HALLOWEEN (Episode 9)
Cast:
Angela = Angela Chase
Danielle = Danielle Chase
Patty = Patty Chase
Graham = Graham Chase
Sharon = Sharon Cherski
Rayanne = Rayanne Graf
Rickie = Rickie Vasquez
Brian = Brian Krakow
Jordan = Jordan Catalano
Nicky = Nicky Driscoll
Shopkeeper = Shopkeeper in costume shop
Miss Lerner = Miss Lerner, English teacher.
Boy = Boy in English class
Girl 1 = Girl in girl's restroom
Connie = Nicky's girlfriend
Ruthie = Connie's friend
Billy = Nicky's friend
Kids 1,2,&3 = Trick-or-treaters
ACT I
[Chase kitchen]
Angela (VO) : When I was little I, like, worshipped Halloween. And
truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one
chance all year to be someone else.
Patty : Are you sure you don't want to wear my flapper dress?
Angela : Mom, why do you always ask me everything 10 times? I said no.
Danielle : I can't be catwoman.
Patty : Do you want cereal?
Angela (VO) : I wanna be someone else, but to wear, like, an actual
costume to school is too scary.
Angela : No, thanks. I just don't see the point of wearing a costume.
Danielle : Mom, I can't be catwoman. Sheri Hickey is going to be
catwoman. And she's, like, developed.
Graham : I thought she was gonna be Madonna.
[phone rings]
Danielle : I'll get it!
Patty : She wants to be someone scary.
Danielle : Hello?
Graham : Who's scarier than Madonna?
Danielle : Dad, Madonna peaked. It's that Boyd guy.
Patty : [On phone] Boyd! No, no, no. That's all right.
Danielle : Is that the guy Mom hired to replace you?
Graham : No one can replace me. And, yes.
Patty : Well, no. No. Of course. I understand. Ok, I'll see you then.
[Hangs up phone] He'll be little late. Chiropractor.
Graham : Again?
Angela : Mom?
Danielle : Mom, what should I be?
Angela : A pain in the butt, 'cause you are.
Graham : Heh!
Danielle : I'd be you, but nobody I can find a mask that ugly.
Angela : [snorts]
Patty : Danielle! Danielle, let this be a lesson to you. Don't
always leave thing 'til the last minute. So, do you want
my flapper dress?
Danielle : Mom, you asked me that 10 times.
Angela : You know what's happening? I'm sleeping over at Rayanne's.
Patty : I know. I said you could. Don't ask me everything 10 times.
Angela : [To Danielle] I meant that as a joke.
Danielle : Sure. [Angela and Danielle leave]
Graham : So, uh, you basically feel he's working out? Boyd?
Patty : What can I say. He's always either coming late or leaving
early. There's always some chiropractic adjustment I have
to hear about. I mean, he means well. Wait! Who are we
gonna be?
Graham : When we grow up?
Patty : No, at, at Camille's costume party tonight.
Graham : I hate Halloween. Woah! You've got something. You can wear
that flapper dress.
Patty : I hate that flapper dress.
[English class]
Boy : Hey, rat! Hey, rat girl!
Sharon : I'm not a rat. I'm a _cat_. Hey, hands off the tail.
Boy : Watch that tail!
Sharon : I'm a cat, okay? Deal with it.
Angela (VO) : People are wearing costumes. Even teachers are wearing
costumes. I should have worn a costume. But who would I be?
Brian : [cleaning ink spot off shirt] I can't believe people are
walking around dressed like idiots.
Angela : I wouldn't talk.
Miss Lerner : OK, people! We're starting a new unit this week. You want
to read new books. You want to study. Weel, ah, in honor
of All Saint's Eve, we're going to be reading stories
about famous ghosts and spirits. Speaking of apparitions,
where's Catalano? Does anybody know Jordan Catalano?
Angela (VO) : Does anybody know Jordan Catalano? That question, like, got
to me. I mean, I'd had seven conversations with him, and
one really bad kiss, and one amazing one.
Miss Lerner : Angela?
Angela (VO) : But did I, like, know him?
Angela : Sort of.
