CONTINUED

f ee

END CREDITS:

eae

(2):

‘WADSWORTH (to the OTHERS) You see. Like the Mounties, we ‘always get our man.

THE ‘END

(A)

You have just completed reading. Version A of CLUE. .

However, this film has four separate last reels, each explaining the events of the film with a different solution.

The script is identical in all versions until one speech from

‘the bottom of page 117. There now - follows three others endings, with

pages numbered B, C, and D, respectfully.

ete Ld

(B)

(shooting in.ALL DIRECTIONS) |

the-Study,-gets-the-rope-and-

the-lead-pipe. He-ran-to the-Billiard-Room-strangled-

Yvette-

AMORE)

s,

(B) 118

‘(WADSWORTH I‘m sorry, I..don't want to frighten you.

‘WADSWORTH Let's consider each murder one by one.

He turns to PROFESSOR PLUM.

Professor Plum, you knew that Mr. Boddy was alive. Even psychiatrists can tell the difference between patients who are alive or dead. You fired the gun at him in the dark and missed. So you pretended he was dead. That's how you were able to kill him later, unobserved.

WADSWORTH turns to face her.

(B) 1219

(B) $171 CONTINUED: . . =

WADSWORTH

SF I-expect you to believe it -- , you killed the Cook. She used

to be your Cook -- and she

informed on you to Mr. Boddy.

She made a fatal error. Don't

you remember?

He runs to the Dining Room. They foilow. (B) 172 INT. DINING ROOM (shooting towards KITCHEN END)

“WADSWORTH Sitting here, at dinner. She told us all that she was eating one of her favorite recipes. |

(significantly) And monkies' brins, though popular in.Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.

He looks as though he is going to throw up. MRS. WHITE

Are there any brains to be found in Washington, D.C.?

| WADSWORTH exits from the Dining Room at high. Speed, dragging COLONEL MUSTARD.

(B) 173 -EXT. FRONT DOOR (shooting IN through FRONT DOOR) |

(B) 173A INT. LIBRARY (shooting away from fireplace)

WADSWORTH

. «7 TnekoPSUP Bag gest ea-that-we-all

. Split-up-... (B) 173B INT. STUDY (shooting towards cupboard)

- WADSWORTH (continuing) © oN : cee you-separated-from-Miss-Scarlet,- \_ # = crossed-the-Hall,-opened-the-cupboard- _ : took-the-wrench-ran-to-the-conservatory... (MORE)

- (CONTINUED)

_(B) 120

(B) 173C INT. LOUNGE (PANNING from fireplace to telephone

7, WADSWORTH aa | (continuing) soe «--@ntered-the-Lounge-through-the- secret-passage-killed-the-Motorist- with-a-blow-on-the-head.

(B) 173D. INT. HALL

; MRS. WHITE This is incredible.

table)

‘Picking up WADSWORTH as he races from-one to then next.

The OTHERS simply remain, dumbfounded, in the Hall.

‘WADSWORTH Not so incredible as what happened next. When we all split up agin I went upstairs with you. Yes, you Mrs. White. (he pulls her all around with

with as he shows what she did) ~

And while I was in the Master Bedroom

you hurried downstairs and turned off the electricity...

- (B) 174 INT. STUDY (shooting towards cupboard) _ a WADSWORTH ; ; (continuing)

...got-the-rope-from-the-open- | cupboard-...

(B) 174A INT. HALL (shooting through BILLIARD ROOM doors)

| jealous that your husband was shtupping —_ -.¥vette. That's why you killed him, too.

And-while-you-were-in-the-Billiard-Room- Miss Scarlet-seized-the-opportunity-and-_

under-cover-of-darkness-crossed-over- to the Library and hit the Cop whom

Ne

lead pipe.

; she'd been bribing on the head with the

Ys,

a sees

(B) 120A

(B) 174A.CONTINUED:

WADSWORTH has acted out ‘the whole of the previous speech at virtually the speed of sound -- if not light! Only the actions are intelligible -- only a few of the words can be understood, names and weapons mainly. They gaze at him, dumbfounded.

True or false? .

(B)

fo By

174A CONTINUED:

(B)

who shot the Singing Telegram.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD You're the only one left.