Miss Lerner : Tell him he better quit ditching class. I want him in
here tomorrow or I'm going to have his butt kicked out of
school. There are too many good kids. I mean, I just don't
have time for the bad ones. Ok, let's open our books and
turn to page 7.
[Brain, passing by the girl's restroom, watches Rayanne, dressed as a
sexy witch, shaving her legs]
Girl : You, know this is how drains get clogged.
Rayanne : This is how girls get foamy.
[Rickie enters]
Rayanne : Whoa! Scary costume!
Rickie : Yeah. I got it from Brian Krakow. I thought this
Halloween, I'd be everyone else.
[Angela enters]
Rayanne : Angelika!
Angela : You're Brian?
Rayanne : Wait 'til you see what I brought you! They're actual.
It's not a costume. They're, like, real.
Rickie : Oh, look, mohair!
Rayanne : Go, try them on!
Rickie : What! Lerner handed out the new book this early?
Rayanne : Somebody's got to do something. Halloween bites this year.
We've got to find Tino. Tino is, like, Mr. Halloween.
[Sharon enters]
Sharon : See you in Soc! Oh, good you're wearing a costume.
'Cause if more people don't start wearing costumes,
they're going to be, like, discontinued.
Rayanne : Cute rat suit.
Sharon : I'm a cat!
[Angela comes out of stall in the costume]
Oh, my god!
Rayanne : Oh, that fits you perfect. We've got to do your hair and
your make-up.
Rickie : Let's see who else had it. Don't you like to see who else
had a book... Nicky Driscoll?
Rayanne : Lie!
Sharon : _The_ Nicky Driscoll?
Rickie : See for yourself.
Angela : Who's Nicky Driscoll?
Rayanne : Unreal. There it is.
Sharon : Oh, my god! Didn't he, like, die on Halloween?
Girl : He didn't die on Halloween. That's just a myth.
Rayanne : He did so!
Girl : Did not!
Angela : Who is Nicky Driscoll?
Sharon : Angela! We heard about him freshman year.
Rayanne : It was, like, after this Halloween dance. He and his
friends decided to paint the gym black, just to do it?
And, um, he was, like, up in the rafters. And some moron
girl leaves her spike heel right in the middle of the
floor, don't ask me why. And, so, when he fell, this
humongous spike, like, stabbed him right in the nostril.
All : Oooo! Gross!
Rickie : Rayanne, that's disgusting!
Sharon : Ooo, shut up!
Girl : They just tell kids he dies like that so people won't
climb the rafters.
Sharon : No.No, it's true. Out Moms even know about him. It was
the Halloween right before Kennedy got shot.
Rickie : That's not how I heard about it. I heard he was trying to
hang this banner that, like, declared his love for this
girl.
Angela : Nicky Driscoll. This couldn't really be his book. It's a
prank. It's fake.
Rickie : But look. It's faded.
Sharon : He and my uncle's friend were, like, in the same class.
And my uncle said the night he dies, there was this
storm and the electricity went out. And the next day, they
found out the electricity went out at the exact same time
that Nicky died.
Rayanne : My Mom's sister once rode on the back of his bike. She was,
like, 12 and said she was 15. Those are her clothes.
[Offers toilet paper to Angela] Do you want to stuff?
Angela : Rayanne!
Rayanne : Are you sure? It's the way they did it in the old days.
Rickie, you know, you look good without make-up.
[Hallway in front of trophy case. Rickie hums Blue Moon]
Angela : Oh, Rickie, it has pockets. [Finds ticket] Oh, Rickie, look!
Rickie : Wow! That's so cool!
Angela : So, what else do you know about him?
Rickie : About who?
Angela : You know, Nicky Catalano.
Rickie : You mean Nicky Driscoll.
Angela : Why? What did I say?
Rickie : Never mind. I don't know much about either of them. So,
you coming to Soc?
Angela : In a minute.
[Costume shop]
Graham : Wow!
Patty : Told you there was a shop here. [Sigh] Do you think I'm
going to have to fire him?
Graham : Boyd? You're kidding!
Patty : It's just not working out. I mean...[Enter shopkeeper.]
Hi,I...
Shopkeeper : Please don't say you want Power Rangers. We're out.
Everybody's out.
Graham : Ah, it's not for our kids. Her friend's having a costume
party.