WADSWORTH suddenly produces the gun from his pocket.

I shot her.

WADSWORTH

They all back away into a corner, frightened.

WADSWORTH smiles.

MR. GREEN ~ So it was you. I was going to expose you.

WADSWORTH

-I know. So I choose to expose

myself.

WADSWORTH

You. thought Mr. Boddy was dead. But

why? None of you even met him

till tonight.

MR. GREEN

You're Mr. Boddy! !

WADSWORTH nods, with an evil smile. They all gasp, in horror: PROFESSOR PLUM is puzzled. He indicates

the first body in the Study.

ded

(B)174A “CONTINUED (2):

ON | ' PROFESSOR PLUM _ Se So who did I kill?

COLONEL MUSTARD sits.

_ COLONEL MUSTARD So that's why you told me about . the. secret passage.

- WADSWORTH No -- Communism was just a red i \ herring.

Poe, . MR. GREEN looks at his watch.. | The police will be here any minute. You'll never get away with this, . any of you. WADSWORTH smiles.

that he had sent for the police.

. -MRS. PEACOCK . You mean... oh my God, of course:

MRS. PEACOCK realizes that it was WADSWORTH who claimed

(B)

174A CONTINUED

(B)

‘WADSWORTH ‘(to MR. GREEN)

‘So: why shouldn't we get away

with it? We'll stack all the bodies in the Cellar, lock it, leave quietly one at a time and

forget that any of this ever

happened.

blackmailing us all?

He produces a gun, and FIRES it as he simultaneously dives to the floor. WADSWORTH FIRES at him and misses -- but MR. GREEN has hit WADSWORTH and WADSWORTH keels

over, dead.

MR. GREEN stands up.

“you were usually called a fruit.

Very funny.

(he flashes a badge)

FBI. That phone call from J.

Edgar Hoover was for me. I told you I didn't do it!:!

There is a burst of GUNFIRE at the front door. The ELDERLY EVANELIST bursts in, plus MANY COPS. The COPS rush in, and arrest all except MR. GREEN.

ee

(B) 174A CONTINUED (4)

The COPS wave their guns wildly and indecisively from

ALL —- (each pointing at one or two of the others)

He/she/they did!!

one suspect to another, not knowing who to aim at.

END. CREDITS:

MR. -GREEN

They all did! ~

(proudly) But if you want to know who killed Mr. Boddy...

(he indicates WADSWORTH) I did -- in the Hall, with the revolver. Okay Chief? Take ‘em

away. I'm going to go home and sleep with

my wife.

And now, the third ending, which continues on after one speech from the bottom of page 117 of the main script.

The third ending is numbered with C pages.

(shooting in ALL DIRECTIONS)

_ WADSWORTH

(continuing) In theedark the murderer ran from here across the hall to the Study, gets the rope and

-the-lead-pipe. He-ran-to

the Billiard Room strangled Yvette

(MORE)

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So (C) 171 INT. HALL

(C) 118

THE. THIRD ENDING

‘WADSWORTH demonstrates and mimes the whole of the next speech as he describes what happened.

A pause,

. WADSWORTH In-the-dark-the-murderer-runs- from—here-across-the-Hall-to- the-Study,-gets-the-rope-and- the-lead-pipe. He-ran-to-the ~Billiard- Room - and-strangled-Yvette-

Yran across to the Library and hit

the Cop with the lead pipe Then coming out of the Library he saw automobile lights coming up the drive It was the Singing Telegram. The murderer picked up the gun where Yvette left it here

* beside-the-Lounge-door-opened-

as

-che-front-door-recognized-the- singing-girl-from-her-photograph- and-shot-her!! Then-ran-back- to-the-Cellar!

this last remark sinks slowly in.

a WADSWORTH No -- but you were!

-172

CONTINUED -(3):

The OTHERS gasp, astounded. WADSWORTH explains to them.

Think back! Mrs. Peacock was missing when the Cook and Mr. Boddy: were murdered! And the ‘Cook used to be your cook -- don't you remember your fatal mistake?

He runs to the Dining Room. They follow.

WADSWORTH sits in MRS. PEACOCK's chair.