Patty : Camille is _our_ friend!
Graham : Not when she's having a costume party.
Patty : Love your costume.
Shopkeeper : What costume? I got just what you need. Rapunzel. And a
pirate.
Graham : [chuckles]
Patty : What's so funny?
Graham : You as Rapunzel. Well, I mean... Come on... Not that...
Well, you know... Um, actually, I don't see myself in
tights.
Patty : I would rather not be a storybook character if possible.
Shopkeeper : Today's Halloween. Yesterday, I could have got you Bill and
Hilary. Let this be a lesson to you. Don't always leave
everything 'til the last minute.
Patty : We'll take them.
Graham : Ah, should we try them on or something?
Shopkeeper : Look, dollface. I've been doing this for a lot of years.
They're gonna fit like a glove. Trust me.
[As Angela climbs the school stairs, she sees Nicky Driscoll on the
landing. As she approaches, he turns into Jordan]
Angela : Um, it's a costume. I wouldn't really dress like this.
I'm supposed to give you a message.
Jordan : From Tino?
Angela : No, from Miss Lerner.
Jordan : Who?
Angela : Miss Lerner? She's been our English teacher for, like,
over a month now. Ah, she says you have to start showing
up to class, um, or she's going to have you kicked out.
Jordan : So what's the message?
Angela : That you're going to get kicked out of school.
Jordan : Like it's doing so much for me. [Leaves]
Angela : You're welcome! Don't you even care?
[Rayanne pounces]
Rayanne : I'm having a brain hemorrhage, this is such a great idea.
Angela : I can't believe it. I can't even communicate with him when
it matters. When it could affect his, like, life.
Rayanne : Will you forget Catalano? I've got such a great idea I've
really got something going here. I told Tino about your
book, so we are going to meet here, tonight, outside the
school, at, like, 9:00, 'cause it's a witchy number, and
we are going to contact the spirit of Nicky Driscoll.
Finally! It's Halloween! Awoo! Awoo! Awoo! Awoo! [Leaves]
ACTJII
[Library. Angela picks out the yearbook for 1963 and opens it to
Nicky Driscoll's picture.]
Angela (VO) : When someone dies young, it's like they stay that way
forever, like a vampire.
Rayanne : Oh, look! Just your type! Watch out for those dead guys.
They'll break your heart.
Angela : I just wanted to see what he looked like.
Rayanne : So, you're going to be there tonight, right? I mean,
since he contacted you.
Angela : Rayanne, stop.
Rayanne : [Looks at picture of Kurt Cobain] Oh, I still can't look
at him.
Angela : If he were alive today, he'd be...
Rayanne : Who? Nicky? That's easy! Probably some burnt-out greaser
with no teeth and a parole officer.
Angela : Oh, Rayanne! That's so unfair! Seems like some people
have to die young. Like it fits them or something.
Rayanne : [Sings Blue Moon]
Angela : Why are you singing that song?
Rayanne : I don't know. 'Cause Rickie was, I guess. Angela, we have
to do this.
Angela : I don't know. It seems like such a sick idea.
Rayanne : So, what's the down side?
Angela : I mean, contact him? How? I have enough trouble contacting
living guys. I don't even believe in ghosts.
Rayanne : Yeah, right. That's why you ran here to check his picture.
I'll see you tonight.
Librarian : Shhh!
Rayanne : I'm leaving! Keep your shroud on! [Sings] Angela and Nicky
sitting in a tree...
[On steps in front of the school]
Rickie : I heard. Count me out.
Rayanne : Oh, nice and open-minded. Have these clothes gone to your
brain?
Brian : Ah, Rickie?
Rayanne : Seriously, you know you want to.
Brian : Um, excuse me. Can I talk to Rickie, please?
Rayanne : What am I? A receptionist?
Brian : Look it's no big deal. I just... Look, about the clothes.
Um, you can return them whenever, if you need to keep them
longer.
Rayanne : Why would he want to keep them longer? The whole point of
him wearing them is he would never wear them.
Rickie : Ignore her. She got up on the wrong side of the coffin
this morning.
Rayanne : Come on. You've got to help me figure out, like, what do
we bring?
Rickie : Gee, let me think. I haven't raised the dead recently.
Rayanne : Oh, like I have.
Brian : So you guys, like... Is there a party or something?
Rayanne : Forget it. Tino will know. Tino and the forces of
darkness are like this! [crosses fingers] I'm still
counting on you, Vasquez! We will meet back here
tonight, 9:00, at this very spot. Ahahahahaha!
Rickie : Crazy plan.
Brian : Yeah, I figured. So by we, did she mean... I mean, who
exactly did she mean?
Rickie : Just be glad you're not doing it. It involves a ghost. I
think it's a terrible idea.
Brian : 'Cause you don't believe in ghosts?
Rickie : No, because I do. Listen, I'll return the clothes tomorrow.
I'll even wash them and everything.
Brian : Oh wait. Be careful. You have to wash the pants separate.
[Chase kitchen.]
Graham : I decided to make pumpkin soup. We can freeze it.
Patty : I can't even bear to look at him anymore. Boyd. I've gotta
tell him he's fired. Somehow.
Graham : Is this like when there's a spider and you expect me to
kill it for you?
Patty : What? No, nobody's expecting you to kill anything. You're
not involved in the business anymore. I've accepted that.
You know, the longer I put it off the worse it gets. I've
just got to do it. [Tastes soup] It needs something.
[Danielle enters in the Angela costume]
Oh, good. I thought you'd already gone off with Courtney.
Listen honey, Camille's going to send Sharon over to pick
up the chaffing dish. Would you give it to her when she
comes here? Sweetheart?
Danielle : Mom, Sharon Cherski and I exist in, like, two different
worlds, okay? I can't just hand her a dish, okay? I mean
it's just not that simple.
[Patty and Graham stare in horror]
I'm doing Angela. Pretty good, huh?
Patty : I thought it was starting all over again!
Graham : Very convincing, Danielle.
Patty : My God! That was really scary!
Graham : Your mother and I have to go change into our idiotic
Halloween costumes now. So you be back over at Courtney's
at 10:00.
Danielle : 10:00? On Halloween?
Patty : That was very good, Danielle.
Graham : Yeah.
Patty : It sounded just like Angela.
Danielle : That was me!
Patty : 10:00.
[Patty and Graham's bedroom, as they put on their Halloween costumes]
Graham : It's a shame. He seemed like such a nice guy.
Patty : It doesn't change anything, though.
Graham : It just seems... I mean... You can't expect him to be
perfect. I'm not perfect. You didn't fire me. Oh, well...
Patty : Technically, I did.
Graham : Yeah, technically, you did.
Patty : Ooo, check out the wig!
Graham : Oh, I can't handle this.
Patty : Graham nobody is asking you to fire him.
Graham : No, I mean this. Look, they're purple, Patty.
Patty : I kind of like them. The point is, I hired someone who's
not working out. I gotta deal with it... God, I can hardly
breathe!
Graham : I just hope... Suppose his kids, like, suddenly need
braces or something. You know... This is wrong.
Patty : No, it has to be this way. I mean, he means well, but...
This is so tight.
Graham : Look, it's not that I wouldn't do it for you. Because, if
you really want me to do it...
Patty : It's just that it's so scary to have to fire someone.
Graham : There are worse things in this world. Believe me.
Patty : I just can't help picturing his poor little children
without braces. [Sigh] If only there was some way out.
Graham : Forget those little rugrats. He leaves early to go to the
chiropractor, he's a dead man. I'll fire him myself, the
filthy cur.
Patty : Graham! That sounds so cutthroat!
Graham : Well, all is fair in love and war.
[Sharon rings doorbell]
Danielle : Hi. The chafing dish is in here. What are you, a mouse
or something?
Sharon : Yeah, I'm a mouse. Oh my God! You're Angela!
Danielle : I can't talk about it, ok?
Sharon : Only, Angela would stand more like this.
Danielle : Yeah, like the shirt's her only friend, or something.
Well, I've got to go.
Sharon : Oh. Trick-or-treating, huh?
Danielle : Yeah, there's this house on Rossmore, and they made it like
a haunted house. And then on Courtney's street, they give
really good candy. Where are you going?