; WADSWORTH ‘ ‘ Sitting here, you told'‘us all at dinner that we were eating one of your favorite recipes.

.. (significantly) But monkies' brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.

He looks as though he is going to throw up. MISS SCARLET

Are there any brains to be found in Washington, D.C.?

MRS. . PEACOCK is trembling with anxiety.

PROFESSOR PLUM

And what's it got to do with me?

/

“(C) 120

WADSWORTH turns on PROFESSOR PLUM.

we found the Cook dead -- and that's

when you did it. The other four murders were easy -- luck was on your

_ side, you drew lots to Search the

MRS. WHITE

house together. So while we were

all occupied searching the rest of the house you burned the evidence, killed

the Motorist, then switched off the electricity and killed the others.

MR. GREEN

“S6. it was all nothing to do with

the disappearing nuclear physicist and Colonel Mustard's work on the new fusion bomb.

is still puzzled.

people?

. MRS .- PEACOCK/PROFESSOR PLUM We didn't!!

WADSWORTH ignores their denials.

PROFESSOR PLUM is thinking fast.

(C) 121

°

(Cc) 172 CONTINUED

— I think there is.

Thinking, he walks slowly out of the Dining Room, through the swing door into...

(Cc) 173 j%INT. THE KITCHEN (shooting in ALL DIRECTIONS)

..- PROFESSOR PLUM comes into the Kitchen, the OTHERS behind, agog, hanging:on his every word. .

PROFESSOR PiUM stares into the Kitchen cupboard, then turns to face WADSWORTH.

He crosses to the Kitchen table.

PROFESSOR PLUM remains calm. He smiles.

WADSWORTH suddenly produces the gun from his pocket.

_ (CONTINUED)

(c) 173

aa

St

The OTHERS stand.back, aghast: MISS SCARLET stares

at WADSWORTH.

MR. GREEN is one step behind.

COLONEL MUSTARD steps forward, thinking furiously.

WADSWORTH smiles.

But I was lying. That's not when she was murdered. I Killed the Cook earlier on, when Mr. Boddy was on the floor in the Study, and you were all clustered around him. It took no time at all.. You see, as Professor Plum realized, I knew about the secret passage from the study to the Kitchen.

_«; MRS. WHITE Well, the police'll be here any minute -- you'll never get away with this.

(C) 122

Ss a

(C):173

(C) (2)% WADSWORTH . (smiling)

Why should the police come? Nobody's called them.

Ob my God, of course not:

s WADSWORTH Would you believe me if I said it was to rid the world of an appalling blackmailer and his disgusting informers?

MR. GREEN

‘No.

‘to be the perfect husband, but my

wife killed herself. I strove to be the perfect butler, but I was

driven to killing mv employer. So

I resolved that, in doing so, I would commit the perfect murder. But there is no pleasure in my

‘triumph without an audience to

admire it -- and, as none of you had the brains to expose me, I decided I must expose myself.

(C) 173

(C) 174

“CONTINUED (3):

(C) 174A

{C) 224:

WADSWORTH laughs like a maniac.. Clearly he has flipsed

Ais lid.

WADSWORTH

The champagne was poisoned! [If you doen't get an antidote in three hours, you'll die. All of you. And I'm © leaving new <-—- and locking you in.

He laughs maniacally and runs out of the kitchen.

_ WADSWORTH runs in.

He rips the telephone cord off the wall.

_ INT. THE LIBRARY

..s- WADSWORTH whizzes in, and rips the phone out of the floor

across to

WADSWORTH races into . al al Wa rips out that phone too. ll turns in triumph to the OTHERS.

(C) 176

(C) 177

a

(C) 225

The DOORBELL RINGS. They are all surprised -- and wary.

" WADSWORTH (continuing) Don't move -- any of you. He tries to leave the room

WADSWORTH hurries to the front door, gun in hand. de opens the door. The ELDERLY EVANGELIST stands there.

WADSWORTH reveals the gun.

The ELDERLY EVANGELIST lunges at WADSWORTH expertly, and grabs his wrist. In the struggle the GUN GOES OFF.

SEVERAL COPS appear from just out of sight, and burst in, guns at the ready, overpowering WADSWORTH. The

SIX GUESTS rush out into the Hall, screaming.

SIX GUESTS a Help! Help! / Get us to a hospital! We've been poisoned! / etc.

They hold all SIX GUESTS at gunpoint, backs against the wall, frisking them. COPS race into all the rooms.

‘The FIRST COP finds the gun in WADSWORTH's pocket.

Simultaneously, THREE COPS burst out of the Lounge, the Billiard Room and the Library respectively.

There's a body in there

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Then they realize that the other TWO COPS said the very same words.. They can't believe their ears.

A COP shoots out of the Study.

What do you mean, THREE MORE????

The ELDERLY EVANGELIST is holding WADSWORTH in a vice-like grip.

| WADSWORTH Is that why it's run by. a man called Hoover?

ee ELDERLY EVANGELIST Who's responsible for these deaths?

The ELDERLY EVANGELIST and all the COPS are surprised.

WADSWORTH | It's true, it's true, it was the perfect murder. Let me show you how I did it.

127 (Cc). (C) 177. CONTINUED (2):

SF He pushes them all back and clears a big space. Ina WIDE ANGLE LONG SHOT, WADSWORTH stands in the Hall, © surrounded by the SIX GUESTS, and ALL THE COPS with their guns trained on him. He starts retelling the story

'at incredible speed!

At the start of the evening Yvette was in the Library by hherself waiting to pour champagne I was in the Hall the Cook was in the kitchen the doorbell rang ding a ling...

WADSWORTH has thrown open the front door. As all the GUESTS and COPS watch him, mesmerized by the performance, WADSWORTH steps out onto the porch and SLAMS the FRONT DOOR SHUT. ——

(C) 178 EXT. FRONT DOOR - NIGHT

| a WADSWORTH LOCKS the front door from the outside with his. sie . key.

(C) 179 INT. THE HALL

| All the GUESTS and COPS rush to the front door and beat upon it furiously, screaming to be let out.

(C) 180 EXT. FRONT DOOR - NIGET

WADSWORTH races down the front steps. The rain has stopped. It is a clear moonlit night. He jumps into the nearest potice car, starts the ENGINE and pulls away.

(C) 180A. EXT. CONSERVATORY As he diissppeurs, ee GUESTS

and COPS burst through the Conservatory glass, and ‘out into the ganeen:

(C)1g1 INT./EXT. THE POLICE CAR

WADSWORTH is driving along, smiling. Suddenly he sniffs. an There is a familiar and unpleasant smell. Then he \ d hears a SOUND: — ;

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(C) 128 (C) 181 CONTINUED: ON . GERMAN “SHEPHERD (0.S.) St Grrrr! WADSWORTH looks in the rear-view mirror. ‘Teeth! Snapping! He turns, and there are the THREE DOGS, waiting to pounce. As they leap towards him... BLACKOUT. . END CREDITS:

And finally, the fourth ending ‘which continues on after one speech from the bottom of page 117. 0f the main script. This _ fourth ending is numbered with D pages.

NS (yy 17. INT.

. WADSWORTH (continuing) | In-the-dark-the-murderer-ran-

from-here-across~the-hall-to-

the-Study,-gets-the-rope-and- the-lead-pipe. He-ran-to the-Billiard-Room-strangled- Yvette-

(MORE)

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“CONTINUED:

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‘WADSWORTH I'm sorry, I don't want to frighten you.

MR. GREEN | YOU'RE A BIT LATE FOR THAT!

WADSWORTH ; The one person who wasn't with us -- Yvette! ,

WADSWORTH acts out his explanation as he speaks:

(shooting towards door)

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(D) °©172A INT. DINING “ROOM/KITCHEN

(shooting DINING ROOM towards HALL, PANNING to see ~ KITCHEN through the ‘-PASS-THROUGH)

eet WADSWORTH (continuing) .,-ran~to-the-Kitchen-and-stabbed- the-Cook. We-didn't-hear-the- Cook-scream-...

(D) 172B INT. STUDY (shooting towards DOOR)

(D) 172¢ INT. HALL (shooting ALL DIRECTIONS)

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(D) 172C CONTINUED:

WADSWORTH

When I said. We all ran to -the Kitchen, to see the Cook. ‘She stayed behind in the Study for

a moment to check that Mr. Boddy was dead. He opened his eyes so she hit him on the head with the candlestick, and dragged him to the toilet.