Sharon : Out with my boyfriend.
Danielle : Wow. Well, bye.
Sharon : Bye! [Danielle leaves] Danielle, wait!
[Night, On the steps in front of the school]
Rayanne : Angela? Angela? [Brian appears.] Ahh! What are you doing
here?
Brian : Nothing. Public property. I'm locked out of my house.
Rickie : Where's, where's Angela?
Rayanne : She said she heard something. I think I spooked her.
Rickie : What are you doing here?
Rayanne : It's public property.
Brian : I left my keys in your pants. I mean, my pants.
Angela : I guess it was the wind. I mean, I heard something. You're
here?
Rayanne : He left his keys in Rickie's pants.
Angela : Oh, no!
[Angela and Rayanne laugh]
[Trick-or-treating]
Danielle : Feel my bag! Go ahead. Feel it.
Sharon : Feel mine! I can't believe I almost missed it. Promise me
you won't let boys drain all the fun out of your life.
Danielle : I promise. I wish you were my sister.
Sharon : Danielle!
Danielle : I hate her. I do.
Sharon : Ok. You hate her. So, why'd you want to be her if you hate
her so much? I'll trade you this jawbreaker for that sucker.
Danielle : Deal.
[On the steps in front of the school]
Rayanne : This is the last time I listen to Tino.
Angela : It's weird to be here at night.
Brian : Who's Tino?
Rickie : A dead man.
Rayanne : It's Halloween! I say, I say, we break into the school
and write "Nicky Driscoll was here" on the gym floor in
red lipstick.
Rickie : That is such a terrible idea.
Rayanne : Come on! We'll be legendary! They won't forget us. We'll
be like, like Nicky!
Rickie : Excuse me. Nicky got killed.
Angela : Come on, Rayanne. There's no way we can break in without
setting off the alarm.
Rayanne : There's got to be a way. I'll ask Brian. Brian knows some
clever chess club way, don't you, Bri. Oh, my God!
Brian : What? What?
Rayanne : You know a way in!
Brian : I do not!
Rayanne : I was just goofing on him. I don't believe it! Oh, but
Brian, you could never risk such a risk, could you, Mr.
Brilliant Future?
Brian : Shut up!
Rickie : My life's complicated enough. Count me out. [Leaves]
Rayanne : Look, we're going in, with you or without you. And if
it's without you, then we'll have to go in and get out
before the cops come.
[They enter through a grate]
Rayanne : Man. An A-V graveyard. Whoa!
Brian : Why are you doing this?
Angela : What do you mean? What about you? Let go of my arm.
Brian : We'll get into trouble. You could screw up your whole life.
Angela : At least, at least I'll know I'm alive.
Rayanne : Hey, maybe the cafeteria's unlocked. Come on!
[They leave to go up the stairwell]
Rayanne : We're in! Whoo! Whoo!
[Angela sees a shadow of Nicky at the top of the stairs and
climbs the stairs to follow. Rayanne stops to adjust her
stocking. Brian, watching her, lets the door close.]
Rayanne : What the hell was that? Oh, no! No!
Brian : Ok, wait! Let me think!
Rayanne : You locked us in! You idiot!
Brian : Shut up! Let me think! Ok, I, I know where the computer is
for the security system. I'll just, I'll shut off the
system, and then we can leave through another exit without
triggering the alarm, ok?
Rayanne : Were you looking at me?
Brian : No! Where's Angela?
Rayanne : There she is! Angela! Angela, meet us in the gym. We've got
something to, um, take care of.
[School basement]
Rayanne : Come on! Did you do it yet? Krakow? Huh? Will you do it?
Brian : Will you please ...
[Lights go out]
Rayanne : Ok, turn them back on. Krakow, come on. Joke's over. Turn
the lights back on.
Brian : There must be some aspect of the system I'm not familiar
with.
[While Blue Moon plays, Angela walks the halls of the school. She opens
the gym door. Two girls enter the gym, which is decorated with balloons
and a banner for '63.]
Ruthie : That's the last time I let them use my 45's for a hop. They
scratched my Mathis and my Ricky Nelson. So, Nicky never
showed, huh?
Connie : I don't care. Did they scratch your Elvis?
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