WADSWORTH looks at COLONEL MUSTARD.

He turns to MISS SCARLET.

MISS SCARLET stands, defiantly. . : (CONTINUED)

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175 —

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172C CONTINUED (:2):

. MISS SCARLET | It's a lie.

‘WADSWORTH ‘Easy. Yvette told you. And then, when we split up again, you switcheé off the electricity. It was easy for you, here on the. ‘ground floor. Then-in-the-dark-you- ran-to-the-Study...

WADSWORTH whizzes in and demonstrates.

WADSWORTH whizzes out.

- WADSWORTH whizzes past the SIX GUESTS. (Roller. skates?)

WADSWORTH. demonstrates.

WADSWORTH whizzes out.

WADSWORTH is beside the front door.

“(D) 176 CONTINUED::

oo. WADSWORTH

a ...-Saw-the-automobile-lights,- picked-up-the-gun-where-Yvette- dropped-it-opened-the-front-door- recognized-the-Singing-Telegram- from-her-photograph-and-shot-her. |

MISS SCARLET suddenly produces the gun.

‘COLONEL MUSTARD Here, here.

MISS SCARLET snarls at him.

MISS SCARLET

Shuttup: MR. GREEN But there's one thing I don't understand. ALL One thing?? MP.. GREEN

Yes -- why did you do it? Half

of Washington knows what kind of business you run -- you weren't in any real danger, the whole town would be implicated if you were exposed.

MISS SCARLET ; I don't think they know my real business. My business is secrets. And Yvette found in them out for me -- the secrets of Senator (2 Peacock's Defense Committee, of Colonel eae Mustard's fusion bomb, of Professor ~ Plums's U.N. contracts, and of the work of your husband the nuclear physicist.

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(D) 176 CONTINUED :(2):

cy | She is looking at MRS. WHITE. MR. GREEN So it is political. You're a Communist.

MISS SCARLET laughs.

_ COLONEL MUSTARD And if we don't cooperate?

: ‘PROFESSOR PLUM

You don't know the kind of people they have at the UN. I might go up in their estimation.

(D) 123 CONTINUED “(:3): “MISS SCARLET

I. know, sweetie-pie -- but ‘you can pay me in pOvernmene ‘information.

‘(looks around) All of you.

(turns to WADSWORTH) Except you, Wadsworth <-- you --. as amere butler, have no access to Government secrets. So I‘'m afraid your moment has come.

She turns the gun on him. The OTHERS respond appropriately -- one or two watch with horror, others can't bear to look.

MISS SCARLET is unimpressed. Her finger is ready on the. trigger. a

~ MISS SCARLET Oh yeah? Such.as?

‘MISS SCARLET You think I'll fall for that old trick?

The OTHERS are watching, =~ and gounting furiously on their fingers.

‘.

Nees

(D) 124 CONTINUED (4):

The FRONT DOOR BELL RINGS. MISS SCARLET turns automatically toward the door. WADSWORTH leaps forward, smashes the gun out of her hand, and ‘holds her in .a-vice-like grip. MR. GREEN opens the front door and several FBI AGENTS and COPS burst in, guns in hand. OTHER..AGENTS spread out into various room

and reappear almost immediately.

Then they realize that the OTHER TWO AGENTS said the very same words. They can't believe their ears.

What???

A COP shoots out of the study.

on AN AGENT THREE MORE??

‘WADSWORTH Where's the Chief?

The ELDERLY EVANGELIST strolls in through the front door, gun in hand. WADSWORTH still holds MISS SCARLET in the vice-like grip.

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(D) 176 CONTINUED (5):

; ELDERLY EVANGELIST ‘Ah, Wadsworth - well done. (turns to. MISS SCARLET)

I did warn you, my dear. Mr. Hoover is an expert on Armageddon.

MISS SCARLET turns to WADSWORTH.

; MISS SCARLET. Wadsworth, don't hate me for trying to shoot you.

He pulls the trigger. The GUN GOES OFF! WADSWORTH is shocked, then puzzled.

The other chandelier CRASHES down behing COLONEL MUSTARD.

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